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Introduction: Researching Queer Death
Whatever, 2021 The present article serves as an introduction to the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. This introduction briefly interrogates the premises, scope, and objectives of Queer Death Studies (QDS) in such a ...
Mattia Petricola
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‘And writing […] will preserve his memory’: Laman Blanchard’s Afterlife in Letters and Ledgers
European Journal of Life Writing, 2020 This article examines the historical fragments of cemetery records and monumental masonry for the poet and journalist Laman Blanchard, who was interred in West Norwood Cemetery, London, in 1845, and whose monument was cleared a century later by Lambeth ...
Heather Scott
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4/ Queering death in the medical and health humanities
Whatever, 2021 This is part 4 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, queer studies, and the medical/health humanities and ...
Yana Kirey-Sitnikova +4 more
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Ancestor worship in contemporary Japan
Японские исследования, 2022 This article examines the transformation of ancestor worship in the context of socio-political and religious conditions and identifies the characteristics of worship in contemporary Japanese society and the changes in the form of practices and functions ...
I. V. Avdiushenkova
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Kulturella Perspektiv, 2013 This article deals with Cryonics (freezing of “dead” bodies) and how it is described and criticized in media in the US. The results show three forms of criticism.
Bo Nilsson
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Some issues of shaping thanatology as a discipline: Ethnological and anthropological perspectives [PDF]
Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2016 Development of death studies, choice of topics and aspects of their interpretations were influenced by many factors, both global and local.
Pavićević Aleksandra
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Cultura, Lenguaje y Representación, 2021 The title of the book shows, based on a metaphor, the use of euphemism to refer to death. The reader can obtain a transversal vision of this subject: from traditional thought to the great change that took place in the 19th century with the ...
Esperanza Morales
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Man against death: Identity, language, technology
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article is a review of the book by D. Davies Death, Ritual, and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites (Moscow: NLO, 2022. 480 p.). The author notes the growing interest of society in the phenomenon of death and makes an attempt to systematize the ...
M. V. Subbotina
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Duty not to delete: towards the question of the rights of the digital person after death [PDF]
Омский научный вестник: Серия "Общество. История. Современность"The article examines the concept and scope of a discipline called ‘digital thanatology’, which explores how death and dying continue in digital space, transcending physical life through data preservation, virtual memorials, chatbots, digital trace and
I. N. Kazarina
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PTEN Regulates Glucose Transporter Recycling by Impairing SNX27 Retromer Assembly
Cell Reports, 2017 Summary: The tumor suppressor PTEN executes cellular functions predominantly through its phosphatase activity. Here we identified a phosphatase-independent role for PTEN during vesicular trafficking of the glucose transporter GLUT1.
Swapnil Rohidas Shinde +1 more
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