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Ceremonial music of Japan
<p>Ceremonial music in Japan is a type of music used to celebrate special occasions in special places, e.g., to honor the Emperor on his birthday, or for other special celebrations at a shrine.</p><p>In Japanese, the character for ceremonial music is written 雅楽 (pronounced Gagaku). The character 雅 …
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Mazique (22AD502): Late Woodland Village or Vacant Ceremonial Center?
… residential population or function as a vacant ceremonial center? That is the primary research question I explored in my thesis using artifact density maps, excavations, and ceramic and lithic analysis. Artifact density maps show that the range of activities at Mazique, with both ceramics and …
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The sociology of recurrent ceremonial drama: Lewes Guy Fawkes Night, 1800-1913
… Guy Fawkes Night celebrations as a recurrent ceremonial drama. This strategy demonstrates the gradual process of change within Lewes, as reflected in the slowly evolving form of the celebrations, indicating the existence of a relatively stable community touched, but not radically altered, by …
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Tradiciones académicas, ceremonial y protocolo en la Universidad de Oviedo (1608-1908)
… normas y privilegios, sino también su lenguaje ceremonial, plagado de elementos comunes con el resto de los estudios europeos. Esta investigación pone de manifiesto cómo a estos componentes importados la ovetense añadió otros propios, como por ejemplo su escudo, y con unos y otros elaboró su …
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Archaeobotanical Analyses of the Winterville Mounds Site (22ws500) and Other Southeastern Ceremonial Complexes
… configured and utilized to identify the possible ceremonial and medicinal use plants. At Winterville Mounds Site a Chi Square statistical analysis utilizing maize and purslane inclusions from four features identified a negative correlation between the two, suggesting a distinction between food …
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Daughters Bring In: Ceremonial and Social Organization of the Black Carib of Belize
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-14T05:35:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 7726687.pdf: 16079527 bytes, checksum: c715e0f8908cbb48ea7bae13f57e98c7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1977
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Ukubaluleka kwenhlanzeko ekuphathweni komsebenzi wabadala: The importance of ritual purity in ancestoral ceremonial performance
Ukubaluleka kwenhlanzeko ekuphathweni komsebenzi wabadala wucwaningo olumpande zalo ziphuza emajukujukwini empilo yomuntu ongum-Afrika nesiko lakhe kanjalo futhi zibe zilunguza esikweni lomZulu phaqa. Ukulondolozwa kwamasiko omdabu yiwona mthambo ongumnyoluka wempilo noyinjulalwazi ngemvelaphi …
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An anthropological investigation into the facial preservation of ceremonial tsantsa and commercial shrunken heads
… a forensic art and anthropological perspective. ‘Ceremonial tsantsa’ refers to shrunken heads mummified as war trophies within the ancient traditions and rituals of the Shuar, Achuar, Awajún, Wampís and Candoshi (SAAWC), within the primitive conditions of the Amazon rainforest. ‘Commercial …
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Ritual ceremonial life: song text and spirit manifestation among the Zezuru People of Hwedza, Zimbabwe
… spirit manifestation in a Zezuru bira rematendo ceremonial performance. I further report on the origin of songs performed at bira rematendo ritual ceremonies for the purpose of creating a conducive environment for spirit manifestation. Three theoretical frameworks guide the research, these are …
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An Analysis of Architecture and Power in the Ceremonial Centers of the South Appalachian Mississippian Built Environment
… distribution and leadership. The construction of ceremonial space in the Mississippian built environment was used in the production and maintenance of inequality, and was constructed at multiple scales that reflected Mississippian ideology. The repetitive structure constructed across the landscape …
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The chapel and the chamber: ceremonial dining and religious ritual at the court of King Charles I
… behavior and material culture associated with ceremonial dining at the court of King Charles I of England (b.1600 – d.1649). Employing archival sources that have heretofore been underutilized by historians of seventeenth-century England, this study reconstructs the king’s dining ceremonies and …
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WE SUBDUED THE BODY BUT NOT THE COURAGE': POPULAR LITERATURE, SOVEREIGN AUTHORITY, AND CEREMONIAL RITES OF POWER DURING THE DUTCH REVOLT, 1550-1598'
… visual renderings and written accounts of public ceremonials, and songs, poems, and placards published between 1550 and 1598, this dissertation creates a comprehensive analysis of the religio-political relations and social change in the Low Countries. My work draws upon the premises that appeared …
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