Work of a Nation: Christian Funerary Ecumenism and Institutional Disruption in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2018 This article traces how contemporary funerary practices—foodways, prayer and burial cooperative participation—configure a Christian public culture in Swaziland that draws from ordinary citizens’ religious, ritual and political work and membership in ...
Golomski, Casey
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Asia Anteriore Antica, 2020 Death remains a fascinating and challenging issue for archaeological research. Sometimes, however, it is astonishing how rationally and unemotionally archaeologists and anthropologists approach it.
Dominik Bonatz
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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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Until We All Rise: Aspects of Traditional Muslim Burial Practices and Ceremonies in Tajikistan
Etnoantropološki Problemi, 2019 Islam, which spread out to Central Asia after its conquest by the Arab armies in early 8th century, has expanded and taken roots in the spiritual and everyday life of each ethnic group of the region in its own way.
Barakatullo Ashurov
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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eVernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on “Being Catholic the Tamil Way”\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]
, 2017 Book review of Vernacular Catholicism, Vernacular Saints: Selva J. Raj on “Being Catholic the Tamil Way.” Edited by Reid B. Locklin.
Ponniah, James
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Desaparecidos, peregrinos y cementerios: espacios y prácticas de la memoria en Colombia
Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, 2019 Since the middle of the 20th century, more than 80,000 cases of disappeared persons have been recorded in Colombia. Some of these are buried in clandestine graves and others remain buried in different cemeteries throughout the country, under the acronym ...
Julián Numpaque Moreno
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Memory, tradition, and Christianization of the Peloponnese [PDF]
, 2015 This work examines the use of memory and tradition in the Christianization of the Peloponnese based on the evidence of the location and topography of churches.
Sweetman, Rebecca Jane
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Un ensemble funéraire du Haut-Empire le long de la voie de l’Océan (Lyon 9e)
Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2010 The cemetery discovered at 30-32 rue de Bourgogne in the Vaise plain at Lyon was in fact located along the “Ocean” Roman Road, part of which has also been discovered.
Aurore Schmitt +7 more
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The Ritual of the Hours of the Day on the inner vault of the qrsw-coffin of Nes(pa)qashuty from Deir el-Bahari [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2018 In 1932–1933, a shaft tomb with several funerary ensembles of a family of Late Period priests of Montu was found on the Upper Terrace of the Temple of Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahari.
Erhart Graefe
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La mort en Arabie du Nord-Est : Synthèse des pratiques funéraires entre 1000 av.-700 apr. n. è.
Arabian HumanitiesTombs are the most well-represented remains in Northeast Arabia. Characterized by tumuli, mounds of sediment covering one or several graves, their use appears to be part of a funerary tradition dating back to the Bronze Age.
Marie Laguardia
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