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Post-mortem Beliefs

Post-Mortem Beliefs is a theoretical construct in the study of funerary practices that denotes the culturally specific convictions about the condition, journey, and agency of the deceased after death, distinguishing it from associated rituals or mortuary behaviors by focusing exclusively on ontological assumptions regarding the post-death state of being.

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2017–2026

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“thus are our bodies, thus was our custom”: mortuary cannibalism in an Amazonian society

Beth A. Conklin · American Ethnologist · 1995 · 138 citations

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Imagining karma: ethical transformation of Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek rebirth

Choice Reviews Online · 2003 · 97 citations

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Dialogues with the Dead: The Discussion of Mortality Among the Sora of Eastern India

Gananath Obeyesekere, Piers Vitebsky · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 1995 · 94 citations

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Near-Death Experiences in India

Satwant Pasricha, Ian Stevenson · The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease · 1986 · 94 citations

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A Protestant Legacy: Attitudes to Death and Illness Among Older Aberdonians.

Simon Coleman, Rory Williams · Man · 1991 · 85 citations

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Authors

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  1. IS
    Ian Stevenson

    University of Virginia, United States

    2 publications · 109 citations

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  2. JA
    James A. Hijiya

    University of Wisconsin–Madison, United States

    1 publications · 26 citations

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  3. GG
    Gabriele Giancane

    University of Salento, Italy

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  4. HJ
    Howard J. Rosen

    University of California, San Francisco, United States

    1 publications · 46 citations

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  5. MW
    Michael Williams

    Novartis (Switzerland), Switzerland

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

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  1. University of Sheffield

    Sheffield, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    7 publications

    140 citations

  2. Methodist Hospital

    Indianapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    84 citations

  3. Vanderbilt University

    Nashville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    138 citations

  4. GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

    Mannheim, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    16 citations

  5. Duke Medical Center

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

  6. Oregon Health & Science University

    Portland, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    92 citations

  7. Schlumberger (Ireland)

    Dublin, Ireland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    24 citations

  8. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    75 citations

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  1. Man

    3 publications · 157 citations

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  2. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

    JRAI · 2 publications · 104 citations

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  3. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 2 publications · 126 citations

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  4. PubMed

    Repository · 2 publications · 37 citations

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  5. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying

    2 publications · 56 citations

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