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Recherches sur l’élite de la société mochica
Les Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2008 Excavations on the Uhle platform at Moche, near Trujillo, northern Peru deal with a ceremonial and funerary complex of the Moche culture, at the foot of one of the two highest monuments of the site, the Huaca de la Luna or Moon Pyramid.
Claude Chauchat +3 more
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Le lieu de la « bonne mort » pour les migrants guinéens et bangladais au Portugal
Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, 2012 The transnational dimensions of migration have grown in importance, both from a theoretical and an ethnographical point of view. Such ties and mobilities are frequently accompanied by the social and symbolic construction of spaces of belonging.
Clara Saraiva, José Mapril
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Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract Women's subjective relationship with their pregnancy is central in understanding fetal personhood, a relationship that is theirs to assemble and disassemble. A rigid perception of personhood as either present or absent is problematized, instead revealing an evolving approach.
Susie Kilshaw
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Moehewa: Death, lifestyle and sexuality in the Maori world [PDF]
, 2013 Customary death ritual and traditional practice have continued for the Maori (indigenous) people of Aotearoa/New Zealand, despite intensive missionary incursion and the colonial process.
Nikora, Linda Waimarie +1 more
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Using the case of Polish far‐right activists in Britain, this paper explores how migrants joining far‐right groups in countries of residence reconcile their own transnational lives with nativist attachment to the national soil. The paper adopts an anthropological framework on discursive and performative strategies used to navigate this ...
Rafal Soborski +2 more
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Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone
Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
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Hey there, Maria! De speelruimte van het Ave Maria in hedendaagse uitvaarten
Religie & SamenlevingContemporary funeral rituals in the Netherlands are often characterised as secularised and individualised. Therefore, it is intriguing that ‘Ave Maria’ is still among the Top 10 most popular songs that are played during funerals.
Janieke Bruin-Mollenhorst
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‘I'm Dead!’: Action, Homicide and Denied Catharsis in Early Modern Spanish Drama
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract In early modern Spanish drama, the expression ‘¡Muerto soy!’ (‘I'm dead!’) is commonly used to indicate a literal death or to figuratively express a character's extreme fear or passion. Recent studies, even one collection published under the title of ‘¡Muerto soy!’, have paid scant attention to the phrase in context, a serious omission when ...
Ted Bergman
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Slavia AntiquaThe research potential of archaeology in investigating ancient religiosity remains a topic of enduring debate involving both proponents, sceptics and (hyper)critics of the validity of such an approach.
Kamil Kajkowski
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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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