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This is a common conundrum in Africa, where fathers and mothers often insist that their children finance them until death. But it’s not only about money. How should children interact with their parents’ transgressions? Continue reading → Posted in The Africa Review In Five | Tagged Africa...
Death and Dying in Oceania The small island nations of Oceania have big ideas about death. The islands are rich in culture, and many island people honor their ancestors through rituals and art. For example, the indigenous people of Melanesia wear masks to connect with the spirit world. ...
but the meanings associated with these color words are quite different. Take“yellow”for example. Yellow in English is usually associated with the state of being cowardly, as in“yellow-bellied”and“yellow streak”. In Chinese, however, the ...
Numerous studies document the complexity of young children's fantasy play throughout the world. Children's fantasy play is emotion laden and helps children deal with various concerns and fears such as being lost, facing a variety of dangers, and death—while contributing to literacy, cognitive ...
exposure. More benignly, a culture with a high rate of infant death might not name a child for up to a year to lower emotional investment in case that child died. To cope with infant deaths, cultures might even believe that babies who die were really just demons sent to trick their ...
Using insight gained from the work of French sociologist Emile Durkheim, Harrison argued that all myths have their origin in collective rituals of a society. [C] Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud held that myths-like dreams-condense the material of experience and represent it in symbols. [D] ...
According to d’Alleva, Pacific art has the power to move and affect people aesthetically, spiritually and socially. Art allows people to connect with ancestors, move through life cycles of birth, adulthood, marriage and death. It can shape—and is shaped by—the cultural values that are impor...
Notwithstanding that, he claims, the slips and their housings can best be seen as amulets against premature death. In the final contribution dealing with evidence from Qumran, Antony Perrot ("Reading an Opisthograph at Qumran") also focuses on a group of manuscripts held together by their ...