Death-scapes in Taipei and Manila: a postmodernnecrography [PDF]
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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Proving Genocide? Forensic Expertise and the ICTY [PDF]
This article works towards developing a theoretical framework outlining the premises and parameters under which forensic experts operate during various stages of international criminal investigations and the presentation of expert witness testimony in ...
Klinkner, Melanie Josefine
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Abstract The development of anatomy has been marked by ethically questionable practices. This has been because the dissection of human bodies has always existed on the periphery of conventional society, necessitating a range of dubious ways of obtaining dead bodies for educational and research purposes.
David Gareth Jones
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Tangihanga: The ultimate form of Māori cultural expression - overview of a research programme [PDF]
Death, observed through the process of tangihanga (time set aside to grieve and mourn, rites for the dead) or tangi (to grieve and mourn), is the ultimate form of Māori cultural expression.
Maxwell, Te Kahautu +7 more
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Pacific People's Palliative and End‐of‐Life Care Experiences in Aotearoa New Zealand
Background: Pacific patients and families in New Zealand have limited access to palliative care services in comparison with non‐Pacific families. Culturally, Pacific families prefer to take care of their family members in the home. Yet, Pacific families tend to experience challenges in accessing services and support from such services typically because
Elizabeth Fanueli +4 more
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Réutilisation de tombes au Moyen Âge. Choix et opportunités dans la gestion des espaces funéraires
The organisation and the evolution of medieval cemeteries, especially those that are used over long spans of time and limited in extent, require modification to the arrangement of the burials.
Yves Gleize
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This article examines how emerging generative AI technologies in Europe and North America are being used to reanimate the dead, prompting users to define the ‘edges’ of self and personhood through coding practices. These technologies invite new engagements with fundamental questions of relatedness and the construction of the self, challenging and ...
Jennifer Cearns
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Deconstructing the Sanders Focus and the Sanders Phase : A Reply to Perttula Regarding the Taxonomy and Significance of the So-called Sanders Focus, or Sanders Phase, Pottery of Northeast Texas and Southeast Oklahoma [PDF]
Perttula is correct in pointing out that there are numerical errors in a recently published table of mine. A revised version is presented here as Table 1. Although several of these errors are numerically large and might have caused problems had they gone
Schambach, Frank F.
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BackgroundStandard operating rooms (SOR) are assumed to be the best place to prevent microbial contamination when performing tissue procurement. However, mobilizing an operating room is time and cost consuming if no organ retrieval is performed.
Benjamin Louart +9 more
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“Representing Canadian Interests in all Matters Relative to Canadian War Dead:” Lt. Col. J.A. Bailie and the Recovery, Concentration and Burial of the “C” Force Casualties in Japan and Hong Kong [PDF]
: The processes and rituals of grieving, memorializing and remembering a nation’s war dead are well known, while the project of recovering, concentrating and preparing wartime casualties for burial is less clearly understood.
Sweeney, Mark
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