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Food and ritual resources in hunter-gatherer societies: Canarium nuts in southern China and beyond

open access: yesAntiquity, 2019
Archaeobotanical studies tend to concentrate on the evidence for specialised agricultural food production, with less attention directed towards the use of plant foods within hunter-gatherer contexts.
Zhenhua Deng   +6 more
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Les suidés dans les pratiques alimentaires et rituelles du monde phénico-punique

open access: yesAntiquités Africaines, 2019
This paper aims at elucidating the role played by pigs in Phoenicians and Punics ritual practices and dietary habits. The archaeological, zooarchaeological, epigraphic, iconographic and literary evidence is used for this purpose.
Bruno D’Andrea
doaj   +1 more source

Ritual Studies and the Study of Rabbinic Literature [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
In the last two decades several important studies have been published that focus on ritual in rabbinic literature, and consider ritual to be a critically important conceptual and analytical category in approaching rabbinic texts and rabbinic culture ...
Balberg, Mira
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La comida ritual en las fiestas de las veintenas mexicas : un acercamiento a su tipología y simbolismo

open access: yesLes Cahiers ALHIM, 2013
This article provides insight into the different types of ritual food prepared and consumed in the ritual context of the celebrations of the veintenas of the Mexican solar year.
Elena Mazzetto
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The Holy Land of Matrimony: The Complex Legacy of the Broomstick Wedding in American History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Many enslaved people in North America married by jumping the broomstick, but following their emancipation in 1865 most newly freed African Americans discarded the tradition.
Parry, Tyler D.
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Métaphores temporelles et offrandes alimentaires : pratiques d’élaboration du sens rituel

open access: yesLes Cahiers ALHIM, 2013
Decoding the nonverbal aspects of semantics of rituals is unusual in the studies of the Indian societies of Mexico. In the continuation of new anthropological research about the figurative language of rituals, this paper deals with the study of two food ...
Aline Hémond
doaj   +1 more source

Reconstruction of Original Content of the Kurgan Funeral Vessels Based on Microbial and Enzymatic Parameters

open access: yesНижневолжский археологический вестник, 2023
The original content of ritual vessels from the burials of the two kurgan cemeteries was reconstructed using the multisubstrate testing system of microbial respiration and enzymatic activity of the soil from the pots.
Natalia Kashirskaya   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Sacrificial Ritual in Homer

open access: yesClassica Cracoviensia, 2013
Sacrificial Ritual in Homer The paper discusses the model of interpretation of the Greek sacrificial ritual and proposes some changes and adjustment in the currently accepted paradigm.
Bartłomiej Bednarek
doaj   +1 more source

The Value and Symbol of Traditional Snack in Chinatown Gang Baru Semarang [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2020
Traditional food displayed and sold in the traditional market Gang Baru Semarang does not mean as the way to meet the basic need for people living nearby the location.
Chandra Oktiva Herry, Kepirianto Catur
doaj   +1 more source

Ritual as resource management

open access: yesPhilosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2020
This paper argues that rituals are mechanisms of resource management. The argument is based on four observations: (i) over the course of hominin evolution, fitness became contingent on psychological states; (ii) these psychological states can be ...
M. Rossano
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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