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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Ritual Performance"”.
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The Transformation of Ritual Performance Traditions in Early American Political Culture
… considers the changes that occurred in election rituals by looking at the electioneering attendant to the early colonial period through the emergence popular mass campaigning in the middle of the Jacksonian era. Chapters One and Two outline the study and the theoretical framework used, and …
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Browning's Caliban : humanity, liminality and the search for transcendence
… situation, treating his monologue as a type of ritual performance. Chapter three concentrates more closely on the language, syntax and peculiar grammatical choices of the poem and what this reveals about the psychology of Caliban and his concept of himself. The fourth chapter centers on the …
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The Mythic Underpinnings of Originalism: A Rhetorical and Legal Analysis
… rhetoric transforms judicial interpretation into ritual performance and mythic restoration. This analysis provides a critical framework for understanding originalism’s enduring power in American legal and political discourse.
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Ritual ceremonial life: song text and spirit manifestation among the Zezuru People of Hwedza, Zimbabwe
… fields, have examined and viewed music and spirituality from various perspectives. Studies have been successful in examining the function of music in worship in many cultures. The Zezuru people are a Zimbabwean Shona subethnic group and they practise bira rematendo, (a ritual ceremony) in which …
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Dancing with the hangman : symbol, myth and ritual in the medieval German legend, the Schelmensage
… analysis of its five different versions and its ritual performance in the play, Der Schelm von Bergen. The thesis considers the impact of being personally involved with the subject matter. The analysis is woven with personal episodes and this is defended as a reflexive methodolgy.
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Journey with Ganapati : a media exploration and analysis of Hindu religious ritual components
… technology to the traditional practice and performance of ancient Hindu religious ritual. To illustrate elements of the Indian Rasa theory of aesthetics, the canons of Hindu iconography, the symbolism of mantra, yantra, and tantra with the tools of computer graphics, animation, high speed …
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Marriage in death : ritual representations of Belizean Garifuna ('Black Carib') society.
… . Women , too, are the main participants in ritual. The cult rites - which reproduce a cosmology partially syncretized with Catholicism - focus on the dead . The placatory dU:gu rites are structured in a diadic , syr.rrnetrical manner , in contrast with the unilateral tendency in day- to-day …
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Recovering ancient ritual and the theatre of the Apache: a journey through the false consciousness of Western theatre history
… ancient Greek and contemporary Native American performance. It suggests that through a recognition of these influences, which have long tempered the Western narrative of theatre, ancient and Indigenous performance can be reviewed as similar forms of a lived exchange. The study tracks the …
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In Search of Mother: The Libratory Effects of Performance Pedagogy in the Mothering Practices of Black Women
… project combining history, social theory, performance and spirituality. I search for the female power of mother by mining the history of Black women within Western cultural and political economy. I find Mother in the Africana female artists who use their cultural work to nurture, sustain …
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Theaters of Power: Inka Imperial Performance
… public spectacles, ceremonies, and rituals. This dissertation examines the roles of these large-scale non-quotidian performances that are organized and directed by political agents, occur generally at specified times and locations, and include elements of the spectacular, …
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THEATRE OF LIFE: RITUALS, TRANSITION AND PROGRESSION AMONG THE IGBO
… the fact that the study and understanding of rituals do not have to be a schematic nightmare neither do they have to prove that they belong to either the dramatic or theatrical genres - rituals are just what they are - performance. Rituals reflect life in action, and this study has …
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Dr Carnesky’s incredible bleeding woman
… Incredible Bleeding Woman, Reinventing Menstrual Rituals Through New Performance Practices (DCIBW) is a revelatory, illusory, horror filled, taboo breaking bricolage; a multimodal research project that proposes to reinvent menstrual rituals through new performance practices. DCIBW is a spectacular …
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After conversion: gender, modernity, and the regeneration of Christianity across three generations of indigenous evangelicals in highland Ecuador
… discourse analysis with an examination of ritual performance, this dissertation explores how younger evangelicals in Colta today experience, narrate, and embody indigenous Christianity in relationship to collective memories of the pre-conversion ""sad life,"" the expectations of their …
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Embodying Topeng: Gender, Training and Intercultural Encounters
This research centres on the Balinese performance tradition known as topeng which translates as Balinese masked dance-drama. In Bali this genre is performed traditionally in spaces reserved for religious ceremonies. The research questions the extent to which, and how, it may be possible for a …
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The Traces of Mining Activities in Riverscapes—a Lyrical and Performative Art-based Approach
… methods to engage wider audiences, with ritual performance taking a central role. The core concept revolves around apologising to the Red River. From this sustained practice, the thesis takes shape as a mythological guide for learning to apologise to wounded rivers. It offers a series of …
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Saudi Women's Self-Identity or Self- Awakening constructing between conservatism and modernization - social and cultural performance in Saudi Arabia
… emphasizing the influence of social and cultural performance on the steps and process of formation of female identity in Saudi Arabia, analyzing the historical, cultural, and social contexts of Saudi women from the 20th to the 21st century across various literary domains, including 20th-century …
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Performative Riffing: Theory, Praxis, and Politics in Movie Riffing and Embodied Audiencing Rituals
… of enduring debates among Critical, Cultural, Performance, and Rhetorical Studies scholars. One salient ongoing dialogue among scholars and critics questions the degree to which audiences actively participate in the process of making sense of mediated texts. How capable are media consumers of …
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Dance and Identity Politics in Caribbean Literature: Culture, Community, and Commemoration
… and translations of cultural behavior, ritual acts, and spontaneous movement. The novels studied include Samuel Selvon's "The Lonely Londoners" (1956), Earl Lovelace's "The Dragon Can't Dance" (1979), Paule Marshall's "Praisesong for the Widow" (1983), and Marie-Elena John's "Unburnable" …