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Montgomery, Kenneth Edward. ""A better place to live": National mythologies, Canadian history textbooks, and the reproduction of white supremacy." Thesis, University of Ottawa (Canada), 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/29239.
Full textBrock, Stephen James Thomas, and brock stephen@saugov sa gov au. "A Travelling Colonial Architecture: Home and Nation in Selected Works by Patrick White, Peter Carey, Xavier Herbert and James Bardon." Flinders University. Australian Studies, 2003. http://catalogue.flinders.edu.au./local/adt/public/adt-SFU20070424.101150.
Full textMonteil, Marquetoux Madeleine. "Du drame wagnérien à la mythologie nazie." Paris 10, 1991. http://www.theses.fr/1991PA100055.
Full textLecomte, Jean-Philippe. "Représentations et réalités des fonctions sociales du service militaire dans la société française (1868-2001)." Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001IEPP0023.
Full textPosocco, Lorenzo. "Représenter la nation. Musées, pouvoir et mythologie nationale en Turquie sous le gouvernement du Parti de la Justice et du Développement (AKP)." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0152.
Full textThis study focuses on recently build museums in Turkey under the rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). It develops from a body of existing studies providing evidence about a change in cultural policy carried out by the AKP that, guided by the motto Yeni Türkiye (New Turkey) aims to set a divide between pre-AKP and post-AKP era. The Yeni Türkiye builds on a new national ideology, Turkish Muslim nationalism, which emphasizes the Ottoman, Turkish, and Islamic heritage of Turkey rather than other likewise important heritages, such as the Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and the more recent, Western-oriented past of the Republic. By functioning as performative cabinets exhibiting the national ideology of the ruling party, new state-sponsored museums mirror the AKP’s dream of a new Turkey: technological, capitalist, and yet nationalist and Islamist. I looked into three of these new museums and investigated the links between the state which ruled by the AKP advertises this national ideology and museums exhibiting Turkish Muslim national narrative. By developing an original sociological-political theoretical framework based on Bourdieu’s theory of field, I frame museums in fields of changing power relations. I argue that the museum field is inextricably linked to other fields such as the field of cultural production, the field of economy, the field of education, and the political field. In addition, as with any other field, the museum field also exists within the broader national field. I will argue that museums, and people working in/for museums, exist as integrated into nation-states through the legislative, judicial, and executive powers that rule them, fund them, regulate their functions and enforce said regulations. By drawing upon the works of museum studies scholars (Crooke 2016 and 2007; Newmann and Mclean 2006; Macdonald 2003; Fyfe 2011), I attempted to provide further evidence that the analysis of nationalism (as the ideology that characterizes our world of nation-states) within the museum reveals key aspects of the museum’s significance. Museums and states embracing nationalism seem to be strictly connected, so much so that all museums are subject to national symbolism, and changes in one field, e.g. in the political field, carry potential changes in the museum field. . Nationalism in its variety of forms, embodied in state (and non-state) social agents, objectified in museum artefacts which were given national significance, or institutionalized in museum buildings with national symbols, was the force which absorbed the museum. On the basis of my data, I will suggest the rather heterodox conclusion that all museums are national museums. Not in the sense that all museums display national history but in the sense that, as I will point out, all museums function as symbols of the nation-state and some even create national symbols in the form of national narratives, myths, heroes, discourses of the big men, flags and national history. By focusing on recently built museums in Turkey, I will explain national narratives within museums in terms of resources and supply, where the museum functions as a resource and host of ever-positive national discourses, national identity, and national history manufactured by and within the Turkish ruling class (or field of power in Bourdieu’s terminology) to be supplied to the masses. Hence, the museum is seen here as a gear of a system of identity-making, whereas nationalism, particularly Turkish Muslim nationalism is the ideology (or doxic logic as Bourdieu called it) behind it
Yaquinto, Marilyn. "POLICING THE WORLD: AMERICAN MYTHOLOGIES AND HOLLYWOOD'S ROGUE COP CHARACTER." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143469295.
Full textSerna, Dimas Adrian. "Les hommes devenus tigres. Fait colonial, mythologie nationale et violence dans le bassin moyen du fleuve Magdalena, Colombie." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017EHES0132/document.
Full textThe thesis exposes the results of the project titled “Colonialism, armed conflict and the disputes for memory. An anthropological study of Magdalena Medio, Colombia (South America)”. The project was made from Laboratory of Social Anthropology – Collège de France and Doctoral School of Anthropology [ED286] at The School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS in French) under the direction of Tassadit Yacine-Titouh. The region of Magdalena Medio is located on middle basin of Magdalena River, a wide valley between the Cordillera Oriental and Cordillera Central, two mountain ranges of the Northern Andes in Colombia (South America). Until a few decades ago, the region of Magdalena Medio was an interior border, with wild appearance, which was the lodging the last survivors of the indigenous peoples Caribes or Karibs and the jurisdiction of ancient villages and towns of Spanish origin (16th-17th centuries) and new settlements arose from recent colonization (19th-20th centuries). The region was an enclave due to the absence of roads and highways, a frequent refuge of seditious, dissident and rebel groups, and an open territory for both peasant colonization and the occupation of big capitalist companies. The region is also historically known for having the most important national wealth: the mines of gold and emeralds, the forest exploitation as the quinine, the tropical agriculture of sugarcane, tobacco, indigo, coffee and oil palm, the livestock farming on the plains, the gas and petrol industries and, more recently, the coca and poppy cultivations. The coexistence of wealth and poverty turned the Magdalena Medio in one of the nation’s most violent regions. The region of Magdalena Medio was the epicenter of violence between political parties since the 1930’s, the violence of bandits or bandoleros since the 1950’s, the violence of leftist guerillas since the 1960’s, the violence of private justice groups since the 1970’s and the violence of paramilitary forces since the 1980’s. In these contexts were perpetrated some of the most shameful facts of the Colombian history. The project tried to clarify the role of culture in each province in the production and reproduction of a violence of “quasi” endemic character and their implications en the construction of an regional memory
Poitras, Mathieu. "« Ma dambura ne ment pas » : musique et identité chez les Hazāra d’Afghanistan." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32195.
Full textEllinger, Pierre. "Recherches sur les situations extrêmes dans la mythologie d'Artémis et la pensée religieuse grecque autour de la légende nationale phocidienne et des récits de guerre d'anéantissement /." Lille 3 : ANRT, 1988. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37613480w.
Full textEllinger, Pierre. "Recherches sur les "situations extrêmes" dans la mythologie d'Artemis et la pensée religieuse grecque : autour de la légende nationale phocidienne et des récits de g uerre d'anéantissement." Paris, EHESS, 1988. http://www.theses.fr/1988EHES0014.
Full textStarting from the phokian national legend which consists in a cycle of tales reporting the wars of independence of the phokians against the thessalians in the archaic age, celebrated at the phokian federal sanctuary of artemis elaphebolos in hyampolis, it is shown that the greeks of the archaic and classical periods developped a complex and systematic thinking about exceptions to their own rules of hoplitic war. When wars of annihilation threatened the very existence of peoples and cities, artemis was called to instil the boldness and the courage to face the greatest risks, to inspire the devices to win these wars which transgress every admitted limit and to make civilization triumph where it seemed doomed to sink into wildness. The pondering of the greeks about the extreme forms of war is to be placed in the larger frame of a consideration on "extreme situations" by which the city, opposing the extreme radicalism of mystic trends like orphism which branded her as the absolute evil, endeavoured to explore and draw the limits of human condition at a distance of both the worst and the impossible best. Thus conceived, this whole work is intended as a contribution to the study of the relations between myth and history
Walter, Doris. "L'alpiniste, le paysan et le Parc national du Huascarán : la domestication de la nature sauvage dans les Andes péruviennes." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030005.
Full textThis thesis is based on anthropological research conducted among the Quechua speaking inhabitants (campesinos) in the area of Huaraz (cordillera blanca range in the central-northern Peruvian Andes). Two main themes are examined. The first concerns the traditional beliefs concerning "wild" nature, which comprises the high altitude zones (upper mountain valleys and glacial peaks). The concept of "wild nature" and the different ways of "taming he wild" are analyzed through local myths, beliefs and practices (hunting, plant gathering, and the rearing of livestock). All of which fit into an extremely coherent and logical pattern, organized around the hunting scheme. (See part 1). The second takes into account the campesinos' perceptions of two outside actors who interfere or act upon "Wild" nature. On one hand, a national park (Huascarán national park), established in the Cordillera blanca range in 1975. .
Siou, Hervé. "L'esprit de Numance : mythes obsidionaux et constructions nationales en Espagne, 1808-1958." Thesis, Paris, Institut d'études politiques, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IEPP0045.
Full textMilitary sieges play a significant role in the Spanish national narrative. If the antique sieges of Numance and Sagonte are undoubtedly founding moments, the exploitation of the obsidional myths considerably increases from the Peninsular War and onwards. The double siege of Zaragoza (1808-1809) by the French troops is celebrated to a point that it becomes an insight to the Iberian identity: through this glorious defeat, the Spanish are said to have proved their devotion to freedom and an innate sense of sacrifice. This discourse, which was designed by the elites during the siege as a way to ease consent in the acceptance of the deaths of the besieged also proved effective later on: it is at the heart of the national narrative which was imposed under the Isabelline rule and, in the second half of the 19th century, this example is used both by the Liberals, the Republicans and the Conservative. It is also reinvested at different levels, be they local, regional or national. All in all, the Zaragozan myth is at the origin of a true obsidional mythology: the celebration of the 1714 siege by the Catalan nationalists or that of Bilbaoan Liberals commemorating their victories against the Carlists (1835-1836 and 1874) can be considered as “variations on a theme” of obsidional resistance. Based on a corpus of varied sources (press articles, literature, paintings, municipal archives, private resources), this thesis will try to retrace the evolution of the Zaragozan sieges between 1808 and 1958 but also that of their “variations». It will aim at establishing obsidional mythology as an observatory of communitarian developments in Spain
Pauvros, Céline. "La raison et la nation : Charles-François Dupuis (1742-1809), historien des religions et républicain : itinéraire sociale, politique et intellectuel d'un pholosophe à la fin des Lumières." Paris, EHESS, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013EHES0033.
Full textProfessor at the Collège de France, member of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres and of the Institut de France, the deputy Charles-François Dupuis (1742-1809) is best known for his major work, thé Origine de tous les cultes, ou Religion universelle (III-1795). Dupuis' main theory states that all ancient and modern religions are initially related to the worship of stars and first astronomical observations. His work influences later studies in comparative mythology and his critique of Christianity provides useful weapons to anticlerical people. In order to understand the reasons of this legacy, our thesis wishes to explore the scholarly and political context in which Dupuis developed his studies in religious history, from his early works in 1779 to the publication of the Abrégé de l'Origine de tous les cultes in 1798, and to assess more precisely the relationship between his scholarly researches and his political activism during the French Revolution. After having described the social and intellectual background of the author, we present the debates aroused by his first research including the controversy over historical chronology. Then, we study Dupuis' political activities during the revolutionary period, his participation to the creation of the republican calendar and the establishment of the « republican schools ». Finally, we study the first reading of his ideas (diffusion, translations, rebuttals and censorship). In this context, the Abrégé de l'Origine de tous les cultes -written after the Coup of 18 Fructidor, Year V (1797) -, appears to be primarily a political manifesto defending the separation between religion and state
Clément, Renaud. "Bioculture : l’adaptivité culturelle dans les discours du gouvernement canadien (1967-2014)." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/37045.
Full textCermakian, Stéphane. "Poétique de l’exil dans les littératures allemande, française et arménienne : "Hypérion" de Friedrich Hölderlin, "Une saison en enfer" d’Arthur Rimbaud, "Le bois de Vincennes" de Nigoghos Sarafian." Thesis, Aix-Marseille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013AIXM3127.
Full textIs it possible to speak about « poetics » with respect to a phenomenon which is as fluctuating as exile? May the latter, which, in its various meanings, cannot be totally defined, allow the emergence of a specific language? It is up to us to find out through which mechanisms such a trying expression of interculturalism might lead to the creation of a language which goes beyond the framework of the nation (even when it emanates from the latter) and which reaches out towards transnational and universal invariants and word structures. In order to achieve this, we rely upon three authors which were chosen in different geographic areas and in different periods : Hölderlin (Germanic area), Rimbaud (Latin area) and Sarafian (Armenian area). Exile is primarily defined with respect to the country of origin, in conformity with the definition. But it becomes a linguistic phenomenon, as in the shock with the foreign word after the genocide of the Armenians (Sarafian), or in the formulation of an aesthetic quest with verbal creation at stake (Rimbaud), or in the essential search of a new mythology, along with the confrontation with the foreign world in order to redefine that which belongs specifically to the nation (Hölderlin). Both the geographic exile and the linguistic exile lead to a spiritual exile and to the search for a loftier fatherland. This new spatial entity would result from a hybridization process (or at least from questioning), whereby the word of the exile could be expressed in different formats for the three authors, with, however, some striking similarities
Leween, Jackson Twobears. "Mythologies of an (un)dead Indian." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3855.
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Machoňová, Ivana. "Národní mytologie na světové výstavě EXPO 2010 v Šanghaji." Master's thesis, 2015. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-333493.
Full textThery, Flore. "Les commandes de photographies documentaires dans le studio Notman (1858-1909) - Naissance d'une mythologie canadienne de l'âge moderne." Thèse, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/20182.
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