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‘We are Sending the Funeral Home’: Migration and Funeral Rites in Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Funeral rites do not only serve as occasions for the living to find closure, bid farewell to the deceased, and usher them into the ancestral realm, but also, opportunities for the dispersed contemporary family to reconnect with the extended family and ...
Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
doaj   +1 more source

Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
core   +2 more sources

Early Iron Age Mound Near the Village Malynivtsi in Podillia

open access: yesЕмінак, 2023
The purpose of the research paper is to introduce the materials of mound 1 near the village of Malynivtsi in the Middle Dniester region to scientific circulation.
Anatoliy Hutsal   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Music and Political Space in Ancient Egypt [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Im alten Ägypten nahm Musik durch die Strukturierung von militärischen Paraden, könig-lichen Festen und religiösen Prozessionen eine wichtige Rolle im öffentlichen Raum ein.
Lieven, Alexandra von
core   +1 more source

Purified by fire

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2023
The cemetery at Dudka was used in the Mesolithic and Para-Neolithic period. It yielded 25 graves with remains of at least 116 individuals, including 52 who were cremated. Cremation was introduced in the Para-Neolithic, c. 4200 cal BC, and was probably a
Karolina Bugajska
doaj   +1 more source

Bentuk-Bentuk Gerabah Kubur Peti Batu Sokoliman: Hubungannya Dengan Tahap Penguburan

open access: yesBerkala Arkeologi, 1989
Kompleks kubur peti batu di Gunung Kidul tersebut telah diteliti oleh J.L. Moens pada tahun 1934, kemudian dilanjutkan oleh van der Hoop pada tahun berikutnya. Kompleks kubur peti batu tersebut antara lain terdapat di Kajar, Sokoliman, dan Bleberan. Pada
Goenadi Nitihaminoto
doaj   +1 more source

Generational Inversions: \u27Working\u27 for Social Reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and ...
Golomski, Casey
core   +2 more sources

Tangihanga: The ultimate form of Māori cultural expression - overview of a research programme [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Death, observed through the process of tangihanga (time set aside to grieve and mourn, rites for the dead) or tangi (to grieve and mourn), is the ultimate form of Māori cultural expression.
Maxwell, Te Kahautu   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

The Body that Writes: Gender, Class and the Abject Female Body in Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites (2013)

open access: yesC21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings, 2023
Hannah Kent’s debut novel Burial Rites (2013) is a historical true-crime novel that recovers the story of a female perpetrator, Agnes Magnúsdóttir, sentenced to death for her part in a gruesome double murder in nineteenth-century Iceland.
Kiriaki - Massoura
doaj   +2 more sources

Early synapsids neurosensory diversity revealed by CT and synchrotron scanning

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract Non‐mammaliaform synapsids (NMS) represent the closest relatives of today's mammals among the early amniotes. Exploring their brain and nervous system is key to understanding how mammals evolved. Here, using CT and Synchrotron scanning, we document for the first time three extreme cases of neurosensory and behavioral adaptations that probe ...
J. Benoit   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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