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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"Victor Turner"”.
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Charro Days: History, Culture, and Identity on the U.S.-Mexico Border
… are those of Clifford Geertz, Sherry Ortner, and Victor Turner. Charro Days is a critical node in the process of creating meaning and identity. This thesis provides insights to how the community uses symbols during Charro Days to create, negotiate, and express a unique bicultural identity.
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Formen der javanischen Pilgerschaft zu Heiligenschreinen
… des pilgerschaftstheoretischen Ansatzes von Victor Turner. <br>In den einführenden Kapiteln werden zunächst javanische Vorstellungen über die jenseitige Welt sowie javanische Rituale vorgestellt. Darauf aufbauend wird die Rolle ritueller Spezialisten analysiert und eine enge Verbindung …
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Rough music, rough dance, rough play : misrule and Morris dance
… behaviour by Mikhail Bakhtin and liminality by Victor Turner, the basic conditions of misrule are reviewed and illuminated. Then the symbols and behaviour of modern and premodern Morris dance are subjected to comparison and contrast with the result that modern Morris dance will be shown to have …
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Betwixt girl and woman: A qualitative exploration of Hispanic girls' perceptions and values about menarche
… Hispanic females within the framework of Victor Turner's (1969) liminal theory. An emphasis was placed on how each girl experienced the socialization process of reproductive education and how each girl experienced the liminal stage of pre-adolescence. The sample consisted of 12 …
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An African Dream Play = Isivuno Sama Phupha : reconstructing the spirit of ubuntu in the contemporary urban 'village' through theatre
… historical context. It draws on the theories of Victor Turner, specifically his concepts 'liminality' and 'communitas' and his idea of the social drama. It then traces the evolution of my theatrical research: first through an interest in cultural and religious practices prevalent in the townships …
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The relationship between specialist and non-specialist identities in a dialogical art practice
… Ranciere, Judith Butler, Erving Goffman and Victor Turner have been foundational to the formulating of the research. The practical works are discussed in detail and outline the inquiry into the role that pedagogical institutions and the marketplace have in forming knowledge identity. These …
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A Structural-Functional Analysis of the Poetics of Arabic Qaṣīdah: An Ethnolinguistic Study of Three Qaṣīdahs on Colonial Conquest of Africa by Al-ḥājj ῾Umar b. Abī Bakr b. ῾Uthmān Krachi (1858-1934)
… the theoretical formulations of van Gennep and Victor Turner regarding the ritual transformational tripartite process of the Rite of Passage. Following Professor Suzanne Stetkevych's pioneering study of the Arabic qaṣīdah, 'Umar's qaṣīdah have been examined as representing the trajectory of a …
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Pilgrimage Narrative: A Pattern for Heavenly Theatre in King Lear
… on Christian pilgrimage by the anthropologist Victor Turner and his wife Edith Turner, and go on to explore how the pilgrimage narrative is deeply embedded in King Lear. I will then conclude that this pilgrimage narrative parallels in many respects the journey of Jesus Christ, and how this …
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Uncivilized women and erotic strategies of border zones or demythologizing the romance of conquest
… a zone of cultural mingling that resembles Victor Turner's concept of "liminality" referring to states or persons that elude classification. This study considers the repercussions of colonization on the lives of women characters in novels about four different "post-colonial" contexts--Native …
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Marina Carr's Hauntings: Liminality and the Addictive Society On and Off the Stage
… is trapped either in a liminal state, defined by Victor Turner as a phase in a rites of passage process, or in a patriarchal addictive society, defined by Anne Wilson Schaef as a society in which the power is maintained and perpetuated by white males with the help of all members of society …
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Co-creating at the threshold : a dialogical approach to festival planning at a Cape Town Waldorf school
… approach, the teachers experienced what Victor Turner calls communitas, a liminal, threshold state of creativity, changed relationships, and potentiality. I demonstrate through teachers' statements that by remaining on the threshold of these often conflicting ideas, the teachers found in …
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Homecoming: finding a place for shamanic practice in the creation of post colonial theatre
… with the findings of Richard Schechner, Victor Turner, Antonin Artaud, Peter Sellars, Jerzy Grotowski, Alison Oddey and Rachel Karafistan.
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Tracking the Cougar: Performing the Over-Thirty-Five Single Woman In Everyday Life and Media Representations
… effects a sort of social drama as proposed by Victor Turner. She breaches the social norms for women of a certain age, foments a sort of crisis by traversing these norms and inevitably must reintegrate with the social order to avoid the stigma created by her social breach or remain an outcast …
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The transformation of public space : mobile technology practices and urban liminalities
… theory initially developed by anthropologist Victor Turner from observations of tribal ritual (1967, 1974a, 1974b, 1977a, 1977b, 1982, 1985)—a theory that has much to say on the concepts and processes of transformation. This constructs a unique critique of claims that mobile technology …
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National Powers of Belief: Folklore, Mythology and Festival in Nazi Germany
… festival in Chapter Five, using the theories of Victor Turner, Alessandro Falassi, and Barbara Myerhoff. In addition, I use the theories of John Dorst concerning ethnography in a postmodern society and performance folkloristics to analyze the verbal art and performances at the rallies. Finally, I …
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Intézményesített szubkultúra? Az ellenállás mint a formális nevelés eszköze = Institutionalized subculture? Resistance as an instrument of formal education
… antropológiai megközelítést alkalmaztam. Victor Turner rítuselemzéshez alkalmazott koncepcióját és fogalmait, ill. Clifford Geertz kultúra-megközelítését használtam, és a ’mindennapi élet rítusainak’ sűrű leírását igyekeztem létrehozni. A diákházi diskurzust úgy mutatom be, hogy leírom 1) …
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Battle of the Bains: Tactical Bathing in Two Expository Texts, One Film and a Novella
… not passive, odalisques. In this work I draw on Victor Turner's theories of Social Drama, and Michel de Certeau's concepts of strategies and tactics. My intervention is that, despite often seeming orientalist, these baths also act as social spaces of politically reactive liminoid acts: 'playful' …