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“The Return of my Grandfather Napoleon”: Ancestor worship, impiety, and collective possession in North Honduras

Anthropology of Consciousness
This paper analyzes Dolores's case of collective spirit possession as a paroxysmic form of possession idiom, serving as a powerful and creative internal mechanism that both safeguards and revitalizes the core structure of ancestor worship.
Marcela Perdomo
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A Comparative Study of Ancestor Worship in Africa and Pre-Qin China

International Journal of Education and Social Development
This paper conducts a comparative study of ancestor worship systems in Africa and pre-Qin China. Through in-depth analysis of the belief systems, ritual practices, social functions, and historical evolution of ancestor worship in these two cultural ...
Jun Liu
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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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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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Ancestor Worship

2016
Kyle J. Clark, Craig T. Palmer
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