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Burials of martial character in the British Iron Age [PDF]
The significance of the decision to bury an individual with martial objects during the British Iron Age cannot be overstated. It is a rare subset of funerary practice, conferred upon select individuals.
Inall, Yvonne
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Animal 'Ritual' Killing: from Remains to Meanings [PDF]
, 2011 As humans, we interact with our environment and the other species inhabiting it in a variety of ways. Animals not only provide a source of sustenance, but a means for humans to express their social concepts through interaction.
Morris, James
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Transmission and Mortal Anxiety in the Tale of Aqhat [PDF]
, 2017 Forthcoming in Like ʾIlu Are You Wise: Studies in Northwest Semitic Languages and Literature in Honor of Dennis G.
Jacqueline Vayntrub
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Children &Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris +2 more
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Notes on some cultic aspects of Italian Prehistory
Documenta Praehistorica, 2007 Many cultural manifestations are known in the Neolithic and Metal Ages in Italy. They were associated with pits, dug in the floors of caverns, and stone circles where vases or votive objects were deposited.
Renata Grifoni Cremonesi
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Back to the Land: Museum Practices, Collections, and Other‐Than‐Human Politics in Southern Chile
Curator: The Museum Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Since the 2000s, Mapuche communities' participation has transformed the Mapuche Museum of Cañete. This participation shifted the institution's concept, curation, and conservation practices. From the second half of the 2010s onwards, other‐than‐human politics reshaped the participatory process.
Lucas da Costa Maciel
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Zephyrus, 2011 Recent archaeological excavations in the Portuguese region of Baixo Alentejo, carried out under the implementation of the irrigation project connected with the Alqueva Dam (EDIA), have brought to light important finds dated to the Southwestern Bronze Age.
Catarina ALVES +6 more
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Pallas, 2015 Because of their transitional biological and social state, infants are highly dependent on the other members of the Greek society, which implies important methodological questions relating to burial practices.
Céline Dubois
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Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]
, 2007 This paper analyses changing geographies of disposal in the urban centres of Taipei in Taiwan and Manila in the Philippines, specifically shifts from burial to cremation and the extent to which such shifts reflect changing patterns of residence ...
Tremlett, Paul-Francois
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Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald
European Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
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