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, 2004 Most ritual participants claim that their rituals have been the same since time immemorial. Citing recent research in ritual studies, this book illustrates how, on the contrary, rituals are often subject to dynamic changes. When do rituals change?
Hartung, Constance +2 more
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Ethics and the law relating to post-birth rituals
South African Family Practice, 2013 Placental rituals and other birth-by rituals are common in various societies. They often include culturally determined behavioural sequences which operate as anxiety-releasing mechanisms.
D. Knapp van Bogaert, G.A. Ogunbanjo
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, 2017 My contribution aims to show the common source of habits and rituals, namely the fact that they are grounded on the same logic or process of repetition even though they may have different functions.
Raffaela Giovagnoli
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The Crowd: Zooming in on Social Behaviour
European Journal of Social Psychology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The direct observation of social behaviour has almost completely vanished from socialpsychological research, in favour of studies of attitudes, identities and cognitions. Using crowd psychology as an illustration, this article argues for a renewed focus on observational research enabled by recent technological advances, including high ...
Tom Postmes, Armin Seyfried, Anna Sieben
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Fissures of traditional culture in the novel 'Shadow partisan' by Nađa Tešić [PDF]
BaštinaThe paper deals with representations of traditional culture and their fissures in Nađe Tešić's novel Shadow Partisan. The tangle of cultural symbolism, socio-historical dynamics and psychological dimensions shown in the novel is considered in an ...
Matić Aleksandra D.
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Funerary rituals of the Archaic poleis of Central and Southern Sicily
An overview on funerary rituals in Archaic and Late Archaic cemeteries of Greek Sicily (southern and western part), with a special focus on Gela and ...
C. Lambrugo
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Keeping their powder dry: Purity, pollution, and handgun ownership among Jewish women in Israel
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the gendered practices through which Jewish women in Israel experience and negotiate personal handgun ownership in everyday life. Drawing on interviews, participant observation in gun‐related spaces, and analysis of women‐only online forums, we explore the expanding participation of Jewish women in civilian gun ownership,
Maya Maor +3 more
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Colonial and gendered peace: Decolonial perspectives on peace in Nagorno‐Karabakh
Feminist Anthropology, EarlyView.Abstract This article critically interrogates peace processes in the aftermath of the First Nagorno‐Karabakh War by centering the lived experiences and political voices of Armenian and Azerbaijani internally displaced and refugee women, based on ethnographic fieldwork and in‐depth interviews conducted in 2019.
Ramil Zamanov
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Political Activism and Narrative Analysis: The Biographical Template and the Meat Pot
Forum: Qualitative Social Research, 2004 This article examines the autobiographical and some other writings of Mamphela RAMPHELE, a former political and community activist in South Africa with reference to forms of narrative analysis.
Brian Roberts
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Samoan death rituals in a New Zealand context [PDF]
, 2017 Given that dialogue relating to death and grief for many Samoans still remains in the realm of tapu (sacred) or s? (protected), few attempts have been made by researchers of Samoan heritage to understand whether the cultural contexts for enacting ...
Seiuli, Byron Malaela Sotiata
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