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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"Shamanism"”.
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Shamanism and alien abductions : a comparative study
… compared with the anthropological literature on shamanism, especially shamanic initiation experiences, from all parts of the world.
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Korean Shamanism and Music: An Analysis of Korean Shamanism and Its Musical Influence with Particular Reference to the Komungo
… Sagi</em> in order to introduce Korean Shamanism and the role of shamanic elements in shaping Korean music and musical instruments, particularly the <em>komungo</em>. Shamanism influenced the formation of court, folk and religious music in Korea and its principles and ideas shaped the …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… it reinforced the pivotal role played by shamanism in the transitional process, and that it was facilitated and maintained by the generation of ongoing socio-ideological stress. Emergence of personal and group individualism during the transition, but particularly in the latter part, saw …
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Origins of sedentism: possible roles of ideology and shamanism in the transition
… it reinforced the pivotal role played by shamanism in the transitional process, and that it was facilitated and maintained by the generation of ongoing socio-ideological stress. Emergence of personal and group individualism during the transition, but particularly in the latter part, saw …
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Homecoming: finding a place for shamanic practice in the creation of post colonial theatre
… might I find a place where dimensions of shamanism might intersect with modes of performance, in the creation of theatre for the 21st Century? In this liminal hybrid moment, a place between the present and the future, I suggest that art is actually necessary and that it is essential for …
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Shaman as Saviour? The Trope of the Amazonian Shaman in Recent Latin American Literature and Film
… 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 interested in radical social change. Meanwhile, shamanic tourism attracts …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
… particularly his active employment of myth and shamanism, and his concern with the socially transformative potential of art.
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THE SALIENCE OF MEDICAL CULTURE IN AMAZONIAN ECUADOR
… though connected to the same sources as shamanism is fragmented and individualized.
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Gloria E. Anzaldúa’s "art as a mode of research": Applications in feminist research methods and feminist rhetoric
… on creativity, conocimiento, nepantla, and shamanism.
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How to do things with petroglyphs: the rock art of Nevada
… of rock art interpretation (hunting-magic and shamanism) have produced significant bodies of research, I argue that both are based on faulty Anthropological theory and produce theorisations which are one dimensional because of the focus on rock art imagery at the expense of site contexts. …
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Ak Jang in the context of Altai religious tradition
… Siberia. It strongly opposed itself to Shamanism, which was considered to be the “core” tradition of Altaians. The initial persecution of the movement by the Russian colonial administration did not stop its spread and development. It was widely practiced in Altai until 1930 when it was …
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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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Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty
… It considers too, the role of architecture, shamanism, and the state in appropriating and governing uncertainty. By following the fieldwork of geophysicists and volcanologists in observatories and the edge of the caldera of Mount Merapi, as well as spirit possession practices, and the ritual …
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Performing psychic: the performance of mentalism and psychic arts on stage, screen, and in everyday life
… entirely or conflated with conjuring tricks or shamanism. This conflation is understandable given the secrecy, artifice, and misinformation which enshroud the shapeshifting performances of mentalists and psychics. The aim of this practice-led research was to – through both embodied and …
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The Origins and Development of English Folk Plays
… pre- Christian fertility ritual, and primitive shamanism. All three proposals were based on over-general comparisons, and relied on the key assumption that a continuous history can be traced back from before modern plays to the relevant era. However, in contrast with other customs, no evidence …
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Mnemodrama : Alessandro Fersen's parashamanic training technique for the occidental performer.
… conference on Performance, Ritual and Shamanism organised by the Centre for Performance Research and held in Cardiff in January 1993. Finally, the appendices contain Fersen's essential justification for his research, from which the arguments of this thesis have been developed. The …
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Communication Between Human and Non-Corporeal Entities: A Comparison Between Lived Experience and Cultural Expectation
… established within three spiritual traditions: Shamanism, Spiritualism, and New Age. While these traditions differ in historical origin, cultural framework, and modes of ritual expression, each provides sanctioned avenues and methodologies through which practitioners engage with beings perceived …
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Unangax̂ Mummies as Whalers: A Multidisciplinary Contextualization of Human Mummification in the Aleutian Islands
… examined through the paradigms of liminality and shamanism. Members were initiated into a spiritual and dangerous world, which thereby elevated their status in the community. It is proposed that whalers also performed the mummification. This interpretation advances the study Unangax̂ mortuary …
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