Funeral Practices
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Since the early days of archaeology, Viking-Age burials and burial customs have attracted much attention. Evocative tales of warriors and their deeds preserved in Old Norse poetry and sagas, and recorded in the historical chronicles of... more
A detailed analysis of CIL XIV 2112 = ILS 7212, an inscription detailing the status and life of an association (collegium) of worshipers of Diana and Antinous in Lanuvium. A new edition of the text with English translation is also... more
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This study was commissioned by CARE Malawi to explore the livelihood strategies and social forms that have evolved within rural households and communities to contend with the threat of HIV/AIDS. Both qualitative and quantitative research... more
INTRODUCTION 5 CHAPTER 1: WHAT IN CREMATION IS GOING ON? 7 CHAPTER 2: THE ORIGIN AND PRACTICE OF CREMATION 15 CHAPTER 3: THE HISTORIC JUDEO–CHRISTIAN VIEW ON CREMATION 27 CHAPTER 4: THE REASONS FOR CREMATION EXAMINED 39 CHAPTER 5: IS... more
Based on field work with Jerusalem Burial Society, it describes general aspects of Jewish burial ritual and the unique customs of Jerusalem, such as dancing round the corpse just prior to the burial itself. Observations of funerals... more
La intervención arqueológica realizada en el yacimiento romano de “La Mata I” (Aznalcázar, Sevilla) ha puesto al descubierto los restos de la pars rustica de una villa romana y una serie de enterramientos tardorromanos aislados. The... more
Izgradnjom sinagoge Bet Jisrael, u neomavarskom stilu po projektu arhitekte Milana Kapetanovića, beogradska jevrejska zajednica početkom XX veka prihvatila je orijentalistički koncept u iskazivanju svog identiteta. Ovo je nakon Prvog... more
In der St.-Joseph-Kirche in Charbrow bei Leba ist ein einzigartiges Ensemble von zwölf Sargbeschlägen erhalten geblieben, die ursprünglich eine Sargausschmückung der Mitglieder der Familie von Somnitz bildeten. Der Bestattungsort der... more
Erik W. Davis’s book Deathpower: Buddhism’s Ritual Imagination in Cambodia is an important and brilliant study that seeks no less than “to represent a portion of the Cambodian religious imaginary through a study of rituals involved in the... more
This essay argues that the metamorphosis of Cinderella's mother into a cow, featured in folktales across Europe, bespeaks hoary notions concerning procreation, the animal shapes of wandering spirits, and the fate of the soul in the... more
The study is based on the investigation of some unpublished fragments of glazed “bathtub” coffins from Kilizu in Iraq and preserved in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Florence. Reflection on the use of this type of sarcophagus in the... more
Approfondimento del rituale funerario nell'antica Grecia eseguito per il corso universitario di Letteratura greca, a.a. 2016/2017 - Università degli Studi di Udine.
En este artículo se hace una indagación por las relaciones entre violencia, arte y prácticas simbólicas. Para tal fin, se reflexiona sobre la persistencia del cementerio, las tumbas, los féretros y sus metáforas, tanto en el arte... more
THE FUNERARY RITUAL that took place in September 1974 in a village called Lendombwey, in the centre-south of Malekula in Vanuatu, was exceptional for the number of defunct men to which it was destined and for the quality of the... more
В статье рассматриваются трансформации, произошедшие в последние десятилетия в сельском похоронном обряде в связи с появлением новых групп акторов, которым необходимо выстроить отношения не только с родственниками покойных, но и с... more
This paper examines the various symbols found in two Catholic cemeteries of New Orleans in order to evaluate the symbolic language surrounding death. From that evaluation, I hope to better understand how that symbolic language surrounding... more
Dear Colleague, We would like to thank you very sincerely for your presentation at the international symposium, entitled “Unguentarium. A terracotta vessel form and other related vessels in the Hellenistic, Roman and early Byzantine... more
Die Grabdenkmäler der Erzbischöfe von Trier, Köln und Mainz bilden drei einzigartige Denkmalserien, die bereits in der Romanik einsetzen und in der Gotik, der Renaissance und dem Barock zahlreiche Meisterwerke der Bildhauerei von... more
Ce mémoire a pour but d'examiner une sélection de chroniques nécrologiques montréalaises afin de déceler les changements dans les manières d'évoquer – ou d'omettre de le faire – le corps et son exposition. Pour ce faire, quelques milliers... more