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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Funerary practice"”.
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Funerary Practice and Community Identities in the Bacong Region of Negros Island, Central Philippines
… within Austronesian migration frameworks, these practices are commonly explained through large-scale processes of population movement and cultural diffusion. While useful for identifying regional patterns, such approaches can obscure localized practices and the ways communities expressed and …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
The crematory funerary rites practiced by those living in parts of mainland Britain during the first millennium AD included burning complete or parts of animals on the pyre. This thesis highlights the potential for archaeozoological analysis of faunal pyre goods using assemblages from the first …
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A study of inscribed material from Roman Britain: An inquiry into some aspects of literacy in Romano-British society
… areas of human activity: religion, working life, funerary practice and personal, social and domestic life. In each of these areas there has been an attempt to identify the writers or instigators of the inscriptions, the reasons for their literate output, and the practical and literate skills …
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To Do as Said and Written: Excavated Manuals and the Performance of Medicine and Spirit Power in Early China
… and their roles in actual medical and spirit practices. The extensive presence of rhymes and paronomasia in these manuals shows how sound correspondence contributed to the construction of meaning, and how the performance of early Chinese technical and mantic knowledge was deeply anchored not …
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Reimagining keening: an examination of the reinvention of Irish lament as a healing tool in the contemporary world
… the contemporary revival of the once widely practiced Irish funerary lament tradition known as keening (from the Irish caoineadh, meaning "to cry"). Keening has declined as a funerary practice since the early twentieth century but is now being reimagined in contemporary Ireland as a healing …
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Animals, Identity and Cosmology: Mortuary Practice in Early Medieval Eastern England
The inclusion of animal remains in funerary contexts was a routine feature of Anglo-Saxon cremation ritual, and less frequently of inhumations, until the introduction of Christianity during the 7th century. Most interpretation has focused either on the animal as symbolic of identity or as an …