Search for dissertations about: "ceremonial practice"

Found 2 swedish dissertations containing the words ceremonial practice.

  2. 1. Listen how the wise one begins construction of a house for Viṣṇu : vijānatā yathārabhyaṃ gṛhaṃ vaiṣṇavaṃ śṛṇv evaṃ. Chapters 1-14 of the Hayaśīrṣa Pañcarātra

    Author : Elisabeth Raddock; Robert P. Goldman; Sally J. Goldman; Joanna Williams; Crawford Greenewalt; USA Berkeley University of California; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Hayaśirṣa Pañcarātra; Sanskrit; temple; Viṣṇu; Agni Purāṇa; Hari Bhakta Vilāsa; ācārya; vāstupuruṣamaṇḍala; ritual; construction; ceremonial practice; History Of Religions; religionshistoria;

    Abstract : This dissertation consists of a translation of the first fourteen chapters of Hayaśirṣa Pañcarātra and a detailed analysis aiming at its contextualization in historical, cultural, and theological milieus. The Hayaśirṣa Pañcarātra is a Sanskrit text from approximately the ninth century A.D. READ MORE

  4. 2. The roads in-between : causeways and polyagentive networks at Ichmul and Yo'okop, Cochuah Region, Mexico

    Author : Johan Normark; Göteborgs universitet; []
    Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; agency; architecture; becoming; Bergson; causeway; Cochuah; culture critique; Deleuze; difference; duration; event horizon; evolution; humanocentrism; Ichmul; ideology; in-between; index; materialtiy; Maya; Mexico; multiplicity; neo-materialism; network; polyagency; polyagent; posthumanism; practice; rhizome; road; sakbe; settlement archaeology; technoscience; temporality; Terminal Classic; virutality; Yo okop;

    Abstract : This dissertation has two aims: (1) To characterize and abandon the humanocentric archaeology that relies upon quasi-objects and to develop the polyagentive archaeology that relies upon actualizations of the virtual. (2) To exemplify the latter approach by studying how causeways (sakbeob) in the Maya area relate to temporality and materialtiy at, and around, the two neighbouring sites of Ichmul and Yo'okop in the Cochuah region of southeast Yucatan and west-central Quintana Roo in Mexico. READ MORE