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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
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Turkish Religious Music in the Funeral Ceremonies of Sufi Orders
ReligionsIn the history of Turkish-Islamic culture, every stage of human life—from birth to death—has been ritualized with profound symbolic and spiritual meanings.
Mustafa DEMİRCİ
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International Interfaith Centre Annual Lecture 1998: African Indigenous Religions and Inter-Religious Relationship [PDF]
, 1998 African Indigenous Religions and Inter-Religious RelationshipThis paper is in three parts. The first part deals with short introductory remarks on inter-faith relations. The second, the longest part, focuses on the fundamental features of Akan indigenous
Elizabeth Amoah
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Geopower, Geos and the Colonisation of Palestine
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.ABSTRACT While the majority of geographical work on colonialism in Palestine centres on territory and land, this article foregrounds geopower and geos in the making of spatial relations. Three arguments are made over three corresponding sections. The first draws on recent writing on geopower and geos (primarily that by Elizabeth Grosz, Elizabeth ...
Mark Griffiths
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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
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Ritual functions of clothing in the memorial rites of the Chuvashs
Этническая культураClothes perform many functions functions. One of them is the ritual function, according to which it becomes an important tool or object of various magical practices.
Igor G. Petrov
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The Redemptive Act of Reading: Richard Crashaw & the Teresean Liturgy [PDF]
, 2012 The essay entitled “The Redemptive Act of Reading: Richard Crashaw and the Teresean liturgy” written by Alexandra Finn-Atkins is centered on Richard Crashaw’s trilogy of poems dedicated to the sixteenth century Saint Teresa of Ávila. The trilogy consists
Finn-Atkins, Alexandra
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Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Managing Death in Exile is a theatrical performance that draws on ethnographic research with long‐term asylum‐seekers from sub‐Saharan Africa in Hong Kong since 2012. The performance told the story of Denise (pseudonym), who had to manage the illness, funeral, cremation, and repatriation of ashes of her good friend, Rosie (pseudonym). Dying in
Sealing Cheng
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‘Doing Things with Words’: Funeral performative utterances among the Tonga of Zimbabwe
The DykeThis article explores the oral heritage of the Batonga people through performative utterances made by individuals with specific relational roles during adult funeral ceremonies, whether male or female. It focuses on the nature of these utterances, their
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Funerals, Opposition and Protest between France and Brazil in nineteenth century
AlmanackThis article seeks to establish some comparative points about the so-called "opposition funerals", in nineteenth-century in France and Brazil, from propositions presents in the innovative approach of Emmanuel Fureix proposals on the occasion of the Forum
Claudia Rodrigues
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