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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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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Building on life story interviews with Muslim women – divorced and living in Istanbul – this article traces women's evocations of hak (haqq, , right) and other related terms in their narratives about financial arrangements during divorce proceedings. Mainly denoting right, justice, truth and due, the polysemic notion of hak encompasses a complex set of
Burcu Kalpaklıoğlu
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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.What do communicating with a baby, with an animal, and with an ancestor have in common? In all three cases, people engage in opaque communication that is far from the standard psycholinguistic model of transparent interaction based on shared intentionality.
Charles Stépanoff
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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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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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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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