O presente estudo tem como tema as solenidades de colação de grau na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) no período de 1992 a 2012 e, como foco as memórias das colações de grau dos cursos de Comunicação Social, Enfermagem e Engenharia, registradas através de depoimentos de graduados nos respectivos cursos e de membros da comunidade universitária que participaram da gestão acadêmica no recorte indicado desta investigação. Buscou-se investigar a trajetória do cerimonial, seus aspectos simbólicos e ritualísticos, inseridos aos contextos históricos, sociais e acadêmico-institucionais do referido período, bem como o papel dos agentes internos e externos nas prováveis mudanças ocorridas nas solenidades. O trabalho se insere na linha de pesquisa Memória, Cultura e Identidade e nos campos de estudos em memória social, trabalhando com conceitos de rito e cerimonial. O estudo, de natureza qualitativa, adotou a metodologia da história oral. O resultado da investigação foi apresentado em cinco capítulos, sendo os dois primeiros de caráter introdutório ao tema e de apresentação do cenário universitário no qual se procede à pesquisa e os três últimos capítulos apresentaram o contexto acadêmico e o cenário do cerimonial universitário e das colações de grau. Na conclusão, fez-se reflexão sobre o percurso do cerimonial das colações de grau, a cultura acadêmica e os testemunhos dos colaboradores. Para atingir as demandas de um mestrado profissional foi produzido um e-book com a memória das solenidades de colações de grau da UFRGS no período de 1992 a 2012. / This work aims at analyzing the graduation ceremonies that took place from 1992 to 2012 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and we focus on the memories about the ceremonies in Social Communication, Nursing and Engineering experienced by students who have graduated and by academic staff who worked at the University within that period of time. We have investigated the history of ceremonial and its symbolic and ritualistic aspects according to different social, historical and institution-related events within that time, as well as the role of internal and external motivations for possible changes in the graduation ceremonies’ rites. This work is part of the research line Memory, Culture and Identity and relates to the field of social memory, dealing with the concepts of rite and ceremonial. The study, which has a qualitative approach, uses the methodology of oral history. The results of the investigation have been presented in five chapters, the first two introducing the subject and presenting the academic context and the setting for university ceremonial and graduation ceremonies. In our conclusion, we present a reflection on the pathways of ceremonial for graduation ceremonies, academic culture and the testimony of the contributors. In order to meet the requirements of a professional master’s course, we have written an e-book with the memories about the graduation ceremonies that took place from 1992 to 2012 at UFRGS.

O presente estudo tem como tema as solenidades de colação de grau na Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) no período de 1992 a 2012 e, como foco as memórias das colações de grau dos cursos de Comunicação Social, Enfermagem e Engenharia, registradas através de depoimentos de graduados nos respectivos cursos e de membros da comunidade universitária que participaram da gestão acadêmica no recorte indicado desta investigação. Buscou-se investigar a trajetória do cerimonial, seus aspectos simbólicos e ritualísticos, inseridos aos contextos históricos, sociais e acadêmico-institucionais do referido período, bem como o papel dos agentes internos e externos nas prováveis mudanças ocorridas nas solenidades. O trabalho se insere na linha de pesquisa Memória, Cultura e Identidade e nos campos de estudos em memória social, trabalhando com conceitos de rito e cerimonial. O estudo, de natureza qualitativa, adotou a metodologia da história oral. O resultado da investigação foi apresentado em cinco capítulos, sendo os dois primeiros de caráter introdutório ao tema e de apresentação do cenário universitário no qual se procede à pesquisa e os três últimos capítulos apresentaram o contexto acadêmico e o cenário do cerimonial universitário e das colações de grau. Na conclusão, fez-se reflexão sobre o percurso do cerimonial das colações de grau, a cultura acadêmica e os testemunhos dos colaboradores. Para atingir as demandas de um mestrado profissional foi produzido um e-book com a memória das solenidades de colações de grau da UFRGS no período de 1992 a 2012. / This work aims at analyzing the graduation ceremonies that took place from 1992 to 2012 at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) and we focus on the memories about the ceremonies in Social Communication, Nursing and Engineering experienced by students who have graduated and by academic staff who worked at the University within that period of time. We have investigated the history of ceremonial and its symbolic and ritualistic aspects according to different social, historical and institution-related events within that time, as well as the role of internal and external motivations for possible changes in the graduation ceremonies’ rites. This work is part of the research line Memory, Culture and Identity and relates to the field of social memory, dealing with the concepts of rite and ceremonial. The study, which has a qualitative approach, uses the methodology of oral history. The results of the investigation have been presented in five chapters, the first two introducing the subject and presenting the academic context and the setting for university ceremonial and graduation ceremonies. In our conclusion, we present a reflection on the pathways of ceremonial for graduation ceremonies, academic culture and the testimony of the contributors. In order to meet the requirements of a professional master’s course, we have written an e-book with the memories about the graduation ceremonies that took place from 1992 to 2012 at UFRGS.

Nesta dissertação são analisados os sítios cerimoniais associados à ocupação Jê do Sul no município de Pinhal da Serra, RS. Os sítios são compostos por aterros anelares (muros de terra) isolados ou cercando montículos. É proposta uma classificação que leva em conta a variabilidade arquitetônica de tais sítios, conforme as dimensões dos aterros, seu formato e a presença ou ausência de montículos. São considerados também os dados de escavações que evidenciam as atividades realizadas nesses locais. O tipo de sítio mais freqüente consiste em pequenos aterros anelares cercando montículos que contêm sepultamentos cremados. Pode-se interpretá-los como cemitérios de grupos que habitavam em sítios de casas subterrâneas vizinhos. Os aterros anelares de grandes dimensões e sem montículos são interpretados como centros cerimoniais regionais onde se reunia uma população mais ampla. Sítios com arquitetura complexa - aterros de diferentes formatos combinados e muitos montículos - apresentaram evidências de ritos mais elaborados, envolvendo festins mortuários. Possivelmente, eram locais de sepultamento de indivíduos de maior status. Os dados dos sítios mortuários são combinados com os dos assentamentos, que também sugerem um padrão hierárquico, com sítios densos (aglomerados com muitas casas subterrâneas) regularmente espaçados e cercados por sítios menos densos. Por fim, consideram-se as continuidades com os cacicados Kaingang históricos, que mantiveram a construção de montículos funerários como elemento importante da autoridade dos caciques no momento de enfrentamento com os colonizadores europeus. / This dissertation analyzes the ceremonial sites associated with a Southern Jê occupation in the city of Pinhal da Serra, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The sites consist in earthworks which can be either isolated or surrounding mounds. A classification is proposed considering the architectonic variability of the sites, according to earthwork size, shape, and the presence or absence of mounds. Excavation data which reveal activities performed in such places are also taken into consideration. The most frequent site type consists in small earthworks surrounding mounds which contain cremated burials. They can be interpreted as cemeteries for groups that inhabited pithouse sites nearby. Large earthworks without mounds are interpreted as regional ceremonial centers where a larger population gathered. Sites with complex architecture - earthworks of different shapes combined and surrounding many mounds - exhibited evidences of more elaborate rites including funerary feasting. It is possible that they were places for the burial of individuals with higher status. The data from the mortuary sites are combined with those from the settlements, which also suggest a hierarchical pattern with dense sites (clusters of many pithouses) regularly spaced and surrounded by less dense sites. Finally, I consider continuities with the historical Kaingang chiefdoms, where the construction of burial mounds had been maintained as an important element of chiefly authority during the confrontation with the european colonizers.

The main subject in this research study is to try to understand the link between legitimacy upholding and CSR reporting, which in this case is sustainability reporting. In this research study we examine how companies’ legitimacy can be damaged by a scandal. This essay takes a closer look at 8 companies that have been through a scandal and this study aims to evaluate how and why they try to re-legitimize themselves after a scandal has happened. The study uses a qualitative content analysis where we have examined companies’ sustainability reports as a basis. We codified the sustainability reports are searched for underlying themes through an abductive analysis that could be used for evaluation. Our results suggest that organizations aim move from a symbolic to a substantial management style after a scandal with a concentration being on stakeholder appeals. Responsibility for the scandal can also deviate depending how big the scandals are as per our results. Our results are however highly anecdotal yet they provide a base for further research. Our results had been analyzed with the help of legitimacy theory, CSR in theory and stakeholder theory. / Huvudämnet i den här forskningsstudien är kopplingen mellan upprätthållandet legitimering av CSR och hållbarhetsredovisningen. I den här forskning studien undersöks hur företagens legitimitet kan skadas av en skandal. Uppsatsen tar en noggrannare titt på 8 företag som har varit med om en skandal och undersöker om och hur de försöker legitimera sig själv före och efter en skandal. Studien är skriven utifrån en kvalitativ innehållsanalys där vi har undersökt och använt företagens hållbarhetsredovisning som underlag till vårt studie i de här fallet. Vi har kodifierat hållbarhetsrapporterna där vi har sökt efter underliggande teman genom en abduktiv analys. Vårt resultat tyder på att organisationer siktar för att likna efter en substantiell managementstil efter en skandal, där fokus har varit att försöka tillfredsställa intressenterna. Ansvar över skandalen avviker beroende på hur stor skandalen är i hänsyn till vårt resultat. Resultatet i vår studie är anekdotisk dock får vi tillhandahålla en bas för vidare forskning gällande det här området. Vårt resultat har vi även analyserat med hjälp av teorin som vi har tillhandahållit, legitimitets teorin, CSR i teori och intressentteori.

This research analyses the influence of the power of a name, particularly on Zulu speaking people in South Africa. It further analyses the effect of names in other Nguni speaking communities in this country. On a wider scale it also looks at the power and the influence of names given to people of other countries on the African continent. The research primarily investigates the effects of the power of a name on the life of a black person. A name could actually lure a person to enact its meaning. For instance, the name uBagangile could influence the bearer of the name to be generally naughty or if not so, relatives around her might act naughty in different ways. It is pointed out that the act of name-giving with concomitant power vested in a name originates from God. The bearer was expected to act out the meaning of his/her name. God's power hidden in the name would constrain an individual to behave in a certain way within his/her community. The research points out that a name is not only a label that helps in the identification of an individual or an entity. A name is something that is multi-functional. First it becomes a label, a descriptive tool that may refer to a person's body structure. It is possible that a name may divulge a situation in which the person was born. Most importantly, it has the power to make the bearer become what the name means. Usually names carry one of the above accounts. If the name was chosen by an insightful name giver it may carry more than one of the above qualities. During the years of oppression before the advent of democracy in South Africa in 1994, community members made extensive use of names from the languages of the white oppressors. White names had an impact on the lives of bearers, because of the meanings and contexts associated with them. / African Languages / D.Litt. et Phil. (African Languages)

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This thesis discusses music's role in utopian community-building by using a case study of a specific composer, Pauline Oliveros, who believed her work could provide a positive "pathway to the future" resembling other utopian visions. The questions of utopian intent, potential, and method are explored through an analysis of Oliveros's untraditional scores, as well as an exploration of Oliveros's writings and secondary accounts from members of the Deep Listening community. This document explores Oliveros's utopian beliefs and practices and outlines important aspects of her utopian vision as they relate to three major utopian models: the traditional "end-state" model, the anarchical model, and the postmodern "method" utopian model. Oliveros exhibits all three models within her work, although this thesis argues that she is, for the most part, a method utopian. While her ceremonial group improvisations like Link/Bonn Feier resemble anarchical works by John Cage, they exhibit a greater interest in the past and in process than most anarchical models allow. Likewise, while her visions of a future aided by AI and bio-technologies appear end-state, her improvisational works with her Electronic Instrument System (EIS) suggest a more process-based, method utopian approach. Her Deep Listening practice is deeply method-utopian, and her Center for Deep Listening can be viewed as an attempt at bringing these method utopian principles to the real world.

This study investigates the ceremonial village of Orongo and the sacred site of Mata Ngarau. They are located on the southern edge of the Ranu Kau volcano crater, as well as the Motu Nui islet in front of the named volcano. Orongo was the scenario of important political and religious events that submerged Rapa Nui and its inhabitants in a magical story from the mid-1500s to the mid-1800s. This study aims, to some extent, elucidate the context in which the legend and the ritual of the Tangata Manu originates and its importance for the development of the Rapa Nui society. The study examines archaeological, ethnohistorical and contemporary evidences of the birdman cult and contradictory theories about the catastrophe that loomed over the Rapa Nui society The archaeological evidence of those events is the silent testimony of the god Make Make and Tangata Manu, the birdman, the god representative on earth. These are carved on the edge and the slopes of the Ranu Kau crater, in the carved and rupestrian paintings of the stone houses of Mata Ngarau at Orongo, in the caves of the Motu Nui islet and in the one of the cannibals, Ana Kai Tangata. Ethnohistorical evidences provide data on the ritual activities in connection to the birdman cult. The social and environmental degradation which causes of the almost total extermination of its inhabitants as well as the eroding of its culture and with it that of the birdman, Tangata Manu. Today the birdman culture and Orongo is one of the prominent visitors’ sites on the island but interviews with Indigenous Rapanui show that the site also continue to have spiritual and political meaning in today’s society. The modern Rapa Nui society today shows contradictory features. On the one hand we see the face of a thriving, mercantilist society, with hundreds of thousands of tourists visiting it annually and buying handicrafts of dubious local creation. On the other hand, we observe the efforts of hundreds of islanders who struggle to maintain their language, their cultural heritage, their petroglyphs, their cave paintings and their legends. That is the spirit of the rebellion of Tangata Manu.

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The late Victorian and Edwardian period saw ritual become increasingly important in political life. Towns and cities were involved in conscious efforts to construct and project attractive images of themselves. These images were intended to encourage a sense of civic patriotism. Ceremonies, honorific titles, public events and civic architecture were essays in the invention of tradition. However, historians have applied the concept of the invention of tradition unevenly. Previous research has dwelt on the construction of images. Perceptions of official images and responses to them have been overlooked. This thesis employs a model which recognises images as processes with foundaitons in human relationships. It evaluates images in terms of intentionality, power, context and participation. The participative dimension is of particular importance, because images aimed to instil a sense of civic patriotism which would encourage citizens to make emotional and financial investments in their communities. Liverpool attained the status of a city in 1880. The civic ideology of the city was dominated by images of commerce and by notions of Imperial duty and public service which celebrated commercial virtues. Many aspects of urban life were shaped by civic image. This study does not confine itself to public events and pageantry, instead it explores such spheres as municipal art policy, Liverpool's public health record, the attempts to extend the city boundaries, civic hagiography, the foundation of the University, women and the ideal of citizenship and the influence of football on civic identity to demonstrate the importance of images in the city's social, political and institutional history. The purpose of the thesis is three-fold: to suggest that civic image opens new perspectives on Liverpudlian history, to discover why there were more conscious attempts to construct civic image and to restore participation to the study of civic image by unravelling the connections between image and patriotism.