A) Explain how the interactions described in the article illustrate the process of religious syncretism. b) Explain ONE similar example of religious syncretism in a region other than Japan.
c) Explain ONE global process after 1980 that contributed to historians’ increased interest in studying the type of cross-cultural interactions described in the passage.

c: haven't lost any yet

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on february 6, 1928, a woman calling herself anastasia tschaikovsky and claiming to be the youngest daughter of the murdered russian czar nicholas ii arrives in new york city. she held a press conference on the liner berengaria, explaining she was here to have her jaw reset. it was broken, she alleged, by a bolshevik soldier during her narrow escape from the execution of her entire family—the romanovs—at ekaterinburg, russia, in july 1918. tschaikovsky was welcomed to new york by gleb botkin, the son of the romanov family doctor who was executed along with his patients in 1918. botkin called her “your highness” and claimed that she was without a doubt the grand duchess anastasia with whom he had played as a child.

between 1918 and 1928, more than half a dozen other women had come forward claiming to be a lost heir to the romanov fortune, so some american reporters were understandingly skeptical of tschaikovsky’s claims. nevertheless, she was treated as a celebrity during her stay in new york and occasioned society parties and fashionable hotels worthy of a romanov heir. registering for one hotel during her visit, she used the name anna anderson, which later became her permanent alias.the women’s right