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Jaina afterlife beliefs and funerary practices [PDF]

, 2017
Jaina metaphysics is dualistic. Living beings are regarded as products of the amalgamation of the immortal substances, soul and matter. From the point of view of Jaina doctrine, the approaching disintegration of a gross body is not a calamity, but an opportunity.
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Traitements non funéraires du cadavre : questions méthodologiques, identification archéologique et pistes interprétatives

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
Many studies have addressed the issue of deviance from a funerary "norm", focusing on specific chronological periods. But the absence of any funerary treatment is underestimated in archaeological contexts and still unexplored, even though it may ...
Aurore Schmitt, Élisabeth Anstett, Aurélien Baroiller, Reine-Marie Bérard, Bruno Boulestin, Alexia Lattard, Hélène Ménard, Catherine Rigeade   +7 more
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Premières données sur le matériel céramique de la nécropole mégalithique de Wanar (Sénégal)

Afrique Archéologie Arts, 2011
Excavations conducted since 2005 on the megalithic necropolis of Wanar, inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, have already contributed to point out the complexity of funeral practices and of architectural remains.
Adrien Delvoye, Luc Laporte, Hamady Bocoum, Jean-Paul Cros, Mahmoud Diallo, Vincent Dartois, Mathieu Lejay, Laurent Quesnel, Francis Bertin   +8 more
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L’apport de l’archéologie préventive dans la recherche des vestiges du judaïsme : l’exemple des pratiques funéraires

Archéopages, 2012
Historians have long studied the place of Jewish communities in medieval society but it is only since the 1980s that archaeologists have tried to study the material remains of Judaism still present on French soil.
Philippe Blanchard, Patrice Georges, Daniel Parent   +2 more
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Les occupations néolithiques de Monéteau, « Sur Macherin » (Yonne) : données préliminaires

Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2006
The Monéteau « Sur Macherin » site excavated in 1999, includes remains dating from the Neolithic to the Roman period. The Neolithic period is particularly well represented by seven settlements dating from the Villeneuve-Saint-Germain period, by enigmatic
Anne Augereau, Philippe Chambon, Isabelle Sidéra   +2 more
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Au contact de nos morts

Géographie et Cultures, 2020
After nearly two centuries of stable funeral practices in France, the transition at work since the 1960s takes a new turn in recent years as cremation is becoming a majority practice and the ecological transition requires profound changes (ecological ...
Pascaline Thiollière
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Transformations des lieux d’inhumation des musulmans dans le Grand Londres.

Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2019
Funerary policies and practices of religious minorities are intertwined with broader political discourse on cultural and religious pluralism, identity and diversity.
Nada Afiouni
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Pratiques funéraires des populations du second âge du Fer en Gaule : nouvelles perspectives de recherche et études préliminaires de cas champenois et normands

Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de Paris
Recent methodological advances in archaeology, and preventive archaeology in particular, have prompted new interest in studies of Iron Age societies through their funerary practices.
Elodie Caserta, Lola Bonnabel, Gaëlle Granier   +2 more
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ARQUEOLOGIA DAS PRÁTICAS MORTUÁRIAS DE GRUPOS TUPINAMBÁ E GUARANI

Clio Arqueológica, 2018
Este trabalho trata da variabilidade de contextos funerários associados a grupos Tupinambá e Guarani das regiões do Paranapanema, alto Paraná e regiões próximas dos estados de São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro.
Mariana Alves Pereira Cristante
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How might landscapes be better designed to accommodate increasing cremation practices in Europe?

Landscape Online, 2020
Death is one of those universal parameters of life, yet very little attention is given to it in neither the work of planning practitioners nor that of landscape research.
Anna Długozima
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