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Semantic couplets as an expression of cultural identity.

Semantic couplets in the Nahuatl language can function as discourse markers that have the pragmatic function of building identities among speech communities. The subsistence of these linguistic structures in present day institutional discourses points to similarities, not only in social, religious but also in linguistic practices of speech communities that are distant in time. Semantic couplets are presented as evidence that links modern speech events with those from pre-Hispanic times.

Anthropology, Cultural↗
PubMed2004

[Handling of the petition for carrying out ritual slaughter (the area of conflict of the official veterinarian between the special requirements and legal possibilities). Juristic view].

With the introduction of Art. 20 a GG in August 2002 the moral thought of animal protection has become a constitutional principle. Now an accommodation between animal protection on the one hand and with religious freedom (undisturbed practice of religion), the right to free development of personality and the right to free choice an practice of an occupation on the other hand has become necessary. If somebody is able to substantiate a claim because of compelling religious reasons, the appropriate authority has still to grant him a certificate of exemption for ritual slaughtering pursuant to paragraph 4 a Abs. 2 Nr. 2 animal-protection-act. The following text tries to explain the conditions precedent to get a permission in detail. The author affirms, that the authorities are bounded by the law. Veterinarians as appropriate authorities are not allowed to turn downed an application on reasons of conscience.

Animal Rights↗
PubMed2004

[Handling of the petition for ritual slaughter (the area of conflict of the official veterinarian between the special requirements and legal possibilities). Veterinary specialist view].

During the process for a permission of ritual slaughter, regulated by paragraph 4a (2) no.2 Animal Protection Law, the licensing authority has to weigh carefully, because there are different rights in the constitutional law. Ritual slaughter contradicts religious liberty and animal protection so it is necessary to find a balance. Demands on requests for ritual slaughter as well as rudiments for verification and notification are described and aspects of animal protection during ritual slaughter without stunning methods are demonstrated.

Animal Rights↗
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[Saint Antony's healing rituals].

Sant Antonio Abate rouses a particular charm for Italians in general but we focus the attention on Abruzzo people there are many stories and legends about his life and his miracles. This work is a result of a study conducted in the popular culture of Abruzzo Region about the rituals of Sant Antonio. Whom principal function was to protect animals. In the middle of the cult we found his capacities to recover people and animals. The association between the Saint and the fire is connected of his thaumaturgy capacities. The fire is often associated to doctors and to cure sickness, and with him we have therapeutics effects. The hagiographical criticism says that the imagine of Saint has to be referred to a historical fact of IX century in France. Here there was a laic hospital community to recover sick people of cancer egotism that presented hurters blistered skin, fever, eruptions and hallucinations. The pig grass was used to cure egotism and due to this reason sickness was names the evil of Saint Antony or Saint Antonio fire. Due to the multitude of sick people occurring, a hospital run by Augustinians canonists order has been built.

Ceremonial Behavior↗
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Adaptation, Psychological↗
PubMed2004

African ethics and voluntary euthanasia.

This paper outlines the relationship between euthanasia and its ethical norms and practices in a part of West Africa. The various sub-types of euthanasia are described in detail, parallel with the role of African ethical theories in determining their relevance. The author discusses the implications of this approach relative to the social and economic state of African communities.

Africa, Western↗
PubMed2005

[Saint Orosia's convulsionaries].

Annual outbreaks of mass motor hysteria have been observed in the past during some religious celebrations. In Jaca, a Northern Spanish town close to the Pyrenees, the convulsionaries have been well known since the eleventh century, though little attention has been paid to this phenomenon in the medical literature. Pilgrims from remote parts of the valleys gathered in procession on June 25th in front of Saint Orosia sarcophagus. Epileptics, psychotics, the paralyzed and hysterics joined the procession looking for healing together with in exorcist rituals. Reig and Gascó, a military physician, described in 1881 the atmosphere of fervour, ignorance and vestigial paganism accompanying these unusual behaviours. Saint Orosia's convulsionaries ended in 1947 following prohibition by local Catholic Authorities, probably the recurrent outbreak of mass motor hysteria lasting to most recent years in Europe.

Catholicism↗
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[Neurophenomenological analysis of the therapeutic relationship in ritual healing].

In this essay we examine some phenomena of community rituals, especially healing ceremonials, which are considered neurobiologically mediated, complex forms of attachment. Recent studies in medical anthropology have pointed out that the ritual therapeutic experience relies on the patients' own healing processes by means of various altered states of consciousness that healers are able to control. Ritual trance invariably occurs in social context, and the healer's personality and the expectations of the community are profoundly involved in the induction of altered states of consciousness. Trance state is regarded as a result of the mobilisation of endogenous opiates, as an activation of the organism's defensive mechanisms in face of the stress of ceremonial. On the other hand, there is a growing body of evidence that opiate mechanisms are involved in social behaviour as well, especially in symbiotic bonds. It is suggested that this is the neurobiological reason why attachment facilitates trance induction. The homeostatic role of social relationships as physiological regulators is also discussed.

Ceremonial Behavior↗