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Animating Idolatry: Making Ancestral Kin and Personhood in Ancient Peru
Religions, 2021 Historical and archaeological records help shed light on the production, ritual practices, and personhood of cult objects characterizing the central Peruvian highlands after ca. AD 200. Colonial accounts indicate that descendant groups made and venerated
George F. Lau
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Емінак, 2021 The discoveries at Cape Beikush allow us to significantly expand and refine our understanding of the nature and extent of local influence on the archaic cult of Achilles in the Northern Black Sea region.
Vladimir Lazarenko
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ANCESTOR ARTEFACTS - ANCESTOR MATERIALS [PDF]
, 2010 Ancestor artefacts (objects of an earlier period, valued for their age and associations, which are retained into a later period) are normally identified by archaeologists owing to the difference between the date of the object and its context.
CHRIS CAPLE, Caple, C.
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, 2023 ‘Ancestor’ is a 3,000 word creative written work. It is a short story about a trapdoor spider who travels to the white banksia woodlands on the moon. She travels across and around all the lunar seas, lakes and marshes where at the edge of Mare Nubium/Sea
Cassie Lynch (23290357)
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Ancestral beliefs in modern cultural and religious practices – The case of the Bapedi tribe
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 There is no consensus among scholars of myth as to how the central concept of their field should be defined. What is a ‘myth’ and how does it differ from a ‘belief’?
Morakeng E.K. Lebaka
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Trophy Heads or Ancestor Veneration? A Stable Isotope Perspective on Disassociated and Modified Crania in Precontact Central California [PDF]
, 2016 Few items in the archaeological record capture the imagination more than human heads separated from their bodies. Such items are sometimes assumed to indicate warfare practices, where "trophy heads" display power and fighting prowess.
Eerkens, Jelmer W +6 more
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The Belief in and Veneration of Ancestors in Akan Traditional Thought: Finding Values for Human Well-being [PDF]
, 2020 Traditional Africans' belief in and veneration of ancestors is an almost ubiquitous, long-held and widely known, for it is deeply entrenched in the African metaphysical worldview itself.
Okyere-Manu, Beatrice +1 more
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Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults
Religions, 2015 This analysis of Chinese and Japanese American young adults, based on the Pew Research Center 2012 Asian American Survey, examines the religious nones of these ethnic groups. Rather than focusing on their beliefs and belonging to religious denominations,
Russell Jeung, Brett Esaki, Alice Liu
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Jesus Christ as an Ancestor: A critique of Ancestor Christology in Bantu Communities. [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2018 The theological and relativized usage of inculturation as a paradigm which serves the purpose of ‘praeparatio evangelica’, otherwise known as ‘the preparation for the Gospel’, of Africans with the Christian doctrine of the uniqueness of Jesus Christ, as
Joel Mokhoathi
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Posoqoypata, un cementerio Wari en el valle de Ayacucho, Perú
Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, 2001 Recently we carried out an archaeological salvage excavation at a Wari cemetery in the Ayacucho Valley of central Peru. This intervention resulted in the discovery of two totally new mortuary structure forms for the region and the Wari culture in ...
Lidio M. Valdez +2 more
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