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spontaneous shrines  

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  • Leaving flowers, candles, teddy bears, hearts, or cards on sites where people died a violent death has become a regular practice since the 1990s, at least in the Western world. In academia, it has become custom to refer to such commemorative sites as “spontaneous shrines,” a term coined by Jack Santino. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Spontaneous Shrines]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-LF9GV7CT-6

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