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Walker, Aaron. "Voodoo Love." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2006. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/439.
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"Voodoo Love" is a music video for jazz saxophonist, Lance Ellis. Set at The Turning Point Lounge in New Orleans, as well as the countrysides of Madisonville and Bush, Louisiana, the video takes us into a world where classic Motown style meets the world of campy horror films. Voodoo Love is also the first local jazz video to be produced in high-definition video. It includes appearances by Lischelle Brown, Mardi Gras Indian Big Chief Alfred Doucette, blues player Big Al Carson and the singing trio Mahogany Blue. The video was authored to DVD and includes extras features on the making of the video, including an extended behind the scenes documentary.
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Pehrsdotter, Olsson Anna-Maria. "Voodoo : myt och religion." Thesis, University of Gävle, Ämnesavdelningen för religionsvetenskap, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hig:diva-4457.
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Jag har undersökt Hollywoodfilmernas bild av Voodoon kontra den egentliga religionen. Jag har tittat på religionens grunder, myterna kring till exempel zombies och Voodoodockor samt vilken utbredning Voodoon har idag. Med hjälp av litteraturstudier och Internet har jag fått fram mycket intressant material.
Voodoo är en komplicerad religion som är omgiven av mycket mystik och där anhängarna har en personlig kontakt med sina gudar. Idag har Voodoon omkring 50-60 miljoner anhängare världen över.
Examensarbete på Barn- och ungdomspedagogiska programmet vt 1997. Uppsatsförfattaren har senare bytt efternamn till "Miguel".
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Wallace, Rick L., and Nakia J. Woodward. "Library Voodoo or Library Science?" Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2008. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/8757.
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Davidsson, Marcus. "Wall Street Voodoo Economics : Investment Strategy Backtesting." Thesis, Jönköping University, JIBS, Economics, 2006. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-631.
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From efficient market theory we know that there is no such a thing as a free lunch. If you want higher returns then you also have to take on higher risk. The critical question technical analysis has to answer therefore becomes, does technical analysis (TA) provide an investor with an edge in the stock market? To answer this question empirically data was investigated for the Standard and Poor’s-500 Index for a twenty years time period from 1986 to 2006.
Two different portfolios were constructed. The portfolios were named Hugin with a high time resolution a Munin with a lower time resolution. A simple 30 period MA cross strategy with optimized stop-losses were tested on the two portfolios. The stop-losses were optimized on the first ten years 1986-1996 in order to make the backtesting more realistic.
The conclusion was that neither Hugin nor did Munin produce abnormal returns without the optimized stop losses. When the stop losses were optimized, Hugin but not Munin provided an investor with slightly better return than a long position. However Hugin’s returns were highly sensitive to the assumed level of price slippage and transaction costs. The conclusion to be drawn is therefore that investing based only on a simple 30 periods moving average crossover investment strategy seams not to be the best way to manage hard-earned money.
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Dickinson, Christine. "Aspects of Performativity in New Orleans Voodoo." Thesis, The George Washington University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=1600041.
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The aim of this thesis is to study the practices and background of Voodoo in New Orleans through a holistic lens. This holistic lens includes researching the history of Voodoo in New Orleans, previous research done on Voodoo practice in New Orleans, contacting current practitioners and performing informal interviews, and participant-observation of New Orleans Voodoo rituals. This work is divided into three sections; the first delves into the history and current state of Voodoo of New Orleans. The second section discusses how Voodoo has influenced other cultural areas in New Orleans. The third section discusses how Voodoo and tourism interrelate with one another. The conclusion of this work addresses how through out history, influences on other areas of New Orleans culture, and tourism, the original ideas of Voodoo in New Orleans has stretched out beyond the original spectacle of Voodoo into the various ways individuals think about Voodoo. This also influences how practitioners view their own practice by reacting to how non-practitioners view Voodoo. It is like the metaphor of the snake eating his own tail, how Voodoo is practiced and then perceived by outsiders keeps feeding into each other.
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McGee, Adam Michael. "Imagined Voodoo: Terror, Sex, and Racism in American Popular Culture." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11350.
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I analyze the historical and cultural processes by which American racism is reproduced, approaching the issue through the lens of "imagined voodoo" (as distinct from Haitian Vodou). I posit that the American Marine occupation of Haiti (1915-34) was crucial in shaping the American racial imaginary. In film, television, and literature, imagined voodoo continues to serve as an outlet for white racist anxieties. Because it is usually found in low-brow entertainment (like horror) and rarely mentions race explicitly, voodoo is able to evade critique, disseminating racism within a culture that is now largely--albeit superficially--intolerant of overt racism.African and African American Studies
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Rodriguez, Palacios Miguel Andres. "Reversed Voodoo Dolls: An exploration of physical visualizations of biological data." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för datavetenskap och kommunikation (CSC), 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-175796.
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Physical visualizations are artifacts that materialize abstract data. They take advantage of human natural abilities to interact with information in the physical world. These visualizations present an opportunity to be applied on new application domains. With the objective of discovering if physical visualizations can support remote monitoring of biological data, a technology probe is presented in the form of a reversed voodoo doll. This probe uses the natural affordance of an anthropomorphic figure to represent a person and reverses the concept of voodoo dolls in a playful way. The scenario of safety is selected for testing physical visualizations of bio-data. Two measurements from the human body, heart rate and motion are chosen as a light way to monitor remotely over a person’s conditions. During the study, a group of six participants were exposed to the technology probe and their interactions with it were observed. The study reports on the users’ interpretations of the data and uses given to the alternative modalities of the probe. The results suggest that the data mapping to the object’s body parts was effective for conveying meaning. Additionally, the results confirm that the use of multiple modalities in physical visualizations offers an opportunity to present information in situated contexts in the real world. The degree of physicality achieved by the reversed voodoo doll and the effects of the selected metaphors are discussed. In conclusion, it is argued that the responses and interpretations from the users indicate that the reversed voodoo doll served as a means in its own right to transmit information for monitoring of bio-data.Fysiska visualiseringar är artefakter som materialiserar abstrakt data. Genom att använda sig av mänskliga naturliga förmågor interagerar de med information i den fysiska världen. Dessa visualiseringar skapar möjligheter för appliceringar inom nya tillämpningsområden. För att undersöka om fysiska visualiseringar kan stödja fjärrövervakning av biologisk data introducerades en sond i form av en omvänd voodoodocka. Med en människolik figur representerar denna sond en verklig person. På så sätt utnyttjar den naturliga associationer till mänskliga egenskaper och omvänder konceptet vodoodockor på ett lekfullt sätt. De fysiska visualiseringarna av biologisk data testas ur ett säkerhetsperspektiv. Två värden, hjärtfrekvens och rörelse, mäts från en människokropp för att göra det möjligt att övervaka en persons tillstånd på distans. Under studien observeras sex användare då de interagerar med sonden. Studien visar hur användarna tolkar sondens data och hur användningen varierar med avseende på sondens olika modaliteter. Resultaten från denna studie tyder på att datamappningen till sondens kroppsdelar effektivt ökade förståelsen. Dessutom bekräftar resultaten att användning av flera modaliteter i fysiska visualiseringar gör det möjligt att presentera information, anpassat till olika situationer i den verkliga världen. Till vilken grad voodoodockan ger en känsla av kroppslighet samt konsekvenser av de valda metaforerna diskuteras. I slutsatsen hävdas att användarnas svar och tolkningar tyder på att den omvända voodoodockan fungerade som ett medel för att övervaka biologisk data.
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Hazel, Risa Marie. "Voodoo and the failure to know in some contemporary American narratives /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
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Lopez, Eva Archangel. "Afro-caribbean religion and rituals: Dugu, Voodoo, Santeria, and Brazilian religions/cults." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2002. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2319.
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This thesis will explore and discuss the religion and rituals (ancestral cult) of Afro-Caribbean societies, people of African and indigenous heritage. This thesis will also seek to answer the question of extent to which Americans have become tolerant of other people's culture and what influence, if any, have transmitted from the Afro-Caribbean people to other North American societies. The religion and rituals of four Afro-Caribbean groups will be discussed in this study.
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Lovell, Nadia Isabella. "Cord of blood : initiation, gender and social dynamics among the Ouathci-Ewe of southern Togo." Thesis, SOAS, University of London, 1993. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.336296.
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Paul, Vilmer. "Measuring Christian-voodoo syncretism in some Haitian Christian churches in the north of Haiti." Thesis, Nyack College, Alliance Theological Seminary, 2016. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10161698.
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This study created a method for measuring the presence of Christian-voodoo syncretism in three Protestant denominations in the north of Haiti. Estimates of voodoo practice among Christians have ranged from 50% to 75%, a;though it is unclear how these percentages were derived. The researcher created a Voodoo-Protestant Scale (VPS), which tests for the presence of fourteen Christian-voodoo syncretistic practices and fifteen Christian-voodoo syncretistic beliefs. The VPS was written and administered in Creole, but the study contains an English translation. A scoring system for the VPS is also explained in Chapter Three, in which four points are counted for "strongly agree" and two points are counted for "agree" responses to syncretistic practice questions (PQs), and two points are counted for "strongly agree" responses and one point is counted for "agree" responses to syncretistic belief questions (BQs). Zero points were counted for "neutral," "disagree" or "strongly disagree." The VPS therefore had scores that ranged from zero to 88. The VPS allowed the researcher to make determinations about the extent of syncretism within the population (the percentage of the participants) as well as the depth of syncretism for each participant (the VPS score itself). The VPS was administered to 218 individuals who attended churches in the Church of God, Baptist, and Evangelical denominations in four urban areas (Milot, Plaine du Nord, Cap-Haitian Petite-Anse and Vaudreuil) and in three rural areas (Grand Bassin, La Jeune, and Maliarette). First, with respect to extent, the researcher discovered that 212 of 218 participants evidenced some syncretism of some kind (97%)—only 6 of 218 showed no trace of Christian-voodoo syncretism. Second, with respect to depth, the researcher discovered that 84 of 218 (39%) evidenced low syncretism (VPS scores from 1-14), 94 of 218 (43%) evidenced intermediate-level syncretism (VPS scores from 15–30), 25 of 218 (11%) evidenced high syncretism (VPS scores from 31–48), and 9 of 218 (4%) evidenced super-high levels (VPS scores from 50–88). Thus, these results offer a more nuanced picture of Christian-voodoo syncretism in Haiti. The study concludes with recommendations for church leaders.
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Stasiškienė, Aušra. "Sakralinė lėlė." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130805_102030-02477.
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Magistro baigiamojo darbo tema – apeiginės lėlės naudojamos magijoje, religiniuose ritualuose pasaulyje. Šiame darbe surinktą informacija naudojama kaip atrama kūrybinio darbo idėjai įgyvendinti. Rašto darbe apžvelgiama apeiginių lėlių gamyba, medžiagiškumas, panaudojimas pasaulio kontekste.
„Lėlė“ buvo ne vien kaip žmogaus modelis religinių apeigų metu, bet ir vaikų žaislas. Domėtasi lėlių reikšme, dekoro detalėmis bei atlikimo technikomis skirtingose kultūrose: Afrikoje-Vudu, Amerikoje-Kachina ir Lietuvoje-Morė.
Šiandien lėlė yra tapusi daugiau pramogos ar žaidimo įrankiu. Primiršta jos pirmapradė ritualinė reikšmė, tačiau pati lėlė kaip objektas, vis dar naudojama šiuolaikinių apeigų metu. Gilinamasi kokias lėles naudojo tam tikroms apeigoms atlikti. Ši tema pasirinkta neatsitiktinai, kadangi praktiniame darbe kuriamos „lėlės“, kaip žmogaus „išnaros“, kurios bus pateiktos pasikeitusioms asmeninėms vertybėms išreikšti. Todėl sukaupta informacija pagelbės meninio darbo eigoje. Rašto darbe domimasi apeiginėmis lėlėmis, tradicijomis jas kuriant, jų panaudojimu, funkcionalumu, medžiagiškumu.
Pagrindinė tiriamojo darbo problema yra tai, kad nėra ištirta kokį poveikį sakraliniam objektui turi medžiagiškumas, šiuo atveju sakralinei lėlei. Ar jos medžiagiškumas turi įtakos atliekamai funkcijai.
Ši problema svarbi kūrėjams, žmonėms giliau besidomintiems kultūra ir tradicijomis.
Surinkta informacija padės tikslingai pasirinkti medžiagas kūrybiniam meninio projekto įgyvendinimui... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]Master's thesis topic - dolls were used in magic, religious, playing rituals in all over the world. Collected information in this paper is used as a support for the implementation of the idea of creative work (object-doll). The paper provides an overview of ritual dolls making technology, multiplicity of fabrics used in the global context. "The doll was not only used as a human model in religion rituals but also as a children toy. In this Significant interest fields are: dolls value, decor details and performance techniques in different cultures: African-Wood, America-Kachina and Lithuania-More. Gloves are chosen according to the following aspects: reflecting different cultures, importantance for the continent religious context, similar materials in the production processes. This allows to compare and analyze them. Today, the doll has become more entertainment or pawn, forgotten the primordial ritual significance. Puppets are used in certain rites recently. This theme was chosen purposefully. Practical work developed a "doll" as a man's "slough," which will be submitted to the personal values expression. Therefore, gained information helpped at arts workflow. The survey of various sources revealed dolls performance in rituals and traditions, the main development stages, their usage, functionality, materiality. The main papper work problem is that, it is not known how materiality effects sacred object, in this case - sacred doll. Do they affect the materiality functions, at... [to full text]
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Fenton, Louise. "Representations of Voodoo : the history and influence of Haitian Vodou within the cultural productions of Britain and America since 1850." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2009. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/3696/.
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This thesis is the first major investigation into the representations of Vodou within the cultural productions of Britain and America. It also opens up opportunities for further research to be undertaken in the representations of Vodou, Haiti and the culture and religions of other Caribbean countries. This thesis explores the representations of 'Voodoo,' the widely accepted and recognised term for the re-imagined religion, in Britain and America since 1850. The history of the Caribbean and Haiti is examined before considering the influence that the religion of Haitian Vodou has had on cultural production. Through a historical perspective the thesis will consider the evolution of Vodou during the horrors of slavery. The historiographic representations form the basis of the productions and are explored to contextualise Vodou in the British and American imagination. All genres of literature are examined, from the first mention of Vodou in the eighteenth century through to the present day. This is followed by an examination of the cultural reproductions of Vodou in film, animation, theatre and television to explore the diversity of the representations. The wider societal influences are considered throughout this work to contextualise the productions of 'Voodoo'. This thesis argues that the cultural reproductions of Vodou since 1850 have not changed greatly, despite various efforts to redress the misrepresentations, they remain rooted in colonialism. It will argue that many of the cultural productions are reliant on previous representations. They do not in the majority introduce authenticity, instead opting for the more sensational approach. Many of the representations will be shown to be derogatory to the religion, culture and people of Haiti and the diaspora. This is despite Vodou as a religion having survived, gained strength and continuing to thrive in the twenty-first century.
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Scherer, aus Pullach Patricia. "Diagnose HIV+ trauma oder chance? : das human immunodeficiency virus uns das acquired immune deficiency syndrome als "voodoo-formeln" der moderne /." München : Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 1996. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/38175768.html.
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Eriksson, Victoria. "Gränsen mellan effektivitet och medmänsklighet : En kvalitativ studie om hanteringen av ärenden där nigerianska kvinnor tvingats in i människohandel genom religiöst tvång." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Teologiska institutionen, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-412408.
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The following study seek to examine how professionals within different organizations in Sweden work to deal with cases where Nigerian women have been forced into human trafficking through juju-rituals. The aim of the study is to examine how professionals relate to women’s beliefs, what opportunities women have for overcoming this spiritual control, and what strategies professionals use to try to undermine the spiritual control. The following study seeks to answer these questions through qualitative data based on five semi-structured interviews with professionals working in non-governmental organizations (NGOs), asylum agencies or as regional-coordinators. The result of the study indicate that the professionals constantly balance between efficiency and humanity in terms of trying to challenge Nigerian women’s perceived spiritual control. The professionals often perceive that there is a limit to how much the women’s beliefs can be called into dispute. Forcing Nigerian women to renounce their juju-faith is considered as a violation of women’s religious freedom. Furthermore, the result of the study indicates that how professionals relate to Nigerian women’s fear of juju may differ depending on occupational category. The result indicates that law enforcement authorities are more likely to explain the link between human trafficking and the use of juju as brainwash, while other NGOs strive to develop a deeper understanding of Nigerian women’s fear of juju’s subsequent effects. In conclusion, the study's findings show that the professionals claim that Nigerian women have different capabilities for dealing with the situation they are in. That the professionals want the women themselves to be agents in their religious lives indicate a respect for women's right to practice their religion, even if their choices are not an effective solution to their problems.
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Moreno, Moncayo Rosa Nallely. "Le maïs mésoaméricain : patrimoine culinaire et religieux dans le vodoun de Ouidah, Bénin." Thesis, Paris Sciences et Lettres (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PSLEP001.
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Le maïs est une céréale qui a été domestiquée en Mésoamérique. Cette domestication a permis aux groupes sociaux de développer une forme de vie sédentarisée qui a favorisé la concentration des individus dans des villages, leur permettant de développer d’autres aspects de la vie en communauté. Plus tard, avec les voyages d’expansion commerciale, les Européens ont découvert que certaines plantes américaines pouvaient être exploitées dans leurs nouvelles colonies. Cela a déclenché un phénomène de migration de nombreuses plantes. Le maïs qui était une céréale facile à cultiver, dotée d’une grande faculté d’adaptation aux aléas climatiques et facile à transporter, après s’être répandu dans toute l’Amérique, a poursuivi son voyage dans le reste du monde. Nous nous sommes sur cette base efforcée de comprendre comment le maïs avait été introduit dans le golfe de Guinée et plus précisément dans l’ancien Dahomey. Aujourd’hui, dans le sud du Bénin, le maïs s’est substitué à la culture du mil et du sorgho. Le maïs est la céréale la plus produite et la plus consommée dans le sud de ce pays, où il occupe également une place notable dans les usages religieux au sein des pratiques vodouns. Le travail que nous avons engagé pour comprendre les usages et représentations du maïs de la part des ethnies fon, xwla et xweda nous a permis d’approcher la communauté vodoun de Ouidah, ancien port esclavagiste, où nous avons mené un travail de recherche pendant huit ans. Les résultats de ce travail nous ont permis de structurer nos connaissances sur la religion vodoun et de mettre en évidence le patrimoine que les Ouidanais ont bâti autour du maïs sur le plan culinaire comme sur le plan symboliqueCorn is a cereal that has been domesticated in Mesoamerica. This domestication has enabled social groups to develop a sedentary lifestyle that has favored the concentration of individuals in villages, allowing them to develop other aspects of community life. Later, with trade expansion travels, Europeans discovered that some american plants could be exploited in their new colonies. This triggered the migration of many plants. Corn, which was an easy-to-grow crop with a great ability to adapt to weather conditions and easy to transport, after spreading throughout America, continued its journey to the rest of the world. On this basis we tried to understand how maize was introduced into the Gulf of Guinea and more precisely into the ancient Dahomey. Nowadays, in southern Benin, maize has replaced millet and sorghum. Maize is the most produced and consumed cereal in the south of the country. It also plays a significant role in the religious life within voodoo practices. The work we undertook to understand the uses and representations of maize by the Fon and Xweda ethnic groups allowed us to approach the voodoo community of Ouidah, former slave port, where we conducted eight years research work. The results of this work enabled us to structure our knowledge of voodoo religion and to highlight the heritage that the people of Ouidah have built around corn at the culinary level as well as at the symbolic level
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Silva, Josivânia Alves de Sousa. "Religião e poder no centro espírita Anjo Ismael." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Goiás, 2007. http://localhost:8080/tede/handle/tede/982.
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Previous issue date: 2007-08-29This research, assumed that religion supports and legitimates black s and poor people s power belonging to inferior social classes over privileged white society. Was written on purpose to analyze how religion determines and establishes the relationship of power in the Angel Ismael Spiritualistic Center (Voodoo). The main concepts used were: religion as answer to human anxieties; charisma as supernatural talents; and power as charismatic domination. It was put in perspective that religion has as function the legitimization of power and maintenance of reality. It contributes to the construction of the world when when it legitimates social institutions through sacred thought. Religion can influence society through charismatic power, which makes human activities be understood as supernatural facts. In Voodoo, the charismatic leader, witch-doctor, acts on behalf of the divinities. Thus he maintains his followers under his lash. In the Angel Ismael Spiritualistic Center, which was analyzed in this research, it can be noticed this relationship of power and obedience among the leader and his followers. The latter submit to such an obedience in duty to the divinities. Thus it is observed that the relationship of power invoked by the charismatic is one way of making religion assure its strength before society.
Para esta pesquisa partiu-se do pressuposto de que a religião favorece e legitima o poder de pessoas negras, pobres pertencentes a classes sociais inferiores sobre pessoas de classes privilegiadas da sociedade branca. O objetivo desta pesquisa foi analisar como a religião determina e estabelece a relação de poder no Centro Espírita Anjo Ismael (Umbanda). Os principais conceitos trabalhados foram: religião como respostas aos anseios humanos; carisma como dons sobrenaturais; e poder como dominação carismática. Partiu-se de uma perspectiva de que a religião tem como função a legitimação do poder e manutenção da realidade. Ela contribui na construção do mundo quando ela legitima as instituições sociais através do pensamento sagrado. A religião pode influenciar a sociedade através do poder carismático, na qual as atividades humanas passam a ser entendidas como fatos sobrenaturais. Na religião umbandista o líder carismático, o pai-de-santo age em nome das divindades, desta forma mantém um domínio sobre os adeptos do seu grupo. No Centro Espírita Anjo Ismael, o qual foi analisado nesta pesquisa pode-se perceber esta relação de poder e obediência entre o líder e os adeptos. Os adeptos se submetem a tal obediência em respeito às divindades. Desta forma observa-se que a relação de poder invocada pelo carismático é uma das formas que faz a religião assegurar suas forças diante sociedade.
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Pierre, Jean Gardy Jean. "Haiti, uma república do Vodu?: uma análise do lugar do Vodu na sociedade haitiana à luz da Constituição de 1987 e do Decreto de 2003." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2009. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/2107.
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The Constitution of 1987 proclaims religious liberty in Haiti and acknowledges Voodoo as a religion. However, Voodoo s legal status was changed only with a decree by President Jean-Bertrand Aristide in April 4th, 2003, which recognized Voodoo as cultural heritage of the Haitian nation This work presents a vision of Haitian Voodoo in the light of these two recent accomplishments of the Haitian people. What has changed since then and which perspectives are now available to the pioneer state in the American fights for independence and for the abolishment of slavery? In order to answer to those questions and the others, we have proposed this reserearch, having organized our work in three chapters. The first one describes the history of Haiti, from the time the country was inhabited by the Taïno Amerindians to the Spanish and French colonization periods and other more relevant events. Then we proceed to describing Voodoo, bearing in mind its origin and historical and sociological evolution. In the second chapter, we reflect on the relation between State, the Catholic Church and Voodoo after Independence. The relation with Voodoo was always tense and controversial, varying from unconditional acceptance to orderly repulse and from tolerance to intransigence. In 1860, the Catholic Church signed a concordat with the Haitian State and, thereafter, organised several campaigns against Voodoo. In the third chapter, we reflect on the rehabilitation of Voodoo by a sector of the country s intellectual elite, with a highlighted contribution of the Indigenist School during American occupation. The main representatives of that movement were Jean Price-Mars, physician and anthropologist, and Jacques Roumain, a novel writer and François Duvalier. They contributed to the renaissance of Voodoo as a religion, with numerous publications and pieces of research. With II Vatican Council, however, The Catholic Church has become more understanding and tolerant regarding Voodoo, to a point in which it has come to try to understand the latter from within. The revaluation of Voodoo helped it to leave clandestineness and helped Haitians to reencounter the values which united them in the past and which can unite them again around a project of national reconstruction
A Constituição de 1987 proclama a liberdade religiosa no Haiti e reconhece o Vodu como religião. No entanto, o estatuto jurídico do Vodu só muda com a publicação do decreto de 4 de abril de 2003 pelo presidente Jean-Bertrand Aristide, que o reconhece juridicamente e como patrimônio cultural da nação haitiana. Este trabalho apresenta uma visão sobre o Vodu haitiano à luz dessas duas recentes conquistas do povo haitiano. O que mudou desde então e quais perspectivas se abrem a esse Estado pioneiro nas lutas americanas pela Independência e pela abolição do sistema escravista? Para responder a essas indagações e outras, propusemos esta pesquisa organizando o trabalho em três capítulos: O primeiro traça a história do Haiti, desde o período em que era habitado pelos povos Tainos, passando pela colonização espanhola e francesa, pela independência e por outros acontecimentos mais importantes, para depois definir o Vodu levando em conta sua origem e sua evolução histórica e sociológica. No segundo capítulo, refletimos sobre a relação entre a Igreja Católica, o Estado e o Vodu após a Independência. A relação com o Vodu foi sempre tensa e polêmica, variando da acolhida incondicional ao repulso sistemático, ou ainda da tolerância à intransigência. Em 1860, a Igreja Católica assinou uma Concordata com o Estado e após a Concordata, organizou várias campanhas contra o Vodu. No terceiro capítulo, refletiremos sobre a reabilitação do Vodu por um setor da elite intelectual do país, especialmente por meio da Escola Indigenista, durante a ocupação americana. Os principais representantes deste movimento foram Jean Price-Mars, médico e antropólogo, o romancista Jacques Roumain,e François Duvalier que através de numerosas pesquisas e publicações ajudaram no renascimento do Vodu como religião. Com o Concílio Vaticano II, a Igreja Católica mostrou-se mais compreensiva e tolerante frente ao Vodu, a ponto de procurar compreendê-lo a partir de dentro. A revalorização do Vodu o ajudou a sair da clandestinidade e ajudou também os haitianos a reencontrarem os valores que os uniram no passado e que os podem unir outra vez em torno de um projeto de reconstrução nacional
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Joseph, Jean Anel. "Missão e Igreja local: um estudo do Vodu haitiano no contexto do pluralismo religioso." Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo, 2015. https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/18355.
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The mission received from Jesus Christ (cf. Mt 29, 19-20) has been accepted by the universal church, and is effective in the activity and outreach of each particular church. Therefore, we understand that a church becomes particular when it can take local cultural elements and incorporate them in the enculturation of the Gospel in this local reality. Indeed, the mission of making Jesus Christ known to the ends of the earth experiences many challenges regarding the languages, mentalities, political environments and cultures. It is in the process the enculturation, that Jesus Christ may be incarnated in a mission to liberate and to save the humanity. However, the process of evangelization is not always free of evangelizers cultures conceptions and, almost always the native people s cultures were fought, ignored, or repressed. This research studies the Haitian reality in the cultural shock between the process of Christian evangelization and voodoo. We try to contextualize both voices of the local church as their own writings on the international scene and also the vast theological thought of that time. We show also the work of the black leaders to insure recognition of the black culture, defending it against all prejudices, charges of fetishism, witchcraft and other issues combated the black culture where the voodoo is a form of expression. After analyzing the way the local church related to voodoo and the inspiration of the second Vatican Council, we search for pointing out possible alternatives that can lead a harmony between the two religions that are currently under the law, with the same degree of importance. We do not ignore the presence of other religions, but we place our focus on studying the pastoral elements that may make for a possible way to overcome the current challenges. This is demanded in the new plural context Haitian reality, especially since the legal recognition of Voodoo as a Religion and the arrival of new religions with the UN mission in Haiti since 2004. The conclusion underlines the hypothesis that A return to preconciliar practices can only hinder the activity of the local church if it wants to be in tune with the universal mission of the church and especially if it intends to respond to the appeal of the Continental Magisterial, and more specifically to the Aparecida Conference that calls for a pastoral conversion as required in response to the signs of the times
A missão recebida de Jesus Cristo (cf. Mt 29, 19-20) é assumida pela Igreja Universal e é efetiva na atividade de cada Igreja local. No entanto, entendemos que uma Igreja se torna particular quando chega à maturidade de assumir elementos culturais locais e se empenha na inculturação do Evangelho nesta determinada realidade. Com efeito, a missão de fazer conhecer Jesus Cristo até os confins da terra enfrentou desafios de línguas, mentalidades e culturas. É a partir do processo da inculturação que podemos verdadeiramente propor um Jesus Cristo encarnado com a missão de libertar e salvar o gênero humano. Mas, nem sempre, o processo da Evangelização está livre de concepções culturais dos seus evangelizadores e, na maioria das vezes, as culturas dos povos nativos foram combatidas ou ignoradas. Esta pesquisa estuda a realidade haitiana no choque cultural entre o processo da evangelização cristã e o Vodu. Tentamos contextualizar tanto o discurso da Igreja local como os seus próprios escritos no cenário internacional e também o vasto pensamento teológico daquela época. Expomos também o trabalho dos negros pelo reconhecimento da cultura negra, defendendo-a contra todo o preconceito de cultura atrasada, de juiz de valor de fetichismo, bruxaria e tantos outros títulos que foram empenhados para combater a cultura negra onde, o Vodu, é uma forma de expressão. Depois de analisar o modo com que a Igreja local desempenhava a sua atividade missionária em relação ao Vodu e à luz do Vaticano II, procuramos apontar possíveis saídas de posicionamentos que podem levar a uma convivência entre as duas religiões que atualmente se encontram, perante a lei, sob o mesmo grau de importância, mas teologica e soteriologicamente, procuramos afirmar a superioridade de Jesus Cristo. Nós não ignoramos a presença das outras religiões, mas nós colocamos nosso foco em estudar e apresentar elementos pastorais para uma possível superação dos desafios atuais, neste novo contexto plural que pinta a realidade haitiana, com o reconhecimento jurídico do Vodu como Religião e a chegada de novas confissões religiosas com a missão da ONU presente no Haiti desde 2004. Enfim, salientamos a hipótese de que a volta às práticas pré-conciliares só podem prejudicar a atividade da Igreja local se ela quiser estar em sintonia com a missão universal da Igreja e, principalmente, se ela pretende responder ao apelo do Magistério Continental e mais especificamente a Aparecida que clama por uma conversão pastoral como resposta adaptada aos sinais dos tempos atuais
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Page, Shelby. "Care's an enemy to life : Shakespeare goes to Mardi Gras. An analysis of costume design for Twelfth Night set in a modern-day land of voodoo and revelry." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/52846.
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This paper documents and describes the design process and final costume design for the University of British Columbia (UBC) 2014 production of William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. The production was the first show in the 2014-2015 season. It ran from September 26th to October 11th, 2014.
The director was Stephen Heatley and the stage manager was Kiara Lawson. The creative team included Rebecca Burks (Set), Andrew Pye (Lighting), and Lauren Stewart (Sound Design). The costume advisor for the production was Jacqueline Firkins.Arts, Faculty of
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Camp, Bryan. "Where the Dead Remain." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2010. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1250.
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Where the Dead Remain is a murder mystery set in a Post-Katrina New Orleans where the gods, magic and monsters of various world mythologies actually exist. The story follows a week in the life of Jude Duboisson, a once magician who is struggling with the loss of his magic and the life he had known in the wake of the storm, as he is pulled out of his torpor and into the affairs of the mighty once again. He is tasked with discovering who murdered Dodge Renaud, the fortune god of New Orleans. What he discovers, though, are some surprising truths about the fundamental nature of things: about loss, about New Orleans, and about himself.
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Clementi-Smith, Jonathan. "Divine horsemen and people inbetween : a study of the spaces between magical time and mechanical motion." Thesis, University of Exeter, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10036/3998.
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This PhD “Film by Practice” sets out to question and explore the nature of film poetry. The poetry of the cinematic image is described by the filmmaker Jean Epstein as the “unveiling of the magic inherent in the visual object beyond the capacity of words to define” (Epstein, cited in Sitney, 1978: xxiii). This is a daunting task that the study interprets through the moving image with particular reference to the magical temporal art of trance possession, which is processed within the genre of experimental ethnographic documentary and intercultural film. This thesis is an experiment in form, taking the filmmaker Maya Deren’s notion of film as comprising of “narrative horizontals” and “poetic verticals” (Deren and Sitney, 1971: 178) explored through a practical investigation of movement and time in space both beyond and within the film frame, studied through the art installations Divine Horsemen (2005) and People Inbetween (2007). It is focused through a reading of Gilles Deleuze’s Bergsonian philosophies of cinema as “movement-images” and “time-images” (Deleuze, 1989: xvi, xvii), exhibited as multi-screened video art installations that evolve within the space and hence exist in a perpetual state of “becoming”. Whether this is the sounds and images that change depending on where they are viewed, or the narrative theme of the works as “becoming other”. The themes of “in-betweenness” and the “mix” are investigated through these two video documentary artworks; first, by a third party restaging/remixing of the experimental ethnographic footage of Haitian Voodoo trance possession shot by Maya Deren, unfinished and posthumously released as Divine Horsemen the Voodoo Gods of Haiti (1985); and second, diaspora and the intercultural are explored through the first person personal. Intercultural documentary and experimental ethnography filtered through me with specific reference to my own triangular ethnicity, being British, Sri Lankan, though classified as Dutch Burgher, a “lost white tribe” (Orizio, 2000: 2): a journey into racial “becoming” as an “in-between” belonging to a diasporic community.
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Varrasso, Federico. "Représentations et croyances dans le vodou haïtien : approche filmique d'une communauté religieuse de Port-au-Prince." Thesis, Paris 10, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014PA100079.
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A travers une exploration filmique menée auprès d'une communauté religieuse de Port-au-Prince, l’analyse des images enregistrées avec les personnes filmées et l’expérience pratique de constructions audiovisuelles participatives, la recherche interroge le système de représentation des adeptes et le rapport qu'il entretient avec la notion de croyance. Elle étudie simultanément par ce biais la réception de formes audiovisuelles spécifiques et l’observation différée des enregistrements en tant qu’outil privilégié d'une anthropologie audiovisuelle appliquée à l'étude des systèmes symboliques de représentation et à leur dynamique évolutive. Cette recherche est marquée par trois étapes de réalisations concrètes selon des paradigmes audiovisuels définis : un multimédia interactif, un film d’observation descriptif chronologique, et un film linéaire poursuivant l’objectif d’une mise en scène de l’autoreprésentation des agents suivant les précédentes étapes collaboratives d’observations, d’interprétations et de constructions audiovisuelles participatives qui forment l’enquête. L’image, sous ses multiples acceptions, est envisagée ici en tant qu’objet transactionnel agissant à différentes échelles sociales, depuis ses usages et fabrications à un niveau individuel jusqu’à ceux-ci à un niveau collectif et transnational. Cet aspect est analysé, d’abord, au moyen de la confrontation successive entre imagerie religieuse produite au sein de la confrérie et représentations audiovisuelles produites par la recherche elle-même et retournées aux agents, et ensuite, par confrontation avec l’iconographie religieuse et les représentations anciennes et contemporaines produites par des sources endogènes et exogènes à l’aire culturelle haïtienne. Le texte analyse ainsi la construction de représentations et leurs effets depuis les expériences pratiques menées avec les individus d’une communauté jusqu’à celles qui intègrent certains évènements sociohistoriques, certains clichés et certaines figures mythologiques d’inspirations vodou ayant intégrés la culture occidentale à travers, notamment, des représentations romanesques et hollywoodiennes ayant eu un fort succès et continuant à alimenter l’imaginaire occidental et haïtien aujourd’huiThe Haitian voodoo presents a profusion of practices and perceptible representations, symbolic ones, as material as corporeal. He influences the arts and the literature of a whole culture, well beyond the circle of his followers. If it is plural from origin, it was also collected and represented in a multiple way by his outer observers. Forged during a tempestuous history and present, its representation system seems to present a character at the same time persistent and permeable, connected to the faith itself. Through the analysis of worship images, a cinematic exploration conducted within a religious community of Port-au-Prince, and finally through a participatory experience of confrontation of the recorded images with the agents and film construction according to three different modalities, the study attempts to question the representation system of the followers and the relationship which it maintains with the faith. The research also tries to examine restitutions forms and specific visual anthropology tools applied to the study of symbolic representation systems and their dynamics
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Paraone, Israe. "Urban Voodoo an ambiguity document, seeking to record the disruption of language through imitation : a thesis/dissertation submitted to AUT University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of a Master of Art and Design, 2007 /." AUT University, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10292/135.
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Urban Voodoo mimics semiotic phenomena, which constitute language and functions as a system of signs that intra-act ambiguously within their own system. This project explores the link between the ambiguous signs of the worm, what looks like a mimesis of icons/symbols, and the way in which simulations are caught up in semiotic implications. Urban Voodoo, which followed on from my earlier Project Iroiro, developed language precursors from the study of the marks of the worm, creating different patterns and styles, and generating language-like effects. Using this system of signs, my project explores the idea that humans are part of a system operated by language, and examines the notion that language itself may be disrupted. To explore this, my project is about layers of competing imprints, about 'languages' tagged into spaces occupied by several graffiti artists within a local skate park. Urban Voodoo acts as a new Graffiti system. In mimicry, organisms make themselves resemble others or their environment. Icons 'look like' what they represent; simulation proposes 'to be' what it suggests. These concepts of assimilation and representation will be explored to understand and interrogate the power balance of language systems, starting with a specific local situation, the skate park. Latin; Inter" denotes "among" or "between," so "between symbols" or "among symbols" is a reasonable meaning. "Intra" denotes "within," as "intra muros," meaning "within the walls.". See also http://arden.aut.ac.nz/moodle/login/index.php#_ftn1 Iroiro, the mark of the worm found in nature, under the bark of trees or etched into the surface of seashells. It is these intriguing patterns that are of interest to this research. These marks perform a role in which systems of language surface. See also http://arden.aut.ac.nz/moodle/login/index.php#_ftn2 Graffiti Piece; the terminology used to define larger works of graffiti art as opposed to tagging, a form of territory recognition mark. See also http://arden.aut.ac.nz/moodle/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=3410#_ftn3
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Tourreil, Virginie. "Anthropologie rituelle autour de la maladie et de la mort en territoire vaudou (plateau d'Abomey, Bénin)." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SACLV036.
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L’objectif de cette thèse est d’étudier et d’analyser d’un point de vue anthropo-ethnologique les pratiques vaudou concernant la maladie et la mort sur le plateau d’Abomey. Notre étude s’inscrit dans une démarche pluridisciplinaire mêlant à la fois histoire, ethno-archéologie et anthropologie sociale. Cette thèse s’attache à retracer la gestion rituelles d’un adepte la maladie et la mort avec le deuil qui l’accompagne (réaction et soin face à la maladie, à l’agonie, gestion de la mort, du deuil, des hommages post-mortem aux défunts et aux ancêtres, etc.). On s’intéressera également à la mort «provoquée » (meurtres dirigés, sacrifices, etc.) et à sa gestion(objectifs, procédés, conséquences et justifications éventuelles d’un point de vue religieux, etc.). Il est également question de traiter un volet médical notamment avec l’étude de la perception de la maladie par les vaudouisant et les soins pratiqués pour en venir à bout. Une étude d’anthropologie médicale est également mis en place afin d’analyser les habitudes de soins sur le plateau d’Abomey au travers un échantillon de la population. Nous nous penchons également sur la cohabitation entre médecine traditionnelle et médecine moderne dans cette zone géographiqueThe objective of this study is to analyze in anthropo-ethnological perspective on the practices related to sickness and death on the Abomey plateau. Our study is part of a multidisciplinary approach, history, ethno-archeology and social anthropology. This this is to trace the management of the rituals of the deposit and life with life, the face of life, the life of the post mortem life to the deceased and the ancestors, etc.). It is also interested in the death caused (directed murders, sacrifices, etc.) and its management (objectives, processes, consequences and possible justifications from a religious point of view, etc.).This is also about this medical school of the voodooing on the health and care practices for Come to Come. A study of medical anthropology is also presented to analyze life habits on the Abomey Plateau through a sample of the population. We are also on the cohabitation between traditional medicine and modern medicine in this geographical area
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Télusma, Henri Claude. "Une analyse théologique de la coexistence christianisme/vaudou en Haïti : ouverture pour un dialogue interreligieux." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017STRAK009/document.
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Toute coexistence religieuse peut être facteur de conflits religieux ou symbole de respect de liberté, de tolérance ou de vivre ensemble, dépendamment de la façon dont elle est comprise, ou de la nature des religions coexistantes. Même quand chaque religion partage une vision du monde différente par rapport aux autres, on constate que la coexistence entre religions révélées (christianisme, islam, judaïsme – et bouddhisme dans certains cas) est plus facile, car ces religions partagent d’une façon ou d’une autre certaines valeurs communes. Par contre, il est très difficile de concevoir une logique de dialogue entre des religions dites « révélées » et des religions traditionnelles. Pourtant, la rencontre du christianisme avec des cultures religieuses traditionnelles africaines montre que malgré les difficultés, il y a possibilité d’avoir des échanges fructueux aussi avec les religions traditionnelles. Dans le contexte haïtien, la rencontre du christianisme avec le vaudou ne laisse pas toujours la possibilité aux observateurs d’entrevoir que la religion est signe de paix et de cohésion sociale. Étant donné que leur antagonisme se caractérise souvent par des facteurs comme l’intolérance, l’irrespect de la liberté de l’autre, etc., le problème est surtout dans la gestion des rapports religieux. Néanmoins, dans certains cas où les intérêts religieux sont traités en second plan, il y a lieu de constater que le tableau de la coexistence religieux haïtien est riche en symbole de paix et de compréhension mutuelle. Donc, ce travail de recherche cherche à comprendre la conception que le christianisme se fait du vaudou et vice versa, dans le but de voir avec exactitude les facteurs de divergences acceptables (et non acceptables) et ceux qui pourraient être à la base d’un éventuel dialogue interreligieux entre christianisme et vaudou dans le contexte haïtien. Pour améliorer les rapports entre adeptes du vaudou et chrétiens en Haïti, ce travail propose des méthodes pouvant aboutir à un vivre ensemble religieux pacifié, plus tolérant et d’une connaissance réciproque et intelligente de l’autre. Le but du dialogue présenté n’est pas que le christianisme et le vaudou travaillent ensemble à tous les points de vue, ni même qu’ils s’acceptent complètement, il s’agit plutôt d’une proposition d’une vie commune dans la paix, sans calomnies et stéréotypes réciproquesAny religious coexistence can be a factor of religious conflict or symbol of respect for freedom, tolerance or live together, depending on the way in which it is included, or the nature of the religions in coexistence. Even when each religion shares a vision of the world different compared to the other, it is found that the coexistence between religions (Christianity, Islam and Judaism - and Buddhism in some cases) is more effective, because these religions share in one way or another some common values. On the other hand, it is constantly difficult to conceive of a pluralistic approach in a logic of dialogue between revealed religions and traditional religions. Yet, the meeting of Christianity with traditional African religious cultures shows that despite the difficulties, there is a possibility to have fruitful exchanges also with the traditional religions. In the context of Haiti, the meeting of Christianity with the voodoo does not leave always the possibility for observers to foresee that the religion is a sign of peace and social cohesion. Given that their antagonism is often characterized by factors such as intolerance, the disrespect of the freedom of the other, etc., the problem is especially in the management of religious relationships. Nevertheless, in some cases where the religious interests are treated in the second plan, it has to be noted that the coexistence of these religions in Haiti can be rich in symbol of peace and mutual understanding. Therefore, this research work seeks to understand the design of Christianity from the perspective of voodoo and vice versa, in the aim to see with accuracy the factors of acceptable (and inacceptable) differences and those that could be the basis of a possible interreligious Dialogue between Christianity and Voodoo in the Haitian context.To improve the relationship between the followers of the voodoo and Christians in Haiti, this work finally proposes some methods that can lead to a peaceful religious coexistence, toward more tolerant and a reciprocal knowledge and intelligent approach to the other. The goal of the dialogue presented in this dissertation is neither that Christianity and the Voodoo should work together in all points of view, nor even that they completely recognize mutually their belief, it is rather a proposal for a common life in peace, without slander and reciprocal stereotypes
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Kirkland, Benjamin Renfroe. "VOODIO: Proposal for an Online Video Content Creation Tool." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/96554.
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Video content is a massive source of entertainment, education, and income for a large population of online users. As more reliance upon this medium enters the field of education, formal and informal, people need tools to enhance their ability to tell stories and engage an audience. A tool that easily adjusts without compromising the interaction, the storytelling, or the visual moment, while also capturing as much information as possible, might be of great benefit to all creators of video content. Allowing tutorial creators the ability to efficiently record multiple views of their content may better aid in presenting concepts while retaining the attention of the viewership. The opportunity to present information effectively may have impacts on fields including education as well as entertainment. This thesis aims to explore possible reasons why content can be made to retain the audience's attention and to create a tool utilizing these facets for far reaching possibilities.Master of Science
Video content is a massive source of entertainment, education, and income for a large population of online users. As more reliance upon this medium enters the field of education, formal and informal, people need tools to enhance their ability to tell stories and engage an audience. A tool that easily adjusts without compromising the interaction, the storytelling, or the visual moment, while also capturing as much information as possible, might be of great benefit to all creators of video content. Allowing tutorial creators the ability to efficiently record multiple views of their content may better aid in presenting concepts while retaining the attention of the viewership. The opportunity to present information effectively may have impacts on fields including education as well as entertainment. This thesis aims to explore possible reasons why content can be made to retain the audience's attention and to create a tool utilizing these facets for far reaching possibilities.
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Puértolas, Rubio Laura. "Le corps entravé. Étude des pratiques de sorcellerie de l’Anatolie ancienne d’après les textes cunéiformes hittites et louvites." Thesis, Sorbonne université, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019SORUL156.
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L’objectif de cette recherche est d’étudier les pratiques de sorcellerie de l’Anatolie hittite (IIe millénaire avant notre ère). Les sources disponibles sont des textes cunéiformes en langue hittite et louvite retrouvés dans les archives de leur capitale, Hattuša (actuelle Boğazkale) et datent des XVIe-XVe siècles jusqu’au XIIIe siècle av. J.-C. Par conséquent, cette recherche s’appuie sur une démarche philologique de traduction et d’édition des textes. Également, elle applique une marque théorique issue de l’anthropologie sociale pour essayer d’appréhender les différentes manières dont les Hittites concevaient la sorcellerie et les réalités culturelles qui se cachent derrière les textes. De cette manière, on peut considérer que cette recherche interdisciplinaire se placera naturellement au croisement de l’anthropologie, de la philologie et de l’histoire des religionsThe objective of this research is to study the practice of witchcraft in Hittite Anatolia (2nd millennium BC). The available sources are cuneiform texts in Hittite and Luwian languages found in the archives of their capital, Hattuša (now Boğazkale) and dated from the 16th-15th centuries to the 13th century BC. Due to the nature of the sources, this research is divided in two parts. The first one is the edition and philological study of a corpus of texts dealing with witchcraft, while the second one constitutes the analysis of the content itself using a theoretical approach from social anthropology. This analysis aims to improve our understanding of the different ways in which the Hittites conceived of witchcraft and to apprehend the cultural realities behind the texts. Therefore, this research will naturally be at the crossroads of anthropology, philology and the history of religions
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Lefilleul, Alice. "Animismes : de l'Afrique aux Premières Nations, penser la décolonisation avec les écrivains." Thèse, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/21128.
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Kao, Liu-miao, and 郭柳妙. "The study of sorcery and voodoo in Ming Dynasty." Thesis, 2004. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/31588742972112739446.
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Abstract This study is made up of five chapters. The purpose of this study is to analyze sorcery figures and actions in the famous novel title of Ming Dynasty. Chapter one presents the studying motivations, the methodology and the scope of the study and the literature review. In chapter two are the typological explorations of the sorcery figures in title of Ming Dynasty as far as their status, personalities, specialties, and religious attributes are concerned. Chapter three focuses on sorcerers’ cultural types, and discusses their relations to Chinese cultures and society. Moreover, the relationship of the sorcerers’ social status and the sorcerers themselves to the politics and society of the Ming Dynasty has also been discussed. Chapter four presents a whole discussion of the sorcery in the Ming Dynasty. Discussions begin from the definitions of sorcery, then to the analyses of the types and contents of sorcery in the Ming Dynasty, and finally, by means of representative figures, to the explorations of the interactive relationship between sorcery, religion and sorcery figures. Chapter five concludes the main points of the previous four chapters. Moreover, also presented in this chapter are the combination of sorcery and sorcerers with the lives of the people in the Ming Dynasty and the co-existent relationship between sorcery and Confucianists Buddhism and Taoism
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Sager, Rebecca Darlene. "Musical meaning of Haitian vodou singing an ethnography of musical and ritual discourse at a Lakou Ginen in northern Haiti /." 2002. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3110685.
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Ott, Bryan M. "Voodoo in New Orleans 1990 contemporary beliefs and ritual practices /." 1991. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/24358772.html.
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KAREŠOVÁ, Denisa. "Voodoo in the Fiction of Charles Chesnutt and Zora Neale Hurston." Master's thesis, 2018. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-381817.
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"The Voodoo Spiritual Temple: A Case Study of New Orleans' Spiritual Churches." Doctoral diss., 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.38636.
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abstract: This dissertation takes the material culture of New Orleans’ Spiritual Churches as its point of the construction and application of academic categories in studies of religions of the African diaspora. Because I am interested in what emic explanations reveal about scholarly categories and methods, a dialogic approach in which I consult practitioners’ explanations to test the appropriateness of academic categories is central to this work. Thus, this study is grounded in an ethnographic study of the Voodoo Spiritual Temple, which was founded and is operated by Priestess Miriam Chamani, a bishop in the Spiritual Churches. The Spiritual Churches first emerged in the early twentieth century under the leadership of Mother Leafy Anderson. Voodoo, Pentecostalism, Spiritualism, and Roman Catholicism have been acknowledged as their primary tributary traditions. This study examines the material culture, such as statues and mojo bags, at the Voodoo Spiritual Temple as it reflects and reveals aspects of Temple attendees’ world views. In particular, material culture begins to illuminate attendees’ understandings of non-human beings, such as Spirit and spirits of the dead, as they are embodied in a variety of ways. Conceptions of Spirit and spirits are revealed to be interconnected with views on physical and spiritual well-being. Additionally, despite previous scholarly treatments of the Spiritual Churches as geographically, socially, and culturally isolated, the material culture of the Voodoo Spiritual Temple reveals them to be embedded in transnational and translocal cultural networks.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Religious Studies 2016
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Ribeiro, Pedro do Rêgo. "Voodoo : a system that allows children to create animated films with action figures as interface." Master's thesis, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/27838.
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Dissertação de mestrado em Engenharia de InformáticaUsing any kind of dolls as a tangible interface, has the potential to provide a friendly and easy to learn interface that allows children to control virtual characters in a more intuitive way. The research effort in this domain has been motivated by the shortcomings of conventional interfaces, typically mouse and keyboard, which in this context are neither compelling nor do promote immersion. This dissertation focuses on the design and evaluation of a system which can interpret the behaviors that children give to a doll in order to provide this behavioral information to the virtual characters. With this system, the user (children) gets the role of movie director, directing virtual characters through this natural form of interaction. This dissertation aims to evaluate the hypothesis that dolls behaviors recognition based on the context of a well-known story, may enhance the ability of children in the creation of an animated film (virtual characters animations). Unlike many approaches that use a direct mapping of the doll movements to the virtual character, it is intended to test the mapping based on the crosses between, user behavioral intention, and the context where the doll it is inserted (the role and the location of the character in the story). The results show that the concept of interaction proposed to empower the children with a way to create animated films is actually very intuitive and easy to use. However, due to the technology used, it was not possible to assess to what extent this concept really empowers children to easily and joyfully create animated films.
A utilização de qualquer tipo de boneco como sendo uma interface tangível, tem o potencial de oferecer uma interface fácil de usar e mais amigável. Isto permite as crianças o controlo de personagens virtuais de uma forma mais intuitiva. O esforço de pesquisa nesta área tem sido motivado pelo facto de os utilizadores não possuírem numa interface convencional uma forma imersiva e intuitiva para interagir. Esta dissertação foca-se na construção e avaliação de um sistema que consegue interpretar os comportamentos que uma criança dá a um boneco no sentido de animar um personagem virtual. Com este sistema o utilizador (criança) assume o papel de um realizador de cinema, dirigindo e dando ordens aos personagens virtuais através de uma forma de interação especifica. Nesta dissertação pretende-se avaliar a hipótese de que o reconhecimento dos comportamentos de um boneco baseado no contexto de uma historia conhecida, pode potenciar a capacidade das crianças na interação e criação de filmes 3D (animação de personagens virtuais). Contrariamente a várias aproximações que usam o mapeamento direto dos movimentos do boneco para o personagem virtual, pretende-se neste trabalho testar o mapeamento baseado no cruzamento entre, a deteção da intenção do utilizador, e o contexto onde o boneco está inserido (o papel e localização do personagem tendo em conta a história). Os resultados demonstram que o conceito de interação proposto para capacitar as crianças com uma forma de criar filmes de animação é realmente muito intuitivo e fácil de utilizar, no entanto devido as tecnologias utilizadas não foi realmente possível avaliar até que ponto este conceito realmente potencia a capacidade das crianças para que de uma forma divertida consigam criar filmes de animação.
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Faia, Anthony Nicholas. "Remembering the ritual : exploring The other side of shadow." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-08-1780.
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Schlaichert, Miroslav. "Identita v románech Marcia Veloze Maggiola." Master's thesis, 2020. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-436688.
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(in English): The aim of this diploma thesis is to analyse the Dominican identity in the works of the Dominican author Marcio Veloz Maggiolo. At first, the thesis briefly summarizes the evolution of the Dominican literature and mentions its most significant figures. Secondly, it deals with the evolution of the dominicaness from the colonial period up to the present and explains the reasons of the rooted antihaitianism. The second part consists of a detailed analysis of the novels The Diffuse Biography of Sombra Castañeda and The Accordion Man by Marcio Veloz Maggiolo, emphasizing the symbols of the official government's discourse, and also a more opened perspective of the dominicaness.
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Guia, Maria João Ferreira Duarte da. "Os rituais e o misticismo no tráfico de pessoas: o caso da manipulação de vítimas pelo vudu." Master's thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10316/92683.
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Dissertação de Mestrado em Direito apresentada à Faculdade de DireitoO tráfico de pessoas, conforme se encontra consagrado no Código Penal Português, nem sempre teve a formulação que hoje lhe é conhecida. Passou por diferentes formulações, até adquirir a sua autonomia face a outros fenómenos sociais e criminais associados às migrações, à mão-de-obra estrangeira, à prostituição, ao lenocínio, à burla relativa a trabalho ou emprego, entre outros.O Direito Criminal figura neste âmbito como pedra angular no sentido de delimitar, escolher e apreciar as complexas e sensíveis ponderações, face ao evoluir cultural dos tempos, até ao momento vigente, refletindo sobre potenciais lacunas a preencher ou alterações a encetar, num contínuo aprimoramento. Neste sentido, na convergência interdisciplinar necessária para a compreensão de fenómenos com crescente relevância, e tendo em conta a evolução legislativa internacional, europeia e portuguesa, procurámos analisar o caso do tráfico de pessoas através da manipulação do inconsciente das vítimas, a partir da sua introdução em rituais místicos com a finalidade de as despersonalizar e explorar. Usámos, para tal, o caso do vudu, a partir da realidade Nigeriana e do crescente número de vítimas identificadas em exploração sexual nos Estados Membros da União Europeia, na invisibilidade que o grau profundo de manipulação exercida lhes impõe. Com esta reflexão diligenciámos suscitar o debate relativamente a este e a outros fenómenos semelhantes, envolvendo a manipulação da mente das vítimas, através da análise de casos apreciados e julgados, percecionando a grande invisibilidade e o alto número de cifras negras existentes na realidade da manipulação através dos rituais do vudu. Nesta análise, julgamos ser central a proatividade do Estado em encetar medidas que efetivamente previnam e reprimam este crime, favorecendo assim uma mais efetiva identificação e um melhor apoio às vítimas resgatadas pela Justiça.
Trafficking in human beings, enshrined in the Portuguese Penal Code, did not always have the formulation as known today. It passed through different formulations, until it acquired its autonomy vis-à-vis other social and criminal phenomena associated with migration, foreign labor, prostitution, pimping, or fraud employment, among others.Criminal Law appears in this context as a cornerstone in the sense of delimiting, choosing and selecting such complex and sensitive considerations, in view of the cultural evolution of times, until the current moment, reflecting on potential gaps to fill or amendments to be undertaken, in a continuous improvement. In this sense, in the needed interdisciplinary convergence to understand phenomena with increasing relevance, and taking into account the International, European and Portuguese legislative developments, we envisaged to analyze the case of human trafficking through the manipulation of the victims' unconscious, by introducing them in mystical rituals aiming to depersonalizing and exploring them. With this objective, we used the case of voodoo, based on the Nigerian reality and the growing number of identified victims in sexual exploitation in the Member States of the European Union, in the invisibility that the profound degree of manipulation imposes them.With this reflection, we endeavored to raise the debate regarding this and other similar phenomena, involving the manipulation of the victims' minds, through the analysis of appreciated and judged cases, perceiving the great invisibility and the high number of black figures existing in the reality of the manipulation through voodoo rituals.In this analysis, we believe that the State's proactivity in taking measures that reinforce the prevention and repression of this crime is central, thus favoring a more effective identification and better support for the victims rescued by Justice.
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Alves, Tiago Miguel Laureano. "VooDooM : support for understanding and re-engineering of VDM-SL specifications." Master's thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/6261.
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Tese mestrado informáticaThe main purpose of this work is to define steady ground for supporting the understanding and re-engineering of VDM-SL specifications. Understanding and re-engineering are justified by Lehman’s laws of software evolution which state, for instance, that systems must be continually adapted and as a program evolves its complexity increases unless specific work is done to reduce it. This thesis reports the implementation of understanding and re-enginering techniques in a tool called VooDooM, which was built in three well defined steps. First, development of the language front-end to recognize the VDMSL language, using a grammar-centered approach, supported by the SDF formalism, in which a wide variety of components are automatically generated from a single grammar; Second, development of understanding support, in which graphs are extracted and derived and subsequently used as input to strongly-connected components, formal concept analysis and metrication. Last, development of re-engineering support, through the development of a relational calculator that transforms a formal specification into an equivalent model which can be translated to SQL. In all steps of the work we thoroughly document the path from theory to practice and we conclude by reporting successful results obtained in two test cases.
O objectivo principal deste trabalho é a definiçãoo de uma infra-estrutura para suportar compreensão e re-engenharia de especificações escritas em VDM-SL. compreensão e re-engenharia justificam-se pelas leis de evolução do software. Estas leis, formuladas por Lehman, definem, por exemplo, que um qualquer sistema deve ser continuamente adaptado e `a medida que os programas evoluem a sua complexidade tende sempre a aumentar. Esta tese descreve o estudo de técnicas de compreensão e re-engenharia que foram implementadas numa ferramenta chamada VooDooM. Esta implementação foi efectuada em três etapas bem definidas. Primeiro, foi desenvolvido um parser (front-end) para reconhecer a linguagem VDM-SL. Para tal, foi utilizada uma abordagem centrada na gramática, suportada no formalismo SDF, que está equipado com ferramentas de geração automática de diversos componentes. Segundo, para o suporte de compreensão, foram desenvolvidas funcionalidades para extrair e derivar grafos que são utilizados em técnicas de análise como componentes fortemente relacionados, análise de conceitos (formal concept analysis) e métricas. Por último, para o suporte de re-engenharia, foi prototipada uma calculadora relacional que transforma um modelo, definido numa especificação formal, no seu equivalente relacional que pode ser traduzido para SQL. Em todas as etapas realizadas h a preocupação de documentar o percurso entre teoria para a prática. A análise de resultados obtida no estudo de caso revela o sucesso da abordagem e as suas potencialidades para desenvolvimentos futuros.