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Death of the Father: An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

Book by John Borneman; Berghahn Books, 2004

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Authority, Patriarchy, Political Anthropology

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...Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Death of the father: an anthropology of the end in political authority / edited by...389-6 (pb: alk. paper) 1. Political anthropology. 2. Authority. 3. Patriarchy. I. Borneman...
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Love and Death in the American Novel

Book by Leslie A. Fiedler; Stein and Day, 1966

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Archetype (Psychology) In Literature, Death In Literature, Literature And Anthropology--United States, Love In Literature, Masculinity In Literature, National Characteristics, American, In Literature, Psychological Fiction, American--History And Criticism, Race Relations In Literature

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...work of the imagination, not archaeology, and its inhabitants truer to the memories of nightmare than to the findings of anthropology. The writers of the historical romance, however, were pledged "to represent, by means of an invented action, the state...
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Corpse: Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death

Book by Jessica Snyder Sachs; Perseus Publishing, 2001

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Death--Time Of--Popular Works, Forensic Anthropology--Popular Works, Forensic Entomology--Popular Works, Medical Jurisprudence--Popular Works, Postmortem Changes--Popular Works

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...program for homicide investigators, anthropology professor Dan Morse a retired...considered the strength of forensic anthropology approaching the death scene like an archaeologist who...unlocking unseen lives . . . or deaths.
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Medical Anthropology and African American Health

Book by Eric J. Bailey; Bergin & Garvey, 2000

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African Americans--Health And Hygiene--Social Aspects, African Americans--Medical Care--Social Aspects, Health And Race--Social Aspects, Medical Anthropology

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...Practices Alzheimers Disease, 81 . See African American Leading Causes of Death Anthropology Theories, 7 . See Medical Anthropology Archaeology, 11 . See Anthropology Asian Americans, 30 . See Asian and Pacific Islander Americans Asian and...
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Between Anthropology and Literature: Interdisciplinary Discourse

Book by Rose De Angelis; Routledge, 2002

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Literature And Anthropology, Literature, Modern--History And Criticism

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...was being negotiated after the death of Elizabeth I, in the years...the connection between sex and death in the early seventeenth century...1991 tell us in Celebrations of Death: the Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual that some association...

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Journal Articles on: death anthropology

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Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Biosciences

Journal article by Bob Simpson; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 12, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Biosciences (Book)--Book reviews

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Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Biosciences...death: towards an anthropology of the biosciences...health, illness, and death, and it is likely...rapidly burgeoning anthropology of the bio-sciences...
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Gender, Age, and the Risk of Violent Death in Canada, 1950-1986

Journal article by Paul S. Maxim, Carl Keane; Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, Vol. 29, 1992

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Anthropology, Sociology

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...close age proximity. Other accidental deaths comprise the bulk of the violent deaths recorded in the vital statistics. The...approximately age 65. Thereafter, the risk of death due to an accident grows exponentially...pronounced effect, while for other accidental deaths, an age structure similar to that of...DISCUSSION Examining gender ratios of violent death, our initial findings lend little support...
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The Death of the Soul in Romans 7: Revisiting Paul's Anthropology in Light of Hellenistic Moral Psychology

Journal article by Emma Wasserman; Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 126, 2007

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Behavior, Christianity, Letters, Psychology, Theology, Traditions

Collections: Religious Studies, Psychology, Literature, Entire Library

The Death of the Soul in Romans 7: Revisiting Pauls Anthropology in Light of Hellenistic Moral...the Jewish law, or his anthropology, interpreters have had difficulty...Platonic discourse about the death of the soul. Read in the...
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The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative Studies in Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death

Journal article by Helen Ball; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Vol. 5, 1999

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Books--Reviews

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The Anthropology of Pregnancy: Comparative...Stillbirth and Neonatal Death by Helen Ball CECIL, ROSANNE...Given that both birth and death are important themes for...growing understanding of the anthropology of ordinary womens lives...
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The Apocalyptic Interlude: Revealing Death in Kinshasa

Journal article by Filip de Boeck; African Studies Review, Vol. 48, 2005

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Bible, Blacks, Cities, Cultural anthropology, Death & dying, Eschatology, Kinshasa Congo, Living conditions, Popular music, Society, Urban areas

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

The Apocalyptic Interlude: Revealing Death in Kinshasa by Filip de Boeck Les morts...Tansi, 1979) Introduction: The Place of Death hi the Realm of the Apocalyptic Interlude...explore the changing place and meaning of death and time in one of Africas largest cities...

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Magazine Articles on: death anthropology

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Forensic Anthropology: Discovering and Examining the Dead

Magazine article by Nicole Lundrigan; Law & Order, Vol. 49, November 2001

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Anthropology, Evidence, Forensic sciences, Human remains

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...with a potential crime, and anthropology focuses on people and the...the world. Reconstructing Death Forensic anthropology, a relatively new but rapidly...archaeologists- two subdivisions of anthropology. Physical anthropologists...
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The Shadow of Caliban: an Introduction to the Tempestuous History of Anthropology

Magazine article by Frank Miele; Skeptic, Vol. 9, 2001

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Anthropology, Evolution, History, Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

Collections: History, Entire Library

...productive recent influence on anthropology came not from an authority...are different from the "Anthropology Wars," 66 but it is sufficient...all males had met violent deaths, and most importantly...subject matter or methods, anthropology today is a discipline in...
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Margaret Mead vs. Tony Soprano : Feminist Anthropology Fights for Public Voice in a New Era

Magazine article by Micaela Di Leonardo; The Nation, Vol. 272, May 21, 2001

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Anthropology, Feminism--Research, Mead, Margaret--Criticism and interpretation, Women anthropologists--Criticism and interpretation

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...public sphere inspection. And anthropology, sententiously self-described...birth, reproduction, and death--already in the works...the very popular troping of anthropology for political purposes has...vital left tradition in anthropology worldwide is popularly and...
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Photography and Anthropology

Magazine article by Nick Smith; Geographical, Vol. 83, September 2011

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Books--Book reviews, Photography and Anthropology (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

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...Nick Smith Photography and anthropology by Christopher Pinney REAKTION...sterling ILLUSTRATION OMITTED Anthropology has always had an awkward...might say, a footprint or a death mask. Or, as we might say...tool in the evolution of anthropology, because despite its limitations...
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Death & Politics

Magazine article by Joseph Bottum; First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, June 2007

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Burial laws--Analysis, Cemeteries--Facility closures, Death--Analysis, Mourning customs--Analysis, Politics--Analysis, San Francisco, California--Domestic policy, San Francisco, California--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...fatalism will also tend to deny meaningful death. Even free will, however, is only one more suggestive part of deaths relation to politics. Think of all this...modern political theories. Why does death manifest itself--a sudden, miraculous...that people die. Society rests on the death of men. Even in a cursory examination, our shared lives reveal deaths traces. People have died--and thus...

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Newspaper Articles on: death anthropology

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Father of Modern Anthropology Dies

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), November 8, 2009

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News agencies, The Associated Press

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Father of Modern Anthropology Dies. Byline: Associated...the father of modern anthropology, has died. He was...give a cause or date of death in the announcement...reshaped the field of anthropology, introducing new concepts...
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MURDER PROBE COPS HUNT MAN WHO FAKED HIS DEATH; Gardai Reward to Find Fugitive

Newspaper article; The Mirror (London, England), November 19, 2011

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Murder--Investigations, Police officers--Investigations, Police--Investigations

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...COPS HUNT MAN WHO FAKED HIS DEATH; Gardai Reward to Find Fugitive...for a man who faked his own death after the murder of a young...My daughter died a violent death in this mans caravan and I...made in forensic pathology and anthropology Emers body was exhumed in May...
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BORN TO BE KEN; Two Weddings, Mysterious Deaths, Errant Children. as Prince Charles and Coronation Street's Ken Barlow Prepare to Marry on the Same Day, We Reveal Their Incredible Parallel Lives

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 16, 2005

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Parker Bowles, Camilla

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...involved in a plot to kill her. Dianas death is now the subject of an official Scotland...he has been racked with guilt over her death. KENS brief marriage to his second wife...her to self-destruct. The two tragic deaths.. . BOTH mens first wives died young...Dodi Fayed, who also died. After Dianas death, Charles was left as the sole parent...
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Tributes after Death of 'Inspiring' Housing Boss

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), September 8, 2011

Subjects:

Dwellings, Housing

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Tributes after Death of Inspiring Housing Boss...been paid following the death of a housing boss whose...The CIH said: "Sarahs death is an enormous loss and...first completing a degree in anthropology at the University of St...
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Prince Charles at 49 What Next?; THE TRAGIC DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA DRAMATICALLY CHANGED PRINCE CHARLES'S VIEW OF THE FUTURE, HIS FAMILY, HIS LOVER AND HIS DUTY. ROYAL AUTHOR JUDY WADE BELIEVES HE HAS A NEW SENSE OF PURPOSE

Newspaper article by Judy Wade; Sunday Mirror (London, England), November 9, 1997

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Charles at 49 What Next?; THE TRAGIC DEATH OF PRINCESS DIANA DRAMATICALLY CHANGED...the emotional trauma he suffered on the death of Diana has totally transformed him...National Osteoporosis Society. After Dianas death, the event was not just postponed but...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: death anthropology

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HrdliČka, AleŠ

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the division of physical anthropology at the U.S. National...American Journal of Physical Anthropology (1918), which he edited until his death, and the American Association...books include Physical Anthropology (1919), Anthropometry...
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Sapir, Edward

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...as chief of the division of anthropology of the Canadian National Museum. He was professor of anthropology at the Univ. of Chicago (1925 31), and of anthropology and linguistics at Yale from 1931 until his death. With his student Benjamin...
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Hooten, Earnest Albert

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Harvard in 1913 and became professor of anthropology in 1930, a post he held until his death. Hooten is known particularly for his researches...and with collaborators, The Physical Anthropology of Ireland (1955...
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Anthropomorphism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...things such as the winds and the rivers, events such as war and death, and abstractions such as love, beauty, strife, and hate. As used by students of religion and anthropology the term is applied to certain systems of religious belief, usually...
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Mythology

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...study of myths. Students of anthropology, folklore, and religion study...relationship between life and death (see Middle Eastern religions...paralleled by myths of seasonal death and rebirth. In Greece the...longer periods of vegetative death through prolonged drought...

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