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Staging the Semahs: Performing Aleviness in Turkey and Europe
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The semah, a genre of music and movement practices imbued with values of gender, class, age and ethical egalitarianism, lies at the core of the Alevis' ayn‐i cem rituals. Since the 1970s, processes of urbanisation, migration, folklore production and heritage‐making have facilitated the circulation of semah beyond ritual contexts, particularly ...
Sinibaldo De Rosa
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Archaeological research at Kuchumovo hillfort (Isker) in 2014
Поволжская археология, 2015 The author offers findings of research conducted at Isker hillfort (Tyumen Oblast) in 2014. Isker used to be the capital town of Siberia Khanate. The archaeologists aimed to seek a burial ground, supposedly located at the western, field side of the ...
Aleksandr A. Adamov
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Ritual Closure: Rites De Passage and Apotropaic Magic in an Animate World. [PDF]
J Archaeol Method Theory, 2023 Walker WH, Berryman J.
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Earliest known funerary rites in Wallacea after the last glacial maximum
Scientific ReportsAbstract The insular region of Wallacea has become a focal point for studying Pleistocene human ecological and cultural adaptations in island environments, however, little is understood about early burial traditions during the Pleistocene.
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Fragmentation of the Body: Comestibles, Compost or Customary Rite?
, 2009 NoOne of the most inimical ways to debase a people is to declare them cannibals - eaters of their own kind. The association between cannibalism and immorality, depravity, and base iniquity has contributed to the long-term interest in the behaviour.
Knüsel, Christopher J., Outram, A.K.
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Il sepolcro di Orfeo. Appunti per l’identificazione di un rituale funerario orfico-bacchico
Otium, 2017 For the orphic believer death is only a necessary passage to a better afterlife. For this reason the moment of the burial could have been an important moment in the life of the initiate.
Dario D’Orlando
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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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Revue Archéologique du Centre de la FranceThe La Justice funerary complex at Varennes-sur-Seine (Seine-et-Marne) is located 350 m from the aristocratic settlement of the same name, on the edge of a paleochannel.
Jean-Marc Séguier
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