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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
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The Bunkyū Restoration: The Restoration of Imperial Tombs and Re-Design of Imperial Ancestor Worship
, 2018 This paper aims to analyse a possible connection between the renovation of imperial tombs in the Bunkyū era (1861-1864) and the restoration of imperial power in 1868.
Brigitte Pickl-Kolaczia
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
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FengShui – a systematic research of vernacular sustainable development In Ancient China and its lessons for future [PDF]
, 2007 Creating and keeping balance is the basic and the most important principle of Chinese traditional philosophy. It provides the fundamental philosophical basis for Chinese FengShui in pursuing coexistence between human and nature.
Ceranic, Boris, Zhong, Z.
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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
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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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Arithmetic--some drill aspects [PDF]
, 1927 Thesis (M.A.)--Boston ...
Finneran, Elizabeth Margaret
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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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 HistoryThis 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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The ancestor worship practices’ evolutions in Peri-Urban Vietnam a case of study in ho chi minh city
, 2017 Ancestor worship is not a particular religion, it is more a cultural fact and a social practice that crosses the different religious currents and may even involve individuals and families, not claiming religious affiliation [1]. However, ancestor worship
T. T. Ngo, Antoine Wallet
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