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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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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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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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Memento Mori : Memento Maori – moko and memory [PDF]
, 2009 Moko patterns, mau moko, “wearing ink” is often explained as an act of remembrance, a symbol of honour or success, of grieving or loss. Memento mori, remembering the dead and remembrance of death, pervades the Maori world, and is profoundly expressed in ...
Te Awekotuku, Ngahuia
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Developmental Psychobiology, Volume 68, Issue 2, March 2026.ABSTRACT Functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a popular optical neuroimaging method; however, participants with Afro‐textured (i.e., dark, coarse, curly) hair are often excluded due to difficulty obtaining sensor–scalp contact. Grounded in lived experience and sociocultural literature, we aimed to develop and evaluate culturally responsive ...
Abria S. Simmons +3 more
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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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Toward the Renewal of Christian Initiation in the Parish [PDF]
, 1981 (Excerpt) The brochure for this year\u27s Institute contained the arresting sentence: To discuss the question of Christian initiation is, finally, to inquire after the very nature of the church: the issue is of vast ecclesiological significance.
Brand, Eugene L
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WIREs Forensic Science, Volume 8, Issue 1, March 2026.Forensic anthropology as an element of social reconciliation in the processes of resignification and dignification of the victims of the Spanish Civil War and Francoism. ABSTRACT The application of forensic anthropological methodology in interventions aimed at the exhumation of victims of Francoism is of paramount importance.
Alejandra Moreno González +1 more
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Trading Zones Between Thick and Thin: Anthropological Description as Scaffold or Mosaic
American Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 1, Page 159-170, March 2026.ABSTRACT Referring to the work of historian of science Peter Galison, I argue that anthropology requires thin description as an essential counterpart for thick description. Thin accounts provide the scaffolding within which thick descriptions sit. Galison uses the idea of a “trading zone” connecting different communities who, despite their differences (
David Zeitlyn
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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
Cathrine Sibanda +5 more
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