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Perioperative Medicine, 2023 The article analyzes the thanatological motive and terminal conditions in fiction and web literature in an interdisciplinary context. Features of the image of death and various mediocre conditions in the web literature on the example of the internet ...
T Bondarieva
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Baboon thanatology: responses of filial and non-filial group members to infants' corpses [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2020 What do animals know of death? What can animals' responses to death tell us about the evolution of species’ minds, and the origins of humans' awareness of death and dying?
Alecia J. Carter +3 more
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Evolutionary thanatology [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2018 Societies, including those of humans, have evolved multiple ways of dealing with death across changing circumstances and pressures. Despite many studies focusing on specialized topics, for example necrophoresis in eusocial insects, mortuary activities in early human societies, or grief and mourning in bereavement, there has been little attempt to ...
James R. Anderson +2 more
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Journal of English Language and Literature, 2022 This article attempts to study the linguistic and non-linguistic factors under which many words are rarely used or dead, as well as the reasons for the resurrection of dead words. Dead word samples were taken from different languages and described within their linguistic contexts, e.g. political and cultural, to explain any gaps.
Dr.Osman Alteyp Alwasila Alteyp
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Shostakovich and death: A lifelong musical thanatology
Современные проблемы музыкознанияThe article raises the question of the significance of the theme of death for Shostakovich’s creative work. It is argued that the composer’s thanatology originates in his childhood compositions, as indicated by a number of titles of completed or ...
Marina G. Raku
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Record of thanatology and cannibalism in drills (Mandrillus leucophaeus). [PDF]
Primates, 2023 Comparative thanatology includes the scientific study of death in non-human animals, which involves emotional, social, and exploratory responses of individuals and groups towards corpses.
Casetta G, Nolfo AP, Palagi E.
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Treatment and death of Nikolai Gogol: facts and fiction [PDF]
Два века русской классики, 2020 Among the controversial issues of Nikolai Gogol's biography, the problem of his last days occupies the most important place. This final stage of the writer's life reveals his poorly understood views on the spiritual methods of healing from the disease ...
Igor' A. Vinogradov
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3/ Queering death beyond the human
Whatever, 2021 This is part 3 of 6 of the dossier What do we talk about when we talk about queer death?, edited by M. Petricola. The contributions collected in this article sit at the crossroads between thanatology, critical animal studies, and the posthumanities and ...
Clara Beccaro +5 more
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Animal moral psychologies [PDF]
, 2022 Observations of animals engaging in apparently moral behavior have led academics and the public alike to ask whether morality is shared between humans and other animals.
Andrews, Kristin, Monsó, Susana
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The Hopping Dead. Zombies in the Chinese Culture
Corpus Mundi, 2021 The article examines the image of zombies in Chinese culture, the traditional perception of their appearance and internal characteristics. A wide scope of written sources served as the basis of the study: inscriptions on oracle bones, ancient fortune ...
Asya A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva
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