Udmurt <i>Mad’</i> Song: Paradox of a Genre by Irina Nurieva

“…For example, the researching of the Udmurt mad' song genre, which is associated with popular Udmurt and Russian songs today, within the overall context of the Udmurt genre system, and use of comparison materials from the Komi and Ob Ugrians, has lead to ideas about the magical character of this genre and its syncretism (the song fairytale, the song riddle, the song dialogue).…”
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Les « coups de foudre » de Jupiter et l’exportation de la religion romaine en Gaule by Nicolas Laubry

“…The presence of this ritual of Roman origin has generally been connected to a supposed pre-Roman lightning cult which would have continued in that way during the Principate, especially in the countryside as a consequence of a form of syncretism favoured by its inhabitants. However, confronting the Gallic documentation with written sources and evidence for this ritual in Italy helps to consider these inscriptions in a different way. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…In Brazil, candomblé is a religious ceremony that signifies syncretism in which the spirits of ancestors and natural phenomena are invoked by Healers, in spaces that transcend the public/private binary. …”
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City, cholera, and COVID: A reading mediated by religiosity and science by Carlos E. Flores-Rodríguez, Luis Fajardo-Velázquez, Rosa María López-Nanco

“…Thus, the streets functioned and still do function as the neighborhood center, the symbolic site of this syncretism and the site for neighborhood tactics in the protective search for a sense of identity. …”
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OmoiwsiV Qew PROBLEMOS RABINISTINIAME IRHELENISTINIAME JUDAIZME by Kristina Gudelytė

“…Philo's exegesis could be described as the culmination of syncretism tendency, in which the ideas of Hellenistic Judaism took root and spread. …”
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EASTERN SPIRITUAL TRADITIONS THROUGH THE LENS OF MODERN SCIENTIFIC WORLDVIEW by Tetiana V. Danylova

“…Today the universe is perceived through the lens of syncretism: it is impossible to separate human from nature, consciousness from matter, subject from object. …”
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Eastern Spiritual Traditions Through the Lens of Modern Scientific Worldview by Tetiana V. Danylova

“…Today the universe is perceived through the lens of syncretism: it is impossible to separate human from nature, consciousness from matter, subject from object. …”
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Alger, creuset musical franco-algérien : Sociabilités inter-communautaires et hybridations dans l’entre-deux-guerres by Malcolm Theoleyre

“…Shedding light on the Young-Algerian spirit of these societies’ leaders and their aspirations to social and political integration, the article aims at showing how this context was ripe for the rise of syncretic musical forms and practices, for which the category usually applied – “Andalusian music” – is insufficient.…”
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Raccontare la grazia tra Ottocento e Novecento: riflessioni preliminari su testimonianze di malattie, medici e devoti by Domenica Borriello

“…The statement of a reality often based on the ambivalence of the role of the doctor and on syncretisms still detectable in the practices of medicalization is no less important.…”
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Contaminazione ambientale ed elaborazione del rischio sanitario: i costi dell’incertezza. Una ricerca antropologica sul “gass-ra-doon” nel quartiere “Tamburi” (Taranto) by Enzo V. Alliegro

“…Moreover, starting from the analysis of contextual and symbolic aspects, the article focuses on the concept of risk perception showing that it is the product of a process of elaboration that configures syncretic and contingent constructions.…”
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Authenticity through staging. Dialogic analysis of Jemaa El Fna square’s touristic and cultural activities and representations by Thibault Danteur

“…After conducting observations and interviews for several months, with the aim of following the tourists on their experience of the square, we shall present a socio-anthropological analysis of the cultural and tourist activities of this particular space, which we shall consider as a syncretic environment. It will be argued that it is necessary to take into account the dialogical relationships which bring together such elements as authenticity and its staging in an interaction which goes beyond a mere contradictory opposition.…”
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Arnaud Buchs, Observer, caractériser et comprendre la pénurie en eau. Une approche institutionnaliste de l’évolution du mode d’usage de l’eau en Espagne et au Maroc by Arnaud Buchs

“…On the other hand, we mobilize a syncretic institutionalist approach to characterize the mode and to understand the determinants of its crisis (described in the framework of a new typology of crises). …”
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Comprendre le changement institutionnel by Arnaud Buchs

“…In the context of a new syncretic institutionalist approach that aims at exploring the “institutional Bermuda triangle” – i.e. the articulation of beliefs, institutions and behaviours –, the water use mode helps to understand the evolution of water use. …”
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Origine et expansion de l’Afro-Asiatique : méthodologie pour une approche pluridisciplinaire by M. Ben Hamed, Pierre Darlu

“…This paper is a methodological reflection on the development of a linguistic group and an attempt to define an overall theoretical framework to consider the development of human populations in syncretic, biological and cultural terms. We present here a critical review of the linguistic and extra-linguistic methods applied to the question of an Afro-Asiatic homeland. …”
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BASIS ETIKA LINGKUNGAN HIDUP MASYARAKAT TRADISIONAL MADURA by Hasani Utsman

“…The Maduranese's traditional society belief system to nature seems more syncretic than the tradition of the people in Java Island.…”
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ELEMENTAL MUSIC-MAKING AS A HEALTH SAVING PHENOMENON IN THE SYSTEM OF GENERAL EDUCATION by N. V. Golubeva

“…On the one hand, the music-making involves consideration of the learners' psychological features and individual propensities, and on the other hand, it has a syncretic effect on the main psychological and physiological functions including communication, speech, motion, etc. …”
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The returning dead: unconventional inhumations in Medieval Lithuania by Gintautas Vėlius

“…The great number of so-called unconventional inhumations in medieval Lithuania depict the permanent co-existence of both pagan post-existential concepts and rituals and the new Christian ones; such manner of beliefs is significant for a religiously syncretic society. Burial in unconventional position has been understood as an alleviation for the dead spirit on its way to the other world. …”
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Where styles collide: the Western Carpathians in the Early Iron Age in the light of pottery analysis by Joanna A. Markiewicz

“… In the Early Iron Age, the Western Carpathians constituted a contact zone of various cultural traditions, which contributed to the complex, syncretic stylistic character of this region. At the same time, due to the scarcity of archaeological data, consisting mostly of relatively poor pottery assemblages from settlements, these mountainous areas escape unambiguous cultural classifications. …”
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The goal-over-source asymmetry in Thai and Korean by Kultida Khammee, Seongha Rhee

“…Even among the allative-ablative-(locative) syncretic forms, the proportion of use for goal marking far exceeds that for source marking, again upholding the asymmetry hypothesis. …”
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Paleoclimatic Changes and their Influence on Cultural and Historical Processes during the Neolithic – Eneolitic in the Caspian and Lower Volga Regions by Marianna A. Kulkova, Alexander A. Vybornov

“…The formation of the Caspian culture, transitional from Neolithic to Chalcolithic, begins about 5500 cal BC in the Northern Caspian. The appearance of syncretic pottery and cattle breeding characterizes this culture. …”
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