Abstract
THE RITUAL OF DEATH IN THE POPULAR IDEALS IN ALGERIA
Death is an inevitable phenomenon in which people live in constant conflict. For the rest of his life he tries to assert his existence and social identity. Seeking to build a network of social relations with members of his community. But in his life, death finds itself trapped and linked to it, trying to destroy all that it has achieved. Death becomes not only the end of physical existence but the end of social existence.
From here came the ritual of death in the popular ideals, the function of restoring order to social life after the chaos caused by death, it is directed to confirm the life and assertion more than it is directed to farewell the dead and grief it?
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