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Passion and order : restraint of grief in the medieval Italian communes
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ISBN: 9780801440625 Year: 2008 Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press,

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La tombe aux Erotes et la tombe d'Amarynthos : architecture funéraire et présence macédonienne en Grèce centrale.
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ISBN: 9782884744072 288474407X Year: 2008 Volume: 19 Publisher: Gollion Infolio


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Emotional life of contemporary public memorials : towards a theory of temporary memorials
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ISBN: 9089640185 9786611988425 1281988421 904850340X 9789048503407 9781281988423 6611988424 9789089640185 Year: 2008 Publisher: Amsterdam : ©2008 Amsterdam University Press,

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In The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials Erika Doss examines this contemporary phenomenon of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices regarding mourning, memory, and publ


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Performing Grief : Bridal Laments in Rural China
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ISBN: 0824869362 0824863925 1441619852 0824832329 Year: 2008 Publisher: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press,

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This is the first in-depth study of Chinese bridal laments, a ritual and performative art practiced by Chinese women in premodern times that gave them a rare opportunity to voice their grievances publicly. Drawing on methodologies from numerous disciplines, including performance arts and folk literatures, the author suggests that the ability to move an audience through her lament was one of the most important symbolic and ritual skills a Chinese woman could possess before the modern era.Performing Grief provides a detailed case study of the Nanhui region in the lower Yangzi delta. Bridal laments, the author argues, offer insights into how illiterate Chinese women understood the kinship and social hierarchies of their region, the marriage market that determined their destinies, and the value of their labor in the commodified economy of the delta region. The book not only assesses and draws upon a large body of sources, both Chinese and Western, but is grounded in actual field work, offering both historical and ethnographic context in a unique and sophisticated approach. Unlike previous studies, the author covers both Han and non-Han groups and thus contributes to studies of ethnicity and cultural accommodation in China. She presents an original view about the ritual implications of bridal laments and their role in popular notions of "wedding pollution." The volume includes an annotated translation from a lament cycle.This important work on the place of laments in Chinese culture enriches our understanding of the social and performative roles of Chinese women, the gendered nature of China's ritual culture, and the continuous transmission of women's grievance genres into the revolutionary period. As a pioneering study of the ritual and performance arts of Chinese women, it will be of interest to scholars and students in the fields of anthropology, social history, gender studies, oral literature, comparative folk religion, and performance arts.

Osirisliturgien in Papyri der Spätzeit
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ISSN: 09335323 ISBN: 3825315835 3825311996 9783825315832 9783825353506 9783825357160 Year: 2008 Volume: Bd. 14, 17, 20, 22 Publisher: Heidelberg Universitätsverlag Winter


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Commemorating the dead
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ISBN: 9783110200546 3110200546 1281999393 9786611999391 3110211572 9783110211573 9781281999399 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin New York Walter de Gruyter

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The distinctions and similarities among Roman, Jewish, and Christian burials can provide evidence of social networks, family life, and, perhaps, religious sensibilities. Is the Roman development from columbaria to catacombs the result of evolving religious identities or simply a matter of a change in burial fashions? Do the material remains from Jewish burials evidence an adherence to ancient customs, or the adaptation of rituals from surrounding cultures? What Greco-Roman funerary images were taken over and "baptized" as Christian ones? The answers to these and other questions require that the material culture be viewed, whenever possible, in situ, through multiple disciplinary lenses and in light of ancient texts. Roman historians (John Bodel, Richard Saller, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill), archaeologists (Susan Stevens, Amy Hirschfeld), scholars of rabbinic period Judaism (Deborah Green), Christian history (Robin M. Jensen), and the New Testament (David Balch, Laurie Brink, O.P., Margaret M. Mitchell, Carolyn Osiek, R.S.C.J.) engaged in a research trip to Rome and Tunisia to investigate imperial period burials first hand. Commemorting the Dead is the result of a three year scholarly conversation on their findings.


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Pour une archéologie du rite : nouvelles perspectives de l'archéologie funéraire
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ISBN: 9782728308163 2728308160 Year: 2008 Volume: 407 Publisher: Roma Ecole française de Rome

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L’importance des rites dans les religions du monde romain est apparue de plus en plus fortement depuis vingt ans, et la nécessité de reconstituer dans le détail le plus précis les gestes du culte s’est imposée à tous. Dans la mesure ou les textes écrits sont incapables de donner ces détails, l’archéologie prend une importance nouvelle. Davantage que l’archéologie des temples, l’archéologie funéraire est précieuse pour ce type d’enquête, car les traces des gestes rituels y sont conservés en contexte primaire. Or l’archéologie funéraire a fait des progrès spectaculaires depuis vingt ans. Elle permet maintenant de saisir dans le détail les rites des funérailles aussi bien que les rites célébrés sur les tombes. Ce volume, qui a été réalisé dans le cadre d’un programme européen, présente un choix d’exemples recueillis en Italie du Nord, à Rome, à Pompéi, en France, au Luxembourg, en Suisse, en Allemagne et en Grande-Bretagne. Toutes ces études illustrent les percées méthodologiques réalisées sur le plan de la fouille et dans la gestion pluridisciplinaire de celle-ci. La collaboration étroite avec les anthropologues physiques, les archéozoologues et palynologues rend désormais possible la reconstitution des gestes funéraires.

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Funeral rites and ceremonies --- Funeral rites and ceremonies, Ancient --- Tombs --- Sepulchral monuments --- Burial --- Funérailles --- Tombeaux --- Monuments funéraires --- Sépulture --- Congresses. --- Congresses --- Rites et cérémonies --- Congrès --- Histoire --- Rome --- Religious life and customs --- Antiquities --- Vie religieuse --- Antiquités --- Archaeology --- Methodology --- Funérailles --- Monuments funéraires --- Sépulture --- Rites et cérémonies --- Congrès --- Antiquités --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Funeral monuments --- Funerary monuments --- Graves --- Gravestones --- Memorial tablets --- Tablets, Memorial --- Tombstones --- Monuments --- Funerals --- Mortuary ceremonies --- Obsequies --- Manners and customs --- Rites and ceremonies --- Cremation --- Dead --- Mourning customs --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Burial customs --- Burying-grounds --- Interment --- Public health --- Coffins --- Grave digging --- Rim --- Roman Empire --- Roman Republic (510-30 B.C.) --- Romi (Empire) --- Byzantine Empire --- Rome (Italy) --- Fouilles archéologiques --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires antiques --- Monuments funéraires antiques --- Inhumation --- Actes de congrès. --- Cryomation --- Fouilles archéologiques. --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires antiques. --- Monuments funéraires antiques. --- Funeral rites and ceremonies - Rome - Congresses --- Sepulchral monuments - Rome - Congresses --- Burial - Rome - Congresses --- Archaeology - Methodology - Congresses --- Rome - Religious life and customs - Congresses --- Rome - Antiquities - Congresses --- Fouilles archéologiques. --- Rites et cérémonies funéraires antiques. --- Monuments funéraires antiques.

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