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The purpose of the article is to develop two aspects of the Wayuu’s social life such as death and its rites. Death is part of a symbolic universe that is part of the meaning of life for the Wayuu. From which their experience and existence... more
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      Social and Cultural AnthropologyAnthropology of Death & Burial
ความตายและการพลีชีพ เรื่องราวอันเป็นยิ่งใหญ่ของลัทธิวีรบุรุษ (the cult of heroes) ปรากฏขึ้นตั้งแต่สมัยกรีกโบราณ ถือเป็นหนึ่งในคุณสมบัติที่โดดเด่นที่สุดของศาสนากรีกโบราณ ในภาษาฮีบรู (Homeric Greek) คำว่า “hero" หมายถึง... more
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      Death & Dying (Thanatology)Philosophy of DeathAnthropology of Death & Burial
The identification of deviant burials as those of ‘vampires’ is a feature of excavated skeletons from sites across Eastern, Central and Southern Europe as well as the Balkans. Based on a close reading of historic and folkloric sources... more
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      ReligionChristianityMythology And FolkloreHistory
Exploration des thèmes du suicide, des morts violentes et des actes violents en général dans la société maya ancienne.
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      ViolenceSuicideSuicide (History)Classic Maya (Archaeology)
"Representations", N. 129, Winter 2015. The essay analyzes the project of maintaining the body of V. I. Lenin in the Mausoleum in Moscow for the past ninety years, focusing on the unique biological science that developed around this... more
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      HistoryEuropean HistoryHistory of Science and TechnologyModern History
This article explores how across the island of New Guinea, barkcloth has functioned as a mediator between humans, their existence, and their environment. Revisiting origin myths and various uses and meanings of barkcloth in New Guinea, it... more
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      AnthropologyEthnographyMaterial Culture StudiesIndigenous Epistemologies
Mărturiile vechi-testamentare despre moarte, alături de cele extra-biblice sunt dezvoltate şi în această a doua parte a studiului cu alte aspecte precum necromanţia, cultul morţilor, nemurirea, învierea, judecata. Sunt aduse înainte cele... more
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      Death and Burial (Archaeology)Anthropology of DeathBiblical AnthropologyAnthropology of Death & Burial
* Studiul a fost redactat în aprilie 2009 ca parte dintr-un proiect publicistic rămas nefinalizat. Cu acordul autorului, a servit ca o bază bibliografică pentru studiul Teodorei TECU-LESCU, "Perspectiva biblică asupra practicilor funerare... more
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      Death and Burial (Archaeology)Anthropology of DeathAnthropology of Death & BurialJewish and early Christian burials
Since the beginning of the 21st century, the deaths of migrants have become a regular occurrence in southern Arizona where an average of 170 bodies are recovered from the desert each year. This dissertation examines the causes and effects... more
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      Forensic AnthropologyForensic ScienceMigration StudiesAnthropology of humanitarism
Zbornik Antropologija smrti II, Sahrana, grob i groblje predstavlja drugi zbornik s antropološkim tekstovima o smrti. Pogreb kao centralni ritual smrti obrađen je sa više aspekata i u više sociokulturnih okolnosti. Analiza tradicionalne... more
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      AnthropologyAnthropology of DeathAnthropology of Death & Burial
แบ่งปันจากวิชามานุษยวิทยาความตายที่ได้ต่อยอดจากงานวิจัยโบราณคดีบนพื้นที่สูงในอำเภอปางมะผ้า จังหวัดแม่ฮ่องสอน โครงการสืบค้นและจัดการมรดกวัฒนธรรมอย่างยั่งยืนในอำเภอปาย-ปางมะผ้า-ขุนยวม จังหวัดแม่ฮ่องสอน... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyCultural heritage tourismAnthropology of Death & Burial
Syllabus, graduate seminar, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, Fall 2016
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      HistoryHistory of Science and TechnologyMedical SociologyPolitical Sociology
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      Russian StudiesAnthropologyHistorical AnthropologyPolitical Philosophy
La mort d’autrui est une épreuve que les communautés humaines ont dû apprendre à surmonter dès les premiers temps de l’Humanité. Ce travail est une exploration des différentes réponses proposées par l’homme face au problème de la perte de... more
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      Prehistoric ArchaeologyDeath StudiesDeath & Dying (Thanatology)Mourning
Esta comunicación quiere poner de manifiesto el carácter polisémico de los cementerios patrimoniales tomando como ejemplo el Cementerio Municipal de Valencia, dado que es en este tipo de cementerios y puede que solo en ellos donde se den... more
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      RomanticismDeath StudiesHistoricismCemeteries
This paper investigates the unique science of preservation that emerged around the task of maintaining Lenin's body for public display in mausoleum in Moscow.
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      ReligionChristianityComparative ReligionFuture Studies
**Uncorrected proofs** F. Stavrakopoulou, 'Curating King Saul: The Transformation of a Troublesome Corpse', in L. Quick, E.E. Kozlova, S. Noll, and P.Y. Yoo (eds), To Gaul, to Greece, and into the Ark: Essays in Honour of Kevin J.... more
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      Biblical StudiesDeath and Burial (Archaeology)Ancient IsraelKingship in the Hebrew Bible and ancient Judah
Since the advent of European explorers, missionaries, traders and subsequent colonialism, Melanesian material culture has lived a double life (Thomas 2013: xi). On the one hand, indigenous material culture remained significant in local... more
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      AnthropologyMaterial Culture StudiesRitualIconoclasm
Dílem Calon-Welten: Eine Ethnografie über das Leben, Sterben und Weiterleben bei Ciganos in Brasilian Márcio Vilar dokazuje, že studium způsobu, jakým se lidé vyrovnávají se smrtí, umožňuje dobrý vhled do sociálního uspořádání a kultury... more
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      DeathGypsy AnthropologyMourningRomani Studies
Author: Manolis I. Stefanakis. xii+192 pages; illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. Papers in English and Greek.. 52 2018. Available both in print and Open Access. Printed ISBN 9781784917685. Epublication ISBN... more
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      ArchaeologyClassical ArchaeologyPhotogrammetryLandscape Archaeology
Since the last decade of the twentieth century, and thanks to open area excavations that had taken place in pit sites, afforded us some structured depositions containing articulated faunal remains, dogs among them. This paper studies one... more
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      ArchaeologyPrehistoric ArchaeologyBronze Age Europe (Archaeology)Religion and ritual in prehistory
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      Naval EngineeringNaval ArchitectureReligionHistory
Located in the ruins of a deserted Roman villa in rural Umbria, there was an infant cemetery containing 47 burials of infants, from prenatal to 2-3 years, that has been termed an «abnormal cemetery» by its excavator, David Soren. The... more
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      ArchaeologyAnthropologyDeath StudiesFunerary Archaeology
Dogs were commonly buried individually upon death but sometimes jointly interred with people. The oldest known example of the latter, from Bonn-Oberkassel in Germany, serves as a window for viewing this phenomenon. The common practice of... more
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      Death and Burial (Archaeology)The archaeology and ethnography of human-animal social relationshipsArchaeology of death and burialBurial Customs
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      AnthropologySocial AnthropologyDeath StudiesSigmund Freud
Dove e come veniva eletto il papa nel Medioevo? Chi aveva il diritto di eleggerlo? Da quando i cardinali entrano in conclave per eleggere il papa? Quali riti venivano celebrati subito dopo la sua elezione e con quali oggetti... more
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      Canon LawMedieval HistoryEarly Modern HistoryDeath Studies
My lecture will take place in the March 18th IIAS SYMPOSIUM: "Competing Venues for Justice: Jewish Courts in Jurisprudential Context", attached the program
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      Jewish LawJewish StudiesEarly Modern HistoryJewish History
Referncia del libro: Philip J. Havik, José Mapril and Clara Saraiva (eds.) Death on the Move: managing narratives, silences and constraints in a transnational perspective (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018). ISBN:... more
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      Anthropology of DeathFunerary RitualsCemetery StudiesAnthropology of Death & Burial
В некоторых городах Южной Руси и их окрестностях известны находки человеческих останков с посмертными повреждениями (пробитые гвоздями черепа и др.). Повреждение тел определенных категорий покойников было распространено в защитных целях у... more
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      Mythology And FolkloreCriminal Justice HistoryUkrainian StudiesEarly Medieval History
This paper examines cases of suicide in rural Greece where the deceased have been provided with new affective narratives that detract from the circumstances of death. Living relatives redirect public attention away from the social taboo... more
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      Death StudiesNarrativePolitical AnthropologyEuropean Ethnography
Employing two case studies from different spheres of anthropological practice, we argue that a narrative approach provides productive analytical ground for the study of Western death. It has been argued that narratives are attempts to... more
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      Death StudiesNarrativeMediterranean StudiesNarrative and Identity
This chapter exposes multiple contextual layers in the historical background of the famous Ossuary at Sedlec in the Czech Republic. The Cistercian monastery of Sedlec was founded in the twelfth century and its importance soon increased... more
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      GhostsHuman Remains (Anthropology)Anthropology of DeathMartyrs
In the present as in the past, the dead have been deployed to promote visions of identity, as well as ostensibly wider human values. Through a series of case studies from ancient Egypt through prehistoric, historic, and present-day... more
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      InterdisciplinarityDeath and Burial (Archaeology)Human Remains (Anthropology)Anthropology of Death
This piece is on the cemetery for the "unknown," for the "anonymous" (kimsesizler mezarligi), where the bodies of trans people, victims of honor crimes, premature babies, Kurdish guerillas, unclaimed refugees, and homeless people are... more
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      Death StudiesPolitical ViolenceMortalityBelonging
Dirección estable: https://www.aacademica.org/000-080/71 Acta Académica es un proyecto académico sin fines de lucro enmarcado en la iniciativa de acceso abierto. Acta Académica fue creado para facilitar a investigadores de todo el mundo... more
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      Historical ArchaeologyUrban archaeologyArqueología históricaIconography and Iconology
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      HinduismLatin American and Caribbean HistoryCaribbean HistoryCaribbean Studies
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      Roman HistoryBioarchaeologyEarly ChristianityFunerary Archaeology
Conferencia impartida en CCCB: Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona dentro del marco de las jornadas "Las imágenes de enfermedad, muerte y duelo compartidas online" (20 de octubre 2017)
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      Death StudiesAnthropology of DeathAnthropology of Death & BurialDeath Rituals
http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/books/book-reviews/cortges-and-tea-why-we-do-death-well-35260923.html Corteges and tea: why we 'do death well' The people of Ireland. as this book attests, "do death well": both the lead-up to... more
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      ReligionHistoryCultural HistorySociology
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      DeathDeath StudiesDeath and Burial (Archaeology)Cemeteries