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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"effigy"”.
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Constructing community and cosmos : a bioarchaeological analysis of Wisconsin Effigy Mound mortuary practices and mound construction
… A BIOARCHAEOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF WISCONSIN EFFIGY MOUND MORTUARY PRACTICES AND MOUND CONSTRUCTIONByWendy Lee Lackey-CornelisonThis dissertation presents an analysis of the mounds, human skeletal remains, grave goods, and ritual paraphernalia interred within mounds traditionally categorized …
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Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes In Canadian Comic Books
… between nationalism and the superheroic effigy in domestically produced Canadian superhero comics, with an eye on how Indigenous superhero comics published within Canada may enrich or complicate this landscape. Domestically produced comics and/or graphic novels are defined in this thesis …
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Investigation of bench methods for determining stiffness of solid ankle-foot orthoses
… two objectives: 1. To fabricate and document an effigy leg suitable for the stiffness testing of an AFO. 2. To measure and compare the stiffness of an AFO with/without the presence of the effigy leg by means of different stiffness-measuring methods. The results of this study indicate that the …
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Revolutionary Forms: Unsettling Dance Through Site-Relational and Transformative Aesthetics
… creating short screendance works House, Bed Effigy, and Garden, I shift my improvisational approach from site-interactive to site-relational. Stretching or transforming aspects of the form, I develop ways to use screendance and online performance to account for my actual, emplaced location as …
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Roesia De Verdun, Thirteenth Century Femme Sole
… artefacts such as her seals and tomb effigy alongside her architectural and religious foundations. These objects reveal how Roesia curated her public image and asserted agency through symbolic representation. By tracing her influence across familial, legal, and commemorative domains, …
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Welcome Home to Black Rock City: Urban Geography of the Burn
… and is centered annually on a symbolic towering effigy, but the playa canvas provides ample room for communal architecture and services. Citizen engagement occurs do-ocratically in an environment without economic and administrative limitations to encourage creative productions that are …
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The Sempiternal Nature of Architectural-Conservation and the Unfinished Building and Drawing
… opera of graphic architecture, realizing a real effigy. Alfarano factured a track-drawing, providing memory traces on the drawing-site, which, acting like a veil, bear marks of the building's presence within time. The ichnography makes visible a "hallowed configuration", conceived as a substratum …
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AURAL SUBSTANCE: AN ETHNOGRAPHIC EXPLORATION OF REGIONAL BURN SOUNDSCAPES
… On the penultimate night of the event, an effigy of a forty-foot man is set aflame, a ritual left open for interpretation by participants. Two days later, the entirety of Black Rock City is torn down, leaving scarcely any trace that it ever even existed. Burning Man has gained social …
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Visual Culture Of The Santals And Their Image: Myth, Morals And Materiality
Many Indian tribes have a rich and diverse repertoire of material produce, and among them the Santal artistic heritage is not only little known, but also reveals deeply existential imperatives through its mythology and history. The purpose of this thesis has been two-fold – firstly, to …