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Funerary Rites and the Undercurrents of Authoritarianism: The Cases of Zhu and Song
Chinese Sociology & Anthropology, 2000Practically every unit of every trade and profession in Beijing organized street demonstrations to support the students' hunger-strike petition in mid-May 1989. I was marching and shouting slogans along Chang'an Boulevard one day with a group from the Central Ministry of Radio and Television when a number of trucks filled with supporters drove up ...
Zhu Xiaoyang, Anita Chan
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Funerary Rites and Practices, Greco-Roman
2015A description of the typical Egyptian treatment of the body from death to interment during Ptolemaic and Roman times will not differ in its main elements from a similar account of earlier periods: The dead were mourned at home and then transported to the embalming place, normally situated on the west bank of the Nile River, where the mummification of ...
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Ritual and Funerary Rites in Later Prehistoric Scotland
2019A report of research undertaken as part of a research grant from the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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Bronze Age ‘Barrows’ and Funerary Rites and Rituals of Cremation
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1997This paper discusses the evidence for pyre sites, debris, and technology associated with the disposal of cremated human remains in Bronze Age ‘barrows’. The use of the terms such as ‘cremation’, ‘cremation burial’, and ‘cremation-related feature’ are examined.
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Small Bowls and Saltcellars in Funerary Rite of Volna 1 Necropolis
Stratum plus. Archaeology and Cultural AnthropologyThe article analyzes a complex of miniature bowls and saltcellars from the end of the 6th to the middle of the 3rd century BC, found in 172 burials from the necropolis of the Volna 1 settlement. Different in form (14 variants), they are equally found accompanying male and female burials. Among the black-glazed vessels, a saltcellar of Southern Italian
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Dying Impoverished: The Funerary Rites, Gravestones, and Cemeteries of the Poor
Markers: Annual Journal of the Association for Gravestone StudiesAbstract: Because most deaths in America are commemorated with physical memorials, gravestone and graveyard studies reveal information about a wide swath of social and economic classes, from the wealthiest to the poorest. This article reviews mortuary remains for the latter: paupers.
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The Funerary rites at Mleiha (Sharja-U.A.E.); The Camelid Graves
1997During the 1994 campaign of excavation in the interior of the site Mleiha (Sharja, U.A.E.), a necropole contemporaneous of the Greco-Roman period has been exposed, turning our attention to the privileged statute of some animals. Several human graves were indeed associated with camelids graves. In one case, one of the graves housed both a Camelid and an
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An Unusual Depiction of Ramesside Funerary Rites
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