Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Enchantment"”.
-
The enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
… five of these eight cases reveal some sort of ‘enchantment’ with plants or herbal medicines as being important for their practices. Enchantment is characterized as a sensual affective energy and is situated among debates, initiated by Max Weber, on the place of enchantment and disenchantment in …
-
The Enchantment of Western Herbal Medicine
… five of these eight cases reveal some sort of ‘enchantment’ with plants or herbal medicines as being important for their practices. Enchantment is characterized as a sensual affective energy and is situated among debates, initiated by Max Weber, on the place of enchantment and disenchantment in …
-
A Media Archaeology of Technologies of Enchantment
… this dimension, an experience this thesis calls enchantment. The thesis suggests that some period specific behaviours associated with these visual technologies are sophisticated and subtle mechanisms that contribute to the affective and cognitive experience of enchantment. The flickering …
-
New Mexico Tourism: Conflict and Cooperation in the Land of Enchantment
<p>The purpose of this study is to analyze the impact that tourism and tourist sites have upon the surrounding communities in New Mexico. It will look specifically at Bandelier National Monument, El Santuario de Chimayo, and the International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell. These sites …
-
Enchantment, treasures and the otherworld in the Four Branches of the mabinogi.
… thesis examines the distribution and types of enchantments found in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi. The synchronic use of enchantment within the landscape, animal transformation and the use of natural magic is analysed – in particular, the role of natural magic to aid conjuring in Math. …
-
Transformational Festivals and the Enchantment Economy: Performance and Race in Neoliberal Times
… how festival aesthetics tie in to a wider “enchantment economy” that operates at local and transnational levels. With an examination of the Harmony Park Music Garden in Minnesota, I articulate how struggles over symbolic and material control of the festival space create a fraught politics of …
-
Sub-Huronian (Timiskaming?) sediments of the Lake Enchantment area, Marquette county, Michigan
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State College of Agriculture and Applied Science. Dept. of Geology, 1951
-
Neomythism: Transfigurative Invocation and the (Re)Enchantment Engine in Human-AI Collaborative Art
… creative practitioners, enforced by a myth of disenchantment that operates at civilizational, institutional, and interpersonal scales. Through semi-structured interviews, artifact analysis, and creative reflection with eight queer and women-identifying AI artists, this research investigates how …
-
Dancing in the void: Electronic dance music festival attendance as a path to enchantment
This study explores the transformative potential of contemporary electronic dance music festivals within the context of prevailing societal trends under neoliberalism, including secularism, individualism, hyperconsumption, and hyperproductivity. By synthesizing existing literature from sociology, …
-
What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder
… reality is disclosed in displacement and disenchantment. Reality is displaced in the sense that as resources and commodities everything is neither near nor far—rather, all things are in a strange sense distanceless—at no place. Further, reality is disenchanted in the original sense that …
-
What is Orientation in Reality? A Philosophical Exploration of Technology, Placement, Enchantment and Wonder
… reality is disclosed in displacement and disenchantment. Reality is displaced in the sense that as resources and commodities everything is neither near nor far—rather, all things are in a strange sense distanceless—at no place. Further, reality is disenchanted in the original sense that …
-
Speech and Enchantment in Early Greek Thought from the Archaic to the Hellenistic Period
… of idiomatic terms comes from the language of enchantment. This dissertation accounts for how and why ancient Greeks used words related to θέλγω, κηλέω, γοητεία, μαγεία, μαγγανεία, ἐπῳδή, and ψυχαγωγία as a way of describing the effects of speech and song. Examination is given to writers from …
-
Seeing the God of New Mexico: Mary Austin's Starry Adventure and the Optic of Enchantment
… arts. I explore what I call Austin's "optic of enchantment," a visual experience of divinity that is uniquely tied to the New Mexican landscape. I break down this optic of enchantment into three distinct and definitive facets: First - a visual understanding of the landscape which is directly …
-
Revitalization of the Valley of Enchantment Elementary School Nature Center, an on-site learning facility
Relevance to the California science, history, and social-science frameworks.
-
Revitalization of the Valley of Enchantment Elementary School Nature Center, an on-site learning facility
Relevance to the California science, history, and social-science frameworks.
-
Enchantment and the mechanical: an autoethnographic inquiry into leadership framed within a cosmic and ecological story
What difference would it make writing and sharing autoethnographic stories that locate self within the context of ecology and evolutionary cosmology? How might it change the way I understood my role as a leader of an environmental education charity? Would it help me to step into, let go of and …
-
The Orchestral Music of Robert Nathaniel Dett: A New Critical Edition of his Orchestration of the Enchantment Suite
… version of Robert Nathaniel Dett’s <em>Enchantment Suite </em>made by the composer himself. <em>Enchantment Suite </em>is a four-movement work of fifteen to nineteen minutes in duration that until now has only been known as a suite for piano. However, newly discovered primary source …
-
God and the Novel in India
… Despite the conspicuous and consequential enchantment of the Indian novel, even postcolonial literary critics have followed in the critical tradition that takes secularism to be the precondition of the novel and dismisses instantiations of religion as mere anomaly, symptom, or overlay. I …
-
Otherwordly modernism: magic, mediums, and coloniality
… and audiences to understand the production of enchantment, meaning, and repair in Anglophone modernism. Through the analysis of the literary, philosophical, and artistic projects of George and William Butler Yeats, Pamela Colman Smith, Jean Rhys, and Mina Loy, I demonstrate how these authors …
-
Beware of Mad John: Political Theology, Psychedelics and Literature
… this ‘public sacrifice’ through affective enchantment, using spiritual and religious rhetoric to change the relationship between citizen and state. Because artistic works of the mid twentieth century are essentially “ahead of the game” regarding states of exception and economic crises, it …
Page 1 of 4