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PAGPÁNAW: the Solon House Deaths, Wakes, and Culture of Grief (104441)
Session Chair: Swatilekha Sen
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Wednesday, 13 May 2026 16:35
Session: Session 4
Room: Live-Stream Room 3
Presentation Type: Live-Stream Presentation
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A journey through three generations, Pagpánaw answers the question: How does a family hold space for grief and construct meaning around death? Anchored in the theories of death, place, and cultural memory, the paper examines death through the lens and spaces of the Solon House—a family and structure in the village of Mabolo in Cebu City, Philippines. Lived experiences and memories of family members, including the researcher’s accounts, substantiate the study with the aid of phenomenology and autoethnography. Through thematic codification, the interviews and chat transcripts reveal the family’s cultural beliefs, death rituals, and observance of grief. For example, arranging the funeral in the house, mind the sumpa (counterspell) to cut or avoid successive deaths—the coffin placement of the recently deceased family member must not be in the same spot as the earlier held funeral. One of the offshoots of the katingaláhan (supernatural) paper, the study also examines the connection between ghost sightings or the manifestations of katingaláhan entities and the family’s concepts of grief and death. Apart from serving as the fourth and final vital article for the family’s second book project, the paper informs other area studies and disciplines including Asian studies, hauntology, vernacular language heritage, philosophy, and thanatology.
Authors:
Kathleen Solon-Villaneza, Global Educators Network, Inc., Thailand
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Kathleen Solon-Villaneza currently serves as an adviser to the Global Educators Network, Inc., an international organization based in Thailand.
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