Religious rituals that are painful or highly stressful are hypothesized to be costly signs of commitment essential for the evolution of complex society. Yet few studies have investigated how such extreme ritual practices were culturally transmitted in past societies. Here, we report the first study to analyze temporal and spatial variation in bloodletting rituals recorded in Classic Maya (ca. 2...

Nestled in more than 5,000 acres of farmland in rural South Dakota, one Hutterian colony flourishes with more than 23 families and a population of 115 people. Very little is known about the ways in which Hutterites experience traumatic infant and child death on the colony. No research studies to date have explored this topic. This is an ethnographic study that utilized extended observations of ...

Purpose of the study: This study aims to highlight how death serves as a central feature social ties among natives Northern Punjab. Death is great leveller and one most curious aspects human cognition. Bereavement follows terminal rites de passage; transition deceased from this world other world.
 Methodology: By using an inductive approach, ethnographic account significant rite was gather...

In his seminal book on the historical periods of Western attitudes toward death, Philippe Aries describes four consecutive periods through which these attitudes evolved and transformed. According to him, the historical attitudes of Western cultures have passed through four major parts described above: "Tamed Death," One's Own Death," "Thy Death," and "Forbidden Death." This paper, after explori...

This research aims to describe the religiosity of elderly as seen from aspects beliefs, rituals, knowledge, experience, and practice. was conducted in UPTD Griya Werdha Surabaya using a qualitative approach phenomenology study type. Retrieval data used in-depth interview techniques, observation, documents five Muslims purposive technique. The result indicates that spiritual dimension has increa...