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Ritual Lamentation in the Irish Penitentials
Religions, 2021 Some of the earliest references to ritual lamentation or keening in the early Irish sources are found in the penitential handbooks dated to around the seventh and eighth centuries. In previous scholarship, these passages have commonly been interpreted as
Alexandra Bergholm
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Social Ontology and the Rituals of Birth
Proceedings, 2020 This paper investigates how new social ontologies emerge when individuals and social groups from around the world utilize technology to promote the use of religious, secular, and re-sacralized imagery in preparation for birth as a rite of passage.
Anna Hennessey
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The complementary nature of poetic and musical systems in ritual visits to households [PDF]
Muzikologija, 2009 Analysis of poetic texts of the ritual - processions (koledari, lazarice kraljice) in Southeastern Serbia has proved that poetical systems facilitate the differentiation at all levels of semantic relations connected to ritual practice: from denotatum ...
Zakić Mirjana
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A Glass Bottle, A Talk, A Falling Star
Sociology Lens, Volume 36, Issue 3, Page 394-396, September 2023., 2023 Abstract The 13‐minute video excerpt from an artist talk, “Listen to the Voices in my Head,” delivered on December 2nd, 2022, by Sahar Te at the Alberta University of the Arts. Accompanying the video is a written response by artist and writer Aman Sandhu who was present at the talk.
Sahar Te, Aman Sandhu
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New life in Japan's ‘endingness’ business
Anthropology Today, Volume 39, Issue 3, Page 7-9, June 2023., 2023 The Japanese deathcare and Buddhist goods industry is a growing field, emerging out of radical shifts in the socio‐economic conditions of everyday life: smaller households, an ageing population and more irregular employment/lifestyle patterns. Based on fieldwork, this article reports tectonic ruptures within Japan’s household‐based mortuary system and ...
Anne Allison, Hannah Gould
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Burn to harvest, burn to sabotage: Between fire and water on a sugar plantation in Madagascar
American Anthropologist, Volume 125, Issue 1, Page 100-111, March 2023., 2023 Abstract Since 2009, the Chinese state‐owned corporation SINLANX has been managing the Anjava Sugar Plantation, previously managed by French, Malagasy, and Mauritian companies, in northern Madagascar. Built upon the infrastructure constructed by the French colonial regime and operating based on a collaboration agreement between SINLANX and the Malagasy
Mingyuan Zhang
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Lessons from Love-Locks: The archaeology of a contemporary assemblage [PDF]
, 2017 This document is the Accepted Manuscript version. The final, definitive version of this paper has been published in Journal of Material Culture, November 2017, published by SAGE Publishing, All rights reserved.Loss of context is a challenge, if not the ...
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Bleached broilers and divine fowls: The ritual economy of chickens in a South Indian city
Anthropology Today, Volume 39, Issue 1, Page 3-7, February 2023., 2023 Commercial poultry operations are booming as demand for chicken soars in 21st‐century India. The industry relies on the models familiar from industrial countries: birds pumped with growth hormones and antibiotics designed to ensure rapid, standardized egg production and broiler meat.
Assa Doron
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Ma'nene' Ritual" Ethnographic Study of Ma'nene' Ritual Practices in Toraja
Journal of Advanced Zoology, 2023 This research aims to examine the Ma'nene' Ritual Practice in Toraja. This study uses a qualitative method. This research is focused on describing an ethnographic study of the Ma'nene' ritual practice which can be seen from the lives of the Toraja people regarding symbols.
Ahmad Suthami Putra +3 more
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Dialogue \u27On The Ground\u27: The Complicated Identities and the Complex Negotiations of Catholics and Hindus in South India [PDF]
, 2004 Interreligious dialogue is a vital theological concern for the Catholic Church in India. Over the past three decades, church leaders, progressive theologians, and maverick monastics have experimented with various models and forms of interreligious ...
Raj, Selva J.
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