Human communities have measures and schemes which are intended to control the social behaviour of its members. In traditional societies, belief in potency supernatural beings helps enforce norms values, translate into order within a given community. most societies including Ghana, religion plays an important role lives people, some include ensuring society. indigenous religious norms, customs, ...

The aim of this paper is to illustrate the material remains epidemics that affected two parishes in centre Poland 18th and 19th centuries. will present preliminary results research archives (metrical books) compared with both accounts descendants families who died as a result prospecting non-invasive methods (LIDAR).

TODAY IT IS a common belief of the residents of the Hawaiian Islands that the sandalwood tree was exterminated during the sandalwood trade in the early part of the . nineteenth century and that it is now extinct on the islands. To correct this impression, the following notes are presented.. There is a popular as well as a scientific interest in the sandalwood tree or iliahi of the Hawaiians, th...

The goddess of health, Hygieia, was much venerated, understandably, in the ancient Greek world; her numerous statues usually represented her holding a serpent. Hygieia's father was Aesculapius, the god of medicine, who developed his clinical skills as physician to the Argonauts and made use of herbs in treatment; the serpent and the cock were considered sacred to him. So the Greeks, when wantin...

Nomura Miki (Last Name) (First) Souvenir purchase patterns of domestic tourists: Case study of Takayama City, Japan (Title) Hospitality and Tourism Dr.Jafar Jafari April 2002 154 (Graduate Major) (Research Advisor) (Month/Year) (No.of Pages) Annals of Tourism Research (Name of Style Manual Used in This Study) The purpose of this study is to identify souvenir purchase patterns of domestic Japane...

The values of any specific society can be interpreted from the functions of the physical infrastructure it develops. Cultures which are sports oriented will support massive stadiums, those with spiritual concerns maintain great cathedrals, mosques and shrines, and those with environmental concerns create physical structures to celebrate and protect the places they value. In the world of tourism...

I this paper, the author underlines that epigraphic material and monuments mentioning ancient cults as patrons of seafaring and seafarers in Istria – which would correspond to numerous coastal settlements and ports, villas and landing places – are scarce. It is assumed that the supreme Roman sea deity Neptune was worshipped in the temple on the capitolium in Poreč, and in the residential mariti...

Omnipresence and omniscience of the goddess are attested by the variety of goddess-images in the sacredscape of Kashi (Varanasi). The veneration of the goddesses initiated the process of establishment of shrines and temples. Processes of getting in close contact with the divine spirit, spatial manifestations, acceptance and recognition of Folk tradition by the Great tradition, and symbolic expr...

Cultural groups respond differently to mental illness depending on the explanations of the cause, attitudes in the community toward mental illness and its treatment, and the social and community resources available to patients and their families. Our column last month explored these explanations and attitudes. This column focuses on family and community treatment of mental illness and the care ...

The mineral, organic and elemental composition of medicine clays from three shrines in the Tong Hills in northern Ghana (Gbankil, Kusanaab, and Yaane) are assessed to ascertain what additives they might contain and the implications for their recognition, for example in archaeological contexts. These are clays that are widely used for healing purposes being perceived efficacious in curing multip...