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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"animism"”.
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Animism in Whitman: "Multitudes" of Interpretations?
… Endlessly Rocking," and Specimen Days. The term animism can be traced to the Latin root of the word, anime, which connotes a "soul" or "vitality." So, when one is talking about animistic techniques, one is speaking of the (metaphoric or realistic) ensoulment of natural objects. In the wake of a …
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Animism in two generations: an investigation of selected personality factors
… present study focused on Piaget (1929) theory of animism because animistic beliefs were believed, by Piaget, to be the most basic form of thinking. If this is indeed the case then the study of animism should lead to understanding the very basis for an individual's conception of the world. Several …
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Buried Feelings, Standing Stones: Secularity, Animism, and Late-Victorian Pagan Revivalism
… two, I show how ideas of “primitivity” and “animism” put forth by John Lubbock and E. B. Tylor influence what Matthew Arnold and Walter Pater debate as “the pagan sentiment.” The rest of the project concerns forms of what I call “pagan affectations,” authorial personae which cultivate …
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Transparent animism: a framework for participating in ecological design as agonism
Transparent Animism is a framework for landscape architects to participate in ecological design as agonism. We are experiencing an anthropogenic ecological crisis and are in need of new ways to relate to the rest of the biosphere. Through animism, an ontological order where humans and nonhumans are …
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Interconnected In-Between: On the dynamics of abjection, animism, temporality and location in nomadic art practice
… notions such as ‘becoming’ (Gilles Deleuze) and animism (Anselm Franke), and to local knowledge and nomadic discourses (Rosi Braidotti). I do this in order to examine how oppositional relations between the Self and the Other and dualistic concepts might be transformed. I evaluate my research in …
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"Let heaven kiss earth!": The Function of Humanism and Animism in Shakespeare's Richard II and Henry IV, Parts I and II
… this divide, and he shows humanism triumph over animism when Henry deposes Richard. In 1 Henry IV, Shakespeare shows that this binary is not so easily reconciled, and Hal (the future Henry V) creates a dual nature that subsumes the tenets of both animism and humanism. After the death of his …
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Religious objects and performance : testing the role of materiality
… and negotiated. Using the discourses of animism and fetishism to test the role of materiality, this thesis further considers how making offerings to statues exemplifies a form of Western animism (different from Tylorean animism where alien spirits inhabit dead matter) where objects and …
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Nature and Culture Among the Maya in Rural Belize
… Maya of Belize. The theories of symbolism, animism, and totemism, help to explain how and why nature is so essential to the Maya way of life. Throughout this thesis, I will explore such intricacies ascribed to the Maya’s worldview on nature and culture, as represented in the culture of the …
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A production of alterity: The Wayãpi of the Upper Oyapock and isolated groups
… within naturalism, with only a few cases of animism. This research contributes to a better understanding not only of sociality in general, but also of sociocosmological patterns in Lowland South America. Furthermore, ascertaining how the sedentary Wayãpi see the isolated groups and how this …
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Unfolding Imagos: an inquiry into the aesthetics of Action-Phenomenology
… are with everyday realities, radical proposals—animism, enchantment, non-ordinary ways of knowing and being— don’t often find room: in our everyday lives, workplaces, relationships; or in action-inquiry. The body of this inquiry reflects the qualities of what Bachelard terms an immense …
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Soul searching : an exploration of the relationship between technology and soul through the interpretation of contemporary visual texts
… earthly and material existence (Hoeller 2012). Animism, in turn, maintains that the lifeless has life, spirit and soul, and therefore provides characteristics of living things to inanimate things and events (Hornborg 2006:1). Finally, physicalism asserts that there is nothing more to the world …
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Kwasuka Sukela: re-imagined bodies of a (South African) 1990s born woman
… to the interplay of public and private domains. Animism and Ubuntu form part of the spiritual agency that is present in this work. Collectively these works narrate resistance and self-assertion in response to dominant ideologies in the public space.
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"Put on the kettle:" study on identifying theoretical premises of Muskego and Asini Cree counselling methods
… Indigenous forms of counselling are grounded on animism and are predominantly intuitive in nature. Although this philosophical basis is in diametric opposition with Western academic psychology, it is no less valid, just different. This study identifies methodologies to demonstrate that there are …
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The fire in the mind: memory, myth & matter
… to new materialism, botanical paradigms and neo-animism. My work borrows from the metalanguage of mythology and ancient belief systems to mediate between ideas of conscious and unconscious, memory and imagination, nature and culture, past and present. The essential thread that runs through my …
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Family ministry perceptions and practices in Hmong Christian and Missionary Alliance Churches: a multiple case study
… (C&MA). Prior to conversion, the Hmong practiced animism, shamanism, ancestral worship, and reincarnation. Children were religiously instructed through informal, oral, experiential, and intergenerational learning. The home was the central shrine for religious instruction via altars, offerings, …
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Living Paint: Tempera and Knowledge in the Surrealist Art of Leonora Carrington, Sylvia Fein, and Gerrie Gutmann
… their respective interests, notably occultism, animism, and abjection. Chapter One formulates a material meaning for tempera specific to Leonora Carrington’s occult-feminist paradigm, touching on its magical efficacy and her definition of matter as “thinking substance.” In Chapter Two, I …
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Cahokia's origins: Religion, complexity and ridge-top mortuaries in the Mississippi River Valley
… theoretical lens of relational ontology and ‘New Animism’ I investigate how Cahokia’s emergence was intrinsically tied to the practice of a new religion. Rather than focusing on religion as a product of the evolutionary development of Native American persons in North America, this study examines …
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"EVERY 'ONE' AND EVERY 'THING' CAN BE LOVED": A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF NETWORKED SELF-REPRESENTATION BY THE OBJECTùM SEXUALITY COMMUNITY
… devices, purposes of OSI, orientation, animism, sensuality/intimacy, nonverbal communication, love, gender, attraction, marriage, medicalization, and the Red Fence. The processes of teleaction that emerge include verbal, nonverbal, hybrid, and symbolic actors. These four layers then led …
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Constructing a Theology of Relational Life Through the Themes of Creation, Incarnation, and Re-Creation as an Alternative to Current Categories of Religions
… Taoism, Confucianism, Islam, Christianity, animism, folk religions, tribal religions, atheism, Marxism, etc. In the space created by deconstructing the categories of religions a constructive theology of relational life rooted in the biblical themes of creation, Incarnation, and re-creation …
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STEWARDSHIP IN WEST AFRICAN VODUN: A CASE STUDY OF OUIDAH, BENIN
Indigenous, animistic religions inherently convey a close relationship and stewardship for the environment. This stewardship is very apparent in the region of southern Benin, Africa. The Fon peoples of this region practice a traditional religion termed Vodun, which manifested from the 17th century …
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