On May 18, 2018, a shooter entered Santa Fe High School, killing eight students and two teachers. Using ethnographic methods, this research examines the role of faith, rituals, language, and symbols in the trauma-affected community during the response, recovery, and resiliency e…
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L'étude des isotopies animales qui se rapportent à la “Vénus noire” et à la “Vénus blanche” se fonde sur la théorie de l'isotopie, un concept que la sémantique structurale doit à Algirdas Greimas. Notre étude se veut avant tout une description sémantique des divers aspects des a…
This dissertation seeks to determine the best way to translate the key terms baptize and Lord's Supper into the Nuaulu language (spoken on Seram island, Maluku, Indonesia) considering world view, ritual symbolism, and functions of ritual in Nuaulu and biblical cultures. I discus…
The late Neolithic of North Mesopotamia has long been held up as the first example of a 'global' culture with aspects of shared material culture, most notably pottery styles and subsistence strategies, spread across North Mesopotamia, the Northern Levant, and parts of south-east…
This thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary l…
The notion that acts of deliberate self-harm serve an expressive or communicative function is the central premise upon which many of the main functional models of selfharm are based. However despite the importance of this notion, very little empirical evidence exists to support …
This thesis argues that the unprecedented number of veteran amputees after the Civil War assumed symbolic importance in the United States and continued to play an important role in American culture for 150 years. The symbolism of the amputee linked military service and political…
This study concludes that the book of Ezekiel was not an amalgam of visions and oracles compiled with no particular literary strategy but rather is a purposeful literary work, which betrays the compiler's rhetorical intent. The book of Ezekiel shows a masterful literary mind beh…
This dissertation applies Afrocentric methods of decipherment to a sacred symbol selected from the ancient Egyptian language of Mdw Ntr (Words of God). The chosen symbol is transliterated by Egyptologists as neb and translated ideographically as lord, master. My purpose is to de…
This essay offers an in-depth analysis of the creative practice of the French contemporary artist Mathilde Rosier (b. 1973), focusing specifically on her video works from 2001 to 2010. Rosier produces drawings, paintings, videos, sculpture installations, theatrical performances,…
Colored marble has been used throughout the Mediterranean as a building material, architectural veneer, sculptural material, even a support for painting since at least the second century BC. This thesis examines the poetics and symbolism of marbles, as a medium more than a mater…
This study examines the meaning of the symbol of Jerusalem in selected samples of literature. In Scripture Jerusalem is represented as the place chosen by God. This chosen status has made the city of Jerusalem a significant symbol of the fulfillment of God's promises. Jerusalem …
The serpent has been the subject of a number of studies, both generic and culture specific. This study investigates the Semitic root nhš , which signifies both the serpent and the practice of magic or divination. It is demonstrated that nhš has a connotation of libation offering…
Epic Explorations in Opera-The Hero’s Overture, is an original inquiry into the mythic patterns found in stories as they relate to six operas in this analysis. Mozart’s The Magic Flute and Don Giovanni, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville, Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffman, Gounod’s …
In this dissertation, I explore the interaction between religious and artistic expressions as manifest in the religious quests of the early Russian modernists in the first decade of the twentieth century. Artists and thinkers of the era grappled with this tension as they sought …
Symbolism is a literary school that relies on the use of symbols to express hidden psychological experiences and states. Symbolism is extant in all artistic and literary genres, whether in poetic or prosaic forms, and is not limited to literature alone. There is symbolism also i…
French composer Claude Debussy’s compositions symbolize the definition of twentieth century music. His use of unresolved wandering dominant seventh chords, the use of ninth, elevenths, and thirteenth chords, the use of pentatonic and whole-tone scales, and extreme dynamics and o…
In his formative years, Claude Debussy (1862-1918) experienced the influence of the artistic movement of Impressionism and the literary movement of Symbolism. Both of these movements profoundly influenced Debussy and contributed to the formation of his aesthetics and tastes. Mau…
Symbolical parallels and similarities are naturally present in all major religions. Zoroastrianism, a religion founded by Zaraθuštra and with origins in Eastern Persia, has numerous similarities with the three Abrahamic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The purpose of…