archives@tulane.edu / The embellishment of paintings of the Virgin Mary enhanced the meaning and value of the Marian devotions represented. This practice involved the direct application of ornaments made of precious metals and gems onto a painted canvas. This dissertation examines a small corpus of embellished paintings of the Virgin made in the Andes between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. At the center of this investigation is the heavily adorned image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Extremadura, originally created by Spanish friar Diego de Ocaña for the Metropolitan Cathedral of La Plata (now Sucre, Bolivia) in 1601. This dissertation argues that the motivations for embellishing these Marian paintings stem from the desire to imbue them with the value represented by these luxury materials during the colonial period. Following the Spanish invasion and settlement of the American continent, Eurocentric perceptions of luxury minerals dictated the value of precious metals and gems extracted from and circulated throughout the Andes. This dissertation examines these values of precious gems and metals using theoretical frameworks on materiality, adornment, and the appraisal of objects. This is followed by the historical accounts of how precious metals and gems came to be used as embellishments in paintings of the Virgin in the colonial Andes. By employing visual analysis and contextualization of the materials that make them unique, the purpose of embellishing sacred images with precious metals and gems becomes clearer. / 1 / Lucia Abramovich

Thesis--Wisconsin. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 312-325).

Stream transport is an important process in the dispersion of radioactive material that has been released by man into his environment. Some portion of the radionuclides that enter the stream system may remain in solution. However, a significant amount will become associated with aquatic organisms and sediments in the stream. The relative distribution will depend upon the particular radionuclide and the environmental factors of the stream system. Contemporary sediment samples from preselected locations in the Guadalupe River drainage basin were analyzed for their mineral composition, ion exchange capacity, and radionuclide sorption. The clay minerals were the most significant agents in the radionuclide sorption processes. X-ray diffraction patterns of the clay-sized particles show the presence of a heterogeneous mixed-layered clay mineral complex of poor crystallinity. The degraded nature of these crystallites is suggested by the low intensities and the broad and diffuse diffraction maxima. Ion exchange capacity measurements gave values of 10 to 47 meq/100 grams and projected values of 20 to 73 meq/100 grams of clay material. Radionuclide sorption studies using cesium-137 and strontium-89 were made on the naturally occurring sediments and sediments from which the organic fraction had been removed. Sorption values were compared with mineralogy and ion exchange capacity to obtain points of correlation. Rates of radionuclide sorption and release were highest during the first few moments of contact, but totals slowly continued to increase throughout the seven-day duration of the experiments. Sediments containing the naturally occurring organic fraction had the highest sorption values both for strontium-89 and cesium-137. The organic fraction contributes to the over-all sorption capacity of the sediments, even though some of the organic molecules may block exchange sites on the clay minerals against exchange with the radionuclide. These laboratory experiments indicated that radionuclide sorption in the dynamic fluvial environment was temporary. When the contaminated sediments were placed in conditions simulating a marine environment, 43 percent of the cesium-137 and 42 percent of the strontium-89 were released because of competition for the exchange sites from the more abundant ions in sea water. Even though fluvial releases are considered an acceptable means of radionuclide disposal, it should be emphasized that all stream systems are dynamic, and this disposal is at best temporary. The brief respite gained today may be overshadowed by the ultimate contamination of tomorrow. / text

Tesis para optar al grado de Magíster en Estudios Latinoamericanos

Thesis advisor: Lisa Cahill / This dissertation investigates the relationship between religious aesthetics and justice in the pursuit of the societal common good. The orienting problem of the work is the tensive relationship between maintaining political stability and meaningful engagement with religious particularity in order to foster robust democratic participation, especially among communities that have been historically marginalized in American public life. This project interrogates the relationship between religion in public life through the specific locus of religious aesthetics: what role ought religious symbols—including images, narratives, music, liturgical practices—play in cultivating justice, or the minimum level of solidarity required for promoting basic human dignity in society? Each chapter illuminates the significance of a particular discourse in support this project. Chapter one exposes the relevance of Guadalupe as a religious symbol in public life. Chapter two forges a dialogue with John Rawls’s political philosophy, reiterating the necessity of an adequate framework for religion in public life that prohibits the ascent of particular comprehensive doctrines to inordinate influence over society’s basic structure while critiquing his framework for religion in public life as lacking adequate viability in a public context where limitation on religion in democratic speech about the most salient societal issues hinders participation of ethno-racially marginalized groups. Chapter three engages Martha Nussbaum’s response to these issues, highlighting her arguments pertaining to political emotions and aesthetics as crucial contributions to this framework. Nussbaum argues persuasively for a central relationship between emotions and cognition and, further, makes a convincing statement of the significance of aesthetics—primarily literature—in the cultivation of political emotion. Yet, Nussbaum’s work makes an unnecessary demand on religion in public life: that it be viewed as “civic poetry.” While this framework is less restrictive than Rawls’s framework, it does not yet articulate a robust appreciation of the positive meanings of religious pluralism, especially among individuals and communities for whom religious and public arguments are intertwined. Chapter four offers Alejandro García-Rivera’s theological aesthetics as a crucial component to an adequate framework for forming community across difference. García-Rivera offers the basis for a more inclusive framework for religion in public life, however, his lack of substantive engagement with ethical issues pertaining to justice demands attention. With these pieces in place, the fifth chapter knits together this set of insights toward a more adequate framework for engaging religious pluralism in liberal context: aesthetic solidarity. / Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2015. / Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: Theology.

abstract: In 2006, composer James DeMars conceived of an opera when he began setting the Aztec legend known as Nican Mopohua, the “legend of Guadalupe.” Many inherent challenges arose as DeMars began to compose his first opera. His unfamiliarity with operatic writing and production, a preference for the aural elements of opera over visual ones, inexperience with dramatic textual writing, and insecurity in his ability to have it produced, encouraged him to detour from his operatic vision altogether and instead write an oratorio. Yet, his original operatic concept revealed itself through the music and text enough to encourage him and others to believe that his oratorio, Guadalupe: Our Lady of the Roses, could be produced on the operatic stage. Despite the oratorio’s success, DeMars persisted in realizing his original operatic vision and began the arduous task of rewriting his opera in 2012. To overcome the challenges, he relied heavily on the input of an “Operatic Advisory Council.” This group of dedicated colleagues and experts in the field of opera revealed to DeMars certain essential elements of opera that were absent from the oratorio, and through the course of three years advised and instructed the composer as he transformed his oratorio into an opera – something rarely attempted in the operatic repertoire. In this document, Chapter 1 discusses the formation of the Council, its members, and the expertise they offered. Chapter 2 presents the areas of concern the Council had during the process. Chapter 3 discusses the methods by which DeMars rectified the flaws in the oratorio’s visual aspects, the vocal writing, and the dramatic elements that needed attention. It also presents musical and textual examples of the adjustments and additions DeMars made during the transition, and discusses their effect on the opera’s staging, vocal writing and drama. The changes DeMars made under the guidance of the Operatic Advisory Council ultimately resulted in an operatic version of Guadalupe, which premiered at Arizona State University in November 2015. / Dissertation/Thesis / Doctoral Dissertation Music 2018

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2008. / "May, 2008." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-126). Library also has microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest Information and Learning Company, [2009]. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Online version available on the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.A.)--Catholic Theological Union at Chicago, 1991. / Vita. Includes "Narrative of the apparitions" in Nahuatl, Spanish and English. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 207-213).

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wisconsin, 1970. / Typescript. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 126-133).

Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-12T16:29:21Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 arquivo2863_1.pdf: 2144393 bytes, checksum: 010e27cbe8de1db29c3fc1a28f4659b8 (MD5) license.txt: 1748 bytes, checksum: 8a4605be74aa9ea9d79846c1fba20a33 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / O turismo é uma atividade econômica que em razão da capacidade de geração de renda e emprego desperta a atenção dos governantes. Diante do potencial natural do Nordeste brasileiro, as políticas públicas nacionais vêm incentivando, estimulando e acelerando o processo de desenvolvimento do turismo nesta região, com o objetivo de incrementar e fortalecer as economias locais. Em Pernambuco, os municípios que pertencem a Área de Proteção Ambiental (APA) de Guadalupe experimentam diversos projetos de expansão da atividade turística desde a década de 1990, como por exemplo, o Projeto Costa Dourada, o Centro Turístico (CT) de Guadalupe e o Programa de Desenvolvimento do Turismo do Nordeste (PRODETUR/NE). Entretanto, embora as áreas de proteção ambiental possuam regulamentação específica quanto ao uso e apropriação dos seus recursos ambientais, não se realiza um turismo voltado à sustentabilidade ambiental e emergem conflitos de diferentes ordens. Diante deste contexto, o objetivo deste trabalho foi analisar como se configuram os problemas e conflitos socioambientais derivados do turismo em áreas de proteção ambiental. Para atender o objetivo do trabalho buscou-se a pesquisa bibliográfica, a realização de entrevistas com atores sociais, a observação de reuniões do Conselho Municipal de Meio Ambiente de Tamandaré (COMDEMA), leituras de atas das reuniões do COMDEMA e análise de processos administrativos no Ministério Público Federal caracterizando os conflitos. Concluiu-se que, embora as APAs sejam protegidas pela legislação brasileira, o desenvolvimento das práticas de serviço, bem como o uso e apropriação dos recursos naturais pela atividade turística promove o surgimento de conflitos socioambientais entre os diversos atores locais. Vale ressaltar que, muitos conflitos ambientais da APA de Guadalupe surgiram exatamente das iniciativas do poder público, representado pelas esferas municipal, estadual e federal, de favorecer e estimular o desenvolvimento turístico das localidades. Outrossim, verificou-se que apesar da comunidade local nem sempre participar dos benefícios econômicos promovidos pelo turismo, a falta de planejamento sustentável do turismo afeta diretamente a qualidade de vida das pessoas