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Mortality reduction associated with HIV/AIDS care and antiretroviral treatment in rural Malawi: evidence from registers, coffin sales and funerals. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2010 BACKGROUND: To report on the trend in all-cause mortality in a rural district of Malawi that has successfully scaled-up HIV/AIDS care including antiretroviral treatment (ART) to its population, through corroborative evidence from a) registered deaths at ...
Beatrice Mwagomba +10 more
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Grave and power: A thanato-sociological analysis of the funerals of Tito, F. Tuđman and S. Milošević [PDF]
Sociologija, 2012 The paper offers a thanato-sociological analysis of the funerals of Tito, F. Tuđman and S. Milošević, documenting various ideological contents and various political roles of the funerals of heads of state.
Kuljić Todor
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Funerals in the north of Europe
Approaching Religion, 2023 Editorial of Approaching Religion, Vol.
Martha Middlemiss Lé Mon +3 more
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Le corps des rois des rois dans la ville : Ménélik II et Haylé Sellasé à Addis Abeba
Afriques, 2012 Menelik II and Haile Selassie, the two major Ethiopian sovereigns during the 20th century, both experienced troubles in their lives and at the end of their reigns: no funeral ceremonies were held at the time of their death.
Estelle Sohier
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Predicting the extinction of Ebola spreading in Liberia due to mitigation strategies [PDF]
, 2015 The Ebola virus is spreading throughout West Africa and is causing thousands of deaths. In order to quantify the effectiveness of different strategies for controlling the spread, we develop a mathematical model in which the propagation of the Ebola virus
Braunstein, L. A. +3 more
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The role of flowers in the personalization of Christian funerals in Denmark
Approaching Religion, 2023 Flowers are a common element in Danish funerals. Drawing on fieldnotes, interviews and survey data on funeral practices in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark as well as theories of ritualization, meaning-making and practices, this article shows ...
Henrik Reintoft Christensen
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Hmong Studies Journal, 1997 It was September of 1996 and I was in Appleton, Wisconsin helping a friend of mine with a movie on a Hmong shaman. While we were there, a close relative of the shaman passed away.
Joseph Davy
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Till Death Did Him Part: Thomas Hardy and his Funerals
European Journal of Life Writing, 2020 This essay considers Hardy’s two funerals—for his ashes at Poets’ Corner, for his heart at Stinsford—in the light of their consequences for life-writing: the absence of a single resting-place, and the narrative demands of synchronicity in telling of two ...
Charles Lock
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Royal Studies Journal, 2021 When Queen Mary II of England died in December 1694, she left her husband, William III, as her successor, though unlike traditional transition periods after the death of a monarch there was no coronation, only a funeral.
Mark Walker
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Sustainable deathstyles? The geography of green burials in Britain [PDF]
, 2014 In the context of a wider literature on ‘deathscapes’, we map the emergence of a new mode of burial and remembrance in Britain. Since a ‘green’ burial ground was established in Carlisle in 1993, sites for so-called ‘green, ‘natural’ or ‘woodland ...
Kelly, CL +3 more
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