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Bukowick, Karen Elizabeth. "Truth and Symbolism: Mythological Perspectives of the Wolf and Crow". Thesis, Boston College, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/489.
Testo completoThis thesis explores crow and wolf symbolism within the mythology of Western Tradition, focusing on the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, Native American folklore, Shakespeare, and Aesop's fables. Much of the animal imagery in literature is negative and does not truthfully represent the animals symbolized. This thesis investigates why these negative associations are formed, how they relate to the biological lives of wolves and crows, and explores their ambiguity in relation to the positive symbolism that exists. Negative symbols acquire strength as cultures grow further away from the land they live on and focus on industry and humanity instead of the world around them. The behavior of both wolves and crows is secretive, causing people to create stories to explain their actions. Furthermore, humans use these animals as a "shadow" to themselves, bestowing characteristics upon them which are found in human nature but are generally considered unacceptable
Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2004
Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences
Discipline: College Honors Program
Dass, Rhonda. "Native American symbols in tattooing". [Bloomington, Ind.] : Indiana University, 2009. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3386672.
Testo completoTitle from PDF t.p. (viewed on Jul 15, 2010). Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 70-12, Section: A, page: 4804. Adviser: John Wm. Johnson.
Brown, Patricia. "The role and symbolism of the dragon in vernacular saints' legends, 1200-1500". Thesis, University of Birmingham, 1998. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk//id/eprint/5414/.
Testo completoEldridge, Pamela S. "Color and number patterns in the symbolic cosmoloqies of the Crow, Pawnee, Kiowa, and Cheyenne". Thesis, Wichita State University, 1999. http://hdl.handle.net/10057/5579.
Testo completoThesis (M.A.)--Wichita State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of Anthropology.
Seress, Hugues. "La musique « folklorique » pour piano (1907 – 1920) de Béla Bartók : emprunt symbolique, matériau combinatoire". Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040101.
Testo completoBorrowing from folklore constitutes one of the numerous operations done by early 20th century creators from a material pre-existing to their works. Those operations are subtended by multiple identity-searching processes that often shift the eyes of the analyst away from the work to the whole of its symbolical and contextual connotations. Questioning oneself about the consequences, be they stylistic or technical, of those phenomena doesn’t seem to be taken for granted. By reexamining the tonal structure of works, with or without borrowings, composed by Béla Bartók between 1903 and 1920, through a pattern of Neo-Riemannian inspiration, enabling an interpretation of their tonal distances based on the definition of triadic unit. This study aims at reassessing, beyond their tonality, corpuses still to often considered as split apart by a rather impervious flaw line, that between romanticism and modernity
Alvarez, Isabelle. "Étude sur l’évolution du thème des oiseaux de nuit dans la Grèce ancienne, médiévale et moderne". Thesis, Paris 4, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA040157.
Testo completoThis study has distinguished variations in the theme of nocturnal birds in Ancient, Medieval and Modern Greece, as well as presented an explanation within the historical, socio-cultural, and religious contexts. For the Ancient Greek timeframe, in an effort to outline symbolism, an inventory of nocturnal birds mentioned in zoological texts was created whereby the mention of such birds in literature, history, mythology, and art was also accounted for. The same approach was employed for the Medieval Greek timeframe. The study first focused on the revisions made to the main characteristics of these birds within the Judeo-Christian mindset, as opposed to Ancient Greece. These changes were not only adopted, but reinforced by other texts such as the Physiologos and many Bestiaries. The study then focused on the medico-magical traits of these nocturnal birds as outlined in the Cyranides, which contrasts with the Poulologos’ satire of Byzantine society by the intermediary of the birds’ behavior and biting remarks. Lastly, for the Modern Greek timeframe, the study explored the importance of nocturnal birds in folk songs, proverbs, fables, short stories, poems and youth literature. Further, the study outlined the birds’ privileged place in art, artisanal work, signs and emblems, postage stamps, and money. This diachronic study aimed to catalog the different bird species and to evaluate the role that they played in the development of the Greek line of thought through the centuries. It was also the study’s goal to ultimately establish—or not—the continuity of the symbolism as it relates to the time-specific conditions of each era
Akimova, Anna. "La chanson populaire et la poésie symboliste en France et en Russie (1880-1914)". Paris 4, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005PA040121.
Testo completoThis comparative study deals with different perceptions of folk-song by the symbolist poets and with problems generated by the various systems of versification. The Russian symbolist corpus relies on the works of Blok, Bely, Balmont, Brusov, Kuzmin, Dobrolubov, Sologub et Ellis. The French poets analysed here are mainly the so-called " minor " symbolists (Kahn, Mauclair, Krysinska, Vielé-Griffin) ; but major poets such as Mallarmé, Maeterlinck, Rimbaud and Verlaine are also dealt with. Their works are compared with folk-song texts in order to emphasis on thematic and formal aspects. In this thesis the following points are respectively studied : the status and the place of folk-song in the symbolist context ; converging elements between symbolism and folklore ; technical aspects of the folk influence on the symbolist art and, finally, the influence of the folk metrics upon the symbolist versification
Kucevič, Zinaida. "Символика коня в русской литературе и живописи". Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2010. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2010~D_20100707_142050-56325.
Testo completoApžvelgiamas arklio vaidmuo civilizacijos, žmonijos kultūros istorijoje, parodoma evoliucija.Kreipiamas dėmesys į arklio įvaizdį mitologijoje, tautosakoje ir dailėje. Nagrinėjama L.Tolstojaus apysaka "Cholstomeras".Ji gretinama su A.Kuprina "Izumrud".
Herein, the role of a horse in civilization and history of culture of humanity is reviewed, its evoliution is disclosed. The image of horse in mythology, folklore and art (M.V.Vasnetsov, K. Petrov-Vodkin) is focused. In the analytic part, the story "Kholostomer" by L.Tolstoy is discussed upon. History of the horse is compared with story "Izumrud" by A.Kuprin.
Mountian, Daniela. "Simbologia do caos em O diabo mesquinho de Fiódor Sologub". Universidade de São Paulo, 2011. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8155/tde-15062012-103007/.
Testo completoThe research aims at analysing The Petty Demon (1892-1902), a key novel by Fiódor Sologub (1863-1927) who is one of the best known writers of the Russian symbolism. The importance of this novel is well established for Russian and world literature, and this research thesis was the first academic study on the author in Brazil. The analysis followed two main directions, which appear in intersection: first, the evident parodist structure of the text and second, the presence of universal mythic archetypes juxtaposed by elements of the Russian folklore, which inhabit the narration. Regarding the use of parody, drawing on Iuri Tyniánov and Mikhail Bakhtin, the analysis establish dialogues between The Petty Demon and texts by Aleksándr Púchkin, Nikolai Gógol and Fiódor Dostoiévski. These parodist dialogues are seen here as essential for the understanding of the structure of the text, as well as the narrator who organises these discourses subverting the realistic aesthetics. In relation to the incorporation of literary archetypes in the novel, highlighting the parodist dimension and the neomythologic structure, as conceptualised by Zara Mints, an analysis was developed on the history of the anti-hero Ardalión Peredonov, a diabolic trickster, as a cultural mythic hero. This in-depth analysis drawing on Eliazar Meletínski, unravelled the articulation between well established mythic dualities (chaos versus cosmos); the construction of the hero and anti-hero; and the folkloric characteristics and popular demonism. The relation between these components guides the story to the mythic chaos alongside the gradual madness of Peredonov. The brief contextualisation put forward in this research thesis of the Russian symbolism - a movement that based on its own culture and history launched new paths for Russian arts and philosophy - was fundamental to the analysis of The Petty Demon, as the novel established great masters in literature, highlighted its symbolist context and broke paradigms.
Pourchier-Plasseraud, Suzanne. "Contribution des arts visuels à l'identité nationale : le cas de la Lettonie (1905-1940)". Paris 1, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011PA010517.
Testo completoDaly, Robyn Anne. "Asleep in a glass coffin: fairy tales as illuminating attitudes to women in the novels of Charles Dickens". Thesis, Rhodes University, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002270.
Testo completoLuzyte, Rasa. "A thealogy of Mary : the non-Christian myth of Mary, the shadow of Mary and an individual connection to the divine self through Mary". Thesis, University of Stirling, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/1893/20251.
Testo completoSweeney, Dominique. "Masked corroborees of the northwest - "stand up in my head"". Phd thesis, Canberra, ACT : The Australian National University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/110183.
Testo completoWakim, Gulnar. "Le langage contemporain dans la danse au Moyen-Orient". Paris, EHESS, 2008. http://www.theses.fr/2008EHES0331.
Testo completoLn the 20 th century, dance in the middle east struggled for its evolution, Through decades existence, this discipline was and still an integrated part of the community and ail along It remained a non legit practice, and its professional existence remained dishonoring, Somewhere between legit and non legit the evolution of dance was crippled due to this status, however it continued to defy society, and made its way into the future, Beyond its festive aspect, dance was a starting point in my research, It's about answering the fundamental question: how to define one or more contemporary dance languages? If we insist on the word contemporary, ifs because the oriental dance is still lost somewhere between its traditional aspect and western modernism. Research was built around the alphabet of an artistic language for a legitimate practice, for an art in favor of its community, this research aimed for decomposing this art, dance versus religion, dance vs society and dance vs politics
Boekhoorn, Dimitri Nikolai. "Bestiaire mythique, légendaire et merveilleux dans la tradition celtique : de la littérature orale à la littérature écrite". Phd thesis, Rennes 2, 2008. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00293874/fr/.
Testo completoThe author offers a study of the "Celtic bestiary" which is understood here as the sum of the reel species above all; an overall view of the function and role of animals in medieval Celtic literature will be given, analysing especially the mythological, heroic and hagiographical texts. The evolution of the role of antique and medieval cult animals will be dealt with. The symbolism of the other species will be studied as well. The corpus analysed here – medieval Celtic literature - will be presented, references will be made to other civilizations (Indo- European and others). The medieval tradition will be compared with the folklore of premodern times. Several aspects linked with the animal world will be dealt with as well: the complex question of shamanism and totemism and their applicability to Celtic beliefs; animal sounds and music and their relation to human music; animal metamorphosis, animal metaphors, faunal onomastic and anthroponomy including animal terminology as well as the classification / taxonomy of the animal world. The second part is a catalogue of the species known to the medieval Celts; their role and symbolism will be briefly discussed. The third part consists of an analysis of the bestiary contained in a well-known Breton hagiographical text: the Life of St. Malo. Some of the elements studied here clearly show that the medieval Breton literary tradition belongs to the Celtic insular tradition, together with the literature of Ireland, the Isle of Man, Scotland, Wales and Cornwall
Molnar, Lauren B. "Pigeonholing without Hybridizing: The False Reduction of Toni Morrison's Beloved". Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1303442088.
Testo completoHammi, Arab. "Tamurt : un paysage emblématique et représentatif : la cas des proverbes kabyles". Thesis, Besançon, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BESA1008.
Testo completoThe term Tamurt in the Berber (Amazigh) culture is endowed with many acceptances : it habitually designates a set of people possessing the same identity, a region or territory structured by the same language, and the same origin ; it is also related to the land, landscape or space and to what is present in the same entity : the values, traditions, or systems of organization.The Kabyl proverbs illustrate this polysemy in a good way and they still at this time and age have their entire place in the every day life of the inhabitants of Tifrit Nait Oumalek village situated in the Akfadou Mount near Tizi-Ouzou . The monography that we have realised supported by a survey that associates in situ observations, semi-directive interviews, and questionnaires suggests to clarify, through the analysis of the processes of transmission and identification, the relations with tradition and modernity.The rereading of the Mohandien poetry and that of the more contemporary writings of Mouloud Feraoun, Mouloud Mammeri, or Ait Menguellet enriches the discussion and permits to better apprehend the question of orality, symbolism, and intergeneration dynamics
Butzke, Petra. "Symbolika užovek v litevském folkloru". Master's thesis, 2010. http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-295385.
Testo completoLin, Pei-Yi, e 林佩怡. "Toward Symbolic Consumption Age – A Narrative Analysis of International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival of Yilan". Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/72623661644455759603.
Testo completo淡江大學
大眾傳播學系碩士班
96
This thesis concerns about symbolic consumption, narrative, tourism symbolic. In this research, we choose a case study of the International Children’s Folklore and Folkgame Festival of Yilan(ICFFF). In order to discuss art festival is consumption phenomenon of tourism symbolic. According to narrative theory, to know travel tendency what’s different between before and nowadays. The thesis discuss auspice what said stories, what arose narrative symbolic. How said these stories, what arose meaning. To know auspice Auspice constructs several story lines: “ICFFF and dream”, “ICFFF and learn”, ” ICFFF and international”, “ICFFF and nostalgia”,” ICFFF and adventure ”, “ICFFF and cartoon celebrity.” Auspice hails tourists to consume this symbol. Through narration, could cause the original given name unknown place, changed immediately became popularly . New festival has representation, so the thesis we choose a case study of the ICFFF. To explain tourism already in symbolic consumption ago.
Cheng, Yuchi, e 鄭玉琪. "From Folklore to Symbolic Poetics: the Sidhe and Vague Desire in Yeats's The Wind Among the Reeds". Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/11292478727805308958.
Testo completo國立中正大學
外國文學所
97
This thesis explores how Yeats developed an Irish symbolic poetics in The Wind Among the Reeds by transforming specific elements of Irish folklore into what he hoped was a universal symbolism. He attempted, through an experimental poetic process, to illustrate various vague human desires and unify the Sidhe and relative elements of Celtic myth to reveal his idea of “unity of being.” Published in 1899, The Wind Among the Reeds illustrates various late nineteenth-century influences on Yeats—including Celticism, Pre-Raphaelitism, and French symbolism—that provided him with the inspiration and tools he needed to transform Irish folklore into effective, universal symbolism. In the first chapter, Yeats’s construction of symbols that highlight Irish subject matter is analyzed based on the poetic function of the Sidhe. The Sidhe and related symbols consequently closely interact. The chapter further argues that Yeats took the Sidhe beyond its original folkloric significance to become a vehicle for the development of his symbolic poetics because the Sidhe suggest the human desire that differentiates real experience from spiritual experience. Next, Yeats’s poetic transformation is discussed to see how The Wind Among the Reeds exposes an intricacy and esotericism based on a concept of the Tree of Life. The main images, such as hair and the rose, are finally symbolized to develop themes of love quest and various vague desires. Furthermore, these symbols tend to the feminine visual qualities in Rossetti’s works. They suggest the poet’s gender politics through his numberless dreams of a goddess and “the White Woman,” etc. In the final chapter, Yeats’s unification of symbols to complete his poetic system is explored based on Paul de Man’s argument about unity. Finally, how Yeatsian symbols and themes have been extended in recent Irish dance and the contemporary novel is examined to illustrate Yeats’s continuing influence.
Janssen, Eric [Verfasser]. "Die Kausia : Symbolik und Funktion der makedonischen Kleidung / vorgelegt von Eric Janssen". 2008. http://d-nb.info/988388456/34.
Testo completoDu, Toit Marika Bella. "W.B. Yeats's aesthetic philosophy in his earlier works / Marika Bella du Toit". Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/15204.
Testo completoMA (English), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2015
Theron, Elizabeth Rabie. "Jacob van Maerlant se Der naturen bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief". Diss., 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/1108.
Testo completoDuring the past decade various studies have been conducted on the medieval bestiary and simultaneously much has been written on the life and work of the medieval scholar and writer, Jacob van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's famous encyclopaedic work, Der Naturen B/oeme (Book of Nature) has been thoroughly investigated in recent literary studies, though little has been done to identify this work as encyclopaedic narrative. The term, encyclopaedic narrative, is relatively unknown in Western literature and therefore demands the research which is conducted in this thesis. In the course of this study, the genre of encyclopedic narrative is investigated and the Naturen 8/oeme is identified as a member of this exclusive genre. Edward Mendelson's article "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) serves as the starting point for this study, from where it continues its investigation into the works of Jacob Van Maerlant. Van Maerlant's Der Naturen 8/oeme is compared to a unique set of qualities for the encyclopaedic narrative in which corresponding points are identified. From this investigation it is shown that Der Naturen B/oeme qualifies as a member of the genre, encyclopaedic narrative.
Baie navorsing oor die Middeleeuse Bestiarium is reeds gedurende die afgelope dekade gedoen en baie is geskryf oor die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant. Alhoewel sy natuurboek, Der Naturen Bloeme, baie belangstelling in die liter~re w6r~ld ontlok, is daar nog weinig gedoen om Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief te identifiseer. Die relatiewe onbekendheid van die begrip ensiklopediese narratief in die Westerse literatuur dien as aansporing tot die ondersoeke wat in hierdie skripsie vervat word. In hierdie studie sal die genre van die ensiklopediese narratlef bespreek word. Der Naturen Bloeme word as voorbeeld gebruik. Die ensiklopediese narratief word bespreek na aanleiding van die artikel "From Dante to Pynchon" (1976) waarin Mendelson die term omskryf en riglyne daarstel vir die tipering daarvan as genre. Uit die ondersoek blyk dit dat die ensiklopediese narratief 'n genre is wat erkenning behoort te kry in die literêre wêreld. Die studie ondersoek ook die lewe en werk van Jacob van Maerlant wat as lnformatikus gedurende die MiddeJeeue groot bekendheid verwerf het. Sy omvangryke ensiklopediese werk, Der Naturen Bloeme, word telkens getoets aan die hand van kenmerke vir die ensiklopediese narratief en die raakpunte word uitgewys. Uit die ondersoek word aangetoon dat Der Naturen Bloeme as ensiklopediese narratief erken kan word.
Afrikaans & Theory of Literature
M.A. (Afrikaans)
Peni, Lawrance. "Nkanelo wa swikholwakholwana leswi fambelanaka na swiharhi na swinyenyana en'wanedzi etikweni ra Zimbabwe". Diss., 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/11602/721.
Testo completoEhansi ka Sentara ya M. E. R. Mathivha ya Tindzimi ta Afrika, Vutshila na Ndhavuko
This research describes and discusses the superstitions which are on the verge of dying out in Zimbabwe. The aim of this study is to explore various animals and birds superstitions predominantly among Machangana. The researcher shall use a qualitative method and data shall be attained through the use of interviews and the researcher will listen to and sometimes converse with the participants in a conducive manner. The researcher shall gather birds and animals superstitions from old people who are fifty years and above because they are experienced and well versed in that area. This research targets the people of N’wanedzi District that is located in the South Eastern part of Zimbabwe. Furthermore, the total number of participants shall be fifteen and shall be randomly sampled to attain authentic information and the method of the data analysis which shall be used is thematic qualitative analysis where the researcher shall use his own discretions. The study shall be of great use to the schools, higher and tertiary institutions and the entire society.
Kelley-Galin, Deborah. "Dreaming, embodiment and perception in the narrative arts of the Hopi people". Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/25759.
Testo completoThis study examines the symbiotic relationships between Hopi traditional arts, the use of art and narrative as mnemonic device, and embedded references to the Fourth World narrative that describes how the Hopi people climbed from a troubled Third World into the current spatio-temporal era, the Fourth World. (The original oral narrative was published by anthropologist Harold Courlander and anonymous consultants in 1971 as The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions.) This study posits that the traditional arts of the Hopi and their forebears serve as visual and oral reiterations of the Fourth World narrative, including their emergence from an opening in the earth known as the sipaapuni. After promising to live a harsh but reverent life, the land’s guardian, Maasaw, made the arid southwestern North American land theirs. The Hopi people call these lands Hopi Tutskwa, the original home of the migrating “Ancestral Puebloan” predecessors. The Hopi consider objects, habitation sites, structures, and other sacred features to be these ancestors’ embodied “footprints.” This study describes how diverse Hopi arts are both Ancestral Puebloan “footprints,” and what archaeologists define as “exographic” objects or mnemonic forms of “symbolic storage.” The use of mnemonic objects within the Puebloan culture has been documented as early as 1630 by Fray Alonso de Benavides who noted the use of “knotted strings” as a form of recording “sins” (Morrow, 1996:42). As they relate to mnemonic technology, Hopi arts and lifeways expand the boundaries of Western art history studies to include elements of archaeology and anthropology. Within these interdisciplinary contexts, objects and imagery are not simply “art” in the Western sense, but embodiments of cultural belief and visual reiterations of oral narratives which preserve intrinsic cultural knowledge and belief. This study suggests that what has previously been categorised as Hopi “art” within Western academic contexts is instead an extension of the West’s tradition of ekphrasis, or simply “writing about art.” Therefore, Western academia inappropriately emphasises chronological form, style, and development within Hopi arts rather than the significant cognitive role art plays within the culture of the people. As traditional metaphors for or reiterations of the Fourth World narrative, this study shows how content embedded within Hopi arts is most appropriately studied through iconological and mytholinguistic analysis as they best serve the Hopi people’s non-Western oracy-based tradition.
Hierdie studie ondersoek die simbiotiese verhoudings tussen die Hopi se tradisionele kunsvorme; hulle gebruik van kuns en narratief as mnemoniese middele; en ingebedde verwysings na die Vierdewêreld-narratief wat vertel hoe die Hopi-nasie bo ’n veelbewoë Derde Wêreld kon uitstyg en die huidige tydruimtelike era, die Vierde Wêreld, kon betree. (Die oorspronklike orale narratief, The Fourth World of the Hopis: The Epic Story of the Hopi Indians as Preserved in Their Legends and Traditions, is in 1971 deur die antropoloog Harold Courlander en anonieme konsultante gepubliseer.) Hierdie studie voer aan dat die tradisionele kunste van die Hopi’s en hul voorvaders dien as visuele en orale reïterasies van die Vierdewêreld-narratief, insluitende hulle verskyning deur ’n opening in die aarde wat as die sipaapuni bekend staan.Nadat hulle beloof het om 'n moeilike dog eerbiedige lewe te leef, het die bewaker van die land, Maasaw, die woestynagtige suidweste van Noord-Amerika aan hulle gegee. Die Hopi-nasie het hierdie streek Hopi Tutskwa, die oorspronklike tuiste van die swerwende “Voorvaderlike Puebloaanse” voorgangers, genoem. Die Hopi beskou objekte, woonterreine, strukture en ander heilige elemente as vergestaltings van die voorvaders se “voetspore”.Volgens die studie is uiteenlopende Hopi-kunsvorme nie net Voorvaderlike Puebloaanse “voetspore” nie, maar ook die “eksografiese” objekte of mnemoniese vorme van “simboliese bewaring” wat deur argeoloë omskryf word. Die aanwending van mnemoniese objekte in die Puebloaanse kultuur is reeds in 1630 opgeteken deur Fray Alonso de Benavides. Hy het vermeld dat knope in toue gemaak is om van “sondes” boek te hou (Morrow, 1996:42). Die verband wat Hopi-kunsvorme en -lewenswyses met mnemonise tegnologie hou, verbreed die grense van Westerse kunsgeskiedenisstudie om ook elemente van argeologie en antropologie in te sluit. In hierdie interdissiplinêre kontekste is objekte en beelde nie net eenvoudig “kuns” in die Westerse sin van die woord nie; dit is ook ’n vergestalting van kulturele oortuigings en visuele reiterasies van orale narratiewe wat intrinsieke kulturele kennis en oortuigings bewaar. Hierdie studie voer aan dat dit wat voorheen in Westerse akademiese kontekste as Hopi-“kuns” gekategoriseer is, in werklikheid ’n verlenging is van die Westerse ekphrasis-tradisie, wat eenvoudig beteken “om oor kuns te skryf”. Westerse akademici plaas dus ’n onvanpaste klem op die chronologiese vorm, styl en ontwikkeling van Hopi-kuns in plaas daarvan om die kognitiewe rol wat kuns in die kultuur speel, te beklemtoon. Hierdie studie toon hoe die ingebedde inhoud van Hopi-kunsvorme, as tradisionele metafore vir en reiterasies van die Vierdewêreld-narratief, op die mees gepaste wyse bestudeer kan word deur ikonologiese en mitolinguistieke ontleding van die Hopi-nasie se nie-Westerse tradisie wat op geletterdheid van die gesproke woord (oracy) gebaseer is.
Lolu cwaningo luhlolisisa ubuhlobo bobudlelwane obukhona phakathi kobuciko bamasiko endabuko amaHopi, ukusetshenziswa kobuciko nokulandisa njengamadivaysi aphathelene nokukhumbuza kanye nezinkomba ezifakwe emlandweni Wesine Womhlaba ochaza ukuthi abantu bamaHopi bakhuphuka kanjani ezweni elabe liyinkinga ukufinyeleleni kulesikhathi sanamuhla soMhlaba Wesine. (Indaba yokuqala elandisayo exoxwayo yashicilelwa umuntu oyisazi seanthropholoji esaziwa ngokuthi nguHarold Courlander kanye nabaxhumanisi abangaziwa ngonyaka ka1971 njengengoMhlaba Wesine wamaHopi: Indaba Yokubonga Amaqhawe abantu abangaMandiya angamaHopi njengoba Kugcinwe kuyiZinganekwane Namasiko abo). Lolu cwaningo lubonisa ukuthi ubuciko bamasiko bamaHopi kanye nabokhokho babo babedlulisa imilayezo ngezinto eziphindaphindiwe ezibukwayo nezidluliswa ngomlomo ekulandiseni ngoMhlaba Wesine, kufaka phakathi ukuvela kwawo ekuvuleni emhlabeni owaziwa ngokuthi yisipaapuni. Ngemuva kokuthembisa ukuthi uzophila impilo enzima kodwa ehloniphekile, umgcini wezwe uMasaaw wenza umhlaba omelele eningizimu nasentshonalanga neNyakatho neMelika ukuthi ube ngowabo. AmaHopi abiza lemihlaba ngokuthi yiHopi Tutskwa, okuyikhaya langempela olwafuduka “koKhokho wePuebloan” owayekhona esikhundleni ngaphambilini. AmaHopi abheka izinto, izindawo zokuhlala, izakhiwo kanye nezinye izici ezingcwele ukuba zibe yilezo zinto ezifakwe "ezinyathelweni" zokhokho. Lolu cwaningo luchaza ubuciko obuhlukahlukene bamaHopi obusho “izinyathelo” Zokhokho bePuebloan kanye nalokho okuchazwa ngabantu abaphenya ngezinto zasendulo okuthiwa ama-akhiyoloji njengezinto "eziyi ekzografi " noma izinto iziphathelene nokukhumbula okuthile "okuwuphawu olugciniwe". Ukusetshenziswa kwezinto eziphathelene nokukhujulwayo osikweni lwamaPuebloan laqoshwa phansi kusukela eminyakeni ye-1630 nguFray Alonso de Benavides oye waqaphela ukusetshenziswa “kwezintambo eziboshiwe” njengento yokuqopha noma ukurekhoda “izono” (Morrow, 1996:42) Njengoba zihlobene nobuchwepheshe bezinto ezikhunjulwayo, ubuciko bamaHopi nokuphila kwabo kwandisa imingcele yezifundo zomlando yaseNtshonalanga okufaka phakathi izinto zama-akhiyoloji nama anthropholoji. Ngaphakathi komongo wezizinda ezahlukene, izinto nemifanekiso akuzona nje izinto ezilula “eziwubuciko” ngokomqondo waseNtshonalanga, kodwa ukukhombisa izinkolelo zamasiko kanye imilayezo ngezinto eziphindaphindiwe ezibukwayo nezidluliswa ngomlomo ezigcina ulwazi lwangaphakathi olujwayelekile lwamasiko nenkolelo. Lolu cwaningo lubonisa ukuthi yini eyabekwa yahlelwa nje "ngobuciko" bamaHopi ngaphakathi kwezimo zezemfundo zaseNtshonalanga kunalokho kwandiswa isiko laseNtshonalanga okuwu buciko bokukhuluma, noma “ukubhala ngosiko”. Ngakho-ke, izazi ngezemfundo zaseNtshonalanga zagcizelela okungalungile ngendlela yokulandelana, isitayela nentuthuko ngaphakathi kobuciko bamaHopi esikhundleni sendima ebalulekile yokuqonda edlalwa ubuciko osikweni lwabantu. Njengamazwibela wendabuko wokungathekisa noma ekulandiseni ngoMhlaba Wesine ngokuphindaphindiwe, lolu cwaningo lubonisa ukuthi okuqukethwe kufakwe kanjani ebucikweni bamaHopi okuyindlela efanelekile okufundwa ngayo kusetshenziswa ukuhlaziya ayikhonoloji kanye nesayensi ephathelene nolimi lwezinganekwane njengoba babechaza abantu abangamaHopi olwakhelwe osikweni lokuxoxwa ngomlomo okungelona lwaseNtshonalanga.
Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
D. Litt. et Phil. (Art History)