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Life Beyond the Grave: Burial and Funeral Rites among the Aŋlɔ Eʋe of Ghana [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyLife beyond the grave is of consequent importance to the Aŋlɔ (Anlo) Eʋe (Ewe). Underpinned by burial and funeral rites, life beyond the grave enjoins on the Aŋlɔ Eʋe to live a life of integrity on this earth.
Alexander G. K. Salakpi
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Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris [PDF]
, 2000 This chapter examines attitudes towards the dead body, as exemplified by arrangements for funerals and burials, in Paris between around 1550 and 1670.
Harding, Vanessa
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Polyneices’ Body and His Monument: Class, Social Status, and Funerary Commemoration in Sophocles’ Antigone [PDF]
, 2006 There has been much debate about the role of Greek tragedy in questioning and/or affirming values. This paper addresses the broader relationship between theater and society in terms of the ways in which the dead were commemorated in fifth-century Athens.
David Roselli
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study focuses on two terracotta incense burners discovered in the Daba Al‐Bayah necropolis in the Musandam Peninsula (Oman), associated with an Iron Age collective tomb (LCG‐2). Through gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), the organic residues preserved within these artifacts were analyzed to investigate their use and ...
Francesco Genchi +3 more
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Learning from the Dead: How Burial Practices in Roman Britain Reflect Changes in Belief and Society
, 2019 This paper begins by examining the burial traditions of the Iron age Britons and Classical Romans to see how these practices reflect their societal values and belief systems. The funerary methods of both the Britons and Romans are then analyzed following
Engel, Samuel F.
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Promise Unfulfilled: Law, Culture, and Women\u27s Inheritance Rights in Ghana [PDF]
, 2001 This Report presents the findings of a Fordham delegation. It consists of three parts. Part I sets out Ghana\u27s obligations under international law as they relate to issues of women\u27s equality generally and inheritance rights specifically.
Fenrich, Jeanmarie, Higgins, Tracy E.
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Archaeometry, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines Wari obsidian production in a cache of 39 bifaces found at the Late Moche site of San José de Moro (Jequetepeque Valley, North Coast of Peru, 700–850 ad). Portable X‐ray fluorescence, geometric morphometric, and technological analyses were used to investigate raw material provenance and bifacial production.
Antonio Pérez‐Balarezo +2 more
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Украино-ананские параллели в погребальной обрядности / Ukrainian-Alan parallels in the funeral rites
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Крыма, 2011 The article is dedicated to the analogous rites in the funeral ceremonials of the medieval Alans, described by Giosafat Barbaro, and the Ukrainians, described by Jean Benoît Scherer.
K.Ju Rahno
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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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The History of Religion: Ancient Rome Edition 1960–2026
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Celia E. Schultz
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