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Women's sense of their hak, divine justice, and economies of divorce in Istanbul Sens du hak des femmes, justice divine et économies du divorce à Istanbul

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
wiley   +1 more source

Creative dynamism and religious syncretism in Igbo oral funeral songs

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
Igbo oral funeral songs are dynamic and resilient oral forms. Applying the tenets of an infracultural model of ethnopoetics to study Igbo oral funeral songs collected during fieldwork, in this article, I examine the emerging trend in most Igbo ...
Onyebuchi Nwosu
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Craniology and archeology of the east manych catacomb culture - perspectives of the analysis of the consistency of signs

RUDN Journal of World History, 2018
This thesis demonstrates results of a comparison of new published craniological data of the East Manych catacomb culture population (Middle Bronze Age, North-Western Caspian region), of the funeral rites and the artifacts assortments in the burials of ...
Alexey Aleksandrovich Kazarnizki, Nathalia V Panasyuk   +1 more
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125 years of exploration and research at Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK) 125 ans d'exploration et de recherches à Gough's Cave (Somerset, Royaume‐Uni)

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello, Mark D. Lewis, Simon A. Parfitt   +2 more
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The Funeral Complexes with Weapons and Horse Equipment of the 4th - 3rd Centuries BC from Zayukovo-3 Burial Mound (Kabardino-Balkariya)

Нижневолжский археологический вестник, 2017
In 2014 the United North Caucasian Archaeological Expedition of the State Historical Museum, the Kabardino-Balkarian State University and the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences carried out works at the Zayukovo-3 burial mound ...
Anna A. Kadieva, Sergey V. Demidenko
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Ontological polyglossia: the art of communicating in opacity* Polyglossie ontologique : l'art de communiquer dans l'opacité

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
wiley   +1 more source

Hair as sensory skin: sensitive bodies, ritual shaving, and the maintenance of bodily boundaries in Hindu Suriname De la pilosité comme peau sensorielle : corps sensibles, rasage rituel et maintien des limites du corps chez les hindous du Surinam

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
wiley   +1 more source

Therapeutic strenght in funeral ceremonies

Cultura de los Cuidados, 2012
Care is always provided within cultural boundaries and those precise cultural boundaries will result in the type of care that should be singled appropriate to circumstances.
Juan Carlos Delgado Antolín
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Conservatism of funeral rites of the western Balts

Ученые записки Казанского университета: Серия Гуманитарные науки, 2020
The phenomenon of conservative spiritual culture of the Balts was studied using the archaeological evidence and Prussian folklore. The autochthonous inhabitants of the Baltic States in the New and Recent History were distinguished by the constancy of ...
V.I. Kulakov
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“Red Funeral”. New Funeral Rites in Early Soviet Russia

Ideas and Ideals, 2021
The article analyzes the emergence of the so-called red funeral ritual in the 1920s in Soviet Russia as an important component of political everyday life. The first part of the article examines the funeral rituals of representatives of the Bolshevik elite.
Andrey Savin, Alexey Teplyakov
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