Hominoid primate species differ remarkably in their social grouping and mating systems, notably including differing degrees of post-copulatory sexual selection. As the mating system of extinct hominins remains unknown and difficult to predict, it may be useful to examine more proximate phenotypes correlated with behavior. For example, chimpanzees and bonobos have a large ejaculate that coagulates into a rigid copulatory plug, presumably in response to high levels of sperm competition, while gorillas have a small semi-viscous ejaculate associated with low sperm competition. To understand the molecular basis responsible for differences in semen biochemistry among hominoid species, I completed two research projects. First, by cloning the upstream putative promoters of the chimpanzee, bonobo, human, and gorilla prostatic acid phosphatase (ACPP) genes into luciferase reporter vectors followed by transient transfections into a human prostate cell line, I identified the underlying nucleotide changes that reduce expression of this protein in chimpanzee semen. Second, by mapping large deletions at the kallikrein-related peptidase (KLK) locus in the gorilla and gibbon genomes, I characterized the convergent gene loss and the formation of a novel chimeric gene in these monandrous species. For both the ACPP and KLK locus changes, I determined the polarity of the changes through outgroup comparison. At ACPP, the reduced expression in chimpanzee and bonobo is derived, and likely in response to the onset of intense sperm competition in the common ancestor of these two species. If this biochemical phenotype is indeed a proxy for mating behavior, my data provides some evidence (to be compared and contrasted with other molecular, behavioral, and paleontological data) that the last common ancestor of humans and chimpanzees was not chimp-like in its high degree of polyandry. / Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences; / Biological Sciences / PhD; / Dissertation;

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / A capoeira à uma luta-danÃa-jogo que faz parte do conjunto de tradiÃÃes oriundas das heranÃas dos negros raptados no continente africano e submetidos ao regime escravocrata no Brasil. Na capoeira, os ancestrais sÃo objeto de deferÃncia e admiraÃÃo ao longo do ritual da roda e na transmissÃo dos conhecimentos. A pesquisa visa compreender o culto aos ancestrais na capoeira praticada no Centro Cultural Capoeira Ãgua de Beber (CECAB), uma associaÃÃo sem fins lucrativos que atua difundindo esta manifestaÃÃo cultural. Partindo de uma perspectiva etnogrÃfica, a observaÃÃo participante apresenta-se como principal procedimento metodolÃgico, priorizando uma anÃlise qualitativa. Para a realizaÃÃo do levantamento bibliogrÃfico, recorremos principalmente à literatura cientÃfica produzida em torno das temÃticas da capoeira, de memÃria coletiva, e dos conceitos de campo, habitus e classe em Pierre Bourdieu. Observamos a devoÃÃo aos ancestrais, no cotidiano do CECAB, ao longo da transmissÃo dos saberes, do ritual da roda, das narrativas e dos discursos do mestre, das relaÃÃes de poder e do tratamento da temÃtica da religiosidade. A memÃria destes personagens, dos acontecimentos e de lugares da histÃria da capoeira à projetada sobre as experiÃncias contemporÃneas, oferecendo suporte ao sentimento de pertenÃa ao grupo e à trajetÃria das culturas negras no Brasil. Os ancestrais sÃo apresentados enquanto autÃnticos representantes da relaÃÃo da capoeira com as demais culturas afro-brasileiras, relaÃÃo esta que, no dia-a-dia dos treinos, das rodas e dos eventos, os capoeiristas do CECAB afirmam o compromisso com a sua continuidade. Os mestres sÃo os guardiÃes das memÃrias dos ancestrais e principais responsÃveis pela preservaÃÃo da tradiÃÃo. Contudo, no culto aos ancestrais, a memÃria à moldada de forma a consolidar a ordem social e legitimar o poder dos seus atuais representantes, os mestres do presente. As representaÃÃes acerca do passado e dos seus personagens sofrem um processo de seleÃÃo a partir das relaÃÃes de poder, dos interesses e das preocupaÃÃes presentes nos universo da capoeira no momento em que sÃo articuladas e expressas. / Capoeira is a dance-fight-game that is part of the set of traditions coming from the heritage of blacks kidnapped in Africa and subject to the system of slavery in Brazil. In capoeira, the ancestors are the object of deference and admiration throughout the ritual of the wheel and the transmission of knowledge. The research aims to understand the ancestor worship practiced in the Centro Cultural Capoeira Ãgua de Beber (CECAB), a nonprofit association that operates by spreading this cultural manifestation. From an ethnographic perspective, participant observation presents itself as the main methodological approach, emphasizing a qualitative analysis. To perform a bibliographic review, we turn to the scientific literature produced mainly around the themes of capoeira, the collective memory, and concepts of field, habitus and class in Pierre Bourdieu. We observed the devotion to the ancestors, in the daily CECAB along the transmission of knowledge, the ritual of the wheel, narratives and discourses of the master, power relations and treatment of the theme of religion. The memory of these characters, places and events in the history of capoeira is designed on contemporary experiences, offering support to the feeling of belonging to the group and the trajectory of black culture in Brazil. The ancestors are presented as true representatives of the relationship of capoeira with other African-Brazilian culture, a relationship that, in day-to-day practice, the wheels and events, the capoeiristas of CECAB affirm your commitment to continuity. The masters are the guardians of the memories of ancestors and primarily responsible for the preservation of tradition. However, in the ancestor worship, the memory is shaped so as to consolidate the social order and legitimize the power of its current officers, the masters of this. The representations about the past and its characters undergo a process of selection from power relations, interests and concerns present in poultry in the universe when they are articulated and expressed.

Blood Riveris an exploration of lineage and blood connection as families are made and remade over generations. The poems rise from the physical body, from birth, and again from death. The lyric is used as a mode of investigation as she writes to discover what it means to become a mother, what it means to be a daughter and wife, and finally what it means to remake the self in order to embody all that we are. The poems are born from the heart and explore the connections between us all.

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Filiality (xiao) has been a significant concept in Chinese culture. Its significance is shown by the fact that its idea was elevated to a system of philosophy by Confucians in the Zhanguo period (475-221 B.C.E.). The purpose of this study is to clarify why filiality was important and what the philosophy of filiality essentially meant. Filiality was not merely a familial ethic. In the Western Zhou period (the 11th c. to 770 B.C.E.), it meant sacrifices to ancestors. Filiality toward fatherhood was essentially obedience to headship of lineage groups, and it was expressed in ancestor worship. When lineage gradually collapsed in the Chunqiu period (770-475 B.C.E.), its significance must have been restricted. In fact, however, filiality was given a new meaning by Zhanguo Confucians. First, Confucius emphasized the mental aspect of filiality, and then Mencius thought of filiality as the basis from which general ethics were generated. The various ideas of filiality were collected in a book: the Book of Filiality. This book, presenting the dichotomy between love and reverence, argued that a father-son relationship had an element shared by a monarch-retainer relationship and that filiality should be shifted into loyalty. The essential achievement of this philosophy was the recognition of the dualistic nature of human beings; any human relationship was a social relation between two social roles as well as an emotional connection between two characters. The former was the basis for culture and society. It was the aspect of culture inherent in human nature that should be developed to bring about social justice. This dualism was derived from the ambiguity of fatherhood in ancestor worship. As ancestor symbolized the social role of lineage headship, the philosophy of filiality symbolically connected fatherhood to the social role of authority in general. Filiality was identified with devotion to the absolute basis for humans and society that was symbolized by fatherhood. This thesis, analyzing ancient Chinese philosophy of filiality, presents a hypothesis concerning the essential structure of ancestor worship, which can be summarized as the symbolism representing higher levels of authority on the basis of parental authority.

Thesis (D. Miss.)--Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, 1994. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 186-194).

The major focus of this dissertation is the ancestor worship that is inferred to have been practiced in the multiethnic Middle Sicán theocratic state (AD 950-1100) that prospered on the northern North Coast of Peru. The major objective is twofold: (1) demonstrating by archaeological means that ancestors were indeed worshipped in the Middle Sicán society and (2) elucidating the nature and role of the inferred ancestor cult and associated rituals and ceremonies. Ancestor (and the veneration of it) is one of the themes that have the deepest roots in the anthropological thoughts; nevertheless, many archaeologists have uncritically invoked ancestor veneration without sufficient theoretical underpinning and empirical support, to the point that James Whitley (2002) decried "too many ancestors." This dissertation thus begins with a review of the earlier anthropological discoveries and theoretical debates on what ancestor is and who becomes an ancestor, including the cases in the Andes. Based on this review of previous studies, it is hypothesized that the select members of deceased Middle Sicán elites were transformed into an ancestor through a series of prescribed processes. This hypothesis is examined in terms of the five possible material correlates of the inferred Sicán ancestors extracted from the regional archaeological database of the study area accumulated by the Sicán Archaeological Project (SAP) for the last three decades. The role of the inferred Middle Sicán ancestor cult is approached from the ideological perspective. It is inferred that the ancestor cult was employed by the ruling group as an ideological and political means to justify the existence and extension of social hierarchies and inequalities and thus targeted at wider populations different in genealogical origins as opposed to family or lineage members. This study focuses attention on the food preparations and consumptions documented by a test excavation at the principle plaza of the Sicán capital, "Great Plaza," adjacent to the inferred ancestral tombs and hypothesizes that the commensality among the living and the dead during feasts there served not only to commemorate the inferred ancestors, but also to bring together people in different social tiers and to consolidate the highly stratified, multiethnic Middle Sicán society. Two excavations at the ceremonial core of the Middle Sicán state capital, one at the Huaca Loro West Cemetery in 2006 and the other at the Great Plaza in 2008, provide varied lines of evidence that support the above two hypotheses. The results suggest that ancestor worship was indeed practiced during the Middle Sicán Period. By maintaining and monopolizing the ritual access to the Sicán Deity through their ancestors, the Sicán elites reproduced their religious and political power and retained the legitimacy of their social status. Concurrently, the Sicán elites consciously employed their ancestor cult for social integration. After the Middle Sicán Period, these ancestors seem to have retained their spiritual viability even after the later Chimú Empire took the control of this region. If not recognized as the Sicán anymore, they were remembered and honored by the living for over four centuries. On the basis of the merits of traditional approach (e.g., the study of architecture, iconography, bioarchaeology, and ethnohistory and ethnography in the Andes), this study gives primacy to the direct focus on the material residues and relational contexts and patterns of ritual activities and studies their change and stability through time in relation to other historical contingencies. The merit of focusing on the trajectories of ritual activities themselves in a long and wide perspective is that it sheds light on the regional peculiarities and contingent nature of the inferred ancestor veneration, which may be overlooked in cross-cultural, ethnological arguments about the nature, role, and capacity of ancestors. It also provides a wealth of information not only to determine what types of activities took place, but also to explore the intangible symbolic significance behind those activities. As a result, this approach provides a practical solution to the justified criticism by Whitley (2002) and demonstrates how we should approach ancestor veneration and what evidence we would need in order to appropriately define it in archaeological record.

Mortuary remains within an archaeological context can illuminate the social and political aspects not only of the individual(s) buried, but also of the living who interred them. Although this is so, a consensus has not been reached in regard to the following questions: how can we determine the social identity of the living that interred the dead? What are the implications of the living-dead interaction, and how do mortuary practices alter social memory in order to fit political needs? This thesis constitutes an initial attempt to answer these questions while examining pre-internment mortuary practices, and associated ideologies regarding the afterlife based on data collected during the 2015 field season by members of the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológica Panquilma (PIAP), under the direction of Dr. Enrique Lopéz-Hurtado, of the Instituto de Estudios de Peruanos Programa de Investigación. This project is centered at the Late Intermediate Period (LIP) to Late Horizon (LH) secondary Ychsma site of Panquilma in the mid-Valley of the Lurín River Valley, Central Coast of Peru. This research aims to determine the time period and significance of a puzzling structure that was excavated at the cemetery’s margin at Panquilma in order to determine the building’s potential role in ancestral veneration practices of the lesser-elites. Upon first glance this structure appeared to have a layout of a household structure but was located near the cemetery, far from the residential center of the site. A wide array and substantial quantities of exotic and/or ritual items such as sheet metal fragments, colorful bird feathers, orpiment, and manuports, as well as Spondylus sp. and Nectandra sp. beads were discovered within this building suggesting non-mundane or non-domestic usages. Was this structure used in the preparation and care of the funerary bundles? Did it house an important figure (e.g., a shaman) in both their life and death? Or did it serve as a workshop for preparing ritual items? In an effort to ascertain the significance of this structure, this thesis examines the aforementioned remains as well as its relative location and the results from portable X-ray Fluorescence (pXRF) analyses of some of the excavated artifacts in order to provide a deeper understanding of mortuary practices at Panquilma and thus the Ychsma’s concept of and interaction with the dead on the Central Coast of Peru. The exact function of this structure cannot be concretely stated, but the diverse lines of evidence present appear to favor the first hypothesis in which this structure functioned as a funerary preparation area, but principally for elite and/or ritually significant bundle(s). This was ascertained due to the numerous exotic and/or ritual artifacts found associated within this Inkaic structure that likely served a ritualistic function in regard to water and agricultural fertility as well as serving as indirect evidence for elite ancestral veneration practices.

Filiality (xiao) has been a significant concept in Chinese culture. Its significance is shown by the fact that its idea was elevated to a system of philosophy by Confucians in the Zhanguo period (475-221 B.C.E.). The purpose of this study is to clarify why filiality was important and what the philosophy of filiality essentially meant. Filiality was not merely a familial ethic. In the Western Zhou period (the 11th c. to 770 B.C.E.), it meant sacrifices to ancestors. Filiality toward fatherhood was essentially obedience to headship of lineage groups, and it was expressed in ancestor worship. When lineage gradually collapsed in the Chunqiu period (770-475 B.C.E.), its significance must have been restricted. In fact, however, filiality was given a new meaning by Zhanguo Confucians. First, Confucius emphasized the mental aspect of filiality, and then Mencius thought of filiality as the basis from which general ethics were generated. The various ideas of filiality were collected in a book: the Book of Filiality. This book, presenting the dichotomy between love and reverence, argued that a father-son relationship had an element shared by a monarch-retainer relationship and that filiality should be shifted into loyalty. The essential achievement of this philosophy was the recognition of the dualistic nature of human beings; any human relationship was a social relation between two social roles as well as an emotional connection between two characters. The former was the basis for culture and society. It was the aspect of culture inherent in human nature that should be developed to bring about social justice. This dualism was derived from the ambiguity of fatherhood in ancestor worship. As ancestor symbolized the social role of lineage headship, the philosophy of filiality symbolically connected fatherhood to the social role of authority in general. Filiality was identified with devotion to the absolute basis for humans and society that was symbolized by fatherhood. This thesis, analyzing ancient Chinese philosophy of filiality, presents a hypothesis concerning the essential structure of ancestor worship, which can be summarized as the symbolism representing higher levels of authority on the basis of parental authority. / Arts, Faculty of / Asian Studies, Department of / Graduate

秦漢時代的國家制度和意識形態對後世影響深遠，而祭祀制度是國家制度的重要組成部份，也代表了國家所倡導的思想規範。地方祭祀包括地方政府主導的官方祭祀和民衆自發的信仰活動，是國家禮儀制度和社會風俗信仰的交叉地帶。秦漢的國家祭祀體系隨著統一的深入發生了從覆蓋全國的神祠到集中於南北郊的改革，儒家思想確立為主流意識形態；地方祠祀在此過程中的地位升降和面貌變化成為國家禮制和意識形態變動、確立的一個標誌。 / 以天地日月、社稷五穀、自然現象、物怪神怪等為對象的地方祠祀與山川祭祀、人神祭祀共同構成了地方祭祀的圖景。山川神具有求雨、保護神、個人禱祀等不同面向的作用；地方官員對山川祭祀的參與、利用與反對，則是政治需求與社會實際的影響。人神祭祀的信仰對象包括先王仁人、地方名人、神仙和厲鬼等，人神祭祀的性質多存在轉換，官方祭祀與民間信仰互相吸收和借鑑；地方官員鼓勵地方賢人祭祀，反對妖巫祭祀，作為實施教化的手段。 / 地方政府的祭祀是國家制度的一部分，中央機關也對地方政府的祠祀有監管作用。隨著國家祭祀的成立與變革，地方祭祀在國家祭祀中的地位先升後降，官方祭祀和民間信仰在地方祠祀處交會，東漢時期的地方祭祀有許多呈現官方和民間相結合的特徵。儒家式國家禮制的成立使得祀典與淫祀有了明確的邊界，但是這一界線受到經濟、社會等多種因素的影響，存在著相當的彈性。「禮俗合一」是儒家式的社會理想，士人試圖通過對地方祭祀的管理實施教化，移風易俗；但是祭祀活動的實踐與諸多現實因素有關，還有個人與偶然因素的作用，社會信仰始終包含多重屬性，以「禮俗合一」為理想，卻始終多種社會意識並存，成為中國古代社會的重要特徵。 / As the beginning of a united empire, Qin and Han Dynasties had established the elementary state institution for dynasties hereafter. Qin and Han Dynasties absorbed and reconciled various religious traditions, including religions of all social classes and different regions in their efforts to set up a sacrificial system; and then turned to a Confucian-oriented sacrificial system with the reverence for Confucianism. Local cults, containing popular beliefs and sacrificial practice of local governments, stood in the overlapped place of state sacrificial system and popular beliefs, therefore the shifts of status and sacrificial practice of local cults can be a representative of the settlement of official ritual system. / Miscellaneous Gods were worshiped throughout the empire. The groundwork of this research is to investigate the existence of different kinds of local cults and the sacrificial practices. Worship to mountains and rivers were indispensable in both official religion and popular belief, and all levels of sacrifices had multiple functions in local society. The approval or opposition of sacrificial ceremonies by local officials mostly depended on social reality. Human gods accounted for a large part in local cults, who were worshiped in different motivation and social surroundings. The proportion of respectable officials and moral models increased in Later Han, for they were encouraged for the ethic function to rectify the customs and achieve the indoctrination of Confucianism. / Sacrifices to mountains and rivers and human gods in local society stretched across orthodox ritual and popular belief, but the boundary of the two traditions were in alteration all the time, which was largely affected by economic and political factors; and despite the officials and Confucian scholars tried to revise the sacrificial practices in local society, sacrifices to local cults were always contained multiple characters. "Corresponding custom to ritual" was the ideal social order, which officials struggled to approach but never actually achieved. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / Detailed summary in vernacular field only. / 李玥凝. / Parallel title from added title page. / Thesis (Ph.D.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2015. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 408-428). / Abstracts also in English. / Li Yuening.