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Capítulo del libro Representación y fronteras. El performance en los límites del género. Hortensia Moreno y Stephany Slaughter, coordinadoras. PUEG, UNAM, 2009.
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      Performance Studies, Ritual, India, Género
,Les chapitres 158 à 162 du Skandapurāṇa ont pour particularité de mêler intimement mythe et prescription rituelle. Le chapitre 158 s'ouvre sur un dialogue entre Śiva et Pārvatī qui explique le bien-fondé du rituel d'adoption d'un arbre... more
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      Ritual, Adoption, Breastfeeding, Trees
This is the english abstract of my article entitled "La dimension dévotionnelle du Skandayāga : Atharvavedapariśiṣṭa XX sur le rituel en l’honneur de Dhūrta" published in the SPECIAL ISSUE of the Archiv orientální, Journal of African and... more
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      Philology, Ritual, Atharvaveda, Hymnology
There are numerous depictions of antlered figures in the rock art of prehistoric Eurasia and many representations of horned humans in the Far West of North America. These antlered and horned individuals have in some cases been interpreted... more
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      Religion, Cultural Studies, Native American Studies, Archaeology
A short history of the curios known as Witch Balls - how do they related to the folklore of witchcraft? Who used them and why?
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      Folklore, Material Culture Studies, Material culture of religion, Ritual
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      Ritual, Indigenous Peoples, Borneo, Peoples and Cultures of Borneo
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      Ritual, Neolithic & Chalcolithic Archaeology, Anthropomorphic Figurines
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      Addiction, Ritual, Narrative and Identity, Addiction and Recovery
The Souls are entities addressed and re-activated in the ritual of the Commendation of the Souls in Proença-a-Velha. The presence of those Souls is manifest through the articulation of intrapersonal and extended social subjectivities.... more
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      Religion, Anthropology, Ethnomusicology, Ethnography
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      Archaeology, Iconography, Chinese Studies, Chinese Religions
“Bantu Religion“ is an abstraction, an ideal-type of the consensus between different forms among the Bantu peoples. With the arrival of Bantu people in Brazil five centuries ago, a process of amalgamation began. Core features and... more
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      African Studies, History of Religion, African Diaspora Studies, Ritual
The subject of this article "The Sacrament of Murun in the Syrian Kadim Church". The subject was taken from with reference to the sacramental theology of the Syrian Kadim Church based on the Messiah secret and teaching. One of the main... more
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      Ritual, Syriac Christianity, Sacraments, Hıristiyanlık
How do interfaith relations articulate with the democratic ideal of securing development and brighter futures for all? Rather than reducing religion to a variable for various development indicators, I pursue this question through the... more
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      Diversity, Ritual, Indian Politics, India
Second-Degree Liminality: Dynamics of Ritual Change in the Basel Fasnacht Taking the example of the Basel carnival Fasnacht, the paper shows in what way ritual can maintain the impression of being traditional and unchanging, and yet be... more
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      Creativity, Ritual, Prague, Carnival
Last week saw a flurry of news stories about the mass emergence of 13-year periodical cicadas in Georgia and other southeastern states of the U.S. These cicadas all belong to Brood XIX, aka the Great Southern Brood, which last appeared in... more
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      Botany, Anthropology, Medical Anthropology, Social Anthropology
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      Buddhism, Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Ritual
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      Homer, Ritual, Ancient Greek Religion, Ancient Greek History
All creatures have to eat in order to live. All creatures must die. The humans seeks a meaning to life and death, through the belief in the supernatural forces, which will prolong and eternalize the life of the Soul, or of the redeemed... more
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      History, Ancient History, Art History, Ritual
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      Religion, Materials Science, Technology, Material culture of religion
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      Anthropology, Queer Theory, Brazilian Studies, Ritual