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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 This article presents the first synthesis of the evidence for a diverse range of mortuary practices across the British Isles, and an interpretation of what they suggest about understandings of the body, relatedness, personhood and ancestry in Early ...
Chris Fowler
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Cremation Project, July 24, 1970
, 1970 full view, bronze urn in the shape of a book, framed photographs of cremation, framed graphic, mounted affidavit giving notice of the cremation of works of art by the ...
Baldessari, John
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Revue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2020 A corpus of 85 facts and some 320 burials allows us to revisit the question of the funerary complexes and practices of the 1st century BC in the Île-de-France region. While the distribution of sites still reveals areas that are devoid of any information,
Jean-Marc Séguier, Émilie Louesdon
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Body, burning and cremation: cremation and body burning practice of five Dynasties China
, 2003 This paper is an attempt to explicate cremation in Five Dynasties China particularly focusing on its historical identity as a transitional stage bridging cremation of Tang and Song dynasties and its cultural identity as a practice intricately related to ...
Han, Christina Hee-Yeon
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris, 2007 The use of the common burials becomes widespread during the Late Neolithic: the rests of several individuals are deposited at the same place. In some cases, cremation is combined with the corpse processing.
Esther Gatto
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Last rites and human rights: funeral pyres and religious freedom in the United Kingdom
, 2010 This article considers the litigation in Ghai v Newcastle City Council in which the legality of open air funeral pyres under the Cremation Act 1902, and under the right to freedom of religion and belief in article 9 of the European Convention on Human ...
Lewis, T, Cumper, P
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Perceptions on cremation amongst the Zulu people. [PDF]
, 2011 Thesis (M.Dev.Studies)-University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, 2011.South Africa is going through a difficult time due to HIV/AIDS pandemic (amongst other things) which has caused countless deaths leading to major concern about municipal burial sites since
Zwane, Maria Ntombikayise.
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THE ORIGINS OF CREMATION IN EUROPE
, 2010 The issue of the origin of cremation is a very interesting and complex problem. The primary question is, why did people begin burning their dead, but also where and when did the first cremation burials appear? This article discusses the state of research
Gil-Drozd, Agnieszka
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The reincarnation of cremation architecture [PDF]
, 2016 This thesis primarily deals with rituals and the specific objects related to the rituals. The rituals in question are the once in a life time event of the Hindu cremation ceremony, and perpendicular to that, the everyday rituals which constitutes ...
Nanoo, Amit
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ReligionsThe colonial erosion of African traditional and cultural practices continues to dislocate the African identity in different ways. The changes and shifts made to burial practices have simply paved a way for the colonial agenda to bring about more Western ...
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