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STUDIES OF MEDIEVAL MAUSOLEUMS IN THE KOPTAM TERRAIN IN WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN
Археология евразийских степейThe purpose of the article is to publish materials from archaeological excavations of previously unknown medieval mausoleums in the Aktobe region of Western Kazakhstan. The mausoleums were explored near the village of Taskopa in the Koptam area.
Arman A. Bissembaev +2 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
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How COVID-19 pandemic is changing the Africa's elaborate burial rites, mourning and grieving. [PDF]
Pan Afr Med J, 2020 Omonisi AE.
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The Christian Funeral Rites Vis a Vis the Rukuba Burial Rites
International Journal of innovative inventions in Social Science and HumanitiesThe topic for this research work is, " the Christian funeral rites vis a vis the Rukuba Burial Rites. The ceremonies surrounding the disposal of the dead constitute the funeral rites. In spite of cultural evolution and religious factors, the Christians are not able to differentiate the purely Christian funeral rites from the purely Rukuba cultural ...
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, 2022 Issues brought about by climate change, global warming, and greenhouse gases emissions, are as a result of human activities such as deforestation, environmental degradation, and excessive consumption of natural resources.
Mohd Rasdi, Roziah +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Cultural Heritage and the Ritual of Burial
, 2011 Archaeological evidence for the ritual of burial goes back tens of thousands of years, making it one of the fundamentals of human culture. This therefore helps to explain why the issue of retaining human remains in museums around the world is such a ...
Davies, Chris, Galloway, Kathrine
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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, 2015 The paper attempts a holistic analysis of the burial-rites of the Urhobo people, of Delta State, Nigeria vis-à-vis its dramatic content. Drama over the ages has been acclaimed as an essential part of culture, however not every cultural practices could be
IDOGHO, Joseph Agofure
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The funeral and commemoration rite among the Tuvans of Bayan-Ölgii and Khövsgöl aimags, Mongolia
Новые исследования Тувы, 2017 The article provides a reconstruction of the funeral and commemoration rite of Tuvans in Mongolia. The rite includes a series of acts, rites, customs and taboos that are enacted immediately after the death of a person and until he or she is buried and ...
Elena V Ayyzhy
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