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‘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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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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The art of establishing and maintaining contact with ancestors: A study of Bapedi tradition
Looking at Bapedi ancestor veneration constructively, one finds it a source of communication that enhances the community’s norms, values and personal well-being.
Morakeng E.K. Lebaka
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ANCESTOR ARTEFACTS - ANCESTOR MATERIALS [PDF]
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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Ancestral beliefs in modern cultural and religious practices – The case of the Bapedi tribe
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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Redefining Religious Nones: Lessons from Chinese and Japanese American Young Adults
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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The Belief in and Veneration of Ancestors in Akan Traditional Thought: Finding Values for Human Well-being [PDF]
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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Identity formation at the dawn of liturgical inculturation in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church
This article reflects on the impact of the inculturation of liturgy in the Ethiopian Episcopal Church (EEC) on identity formation within the context of African Christianity.
Phumezile Kama, John S. Klaasen
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Jesus Christ as an Ancestor: A critique of Ancestor Christology in Bantu Communities. [PDF]
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
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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