Essays about: "ritual"
Showing result 11 - 15 of 120 essays containing the word ritual.
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11. Floating Thresholds – On the Idea of the Portal in Architecture
University essay from KTH/ArkitekturAbstract : This project investigates a specific concept within architecture: the portal. Divided into eight independent chapters, all possible to read as stand-alone parts, the thesis – a hybrid essay consisting of text, images, drawings and models – uses the portal as a springboard, or tool, for approaching existing theories on the invisible forces that shape the world and our built environment. READ MORE
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12. A Gotlandic Picture Stone Tradition Reconsidered : An analysis and reclassification of the so-called kerbstones
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historiaAbstract : In 1941/42, Sune Lindqvist published his seminal work on the Gotlandic picture stones (Gotlands Bildsteine I & II) in which he included a category of stones that he interpreted as kerbstones. However, Lindqvist’s kerbstones have not received further examination or contextualization to determine the validity of his categorization. READ MORE
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13. Coming to Voice Through Capoeira : Uncovering Ancestrality and Embodiments of the African Diaspora
University essay fromAbstract : Capoeira is an African diasporic art form that developed in Brazil during the transatlantic slave trade. This research explores the history of Capoeira and its contemporary engagement through an autoethnographic method. It follows the first-hand experience of being a black female researcher and a Capoeirista both in Europe and Brazil. READ MORE
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14. “It’s like my blood, like my oxygen” : Life in a Kimbanguist community in Stockholm
University essay from Högskolan Dalarna/Institutionen för kultur och samhälleAbstract : The aim of this work is to discuss the religious life of the Kimbanguist community in Stockholm; more specifically, it analyses the ways in which religion (in particular Kimbanguism) allows the members of a small religious community, originated by migration, to maintain sense of belonging and to give meaning to their experiences. In order to do this, I focus on the concept of community to define the ways in which a group of people, embedded in a much wider social field, can be defined with this analytical term: community emerges as a social group whose members share a specific inventory of symbols; symbols include representations and narratives, but also practices, artifacts and images. READ MORE
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15. "Thor Drives a Tesla" : Ritual and Sacred Space in Swedish Heathenism
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för kulturantropologi och etnologiAbstract : Heathenism is a branch of Paganism based on Germanic mythology, whose diverse spiritual beliefs are united by a common sacrificial ritual called blot. The Swedish Heathen organization The Swedish Forn Sed Assembly [Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige] is a self-described nature religion, who see nature as sacred and whose public blot ceremonies are held outside in order to commune with the gods. READ MORE
