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Fictions of excess and sacrifice: Roberto Bolaño, Marcelo Mirisola and William Burroughs

Gragoatá, 2010
This paper aims to consider the fundamental relationship between melancholy and trauma in today’s artistic and literary life, and to stress the role of sacrifice as a ritual which has been inscribed in the creation process since Modernity.
Ângela Maria Dias
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Ritual pit with human remains from the mid-first millennium BC at Brestak, northeast Bulgaria

Studia Praehistorica
This paper discusses the results of the archaeological investigation of a pit with human remains dating to the mid-sixth century BC. Some 66 pits from three different periods – the Early Copper Age (early fifth millennium BC), the Early Bronze Age ...
Anelia Bozkova
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Máatan k'ol: la flexibilidad en el ritual Máatan k'ol: the flexibility of ritual

Estudios de Cultura Maya, 2009
En el presente trabajo se describe y analiza el máatan k'ol, un ritual agrícola y colectivo realizado en el municipio de Santa Elena, al sur de Yucatán.
Patricia María Balam Gómez, Ileana Beatriz Ruiz Alonso, Iván de Jesús Solís Sosa   +2 more
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Concepts of Sacrifice and Trauma in Australian War Commemoration

Landscape Review, 2015
The concept of sacrifice plays a significant role in commemorative ritual because it aids collective amnesia and the forgetting of war trauma. Collective amnesia is the product of several processes, both official and individual, which work to disguise ...
John Stephens
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Standardization of Ritual Offerings:The Eucharist, Human Sacrifice and Monetization

Ritual and standardization are practically synonymous. The differences lie largely in how they are perceived by those enacting either in practice. In this paper, we offer a novel perspective of the standardization of religious ritual by addressing the Eucharist as one example of a sacrificial ritual transformed and strengthened over time as a direct ...
Gullbekk, Svein Harald, Walsh , Matthew, Moen, Marianne   +2 more
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Horse graves, sacrifice, and the performers of public rituals

, 2009
Abundance of horse graves and very expressive horse-offering rituals are well known in the Central region of Lithuania. But principally the new material has been obtained after the investigations of burial ground in Marvele. Horse graves are usually found separate from human graves, composing special parts of "horse graveyards" in the cemeteries ...
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"<i>Warmi urquy"</i>: marriage proposals and gender hierarchy in the Peruvian Andes. [PDF]

Front Sociol
Gutiérrez-Gómez E, Flores-Vargas LM, González-Ríos RC, Munaris-Parco SB, Aspur-Barrientos JC, Bazán-Ramírez A.   +5 more
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Surveillance of zoonotic pathogens in cattle and dromedaries sacrificed at the Grand Magal of Touba: a cross-sectional survey. [PDF]

New Microbes New Infect
Ouaddane I, Diouf C, Diatta G, Diarra AZ, Faye M, Sokhna C, Gautret P.   +6 more
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Eco-cultural synergy: exploring the links between native trees, rituals, and conservation in Guji Society, Southern Ethiopia. [PDF]

J Ethnobiol Ethnomed
Roba GO.
europepmc   +1 more source

Cultivating an Eschatological Imaginary: A Liturgical Approach to Death. [PDF]

Linacre Q
Tenorio AS.
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