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Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]

open access: yes, 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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Literature and Psychoanalytic Process: A Look Through The Lens of Metaphor

open access: yesBritish Journal of Psychotherapy, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 52-64, February 2025.
Abstract In this paper, the author highlights some aspects of the psychoanalytic process through the perspective of poetic metaphors. In reading new metaphors, we often become bewildered. A literal reading, and a first hand meaning, comes to nothing. A concrete reference, as well as truth, is likewise destroyed.
Henrik Enckell
wiley   +1 more source

BLESSED ACTS OF OBLIVION: On the Ethics of Forgetting

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 40, Issue 1, Page 105-130, February 2025.
ABSTRACT This essay explores the ethics of forgetting as a technology of the self. Forgetfulness is a feature of a range of contexts of political conflict and “difficult” heritage. Such forgetfulness is often imagined as an imposition (as when states deny the freedom to remember) or a weakness (as when people are thought to repress uncomfortable or ...
PAOLO HEYWOOD
wiley   +1 more source

Le bien culturel de Tombouctou, une patrimonialisation discutée ? Conditions locales de réception de la notion de patrimoine de type UNESCO

open access: yesL’Année du Maghreb, 2018
The targeting of the mausoleums in Timbuktu by small Islamic groups during the socio-political crisis in 2012 has surely reignited the debate about the future of that heritage.
Traoré Hadizatou
doaj   +1 more source

LOCATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COLLECTIVE HOUSING AREAS BUILT UNDER THE SOCIALISM SYSTEM IN HANOI [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
Joint Research on Environmental Science and Technology for the ...
Bui, Manh Tri   +2 more
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Grant and Conversion of Ceremonial Buildings in Modern Imperial Funerals (Part 1): From Emperor Meiji to Emperor Taishō (Before World War II)

open access: yesJAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 8, Issue 1, January–December 2025.
ABSTRACT In modern imperial funerals, temporary buildings were built and granted to various organizations to be converted to buildings for other uses. To examine the commemorative nature of architecture from the modern emperor system's perspective, this study analyzes ceremonial buildings of four modern imperial funerals before World War II and ...
Kaori Hasegawa
wiley   +1 more source

STUDIES OF MEDIEVAL MAUSOLEUMS IN THE KOPTAM TERRAIN IN WESTERN KAZAKHSTAN

open access: yesАрхеология евразийских степей
The purpose of the article is to publish materials from archaeological excavations of previously unknown medieval mausoleums in the Aktobe region of Western Kazakhstan. The mausoleums were explored near the village of Taskopa in the Koptam area.
Arman A. Bissembaev   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Religion, culture and politics in the Philippines [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This essay addresses two questions with regard to the contemporary Philippines: the question of political violence and the question of status and hierarchy or, as some would have it, class.
Tremlett, Paul-Francois
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Human body donation programs best practices and recommended standards: A task force report from the American Association for Anatomy

open access: yesAnatomical Sciences Education, Volume 18, Issue 1, Page 8-26, January 2025.
Abstract The American Association for Anatomy recently charged a task force with updating and expanding upon best practices and recommendations for human body donation programs. The task force comprised American Association for Anatomy members with specific and detailed knowledge about the legal, ethical, and procedural operations of body donation ...
Joy Y. Balta   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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