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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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Early Dilmun Burial Mounds in Bahrain: the Wâdî al-Sail Archaeological Project and the Dilmun Mapping Project

Arabian Humanities
This paper overviews the results of archaeological research by the Japanese mission on the Early Dilmun burial mound sites. The archaeological research on Early Dilmun burial mounds in Bahrain has a history of more than 100 years. Excavations of a number
Masashi Abe, Akinori Uesugi
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Microbial Contamination in Deceased Musculoskeletal Tissue Donors: A Large‐Scale US Analysis of Infection Risk

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, Kimberly Elliott, Lee Brandenburg, Sara O. Dionne   +3 more
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Do Mobile Phone Surveys Supplement Other Mortality Surveillance Methods? Results From a National Study in Bangladesh

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, Gulam Muhammed Al Kibria, Tahsin Shahrin Khan, Chandra Nirod Saha, Farzana Islam Khan, Alain Labrique, Tahmina Shirin, Mohan Diwakar, Georges Reniers, Iqbal Ansary Khan, Dustin G. Gibson, Stephane Helleringer   +11 more
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Mass Fatality Management in Crisis and Wartime Conditions: Institutional Gaps in Civil Emergency Preparedness

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Volume 34, Issue 3, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Mass fatality events represent one of the most challenging consequences of large‐scale crises and armed conflicts, yet they remain underexplored within crisis management and civil emergency preparedness research. While considerable attention is devoted to immediate life‐saving response and critical infrastructure protection, the management of ...
Irena Tušer, Katarína Mäkká, Hana Malachová   +2 more
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The Impact of Secondary Mortuary Practices on Representation and Distribution of Commingled Elements from Umm an-Nar Human Skeletons in Communal Tombs

Advances in Archaeological Practice
Commingled human skeletons have the potential to reveal information about ancient funerary traditions through detailed bioarchaeological analyses of element representation (via minimum number of individuals, or MNI) and postmortem distribution. While MNI
Lesley A. Gregoricka, Jaime M. Ullinger, Cháylee Arellano, Quentin Burke, Anne Goodman, Rachel Heil, Alyssa McGrath, Remi Sheibley   +7 more
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The key image of interpretation of funerary rituals A study of ancient Egyptian iconography

Estudios de Teoría Literaria, 2022
In Pharaonic Egypt, the funerary context constitutes a material structure to ensure the life in the Hereafter not only to the deceased, but to the whole community, since it perpetuates its values and behavior patterns through the ritual practices.
Silvana Lorena Yomaha, Victoria Celeste Romero   +1 more
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Torn between safeguarding economic stability and health: A first empirical exploration of the employment‐health dilemma

Applied Psychology, Volume 75, Issue 4, August 2026.
Abstract The employment–health dilemma is a theoretical framework to analyze the experiences of workers who face a combination of economic and health threats. It arises when workers in health‐threatening jobs have few attractive job prospects and feel trapped in the dilemma of accepting/keeping a health‐threatening job or quitting/rejecting that job ...
Franziska J. Kößler, Jenny S. Wesche
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Le Nord Mosellan à l ’époque mérovingienne : un nouveau bilan

Revue Archéologique de l’Est, 2019
It has been a long time since the North Mosellan during the Merovingian period has been the object of a global study. An update of the synthesis previously published here is now necessary. The aim is to both take into account the latest research advances,
Alain Simmer
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Provenance Analysis Based on Cluster In‐Betweenness and Support Vector Machines: Identifying Migrant Candidates Using Multi‐Isotope Fingerprints

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 4, Page 607-619, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Provenance reconstruction using strontium and lead stable isotopes can produce complex multidimensional fingerprints, challenging traditional methods. Identifying nonlocals, who migrated between sites, is a major task. Migrants are identifiable by divergent multi‐isotope fingerprints due to isotopic mixing between origin and destination sites.
Andrea Göhring, Daniyal Kazempour, Jan Robert Bensien, Sweety Mohanty, Claudius Zelenka, Matthias Renz, Peer Kröger, Gisela Grupe, Amei Lang   +8 more
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