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Gaining resilience through transformative services in cause-related events: an interaction ritual chain perspective

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management, 2023
Purpose This study aims to unlock a ritual chain mechanism that promotes socio-mental (or socio-psychological) resilience. This study draws on interaction ritual chains theory and the concept of transformative service to answer the question of how ...
I. Wong, Xue Lin, Z. Lin, Y. Lin
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Lineage, Food and Ritual in a Chinese Metropolis

Anthropos, 2019
Thirty years ago, the eminent sinologist James Watson published a paper in Anthropos on ‘common pot’ dining in the New Territories of Hong Kong, a banquet ritual that differs fundamentally from established social norms in Chinese society. We explore the recent career of the ‘common pot’ in neighbouring Shenzhen, where it has become an important symbol ...
Man Guo, Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
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Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018
Fermented and alcoholic beverages played a pivotal role in feastings and social events in past agricultural and urban societies across the globe, but the origins of the sophisticated relevant technologies remain elusive.
Li Liu   +5 more
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Traditional uses of autochthonous medicinal and ritual plants and other remedies for health in Eastern and South-Eastern Serbia.

Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 2020
ETHNOPHARMACOLOGICAL RELEVANCE River and mountain regions in Eastern and South-Eastern Serbia are geographically interesting and, historically they represent an important resource of plants used as food, spices and as remedies for treating many diseases.
Jelena S. Matejić   +5 more
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Rituals with Music and Food, Food with Music and Rituals

2021
There is a number of human rituals that are accompanied by sacrifices of food and drinks. Ritual practices of different people are a huge resource of these habits that are found all over the world. This research paper will focus on the role of instrumental music in guiding these sacrifices among selected communities inhabiting Southeast Asia’s ...
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Sea urchins: Improving understanding of prehistoric subsistence, diet, foraging behavior, tool use, and ritual practices in Polynesia

Journal of Island & Coastal Archaeology, 2019
Sea urchins (echinoids) were integrated into many aspects of prehistoric Oceanic society as they provided food, raw material for abrading tools and rare ornaments, and were used as offerings on shrines (ko‘a) in the Hawaiian Islands.
M. Weisler   +2 more
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Digital Food Cultures

, 2020
Food and dietary choices operate as a central mode of identification, a way to define the self in relation to what we consume. These modes of identity are increasingly communicated on Instagram using digital photography to present the self visually ...
S. Baker, M. Walsh
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Hierarchy and food in Nepalese healing rituals

Social Science & Medicine, 1983
An analysis of food transactions in a Nepalese village provides an interpretation of the cultural place of illness within high caste Hindu traditions. In several realms of village social life, rules of food transfer simultaneously mark hierarchical relationships between people and symbolize an interdependency among them.
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