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Showing 1 to 20 of 355 for “"ancestors"”.
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Sampled ancestors and dating in Bayesian phylogenetics
… can lie directly on the branches and represent ancestors of other taxa that are sampled later. Phylogenetic trees in molecular biology were traditionally reconstructed from molecular data of contemporaneous species where ancestors among sampled taxa cannot occur. More recently, phylogenetic …
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Ancestors in African religion : a comparative study of the role of ancestors in the Sotho and Nguni worship and religious ethics
… The fact that Africans speak more about their ancestors than about God has led some scholars into thinking that God has no place in African Traditional Religion.They argue that God is not worshipped in African Traditional Religion.
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Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves
… is used as a method to identify the role of ancestors in the world of the living. Through autoethnography, I draw examples and insights from my personal experiences with bongaka and my ongoing relationship with my ancestors. In addition, I use performance to enable an engagement between …
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The long lives of ancestors: decolonizing bioarchaeology in Illinois
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Hair Samples as Ancestors and Futures of Community-Led Collection Care
… colonial knowledge economy. Institutionally held Ancestors’ hair, in the form of ‘hair samples’, are intrinsically intertwined with traumatic histories of invasive and racist research conducted upon Indigenous peoples. The production of knowledge through hair sampling is argued by this research to …
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The influence of ancestors: kinship and cooperation in Iban ancestor worship
… strategy theory, which outlines how ancestors influence their descendants through the traditions they begin and transmit to future generations. In order for this theory to be valid, traditions must be sustained over long periods of time so that ancestors' influence descendants in …
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Abezimu/Badimo (ancestors) and copyright law: from the Decolonial Turn to the pluriversal author
"A spectre is haunting Europe – the spectre of Communism” is the sentence that opens Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' iconic text, The Communist Manifesto. Marx and Engels set out what was to become the primary program of action for all communist parties in Europe. The Communist Manifesto's …
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Superman's Ancestors - Beowulf, Odysseus and Roy Hobbs: Application and Analysis of Joseph Campbell's Monomyth Theory
<p>Heroes have been with us since the beginning of time with some becoming more well known than others. Each and every culture seems to have their own type of hero that embodies their ideals, values and beliefs. It is this truth that Joseph Campbell, author of the 1949 book <em>The Hero with a …
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A late to terminal classic household in the shadows of the ancestors: a view from Group E, Xunantunich
This master's thesis focuses on understanding the period of reoccupation during the Late to Terminal Classic at Group E, Xunantunich. This topic is examined through an investigation of the function of Structure E-3 during the reoccupation period and Structure E-3's relationship with specialized …
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Reciprocating with Ibu Pretiwi : social organisation and the importance of plants, land and the ancestors in Nusa Penida
… of the role of land, plants, spirits and ancestors develops ideas of the interconnections between human beings and the world of flora. In this context the significance of the rituals for clearing the forest is explored, the association between human and natural fertility, and the …
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Reciprocating with Ibu Pretiwi : social organisation and the importance of plants, land and the ancestors in Nusa Penida
… of the role of land, plants, spirits and ancestors develops ideas of the interconnections between human beings and the world of flora. In this context the significance of the rituals for clearing the forest is explored, the association between human and natural fertility, and the …
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TONES IN BLACK: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN BASS/BARITONES IN CLASSICAL MUSIC: IN THE ECHOES OF ANCESTORS, A PIONEER’S VOICE
This dissertation project has three major foci: a) to trace the history of classically trained African American Bass/Baritone vocalists through performance, recordings, and narrative; b) to recognize the historical performances of African American Bass/Baritone vocal pioneers and the significant …
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An analysis of the causes and consequences of conflict and violence in A.C. Jordan's The Wrath of the Ancestors and R.L. Peteni's Hill of Fools
… This is done by analyzing The wrath of the ancestors by A.C Jordan and Hill of fools by R.L Peteni as a case study. The two selected novels are going to be analysed using quantitative research methodology. The study maintains that literature is a reflection of reality and therefore the …
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A comparative study of the portrayal of characters in A.C. Jordan's The wrath of the ancestors, Modikwe Dikobe's The marabi dance and G.B. Sinxo's Unojayiti wam
The characters encountered in The wrath of the ancestors, The Marabi dance and Unojayiti wam bear on an African identity, and they reflect a purely African conception of life. The "Africanness" of their outlook can only be determined when measured against the real life African socio-cultural …
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My ancestors’ wildest dream : How classroom management strategies from around the globe help us decrease the rates of suspensions and expulsions of Black students in the United States
Coleman, Ava Most educators agree that classroom management is complicated, stressful, and sometimes extremely difficult. The U.S. Department of Education (2016) released a study reporting that Black children are suspended three times more often than their white counterparts. Considering that …
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A cognitive stylistics study of the Nama-Herero genocide in Kubuitsile’s the scattering, Utley’s lie of the land, Tjingaete’s the weeping graves of our ancestors and Van Den Berg’s parts unknown
… Rukee Tjingaete’s The Weeping Graves of our Ancestors (2017) and Zirk van den Berg’s Parts Unknown (2018). The four novels were chosen because they present the Nama-Herero genocide, which took place from 1904 -1908 where over 65,000 Ovaherero and 10,000 Nama people died in what is known as …
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Postmortem Economies in Art: The Carceral Value and Unrested Labour of Ensouled Museum Collections
… repercussions of capturing and containing living ancestors (referred to as remains, artifacts, and objects by Western definition) and the labours they produce in their afterlives. Such carceral labours by ancestors inevitably extend into an afterlife of capital, where the unrested labours of these …
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Ancestor Worship in the Middle Sicán Theocratic State
… (1) demonstrating by archaeological means that ancestors were indeed worshipped in the Middle Sicán society and (2) elucidating the nature and role of the inferred ancestor cult and associated rituals and ceremonies. Ancestor (and the veneration of it) is one of the themes that have the deepest …
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Heart of the Fathers, for Wind Symphony
… movement work for wind symphony depicting my ancestors and their role as part of the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The movements represent their spiritual experiences, labors, times of joy, persecution, migration, and finally their arrival and success in their new …
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