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, 1975 In the month of Moharram, when Imām Hossein and his family were killed in Karbalā, from 1st to 8th in the evening around 7pm, men proceed in one group around the village, chanting and beating their chests.
Wright, Susan
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Archaeology in Oceania, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rings made on marine shell are a conspicuous artefact form found throughout cultural sequences for much of the Pacific over millennia. Despite their importance in both recent and ancient times, in‐depth consideration of the manufacturing processes involved in shell ring production are limited.
Michelle C. Langley +2 more
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A Multifaceted Spatial Analysis of Tomb Distribution in Blemmyan Berenike (Eastern Desert of Egypt)
Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the spatial and visual organisation of tombs in the post–Roman Berenike located in Egypt's Eastern Desert. Archaeological surveys, remote sensing, geophysical methods, excavations and GIS‐based analyses are used for a comprehensive understanding of the spatial patterns and cultural significance behind the positions and ...
Mariusz Gwiazda +4 more
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The Syntactic Roles of Touch in Shared Festivals in Kerala: Towards an Analysis of Ritual Categories
Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2019 The following discussion of touch as a syntactic-semantic unit in ritual structures is based on an analogy of ritual and language postulating a 'deep structure' or a 'universal grammar' for rituals as presented by Frits Staal, Axel Michaels, and Naphtali
Ophira Gamliel
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Temperate river floodplains present a significant challenge for archaeologists, as cultural and palaeoenvironmental remains are often difficult to locate but can be exceptionally well preserved, especially where groundwater levels are high. In these alluvial environments, the deposition of thick, fine‐grained sediments has potential to deeply ...
Nicholas Crabb +3 more
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Generational Inversions: \u27Working\u27 for Social Reproduction amid HIV in Swaziland [PDF]
, 2014 How do people envision social reproduction when regular modes of generational succession and continuity are disrupted in the context of HIV/AIDS? How and where can scholars identify local ideas for restoring intergenerational practices of obligation and ...
Golomski, Casey
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Saruq al‐Hadid, located at the edge of the Rub Al‐Khali desert near Dubai's southern border with Abu Dhabi, is among the region's richest archaeological sites. Renowned for its historical role in metallurgy, trade and human habitation, the site was occupied from the Umm an‐Nar period through the post–Iron Age. Despite its significance, much of
Moamen Ali +9 more
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Archaeological Prospection, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper tackles one key limitation in the analysis of Iron Age communities in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula: the limited exploration of areas beyond the fortified settlements known as castros (hillforts). The vast majority of archaeological studies have focused exclusively on the areas inside the walls of these settlements, which are ...
César Parcero‐Oubiña +7 more
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The “body of ritual” transformed: discourses and actions in the Daba rituals among the Na (Moso)
The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 2018 Anthropologists have adopted different approaches in order to analyze discourses in ritual context. This paper, based on long-term field investigations, aims to discuss the Na’s Daba rituals from the angle of enunciation.
Jin Chen
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Ritual and Pastoral Care [PDF]
, 1989 Reviewed Book: Ramshaw, Elaine. Ritual and Pastoral Care. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1987.
Nevile, Donald C.
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