Browsing by Subject "Rites and ceremonies"
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Afro-Brazilian Candomble: Reigniting Cultural Memories in the New World
This paper will explore Candomblé as a religion in its own right that has acted as an important tool for resistance and remembrance, allowing Candomblé practitioners to remember and redefine their African ancestral past ... -
"Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris...": Sacred and Profane Violence in Moby-Dick
Moby-Dick presents intriguing patterns of violence that I believe to be in need of further exploration. . . . The publication of Sir James Frazer's The Colden Bough in 1890 produced a new form of cultural anthropology ... -
Patterns of Ritual in the Works of James Joyce
Any critical study of the works of James Joyce is from the outset impiously reductive. Two alternatives immediately confront the Joycean who embarks on such a study. He can follow the narrative structures of the individual ...