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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"spirit possession"”.
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Invoking heterogeneous cultural identities through Thokoza sangoma spirit possession
This thesis has been indefinitely embargoed, as per the Senate Executive Committee decision on 10 May 2016.
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Singing With the Spirits: Musical Life in Sao Luis, Northeast Brazil
… de Mina, is part of a complex of African-based spirit-possession religions characterized by a unique organizational structure, ritual calendar, set of musical practices, and cosmological beliefs. The second, Cura , takes place within sacred enclosures of Tambor de Mina centers and is strongly …
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Stairway to Aruanda: Creating an Accessible Spiritual World in the Religion of Umbanda
… religion of Umbanda creates an accessible spiritual world based on inclusion. Past research on the phenomena of spirit possession/incorporation has led to a solid grouping of theories which have been argued to a state of stagnation. These theoretical studies have proven how possession is an …
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六朝至唐宋间神鬼附体故事研究 - 以《太平广记》、《夷坚志》为核心 = SPIRIT POSSESSION FROM THE SIX DYNASTIES TO THE TANG-SONG PERIOD: EVIDENCE FROM THE TAIPING GUANGJI AND THE YIJIAN ZHI
This thesis aims to study the stories about spirit possession and events from the Six Dynasties (220-589) to the Tang (618-907) and the Song (960-1279) Dynasties in Taiping Guangji and Yijian zhi,. First of all, an analysis of the subjects, objects, and methods is conducted in order to illustrate …
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The significance of music in the performance of svikwembu ritual practices amongst the Shangana Tsonga people of semi-urban southern Mozambique
… of svikwembu. Svikwembu includes trance (spirit possession), divination, consultation (leu pahla), exorcism (kufemba) and healing practices. Music activity has different functions in each of the above-mentioned practices. Specific instruments (gocha, ngoma, ntxomana, and whistle) and …
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Exorcism in Islam
… is to identify the orthodox Islamic viewpoint of spirit-possession of humans and its treatment (i.e., exorcism) based upon evidence from the Qur'An, the Sunnah, views of the sahabah (companions of Prophet Muhammad [4]) and the opinions of the early Sunnite scholars. This dissertation is comprised …
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History, Ethics, and Emotion in Ndau Performance in Zimbabwe: Local Theoretical Knowledge and Ethnomusicological Perspectives
… attend to the specific drumming practices of the spirit possession ceremonies central to local cosmological understanding, as well as the secular muchongoyo drumming that has become an important marker of Ndau identity and community. More than an examination of style and form, I want to understand …
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Depression and Nigerian-born immigrant women in the United States: A phenomenological study
… (a) craziness and madness, (b) curse and evil spirit possession, (c) denial and secrecy, (d) isolation and rejection, (e) spirituality and religion, and (f) need for education. Findings indicated that Nigerian-born women were not able to differentiate depression from other types of mental …
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Cultures of Forecasting: Volatile and Vulnerable Nature, Knowledge, and the Future of Uncertainty
… edge of the caldera of Mount Merapi, as well as spirit possession practices, and the ritual offerings of a sultan, I demonstrate how practices of forecasting are making contested futures lived in the present, and forging infrastructures and tools for their longevity. Forecasting, I demonstrate, …
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Guyanese comfa: arts of imagination
… Haitian Vodou, Trinidadian Shango/Orisha/Spiritual Baptist and Jamaican Myal/Kumina practices. There has been little research on Guyanese religious and cultural practices. Kean Gibson's Comfa Religion and Creole Language in a Caribbean Community (2001) appears to be the most complete study …
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An exploration of the cultural context and consequences of perceptions of illness and health-seeking behaviour of the Baloch
… due to humoral imbalance or supernatural causes: spirit possession, sorcery or evil eye. In contemporary Balochistan, despite the availability of the basic health care system in the majority of Baloch settlements, for all practical purposes, Baloch use their traditional medical practices alongside …
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Human levitation
… people supposedly possessed by demonic spiritual entities, those subjected to poltergeist activity, Spiritualism, people who believe they have been abducted by aliens, martial arts such as qigong and mysticism. These anecdotal reports generally describe levitation as rare, spontaneous …
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Fragile yet unbreaking : an ethnographic exploration into young people's entangled experiences of traditional healing and HIV
… insecurity, young people also harbour a sense of spiritual insecurity that stems from the dissolution of the ancestral cult as a result of the historical, yet persisting, fragmentation and reorganisation of the African family unit. The research discusses a form of spirit possession known as …
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Sound affects: remaking Taiwan through traditional religious practices
… it experientially real through a combination of spirit possession, playing music, and carrying items that contain divinity, such as sedan chairs. The dissertation unfolds the concept of mediation to highlight the affective and aesthetic components of such embodied practices. The ability of …
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In the Image of a Woman: Spirited Identifications and Embodied Interpellations Along the Betsiboka Valley
… relationship between sarimbavy and tromba spirit mediumship. In focusing upon the epistemological and hermeneutical labor that possession provides for those who live “in the image of a woman,” tromba (spirits of former reigning members of the Sakalava monarchy), and the wider social worlds …
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Show of Force: film, ghosts and genres of historical performance in the Indonesian genocide
… experimental production techniques including spirit possession, re-narration, infiltration, and genre-based fiction filmmaking in order to define a new model for film production that the author has termed "archaeological performance". Moving beyond the interview-based approaches of Lanzmann …
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El muerto hace al santo. Estudio etnográfico sobre la santería y otros cultos de posesión en Bahía Honda (Artemisa, Cuba)
… del contacto entre el Catolicismo, el Espiritismo Kardecista y cultos de origen africano, como la Santería y el Palo Monte, asociados a la creencia en entidades místicas, dioses, muertos o antepasados que se encarnan en el cuerpo de los agentes para respaldar y orientar la vida …
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Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training
Actor training, like the theatre in Brazil, has historically been a middle and upper class pursuit that followed European models, namely Stanislavski's system. Yet within Brazil there is a wealth of diverse cultures that are inherently theatrical and well suited for application in actor training. …
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