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Cahiers d'Études du Religieux- Recherches Interdisciplinaires, 2013 What place is it granted to the corpse in the various cultures? How does it assign the alive ? How is it also felt in the funeral rites ? To answer these questioning, some comparisons between the cultures are proposed, in particular the celestial burial ...
Nadia Veyrié
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This Side Of The Grave: Navigating The Quaker Plainness Testimony In London And Philadelphia In The Eighteenth Century [PDF]
, 2015 For observant members of the Society of Friends in greater London and Philadelphia during the eighteenth century, navigating the Quaker plainness testimony involved material culture choices that might be viewed by non-Quakers as concealing motives of ...
O\u27Donnell, Patricia C.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract The ‘widow’ is a gendered, socially contingent category. Women who experienced spousal bereavement in the early middle ages faced various socio‐economic and legal ramifications; the ‘widow’ was further a rhetorical figure with a defined emotional register. The widower is, by contrast, an anachronistic category.
Ingrid Rembold
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Funeral rites and socio-religious projection of the Chapter of Priests and Incumbents of Toledo (1436-1488) [PDF]
, 2018 El presente artículo tiene por objeto principal el estudio de los ritos funerarios solicitados por las élites toledanas al Cabido de Curas y Beneficiados, entre 1436 y 1488.
Olivet García-Dorado, Jesús
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Scandalisation, gender and space in ancient Rome: The case of Cicero and Clodia
Gender &History, EarlyView.Abstract This article analyses the public attack on Clodia Metelli, a Roman aristocratic woman, by the orator Marcus Tullius Cicero in a trial in 56 BCE. Drawing on modern scandal theory, this article analyses how Cicero uses scandal dynamics to turn Clodia, the witness in the case, into the culprit.
Muriel Moser
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Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris [PDF]
, 2000 This chapter examines attitudes towards the dead body, as exemplified by arrangements for funerals and burials, in Paris between around 1550 and 1670.
Harding, Vanessa
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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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Life Beyond the Grave: Burial and Funeral Rites among the Aŋlɔ Eʋe of Ghana [PDF]
Pharos Journal of TheologyLife beyond the grave is of consequent importance to the Aŋlɔ (Anlo) Eʋe (Ewe). Underpinned by burial and funeral rites, life beyond the grave enjoins on the Aŋlɔ Eʋe to live a life of integrity on this earth.
Alexander G. K. Salakpi
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Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]
, 2007 This paper analyses changing geographies of disposal in the urban centres of Taipei in Taiwan and Manila in the Philippines, specifically shifts from burial to cremation and the extent to which such shifts reflect changing patterns of residence ...
Tremlett, Paul-Francois
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Riddling traditions in eastern Indonesia and East Timor: some preliminary notes [PDF]
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Bowden, John
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