356 search results for “funerary ritual” in the Public website
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Breaking and making the ancestors
What can the composition and arrangement of urnfield graves tell us about the social and ideological believes of the urnfield period societies?
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Etruscan rituals and symbols
This subproject studies the material traces of rituals and symbols.
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Raja Ampat Ritual Art
Spirit priests and ancestor cults in new guinea's far west
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Skeleton research provides insight into culture of Caribbean Indians
Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh studies how bodies decompose. This helps with the reconstruction of changes in the burial rituals of Caribbean Indians.
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The coronation ritual of the falcon at Edfu : tradition and innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition
Carina van den Hoven defended her thesis on 16 February 2017.
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KORWAR – Northwest New Guinea ritual art according to missionary sources
Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay.
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Constructing powerful identities
This research seeks to understand the rise and social and ideological meaning of the chieftains’ burials in the Low Countries and their relation to the Fürstengräber in Central Europe.
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Time, History and Ritual in a K’iche’ Community
This work analyzes ritual practices and knowledge related to the Mesoamerican calendar with the aim of contributing to the understanding of the use and conceptualization of this calendar system in the contemporary K’iche’ community of Momostenango, in the Highlands of Guatemala.
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'No, I don't find my work creepy'
Archaeologist Hayley Mickleburgh has already appeared in the Dutch papers a few times already due to her unusual work: the study of decomposing bodies. She studied at Leiden University, where she is now a researcher.
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Rituals of Birth, Circumcision, Marriage, and Death among Muslims in the Netherlands
Migration imposes special pressures on the meaning, experience and organization of lifecycle rituals. These pressures are felt most strongly by Muslim migrants to Western Europe. In this innovative study, Nathal M. Dessing examines the effects of migration on the life cycle rituals of Moroccan, Turkish…
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In Touch with the Dead
Early Medieval Grave Reopenings in the Low Countries
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From art to religious ritual; a study of the integration of performance art in liturgy
This dissertation focuses on a new field of artistic research in which a visual artist takes on the role of researcher. The main research question is whether performance art integrated in an ecumenical service, combined with artistic directions from the artist, can enhance the religious experience of…
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From art to religious ritual; a study of the integration of performance art in liturgy
This research focuses on a new field of artistic research in which a visual artist takes on the role of researcher. The main research question is whether performance art integrated in an ecumenical service, combined with artistic directions from the artist, can enhance the religious experience of those…
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Introduction to Ancient Egypt
Do you live in Egypt and have you always wondered about all the pharaonic heritage surrounding you? This spring NVIC organizes a beginner’s level, introductory course in Egyptology. In 6 richly illustrated lessons, the history of ancient Egypt will be brought to life, both chronologically as well as…
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Gendered Ritual and Performative Literacy: Yao Women, Goddesses of Fertility, and the Chinese Imperial State
Mei-Wen Chen defended her thesis on 29 June 2016
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The Barrow Landscapes project
In the first half of the 20th century, hundreds of burial mounds in the Netherlands have been investigated. Many questions, however, are still unanswered. The barrow landscapes project tackles a number of these questions by re-investigating finds from excavations stored in museums with new methods and…
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Performance rituals as PhD research
Stefan Belderbos was the first visual artist to undertake PhD research in the arts at Leiden University. His doctoral defence is on 2 December. Not only will he defend his dissertation on the integration of performance art in liturgy, he will also exhibit the material results of his research in the…
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Ideology and Social Structure of Stone Age Communities in Europe
Also including: Wateringen 4 & Acquiring a taste.
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
From 29 October until 31 October 2018 the conference 'Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts' will be held at Leiden University. The conference is organised by the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR), the Dutch Association for the Study…
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Iron Age Echoes
D. Fontijn, Quentin Bourgeois & Arjan Louwen (eds) (2012). This publication describes the history of “barrow landscape” near Echoput in Apeldoorn. Two burial mounds were examined and it became clear that our prehistoric predecessors carefully managed and maintained the open area for a long time, before…
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Time and memory
A study concerning the collective memory in the region of the Bene lo Ya/ Ene lo I'ya, Sierra Norte, Oaxaca.
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Course: Introduction to Ancient Egypt (7-26 May, 2018)
Do you live in Egypt and have you always wondered about all the pharaonic heritage surrounding you? This spring NVIC organizes a beginner’s level, introductory course in Egyptology. In 6 richly illustrated lessons, the history of ancient Egypt will be brought to life, both chronologically as well as…
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Sabrina Autenrieth
Faculteit Archeologie
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Leah Powell
Faculteit Archeologie
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Marieke Visser
Faculteit Archeologie
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interviewed about new book on the missionary's perspective on New Guinean ritual art
Protestant missionaries have provided the earliest and most detailed sources regarding the ritual art of the Papuan peoples of the Geelvink Bay. Raymond Corbey brings these sources to bear on circa 300 ritual objects and their itineraries in the book KORWAR - Northwest New Guinea ritual art according…
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Sacrificial Landscapes
Cultural biographies of persons, objects and 'natural' places in the Bronze Age of the Southern Netherlands, c. 2300-600 BC.
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Beyond and Before Barrows
Prehistoric burial mounds are still ubiquitous in the Northwest European landscape, but not much is known on the landscape they were part of, nor on what preceded them.
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Back to the Present
A post-colonial approach to the concept of time in the past and present Maya culture
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Carina van den Hoven
Faculty of Humanities
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Nathal Dessing
Faculty of Humanities
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Heino van Rijnberk
Faculty of Humanities
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Tiempo, Religión y Discursos Sagrados del Pueblo Ayuuk
Time, Religion and Sacred Discourses of the Ayuuk People
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David Fontijn
Faculteit Archeologie
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Femke Lippok
Faculteit Archeologie
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Valerio Gentile
Faculteit Archeologie
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Landscapes as networks
Modelling supra-regional communities in the early 3rd Millennium BC
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Houses for the living and the dead
Organisation of settlement space and residence rules among the Taino, the indigenous people of the Caribbean encountered by Columbus
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Bioarchaeology
Bioarchaeology covers the study of all biological remains from archaeological sites.
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Economies of Destruction
How the systematic destruction of valuables created value in Bronze Age Europe, c. 2300-500 BC
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Syneidesis and Greek Ritual
Lecture
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Etrusco ritu
Case Studies in Etruscan Ritual Behaviour
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Divine Fertility: Practices, Materiality and Sacred Landscapes in the Horn of Africa
This project examines the notion of sacred fertility and sacred landscapes, associated rituals and material culture, both archaeological and ethnographic manifestations in the Horn of Africa.
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Of jars and gongs
Of jars and gongs deals with the traditional ritual art of Ot Danum Dayak subsistence farmers from a stretch of tropical rainforest in the heart of Borneo. Together with the Ngaju, their neighbours to the south, they gloried in one of the most elaborate secondary mortuary rites in the world.
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The coronation ritual of the falcon at Edfu: tradition and innovation in ancient Egyptian ritual composition
PhD Defence
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Interpreting Rituals: Historiographical Perspectives and Pluralistic Contexts
Conference
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Lamak. Ritual objects in Bali
PhD Defence
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The Treasured Altar of the Primordial Sovereign
Steven Frost defended his thesis on 6 June 2017
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Antiquum 24 November - Straddling Borderlines: Divine Associations in Funerary Commemoration
Lecture
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Daily life in the Stone Age
A biographical approach to stone and bone tools in the Rhine/Meuse delta from Late Mesolithic to Bronze Age