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Opera considered as state ceremony
… opera as an institution, endorsing, through ceremony and ritual, the power of the state. Its main contention is that the opera institution (which combines opera companies and opera houses) is useful to the state and supported by it for reasons other than cultural. It will be argued that opera …
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The center of the universe: A ceremony at Pipe Spring Sweat Lodge
… and the group. The Lakota style sweat lodge ceremony was introduced by an Assiniboine man and the ceremony has incorporated Paiute and Christian elements through cultural adaptations. Though the ceremony has been borrowed and has undergone some changes, its effectiveness as a place of …
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Sacred ceremony and magical praxis in Jewish texts of early and late antiquity
The thesis examines texts that indicate how Jews of Early and Late Antiquity dealt with a world ruled by an omnipotent God who governed a cosmos where disorder vied with order. God's bounty reflected his good will towards those faithful to his laws, and disobedience resulted in the infliction of …
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From a crisis to a ceremony: A history of the Kuomboka to 2010
This study discusses the history of the Kuomboka. It focuses on the changes the event has undergone from the seventeenth century to 2010. Initially, no Litunga had a permanent capital. It was Lubosi Lewanika I in the colonial period who introduced permanent capitals at Lealui and Lubaci. In the …
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From a crisis to a ceremony: A history of the Kuomboka to 2010
This study discusses the history of the Kuomboka. It focuses on the changes the event has undergone from the seventeenth century to 2010. Initially, no Litunga had a permanent capital. It was Lubosi Lewanika I in the colonial period who introduced permanent capitals at Lealui and Lubaci. In the …
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The Ceremony of the Red Heifer: Its Purpose and Function in Narrative Context
… thesis is a synchronic investigation of the ceremony of the Red Heifer of Num 19, which describes a purificatory ritual that cleanses persons who have become defiled through contact with the dead. In seeking the authorial intent and meaning behind the elusive symbolism of the rite, two …
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CEREMONY, STORYTELLING, LAND, THE REDISCOVERY OF IDENTITY IN LESLIE MARMON SILKO’S CEREMONY AND STORYTELLER AND N. SCOTT MOMADAY’S THE ANCIENT CHILD, HOUSE MADE OF DAWN, AND THE WAY TO RAINY MOUNTAIN
… identity and the intertwining elements of ceremony, storytelling, and land in selected works of Native American authors Leslie Marmon Silko and N. Scott Momaday. In their works, the protagonists seek their native identity from which they have become spiritually disconnected. This thesis …
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The rhetoric of public mourning : the case study of the Ellis Park cleansing ceremony
Bibliography: leaves 39-41.
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Return and Recovery: The Influence of Place on Blues Murder Ballads and Laguna Ceremony Cycles
<p>The relationships between place, narrative, memory, and identity are integral in many oral traditions. This project considers place as actively shaping Sterling’s identity in Laguna author Leslie Marmon Silko’s novel <em>Almanac of the Dead </em>and R.L. Burnside’s rendition of the popular …
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The Role of Enviromental Education in Sustaining a 'Shared 'Meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony
… is cerebrated is through the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony. According to Kapwepwe (2007), the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony is the main Tonga ceremony. The purpose of the study was to investigate the shared meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde ceremony and to establish the contribution that environmental …
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The Role of Enviromental Education in Sustaining a 'Shared 'Meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony
… is cerebrated is through the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony. According to Kapwepwe (2007), the Lwiindi Gonde Ceremony is the main Tonga ceremony. The purpose of the study was to investigate the shared meaning of the Lwiindi Gonde ceremony and to establish the contribution that environmental …
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Te ahi tawhito, te ahi tipua, te ahi nā Mahuika: Re-igniting native women’s ceremony
… and men. Interviews and kōrero (discussion), ceremony, mana wahine wānanga (women’s sacred learning space), Native sacred site visits, solicited journals, collaboration in ritual theatre productions, and analysis of mana wahine artworks as discursive texts were employed to gather stories of …
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Traumatic and Healing Memory in Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony and Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon
… comparative analysis of Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon, with a focus on individual as well as collective memory work in historically marginalized indigenous and African-American communities, respectively. This represents a critical study of how the novels …
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The Story is Everything: The Path to Renewal in Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em>.
<p>This is a study of Leslie Marmon Silko's <em>Ceremony</em> analyzing the process of renewal and the use of stories as guides.</p><p>Silko's work deals with problems faced by all who experience the death and destruction of war, a problem complicated by a Native American heritage. Tayo's struggle …
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Hilltop Archaeology: Ceremony and Ritual at the Site of Cerro Santa Rita, Chao Valley, Peru
… Cerro Santa Rita was more oriented to local ceremony. Ceramic and biological evidence suggests that parts of Cerro Santa Rita were unitized as designated areas for food and beverage production, these areas lack plazas and demonstrate a limited variability in ceramic morphologies. These …
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From Individual Trauma to Global Healing: An Ecopsychological Reading of Leslie Marmon Silko's <i>Ceremony</i>
… the Laguna reservation of New Mexico m her novel,Ceremony (1977). This connection is not only physical and cultural, but also psychological m nature.With true postmodern sensibihty, Silko constructs, deconstructs and reconstructs Tayo's psychological connection to his environment through a …
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"What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?": Manic-depression and the writings of Sylvia Plath
My thesis theorises that Sylvia Platha??s writing can usefully be considered in relation to the manic-depression from which she probably suffered, particularly since there is biographical and autobiographical evidence for such a condition as it is clinically defined. For Plath, writing was an …
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To Impersonate the Supernatural: Music and Ceremony of the Bella Bella/Heiltsuk Indians of British Columbia
The two-part thesis of this study is: (1) that the Bella Bella or Heiltsuk Indians of British Columbia were the most significant musical and ceremonial group on the Northwest Coast during the nineteenth century, and (2) that there are strong relationships between Heiltsuk musical patterning and …
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Urban Indigenous Two-Spirit womxn’s experiences with ceremony : a journey of witnessing, reflection, and convergence through story
The imposition of Western patriarchal norms on Indigenous peoples has created strict notions of gender binaries that categorize individuals as either male or female. This imposed binary has impacted how Indigenous womxn and gender fluid people are treated within communities and ceremonies. …
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