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Funerary Rituals as Resistance and Memorialisation
2015This chapter analyses the re-enactment of funerary rituals, especially of the children’s funerary ritual known as Guali and traditional funerary songs for adults known as Alabaos, as forms of social and cultural memorialisation. There are two aspects that are relevant for this analysis; first, the re-enactment of these funerary rituals can be ...
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Early Christian funerary ritual
2017The function of memory, how and why people remember, is very important in commemorative funerary ritual. Indeed, the main function of funerary festivals is to recall the dead. That Christians continued to practice established, conventional funerary rituals well into the late fourth century is important for my argument, as Vilantia was buried in a mixed
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Virtual navigation in the ancient Egyptian funerary rituals
2016 22nd International Conference on Virtual System & Multimedia (VSMM), 2016This paper shows a VR application for explaining the meaning of the various pictograms and hieroglyphs typical of the ancient Egypt funerary rituals. The interaction between the user and the 3D environment is obtained through an Oculus Rift head mounted stereoscopic display, coupled with a Leap Motion controller as input device that digitize in real ...
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Tibetan rituals of death: Buddhist funerary practices
Mortality, 2013by Margaret Gouin, Abingdon, Routledge, 2010, 208 pp., £28.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-41-562619-4In Tibetan Rituals of Death, Margaret Gouin offers a comprehensive survey of the available literatur...
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Relating Middle Kingdom Pottery Vessels to Funerary Rituals
Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde, 2007Recent scholarly literature shows an increasing awareness of the necessity to synthesize multiple approaches when analysing mortuary data. An integrated approach is also followed in the present study, which examines two pottery types that are characteristic for the First Intermediate Period and early Middle Kingdom on the one hand, and for the more ...
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The Funerary Elegy in Its Ritual Context
2006Nathaniel Friend’s narrative of his son John’s death, introduced in Chapter 2, reveals many features of early modern consolation. It also provides evidence of how the funerary ritual incorporated elegiac verse. In this chapter, the elegiac commonplace which draws on funeral symbolism will be illuminated through attention to the historical development ...
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Interaction Rituals and Social Relationships in a Rural Tourism Destination
Journal of Travel Research, 2023Mao-Ying Wu, Yixuan Tong
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Cultural Reinterpretation on Khasi Funerary Rituals
Culture refers to the behavioural and cognitive patterns that members of social groups acquire, develop, and exchange. Culture sets one human group apart from another. Human culture encompasses various aspects such as religious beliefs, political and economic systems, dress, language, rituals, art and technology, and food preparation and consumption ...openaire +1 more source
Funerary Beliefs: Differentiation, Continuity, And Change In Ritual
2017TOMBS IN ROMAN SYRIA DISPLAYED A VARIETY OF MESSAGES ABOUT THEIR occupants and the people who buried them. The previous chapters have analyzed particular categories of funerary material: space, architecture, grave goods, and the deceased. This chapter combines these data to examine the norms and practices that guided the funeral.
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