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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Shaman"”.
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
… dissertation analyzes the trope of the Amazonian shaman in recent Latin American literature and film. References to shamanism have become increasingly popular in recent years. Shamans have gained importance in environmentalism and struggles for Indigenous rights, as well as academic writing …
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Confusing culture for clinic: Indigenous shaman-healer as psychopathology
… behaviors commonly associated with indigenous shaman-healers might be associated with mental illness by western psychiatry. This out-dated western ethnocentric ideology is currently active as a diagnostic entry 3.8 Shamanic Crisis within the American Psychiatric Association's, 1994 Diagnostic …
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Drinking straws and shaman melodies: a historical and analytical study of the taepyeongso
This paper is about the taepyeongso (also known as hojoek, saenap, nallari), a Korean double-reed instrument closely related to the Chinese suona and a descendent of the Persian zurna. The instrument is examined from a number of perspectives: historical, theoretical, practical, and personal. For …
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'A Moment of Magic': Coyote, Tricksterism, and the Role of the Shaman in Rudolfo Anaya's Sonny Baca Novels
<p>In Rudolfo Anayas Zia Summer, Rio Grande Fall, Shaman Winter, and Jemez Spring, the protagonist—Sonny Baca—undertakes a murder investigation that ultimately leads him to confront Raven, a mysterious figure whose acts of violence threaten the social fabric of Albuquerque, the American Southwest, …
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The Bargainer
… secret life was as a rebel against the mighty Shaman King and his Kindred. Long ago, the Shaman King had made a bargain with Death so that he and his Kindred could return from the dead should they die before their time. This helped them conquer the land of the Tors and protect them from the …
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Agents of Evil: Curse Accusations and Shamanic Retaliation in Post-Soviet Tuva (Siberia)
… Based on a sample of consultations between shamans and clients regarding curse-inflicted misfortunes, as well as on sociological and statistical sources about post-Soviet Tuva, this thesis identifies a significant incidence of curse accusations in contemporary Tuva. I argue that this …
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The Secret Language of the Desert: Poetry, Loss, and Awakening
… <p>The speaker is something of an Orphean Shaman; he wanders the landscape howling his pain and loss, his love, his passions, as Orpheus did his songs. He seeks to pierce through the veil of death in order to reconcile the loss of his loved ones; he seeks to go beyond the human created …
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Shamanic gender liminality with specific reference to the NatKadaw of Myanmar and the Bissu of Sulawesi.
… of research sets out to discover why co-gendered shamans are flourishing in Myanmar but have all but disappeared on Sulawesi. A review of the literature, firstly, on shamanic liminality in general and, secondly, shamanic gender liminality in particular, reveals that there are three main ways of …
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The structure of Finnish shamanic therapy
… concerned with the structure of the traditional shamanic therapy in the rural Finnish society of the past one hundred years. The emphasis is on the organization of the most salient dimensions of the shaman-client interaction and their causal antecedents.</p><p>As a secondary objective, an …
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Dragon of Skyros : a study on the cultures of the ninth century through creative fiction
… Rus merchants into Austrvegr, to a Khazar shaman plagued by her dreams of destruction and her brother's illness, all of the characters in the novel intertwine through imagery and myth, as a Bulgar monk searching out the missing fragments of Neoptolemus' story meets and brings together the …
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Shamanism and alien abductions : a comparative study
… being abducted by aliens can be compared with shamanic initiation experiences in traditional societies in that both types of experience may be similarly transformative, leading to a more spiritual or animistic world-view, a deep concern for the environment and the development of paranormal …
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六朝志怪小说“厉鬼成神”故事研究 = A STUDY OF THE PHENOMENON OF GHOSTS WHO ACQUIRED GODHOOD FOLLOWING UNNATURAL DEATHS: ZHIGUAI TALES FROM THE SIX DYNASTIES
… The phenomenon was caused partly by local shaman (wu) who devoted efforts to promote their cults, and partly by the state regulation and local policy. At the same time, literati in the Six Dynasties also greatly contributed to the spread of the stories. Furthermore, this thesis focuses on …
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THE ELECTROACOUSTIC TUBA: A STUDY OF SELECTED WORKS FOR TUBA WITH FIXED MEDIA AND LIVE PROCESSED ELECTRONIC ACCOMPANIMENTS
… and two channel digital playback • Alice Gomez – Shaman Returns for tuba, didgeridoo, jingle bells, and CD • Jonathan Harvey – STILL for Tuba and Electronics • Benjamin McMillan – Tomes of Hardened Steel for tuba and CD • Benjamin McMillan – Tomes of the Wanderer for tuba and CD • Peter Meechan – …
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"Fracturing the Space of the Real": Deriving a Korean Queer Theory from the Shamanic Feminist Poetics of Kim Hyesoon
… thesis derives a Korean queer theory from the shamanic feminist poetics of Kim Hyesoon, arguing that her theorization of Korean indigenous spirituality [musok] and the shaman song "Abandoned Princess Baridegi" constitutes a counter-epistemological framework capable of articulating queer …
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Chorus for chimeras: a series of etchings towards the development of a personal iconography incorporating symbols, mythologies and ritual
… of mythologies, their associated rituals and shamanism, are the subjects of this thesis. In a portfolio of twenty-one etchings, I have modified and recontextualised images from a variety of sources as a means to developing a personal iconography. Ritual and the creation of mythologies offer …
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Sending out Your Soul: An Entheogenic Forum Community Explored through Language
… made out of two hallucinogenic plants used by shaman of the upper Amazon regions of South America to send their souls to the supernatural world. The purpose of taking ayahuasca is to receive guidance and knowledge from ancestral and plant spirits in order to heal mental and physical illnesses. …
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THEATER AS A MEDIUM OF HEALING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COPPER THUNDERBIRD BY MARIE CLEMENTS
… was not only a talented artist, but also a Great Shaman and a student of the traditional stories of his people. Marie Clements portrays Morrisseau as someone who moved native art from museums to art galleries. Yet the playwright also boldly portrays the weaknesses and addictions of the painter, as …
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THEATER AS A MEDIUM OF HEALING: A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF COPPER THUNDERBIRD BY MARIE CLEMENTS
… was not only a talented artist, but also a Great Shaman and a student of the traditional stories of his people. Marie Clements portrays Morrisseau as someone who moved native art from museums to art galleries. Yet the playwright also boldly portrays the weaknesses and addictions of the painter, as …
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Through the Eyes of Shamans: Childhood and the Construction of Identity in Rosario Castellanos' "Balun-Canan" and Rudolfo Anaya's "Bless Me, Ultima"
… to creative writing and becomes a sort of shaman who pulls together the "spirits" from the past, selects them, and organizes them in a narration of childhood that is undertaken from adulthood. The results of this enterprise are completely different in the cases of both protagonists because …
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