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Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
This chapter examines attitudes towards the dead body, as exemplified by arrangements for funerals and burials, in Paris between around 1550 and 1670.
Harding, Vanessa
core  

Defining Reconciliation Studies: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions

open access: yesConflict Resolution Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Reconciliation studies (RS) has become increasingly influential in understanding alternative views to ending conflict and dealing with the aftermath. As a discipline or field, however, it is not well defined. The actual usefulness of reconciliation (as a concept), or of RS (as a discipline), is debated, and due to its growing usage, it is ...
Colleen Alena O’Brien
wiley   +1 more source

Patterns in the modification of animal and human bones in Iron Age Wessex: revisiting the excarnation debate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Social practices concerning the treatment of human and animal remains in the Iron Age have long been a focus of debate in archaeological literature. The absence of evidence of a formal burial rite and the regular retrieval of human remains from ‘special’
Madgwick, Richard
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Institutionalizing Advisory Bodies in Climate Governance: Between Transparency, Accountability and Efficiency

open access: yesEnvironmental Policy and Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The implementation of effective climate governance increasingly relies on advisory bodies that monitor the effectiveness of policies and management mechanisms. Despite their strategic importance to institutionalizing climate governance, limited attention has been paid to the roles, trajectories, and effectiveness of these advisory bodies ...
David Talbot, Luc Bernier
wiley   +1 more source

Some remarks on ceramic vessels in graves of the Lower Vardar Valley in the Early Iron Age in relation to their context (8th-6th century BC)

open access: yesPallas, 2014
In the Early Iron Age, the southern part of the Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) features a group of cemeteries which show very special burial rites and clearly differ from the usual habits in the Central Balkan area.
Daniela Heilmann
doaj   +1 more source

Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
core   +2 more sources

Service Work as Lived Experience: A Problematizing Review

open access: yesHuman Resource Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between employee burnout and growing recruitment challenges, a systemic crisis confronts the service industry. One reason lies in the scope of received human resource management (HRM) approaches, which often emphasize organizational performance metrics at the expense of the emotional, social, and material experiences of doing frontline service
Kushagra Bhatnagar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Special Rituals, Rites and Customs of Treatment of Human Bodies (A Case Study of Sarmatian Cultures) (in english)

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2019
This article presents characteristics of special rituals, rites and customs identified in Sarmatian cultures of Eastern Europe. For example, a group of prone burials of the Late Sarmatian time was distinguished in the course of the research.
Mariya A. Balabanova, Evgeniy V. Pererva
doaj   +1 more source

Ancient Item Spoilage Ritual Used in Nomadic Burial Rite [PDF]

open access: yesPovolzhskaya Arkheologiya (The Volga River Region Archaeology), 2017
The article considers the findings of items in ancient burials which were intentionally spoiled prior to deposition in graves. This tradition was widely spread both in terms of chronology and geography, and therefore cannot be attributed to any individual cultures or regions.
Beisenov Arman Z.   +1 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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