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PARTING (WITH) THE DEAD: BODY PARTIBILITY AS EVIDENCE OF COMMONER ANCESTOR VENERATION

Ancient Mesoamerica, 2012
AbstractAs a complement to life histories authored by many researchers of Maya bones, this study narrates death histories. The latter entails detection of perimortem and postmortem changes to decedents' bodies, followed by translation of these changes' encoded meanings.
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Ancestor Veneration and Lineage Organization in the Maya Region

2014
Ancestors and lineage are ubiquitous themes that pervade the ethnographic and ethnohistoric literature of Yucatan. The extent to which rhesc themes exerted a powerful influence on everything from dynastic succession to the placement of fields and orchards will be demonstrated in this chapter and those to follow.
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Inculturation and ancestor veneration: The case of the Dagaaba Catholics.

2009
The tension between indigenous African cultures and religions on the one hand, and Christian Churches on the other, is a well known fact that has been addressed by all concerned but still not resolved. From the point of view of the Africans, the history of the Christian missions is filled with misunderstandings and a lack of sensitivity on the part of ...
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Territoriality, social boundaries and ancestor veneration in the central Andes of Peru

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, 2009
Abstract This article examines the relationship between social boundaries, territoriality and ancestor veneration during the Late Intermediate Period (1000–1450 AD) in the Rapayan Valley of the Central Andes of Peru. Constructing upon recent theoretical work on social boundaries and territoriality combined with the analyses of early historical ...
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Mechanisms and regulation of protein synthesis in mitochondria

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, 2021
Eva Kummer, Nenad Ban
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Venerable ancestors and seagoing gods

2021
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Beliefs and Veneration of Ancestors

2022
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A yeast living ancestor reveals the origin of genomic introgressions

Nature, 2020
Matteo De Chiara, Jia-Xing Yue, Agurtzane Irizar   +2 more
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Broadly neutralizing antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 and other human coronaviruses

Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022
, Shibo Jiang, Pengfei Wang
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The LUCA and its complex virome

Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2020
Mart Krupovic, Valerian Dolja, Eugene V Koonin   +2 more
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