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Showing 1 to 20 of 150 for “"rite"”.
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The Rite of Becoming
… As my primary object I will analyze The Rite of Spring. The piece with music by Igor Stravinsky and original choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky will help us trace how dance can ignite plasticity. I will analyze Nijinsky’s version and two iterations by Pina Bausch and Jose Vidal. The Rite of …
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Red of Split Water: A Burial Rite
<p>The following creative dissertation is a fictional exploration of several modes of trauma, including historical and personal events.</p>
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Translations upon cinema as a psychotherapeutic rite
The following retraces the path of a director tracing the path of a muse from early Spring 1979 through January 1981. What resulted was a form of psychodrama enveloping the cast, crew, and director in the making of an autobiographical feature film, "The Flower of Pain." As the lessons of life are …
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The Archaeology of Mortuary Ritual as Rite of Passage in Prehistoric Europe
… ways in which mortuary ritual functioned as a rite of passage at three sites in prehistoric Europe: Wor Barrow on Cranborne Chase, Tumulus 17 in the Speckhau Mound Group at the Heuneburg, and the Hochdorf tomb in southwestern Germany. The sites were selected with diversity among the dimensions …
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The adult volunteer instructors' rite of initiation: training as a socialization process
Adult volunteer instructor training is an important transaction in the dissemination of community health courses to citizens in schools, worksites, religious organizations, and recreational centers. Yet prior to this study little was known about this process by which an individual was transformed …
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Scenic shifts upon the Scottish rite stage: designing for Masonic Theatre, 1859-1929.
… proposes that the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry captivated members and offered a unique fraternal experience when they completely and successfully staged their fraternal ceremonies, moving portions of their ritual from the lodge room floor to the elevated stage. Exploring …
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Rite of Association: The Figure of the Secret Society and Victorian Democratic Debate
"Individual chapters focus on the contextually-specific role that the figure of the secret society was made to play in England during several key moments of democratic stress, including the passage of the Catholic Relief Act (1829), the trial of the Glasgow Spinners (1838), the controversy over …
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Cum illi Graeci sint, nos Latini : Western Rite Orthodoxy and the Eastern Orthodox Church
… that differed from the majority Western Rite (in the form of the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, which remained in communion with Rome after the official break with Constantinople), the Christian East was exclusively composed of Churches celebrating the Byzantine Rite for approximately …
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Theoretical and experimental analysis of a regeneratirve turbine pump, the Sta-Rite H-7
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1953
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La danse du Tutuguri ou le rite du soleil noir : une performance textuelle d'Antonin Artaud.
… of Artaud's poetic language in "Tutuguri, The Rite of the Dark Sun," a poem he created for a radio play 'To Have Done with the Judgment of God. In my conclusions, I argue that the author performs his poetry like a ritual; in other words, he uses language in a performative manner, and the page …
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The impact of Sikenge initation rite on women in Western province:A case study of Mongu District
… effects of the Lozi people's Sikenge initiation rite on women's behaviour. The study was conducted in Mongu district of Western Province of Zambia. Data were collected using qualitative methods. Primary data were collected through in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions. The …
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The impact of Sikenge initation rite on women in Western province:A case study of Mongu District
… effects of the Lozi people's Sikenge initiation rite on women's behaviour. The study was conducted in Mongu district of Western Province of Zambia. Data were collected using qualitative methods. Primary data were collected through in-depth interviews and Focus Group Discussions. The …
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Experimental investigations of the pressure distribution in a regenerative turbine pump, the Sta-Rite TH-7
Thesis: B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 1953
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Bleeding cuts, magical spells, sealed hymens: A study of the rite of <i>Tasfih</i> in Algeria
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The Irish revolutionary period as a rite of passage: things hidden since the foundation of the state
… 'liminality', elaborated from the form of a 'rite of passage'; the crucial role of 'masters of ceremonies' (van Gennep (1960), Turner (1967), Szakolczai (2000), Horvath (2008), Thomassen (2008)); 'schismogenesis' (Bateson, 1979); 'mimesis', violence, sacrifice and the scapegoat mechanism …
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Trickster-hero and rite of passage: effects of traditionally west African folklore forms on postcolonial Afro-Caribbean literature
… literature. It argues that Afro-Caribbean writers deliberately utilize these tropes in order to separate themselves from a vestigial European cultural presence. The three main tropes and characters studied in this thesis are rites of passage, Trickster, and Hero. A hybrid character that …
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Individual Disengagement of "Turkish Penitents" from Political Violence as Rite of Passage: Voices from the Cracks of Social Structure
This dissertation explores the notion of individual disengagement from political violence in Turkey by reconstructing the lives of 13 'formers' whom I call the Turkish Penitents. Its specific aim is to compare and contrast the experiences of those individuals who left various politically-motivated …
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Tam Grecos Quam Latinos: A Reinterpretation of Structural Change in Eastern-Rite Monasticism in Medieval Southern Italy, 11th-12th Centuries
… policy of ‘latinisation’ with regards to Eastern-rite monasteries. This thesis will argue, however, that this conceptual framework obscures more important long-term economic and social factors that affected Germany, Italy and Byzantium alike. Having outlined the political and social context of …
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