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‘We are Sending the Funeral Home’: Migration and Funeral Rites in Ghana [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyFuneral rites do not only serve as occasions for the living to find closure, bid farewell to the deceased, and usher them into the ancestral realm, but also, opportunities for the dispersed contemporary family to reconnect with the extended family and ...
Rose Mary Amenga-Etego
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The view of the Catholic Church of the Viceroyalty of Peru on indigenous funeral rites [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2023 the article analyzes the Church's position on the funeral rites that were practiced by the Peruvian Indigenous in the early colonial period. First, the author presents a brief description of the Andean funeral rite, most of the elements of which (the ...
Elena Novoselova
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The role of the furnace in Karelians funeral and memorial rites and folk medicine
Финно-угорский мир, 2020 Introduction. The article studies the role of the furnace in funeral-memorial rite and folk medicine of the Karelians. The study examines the functions of the furnace at all stages of the funeral-memorial rite, starting with the death of a person.
Yevgeniy V. Karakin, Tatyana V. Pashkova
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Funeral Rites of the Garos: Unveiling Cultural Assimilation Amidst Christian Influence
Journal of Contemporary Rituals and Traditions, 2023 This paper analyzes the funeral rites and ritualistic practices associated with death among the Garo community of Northeast India, a community that has undergone linguistic divisions and witnessed fragmentation due to colonialism and subsequent ...
Silba R. Marak, Dwijen Sharma
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Archaeometry, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract Organic residue analysis was conducted on various vessels from burials at Tel Yehud, Israel. The analyses led to new reliable evidence for the presence of opioid alkaloids and their decomposition products. This research revitalizes a decades‐old discussion on the presence and function of the opium trade across a cultural region of utmost ...
Vanessa Linares +5 more
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Outliving Love: Marital Estrangement in an African Insurance Market [PDF]
, 2016 Marital estrangement and formal divorce are vital conjunctures for married women’s kinship relations and life course, where a horizon of future possibilities are revalued and negotiated at the interstices of custom, law, and social and ritual obligations.
Golomski, Casey
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Generational Inversions: \u27Working\u27 for Social Reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2014 How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and ...
Golomski, Casey
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Przegląd Archeologiczny, 2021 The text presents newly discovered graves of Strzyżów culture from the Early Bronze Age, located at a cemetery in Rogalin, Poland. The funeral rites of Strzyżów culture are multifaceted. Most of the dead were placed in graves in supine position, equipped
Anna Hyrchała
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Dla obcego inny grób? Wielkopolskie groby typu bustum jako przykład przyswojonej inności religijnej [PDF]
, 2018 The paper is an attempt to present a model of an attitude towards strangers: getting to know, tolerating, accepting, and finally assimilating them, in terms of funeral rites, and thus of different religion.
Żychliński, Daniel
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