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The Distinctive Features of Belarusian Traditional Funeral Repasts [PDF]

open access: yes, 2021
In Belarusian traditional culture, the funeral repast was an important part of the structure of funeral rites. Its meaning had as much to do with ethics as with sustenance and it was a required or normative part of funerary behaviour in the Belarusian ...
Navahrodski, Tadevush A.
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Döden och identiteten

open access: yesKulturella Perspektiv, 1999
The article describes a multicultural Swedish grave quarter and three immigrants funerals; one Catholic-Chilean, one Catholic-Polish and one Mormon-Polish. The analysis elucidates how funerals and graveyards signal different ethnic or cultural adherence
Eva Reimers
doaj   +1 more source

Un établissement de l’étape moyenne du Bronze final à Morancez (Eure-et-Loir)

open access: yesRevue Archéologique du Centre de la France, 2022
The excavation of the Ardrets site in Morancez (28) has uncovered an occupation from the Middle Bronze Age. The occupation includes habitat structures to the north and excavations linked to funerary practices to the south.
Bruno Lecomte, Delphine Capron
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In hora mortis: deceso, duelo, rapiña y legado en la muerte del obispo visigótico

open access: yesHispania Sacra, 2012
En estas páginas nos acercamos a los momentos finales de la vida de un obispo visigótico –su muerte y el ritual debido– y a los inmediatamente posteriores. Son la manifestación última de su preeminencia social.
Pedro Castillo Maldonado
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Musical Practices in the Funeral Context: A Case Study of Cemeteries in the Ljubljana Region in 2016

open access: yesMuzikološki Zbornik, 2017
In Ljubljana and in its surroundings the music at a traditional funeral still consists usually of a vocal ensemble or a trumpet, but in 2016 this has increasingly tended to be replaced by a girl’s vocal and instrumental ensemble.
Anita Prelovšek
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The Cao Đài Deathscape: Reimagining Death, Funerals, and Salvation in Contemporary Vietnam

open access: yesReligions, 2020
This article sheds light on the sophisticated funeral process set up by the Cao Đài religion (or Caodaism), combining both a theological and an ethnographical analysis.
Jérémy Jammes, Shao Zhu Shuai
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Why was the writer cremated? Thanato - anthropological aspects of death and funeral of Yugoslav literate Ivo Andrić [PDF]

open access: yesGlasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU, 2013
The author discuses the funeral of Yugoslav writer, Ivo Andrić, with a particular focus on his wish to be incinerated. This wish is analyzed from several aspects: through the concept of celebrating great people in the time of socialism and from the ...
Pavićević Aleksandra
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An Oracle of Ashes: The Burial of James Purdy

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Life Writing, 2020
James Purdy (b. 1914), an American writer known for his grim humour and embrace of the outlandish and estranged, died in 2009, shortly after uttering his final wish: that after cremation his ashes should be buried near to Dame Edith Sitwell, one of the ...
Maria Cecilia Holt
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Erken Dönem Osmanlı Padişah Cenazelerinde Tahnit Uygulaması

open access: yesOrtaçağ Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022
Tarihsel süreçte pek çok toplumun kendine özgü ölü gömme geleneklerinin olduğu bilinmektedir. Bu merasimlerde gerçekleşen uygulamalardan birisi cenazelerinin tahnit edilmesi uygulamasıdır.
Ali Kozan
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Cortical bone distribution in the human mandibular symphysis: Ontogenic and morphometric approaches in archeological context

open access: yesThe Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract The human mandibular symphysis concentrates multiaxial loads during function and remodels throughout growth, but the precise mechanisms underlying cortical bone shape during growth remain relatively unexplored. Approaches based solely on thickness or external cortical contours provide only partial insights and do not capture the functional ...
Ana Ribeiro   +3 more
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