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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"amulets"”.
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To wear and to see: object biographies and the history of mobility in the late nineteenth-century/early twentieth-century Western Indian Ocean
… Chapter three analyzes a collection of xirsi—amulets containing pieces of the Qur’an—from Somalia, divided among three American institutions. The overarching theme of this chapter is the comparison of “macro-mobility,” the movement of the amulets from Somalia to the United States, and …
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The symbolism of the eye in Mesopotamia and Israel
… East, including pottery, sculpture, idols of amulets, seals, cuneiform texts and the literature of the Old Testament. The central concern in this study is to bring together under one cover the iconography of the eye and its meaning from the cultures of Mesopotamia and Israel. The human eye has …
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Taken to the grave. An archaeozoological approach assessing the role of animals as crematory offerings in first millennium AD Britain.
… as representing food offerings, companions, amulets, gaming items and sacrifices. This thesis demonstrates that cremated animal bone should not be disregarded but rather valued as source of archaeozoological data, and a significant functional tool for interpreting past funerary behaviour and …
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Childbirth Beliefs and Practices in England, c. 1400-1580
… prayers, saints’ lives, charms and textual amulets, the thesis relocates and contextualises childbirth therapeutics within late medieval devotion and healing practices. The childbirth space, often considered static and enclosed, is argued here to be dynamic and porous, allowing for a …
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Nathaniel Hawthorne's use of mesmerism in four major works
… between people, somnambulism, gold chains and amulets, mesmerism, and much more. Some of the characters Hawthorne created have a strange power or control over others. There are numerous references to mediums and trances. In addition one finds a recurring theme in Hawthorne's major works--man's …
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Shi in Architecture: the Efficacy of Traditional Chinese Doors
This dissertation explores the concept of shi manifested in traditional Chinese architecture by examining the efficacy of the traditional Chinese house doors. Three connotations of the concept of shi derived from different philosophical schools of thought during the Warring States Period: the …
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Material Prayers: The Use of Text in Early Modern Italian Domestic Devotions
While scholarship often focuses on how early modern Italians used images in their devotions, particularly in the post-Tridentine era, little attention has been placed upon how laypeople engaged with devotional text during times of prayer and in their everyday lives. Studies of early modern …