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This thesis is an inquiry into the lives of four women in Tallahassee, Florida, who have not only chosen to adopt New Age beliefs, but also to become New Age healers. Of particular interest are the life events that influenced their...
This dissertation examines how patterns of regional homogeneity in material culture develop on the local level. Archaeologists have long been concerned with how large, materially homogeneous culture groups develop over large regions...
This thesis illuminates the role and significance of the Kabaka's royal musicians of Buganda during Ssekabaka Sir Edward Frederick Muteesa II's reign (1939-1966). To provide the necessary backdrop for appreciating changes that occurred...
The Affinities and Disparities within: Community and Status of the African American Slave Population at Charles Pinckney National Historic Site, Mount Pleasant, South Carolina
The dissertation investigates how patterns of consumption reflect internal patterns of social hierarchy among the enslaved plantation community and what were the degrees of resistance and accommodation of those enslaved and their...
Shugendo (lit. "The way of power") is a Japanese syncretistic religion of mountain asceticism, combining elements from Shinto, Shamanism, Taoist magic, Confucian ethics, and above all Mahayana Buddhism. Its proclaimed purposes are to...
This dissertation contributes to anthropological debate regarding the effects of interaction on material and symbolic culture. The investigation tests the hypothesis that Maya writing emerged in late Middle Preclassic through Early...
Beyond being just a part of a somewhat interesting local fable, the story of the growth and development of an African American òrìs̱à devotees in Philadelphia is an Yorùbáland via Cuba. Its adoption by African American devotees is thus...
This dissertation examines social relations and identity construction as expressed through mortuary ritual. Mortuary treatment has long been used by archaeologists to examine human social structure, and burial is now seen as an important...
My research involves an ethno-historical study of Dharma Drum Mountai, founded in 1989 by Venerable Shengyan (1930-2009). Dharma Drum is currently one of the most powerful, international Buddhist organizations on Taiwan, and has...
The challenge posed by Wong Yung Quy, a Chinese immigrant living in San Francisco in the 1870s, to a law regulating the exhumation of human remains on the basis of religious freedom reveals the subordination of religious practice to...
This dissertation examines the political economy of linguistic and social exchange among Yucatec Maya tourist workers in Coba, Quintana Roo, Mexico. I argue that local employees recreate the house (`otoch') in the market through spheres...
This thesis explores the ways that practitioners in orisha worshipping traditions conceptualize aché in relation to the function of music and performance in spirit possession ceremonies. Aché is a concept generally defined as divine...
Gregorian chant is typically thought of as a product of the early medieval era. Its monophonic melodies evoke a simple beginning from which Western music evolved; its timbres are associated with the austere monuments of the early Church;...
The heresiography portion found in the Kitb̄ al-shajara by the fourth/tenth century Ismā'īlī dā'ī Abū Tammām presents an interesting opportunity for scholars of religion. Not just an unique heresiographical work written from a non...
A variety of social groups exist in the cultural area known in Tibetan as Amdo (covering parts of present-day Qinghai, Gansu, and Sichuan provinces in western China; see Map 1). Much investigation remains to be conducted on these terms...
Forensic anthropology has traditionally been concerned with the identification of an individual recovered from a clandestine grave and analysis of their skeletal material. The data gathered from these burials are often treated as...
This thesis introduces the reader to two Maya theater groups who reside and work in the highland town of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. What follows is an analysis of how indigenous theater, in the context of...
In this dissertation I examine the history and musical culture related to the Kawuugulu royal drums of the Baganda people. I argue that the royal drums and their use articulate principles of social organization through symbolic...
Over the last forty years American Indians have challenged the usage of their symbols and culture as mascots or emblems used by schools, universities, pro sports teams and businesses across the United States. One word often used is ...
This study is about the formation of elite lay Buddhist societies in late 16th-century and early 17th century Hangzhou. In this era, many classically trained Confucian scholars were not only philosophically inclined to Buddhist doctrines...
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