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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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"If no one grieves, no one will remember": Cultural palimpsests and the creation of social ties through rituals. [PDF]
Br J Sociol, 2022 Prickett PJ, Timmermans S.
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Death, Funeral Rituals, and Stigma: Perspectives from Mortuary Workers and Bereaved Families. [PDF]
Pastoral Psychol, 2023 Mas'amah +4 more
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I stumbled when I saw: Fieldwork, fallibility, and the politics of being wrong
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 2, December 2026.Abstract What does it mean for an anthropologist to be wrong? This essay takes the question seriously in two registers at once: the everyday mistakes of fieldwork, from mistranslating a greeting to misreading a shaved head as a sign of mourning, and the deeper entitlement through which our discipline claimed authority over other people's languages and ...
Mark Turin
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An Ancient Indian Custom: Sati
Ankara Üniversitesi Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Dergisi, 2017 The practice of burning the widow with the corpse of the husband is an old Indo- Germanic custom. Similar practices are notably common both in Europe and especially in Scandinavian cultures and also ancient Egyptians, Greece and Bali, etc.
Yalçın KAYALI
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Affective regimes and ontological security: When empathy threatens the state
Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2026.Abstract The ontological security of states may be threatened by the politics of empathy. Empathy—as a contested affective‐political field—has a capacity to both consolidate and unravel dominant understandings of identity, security, political subjectivity, and self‐other relations.
Naomi Head
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RUDN Journal of World History, 2011 This paper presents the results of the excavation of Sukhaya Termista I burial ground located in the Rostov region of the Southern Russia. The features of the burial rite and funeral goods including remains of plants (phytoliths and pollen), physical ...
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Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 3, September 2026.ABSTRACT This paper reconceptualizes fashion as a deep‐time system of bodily communication rather than a byproduct of modern consumer societies. We define fashion as a socially transmitted system of bodily display in which patterned variation occurs within shared conventions of appearance.
Francesco d'Errico, Solange Rigaud
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