Against All Odds: How Rituals Sustain Engagement with Intractable Social Problems
Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Being confronted with seemingly intractable problems such as refugee crises, climate change, or poverty is daunting and can risk a sense of meaninglessness for organizational actors working on these issues. We focus on the pervasive use of representations, including assessments and evaluations, to deal with intractable problems, even though ...
Corinna Frey‐Heger +2 more
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Erased by law: Kinship, care, and bureaucratic exclusion at the end of life in South Korea
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines how institutional frameworks in South Korea erase nonlegal caregiving relationships within hospice care environments. Drawing on seven months of ethnographic fieldwork, the study delineates how patients are categorized as “unclaimed” despite the presence of long‐term companions or cohabitants who provide intimate end‐of ...
Seok Joo Youn
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The Orthodox Sermon in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of the 17th Century: Some Observations
Slovene, 2017 It has traditionally been assumed that the oral preaching practice of the Orthodox Church in Poland at the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries was brought to life by external and mainly Catholic influences.
Margarita A. Korzo
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Islamic Civilizations and Plagues: The Role of Religion, Faith and Psychology During Pandemics. [PDF]
J Relig Health, 2023 Awaad R +3 more
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Funeral Register Volume 25: Carey Hand Funeral Home records, November 2, 1940 to August 11, 1941 [PDF]
, 1940 Contains records and ledgers on services provided at the Carey Hand Funeral Home. Materials include memoranda regarding the death and burial of deceased individuals, registers of the death, burial and payment information, plots in the Greenwood and Palm ...
Carey Hand Funeral Home
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Time, place, person: Field epidemiology as a political practice
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Five years after the end of the Ebola epidemic, a district in Sierra Leone received a measles alert. This article tells the story of the epidemic that followed and the response that was mounted in the context of the new global epidemic preparedness and biosecurity paradigms that govern the management of health emergencies.
Luisa Enria
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Imafronte, 1997 One of the essential components oql'wha! has been described as the baroque feas! are the funeral riles that are celebrate at the death of important civil and ecclesiatical figures.
Joaquín Saéz Vidal
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Ethical and cultural implications for conducting verbal autopsies in South and Southeast Asia: a qualitative study. [PDF]
BMJ Glob Health, 2023 Htun NSN +23 more
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Funeral Register Volume 30: Carey Hand Funeral Home records, April 24, 1945 to March 10, 1946 [PDF]
, 1945 Contains records and ledgers on services provided at the Carey Hand Funeral Home. Materials include memoranda regarding the death and burial of deceased individuals, registers of the death, burial and payment information, plots in the Greenwood and Palm ...
Carey Hand Funeral Home
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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