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Last rites and human rights: funeral pyres and religious freedom in the United Kingdom [PDF]

, 2010
This article considers the litigation in Ghai v Newcastle City Council in which the legality of open air funeral pyres under the Cremation Act 1902, and under the right to freedom of religion and belief in article 9 of the European Convention on Human ...
Cumper, P, Lewis, T
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«J’ai accouché de ma mère» [PDF]

, 1982
Ce récit relate la mort d'une femme et les émotions de sa fille au cours des différentes étapes qu'elles ont eues à traverser. C'est l'histoire d'une série de métamorphoses de la relation mère-fille à partir de l'apparition des premiers symptômes d'une ...
Fournier, Édith
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Autopsy, deathways, and intercultural healthcare in the southern Peruvian Andes Autopsie, pratiques mortuaires et soins de santé interculturels dans le sud des Andes péruviennes

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Att komplettera eller konkurrera? Om prästers och begravningsentreprenörers arbetsuppgifter och ansvarsområden

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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Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]

, 2013
This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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No egalitarianism in the Wa hills: relative commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war Nul égalitarisme dans les hautes terres Wa : commensuration relative dans la parenté, le sacrifice et la guerre

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
The autonomy of the United Wa State Army of Myanmar today is said to be based on the egalitarianism of Wa communities in the past. The analysis of commensuration in kinship, sacrifice, and war challenges these portrayals of autonomy and egalitarianism.
Hans Steinmüller
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SOME WAYS OF TALUSES' USE IN FUNERAL RITE OF EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE PEOPLE

RUDN Journal of World History, 2014
The aim of this article is the analysis of small cattle’s taluses that were found in funeral complexes in Donetz river region dated by Early and Middle Bronze age.
A N Usachuk, N V Panasyuk
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Newly Discovered Sarmatian Burial Complexes from the Kurgan in the Caucasian Mineral Waters Region

Нижневолжский археологический вестник
In 2010, the expedition of the Nasledie State Unitary Enterprise (Stavropol) conducted archaeological excavations on the territory of the Caucasian Mineral Waters and excavated the kurgan 1 of the Voniuchka-1 kurgan cemetery near the city of Pyatigorsk ...
Yakov B. Berezin, Aleksei А. Kalmykov
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Society beyond morality: mimesis, sovereignty, and being not‐human in the Nyau associations of Malawi La société par‐delà la moralité : mimèse, souveraineté et existence non humaine dans les sociétés Nyau du Malawi

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Nyau masked dancers embodying a variety of people, animals, and objects appear at many public events in Chewa areas of Malawi. Understood to be the physical manifestation of ancestral spirits, these entities are classified as ‘not human’ and transgress ordinary morality, mocking and threatening audiences.
Sam Farrell
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Gee Jm 'the ancestor alter' chanted by Pirma Gavq Lavq [PDF]

, 2013
.wav and .mp3 versions of audio file, and .txt transcriptionA .wav recording of the second chant performed when carrying out a funeral rite and its accompanying text translated and glossed into contemporary Akha and English.
Terrell, Jacob A.
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