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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words. On Photographs, Talking Contexts and Visual Silences
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2020 This paper’s point of departure is that historic silences are socially constructed and culturally productive, and that photographs in archives participate in the creation of historical silences despite, or maybe thanks to, their convincing depicting ...
Mattias Frihammar
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A Review of Bioarcheological Investigations in Iron Age Cambodia
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Archeological research within Cambodia is quite extensive, with significant projects led by both Cambodian archeologists and international researchers alike. Many of these projects have uncovered human skeletal remains. This article reviews archeological human skeletal studies in Cambodia, synthesizing published and unpublished data, primarily
Sophorn Nhoem, Kate Domett, Nigel Chang
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Funeral insurance has existed at least since antiquity, and it remains popular in many parts of Africa today. Yet the study of funeral insurance as a distinct form of insurance has hitherto been neglected.
Erlend Berg
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study presents an integrative approach to chronic disease and disability in a Portuguese nun who died in 1779. The aim is to interpret her condition by combining osteopathological and burial context evidence with written sources. It offers a concise example of how bringing these sources together can enhance pathological interpretation and
Nathalie Antunes‐Ferreira
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The Life of Christ and the Death of a Loved One: Crafting the Funeral Homily [PDF]
, 1996 Reviewed Book: Schmitz, Barbara G. The Life of Christ and the Death of a Loved One: Crafting the Funeral Homily.
Lisinski, Peter
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Prior research has documented treponematosis at a single site in Mainland Southeast Asia from northern Vietnam dated to the early agricultural transition (~4000–3500 bp). To date, no other cases in Southeast Asia's prehistory have been identified.
Melandri Vlok +15 more
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How People Who Are Dying or Mourning Engage with the Arts
Music and Arts in Action, 2012 Though death and loss are recognized as significant themes in fine and popular arts forms, we know virtually nothing about how people who themselves are dying or bereaved use the arts - unless they are practising artists or under therapeutic supervision.
Tony Walter
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Stiff Competition: Vertical Relationships in Cremation Services [PDF]
I examine the relationship between retail market competition and wholesale contracting patterns, by analyzing subcontracting behavior of funeral homes (retailers) and crematories (wholesalers) in the Minnesota funeral industry.
Lori Parcel
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This Side Of The Grave: Navigating The Quaker Plainness Testimony In London And Philadelphia In The Eighteenth Century [PDF]
, 2015 For observant members of the Society of Friends in greater London and Philadelphia during the eighteenth century, navigating the Quaker plainness testimony involved material culture choices that might be viewed by non-Quakers as concealing motives of ...
O\u27Donnell, Patricia C.
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International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Skeletal trauma provides insight into both accidental injury and interpersonal violence, reflecting everyday risk and social dynamics. This study tests the hypothesis that trauma, particularly among males, was more prevalent in the Islamic population of Silves (9th–13th centuries) than in the subsequent Christian rule (13th century onwards ...
Ana González‐Ruiz +2 more
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