Sunday, September 23, 2018

TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED: Staging the Spirits: Lên Đồng - Cult - Culture - Spectacle. Performative Contexts of a Vietnamese Ritual from Controlled Possession to Staged Performance




Laura  Cull Ó Maoilearca Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca
University of SurreyDance, Film and Theatre, Faculty Member
This is an interview with the UK based puppetry company Brunskill & Grimes. Brunskill and Grimes is a collaboration between Andy Brunskill and Jimmy Grimes working across theatre, parades, events, film, tv and veterinary research. The company make work with animal perspectives as the starting point for narrative. Brunskill & Grimes cemented their relationship working as Associate Director and Puppet Director of War Horse in the West End and since then we have created work for venues including The Young Vic, the Orange Tree and the egg at Theatre Royal Bath and created parades for...
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Kwenti E Tebit Kwenti E Tebit
University of BueaMedical Laboratory Sciences, Graduate Student
Background The management of patients with chronic hepatitis B infection is quite complex because it requires an in-depth knowledge of the natural history of the disease. This study was aimed at characterizing HBV infected patients in order to determine the phase of the infection and identify the proportion eligible for treatment using 3 different guidelines. Methods HBV chronically infected patients (negative for HIV and HCV) were enrolled and the following tests were done for them: ALT, AST, HBV viral load, HBV serologic panel and Full blood count. APRI score was calculated for all...
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Steve Coleman
National University of Ireland, MaynoothAnthropologyFaculty Member
Irish-language discourse features a pervasive system of practices involving the production and dissemination of directly reported speech. These homologous practices, here termed personation, include brief imitations of others in conversational speech, the use of direct voice in several poetic genres, the Irish-language song tradition, and a few influential novels. Personation is motivated by a semiotic ideology (personalism) which naturalizes speech and other expressive behavior as an immediate aspect of a person’s social being. It is argued that personation, as a semiotic practice,...
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Paul K Miller Paul K Miller
University of CumbriaFaculty of Health and Science, Faculty Member
Introduction: By 2013, the UK government’s Migration Advisory Committee had determined sonography to be a formal shortage specialty, and understaffing remains a key concern for research in the domain. This paper, emergent of a qualitative study funded by Health Education North West, explores unit managers’ perspectives on the present state of UK ultrasound. The focus herein falls upon the personal and interpersonal consequences of this circumstance for individuals working in specific understaffed departments. Methods: A thematic analysis informed by a Straussian model of Grounded Theory...
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Theodore  George Theodore George
Texas A&M UniversityDepartment of Philosophy, Faculty Member
The purpose of this article is to examine Hans-Georg Gadamer’s considerations of the hermeneutical significance of the body. This theme may come as a surprise, given that Gadamer has criticized himself for not having done enough to elucidate the hermeneutics of the body. In this essay, I argue, however, that Gadamer makes important contributions to the hermeneutics of the body in later essays concerned with health, medical science, and the art of healing. Specifically, I argue that Gadamer’s treatment of these themes recommends the body as an ineluctable aspect of what Heidegger referred to...
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Andrea  Lauser Andrea Lauser
Georg-August-Universität GöttingenInstitute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Faculty Member
Vietnamese mediumship known as lên đồng, a central ritual practice in the context of the so-called Religion of the Mother Goddesses (Ðạo Mẫu, also referred to as “the way of the four palaces”, Đạo Tứ Phử), can be described as a vital religious practice which has proved its resilience and adaptability throughout its history despite persistent criticism in the name of modernity and progress. In this paper I trace the dynamics of the transformation of this practice from a forbidden possession ritual at the centre of the Four Palace Cult (Đạo Tứ Phử) to its toleration and appreciation as...
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Olubunmi  Sodiya Olubunmi Sodiya
University of Malaya, MalaysiaFaculty of Education, Graduate Student
Aim: This study investigates the soccer dribbling performance time and dribbling technique of primary four pupils using mental imagery combined with the physical demonstration during soccer practice in physical education classes. Material and Methods: The study was conducted using a true experimental research design. Randomized pre-and post-test control group design for the intervention program, students were randomly assigned into three different groups of MIDG, MIG and CG using fishbowl method of selection for a pre-test, post-test data collection procedures on children’s soccer dribbling...
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