O trabalho visa conhecer a Wicca - religião neopagã surgida na década de 50. No estudo, a Wicca e a figura da bruxa são desvendadas, sobretudo em suas manifestações nos meios de comunicação, que atinge crianças e adolescentes brasileiros. É também abordado como a Wicca se processa como fenômeno educativo do pós-modernismo via Internet, através do jogo de computador Runescape. A história da Wicca e da Inquisição são analisadas, em suas interações com a figura da Grande Mãe e do feminismo. / The work is an study of Wicca neopagan religion which appeared in the 50s. Inside this study, Wicca and the figure of the witch are analyzed, in special their manifestations into the mass media, which influences Brazilian children and teens. It also analyses how Wicca occurs as an educative post modern phenomena, through Internet, into the pc game Runescape. The history of Wicca and the Inquisition are also analyzed, and their connections with the figure of the Great Mother and feminism.

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A partir des années soixante-dix, suite à la réorganisation du peuple awajún autour des écoles fondées par les missionnaires et à la création de communautés (comunidades nativas), on assiste à un processus interne de marginalisation des chamanes (iwishin). La présence des iwishin étant à l’origine de conflits intra et inter-communautaires, la plupart d’entre eux sont exécutés ou obligés d’abandonner leurs communautés. Pourtant les accusations de sorcellerie au sein des villages persistent. Aux tensions provoquées par la transgression des normes matrimoniales, s’ajoutent les rivalités pour les fonctions politiques, la concurrence pour les ressources économiques, les inégalités générées par le commerce, les inimitiés factionnelles fomentées par les différents ordres religieux. Tous ces conflits donnent souvent lieu à des accusations de sorcellerie entre voisins. De fait, seul l’expulsion définitive du sorcier présumé peut apaiser – au moins provisoirement – les tensions au sein de la communauté. La ville semble être alors le seul endroit où les « sorciers condamnés » peuvent trouver refuge. La capitale de la province de Condorcanqui, Santa María de Nieva, est ainsi progressivement « envahie » par des dizaines d’Awajún exclus des communautés. Par ailleurs, l’interaction constante entre les communautés et le monde urbain suscite la prolifération de nouvelles formes de sorcellerie chez les Awajún, l’apparition d’un vaste « marché de la guérison » et l’appropriation indigène des outils des sociétés centralisées, plus précisément la bureaucratie étatique et la biomédecine. L’analyse du phénomène provoqué par les accusations de sorcellerie permet ainsi d’aborder un large éventail de changements qui affecte et bouleverse la société awajún contemporaine. / Since the 1960s we have witnessed an internal process of marginalization of shamans (iwishin) as a consequence of a reorganization of the Awajun people due to the presence of missionaries’ schools and the foundation of native communities (comunidades nativas). Since the presence of the iwishin has created intra and intercommunal conflicts, most of them are killed or forced to leave their communities. Nevertheless, accusations of witchcraft in the villages persist. Political rivalry, competition for economic resources, inequality caused by trade, and factional hostility stirred up by the various religious orders all add to the tensions caused by the violation of marriage laws. These conflicts often lead neighbors to accuse each other of witchcraft. In fact, only the permanent banishment of the supposed shaman can ease the internal tension in the community at least temporarily. The city seems to be the only refuge for the “condemned witches”. For this reason, Santa Maria de Nieva, the capital of the province of Condorcanqui, has been progressively “invaded” by tens of Awajuns who can no longer live in their communities. On the other hand, the constant interaction between native

Esta dissertação tem por objetivos: (i) apresentar a edição fac-similar e semidiplomática justalinear de um processo-crime produzido no século XIX na cidade de Campinas; (ii) analisar a macroestrutura do documento manuscrito. A leitura e a edição do documento manuscrito foram balizadas nos conhecimentos das áreas de Filologia e Linguística Histórica. A análise da macroestrutura pautou-se no modelo das Tradições Discursivas, com base em Koch & Osterreicher (1990) e Kabatek (2006). A análise também levou em consideração os aspectos linguísticos-discursivos propostos por Simões e Kewitz (2006, 2009) para os corpora do português brasileiro. Ao todo são 37 fólios recto e verso que tratam de um crime de feitiçaria e homicídio ocorrido em 1871, sendo rica fonte de dados históricos, socioeconômicos e, sobretudo, linguísticos. A partir desta pesquisa, obtivemos importantes dados acerca de algumas das tradições discursivas que ajudam a reconstruir o português brasileiro em textos da esfera jurídica. / This dissertation aims at: (i) presenting a facsimile and semidiplomatic edition of a criminal proceeding which took place in the city of Campinas in the 19th century; and (ii) analyzing the macrostructure of the manuscript document. The reading and the editing of the document were based on the assumption of Philology and Historical Linguistics. The analysis of the macrostructure was based on the Discoursive Traditions Model proposed by Koch & Osterreicher (1990) and Kabatek (2006). Furthermore, we considered the linguisticdiscoursive aspects suggested by Simões e Kewitz (2006, 2009). Overall, there are 37 folios recto and verso that concern the crime of witchcraft and homicide occurred in 1871, which represent a rich source of historical, socioeconomic and, primarily, linguistic data. This research privided important information about some of the discoursive traditions that helps reconstruct Brazilian Portuguese registered in texts of legal environment

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No. of bitstreams: 2 Marco_Antonio_Correa_Collares_Dissertação.pdf: 1647591 bytes, checksum: daa0315bf61bbfc088495db2a7af3719 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-18 / Sem bolsa / A presente dissertação versa sobre as representações de civilização e barbárie nas narrativas dos Ciclos de Conan, de Robert Ervin Howard. As aventuras do personagem Conan, o Bárbaro foram produzidas entre os anos de 1932 e 1936, constituindo-se em vinte e um textos de cunho literário e ficcional que fazem parte de um gênero específico denominado de “Espada e Feitiçaria”. Tal gênero literário aborda mundos fabulosos caracterizados pela presença do sobrenatural e onde personagens igualmente fantásticos se aventuram em tramas de ação e fantasia. As aventuras de Conan foram publicadas nas chamadas pulp magazines (ou pulp fictions), revistas de baixa qualidade gráfica, normalmente processadas a partir da polpa do papel e que eram muito populares nos EUA entre os anos 1920-1950. Apesar de Howard situar seu mais famoso personagem no gênero da “Espada e Feitiçaria”, ele igualmente traçou aspectos de cunho filosófico em suas tramas, na medida em que o tema central destas narrativas vincula-se a oposição entre civilização e barbárie. Normalmente Conan representa uma conduta humana violenta, sanguinária e rústica, porém honesta e honrada frente às ações corruptas e gananciosas dos homens civilizados, sendo, portanto uma expressão da barbárie, um tanto necessária na visão de seu criador, principalmente diante de uma determinada crise civilizacional. Além disso, Conan e outros personagens de suas tramas possuem traços dos chamados homens da fronteira do oeste dos EUA, homens que representariam os desbravadores americanos, tão cultuados pelo criador do personagem, muito em razão de suas rusticidades serem consideradas basilares para a formação do país. Natural do Texas, Howard estava muito preocupado com seu contexto histórico de crise econômica e social, aquele da primeira metade do século XX e mais especificamente, da Grande Depressão dos anos 1930. Conan expressa, portanto alguns aspectos de uma conduta mais rústica e verdadeira, mais próxima das condutas idealizadas dos homens que fizeram o oeste e os EUA, significando que as narrativas dos Ciclos de Conan fazem parte da chamada literatura da fronteira, não sendo aqui um estudo somente sobre civilização e barbárie, mas também sobre a própria concepção de fronteira nos EUA no contexto histórico de Robert Howard. / This dissertation discusses the representations of civilization and barbarism considering the narratives of Conan Cycles by Robert Ervin Howard. The adventures of the character Conan the Barbarian were produced between 1932 and 1936. There are twenty-one literary and fictional texts that are part of a specific genre called "Sword and Witchcraft." Such literary genre approaches fabulous worlds characterized by the presence of the supernatural, where fantastic characters venture into action and fantasy plots. Conan's adventures were published in the so-called pulp magazines (or pulp fictions), low-quality graphic magazines - usually processed from paper pulp - that were very popular in the US between the 1920s and 1950s. Despite Howard placed his great famous character in the "Sword and Witchcraft" genre, he drew philosophical aspects in his plots, insofar as the central theme of these narratives is linked to the opposition between civilization and barbarism. Conan usually represents a violent, bloodthirsty, and crude human conduct, but honest and honorable in the face of the corrupt and greedy actions of civilized men, so an expression of barbarism would be somewhat necessary in his creator eyes, especially in the face of a Civilizational crisis. In addition, Conan and other characters have traces of the so-called western frontier men: the men who would represent the American trailblazers, so much worshiped by the creator of the character, largely because their rusticities were considered to be the basis for the formation of the country. Howard, a Texan native, was very concerned about the historical context of the economic and social crisis of the twentieth century, and more specifically, the Great Depression of the 1930s. Conan, therefore, expresses some aspects of a more rustic and truthful conduct, closer to the idealized manners of the men who made the West and the US, meaning that the narratives of the Conan Cycles are part of so-called frontier literature. This is not just a study of civilization and barbarism, but it is also about the conception of the US border in Robert Howard's own historical context.

The use of literature both in and outside the classroom is of the utmost importance and must be taken note of by language teachers. The National Curriculum Statement provides the guidelines for teachers to select texts themselves. This leads to teachers only selecting the well-known texts which results in learners only getting to know very few literary works. Older texts are the ideal option for text-selection for the teaching of literature in the classroom. They are still very relevant for classroom use and are considered to be necessary and an integral part of the study of literature. But the teaching of older literature is often neglected especially in the Afrikaans classroom. The Afrikaans literary tradition is still very young in comparison to other languages and consequently does not provide the same type of older texts that for instance English can provide in the form of Shakespeare for teaching purposes. An alternative would be to make use of Middle Dutch and nineteenth century Afrikaans texts. Although these texts aren’t always accessible for learners in the twenty-first century, this problem can be solved by writing a study guide for the purpose of studying older texts. This study guide is obviously meant for learners who can cope with the difficulty of the texts and is therefore meant for home language speakers in the grade 12 classroom. A study guide such as this must be written with a heterogeneous group in mind and should reflect the guidelines as contained in the National Curriculum Statement, especially with regard to the learning activities included in the study guide. To make the study guide user friendly it is better to present the older texts parallel with a translation. This will prevent readers from constantly having to search for footnotes at the bottom of the page. A parallel translation will also make the texts much more accessible. The purpose of the study guide is not to force learners to read Middle Dutch, but rather to expose them to older literature connected to Afrikaans. The teacher can use his own discretion to decide which of the older texts he/she wants to discuss or explore. Concerning the nineteenth century Afrikaans texts it is unnecessary to translate them. It is, however, important to provide sufficient background information in the case of both the Middle Dutch and the nineteenth century Afrikaans texts. By providing cultural history as background information the reader will be enabled to make better sense of the characters and the texts themselves. Readers should then be able to better understand the context in which the texts were produced. / Dissertation (MA (Afrikaans))--University of Pretoria, 2007. / Afrikaans / MA / unrestricted

This thesis explores the cult and mythos of the goddess Kali both in her Eastern and Western contexts, comparing and contrasting them in order to gain a better understanding of the Western appropriations of Kali within feminist goddess spirituality. Utilizing a variety of methods, including ethnographic research conducted at Kali temples in California, this research is aimed at providing an entry into the lived contemporary tradition of the Western Kali within goddess spirituality circles, focusing on embodied experience, devotion, ritual, and syncretic practices. Kali, a fierce Indian goddess, is often seen in the Hindu context as a central manifestation of the all encompassing Mother Goddess (Mahadevi, Devi, Shakti, etc), and therefore is a particularly engaging example of contemporary Western appropriation of religious and cultural symbols and narratives. This thesis contributes to understanding Kali in her new North American domain, as well as serving as a case study of the shifting religious landscape in the West.

Conceived in the wake of a global pandemic and the unanticipated need to create digital theatre, COVEN-19, or Magicks for Unprecdented Times as a devising project consisted of two witchcraft-inspired performances: a fall 2020 Samhain ritual and a spring 2021 Beltane ritual. The company of undergraduate and graduate theatre witches explored decentralized, iterative, slow, caretaking, queer forms of devising over digital platforms. The written portion of this thesis takes the form of a digital tarot blog: 22 (plus a bonus) interconnected essays and spells that interrogate feminist and queer theories as they pertain to the Coven’s devising process. This digital format not only reflects the malleable nature of the creative process, but it is also a kind of praxis that invites the reader to take an active role in meaning-making and resists an objective, singular narrative. Woven through these tarot cards are threads of utopian futurity, situated subjectivities, and anticapitalist temporalities. The essays and spells are primarily in conversation with adrienne maree brown, Judith Butler, Audre Lorde, Jose Estaban Munoz, and Starhawk – engaging with these theorists as thought-ancestors in order to activate rather than regurgitate their knowledges of radical hope and nonlinear process. The tarot deck takes a situated, backwards glance toward these ancestors as it grasps at seemingly impossible utopian horizons of collaboration and creation.

From the early 1990s, rates of HIV infection increased dramatically in South Africa and by the early 2000s, AIDS emerged as the main cause of death for adult South Africans. During the first half of the 2000s, the South African government’s response to this crisis was inadequate, marked by denial and delays in implementing prevention and treatment, resulting in thousands of preventable deaths. Yet, apart from the challenges posed by the predominantly urban-based Treatment Action Campaign (TAC), the absence of a social response to this crisis is notable, especially in rural settings. This scenario forms the broad backdrop to this ethnographic study that draws on participant observation and interviews undertaken over a three-year period (2002-2005) in KwaBomba village previously in the Gazankulu Homeland, now located in the Bushbuckridge municipality of the South African lowveld. An ethnographic perspective provides an intimate vantage point from which to view peoples’ experiences of the AIDS epidemic and their responses in context. This perspective draws attention to gaps in public health and biomedical understandings of the epidemic and suggests alternatives to these understandings. In Bushbuckridge, mortality and morbidity due to AIDS became visible in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Households were incapable of dealing with the burden of illness and death while the health services were often unwilling and ill-prepared. HIV prevention campaigns based on individual behaviour change were not well suited to a context in which HIV spread through sexual networks. Despite widespread awareness of the threat of AIDS, the disease was subjected to public censorship and AIDS suffering was concealed. Public discourses of AIDS were hidden within gossip and rumour and articulated as witchcraft suspicions and accusations. Although these discourses appear to deny and suppress the reality of AIDS, I suggest that they are active attempts to deal with the AIDS crisis: gossip and rumour allocate blame and construct a local epidemiology through which the epidemic can be surveilled; interpreting AIDS as witchcraft creates the possibility of avenging untimely death. These discursive forms are critical in informing individual and social responses to the AIDS epidemic. While the absence of public acknowledgement of AIDS as a cause of illness and death suggests denial and fatalism and appears to limit public action, subaltern discourses create shared secrets to manage the AIDS epidemic at the local level. Furthermore, these discourses may constitute a form of resistance against biomedical models of causality. Ethnographic enquiry at the local level offers a nuanced understanding of social responses to the AIDS epidemic. By examining forms of expression that lie outside the domain of public health, the thesis reveals how these constitute significant forms of social action in response to the epidemic. / Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2012. / Anthropology and Archaeology / unrestricted

Early Christian missionaries alienated Shona people from their culture and traditional religion. Essential elements of Shona religion were rejected because they were thought to be entertaining paganism, fetishism and idolatry. More than a century of Christianity in Zimbabwe has passed and some Shona still hold on tenaciously to their ancestral religion. The missionaries did not understand Shona language and may have been ignorant of the significance of the Shona religion to the Shona people. However, with the transfer of power from colonial masters to black rule, one would have expected parallel changes concerning creative integration of indigenous cultural values with the Gospel. But today, forty years after independence, not a single Church denomination in Zimbabwe (Mainline Churches, Evangelical Churches and Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches) seems to have made any ‘meaningful adaption’ of the Shona views on death and afterlife, in the light of the Bible, and in particular, the Gospel. Several elements in Shona traditional beliefs on death and afterlife have been proposed for inculturation. In spite of the proposals put forward by various scholars, even the indigenous Church leaders in Zimbabwe seem to have failed to fully adapt the Shona views into the Christian Gospel message, despite the fact that they fully understand and appreciate the Shona culture and values. A literature review will help to extract information from current and past studies underlying this field. The principles followed on comprehending and solving problems, and the methods and methodology employed in the study, will be made explicit. A detailed examination of the Shona views on death and afterlife which the Zimbabwean Church is expected to possibly incorporate into their worship, and the precepts on the eschatological perspective of Christianity on death, resurrection and afterlife, will be conducted. Definition and analysis of the terms ‘dialogue’ and ‘inculturation’, and the progress achieved on dialogue and inculturation, by the Church in Zimbabwe, will follow. The challenges confronting the Church in Zimbabwe, and the Shona Christians, will be investigated, while theological arguments will be employed to identify gaps in knowledge in the previous literature. The study will suggest possible proposals on the way forward. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / PhD. (Systematic Theology)