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Showing 1 to 20 of 987 for “"ritual"”.
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Desubjectification and Ritual Process
… arises from an intention to negotiate psychospiritual suffering, by transmuting impulses of self destruction and violence into ceremonial and ritual processes. This work incorporates various methods into its scope, including video, performance, sculpture, painting, and gardening.
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Signifying practices : Amaxhosa ritual speech
… Religion with specific focus on the role of ritual speech in AmaXhosa religious practice way of religious practice. Written from the perspective of an academic and a practitioner, the thesis attempts to further a clearer understanding of amaXhosa practice of African Traditional Religion as …
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Ritual space : an urban monastery
Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1990.
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The Diagnosis Narratives & The Healing Ritual
… <p>THE DIAGNOSIS NARRATIVES & THE HEALING RITUAL</p> <p>by JAMES PETER MEZA</p> <p>December 2013</p> <p>Advisor: Dr. Andrea Sankar</p> <p>Major: Anthropology (medical)</p> <p>Degree: Doctor of Philosophy</p> <p> The goal of this dissertation was to describe healing practices in the setting …
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Threshold moves : a ritual poetry practice
This thesis identifies and explores a practice of ritual poetry. Drawing on creative writing and embodied ritual practice, as well as theory from poetry, performance and anthropology, I form new theoretical and practical understandings of a field of ritual poetry. The thesis is driven by and …
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To What They Saw As Ritual
Poetry Collection
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To What They Saw As Ritual
Poetry Collection
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Running Identities and Interaction Ritual Chains
This thesis links two theories, Interaction Ritual Chains (IRC) with Identity Control Theory (ICT), through a multi-method study of group training programs for beginning runners. First, group training programs are identified as IRCs. Second, we see that IRCs produce identities within individuals …
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Ritual prehistory: A pueblo case study.
What is the behavioral evidence of ritual prehistory? How can the development of new archaeological method and theory enable prehistorians to identify ritual deposits and reconstruct the ritual past? This dissertation addresses these questions in a case study of puebloan sites in the U.S. …
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Ritual and religion: Responses to positivism
… work is intended to shed light on the nature of ritual conduct, both within and without a religious context, by critically examining positivist construals of such conduct and showing them to be inadequate. The discussion consists of three parts. Part 1 sketches out the central features of Vienna …
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Ritual elements : a cemetery in Montana
… this process I reflect upon the expression of ritual, loss, and remembrance.
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Elizabeth Madox Roberts : Ritual, Selfhood and Sisterhood
… shared Miss Roberts' social, political and spiritual era. Beginning with an Everyman figure in "The Sonnet of Jack," Miss Roberts takes her from "bare breath," through "points of contact" with others and her own inner self, to a self-defined, self-directed being in the last two novels. The …
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Irish neo-paganism: worldview, ritual and identity
… is an umbrella term for a wide range of spiritual practices, often described as nature- or earth-based spirituality. There are different “paths” or spiritual traditions within this movement, of which Druidry, Wicca and other forms of Pagan Witchcraft are included in this research. The …
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Coffee and golf : a Monday night ritual
This paper is concerned with the examination of the social elements of golf coaching: to study the relationship of coach and golfer(s) and the societies they form. Data was collected at a golf teaching facility during an 8-month-long ethnographical study. The group was made up of four beginning …
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Shifting sounds: music as a ritual of transformation
This project explores music performance as a ritual, arguing that its performative form reflects and reinforces a particular worldview and its concomitant social structures and relations. It proposes a definition of a standard Western form of music performance, identifying it to be based on a …
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Neo-paganism: ritual forged by the Burning Times
… two means. First, it can be seen, through Ritual practice within Pagan covens. Second, the Burning Times can be seen when Pagans make the decision whether to be “outâ€� or closeted. Throughout both of these areas of study, the element of ambivalence can be seen.
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