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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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Beauty in Death: Medieval Mortuary Practice in Transylvania [PDF]
, 2015 Death is all around us and the study of past mortuary practices can inform many aspects of modern culture, including facets of the stratification of society, the interaction of individuals and the landscape, and the belief systems surrounding death.
Dunn, Tyler E.
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Retrieving, Curating and Depositing Skulls at Pitted Ware Culture Sites
Current Swedish Archaeology, 2020 At many Middle Neolithic sites in south-central Scandinavia associated with the hunter-gatherer complex known as the Pitted Ware culture, the skulls of humans and animals seem to have been treated differently from other skeletal elements.
Tobias Lindström
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Alevi Spatial Politics: Placemaking and the Negotiation of Visibility Across Diaspora and Homeland
Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines Alevi spatial politics by analysing how space is produced, practised and negotiated across diaspora and homeland. Drawing on multi‐sited ethnographic research conducted among British Alevis in London and in Alevi villages in the Afşin–Elbistan region of Turkey, it focuses on cemevis (cem houses) as key sites of religious ...
Hayal Hanoğlu
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Narrative reconstruction of the self: Living funerals as rituals of trauma and transformation
The Australian Journal of Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract Living funerals mark a radical reconfiguration of contemporary engagements with mortality, transforming death from an imposed ending into an actively authored narrative. This study examines the practice in Hong Kong's hybrid sociocultural landscape, where traditional Chinese death rituals collide with neoliberal selfhood and globalised ...
Yuen‐Ki Tang
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Mortuary Practice, Imperial Conquest, and Sociopolitical Change in the Middle Chincha Valley, Peru (ca. AD 1200 – 1650) [PDF]
, 2019 This research explores the relationship between mortuary practice and sociopolitical change among a collection of communities incorporated into the Inca Empire.
Bongers, Jacob Lewis
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Provisioning the Ritual Neolithic Site of Kfar HaHoresh, Israel at the Dawn of Animal Management.
PLoS ONE, 2016 It is widely agreed that a pivotal shift from wild animal hunting to herd animal management, at least of goats, began in the southern Levant by the Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (10,000-9,500 cal. BP) when evidence of ritual activities flourished
Jacqueline S Meier +2 more
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Transplant Infectious Disease, EarlyView.This large‐scale study of over one‐million musculoskeletal swabs highlights anatomical variability in microbial contamination of musculoskeletal tissues and identifies high‐risk recovery zones for virulent organisms. ABSTRACT Background Microbial contamination of musculoskeletal tissues recovered from deceased donors poses a risk for donor‐derived ...
Anthony Montedonico +3 more
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Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To test whether mobile phone surveys conducted remotely might generate data on deaths that are not covered by mortality surveillance systems established in laboratories and health facilities, or in institutions involved in the post‐mortem management of corpses (e.g., morgues, cemeteries).
Aashish Gupta +11 more
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Mortuary Practices, Bodies and Persons in Northern Europe [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter provides a brief overview of practices involving human remains during the period c. 4000–2200 BC in northern Europe, with an emphasis on Denmark and southern Sweden.
Sjögren, Karl-Göran,
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