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Evolutionary thanatology [PDF]

open access: yesPhilosophical 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
openaire   +1 more source

Time with or without death: Researching death in Serbian ethnology during the second half of the 20th century [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Topics of ethnological research, as well as scientific discourse in general often represent the mirror of social reality. This paper researches the ways in which dealing with death and current ethnological approaches in Serbian ethnology during the ...
Pavićević Aleksandra
core   +1 more source

«Huge, Disgusting, Corpulent, A-Hundred-Throats»: a Philosophical Study of the Fence and Other Monsters (Review of the book Savchuk V.V. Fence as a Balance of Forces. St. Petersburg: Publishing house Academy of Culture Research, 2021. – 249 p.).

open access: yesCorpus Mundi, 2021
The text is a contemplation review of the new book by V.V. Savchuk. Fence as a balance of power. (St. Petersburg: Publishing House “Academy of Culture Research”, 2021. - 249 p.).
Konstantin A. Ocheretyany
doaj   +1 more source

The functional role of music in communicating death through/in YouTube videos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Since the establishment of thanatology, the science of death, in the early 20th century, death has not only been considered a controversial subject, but it has also been regarded as a taboo topic.
Pentaris, Panagiotis, Yerosimou, Maria
core   +3 more sources

International background of Pedagogy of death [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Death is a universal and perennial phenomenon for the human being. Nevertheless, the pedagogy of death is a taboo subject in schools. It has not become aware of its formative value.
Cortina Selva, Mar   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Wild Baboons Groom Objects with Fur: Implications for Infant Corpse Carrying in Primates? [PDF]

open access: yesAnimal Behavior and Cognition
Nonhuman primates demonstrate great behavioral diversity in their responses to death, yet the most prevalent of these—infant corpse carrying—remains poorly understood.
Helen Reiderman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Who Needs a Methodological Course about Death in the Poetry for Children and Youth? Students’ Motivation for This Course, Their Concepts and Experience Related to Death

open access: yesInovacije u Nastavi, 2023
Psychological studies have shown that children begin to think about death at an early age and have encouraged a rethinking of the concept of possible education about death.
Vladimir M. Vukomanović Rastegorac
doaj   +1 more source

Death in digital games : a thanatological approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Analysing our time is an important part of our understanding and modi operandi. At the same time, of equal importance is the analysis of the end of time, that is, the time of death.
Ntelia, Renata E.
core  

Variation in Human Bone Collagen Turnover Among Skeletal Elements

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 189, Issue 1, January 2026.
ABSTRACT Objective Understanding tissue turnover rate is crucial for isotopic analysis. The stable isotope composition of collagen is often studied in archeology and paleontology, yet bone collagen turnover rates across various skeletal elements remain underexplored.
Olivia Hall, Shari L. Forbes, Paul Szpak
wiley   +1 more source

Online reverse discourses? Claiming a space for trans voices [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
In recent years, online media have offered to trans people helpful resources to create new political, cultural and personal representations of their biographies. However, the role of these media in the construction of their social and personal identities
Primo, David   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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