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Betwixt and Between Past and Present: Cultural and Generic Hybridity in the Fiction of Mary Yukari Waters [PDF]
, 2012 The cosmopolitan make-up of the American society has yielded cultural hybrid offspring and this cultural hybridity features strongly in contemporary American fiction.
Youssef, Rania Samir
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Tạp chí Khoa học Đại học Mở Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh - Khoa học Xã hội, 2015 Ancestor worship is a type of folk beliefs which has a profound effect on the mind of Vietnamese people. This is the deeply-rooted tradition of the Vietnamese people with their motto of “when drinking water, remember its source”.
Lê Thị Son
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Learning from the Dead: How Burial Practices in Roman Britain Reflect Changes in Belief and Society
, 2019 This paper begins by examining the burial traditions of the Iron age Britons and Classical Romans to see how these practices reflect their societal values and belief systems. The funerary methods of both the Britons and Romans are then analyzed following
Engel, Samuel F.
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Il custode degli antenati: anzianità rituale e rituali dell’anzianità
Archivio Antropologico MediterraneoIn southwestern Togo, the cult of ancestors and the rituals associated with the veneration of their stools are among the most important elements of legitimisation of local chieftaincies.
Marco Gardini
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La importancia económica y teológica del lugar de nacimiento de el ibis [PDF]
, 2018 The article gives a new explanation for the masses of sacred ibises and their remains inside the Egyptian ibis burial places (Ibiotapheia) especially in Ptolemaic times.
Kessler, Dieter
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Estudios Atacameños, 2006 En este artículo sostenemos que entre las sociedades circumpuneñas del Período de Desarrollos Regionales Tardío (1250-1430 DC) se encontraban ya presentes varias de las prácticas de gobierno descentralizado y apropiación corporativa de recursos ...
Nielsen Axel
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Historical dimensions in the study of figurative wood-carving in South Africa [PDF]
, 1986 ican Studies Seminar series. Paper presented 17 March 1986.It is a widely accepted and disseminated tenet in virtually all the literature on African art that no tradition of figurative sculpture comparable to that of West and Central Africa existed in
Nettleton, Anitra
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The Sakalava Pilgrimage as a Royal Service (Western Madagascar) [PDF]
, 2018 Das ethnographische Fallbeispiel untersucht die besonderen Formen von Pilgerschaft und Prozession im Kontext des zentralen Königsschreins der Sakalava im westlichen Madagaskar.
Kneitz, Peter
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IS ANCESTOR VENERATION COMPATIBLE WITH THE BIBLICAL FAITH?
Scriptura, 2013 As part of a research project on ancestor veneration in the church this essay explores the stance of biblical witness on a few fundamental issues: (a) How important is past history for the biblical faith? (b) What is the role of the prime ancestors of Israel in the biblical faith? (c) Can the deceased mediate between humans and God?
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Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]
, 2007 This paper analyses changing geographies of disposal in the urban centres of Taipei in Taiwan and Manila in the Philippines, specifically shifts from burial to cremation and the extent to which such shifts reflect changing patterns of residence ...
Tremlett, Paul-Francois
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