Esta investigación se centra en el análisis de la danza ritual del Entierro del Angelito de la comunidad indígena Yanacona en Caquiona, Almaguer, Cauca, para comprender los elementos culturales y teatrales presentes en esta manifestación específica. Además, explora las danzas rituales indígenas en diferentes países de América Latina, como México, Guatemala, Perú, Ecuador y Colombia como contexto de este análisis para identificar las influencias geográficas y culturales que han dado forma a estas expresiones como fenómenos teatrales-culturales a lo largo del tiempo. En particular, se analizan los ritos de Velorios o Entierros del Angelito presentes en diferentes comunidades latinoamericanas para analizar tanto las similitudes como las diferencias en las prácticas rituales, además de identificar los vínculos geográficos y los fenómenos de coexistencia que han moldeado estas expresiones. Y fundamentalmente se analiza desde un enfoque fenomenológico interpretativo al Entierro del Angelito, de la Comunidad Yanacona para entenderlo como fenómeno teatral utilizando la cultura como marco de interpretación. Con base en los hallazgos obtenidos de estos casos de estudio y del análisis de la danza ritual de los Yanaconas, se propone una comprensión más amplia de la cartografía teatral-cultural, incorporando elementos geográficos y sincrónicos. Esta perspectiva busca mostrar cómo estas danzas rituales son tanto una manifestación cultural como una puesta en escena teatral reflejo de los procesos de aculturación, hibridación y cambios en la representación del mundo en diferentes contextos culturales y geográficos.

Denna uppsats belyser kroppslighetens roll inom Svenska kyrkans liturgi, i syfte att utforska hur fysiska praktiker och sinnliga erfarenheter förmedlar och fördjupar religiös och andlig förståelse. Med en bakgrund rotad i personlig reflektion kring liturgiska traditioner, undersöker studien de specifika praktikerna och deras inverkan på deltagande och uttryck av det gudomliga. Genom en kvalitativ metodik, inklusive en detaljerad innehållsanalys, utforskar denna uppsats två samtida teologers syn på kroppslighet: Martin Modéus och Lena Sjöstrand. Avgränsningar görs för att koncentrera sig på dessa två författares arbeten, som ligger till grund för de empiriska och teoretiska insikter som presenteras. I analysen framkommer det att kroppslighet och sinnlighet är centralt för förståelsen av Svenska kyrkans liturgi, vilket utmanar idén om Ordet som den främsta medlaren av det gudomliga mötet. Resultaten tyder på att kroppsliga gudstjänstpraktiker är betydelsefulla inte bara för den individuella spiritualiteten utan även för att stärka gemenskapskänslan bland församlingsmedlemmar. Uppsatsen avslutar med en diskussion om de möjliga konsekvenserna av kroppsligheten för den bredare kyrkliga praxis samt för framtidens forskningsriktningar - såsom inkluderingen av mångfaldiga kroppsliga erfarenheter i Svenska kyrkans gudstjänstliv. Denna studie bidrar till fördjupad förståelse för hur liturgiska praktiker både kan uttrycka och forma tro i samtidens församlingskontext.

This essay is about the Mesolithic of Motala Canal and the depositions that have been found there, including a large number of animal bones. I would argue the most important discovery at this site was the human skulls, which will be the main topic of this essay. I will be working with ritual theory, and I will be working with past research on the Mesolithic, graves, and rituals. In this essay, I discuss whether this site has anything to do with rituals, and if so, are these mortuary rituals? The conclusion is that the site I have analysed was a ritualistic space. Some form of rituals that involved the craniums happened here for around 150 years during the late Mesolithic. What is not clear is if this was for mortuary purposes or other kind of purposes.

This mixed-methods study uses ritual analysis, key informant interviews, and a semi-structured questionnaire to explore stressors and coping among Hispanic im/migrants to rural Mississippi. The study applies Turner’s model of ritual analysis to the procession of la Virgen de Guadalupe for insight into the values, concerns, actions, and motivations of the community. Results from ritual analysis suggest the precession of la Virgen de Guadalupe unites the multi-national community and empowers the participants through their faith in God and la Virgen de Guadalupe. Results from the semi-structured questionnaire identify stressors among the Hispanic community relating to separation from family and friends, job shortage, transportation barriers, and language barriers.

The inclusion of animal remains in funerary contexts was a routine feature of Anglo-Saxon cremation ritual, and less frequently of inhumations, until the introduction of Christianity during the 7th century. Most interpretation has focused either on the animal as symbolic of identity or as an indication of pagan belief, with little consideration given to the interaction between these two aspects. Animals were a fundamental and ubiquitous part of early medieval society, and their contribution to mortuary practices is considered to be multifaceted, reflecting their multiple roles in everyday life. This project considers the roles of animals in mortuary practice between the 5th-7th centuries across five counties in eastern England – Norfolk, Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Essex – in both cremation and inhumation rites. Animal remains have been recognised in 5th to 7th century burials in eastern England from an early date, and the quality of the existing archives (both material and written) is investigated and discussed as an integral part of designing a methodology to effectively summarise data across a wide area. From the eastern England dataset, four aspects of identity in mortuary practice are considered in terms of their influence on the role of animals: choice of rite (cremation/inhumation); human biological identity (age & gender); regionality; and changing expressions of belief and status in the 7th century. The funerary role of animals is argued to be based around broadly consistent cosmologies which are locally contingent in their expression and practice. / Arts & Humanities Research Council Studentship under the Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme with Norwich Castle Museum as the partner organisation.

’Pygmy’, ‘incense’, ‘accessory’ or ‘funerary’ cups are small Early Bronze Age vessels, almost all from mortuary contexts, united by their diminutive size. Although several small-scale and regional studies have previously been undertaken, until recently there has been little attempt to consider such vessels as a whole. The vessels from the north of England were recently examined in detail by Hallam (2015), and the present study of the southern English vessels will complement Hallam’s work with the ultimate goal of producing a national corpus. Details of over three hundred and fifty vessels, from thirty counties, are presented together with a comprehensive literature review. Analysis demonstrates how the form and depositional contexts of such vessels probably arose within Beaker ceramic and funerary traditions. Many have complex biographies, some being deposited ‘fresh’ whilst others are fragmented or otherwise damaged. Perforations, long seen as a key feature of the tradition, appear to be restricted to certain forms only, and it is suggested that fenestration may be a development of this practice. Regional links and networks may be discerned through the distribution of attributes and similar vessel types and probably reflect trade networks. It is suggested that the cups had a primary role within Early Bronze Age funerary rituals associated only with certain individuals, perhaps marked out by the nature of their deaths / The full text will be available at the end of the embargo period: 21st Feb 2023

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