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Secondary burial and mummification practices in the Kingdom of the two Sicilies

Mortality, 2010
Abstract The ancient concepts of death as duration and the practices of secondary burial, first analysed by Robert Hertz, still survive in many areas of southern Italy. According to these beliefs death was perceived not as a sudden event, but as a long-lasting process, during which the deceased person had to go through a transitory phase, passing from ...
Valentina Giuffra
exaly   +3 more sources

Imerina Famadihana as a secondary burial

Archipel, 1974
II. 1. Susan McGeorge analyses the Malagasy Merina custom of secondary burial (famadihana) as the decisive step which brings the deceased from a liminal state to the world of the ancestors.
exaly   +3 more sources

Diachronic variation in secondary burial practices in Bronze and Iron Age Moravia

Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 2018
Abstract The transition from inhumation to cremation is a well-documented phenomenon in Bronze Age Central Europe. However, almost nothing is known about similar transitions taking place in other mortuary practices, such as secondary burials. This study brings new insights into diachronic trends in secondary burials during the Central European Bronze
Anna Pankowska
exaly   +2 more sources

Secondary Burial at Catal Huyuk

Numen, 1978
exaly   +2 more sources

Pauline Baptism and “Secondary Burial”

Harvard Theological Review, 1986
It is curious that, despite Paul's representation of baptism as a burial (Rom 6:3–4; cf. Col 2:12), his understanding of baptism has not been considered in terms of funerary rites. Rather, the symbolic and initiatory character of baptismal burial, together with its close association with the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, has for about a ...
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Secondary Burial of the Chakpa Lois of Phayeng Village y Manipur, India

2010
exaly   +2 more sources

Restless corpses: ‘secondary burial’ in the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties

Antiquity, 2001
The historically documented burial samples of the Babenberg and Habsburg dynasties allow a detailed analysis of the circumstances that led to dismemberment, evisceration, disturbance, exhumation and reburial over a millennium. The results may provide deeper and more broadly applicable insights into relevant cultural formation processes of élite burials.
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Burial and secondary dispersal of small seeds in a tropical forest

Journal of Tropical Ecology, 2008
Abstract:Secondary dispersal is an important stage in the life cycle of tree species, determining the fate of a high proportion of all seeds. For small-seeded species both physical and biological processes may influence the secondary fate of seeds, however the relative importance of these processes is not well known.
Toby R. Marthews, Christopher E. Mullins, James W. Dalling, David F. R. P. Burslem   +3 more
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Seping Secondary Burials: Past Practices and Present Day Significance

The Sarawak Museum Journal, 2011
In the past the Seping people, a minority group living in three longhouses along the Belaga River, practised what is commonly known as secondary burial, akin to that practised by their Kajang neighbours, the Kejaman, Sekapan, Lahanan, and Punan Ba. Treatment of the dead differed depending on rank and status of the dead.
Abdul Rashid Abdullah, Jayl Langub
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A Mass Secondary Burial from Northern Arizona

American Antiquity, 1966
AbstractA secondary burial of at least 30 individuals was excavated on Polacca Wash south of the Hopi Reservation in Arizona. This burial does not match either the prehistoric or contemporary Hopi pattern and cannot be duplicated in the recorded habits of surrounding tribes. Slight evidence favors a prehistoric placement.
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