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African Theological Journal for Church and Society, 2022 This article explores cremation as an alternative way of disposing of the dead among African Christians in Kenya. It examines the theological justification for this practice as an accepted way of disposing of the dead. The study applies the Zerfass Model[
Francis Omondi
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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Newspaper Clipping with headline 'Deaths and Funerals'
, 2023 A photocopy of a section of the Deaths and Funerals section of an unknown newspaper, mentions John W ...
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The Folk Song Tradition in Contemporary Funeral Music
Traditiones, 2019 The field research of funeral music in today's Slovenia indicates that traditional songs are often employed to accompany the process of bidding farewell to a deceased person. From written sources and in conversations with musicians performing at funerals
Anita Prelovšek
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Gough's Cave is a key archaeological site that has been at heart of British archaeology for the past century. Professor Chris Stringer, whom this special issue honours, has been a key figure in excavations and research projects at the site for many decades.
William A. Marsh
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Graphic material as an element to enhance personalised funerals [PDF]
, 2008 Published ArticlePersonalised funerals are defined as modernised, innovative, customised and specialised types of funerals. Personalised funerals are performed to reflect the individual's life and what he or she has accomplished (Broadbent 2002; Wolcott ...
Mano, M.C.D.
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Domestic tourism development: A case study of traditional funerals at Abono in the Lake Bosomtwe basin of Ashanti Region, Ghana. [PDF]
African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure, 2017 Funerals, despite their sombre nature, when considered under domestic tourism development in Ghana, provide the necessary ingredients for people to learn more about their country and they additionally help to inspire a sense of national identity and ...
Thomas Yeboah +3 more
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Food and alcohol indulgence, along with tea‐drinking, gambling, and gossip, are integral to a characteristically Sichuanese ethos of ‘life enjoyment’ (xiangshou shenghuo). Beyond mere pleasure, sensory, ludic, and comic experiences temporarily strip participants of both their formal and subjective qualities.
Angel Nayden
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, 1999 The cost of funerals in one funeral home was significantly associated with the year and whether the funeral included cremation or burial but not with the sex or age of the deceased, or cause of death.
Anthony P. Mastapeter +2 more
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