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Everyday Rituals
<p>This thesis traces the trajectory of Chen Gu’s work over a three year period, looking at major influences such as Bustos and Saville, on her painting and film projects. She explores the concept of childhood, memory, and portraiture.</p>
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Morning Rituals
<p>A collection of poetry exploring identity and emotion in imagined and real settings.</p>
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Queering Religions Schooling: Teaching, Values, Rituals
… values; and participating in religious school rituals), and translates its insights across to religious discourses and communities through an engagement with queer Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologies and life narratives. As well as interrupting the religious/queer divide, these …
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Site-specific performance rituals in the Anthropocene
… PhD, I investigated site-specific performance rituals in the Anthropocene. Driven by the urge to respond to the challenges of the current time, I examined how different seasonal rituals might be expressed in specific sites in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Furthermore, including participants from …
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Semiose des Rituals : eine Kritik ritualtheoretischer Begriffsbildung
Jens Kreinath: Semiose des Rituals: Eine Kritik ritualtheoretischer Begriffsbildung. Dissertation. Universität Heidelberg 2006. Gegenstand der vorliegenden Arbeit sind die Begriffsbildungsprozesse in der gegenwärtigen Ritualtheorie. Diese werden mit Hilfe des von Charles Sanders Peirce eingeführten …
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Celebration of place : processional rituals and urban form
The celebration of processional rituals of festivity is a significant, dynamic, social and temporal dimension of the static form of the built environment. This study endeavors to understand the means by which meaning was added to the form, space and character of the built environment by these …
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Consumer identity & Nigerian wedding rituals : a blended netnography approach
(Global) White wedding rituals is the chosen consumption sphere for this study due to its preference for intense consumption of symbolic artefacts and its global reach. The materialistic tendency of the global white wedding allows for its infiltration and deterritorialised usage in most local …
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The religion of Manipur : beliefs, rituals, and historical development
… gods respectively, The elaborate traditional rituals concerned every aspect of life, from domestic and agricultural rituals to rites of passage. The public festivals were especially important, especially Cheiraoba (the New Year festival) and the Lai Haraoba, a composite festival of 'pleasing …
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The religion of Manipur : beliefs, rituals, and historical development
… gods respectively, The elaborate traditional rituals concerned every aspect of life, from domestic and agricultural rituals to rites of passage. The public festivals were especially important, especially Cheiraoba (the New Year festival) and the Lai Haraoba, a composite festival of 'pleasing …
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Rituals of Power in Southern Africa: an Investigation of the Healing Dance of the !Kung in the Context of African Rituals of Power
The San !Kung, or !Kung Bushmen, are peoples of the Kalahari desert in southern Africa. This thesis describes and explains certain aspects of !Kung healing, within the context of community-wide dances. The dance is the primary setting for the relationship between the !Kung and their gods and …
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Patterns in the project managers’ rhythms, habits, routines and rituals
… in the project manager's habits, routines and rituals. The research question is as follows: What rhythms, habits, routines and rituals do project managers have? And what patterns can we find in them? Qualitative research methods based on grounded theory were used, and the research scope was …
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THEATRE OF LIFE: RITUALS, TRANSITION AND PROGRESSION AMONG THE IGBO
… the fact that the study and understanding of rituals do not have to be a schematic nightmare neither do they have to prove that they belong to either the dramatic or theatrical genres - rituals are just what they are - performance. Rituals reflect life in action, and this study has …
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Agenda S. Coloniensis : the exorcism rituals of Ferdinand von Bayern
"By the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Catholic Counter-Reformation was already well underway in Europe. While Catholic reform had been taking place long before Luther and his ninety-five theses, the Council of Trent (1545-1563) was an integral part of the revitalization of Catholic …
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Destination marriage? The diagnostic role of rituals in dating relationships
… a partner’s marriage eligibility. Engaging in rituals is one area where couples have the opportunity to see their partners in a new light as well as assess commitment. Although rituals have impactful roles in married couples, there is a dearth of research when it comes to ritual activity in …
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Rituals of health : new healing spaces for Khayelitsha district hospital
… be realised that reflect cultural difference, rituals and practices and which respond to a South African condition.
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