Previous studies have found the perception of the body and death practices can have an influence on perceptions of deceased organ donation. This is the first study in the UK to investigate the views of the Polish migrants, a fast growing community, toward organ donation, death practices and the deceased body. In total, there were 31 participants that took part in the study in one-to-one intervi...

Life within a gang includes two endemic features: violence and alcohol. Yet, to date, most researchers studying gang behavior have focused on violence and its relationship to illicit drugs, largely neglecting the importance of alcohol in gang life. Because alcohol is an integral and regular part of socializing within gang life, drinking works as a social lubricant, or social glue, to maintain n...

This study addresses the socio-economic impact of AIDS on rural livelihoods in Benue State, Nigeria, where HIV prevalence is 9.3% but the number of AIDS cases is still relatively low. About 6% of the study households had experienced illness and death classified as AIDS, and reported high costs in terms of expenditures and time spent on care, funerals and mourning. These demands on time affected...

â  â  â  â  abul-atahiya: his life and poems â  â mohammad ali otroshi shahreza * â  hossein kiani ** â  â abstract â abul-atahiya was born and grown up in kufa-iraq, a city chosen as the central city by shias and the abbasid dynasty publicized their government there. he lived in a period which slander was common so he kept company with adulterous people and acted dishonorably. he started compo...

This article presents the folklorist's view of famous story by A.P. Chekhov “I want to Sleep” (1988), reveals his biographical and folklore-ethnographic contexts, shows connection with social institute nanny girls autobiographical memoirs about this experience. Special attention is paid deep tradition a lullaby, common motifs images author's work folklore songs are revealed, s...

Abstract In Lima in the seventeenth century, both free and enslaved black women held elected leadership roles confraternities (corporate bodies of lay Catholics). These occupied a public position generally reserved for men; their Spanish indigenous counterparts did not hold comparable roles. Though experiences have been documented scholarly literature, they were highly visible own lifetimes. ec...