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Schuler, Barbara. Of death and birth: Icakkiyamman̲, a Tamil goddess, in ritual and story. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

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Schuler, Barbara. Of death and birth: Icakkiyamman̲, a Tamil goddess, in ritual and story. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

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Schuler, Barbara. Of death and birth: Icakkiyamman̲, a Tamil goddess, in ritual and story. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

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Schuler, Barbara. Of death and birth: Icakkiyamman̲, a Tamil goddess, in ritual and story. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

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Of death and birth: Icakkiyamman̲, a Tamil goddess, in ritual and story. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009.

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Temazcalli: Higiene, terapéutica, obstetricia y ritual en el Nuevo Mundo. Sevilla: Escuela de Estudios Hispano-Americanos de Sevilla, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2000.

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Musacchio, Jacqueline Marie. The art and ritual of childbirth in Renaissance Italy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

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Cressy, David. Birth, marriage, and death: Ritual, religion, and the life-cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford [Eng.]: Oxford University Press, 1997.

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Love and dread in Cambodia: Weddings, births, and ritual harm under the Khmer Rouge. Singapore: NUS Press, 2010.

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Birth as an American rite of passage. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2003.

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Birth as an American rite of passage. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.

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author, Jaeger Yitzchok, ed. Guidelines: Questions & answers about the major events of life : pregnancy and birth, bris, pidyon haben, bar mitzvah, marriage, mourning. Brooklyn, N.Y: Menucha Publishers, 2011.

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Conceiving spirits: Birth rituals and contested identities among Laujé of Indonesia. Washington, D.C: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999.

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Thomas, Köves-Zulauf. Römische Geburtsriten. München: C.H. Beck, 1990.

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Rituals of birth, circumcision, marriage, and death among Muslims in the Netherlands. Leuven: Peeters, 2001.

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Hanks, Jane Richardson. Maternity and its rituals in Bang Chan. Ithaca, N.Y: Southeast Asia Program, Dept. of Asian Studies, Cornell University, 1989.

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Kelly, Ewan. Marking life and death: Co-constructing welcoming and funeral rituals for babies dying in utero or shortly after birth. Edinburgh: Contact Pastoral Trust, 2002.

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Nosson, Scherman, ed. Bris milah =: [Berit milah] : Circumcision--the Covenant of Abraham : a compendium of laws, rituals, and customs from birth to bris. 2nd ed. Brooklyn, New York: Mesorah, 1985.

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Biddle, Jeanette M. The Blessingway: A woman's birth ritual. 1996.

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Hunt, Nancy Rose, and John L. Comaroff. Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Duke University Press, 1999.

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Paige, Jeffery M., and Karen Ericksen Paige. Politics of Reproductive Ritual. University of California Press, 2021.

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Paige, Jeffery M., and Karen Ericksen Paige. Politics of Reproductive Ritual. University of California Press, 2021.

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Stadler, Nurit. Voices of the Ritual. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197501306.001.0001.

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Voices of the Ritual analyzes the revival of and manifestation of rituals at female saint shrines in the Holy Land. In the Middle East, a turbulent, often violent place, states tend to have no clear physical borders, and lands are constantly in flux. Here, groups with no voice in the political, cultural, media, and legal arenas look for alternative venues to voice their entitlements. Members of religious minorities employ rituals in various sacred places to claim their belonging to and appropriation of territory. What does this female ritualistic revival mean—politically, culturally, and spatially? The author bases her analysis on a long ethnographic study (2003–2017) that analyzes the rise of female sacred shrines, focusing on four dimensions of the ritual: the body in motion, female materiality, place, and the rituals encrypted in the Israel/Palestine landscape. In the practices at these shrines, mostly canonical, the idea of the “body in motion” is central, with rituals imitating birth and the cycle of life using a set of body gestures. These rituals, performed by men and women, are intimate forces that extend between the female saint and the worshippers. Female materiality strengthens intimacy and creates a bridge between the experience and the material. The intimacy between saint and worshipper created with the body and the female material scattered around represent keys to intimate claims to the land, making the land familiar to worshippers. Rituals encrypt female themes into the landscape that has for decades been dominated by masculine-disseminated war and conflict.
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Stephenson, Barry. 2. Ritual and the origins of culture. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199943524.003.0003.

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From an ethological perspective, ritual must have been present at the beginnings of humanity and ritualization played an adaptive role in the course of both biological and cultural evolution. What was the role and function of ritual in the earliest period of cultural evolution? ‘Ritual and the origins of culture’ considers the diverse and speculative scholarly answers: shamanic trance and the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities; the construction of ritual sites as an expression of existential needs and interests, leading to the growth of large-scale, settled society and the separation of the sacred and profane; or sacrifice as a necessary mechanism to control violence and with it the birth of the sacred and religious systems.
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Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo (Body, Commodity, Text). Duke University Press, 1999.

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Hunt, Nancy Rose. A Colonial Lexicon: Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo. Duke University Press, 1999.

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Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford University Press, USA, 1999.

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Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childberth in Early Modern England. Taylor & Francis Group, 2013.

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Wilson, Adrian. Ritual and Conflict: The Social Relations of Childbirth in Early Modern England. Taylor & Francis Group, 2016.

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Kocur, Miroslaw. Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2017.

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Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2017.

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Kocur, Miroslaw. Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2017.

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Kocur, Miroslaw. Second Birth of Theatre: Performances of Anglo-Saxon Monks. Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Peter, 2017.

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Martin, Russell E. The Tsar's Happy Occasion. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754845.001.0001.

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This book shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of monarchy and dynasty. Processions and speeches emphasized dynastic continuity and legitimacy. Fertility rites blended Christian and pre-Christian symbols to assure the birth of heirs. Gift exchanges created and affirmed social solidarity among the elite. The bride performed rituals that integrated herself and her family into the inner circle of the court. This book demonstrates how royal weddings reflected and shaped court politics during a time of dramatic cultural and dynastic change. As the book shows, the rites of passage in these ceremonies were dazzling displays of monarchical power unlike any other ritual at the Muscovite court. And as dynasties came and went and the political culture evolved, so too did wedding rituals. The book relates how Peter the Great first mocked, then remade wedding rituals to symbolize and empower his efforts to westernize Russia. After Peter, the two branches of the Romanov dynasty used weddings to solidify their claims to the throne. The book offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the rituals of power in early modern Russia.
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Kloos, John. Constructionism and Its Critics. Edited by John Corrigan. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195170214.003.0027.

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Since the 1970s, social scientists increasingly have cast human emotions in the arenas of culturally or linguistically constructed expression. A wide spectrum of theoretical terminology has been employed, including “constructionism” and “constructivist.” This essay reviews constructionist theories that bear on the study of religion and emotion. It analyzes constructionist theories as both determinist and relativist. It focuses on the recent historical ethnographic work of an important anthropologist of emotion, William M. Reddy. It also examines how religious emotions get constructed and what forms serve to give them expression. Generally, religious ritual is a form that can function in such a way so that the emotional lows of loss and grief are made less low. Conversely, ritual can heighten the feelings of joy and happiness at times of celebration. The construction of ritual form reflects specific religious traditions, yet cultures also share more broadly emotional forms for handling death, birth, marriage, and personal formation.
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Placenta Wit: Mother Stories, Rituals, and Research. Demeter Press, 2017.

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Vallely, Anne. Dying Heroically. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190656485.003.0010.

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Within the Jaina tradition, the ideal and most celebrated death is a voluntary, fully conscious fast which aims to “scratch out the body” for the sake of the soul. Called sallekhanā, the fast is understood to be the pinnacle of nonviolence, because it entails the complete eradication of the passions that are the root cause of violence. But above all, sallekhanā is understood by Jains to be heroic; it is the ultimate culmination of a courageous life dedicated to the soul’s emancipation from the cycle of birth and death. The equation of sallekhanā with heroism is an ancient one in the Jain imagination, and continues to govern the way in which the religious death is understood and practiced by Jains in the early twenty-first century. This chapter explores the central role that heroism plays within the ritual fast to death and, more fundamentally, within the Jain tradition.
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Michaels, Axel. Rites of Passage. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198702603.003.0007.

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This chapter examines the classical Hindu life-cycle rites, the term saṃskāra and its history, and the main sources (Gṛhyasūtras and Dharma texts). It presents a history of the traditional saṃskāras and variants in local contexts, especially in Nepal. It describes prenatal, birth and childhood, initiation, marriage, old-age, death, and ancestor rituals. Finally, it analyzes the transformational process of these life-cycle rituals in the light of general theories on rites of passage. It proposes, in saṃskāras, man equates himself with the unchangeable and thus seems to counteract the uncertainty of the future, of life and death, since persons are confronted with their finite existence. For evidently every change, whether social or biological, represents a danger for the cohesion of the vulnerable community of the individual and society. These rituals then become an attempt of relegating the effects of nature or of mortality: birth, teething, sexual maturity, reproduction, and dying.
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Kartomi, Margaret. Four Sufi Muslim Genres in Minangkabau. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036712.003.0005.

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This chapter examines four genres of Muslim-associated performing arts in Minangkabau: indang, salawek dulang, dikia Mauluik, and dabuih. Indang is a song-dance performed by a row of men or women in duduak (“sitting,” actually half-kneeling) position with rhythmic body movement, clapping, and frame-drum playing. Salawek dulang is performed by a pair of alternating male solo singers, each of whom accompany themselves on a brass percussion tray (dulang). Dikia Mauluik is a group vocal-instrumental form with mostly Sufi-oriented Muslim song texts based on dikia texts that are sung with body exercises and frame-drum accompaniment in the month of the Prophet's birth. Dabuihis a ritual form involving acts of self-harm as a demonstration of one's faith and physical invulnerability from pain (and sometimes in the colonial era in Aceh, readiness for battle). The chapter first considers the early history of Minangkabau Islam before discussing the styles, content, and history of eachof the four musical genres.
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Labyrinth of Birth: Creating a Map, Meditations and Rituals for your Childbearing Year. Santa Barbara, USA: BFW Books, 2009.

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World Book Encyclopedia. Birth and Growing Up Celebrations (World Book's Celebrations and Rituals Around the World). World Book, 2002.

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Press, Kalimát, ed. Twin Holy Days: Birthday of Baha'u'llah, birthday of the Bab : a compilation. Los Angeles: Kalimat Press, 1994.

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Gossman, Elizabeth. From "brought to bed" to "first abroad", birth rituals in Salem, Massachusetts 1760-1800. 1996.

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Maier, Harry O. The Household and Its Members. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190264390.003.0005.

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The chapter describes the Greco-Roman and Jewish household, including its members, customs, domestic rituals, and gender roles, along with their intersections with New Testament and other early Christian writings. It presents nomenclature used to describe what we today call “family” and its differences from modern usage. The architectural forms of ancient households (domus, oikos, insula, taberna) are described. The chapter discusses the respective domestic roles of males and females as husbands, wives, and slaves. Children, the practices of infant exposure and adoption as slaves, domestic obligations, education, household economic contribution, laws of inheritance, and rituals associated with birth and maturity are considered. The discussion also contrasts laws of slavery and manumission in the western and eastern Mediterranean. It considers the economic power of slaves and freedpersons, the typical costs of slaves, and freedperson-master obligations. It presents rituals and beliefs surrounding the deceased. Finally, it treats the role of fictive kinship language and how it patterned relationships of Christians with God and one another.
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Freidenfelds, Lara. The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190869816.001.0001.

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The Myth of the Perfect Pregnancy is a history of why Americans came to have the unrealistic expectation of perfect pregnancies and to mourn even very early miscarriages. The introduction explains that miscarriage is a common phenomenon and a natural part of healthy women’s childbearing: approximately 20 percent of confirmed pregnancies spontaneously miscarry, mostly in the first months of gestation. Eight topical chapters describe childbearing and pregnancy loss in colonial America; the rise of birth control from the late eighteenth century to the present; changes in parenting from the early nineteenth century to the present that increasingly focused attention on the emotional relationship between parent and child; the twentieth-century rise of prenatal care and maternal education about embryonic growth; the twentieth-century blossoming of a consumer culture that marketed baby items to pregnant women; the abortion debates from the mid-twentieth century to the present; the late twentieth-century introduction of obstetric ultrasound and its evolution into a pregnancy ritual of “meeting the baby” as early as eight weeks’ gestation; and the late twentieth-century introduction of home pregnancy testing and the identification of pregnancy as early as several days before a missed period. The conclusion offers suggestions for how women and their families, health-care providers, and the maternity care industry can better handle pregnancy and address miscarriage.
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McLaren, Angus. Reproductive Rituals: The Perception of Fertility in England from the 16th to the 19th Century. Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1985.

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Holloway, Sally. Materializing Maternal Emotions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198802648.003.0010.

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This chapter analyses the material expression of emotion during the birth and renunciation of infants in England over the long eighteenth century. These transformative moments in the life cycle were shaped by the creation, purchase, and display of objects. The chapter focuses primarily on textiles with particular emotional or symbolic significance, exploring the changing emotional meanings of childbed linen, blankets, ribbons, cockades, and quilts. It argues that a mother’s touch provided a key means of imbuing these items with emotional value, as women carefully inked, pinned, and embroidered objects by hand. The motifs they selected worked to create a powerful material vocabulary of maternal feeling, utilizing symbols from the wider material culture of maternity, including hearts, crowns, acorns, and blossoming flowers. Through these rituals, women could wish love, health, happiness, and prosperity into their children’s future lives.
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Flynn, Shawn W. Children in Ancient Israel. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198784210.001.0001.

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Flynn contributes to the emerging field of childhood studies in the Hebrew Bible by isolating stages of a child’s life and, through a comparative perspective, studies the place of children in the domestic cult and their relationship to the deity in that cult. The study gathers data relevant to different stages of a child’s life from a plethora of Mesopotamian materials (prayers, myths, medical texts, rituals), and uses that data as an interpretive lens for Israelite texts about children at similar stages such as: pre-born children, the birth stage, breast feeding, adoption, slavery, children’s death and burial rituals, and childhood delinquency. This analysis presses the questions of value and violence, the importance of the domestic cult for expressing the child’s value beyond economic value, and how children were valued in cultures with high infant mortality rates. From the earliest stages to the moments when children die, and to the children’s responsibilities in the domestic cult later in life, this study demonstrates that a child is uniquely wrapped up in the domestic cult and, in particular, is connected with the deity. The domestic-cultic value of children forms the much broader understanding of children in the ancient world, through which other more problematic representations can be tested. Throughout the study, it becomes apparent that children’s value in the domestic cult is an intentional catalyst for the social promotion of YHWHism.
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Smith, Mark S. The Rituals and Myths of the Feast of the Goodly Gods of KTU/CAT 1.23: Royal Constructions of Opposition, Intersection, Integration, and Domination. Society of Biblical Literature, 2006.

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The Rituals and Myths of the Feast of the Goodly Gods of KTU/CAT 1.23: Royal Constructions of Opposition, Intersection, Integration, And Domination (Sbl - Resources for Biblical Study). Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

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