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Cultural practices, healthcare-seeking behaviors, and wildlife interface: Zoonotic disease risks among the Phu Thai Ethnic Group in Thailand. [PDF]

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Ancestor Worship

2019
Ancestor worship refers to rituals designed to commemorate and venerate the spirits of one’s deceased forebears. While it is often associated with the Confucian notion of filial piety, ancestor worship crosses the boundaries of religious traditions, geographical regions, and socioeconomic groups.
Eswarappa Kasi, Gladis S. Mathew
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Ancestor Worship

Practical Anthropology, 1959
The study of religion in primitive societies and ancient times must not start with its creeds, for they are often secondary, contrived “explanations” for religious behavior. Rather, the functional significance of religious forms like ancestor worship lies in their social bonds, in the way in which they provide a link between the living and their dead ...
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Ancestor worship in CS1

Companion to the 19th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming systems, languages, and applications, 2004
History has given us the array as the fundamental data structure to present to students within the CS1 curriculum. However, with the recent growth in popularity of object-oriented languages for CS1 (C++, Java, C#), and with that, the acceptance of the objects-first or objects-early approach to teaching CS1, it becomes imperative that we re-evaluate our
Phil Ventura   +2 more
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Unmasterful Spirituality: Challenging Ancestor Worship

Ecumenica, 2023
ABSTRACT This essay explores the spiritual and performative practice of ancestor worship as revisited by Czech-Vietnamese queer artist Lê Thị Hoài. The essay unpacks the power dynamics at stake in Lê Thị’s practice and introduces spirituality as a challenge to established power hierarchies.
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Pietas in Ancestor Worship

The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1961
THE HENRY MYERS LECTURE is meant to be addressed to a mixed audience of anthropologists and non-anthropologists of varied interests. This makes it a tempting opportunity for stepping off the straight and narrow path of professional specialism to wander in the green pastures of speculation from which one normally averts one's eyes.
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