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Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore As World Building In Harry Potter, Samantha G. Castleman
Inexhaustible Magic: Folklore As World Building In Harry Potter, Samantha G. Castleman
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
The practice of secondary world building, the creation of a fantasy realm with its own unique laws and systems has long been a tradition within the genre of fantasy writing. In many notable cases, such as those publications by J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft, folklore exhibited in the world of the reader has been specifically used not only to construct these fantasy realms, but to add depth and believability to their presentation. The universe of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series demonstrates this same practice of folklore-as-world-building, yet her construction does much more than just create a fantasy realm. By using …
Nightmares In The Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking And Food, Sarah T. Shultz
Nightmares In The Kitchen: Personal Experience Narratives About Cooking And Food, Sarah T. Shultz
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis explores personal experience narratives about making mistakes in the preparation and serving of food. In order to understand when these narratives, referred to in the text as “kitchen nightmares,” are told, to whom, in what form, and why, one-onone and group ethnographic interviews were conducted. In total, 13 interviews were conducted with 25 individuals (men and women) ranging in age from 19 to 70. Six major themes of kitchen nightmare narratives are identified in Chapter One. Chapter Two explores one of these themes, resistance, in the context of the kitchen nightmare stories of heterosexual married women. Chapter Three …
The Healing Power Of Music And Chants Amongst The Ahl-E Haqq People, Azadeh Vatanpour
The Healing Power Of Music And Chants Amongst The Ahl-E Haqq People, Azadeh Vatanpour
Masters Theses & Specialist Projects
This thesis examines current practices of music and prayers in the context of Jam ritual among the Ahl-e Haqq, a vernacular religion group in Iranian Kurdistan. I examine the construction and sacralization of the sacred instrument of the Ahl-e Haqq, tanbūr. I also explore the sacred prayer, kalām, and the association of prayer and music. Through the ethnographic method, participant observations, and interviewing religious figures and master musicians during the fieldwork in Sahneh, Iran, I investigate the relation of the Ahl-e Haqq prayers and music, and their effect on healing during their sacred ritual performance. Drawing primarily on scholarship from …