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Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415329841
This volume is a study of mortuary customs of the LoDagaa of West Africa, in research for this project the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and attended 25 burial services.
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Dagaaba (African people)
ISBN : OCLC:610281653
Author : Hill/Hageman,Hageman, Jon B
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813055756
Contributors to this landmark volume demonstrate that ancestor veneration was about much more than claiming property rights: the spirits of the dead were central to domestic disputes, displays of wealth, and power and status relationships. Case studies from China, Africa, Europe, and Mesoamerica use the evidence of art, architecture, ritual, and burial practices to explore the complex roles of ancestors in the past. Including a comprehensive overview of nearly two hundred years of anthropological research, The Archaeology of Ancestors reveals how and why societies remember and revere the dead. Through analyses of human remains, ritual deposits, and historical documents, contributors explain how ancestors were woven into the social fabric of the living.
Author : Henri Chambert-Loir,Anthony Reid
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824825551
The dead are potent and omnipresent in modern Indonesia. Presidents and peasants alike meditate before sacred graves to exploit the power they confer, and mediums do good business curing the sick by interpreting the wishes of deceased forebears. Among non-Muslims there are ritual reburials of the bones of the dead in monuments both magnificent and modest. This is the first book to assess the indigenous systems of belief in the spirits of ancestors. A unique team of anthropologists, historians, and literary scholars from Europe, Australia, and North America demonstrate the continuing importance of the potent dead for understanding contemporary Indonesia. At the same time, they help us understand historic processes of conversion to Islam and Christianity by examining the continuing interactions of the spirit world with formal religion. The Potent Dead is a collection of studies by leading scholars of Indonesian culture, history, and anthropology that examines the death practices and rituals of tribal groups in Indonesia. It covers an important area of cultural and social history in Indonesia, with pieces linking the death practices of so-called tribal groups with historical changes in the country, from on-going changes in Islam to the roles of forms of modernity. Contributors: Henri Chambert-Loir, Elizabeth Coville, James Fox, Danielle Geirnaert, Rodolfo Giambelli, Claude Guillot, Christian Pelras, George Quinn, Anthony Reid, Minako Sakai, Anne Schiller, Bernard Sellato, Klaus Shreiner.For sale in Asia, Australia, and New Zealand by NUS Press (Singapore)
Author : Simon Wills
Publisher : Pen and Sword Family History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Death
ISBN : 1781590389
What were the principal causes of death in the past? What did our ancestors think about the illnesses and the accidents that might befall them? Wills describes the common causes of death-- disease, alcoholism, childhood infections, accidents-- and reveals how life and death have changed over the centuries, how medical science has advanced so that some once-mortal illnesses are now curable while others are just as deadly now as they were then.
Author : Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082731
This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.
Author : Sentus Francis Dikwe
Publisher : LIT Verlag
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783643962812
Remembering the dead is a topic which connects various cultures and traditions. The reception of the African tradition of ancestorship is a theological enrichment in the ecumenical discussions all over the world. In our time, the exchange of gifts plays a great role in promoting unity of the Churches. Especially the concepts of African theology with the incomparable special position of Jesus Christ as "proto ancestor" are important for the interconfessional dialogues. The veneration of the ancestors in Africa can be a help to begin ecumenical discussions in this regional context on the question of the veneration of the saints. According to African tradition the ancestors also have influence on the process of purification. Therefore, the veneration of the ancestors contributes to providing answers to the ecumenical controversies about the understanding of the eschatological purification. Sentus Francis Dikwe SDS, born in 1980 in Morogoro, Tanzania, ordained priest of the Salvatorian Congregation. He attained doctorate in theology 2020 in Munster, Germany.
Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136528842
Deliberately considering relevant theories put forward by earlier writers and examining them in the light of the research for this particular book, the author spent over 100 days attending funeral ceremonies and he attended 25 burial services. First published in 1962.
Author : William H. Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110805314
Author : William Hare Newell
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Religion
ISBN : 902797859X
Author : John Evans
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317810292
J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.
Author : Francesca Stavrakopoulou
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567551177
The biblical motif of a land divinely-promised and given to Abraham and his descendants is argued to be an ideological reflex of post-monarchic, territorial disputes between competing socio-religious groups. The important biblical motif of a Promised Land is founded upon the ancient Near Eastern concept of ancestral land: hereditary space upon which families lived, worked, died and were buried. An essential element of concept of ancestral land was the belief in the post-mortem existence of the ancestors, who were venerated with grave offerings, mortuary feasts, bone rituals and standing stones. The Hebrew Bible is littered with stories concerning these practices and beliefs, yet the specific correlation of ancestor veneration and certain biblical land claims has gone unrecognized. The book remedies this in presenting evidence for the vital and persistent impact of ancestor veneration upon land claims. It proposes that ancestor veneration, which formed a common ground in the experiences of various socio-religious groups in ancient Israel, became in the Hebrew Bible an ideological battlefield upon which claims to the land were won and lost.
Author : Sarah Tarlow,Liv Nilsson Stutz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780191650383
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which focus on the history of the discipline and its current scientific techniques and methods. Written by leading, international scholars in the field, it derives its examples and case studies from a wide range of time periods, such as the middle palaeolithic to the twentieth century, and geographical areas which include Europe, North and South America, Africa, and Asia. Combining up-to-date knowledge of relevant archaeological research with critical assessments of the theme and an evaluation of future research trajectories, it draws attention to the social, symbolic, and theoretical aspects of interpreting mortuary archaeology. The volume is well-illustrated with maps, plans, photographs, and illustrations and is ideally suited for students and researchers.
Author : Mariana P. Candido
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009059954
Exploring the multifaceted history of dispossession, consumption, and inequality in West Central Africa, Mariana P. Candido presents a bold revisionist history of Angola from the sixteenth century until the Berlin Conference of 1884–5. Synthesising disparate strands of scholarship, including the histories of slavery, land tenure, and gender in West Central Africa, Candido makes a significant contribution to ongoing historical debates. She demonstrates how ideas about dominion and land rights eventually came to inform the appropriation and enslavement of free people and their labour. By centring the experiences of West Central Africans, and especially African women, this book challenges dominant historical narratives, and shows that securing property was a gendered process. Drawing attention to how archives obscure African forms of knowledge and normalize conquest, Candido interrogates simplistic interpretations of ownership and pushes for the decolonization of African history.
Author : David S. Ouimette
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781618589712
Finding Your Irish Ancestors: A Beginner's Guide is the ultimate resource to help you learn if the luck of the Irish is in your blood or not. This easy-to-use guide will teach you to make use of the many Irish family history records that have become available in recent years. Explore the best family history sources in Ireland, including birth, marriage, and death records; church records; census records; and much more. Finding Your Irish Ancestors will help you discover Internet sites for searching Irish heritge and prepare for a successful family history trip to Ireland.
