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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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New Funerary Inscriptions from Lydia in the Kütahya Museum
Gephyra, 2008 This article presents two grave steles and four cinerary chests (three of which are inscribed). The steles were found in Yassıeynehan, a village of Simav in northern Lydia/western Phrygia (Maionia/Mysia Abbaïtis).
N. Eda Akyürek Şahin, Fatih Onur
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
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Vibrational spectroscopy to study ancient Roman funerary practices at the "Hypogeum of the Garlands" (Italy). [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2022 Festa G +8 more
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Professionals and the Ethics of Workplace Surveillance
Journal of Social Philosophy, EarlyView.
Steve Clarke +2 more
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Resilience and Sorites in the Normative Domain and Beyond
Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The sorites paradox is central to theories on vagueness, which aim to explain apparent contradictions. Some theories, however, imply sharp cut‐offs where we would, intuitively, not expect them. This paper invokes the notion of normative resilience to address this issue.
Henrik Andersson, Jakob Werkmäster
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Five unpublished newly acquired gravestones from Muğla Museum
Gephyra, 2012 Five unpublished newly acquired gravestones from Muğla MuseumThe article presents five new funerary stelai acquired by the Museum of Muğla and found in Stratonikeia and its hinterland.
İlkay Aydaş
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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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War, Trauma and Diasporic Identity in Vyvyane Loh's Breaking the Tongue
World Englishes, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Japan's involvement in the Second World War offers provocative narrative material for authors who write about the cultural politics of race under wartime conditions, such as the internment experience of Japanese Americans in the United States and the mass killings of Chinese (Operation Sook Ching), suspected of anti‐Japanese sentiments in ...
Walter S. H. Lim
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