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Le cadavre éprouvé

open access: yesCahiers 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
doaj   +1 more source

Funeral rites and socio-religious projection of the Chapter of Priests and Incumbents of Toledo (1436-1488) [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Whose body? A study of attitudes towards the dead body in early modern Paris [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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This Side Of The Grave: Navigating The Quaker Plainness Testimony In London And Philadelphia In The Eighteenth Century [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Fats, Fire and Bronze Age Funerary Rites: Organic Residue Analysis of Wide Horizontal Rim Vessels From Burial Contexts in Northwest Portugal

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study presents the first GC‐MS–based analyses of wide horizontal rim vessels with well‐defined funerary contexts, from Middle Bronze Age Portugal (Quinta do Amorim 2 and Pego). Organic residues from two vessels revealed ruminant fats and plant oils, alongside molecular markers of heat exposure.
João Vinícius Back   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Historical implications of a linguistic environment - towards a systemic approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
The aim of our project B6 “Towards a genesis of the ethnolinguistic situation at the southern and western fringes of lake Chad basin” within SFB 268 “West African Savannah” is to analyse the emergence and development of the complex presentday ...
Ibriszimow, Dymitr   +5 more
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Identification and Quantification of Volatile Organic Compounds and Bioaerosols in the Conservation Processes of Guanche Mummies

open access: yesArchaeometry, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Guanche mummies, ancient inhabitants of the Canary Islands, represent a significant part of the historical heritage preserved at the Museum of Nature and Archaeology (MUNA) in Tenerife, Spain. These mummies, subjected to artificial conservation practices, are of great interest to conservators seeking to understand their mummification ...
Benigno Sánchez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Life Beyond the Grave: Burial and Funeral Rites among the Aŋlɔ Eʋe of Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology
Life 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
doaj   +1 more source

Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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