This project charts the development of a brand inspired by the symbol of three rabbits with interlocking ears. The process documented in this book details the evolution of the brand, charting its history and the deciphering of its language. The symbol is explored through a colle…
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Contained in the earliest human stories and into present day exist multiple references to hearing the “voice” of nature, usually expressed musically and/or through feeling, motion, or presence. Recent research shows that these experiences are quite common and only rarely associa…
Over the last two decades, cacao has become a sacrament within increasingly popular syncretic religious ceremonies that promote the energetic healing of the sacred self. Cacao is a psychoactive substance that is regarded by members within some new religious communities as a plan…
This paper proposes the “uncolonial” as an alternative Philippine ontology to the traditionally dualistic terrain of coloniality often associated with the archipelago. While much traditional research has provided insight into the ways in which colonial governance, bolstered by C…
My thesis is an excerpt from a historical fiction and magical realism novel. Ran, a young Korean girl, grows up in Japan-occupied Korea during the late 1930s and early 1940s. When she comes of age at thirteen, she discovers she can transform into a gumiho, or nine-tailed fox, a …
This thesis examines how the medical funeral ceremony shapes the performance and its functions of piphat-mon music in the medical funeral ceremony of the Faculty of Medicine, Srinakharinwirot University (SWU) in Bangkok, Thailand. Modern Thai society has influenced many aspects …
Over several centuries (c. 1500-1900) residents of the agrarian valleys west of the Indus river in the Peshawar region (in today's Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan) experienced imperial expansion, technological innovation, and the growth of state institutions as they simu…
This study addresses a vital form of the religious expressive experience: madih nabawi (poetry in praise of Prophet Muhammad). It is an intensive examination and analysis of the roles madih poetry plays in the lives of two northern Sudanese riverain communities; the Bidairiyyah …
Folklorists and Anthropologists have historically examined the relationship between art and community. The interrelationship of art and community offers a rich field of study for examining cultural expressions of faith, social complexity, and aesthetic preferences. Folklorists h…
This study aims to offer an alternative approach to analyze and understand literary texts through folklore. I focused on Jean Rhys's famous novel Wide Sargasso Sea, which has often been examined through a postcolonial approach. My thesis suggests that the postcolonial criticisms…
Turkey is currently engaged in reassessing its policies concerning its ethnic and religious minorities, and the question of how to deal with an undeniable heterogeneity in a state that has long attempted to present itself as ethnically and religiously homogenous is a central iss…
This work treats the oral Palestinian poetry duel, a genre performed most commonly at weddings in Northern Palestine and Israel. It begins by tracing the history of poetry dueling both in Arabic generally and within the Palestinian dialect. The historical sketch is followed by a…
The following research is a grammatical analysis of the Ethio-semitic language Kistane, including a corpus of texts taken from audio recordings of mother-tongue speakers. Since Kistane has been a little-studied representative of the Semitic family, this dissertation aims to brin…
An ethnography based on research carried out between 2009 and 2010 in the vicinity of Bor Town, the capital of Jonglei State, in what was then Southern Sudan, this dissertation is primarily concerned with people's reflections on making agreements with one another during a period…
This study attempts to analyze the types, occasions, themes and techniques of Bura folksongs. Analysis of Bura folksongs shows that there are various types of songs that are sung by Bura singers. These include songs of abuse, satirical songs, songs of protest, funeral songs and …
In the last decade, the region of Darfur, Western Sudan, like other parts of the African continent, has been exposed to waves of dry seasons that affected its farming system by transforming its fertile lands into an enormous desert. People starved to death, some of them fled to …
This manuscript explored the movement and creation of Diasporas. The long historical engagement of language, religion, and material cultures between Africa and the Americas fostered the emergence of groups of Afrolatinos that identify with many coasts along the African Diaspora.…
Detailed analysis of the traditional subsistence economy in a modern village in Central Anatolia, Turkey, was undertaken to aid interpretation of an archaeological site nearby. The modern village is Kizilkaya, in the province of Aksaray in the Melendiz Plain, one kilometer north…