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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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Funeral Register Volume 19: Carey Hand Funeral Home records, October 3, 1935 to July 2, 1936 [PDF]
, 1935 Contains records and ledgers on services provided at the Carey Hand Funeral Home. Materials include memoranda regarding the death and burial of deceased individuals, registers of the death, burial and payment information, plots in the Greenwood and Palm ...
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.For over a century, anthropologists have documented the many institutions that exist to respond to witchcraft and the uncanny that it names: oracles that attempt to produce certainty by naming the witch; moots in which grievances are aired; trials in magistrates’ courts that attempt to satisfy the community while preserving the life of the accused ...
Chloe Nahum‐Claudel
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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 вестникIn 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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Indian funeral rite from the past to the present
, 2013 ABSTRACTABSTRACTABSTRACT (in English) The diploma work deals with the hindu funeral rite. The thesis is based on the study of original Indian resources in Hindi and Sanskrit, as well as on treatises on this topic in English, German and Czech.
Hadvigová, Helena
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Anthropologists have long shown that asking for food in times of need is morally valued in rural Namibia. Yet among the Damara pastoralists with whom I work, people now increasingly describe feeling shame (taob) when they ask for food. In this article, I trace this shift to the affective dynamics of social class formation.
Michael Schnegg
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Death as a Fateful Moment? The Reflexive Individual and Scottish Funeral Practices [PDF]
Death is considered by some commentators to be problematic for the inhabitants of a late modern era, so that when individuals are confronted by death they revert to using traditional institutions and practices.
Gleny Caswell
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Funeral Register Volume 15: Carey Hand Funeral Home records, November 30, 1931 to December 9, 1932 [PDF]
, 1931 Contains records and ledgers on services provided at the Carey Hand Funeral Home. Materials include memoranda regarding the death and burial of deceased individuals, registers of the death, burial and payment information, plots in the Greenwood and Palm ...
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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