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Sacrificial Animals

Sacrificial Animals is a ritual practice in which animals are designated and offered as victims in religious or ceremonial contexts to deities or supernatural entities as acts of devotion, expiation, or communal integration.

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2017–2026

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Sacrificial Symbolism in Animal Experimentation: Object or Pet?

Arnold Arluke · Anthrozoös · 1988 · 166 citations

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PIGS FOR THE GODS: BURNT ANIMAL SACRIFICES AS EMBODIED RITUALS AT A MYCENAEAN SANCTUARY

Yannis Hamilakis, Eleni Konsolaki · Oxford Journal of Archaeology · 2004 · 130 citations

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Athletics, festivals and Greek identity in the Roman east

Onno M. van Nijf · Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society · 2000 · 111 citations

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“The goat that died for family”: Animal sacrifice and interspecies kinship in India's Central Himalayas

Radhika Govindrajan · American Ethnologist · 2015 · 110 citations

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The Wool Industry of Crete in the Late Bronze Age

J. T. Killen · The Annual of the British School at Athens · 1964 · 88 citations

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Authors

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  1. GE
    Gunnel Ekroth

    Uppsala University, Sweden

    3 publications · 131 citations

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  2. LM
    Lidio M. Valdez

    University of Calgary, Canada

    2 publications · 25 citations

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  3. BJ
    Bushra Jamil

    Aga Khan University, Pakistan

    1 publications · 79 citations

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  4. GB
    Guillaume Blanc

    Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  5. PW
    Peter Weiming Jia

    The University of Sydney, Australia

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Uppsala University

    Uppsala, Sweden

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    56 citations

  2. Tulane University

    New Orleans, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    71 citations

  3. University of Islamic Studies

    Karachi, Pakistan

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  4. Sapienza University of Rome

    Rome, Italy

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  5. Universitas Negeri Surabaya

    Surabaya, Indonesia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  6. State University of Semarang

    Semarang, Indonesia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  7. University of Washington

    Seattle, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    110 citations

  8. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

    Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    111 citations

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  1. History of Religions

    2 publications · 50 citations

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  2. American Ethnologist

    AE · 2 publications · 136 citations

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  3. Environmental Archaeology

    1 publications · 14 citations

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  4. The Classical Quarterly

    1 publications · 37 citations

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  5. Vetus Testamentum

    1 publications · 24 citations

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