Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T19:58:54Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Clice Pereira Salles.pdf: 633444 bytes, checksum: 22ecf0c9488b96a5e5147169302e46a4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-25 / This dissertation is dedicated to the study of the myth of the chrysalis, the myth of puberty, which is set by the Rite of Passage experienced by the protagonists of the masterpieces The Trout by Sean O'Faolain and Menino de Engenho by José Lins do Rego. The main issue of this paper raises a question that conveys the passage from the being as an individual to the being as a part of a social group, which is started by the act of union between Nature and Being and Being and Sexuality. This research aims to understand the presence of a conundrum among Nature, Human and Myth by the correlations between the characters and their ritualistic experiences. Along the study of this Rite of Passage process, we believe that, in the brief moment when the characters go through transformation, a social exclusion takes place, and that fact depicts them as members of the submerged population. The short-story, which is the genre studied for this dissertation, contains all the characteristics that can be applied to both narratives.Some authors were chosen to give theoretical foundation to this deductive and comparative study: Frank O'Connor, Mordecai Marcus, Edgar Allan Poe, Van Gennep, Victor Turner, Tania Franco Carvalhal and Eduardo Coutinho, among others.In the development of the three chapters, we put up the theories and themes proposed in dialogue with the narratives of the corpora we analysed. It s also demonstrated the way how the Rite of Passage is transposed to the Iniciation Literature besides suggesting that the characters are members of the submerged population / Esta dissertação trata do estudo do mito da crisálida, o mito da puberdade, configurado pelo rito de passagem, vivenciado pelos protagonistas dos contos, curto e longo, A Truta, de Sean O Faolain, e Menino de Engenho, de José Lins do Rego. A problemática do trabalho levanta um questionamento sobre a passagem do individual para o social, que se inicia pelo ato de união entre ser e natureza, e ser e sexualidade. A pesquisa visa esclarecer a presença ternária entre a Natureza, o Humano e o Mito pelas correlações entre as personagens e suas experiências ritualísticas. No estudo deste processo de Rito de Passagem, entendemos que, no momento breve em que as personagens passam pela transformação, dá-se a exclusão social, que as enquadra como membros da "população submersa" (submerged population), conceito este somente possível no conto, o gênero narrativo estudado, por conter características estruturais aplicáveis às obras. Para dar embasamento teórico, essencialmente, por meio de um estudo comparativo-dedutivo, fundamentamo-nos em: Frank O'Connor, Mordecai Marcus, Edgar Allan Poe, Van Gennep, Victor Turner, Tania Franco Carvalhal e Eduardo Coutinho, entre outros. No desenvolvimento dos três capítulos, colocamos as teorias e os temas propostos em diálogo com as narrativas do corpora, e demonstramos como o Rito de Passagem ocorre na Literatura Iniciática, além de sugerir que as personagens, em suas diferenças territoriais, definem-se como membros da "população submersa"

Thesis (M.G.S.)--Miami University, Dept. of Sociology and Gerontology, 2008. / Title from first page of PDF document. Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-49).

Thesis (Doctor of Philosophy in Urban Education)--Cleveland State University, 2010 / Abstract. Title from PDF t.p. (viewed on May 12, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p.191-201). Available online via the OhioLINK ETD Center

Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar, através de um ritual de passagem, os valores culturais presentes em uma comunidade rural. Ao narrar suas lembranças sobre o rito de passagem, os moradores dessa comunidade trazem para a discussão as experiências vividas no rito do casamento e os significados que elas representaram em suas vidas. A riqueza desse estudo qualitativo sustenta-se na possibilidade de entrar nessas experiências, analisar em que aspectos da cultura elas se estruturam e o que representam para sua manutenção. A pesquisa usa a etnografia como base metodológica e a entrevista narrativa semi-estruturada como técnica de coleta de dados. A amostra é intencional, composta por trinta entrevistados, de três diferentes gerações. Os critérios de seleção dos sujeitos para participarem da pesquisa foram: estado civil, residência no local em estudo, idade e sexo. A partir dessas variáveis, foram criados três grupos de entrevistados, divididos por idades distintas, a fim de caracterizar as gerações. O referencial teórico utilizado permitiu analisar a cultura dessa comunidade, através das obras de Van Gennep, Turner, Segalen e DaMatta, e identificar as etapas de um rito de passagem e dos valores inseridos nesse rito na comunidade. Desse modo, o estudo acerca dessas narrativas contribuiu para mostrar que esse rito se mantém na comunidade como parte da cultura e dos valores sociais que constituem sua identidade cultural. O estudo demonstra ainda que os ritos são produtos das forças sociais e que se mantêm vivos apesar da velocidade com que a sociedade se desenvolve. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-05-19T17:36:43Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Lucia Bettega.pdf: 391767 bytes, checksum: 9630a90521b8f19583901de64e30c46f (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-05-19T17:36:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Maria Lucia Bettega.pdf: 391767 bytes, checksum: 9630a90521b8f19583901de64e30c46f (MD5) / This study has as objective to analyze through a rite of passage the cultural values present in a rural community. When narrating their memories, the inhabitants of this community bring to discussion the experiences lived in the wedding rite and the meanings that they represented in their lives. The richness of this qualitative study sustains itself in the possibility of deeply knowing these experiences, analyzing the cultural aspects which they organize themselves in and what they represent for their maintenance. The research uses ethnography as methodological basis and the semi-structured narrative interview as the data gathering technique. The sample is intentional consisting of thirty interviewees from three distinct generations. The subject selection criteria to take part in the research were: marital status, residence at the place of research, age and gender. Based on these variables, three interviewee groups were created divided by distinct ages in order to distinguish the generations. The theoretical referential used enabled the analysis of this community`s culture through Van Gennep, Turner, Segalen and DaMatta works, and to identify the rite of passage stages and the values inserted in this rite at the community. This way the study around these narratives contributed to show that this rite maintains itself in the community as part of the culture and social values that constitute its culutural identity. The study even demonstrates that the rites are products of social forces and that they maintain themselves alive despite the speed at which the society develops.

Este estudo tem como objetivo analisar, através de um ritual de passagem, os valores culturais presentes em uma comunidade rural. Ao narrar suas lembranças sobre o rito de passagem, os moradores dessa comunidade trazem para a discussão as experiências vividas no rito do casamento e os significados que elas representaram em suas vidas. A riqueza desse estudo qualitativo sustenta-se na possibilidade de entrar nessas experiências, analisar em que aspectos da cultura elas se estruturam e o que representam para sua manutenção. A pesquisa usa a etnografia como base metodológica e a entrevista narrativa semi-estruturada como técnica de coleta de dados. A amostra é intencional, composta por trinta entrevistados, de três diferentes gerações. Os critérios de seleção dos sujeitos para participarem da pesquisa foram: estado civil, residência no local em estudo, idade e sexo. A partir dessas variáveis, foram criados três grupos de entrevistados, divididos por idades distintas, a fim de caracterizar as gerações. O referencial teórico utilizado permitiu analisar a cultura dessa comunidade, através das obras de Van Gennep, Turner, Segalen e DaMatta, e identificar as etapas de um rito de passagem e dos valores inseridos nesse rito na comunidade. Desse modo, o estudo acerca dessas narrativas contribuiu para mostrar que esse rito se mantém na comunidade como parte da cultura e dos valores sociais que constituem sua identidade cultural. O estudo demonstra ainda que os ritos são produtos das forças sociais e que se mantêm vivos apesar da velocidade com que a sociedade se desenvolve. / This study has as objective to analyze through a rite of passage the cultural values present in a rural community. When narrating their memories, the inhabitants of this community bring to discussion the experiences lived in the wedding rite and the meanings that they represented in their lives. The richness of this qualitative study sustains itself in the possibility of deeply knowing these experiences, analyzing the cultural aspects which they organize themselves in and what they represent for their maintenance. The research uses ethnography as methodological basis and the semi-structured narrative interview as the data gathering technique. The sample is intentional consisting of thirty interviewees from three distinct generations. The subject selection criteria to take part in the research were: marital status, residence at the place of research, age and gender. Based on these variables, three interviewee groups were created divided by distinct ages in order to distinguish the generations. The theoretical referential used enabled the analysis of this community`s culture through Van Gennep, Turner, Segalen and DaMatta works, and to identify the rite of passage stages and the values inserted in this rite at the community. This way the study around these narratives contributed to show that this rite maintains itself in the community as part of the culture and social values that constitute its culutural identity. The study even demonstrates that the rites are products of social forces and that they maintain themselves alive despite the speed at which the society develops.

The aim of this diploma thesis is to map the form and development of funeral customs in the southern part of the Roman Catholic parish Český Dub - in the collature of the church of St. Jakub Major in Letařovice from the middle of the 19th century to the second half of the 20th century. The focus is on the local village community, its experience of the death of its own member and the form of the funeral rite, which allowed the deceased to pass from the world of the living to the world of the dead. The work analyzes funeral rituals and their development through the prism of the theory of rites of passage, specifically through the perspective of Victor Turner and the analysis of the liminal phase. It also shows the reason for ritual behavior and its performative parts. The work reflects the modernization and secularization of society and tries to reveal their influence on the rituality of burials in Letařovice. It analyzes with bureaucratization and sanitation of funeral homes. The first part of this diploma thesis presents the development of burial in the Czech lands and regional historical context. Furthermore, the traditional rural funeral in the Letařovice cemetery, its spiritual and secular part, is depicted and analyzed, as it looked for the entire period - farewell in the mourning house,...

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Cette étude dresse un bref historique du concept de la dignité humaine pour observer sa dualité et sa multiplicité à travers les époques. Peu présente dans la littérature, la dignité au travail, tout aussi dichotomique et plurielle, s’inscrit néanmoins dans un cadre singulier, où s’ajoute des paramètres spécifiques à l’organisation du travail. Elle s’avère particulièrement problématique pour les employés atypiques, incluant entre autres les employés à contrats à durée déterminée, les employés saisonniers et les employés temporaires. Effectivement, malgré l’augmentation significative de leur embauche au sein du marché du travail canadien depuis la fin des années 1990, les employés atypiques représentent un groupe peu étudié, vulnérable et plus enclin à subir les répercussions de pratiques contraignantes et nuisibles à la dignité selon la précarité rattachée au statut, d’où la pertinence de s’y intéresser. En ce sens, si la dignité appelle à l’autonomie par la considération de la valeur intrinsèque et inaliénable de l’individu, et que le travail implique qu’il réalise des finalités autres que les siennes, s’interroger sur la dignité au travail, principalement chez un groupe marginalisé par sa présence éphémère, prend tout son sens. La méthodologie de cette étude est basée sur l’analyse interprétative d’entretiens semi-structurés réalisés avec douze employés atypiques. Comparées à la littérature existante et suite à la mise en place d’une typologie du travail spécifique aux employés atypiques et à la dignité, les données recueillies ont montré une réappropriation de la dualité du concept par l’inclusion de l’opposition entre l’être et l’action de la part des participants. Plus encore, ils ont ajouté trois dimensions supplémentaires : l’interaction, les systèmes du travail et le temps. Concept central et pivot, l’interaction permet l’établissement de relations dans l’ensemble des dimensions. L’organisation du travail dans les systèmes et l’éphémérité du statut des employés atypiques, éléments différentiels, banalisent les pratiques nuisibles à la dignité des employés atypiques, où ces derniers finissent par percevoir leur situation comme un rite de passage dans l’attente d’un avenir meilleur. / This study begins with a brief historical overview of the concept of dignity. Despite the multiple meanings given to the notion of dignity over time, a clear duality appears between definitions that privilege the intrinsic, inalienable nature of dignity and those that attribute dignity according to the quality of an individual's actions. While dignity at work has received far less scholarly attention, the emergent literature replicates the same dichotomy that is found in studies of dignity. The question of dignity at work is particularly important for atypical employees who, due to their precarious status, are especially vulnerable to workplace indignity. Surprisingly, atypical workers, a category that includes seasonal workers, temporary workers, workers on short-term contracts, and permanent part-timers, remain on the sidelines of much academic research, despite constant growth in their numbers as a proportion of the Canadian labour market since the late 1990s. The importance of studying dignity at work appears clearly in the following conundrum: how can we understand dignity at work when dignity implies that one recognizes the unique value of every human person based on his/her autonomy to choose his/her own ends, yet the context of work requires that workers commit themselves to attaining objectives imposed by someone else? Using an interpretive methodology to explore the meanings of dignity at work, this study is based on semi-structured interviews with twelve atypical employees. The findings show how participants reconciled the duality between being and doing as a source of dignity. Participants added three other dimensions that are not present in the extant literature: interaction, work systems, and time. These five dimensions are combined to create a typology of dignity at work that is specific to atypical employees. Interaction acts as a core concept that links all of the other dimensions together. The organization of work systems and the ephemeral status of atypical employees work together to trivialize workplace practices that undermine the dignity of atypical employees, who come to perceive their situation as a rite of passage to be endured while waiting for a better future.

Por meio deste trabalho, inserido na área de Estudos Comparados de Literaturas de Língua Portuguesa, objetivou-se estudar o modo como a Literatura para Juventude representa a passagem da adolescência para a idade adulta, tendo em vista a contribuição que os textos literários podem prestar para o processo de formação da subjetividade dos jovens, seja de modo realístico ou simbólico. Em termos de referencial teórico, trabalhou-se com o pensamento de diversos estudiosos da Psicologia do Desenvolvimento, tanto daqueles cujos trabalhos ativeram-se à investigação do ego, quanto dos que foram além e professaram teorias a respeito do self e do processo de individuação. No sentido de demonstrar a validade do mito do herói como estrutura narrativa simbólica do adultescer, empreendeu-se estudo comparativo de O relógio do mundo, do autor brasileiro Lino de Albergaria, com Aventuras de João Sem Medo: panfleto mágico em forma de romance, de José Gomes Ferreira, obra clássica da Literatura Portuguesa. Por meio da análise dos textos, construídos com base nas invariantes do conto maravilhoso, procurou-se demonstrar que, do ponto de vista da natureza psíquica, a conquista da maturidade é processo universal e atemporal, porém, o modo desta expressar-se no mundo está diretamente ligado com a cultura de cada lugar e época. / Placed within the field of Comparative Studies on Literature Written in Portuguese, this work has studied how youth literature can represent the passage from adolescence to adulthood, considering the contribution that literary texts may give to the formative process of a youths subjectivity, be it through realism or symbolism. Regarding its theoretical background, the research relies on the ideas of several authors from the field of Developmental Psychology, both those whose works concentrated on investigating the ego, and those who took a further step towards theorizing on the self and the individuation process. For the purpose of demonstrating how the myth of the hero serves as narrative structure to the process of adulting, a comparative study has been undertaken between O relógio do mundo, by the Brazilian author Lino de Albergaria, and Aventuras de João Sem Medo: panfleto mágico em forma de romance, a classic work from Portuguese literature by José Gomes Ferreira. Such works, built upon invariable elements of the marvelous structure, reveal that reaching maturity, in terms of its psychic nature, is a universal and timeless process, nonetheless, the way it is expressed in the world is directly connected to the culture of each specific time and place.

This study of Canadian adventure romance for adolescents seeks to demonstrate the cultural significance of the genre through close readings of James Houston's Frozen Fire and The White Archer, Monica Hughes's Hunter in the Dark and Ring-Rise, Ring-Set, as well as Markoosie's Harpoon of the Hunter. By means of a semiotic-structuralist approach I examine the texts as a signifying system conveying discourses that constitute a code of connection to the social context of contemporary young-adult readers.Structured on the formula: separation-initiation-return and informed by the symbolism of death-rebirth, the stories hold out the promise of a life-enhancing return. Roland Barthes's definition of myth as a mode of signification underpins my discussion of how the narrative conventions become vehicles of existential truths by replicating and intensifying adventurous experiences. With the quest for identity and the polarization between two worlds as structural determinants, the selected books juxtapose the values of Western civilization with those expressed through the Canadian North and its indigenous population. As a defining category of Canadian identity, the northern wilderness provides the space and the challenges for the protagonists' initiatory experiences. My application of the dichotomy self-other to the selected books provides a number of polarized positions such as civilization-wilderness, white-native, male-female, and conscious-unconscious, polarities through which the different discursive levels of the texts are generated. Arguably, the formulaic character of the journeys into the unknown allows the stories to signify on various levels, thus inviting both psychological and ideological readings of the texts.It is primarily through a recycling of narrative conventions that Houston and Hughes invest their work with significance. By focusing on the structural and thematic similarities of adventure romance, my examination attempts to elucidate the parallels to mythic adventure and archaic rites of initiation with the aim of validating the role of the genre as symbolic representations of the process of maturation and vicarious rites of passage. The conclusions I draw have a bearing on much of Houston's and Hughes's fiction, on the genre of romance as a whole, and to some extent on the adjacent genres of fantasy and science fiction. / <p>Behandlar James Houston, Monica Hughes och Markoosie.</p> / digitalisering@umu