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Key Issues and Future Directions in Rewriting the History of Mahan －The Characteristics and Cultural Identity of Early Mahan Society* [PDF]

International Journal of Korean History
This study investigates the formation of early Mahan society within the broader context of Late Kojosŏn’s cultural expansion. It argues that the Korean-style bronze dagger culture, which emerged in the Hoseo region during the 4th to 3rd centuries BCE ...
Taeyang O
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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, J. Ernesto Valdez, Katrina J. Bettcher   +2 more
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From sacred totem to folk symbol: a Panofskian iconological and semiotic reading of Huaiyang Nini Dog clay figurine motifs

Cogent Arts & Humanities
Decorative motifs on the Huaiyang Nini Dog clay figurines, produced for the Taihao Ling Temple Fair, constitute a rich visual symbol system encoding deep cultural meanings, yet systematic analysis of these motifs as an autonomous symbolic unit distinct ...
Bingqian Zhou, Shaik Azahar Shaik Hussain   +1 more
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Material security, life history, and moralistic religions: A cross-cultural examination.

PLoS ONE, 2018
Researchers have recently proposed that "moralistic" religions-those with moral doctrines, moralistic supernatural punishment, and lower emphasis on ritual-emerged as an effect of greater wealth and material security.
Benjamin Grant Purzycki, Cody T Ross, Coren Apicella, Quentin D Atkinson, Emma Cohen, Rita Anne McNamara, Aiyana K Willard, Dimitris Xygalatas, Ara Norenzayan, Joseph Henrich   +9 more
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Constructive Realism: “Why Ancestor Is Possible” in Zhu Xi’s Religion View

Religions
Traditional Chinese ancestor worship implicitly raises a fundamental question: How are ancestors possible? This question was formally articulated in the Zhu Xi’ philosophy. Qi holds ontological status: the “birth” of things arises from the aggregation of
Linqiang Quan, Xiaodong Xie
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Impact of religious cultural similarity on internal migration: a regional perspective in contemporary China

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Although research has examined migrants’ attraction to religious environments in detail, the broader impact of loosely organized religions on migration patterns in highly secularized countries such as China has received relatively little attention.
Shukai Liu, Zhe Chen, Wen Ma, Zhuo Chen, Yunsong Chen   +4 more
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Between Pulpit and Hearth: A Genealogical Reading of Reformed Liturgy and Gendered Identities in African Ritual Life

Genealogy
This 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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Pray to the ancestors: a case study of Christianity and Nias indigenous religion

Cogent Arts & Humanities
This research examines syncretism in the religious practices of Christian communities on Nias Island, focusing on the persistence of ancestor worship among some rural residents.
Sonny Eli Zaluchu
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Kinship, Rituals and Territory in a Naxi Village of Southwest China

European Bulletin of Himalayan Research, 2022
Emmanuelle Laurent
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Plazas para los antepasados: Descentralización y poder corporativo en las formaciones políticas preincaicas de los Andes circumpuneños

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 ...
Axel E Nielsen
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