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The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2015 Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract A lack of minimum legal standards for body donation programs undermines recent strides by anatomy professionals to promote ethical best practices in the United States (US). In particular, the commercialization of the dead by nontransplant tissue banks poses a risk to the public trust in academic body donation programs.
Laura E. Johnson
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is causing major social changes to which significant psychological effects are linked. During the first phase of the pandemic wave in Italy, whilst there was insufficient information about the phenomenon and the ...
Ines Testoni +6 more
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'Une fleur que ses yeux éteints ne peuvent plus contempler': women's sculpture for the dead [PDF]
, 2013 From the moment that women sculptors emerged, they have been creating sculptures for the dead, in multiple forms. Many of them specialized in the art of portraying, which was in high demand for wax figures, statues and funeral monuments.
Sterckx, Marjan
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Anatomical Sciences Education, EarlyView.Abstract Anecdotally, educational institutions without access to human remains may choose to import these from other countries; however, there is currently no published information illuminating the existence of this trade. This study therefore aimed to document the nature of international transfer of human remains for education, and explore anatomists'
Jackie Hazelhurst +7 more
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, 2008 The funeral industry in the United States is big business, generating more than $11 billion annually and employing over 100,000 people. Since 1999, the industry has given more than $6 million to political parties and state-level candidates in 46 states ...
Scott Jordan
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Clinical Anatomy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The use of human donor bodies for anatomical examination in the United Kingdom is regulated by the Human Tissue Authority (England, Wales, and Northern Ireland) and His Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy for Scotland. This study aimed to assess the variability of information provided to body donors and the associated consent forms across UK ...
Janet A. C. Philp, Kat A. Sanders
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Svensk Teologisk Kvartalskrift, 2013 Funeral directors and priests — do they complement each other or do they compete? Based on field studies at funeral directors’ and a survey among priests in the Church of Sweden, conflicts between the two parts are analyzed. The funeral directors mainly
Anna Davidsson Bremborg
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Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how Afro‐Brazilian communities in Pernambuco respond to state‐led industrial development through culturally rooted practices of resistance and repair. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research in the coastal municipalities of Cabo de Santo Agostinho and Ipojuca, this study traces the effects of Brazil's large‐scale ...
Shelly Annette Biesel
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