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Cypriot Nationalisms in Contextrebirth, are part of Hindu views on life after death. In this chapter, using anthropological data, we study how these two concepts give direction to the experience of illness and death in two very different contexts. One is Varanasi, where, since ancient times, stories have been told about how dying

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Cypriot Nationalisms in Contextaboo to be hidden in hospitals, and also have their own very particular qualities, in the devotion to the departed dead apart from any belief in a monotheistic god. The chapter examines ancestor worship, beliefs in reincarnation, senses of the brevity of human life and suicide, and skepticism about

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Cypriot Nationalisms in Contextights the newest debates on the shortage of urn spaces for the interment of human cremains. In order to reduce the pressure on land resources for accommodating the dead, the government since the late 2000s has put in great efforts to promote sea burial, which requires no land space. Yet, Hong Kong C

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Norma Salem (sometime Research Associate)a cultural analysis of funerary rituals, examines the meanings and significance of death for the Chinese, beginning with the preparations for death, followed by the funeral and the burial, and one’s ascension as an ancestor. Viewing rituals as heightened activities which conflate, refract and highli

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12781-8r a city of eight million residents. Due to the high volume of bodies arriving for burial everyday as well as the uniformity of Shia Islamic burial rituals, protocols have developed to implement an efficient division of labour and speed up the process. We study how this organizational and bureaucrat

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-117-8specific ceremonies. What happens when someone with the potential to become an ancestor dies as a migrant, far from the home grounds? In this text, we will follow the process of creating an ancestor through a voyage from Guinea-Bissau to Portugal and back to the original grounds. We will see how tra

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-61779-117-8objects traverse the differentiated terrains of possession and control. Indeed, there was little analysis into the use of funerary objects such as coffins from a historical and ethnographic standpoint. The present chapter intends to explore the use and circulation of funeral sarcophagi ., literally

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Shruti M. Paranjape,Peter J. Mogayzel Jrifferent dispositions among the Yoruba of Nigeria. It is one phenomenon of existence that will continue to elicit many more attitudes since living is an experience in perpetuity among humans. While death remains a fact of life and imposes itself as a recurrent characteristic of all creatures, it oft