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Chao, Wen-Ning. "American and Taiwanese college students' perceptions of self and the ideal romantic partner /." Click for abstract, 1997. http://library.ctstateu.edu/ccsu%5Ftheses/1485.html.
Full textThesis advisor: Dr. Bradley Waite. "...in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Psychology." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-44).
Cadet, de Fontenay Gabriel Roger Alain Laurent. "Intercultural differences in suggestibility amongst university students /." Link to the online version, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/990.
Full textCampbell, Santiba D. "Exploring the associations between TRIOS and racial attitudes." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 57 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1251899061&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.
Full textChentsova-Dutton, Julia Evgenievna. "Physiological, behavioral, and self-reported components of relived emotions and their coherence in Hmong American and European American college students /." Diss., ON-CAMPUS Access For University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Click on "Connect to Digital Dissertations", 2001. http://www.lib.umn.edu/articles/proquest.phtml.
Full textGrigori, Mirela-Cristina. "L’image de la Roumanie et des roumains dans les écrits français de 1770 à 1900." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST0012.
Full textThe field of imagology is defined by comparatists as a frontier domain, somewhere in between comparative literature, history and ethnopsychology. We have approached the subject matter from an imagological perspective in order to describe the image formation stages of the Romanians in several French writings in the 18th and 19th century. These stages are marked by several reference texts along the history of the French-Romanian relations, we mention here the first great work on the Moldo-Vlachs by Jean-Louis Carra, following Stanislas Bellanger’ book to Abdolonyme Ubicini’s writings, without forgetting those of various French consuls or historians, friends of the Romanians.Romania has not come into being within a single day. The French people’s image on the Romanians crystallized along the 19th century. True, in the 13th century French military men and merchants arrived in the lands inhabited by the ancestors of the Romanians. But the attraction of the Orient, cultivated especially in the 18th and 19th century, as well as the apprehension exerted in Europe by the Ottoman and Russian Empires determined more and more adventurers, revolutionaries, exiles, politicians and soldiers to travel towards Eastern Europe. Even if they were written during a stay in the Romanian countries, at first, the French writings about the Romanians bear the influence/ mark of the Moldo-Vlach chronicles and earlier texts. As transport is getting better and the keroutza is replaced by train or ship along the Danube, later works become increasingly personal without disregarding previous writings. We have demonstrated that this resuming of the same fragments of images referring to recurring domains (history, habits, dwellings, morals, organization, natural resources, landscape and ethnic groups) resulted into composing an image which is far from the touch of the negative cliché. The scriptural records about Romanians in the 19th century would prepare the ground for the foundation of the Romanian nation. This point coincides with the appearance in the official texts of the words Romanian, Romania, everything preparing the ground for the great France-Romania friendship. We are mainly interested in the period when the writings are scarce, as compared with the French books appearing in the 20th century. The study of these writings constitutes in the analysis of various documents, historical essays, memoirs, travel narratives and embassy reports. This analysis operates with concepts of image (meaning representation), stereotype, ethnotype in the terms of perceiving the Other with everything Alterity has characteristic. The finale image is appearing of recurrence of the same elements which the authors insist on (stereotypes)
Lechuga, Espino Julia. "The cross cultural variation of probability judgment accuracy the influence of reasoning style /." To access this resource online via ProQuest Dissertations and Theses @ UTEP, 2008. http://0-proquest.umi.com.lib.utep.edu/login?COPT=REJTPTU0YmImSU5UPTAmVkVSPTI=&clientId=2515.
Full textHoersting, Raquel Carvalho Jenkins Sharon Rae. "No place to call home cultural homelessness, self-esteem and cross-cultural identities /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2009. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-10991.
Full textSiney, Ryan Patrick O'Leary Virginia E. "Attributions and depression across cultures." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Fall/Thesis/SINEY_RYAN_37.pdf.
Full textBardina, Patricia. "The role of ethnicity in parenting practices and children's behavior problems /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9055.
Full textParker, Shelia Jeanette. "An examination of the role of sex and race on occupational stereotyping using Holland's theory /." The Ohio State University, 1985. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu148726085949485.
Full textLiu, Benjamin. "Psychotherapy with Chinese clients the effects of cultural assumptions such as filial piety on the working relationship." Abstract Full dissertation, 2007.
Find full textSchroeder, Mark A. "Configuring modern cultures using the biblical themes of power and wisdom." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 2001. http://www.tren.com.
Full textMaddux, William W. "The "Ripple Effect" cultural differences in subjective perceptions of responsibility /." Connect to this title online, 2004. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1092223803.
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Murry, Joe Mitchell. "Ethnicity and Cognitive Complexity of Chronic Pain Patients." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1990. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332535/.
Full textVollhardt, Johanna Ray. "Victim consciousness and its effects on intergroup relations a double-edged sword? /." Amherst, Mass. : University of Massachusetts Amherst, 2009. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3372282/.
Full textHerschbach, Mitchell Albert. "Beyond folk psychology? toward an enriched account of social understanding /." Diss., [La Jolla] : University of California, San Diego, 2010. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3402726.
Full textTomas, Katarina, and mikewood@deakin edu au. "Displaced self: The impact of language-migration on self-identity." Deakin University. School of Communication and Creative Arts, 2005. http://tux.lib.deakin.edu.au./adt-VDU/public/adt-VDU20051208.113428.
Full textMiller, Traci Rinker. "Culture, gender and moral emotions the role of interdependent self-construal /." Full text available online (restricted access), 2002. http://images.lib.monash.edu.au/ts/theses/Miller.pdf.
Full textThakar, Dhara Aniruddha. "Parenting style discrepancies a comparison inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic couples /." Connect to this title online, 2008. http://scholarworks.umass.edu/theses/94/.
Full textBoot, Katie. "Pictures and interpretations : towards an applied semiotics." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/2710.
Full textMacêdo, Alice Costa. "O reverente irreverente: a espirituosidade em rituais de umbanda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-30092011-161724/.
Full textHumor frequently reveals itself as an outstanding feature in Umbanda religious rituals. Given that, this study seeks to investigate, from an ethnopsychological perspective, if and to what extent psychoanalytic theories (Freudian and Lacanian) about wits and comic may help to understand Umbanda humor. The field research was conducted at Fraternidade de Umbanda Esotérica Caboclo Pena Branca in Ribeirão Preto, where the rituals generally proved to be humorous. The method was the participant listening, that involves a psychoanalytic listening in which participation is understood and utilized as an instrument of audition refinement. Thus, the researcher\'s involvement while in the field was essential since the effect of meaning is also produced on this individual who listens and laughs. After analyzing the witty episodes, it was concluded that the psychoanalytic understanding of humor is applicable to these occurrences in Umbanda ritual. In the religious own speeches, the laughter exposes its therapeutic uses; it is part of a \"treatment\" for \"breaking defenses\", which is consistent with the Freudian idea of catharsis. However, according to psychoanalytic theories wits regularly allow the expression of aggressive impulses, while in Umbanda the objects of laughter are comic characters that represent what could otherwise be considered objectionable, displacing the \"censure\" to a comedy plot acted by spirits. Moreover, while playing with metaphors and new meanings, the spirits mirror non-rational aspects of human complexity.
ABDEL, KADER NEFISSA MOHAMED. "CROSS CULTURE GENDER DIFFERENCES ON EVALUATION OF WOMEN'S PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS." Diss., The University of Arizona, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/184204.
Full textCastex, Graciela Maria. "An analysis and synthesis of current theories of ethnicity and ethnic group processes using the creation of the Hispanic group as a case example /." Access Digital Full Text version, 1990. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/10937742.
Full textTypescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Ellen Condliffe Lagemann. Dissertation Committee: Lambros Comitas. Bibliography: leaves 109-114.
Yoon, Jeeyun. "The influence of cultural orientation and power motive on leadership perception." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/51834.
Full textFinklea, Kristin Michelle. "Investigating inappropriate cue utilization in the own-race bias." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3307561.
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Cameron, Rosalea. "The ecology of third culture kids: the experiences of Australasian adults." Thesis, Cameron, Rosalea (2003) The ecology of third culture kids: the experiences of Australasian adults. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. https://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/498/.
Full textCameron, Rosalea. "The ecology of "third culture kids" : the experiences of Australasian adults /." Cameron, Rosalea (2003) The ecology of third culture kids: the experiences of Australasian adults. PhD thesis, Murdoch University, 2003. http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/498/.
Full textWalker, Rebecca, and n/a. "The emergence of the representational mind." University of Otago. Department of Psychology, 2006. http://adt.otago.ac.nz./public/adt-NZDU20061106.161621.
Full textDias, Rafael de Nuzzi. "Correntes ancestrais: os pretos-velhos do Rosário." Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-07082011-105621/.
Full textComplex and abundant in its possibilities of conformation, umbanda trance has its borders established for some types of characters displaced from the historical experience and collective memory of Brazil. These categories organize sayings from their own enunciative perspectives, symbolically articulated positions potentially able to produce certain meanings. Meanwhile, the preto-velho (old black man) emerges as a prominent spiritual entity, a recurrent presence in the context of the African-Brazilian religiousness, especially umbanda. In concert with the renewed scientific interest about the subject in recent decades, this essay aims to investigate the symbolic universe of the spiritual category preto-velho, as well as to disclose the meanings and the scope of its ritual and ethnopsychological uses in umbanda religiousness. Therefore, a fieldwork was developed in four terreiros (umbandas temples) in the region of Ribeirão Preto. One of them, the Terreiro of Umbanda Pai José do Rosario, was chosen as a model case to display the results and analysis. The phenomenon approach, in this fieldwork, was conducted via participant listening, a refinement of the participant observation method designed by the contribution of lacanian psychoanalytic listening which, taken as a heuristic tool, permits tenuous meanings hidden in the rituals and narratives of the subjects related to the possession to be retrieved and accessed. In addition, semi-structured interviews were made with mediums both disembodied and embodied by their pretos-velhos. Data analysis was done based on lacanian psychoanalysis, especially regarding to the notion of a semiotic and socially structured unconscious, in order to recover the historical and collective dimensions of the subject based on their acts performed facing a transferentially implicated researcher. Entities that mobilize a vast repertoire of symbols whose potential embraces multiple semantic outspreadings, the pretos-velhos revealed themselves as complex entities, capable of assuming several different conformations based on their essential references as \"slaves\" and \"ancestors\". Ethnopsychologically, the preto-velho showed themselves up fundamentally as \"mediators\" and \"integrators\" spirits, supporting articulations and diachronic processes of significance between \"past\" and \"present\"; \"life\" and \"death\"; \"adolescence\" and \"adulthood \"; \"emotion and \"reason\"; \"body \" and \"spirit\"; \"action \" and \"consequence\". Concisely, the pretos-velhos are, in the level of the umbanda followers religious experiences, the clearest manifestation of what in psychoanalysis implies the process of taking the Other\'s desire as its own desire, characteristic of the conciliation of the human being with his own unconscious, embodied in an affiliation and belonging traces contained in the tradition and culture of their \"people\". It summons the individual, ultimately, to take his inalienable, since founding, rights and duties as a link of an ancestral chain.
More, Janet May Derrick. "Cultural foundations of personal meaning : their loss and recovery." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/25473.
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Anderson, Kay. ""East" as "West" : place, state and the institutionalization of myth in Vancouver's Chinatown, 1880-1980." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/26950.
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Lemos, Daniela Torres de Andrade. "Pai Cacique e os filhos da Estrela Guia: Processos identitários e cura na Legião Branca Mestre Jesus." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-20012015-144240/.
Full textThe Legião Branca Mestre Jesus (White Legion Master Jesus) is a traditional center of Umbanda, known to be devoted to healing practices, located in Santa Rita do Passa Quatro. The objective of this research was to investigate and describe the processes of identity transformation in adherents and mediums of the center, by longitudinal monitoring of them. For this purpose, an ethnography was done with special attention to repeated signifiers of the symbolic complex of spiritual entities and life narratives of mediums. Individual open interviews with beginners and current mediums leaders about his personal life and his relationship with the Center were held. The data analysis was based on the Lacanian psychoanalysis, relying in particular on the concept of identifying and studies in possession. The results indicate significant repetition of family, work, justice, light and way. The identity transformations involve reframing of symbolic marks related to family conflicts through affiliation to the \"spiritual family\" of LBMJ and values of accountability to the suffering of others. Also there was transformation of the professions of mediums in forms of \"spiritual work\" guided by a \"good to do\" and combining symbolic elements of LBMJ a mode of action of caboclos and pretos-velhos that implies fair work. Initiation as a medium involves subjective repositioning someone to care for someone who cares. The believer is seen as part of a chain, whose wayward member is the weakest link, the patient being careful. The understanding of identity processes involves understanding the notion of person of the center, that the spirits (living or dead) are nameless lights, which manifest themselves in different \"guises\", identifiable by ethical action patterns. The identification processes observed have the peculiarities of focus on action patterns linked to the values of the cult and, at the same time, to a light that refers to the unknowable real. These identification processes also involve redesigning aspects of Brazilian history as a whole, especially the indigenous ethnocide in relation to Christianity, in a way that, without rejecting the Christian values such as humility and charity, recovers repressed historical elements related to the discovery of Brazil and the extermination of ethnic groups.
Kullgren, Carina. "Ack Värmeland regionalitet i diskurs och praktik /." Göteborg : Etnologiska institutionen, Göteborgs universitet, 2000. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/45065007.html.
Full textRotta, Raquel Redondo. "Espíritos da mata: sentido e alcance psicológico do uso ritual de caboclos na Umbanda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2010. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-22042010-154134/.
Full textCaboclos are spiritual entities widely found in Umbanda pantheon. The aim of this study was to reveal the signification and the psychological extent of caboclos ritual practice in Umbanda. Therefore ethnographic methods and continuous attention to recurrent significants have been combined. Among these significants, some terms were repeatedly noticed as ground, light, water, root, matureness, freedom and ideal, which may carry more than one significance level by means of an image script. Caboclos, as an evidence of their social feature, manifest themselves in a close relation to mediums and to other people and spiritual entities. They interpellate their followers enlightening self-discovery processes that push the completion of potentialities in direction to selfs ideals achievement.
Rotta, Raquel Redondo. "Olhares que narram: perspectivas umbandistas de articulação do sentido." Universidade de São Paulo, 2014. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-23102014-162054/.
Full textVisual impact is important not only to the ways in which banto traditions are built but also to the umbandista context. And the African culture contribution in constituting the Brazilian populations ethos is expressive as well. Having that in mind, we aimed to apprehend, in umbandista communities, nuances of how meanings related to the world, the self, and the other are constructed, transmitted and understood through umbandista perspectives of significance articulation. In order to do that, the researcher assumed a position where an openness function to the Others speech was possible, which has permitted the echoing of enunciations that arose from field relations. Within the process of the researchers experience in umbadista rituals and in photographic image production, the collaborators enounced their personal experiences through images and/or words, from the symbolic material present in the cultural heritage they carry, which Lacan would denominate the Other. Considering the transference and the position occupied by the researcher in field as well as the repetitions and the intersections between the images and the sayings about them was central to expose the implicitness of this universe. The search for visual impact has been the instrument elected by the researcher who, interpreted by umbanda as a consultant, could be seen by it and thus, looking at it, be able to understand part of its dynamic. During the process, we have understood how important the gaze is in oneselfs remodeling (of each ones as well as a communitys position in the world), and that it can be developed in the umbandista context where the ancestors role and a whole symbolic repertoire related to it are highlighted. As from the results of this research, we suggest that the experience in umbanda corroborates the hypothesis that it is necessary to know, recognize and deal peacefully with our roots. We have also observed that there is a privileged space in this religion where that demand may occur in each of its rituals and in its participants daily experiences, in a way that symbolic re-combinations and reconstructions are possible both in personal and social levels.
Carvalho, Juliana Barros Brant. "Religião e memória social afro-brasileira em Ribeirão Preto." Universidade de São Paulo, 2016. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59142/tde-18112016-093340/.
Full textThis investigation seeks to understand through the perspective of the umbandist religious system how its leaders composing and being composed by this Afro Brazilian tradition. For this purpose, religious ceremonies were followed and four leaderships were interviewed in two terreiros in Ribeirão Preto. The researcher interacted with the community as a participant. Field notes were registered and photos, videos and audio were collected. And also was reflected about how the Psychoanalysis is a potential theoretical tool to interacting with the research field as being an interlocutor subject and not as object of academic knowledge. It was found that religious heterogeneity of Umbanda aggregates diversity to social collective. Outer concepts to the meaning of the tradition do not seem to be helpful to comprehend this religion that is not dogmatic nor exclusionary with any divinities and people. Cultural and symbolic sources are central to keeping ancient memories. The multiplicity issue in the Umbanda is not found in the transit or coexistence between religious belonging, but it is inherent to its own way of being.
Das, Ashidhara. "Asian Indian immigrant women in the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Area work, home, and the construction of the self /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2006. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3223029.
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Drakos, Georg. "Makt över kropp och hälsa : Om leprasjukas självförståelse i dagens Grekland." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för etnologi, religionshistoria och genusstudier, 1997. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-27824.
Full textParedes, Daniel M. "Multi/Cross-cultural competence integrating universal and particular perspectives /." Greensboro, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2007. http://libres.uncg.edu/edocs/etd/1485Paredes/umi-uncg-1485.pdf.
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Leme, Fábio Ricardo. "Usos do imaginário nos estudos afro-brasileiros e no culto umbandista." Universidade de São Paulo, 2006. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-22052009-153752/.
Full textJungs analytical psychology is one of the main psychological approaches in the study of the African-Brazilian religions, contributing with the understanding of this universe. This traditions researchers are attracted by these religions for being them crowded with phenomena, like the clairvoyance, trance, impersonation, among others, which have vital importance in the existence of their followers, and that are classified as belonging to the imaginary by some academic currents and, sometimes, they are treated as a false perception of the reality, at being considered as imagination subproducts. People have never checked whether the Jungian works reflect this position or not and how they have been able to reflect the fields cosmovision. The goal of this research is: 1) gather an explicitation on the umbanda conception about this imaginary; 2) contrast this conception with one of the main theoretical models applied to the African-Brazilian studies, the analytical psychology; 3) contribute for a dialogue between the scientific psychology and the cosmovision developed in the scope of the African-Brazilian religiosity. The contributors (clairvoyant mediums) have been selected from the contact with umbanda yards in Ribeirao Preto and Piracicaba. Due to their imaginative talents, they have been followed individually, reporting their experiences, being observed in ritual performances, in which we pay attention to the imagination processes (trance state, previsions, dreams, clairvoyance, past memories etc). For reaching beyond the participant observation, audio recordings from the narratives, obtained from semi-structured interviews, notes on a field data notebook, as well as impressions were used. In parallel, an analysis about the Jungian studies regarding the African-Brazilian religiosity was made. About the field and academic material, the systemization of their replies was made on a triple question: Which is the ontological, epistemological and psychological statute from the imaginary? From the obtained replies, subsides were raised for discussing divergence points and similarities between both models which, despite their differences, allowed us to show intersections, to relate incompatibilities and, mainly, to rescue nuances from the phenomenon which escape the academic model. The results show that terms like individuation, group unconsciousness, archetype, and psychological types are not always used as effective Jungian concepts, which seems to indicate that they have acquired a heuristic value which trespasses the borders of the analytical psychology. The Jungian works under analysis overcome the pathologizing posture frequently attributed to the phenomena of the imaginary by classic researchers like Nina Rodrigues, Arthur Ramos and Jung himself, but they do not escape psychologizing biases which, mostly distort the fields cosmovision, contributing to the reduction of phenomena enhanced from ethnocentric models (CNPq).
Steindorf, Sally Anne. "Walking against the wind : negotiating television and modernity in rural Rajasthan." Related electronic resource: Current Research at SU : database of SU dissertations, recent titles available, full text:, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/syr/main.
Full textDinh, Khanh T. "Predictors of psychosocial well-being in an Asian American sample : acculturation, intergenerational conflict, and parent-child relationships /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/9022.
Full textLeal, de Barros Mariana. "“Labareda, teu nome é mulher” : análise etnopsicológica do feminino à luz de pombagiras." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20125/document.
Full textIn the history of the western women, female bodies, especially governed by their sexuality, were conceived in opposite pairs: the mothers and the prostitutes, the saints and the “demoness”. The umbanda, an afrobrazilian religion that holds the discourses and practices of Brazilian society, included this duality in its religiosity, but in a peculiar way: the pombagira is embodied in the figure of a “sacred prostitute” and is worshiped in prominent place by faithfuls of this religion. In umbanda’s terreiros in the state of São Paulo, we interviewed spiritualist mediuns as well as embodied pombagiras to understand the meanings associated with the cult of the pombagiras. The data were analyzed from a combination of the ethnographic method and the lacanian psychoanalytic listening to investigate how pombagiras “participate” in the life of the supporters of this religion. This work presents how, through the relationship with the pombagira, the “woman being” is associated with the seduction, the strength, the beauty, the sex, the desire, the intelligence and even the maternity, integrating the decoupled senses with the mentioned dichotomy. The pombagira’s meanings produce senses that build the personal experiences of their faithfuls. Using a narrative that concerns the sensible and by the researcher’s experience in the relationship with the surveyed groups, this work presents an ethnopsychological comprehension of the gender and considers the senses that are elaborated in the umbanda and that circulate socially
Na história das mulheres do ocidente, os corpos femininos, regidos e interpelados por normas que regulavam, sobretudo, sua sexualidade, foram compreendidos em pares de oposição: as mães e as prostitutas, as santas e as “satanizadas”. A umbanda, religião afro-brasileira detentora da capacidade de acolher os discursos e práticas da sociedade brasileira, incluiu essa dualidade em sua religiosidade, mas de maneira peculiar: a pombagira foi corporificada na figura de uma “prostituta sagrada” e passou a ser cultuada em lugar de destaque por seus fieis. A partir de trabalho de campo em terreiros de umbanda do estado de São Paulo, foram realizadas entrevistas com médiuns, pais e mães-de-santo, bem como com as próprias pombagiras incorporadas para compreender os sentidos associados ao culto das pombagiras. A análise dos dados contou com a combinação do método etnográfico a uma escuta psicanalítica lacaniana para investigar como a pombagira “participa” da vida dos adeptos da religião. O trabalho apresenta como, na interação com a pombagira, o “ser mulher” é associado à sedução, à força, à beleza, ao sexo, ao desejo, à inteligência e, inclusive, à maternidade, integrando sentidos dissociados pelas dicotomias mencionadas. Por meio de uma narrativa atenta ao sensível e incluindo a vivência da própria pesquisadora na interação com os grupos pesquisados, o trabalho apresenta uma compreensão etnopsicológica de gênero ao dar ouvidos a sentidos que se elaboram no contexto umbandista, circulam socialmente e ressoam intimamente
Lee, Hye Joo. "Equivalence and faking issues of the aggression questionnaire and the conditional reasoning test for aggression in Korean and American samples." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/47557.
Full textCadet, de Fontenay Laurent. "Intercultural differences in suggestibility amongst university students." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/3453.
Full textThe current study investigates intercultural differences in suggestibility between Black, Coloured and White students at a South African university using the Creative Imagination Scale (CIS), (Wilson & Barber, 1978). The CIS and a short biographical questionnaire measuring embeddedness in traditional culture were administered to three samples (N=20 each) from students belonging to the above cultural groups. Statistical tests were applied to determine the effects of ethnicity, cultural embeddedness and gender on CIS scores. The results indicate that these three dimensions do not significantly impact on CIS scores. Implications of the results obtained are discussed and ensuing recommendations for future related research are made.
Macêdo, Alice Costa. "Encruzilhadas da interpretação na umbanda." Universidade de São Paulo, 2015. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/59/59137/tde-30032016-144127/.
Full textUmbanda is characterized as a possession cult, whose members, in a trance, incorporate spirits that appear in the terreiros (specific places for the religious ritual) on generally public ceremonies in order to \"work\" in the service of his faithful and consultants. The objective of this research was to investigate and describe the interpretative processes in Umbanda, from a ethnopsychological perspective. It is a case study of longitudinal type, based on the method of the participant listening, understood as the extension of the psychoanalytic method to field research, by using ethnographic techniques. The field research was accomplished in the Oxalá Umbanda Center (Ribeirão Preto - São Paulo - Brazil), where queries granted by spirits embodied by the father-of-saint were fully accompanied by records on the field diary. To achieve this purpose, the researcher was admitted into the place of father-of-saints Cambona, that is, an auxiliary of the ceremony. Psychoanalytic theory of interpretation assumed a heuristic value in this research, to enable the formulation of working hypotheses as guidelines that allowed the researcher to seek the understanding of the interpretative processes in Umbanda. The consultations showed the use of \"ingredients-things-significant\" that resemble a prayer but prayed performatively by the body, such as phrases that compose a poem whose interpretation is enunciated in the own umbandista symbolic system. It is suggested, therefore, that the interpretation in this context appear to present rich possibilities of combinations of features that are revealed beyond to the verbal. Psychoanalysis has proved an important tool for research regarding the field experience, the transference relationship and refinement of listening. The lacanian approach was useful in the sense that it comprises the interpretation that is present on the event and the event includes the interpretation; besides the possibility to analyze the symbolic register from the intersection of two axes, metaphor and metonymy, which facilitated the immersion of listening into the language of Umbanda spirits and, finally, it has allowed mapping interpretations that operate in materiality, to the letter and the bottom of thingsquite literally. Otherwise, it is clear that Freud\'s method of dream interpretation has not established approaches to what happens in the terreiros, because for Umbanda the interpretation does not seem to operate from manifest content access to latent content. In the case of Umbanda, the interpretation occurs in act, or rather is, the act itself, it is part of the body, reveals itself, but is a way to \"seeing\" that is close to the skin and not restricted to eyes. Furthermore, although it has been useful the idea that the author of dream interpretation is the dreamer himself, in the case of Umbanda, the subject interpreter is not only the medium, the spirit, the cambono or consultants. The subject of interpretation permeates all these characters, but resides in the proper symbolic system of Umbanda. Thus, it is proposed that spirituality is not disregarded, but treated as a resource for the development of new notions of protection that not only respect each other\'s culture, but above all that they can incorporate them to their care strategies. Although this research did not intend to investigate how african-Brazilian communities understand health and illness, suffering and care, it sought to contribute to an understanding of how, through interpretive procedures, this cultural universe refines listening and acceptance of those who turn to him.
Hoersting, Raquel Carvalho. "No place to call home: Cultural homelessness, self-esteem and cross-cultural identities." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2009. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc10991/.
Full textAcevedo, Ignacio David. "UNDERSTANDING ETHNICITY: THE RELATION AMONG ETHNIC IDENTITY, COLLECTIVISM, AND INDIVIDUALISM IN AFRICAN AMERICANS AND EUROPEAN AMERICANS." Lexington, Ky. : [University of Kentucky Libraries], 2003. http://lib.uky.edu/ETD/ukypcps2003t00073/AcevedoThesis.pdf.
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Mban, Loumpele R. "Esquisse d'une psychologie compréhensive du système mantique traditionnel dans ses relations avec l'articulation des symboles fondamentaux au sein de l'univers de sens Ngangulu, Congo caractéristiques et conséquences de la régulation du système /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 1999. http://catalog.hathitrust.org/api/volumes/oclc/41507397.html.
Full textBelay, Million. "Participatory mapping, learning and change in the context of biocultural diversity and resilience." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003572.
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