Santa Muerte is one of the fastest growing folk saint movements in Mexico. She has a core following in Mexico among dispossessed populations, but also devotees from a broader swath of the Mexican population. This article analyzes the development of Santa Muerte veneration in Mexico since 2000. I argue that, from a structural analysis perspective, Santa Muerte veneration is on the threshold of d...

man by whom it was written, conspire to give it a deep and peculiar interest. JSo region of the human body presents, with respect to anatomico-chirurgjcal research, a wider or more important field than those so ably delineated in this work. It is the last production of Allan Burns, and unquestionably his best. As such, we never open it without mingled feelings of sorrow and veneration. Perhaps ...

Veneration of the planet Venus under the guise of the goddess Inanna is ubiquitous in the earliest temples yet excavated in Mesopotamia. At Uruk, the oldest urban site in the entire Near East, offerings to Inanna/Venus far outnumber those of any other deity. In strata conventionally dated to ca. 3000 BCE (Uruk IV-III), Inanna is already associated with various symbols that would become conspicu...

this study aimed to investigate the factors affecting intention of citizens toward participating in activities related to development and protection of green spaces in tehran. the research was descriptive-correlation and survey method was used. the statistical population of this study consisted of all citizens in tehran. using proportional and stratified random sampling, 626 citizens were selec...

The veneration in which the name of Parry has long been held by us, was not diminished by the perusal of his late work, the Elements of Pathology ; and therefore we took up the present volume with anticipations of pleasure and profit. The nature of the subject, however, though at all times interesting, was so obscure, and hitherto unsatisfactorily explained, that we did not make up our minds fo...