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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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A Proximate Mechanism for Communities of Agents to Commemorate Long Dead Ancestors [PDF]
Many human cultures engage in the collective commemoration of dead members of their community. Ancestor veneration and other forms of commemoration may help to reduce social distance within groups, thereby encouraging reciprocity and providing a ...
Bill Tomlinson
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Remembrance, emulation, imagination: The Chinese and Chinese American Catholic ancestor memorial service [PDF]
, 1994 The Chinese Rites Controversy, which began in seventeenth century China and largely concerned disagreement amongst Catholic missionary orders as to whether or not participation in ancestor veneration and Confucian rituals should be permitted by the ...
Butcher, Beverly Joan
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN
History, EarlyView.Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Identifying mortuary ritual and ancestor veneration : a spatial analysis of the tombs at Hualcayan
, 2013 This study is an investigation of the ritual activity associated with ancestor veneration in the Peruvian Andes through a survey of eighty tombs at the site of Hualcayan, located in the Callejon de Huaylas.
Norgon, Kate
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History, EarlyView.Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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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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GenealogyThis study analyses the Reformed liturgy as a site of ritual contestation that both shapes and facilitates the reconstruction and transformation of gender roles and identities in African contexts.
Ndidzulafhi Mudau
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International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.Abstract From desert ski resorts to subtropical Winter Games, there is a global proliferation of ‘mission‐impossible’ mega‐projects. The prevailing frameworks of city branding and urban entrepreneurism fail to explain the political logics behind these seemingly irrational projects.
Yiqiu Liu, Sven Daniel Wolfe
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Late Antique Allāh: Ancestral Arabian Religion and the Monotheistic Zeitgeist
Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay addresses the ongoing scholarly tension between the monotheistic interpretations of late pre‐Islamic Arabian religion, pioneered by G. Hawting and P. Crone, and the traditional accounts of rampant Arabian polytheism found in later Islamic literary sources.
Ahmad Al‐Jallad, Hythem Sidky
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