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L’imaginaire transatlantique de la mort : rites, mythes et conflits
Amerika, 2015 From his journeys in Europe, Washington Irving brings back images of death and of life after death. He absorbs the romantic imaginary of cemeteries and he is faced with new questions about inheritance.
Nikol Dziub
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Ritual Counsellors’ Value Tensions in Profiling. A Pilot Study Using Organizational Constellations
Yearbook for Ritual and Liturgical Studies, 2021 Ritual counsellors are self-employed entrepreneurs that mainly guide funeral rites. Literature suggests that ritual counsellors may experience tensions between values in profiling themselves to the media and funeral market.
André Mulder, Angela Stoof
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.In this paper, we use Goffman's notion of “face work” to examine how pipeline engineers perform and present their working selves as competent experts. Our analysis identifies various faces and face work tactics, including a focus on professional judgment, actively selling one's expertise relative to others, protective self‐deprecatory strategies, and ...
Sarah Maslen +2 more
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ПОХОРОННО-ПОГРЕБАЛЬНАЯ ОБРЯДНОСТЬ У КАЛМЫКОВ: ПОДГОТОВКА ПОКОЙНОГО К ЗАХОРОНЕНИЮ
Oriental Studies, 2018 This article is devoted to funeral rites of the Кalmyks conducted in the period of preparation of the deceased for burial which are based on traditional worldview and Buddhist practice.
Tatyana Isaevna Sharaeva
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Our understanding of the recolonization of northwest Europe in the period leading up to the Lateglacial Interstadial relies heavily on discoveries from Gough's Cave (Somerset, UK). Gough's Cave is the richest Late Upper Palaeolithic site in the British Isles, yielding an exceptional array of human remains, stone and organic artefacts, and butchered ...
Silvia M. Bello +2 more
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Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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Reconstructing Old Chinese *‐ts Using Han‐Time Material
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract Baxter & Sagart (2014b) reconstruct *‐Vt‐s on the basis of Middle Chinese reflexes in ‐jH (from some OC *‐s) coupled with either etymological or graphic connections to words in Middle Chinese ‐t. This approach, while perfectly sound, can suffer from lack of etymological or graphic data, leading to missed reconstructions. Since Old Chinese *‐ts
Julien Baley
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Obrzędy pogrzebowe w Grecji archaicznej i klasycznej [PDF]
Studia Antiquitatis et Medii Aevi Incohantis, 2016 (Funeral rites in Greece in the archaic and classical age): The paper focuses on an approach to death in Archaic and Classical Greece. It presents various practices, rituals and beliefs.
Magdalena Myszkowska-Kaszuba
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History, EarlyView.Abstract Participants in Russia's 1825 Decembrist uprising against the Tsarist regime were, quite literally, a case study in French cultural influence upon Russia. This is particularly true as it relates to Russia's emotional cultures. Although this has not, traditionally, been the primary focus of historical analysis of this event (in Soviet or ...
ADAM COKER
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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