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Occasion and audience as poetic constructs in early modern occasional poetry
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract Occasional poetry, composed for specific events such as weddings or funerals, was a dominant form of poetry in early modern Europe. Despite its historical prominence, the role of the occasion as a literary and rhetorical construct in occasional poetry has been very little studied.
Eeva‐Liisa Bastman
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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite enduring decades of advocacy, Alevi communities in Türkiye find themselves in a constant state of anticipation for acknowledgment from the Turkish state. Previous studies have long documented the marginalized status of Alevis within Turkish society and their ongoing struggle for recognition; however, they have overwhelmingly framed the
Aslı Gücin
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Topics in Cognitive Science, EarlyView.Abstract This manuscript documents a systematic ethnomycological analysis of ethnographic archives. Focusing on texts describing human–fungi interactions, I conduct a global, cross‐cultural review of mushroom use, covering 193 societies worldwide. The study reveals diverse mushroom‐related cultural practices, emphasizing the significance of fungi ...
Roope O. Kaaronen
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Ritual functions of clothing in the memorial rites of the Chuvashs
Этническая культураClothes perform many functions functions. One of them is the ritual function, according to which it becomes an important tool or object of various magical practices.
Igor G. Petrov
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Affective regimes and ontological security: When empathy threatens the state
Political Psychology, Volume 47, Issue 5, October 2026.Abstract The ontological security of states may be threatened by the politics of empathy. Empathy—as a contested affective‐political field—has a capacity to both consolidate and unravel dominant understandings of identity, security, political subjectivity, and self‐other relations.
Naomi Head
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Turkish Religious Music in the Funeral Ceremonies of Sufi Orders
ReligionsIn the history of Turkish-Islamic culture, every stage of human life—from birth to death—has been ritualized with profound symbolic and spiritual meanings.
Mustafa DEMİRCİ
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