Essays about: "healing rituals"
Found 5 essays containing the words healing rituals.
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1. The time for dream is now. A diachronic study on the noun ‘dream’
University essay from Lunds universitet/EngelskaAbstract : People have had dreams since time immemorial. The Bible‘s Genesis tells us about Joseph‘s dreams, Greek mythology describes the God Asclepius and his dream-healing rituals, at the turn of the 20th century, Sigmund Freud published The Interpretation of Dreams, J.T. READ MORE
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2. Framtidens begravningsplatser : en historisk tillbakablick, dagssituationen och visioner för framtidens gestaltningsuttryck
University essay from SLU/Dept. of Urban and Rural DevelopmentAbstract : The purpose of this article is partly to find out how the burial grounds are used today and the needs of its visitors, but also to develop the character and expression of future burial grounds. My suggestions focus on burial grounds without religious attributes; something that, according to the burial law (Begravningslagen, 1990:1144), the manager of the burial ground is ordered to obey. READ MORE
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3. ‘We Are New People Now’ : Pentecostalism as a Means of Ethnic Continuity and Social Acceptance among the Wichí of Argentina
University essay from Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This thesis deals with ethnic and religious continuity among the Wichí Amerindian people of Argentina, after their conversion to Pentecostalism in the beginning of the 1980’s. The underlying assumption in the thesis is that no fundamental religious or ritual changes take place suddenly. READ MORE
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4. Lahiya vitesse and the quest for relief : A study of medical pluralism in Saga, Niamey, Niger
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : This paper focuses on what people in Saga, a village on the periphery of Niamey, the capital of Niger, do in the face of illness. With limited economic assets and in a context of medical pluralism, to which therapeutic alternatives do they turn? And what factors are determinant in the choice that they make? Saga is an old village, which has become increasingly integrated into the expanding urban community of Niamey. READ MORE
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5. Understanding ‘Illness’
University essay from Kulturantropologiska avdelningenAbstract : This study describes and analyses understanding ‘illness’ among clients and leaders of the spiritual tradition Candomblé in Rio de Janeiro. The study focuses on the individuals’ narratives of illness and of healing rituals within the cult. READ MORE
