The University of Queensland
November 20, 2015
Alexander Gearin
6 citations
In this thesis, I examine how dividual and individual modes of personhood enable neoshamanic ayahuasca drinkers in Australia to reconfigure cultural ideals and everyday ethical practices. My ethnographic fieldwork allowed me to trace social conventions of drinking ayahuasca, participants’ techniques of the ecstatic body and senses, and narrative styles of codifying ecstatic trance, to determine...
The University of Queensland
August 1, 2010
Samuel Burch
This thesis is comprised of two distinct but related components; a novel-length work of magical/shamanic realist fiction entitled The Naked Vine, and a critical exegesis entitled Return to the Theophanic Theatre: Shamanism, Magical Realism and the Ontology of the Imaginal Realm. Set in a contemporary Australian environment, the major component of my dissertation, The Naked Vine, explores issues...
The University of Queensland
June 19, 2007
Paul C. Martin
3 citations
One of the defining characteristics of mystical experience posited by the psychologist and pragmatist philosopher William James in 1902 is that of ineffability, or indescribability. In this thesis my aim is to inquire into this notion of ineffability, indeed to problematize its understanding, by relating it to concepts of art and aesthetics. It is a preliminary attempt to apply the terminology...
The University of Queensland
September 1, 2006
D. P. Cummins
1 citation
The Copan Formative Project undertaken by the University of Queensland has yielded a number of key deposits dating to the earliest occupation of the Copan valley. The fruit of these excavations is a long, almost unbroken ceramic (and presumably occupation) sequence for the Copan valley. A number of significant finds have also resulted from these excavations, including domestic deposits from...
The University of Queensland
2002
Janine Rivière
In seventeenth-century England debate about dreams centred around the issue of the orthodoxy and significance of dreams as supernatural experiences. This was a response to widespread popular belief that dreams were personal, spiritual and collective experiences of enormous significance. Were dreams supernatural messages from God, Angels, sent to enlighten and comfort the qgodly', or...