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Onomastics and the Reconstruction of the Past: Rethinking Totemism in Semitic Traditions [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 This paper addresses the theory that ancient Semitic proper names derived from animal names may testify to the culture of totemism. This theory, elaborated first in the works of William Robertson Smith in the late 19th century, has recently re-emerged in
Hekmat Dirbas
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At-turas: Jurnal Studi Keislaman, 2022 The house of worship development raises problems such as the destruction and closure of churches that took place in Aceh Singkil from 1978 to 2015. The conflict does not grow from religious sentiments but rather was the contestation of ethnic identity ...
Zulfikar Riza Hariz Pohan, Ismail Angkat
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European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The atrocities committed during the Nazi era still affect Germany's image in the world and Germans' feelings about their country's past. Herein, we investigate how historical propaganda images glorifying Adolf Hitler influence these feelings. Prior scholars have raised concerns that such materials might communicate distorted images of the past
Lara Ditrich +3 more
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Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1996 Chadic-speakers perform annual festivals of the ancestors, kok nji; cropping kop; harvesting, dyip and hunting kwat, which are usually accompanied by dancing, singing and other numerous rites and rituals.
Umar Danfulani
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The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2015 Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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Alawi syncretism : beliefs and traditions in the shrine of Hüseyin Gazi [PDF]
, 2004 Religious Anthropology studies the origins, evolution and functions of religions. The discipline researching religious beliefs and rituals comparatively with cross-cultural perspectives tries to enlighten the belief world of the mankind.
Türk, Hüseyin
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how queerness and religion intersect in a unique enactment of Bathukamma, a flower festival honoring the female divine in Hyderabad, the capital of the South Indian state of Telangana. Drawing on theories of figuration, I analyze how local queer organizations celebrate the festival in a way that engages two distinctive ...
Stefan Binder
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Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]
, 2013 This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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Anthropologist, heal thyself: Toward an anthropology of healing through relational interbeing
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract I call for an anthropology that confronts its own woundedness. Anthropologists often bear witness to suffering but rarely examine how our own grief, trauma, and institutional distress shape the affective tone of our work. Drawing on fieldwork with Runa (Quechua) women affected by forced sterilization in Peru and guided by my collaborator and ...
Lucía Isabel Stavig
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