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Poupées grecques en images : du jeu au rite
Pallas, 2022 Representations of jointed dolls have been identified until now on Attic funerary stelae only, apart from one white-ground Attic lekythos.
Véronique Dasen +1 more
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Entrusting the Witches to Ḫumuṭ-tabal: the ušburruda Ritual BM 47806+ [PDF]
, 2010 The hitherto unpublished Late Babylonian fragment BM 47806 + adds another example to the group of rituals which counteract witchcraft by banning sorcerers to the netherworld.
Schwemer, Daniel
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De l’os, de l’ennemi et du divin. Réflexions sur quelques pratiques funéraires tupi-guarani
Journal de la Société des Américanistes, 2003 Of Bones, enemies and divinities. Reflections on some Tupi-Guarani funerary practices. By underlining the importance of bone in Tupi-Guarani myth and ritual, this article seeks to demonstrate that bone is not a neutral substance, and that the different ...
Olivier Allard
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Documenta Praehistorica, 2010 In order to review evidence of human-animal relations, the paper offers an overview of the customs and funerary traditions of the Square Mouthed Pottery culture, between c. 5000 and 4300 calBC.
Maria Bernabò Brea +2 more
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THE STORY OF A FUNERAL HOME: RITUAL MODERNIZATION AND ITS RECEPTION IN A TRANSYLVANIAN VILLAGE COMMUNITY [PDF]
Revista Română de Sociologie, 2016 The paper offers a brief re-study of funerary rituals in a village inhabited by Hungarian Roman Catholics in Romania. Since the completion of long-term fieldwork there in 2003 and 2004, the construction of a funeral home and the emergence of local ...
AGNES HESZ
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La mort vivante ou le corps intercesseur (société maure-islam malékite)
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2006 In this article, images and practices related to death are examined through a reading of Islamic scriptural sources as well as through their inscription in a specific society, the Moorish society of Mauritania.
Corinne Fortier
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Un mausolée circulaire en contexte suburbain à Narbonne/Narbo Martius (Aude)
Gallia, 2019 The discovery of a circular monument during the rescue excavation of the Hôtel-Dieu in Narbonne, in 1996, allowed archaeologists to reassess the question of monumental funerary architecture in the capital of Narbonnaise Gaul.
Olivier Ginouvez, Sandy Gualandi
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The Medieval Muslim Cemeteries of Tigray (Ethiopia)
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée, 2023 The discovery (or rediscovery) and the archaeological excavation of the medieval Muslim cemetery of Bilet (Tigray, Ethiopia) in 2018, made it possible to study for the first time in the northern highlands of Ethiopia, the funerary architecture and burial
Simon Dorso, Anna Lagaron
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Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d’Anthropologie de ParisMany 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 +7 more
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The key image of interpretation of funerary rituals A study of ancient Egyptian iconography
Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022 In Pharaonic Egypt, the funerary context constitutes a material structure to ensure the life in the Hereafter not only to the deceased, but to the whole community, since it perpetuates its values and behavior patterns through the ritual practices.
Silvana Lorena Yomaha +1 more
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