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I can't believe they are dead. Death and mourning in the absence of goodbyes during the COVID-19 pandemic. [PDF]

Health Soc Care Community, 2022
Hernández-Fernández C, Meneses-Falcón C.   +1 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Fractured selves, contested lands: Marlpa identity and the politics of native title

The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the constitution of marlpa identity in the Pilbara, emphasising the interplay between Aboriginal ontologies, kinship systems and the institutional frameworks of native title. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and oral histories, it argues that marlpa belonging is constituted through cognatic descent, consubstantial ...
Nayeli Torres‐Montenegro
wiley   +1 more source

"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.
europepmc   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

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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Death, Funeral Rituals, and Stigma: Perspectives from Mortuary Workers and Bereaved Families. [PDF]

Pastoral Psychol, 2023
Mas'amah, Adu AA, Bunga BN, Liem A, Kiling IY.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

New Developments in Aniconic Jaina Iconography [PDF]

, 2010
The article analyses for the first time the phenomenon of burial ad sanctos and of the necropolis in the aniconic Jaina traditions, which in certain respects serves as a functional equivalent of the temple city as the principla pilgrimage site, tīrtha ...
Flügel, Peter
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Living in the Mycelial World

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
wiley   +1 more source

National Relics: Secular Sacrality, Museums, and Heritage‐Making in Nineteenth‐Century Chile

Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT This article examines how objects and bodily remains are transformed and ritualized into national relics through collecting and exhibiting practices in museums. Focusing on nineteenth‐century Chile, it draws on archival sources, material culture theory, and the anthropology of religion to argue that objects associated with Chile's nation‐state
Hugo Rueda Ramírez
wiley   +1 more source

Sukhaya Termista I Bronze Age graves: a case study of cultural, physical anthropological and paleobotanical characteristics

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 ...
I Sergeevna Omelchenko, A Aleksandrovich Kazarnitsky   +1 more
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