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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Mother Earth"”.
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A decolonial love story : matriarchs living In kinship with mother earth
… a regenerative, rematriated relationship with Mother Earth. Researching the womens’ lived experiences with land through deep listening, ceremony, and relationships provided the guidance to share a love letter for the researcher’s young daughter, found at the end of this thesis. Keywords: …
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Cultivating Compassion for Mother Earth: Can Tonglen Offer a Path Towards Environmental Healing?
This study explores the viability of the Tibetan Buddhist practice of Tonglen as a mainstream eco-consciousness activity. While a substantial body of literature suggests Buddhism offers a potential environmental ethic, some even claiming that it is inherently eco-friendly, the perspectives of …
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Rescatando a la Pachamama
… focuses on indigenous epistemologies of the “Mother Earth” to understand the cultural significance and Andeans’ affective relationship with native landscapes and nature. To do so, I examine mythical discourses found in oral narratives and other forms of representation to argue how the deep …
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Ojibwe Elders' Experiences of Peace: To Teach Our Well-Being With the Earth
… founded upon the spiritual relationship with Mother Earth as the Anishinaabek view of peace to teach our well-being with earth. This research explores the experiences of four 21st century traditional Anishinaabek elders through describing their ways of knowing and of being as it relates to the …
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Supporting the Multiple Sclerosis Healing Journey with Transpersonal Therapy: An Autoethnographic Reflection and Analysis of Ayahuasca's Transpersonal Wisdom and Transformative Healing Abilities.
… healing process and that of humanity and Mother Earth.
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StoneLion: A Narrative of a Kansas City Puppet Theatre
… both building and performing their 2012 Mother’s Day for Mother Earth performance of Spirit of the North. Through these interviews, personally archiving documents that feature the StoneLion Puppet Theatre and members of the company, and my first-hand experience working with the company, I …
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Broken Ground: Plowing and America's Cultural Landscape in the 1930s
… a cultural symbol of man's relationship to the earth. My investigation begins with a chapter devoted to a chronological survey of European and American art depicting agricultural landscape imagery. My second chapter considers Grant Wood's 1931 painting "Fall Plowing," a depiction of a steel …
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Earth. Water. Sky. The Liminal Landscape of the Maya Sweatbath
… the sweatbaths conception as the womb of Mother Earth, the structure as a replica of the cosmos, the liminal landscape tethering together water, topography, and the celestial domain, and rituals of purification, healing, and transformation. In addition, the ancient Maya site of Yaxchiln …
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A literary exploration of ethnocentric segregation and discrimination in Bessie Head's Maru and Gasebalwe Seretse's The Pursuit of Xhai
… their natural talent of communicating to Mother Earth in escaping danger. Although at some points they were victimised as a low filthy nation and untouchable to the locals, their natural beauty and intelligence brought a bond of a good and loving relationship with the superior ethnic …
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Adulterous Nations: Family Politics and National Identity in the European Novel
… a long history, evident in expressions such as ""Mother Earth"" or ""Mother Russia"" and in myths considered foundational to modern European literature, such as Europa's abduction by Zeus or the Hebrew prophets' personification of Israel as an adulterous woman. The nineteenth century realist …
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Re-Constructing Climate Change: Discourses of the Emerging Movement for Climate Justice
… of the sacred” and the loss of harmony with Mother Earth. The United States-based civil rights discourse primarily emphasizes the rights and interests of African American communities and constructs climate change as a problem of externalized ecological costs and failure to incent a “green” …
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Living on the Edge: The Predicament of a Rural Indigenous Santal Community in Bangladesh
… by the devaluation of indigenous peoples’ mother tongue, education, culture, and religion and by distancing them from the land that has belonged to them for centuries. The findings present a shift from the ritual-based, cultural matrix of the rural indigenous community and its …
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Pregnancy and Childbirth in the Poetry of Ovid
… nations? Who has power over reproduction: the mother, the father – or the state? My doctoral thesis interrogates these vital questions within the poetry of Ovid, a central figure in contemporary conversations around gender and the Classics. Although discussion of women in Ovid has long …
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Dreams, desire and addiction : an archetypal analysis
… inscribed on the ravaged bodies of women and Mother Earth. The first four chapters lay the groundwork for the case study of a woman whose experience illustrates much of the complexity of this theoretical discussion. The value of dream analysis as a theoretical tool which actively assists the …
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Sarah Orne Jewett : Transcendence in Nature
… this image when she juxtaposes the maternal Mother Earth figure, Mrs. Blackett, with the conventional Christian minister at the Bowden Reunion. She introduces a woman -centered Christianity in her book where the church is found in the domestic setting of the home. Finally, Jewett transcends …
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder : circles of healing, transformation and reconciliation, Ke-ge-na-thee-tum-we-in
… holistic relationships with one another and with Mother Earth. Multidisciplinary and cross-cultural perspectives, dialogues between local and global, and particular and universal, become matrices to support new paradigms embodying broader reflections of reality.
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Land and Colonization: A Nehinuw (Cree) Perspective
… example, a review on how the view of the land as Mother Earth evolved in English as well as its unique four stage development in the Nehinuw (Cree) language. As a response to the limitations of existing academic research and a re-examination of the history especially as it pertains to Cree and …
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Be/ing Grace/d. A phenomenological exploration of spiritual encounters with the more-than-human natural world in-crisis
… challenges regarding the finitude of the living Earth and the more-than-human natural world of which humans are one part. Calls from the literature reveal the need for a spiritual response. This research explored lived experiences of spirituality, nature and the climate crisis as they intersect. …