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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Animal sacrifice"”.
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High resolution in-vivo electrode localization using microfocal X-rays.
… are available in nearly real time without animal sacrifice.
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic
… may not be applicable to the human management of animal life. Individual chapters examine, in turn: the local politics of space on the Varanger peninsula, focusing particularly on links between the spatial management and the killing of reindeer; the practices and social relations of slaughter as …
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Under the Empire’s Eye: The Psychosocial Stress of Chimú Human Sacrifice (1100–1450 CE)
… ideology, and spectacular rituals of human and animal sacrifice. Excavations at the coastal sites of Pampa La Cruz (PLC) and Huanchaquito Las Llamas (HLL) have uncovered the largest known mass sacrifices in the pre-Hispanic Americas, where hundreds of children, young women, and camelids were …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… and manifold local traditions including domestic animal sacrifice as reparation for moral trespass, and the expiation and propitiation of malevolent spirits. The analysis focuses on the social, moral and cosmological incongruities, tensions and gaps that can arise when people construe particular …
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Intersecting cosmologies : Kalinga morality, misfortune, ritual, and religious change
… and manifold local traditions including domestic animal sacrifice as reparation for moral trespass, and the expiation and propitiation of malevolent spirits. The analysis focuses on the social, moral and cosmological incongruities, tensions and gaps that can arise when people construe particular …
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Haḍimbā Becoming Herself: A Himalayan Goddess in Change
… and increasingly offer her bloody buffalo sacrifices despite criticisms leveled against this practice by outsiders (ch. 2); and they uphold their views concerning the ability of their goddess to control local weather patterns, even as the climate is changing and competing paradigms offer …
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Gender and Generation in Rural Turkmenistan
… For older men, the central skills concern animal sacrifice and generous hosting. The work of care for their children and particularly grandchildren, built through the myriad transfers of small gifts detailed in Part One, offers an alternative route to fortune available to mothers and …