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Pages: 361
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-27 - Publisher: BRILL
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Language: en
Pages: 244
Pages: 244
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998-01-01 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Communist revolutions in this century have suppressed existing ritual and symbolic structures and invented new ones. Armed with new flags, new national celebrat
Language: en
Pages: 262
Pages: 262
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-01-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
What to do with the dead? In Imperial Japan, as elsewhere in the modernizing world, answering this perennial question meant relying on age-old solutions. Funera
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
Examines the history and purpose of political rituals, discusses examples from Aztec cannibal rites to presidential inauguration, and argues that the use of rit
Language: en
Pages: 332
Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-07-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Between the twelfth and the eighteenth centuries Italians frequently joined "confraternities" that made them symbolic brothers and sisters to one another. These