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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.While death remains a popular topic for anthropology, relatively few ethnographic accounts consider the modern bureaucratic processes accompanying it. One such process is public health autopsy, which scholars have largely taken for granted. Existing analysis has regarded it as a form of ‘cultural brokering’ and autopsy reluctance in communities is seen,
David M.R. Orr
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Funeral Rites from Moldova in a National Context
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics, 2016 Book review of Ion H. Ciubotaru's Obiceiurile funebre din Moldova în context naţional (Iaşi: Editura Universităţii „Alexandru Ioan Cuza“, 2014. 762 p.).
Adina Hulubas
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Tangihanga: The ultimate form of Māori cultural expression - overview of a research programme [PDF]
, 2010 Death, observed through the process of tangihanga (time set aside to grieve and mourn, rites for the dead) or tangi (to grieve and mourn), is the ultimate form of Māori cultural expression.
Maxwell, Te Kahautu +7 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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Social Contradiction and Symbolic Resolution: Practical and Idealized Affines in Taiwan [PDF]
, 2013 This is a publisher's version of an article published in the journal Ethnology in 1984. The offprint is posted here in accordance with existing publisher policy, or by special permission via correspondence ...
Weller, Robert
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The Changing Features and Functions of Funeral Art Forms in Ibibio Land of Nigeria [PDF]
, 2015 Ibibio funeral art form has developed with the ethnic belief system of ancestral veneration. It has been marked with distinctive indigenization of spatial symbolization of forms to the creation of “nwommo” and cement tomb stone in their quest for ...
E. Umoanwan, Uwem, Nyah, Anselem A.
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What Is Justice? Reflections on the Criminal Justice System in Brazil
The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores the possibility of justice for the wretched of the earth. Using escrevivência (writing the experience/existence) and drawing on the theoretical insights and political praxis of the Assessoria Popular Maria Felipa (APMF, Maria Felipa Advocacy Group)—a Brazilian abolitionist organization led by Black activists—we analyze how ...
Fernanda Oliveira +2 more
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Ceramics in the burial rites of the Neolithic-Early Bronze Age in the Ukrainian steppe
Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 Numerous Neolithic/Bronze Age burials have provided important information about the appearance and development of the tradition of using pottery in burial rites among the Pontic steppe population.
Nadezhda Kotova, Larissa Spitsyna
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The Dialectical of Life and Death in Contemporary Sōka Gakkai
Religions, 2020 Doctrinal reasoning, the practice of chanting nam-myōho-renge-kyō and its vision for kōsen-rufu has been how Sōka Gakkai (SG) promulgated Nichiren Buddhism.
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen
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“Red Funeral”. New Funeral Rites in Early Soviet Russia
Ideas and Ideals, 2021 The article analyzes the emergence of the so-called red funeral ritual in the 1920s in Soviet Russia as an important component of political everyday life. The first part of the article examines the funeral rituals of representatives of the Bolshevik elite.
Andrey Savin, Alexey Teplyakov
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