The marriage institution is as old the human race and valued for companionship procreation. Yorùbá accords great importance to this has a distinctive manner of contracting its nuptials which underscores sacredness it attaches marriage. attached union evident in parents’ preparation even before girl-child born, including proposal on her behalf. This marks beginning long process that will eventua...

Archaeological and ethnological research has revealed that, since antiquity, music had a syncretic nature. Music, dance, poetry made up single whole, aiming at expressing human feelings, sensations perceptions through melody, rhythm, words, gestures, accompanying everyday activities that various functions. Artistic syncretism is doubled by another structural principle – synaesthesia. The brain ...

Late Antiquity, third to seventh centuries, is a period recognized for the continuity and change of Roman culture despite new religion political instability. This allowed space syncretism: an amalgamation different art, religion, in Empire. In following pages, I discuss understanding vault mosaic featuring charioteer or solar figure within necropolis Vatican City, Rome, Italy. For this paper, u...

The mid-seventeenth-century history of Mughal Bengal has hardly been visited in terms the social aspects and counter identities conflict. So many authors have widely worked field medieval Bengal, but there no detailed study conducted on aspect transformation phenomenon syncretism to conflict last decade because primary sources this period not carefully studied appropriate relevancy. That’s why ...

Cross-linguistic generalizations about grammatical contexts favoring syncretism often have an implicational form. This paper shows that this is expected if (i) morphological paradigms are required to be both as small and unambiguous possible, (ii) languages may prioritize these requirements differently, (iii) probability distributions for features interacting in syncretic patterns fixed across ...

BACKGROUND Pneumonia is a leading cause of childhood hospitalisation and child mortality in Africa. This study explores local interpretations of Acute Respiratory Infections (ARIs), focusing on caretakers of children under five in the context of hospital care seeking. METHODS The study took place in Manhiça, southern Mozambique and used Focused Ethnographic Study tools (FES) including field e...