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Rituals associated with Marijuana Smoking
PAVLIŇÁKOVÁ, Lenka
As the popularity of cannabis in the Czech Republic is increasing, the need to gather more information about its users is also growing. So I decided to write a bachelor thesis about the phenomenon of marijuana use. The theoretical part is focused on the cannabis plant. The taxonomy and description of the plant is presented here as well as the active substances it contains. I also pointed out various ways of use of cannabis and symptoms of intoxication. Then the thesis focuses on the concept of ritual, specifically its definition, qualifications and functions. Everything is linked with cannabis use in history. The last two chapters deal with the ritual use of cannabis during time. While in history marijuana was only a matter of some classes of people (jazz musicians, hippies), today a large number of people regardless their social status or age smoke marijuana. The qualitative survey was used as a research method, which was conducted through narrative interviews accompanied by observation. Interviews were conducted with regular cannabis users and their aim was to identify the rituals associated with its use. The results were processed using techniques for creating clusters which constituted a total of five areas that meet the aspects of ritual behavior. These areas relate to first experiment with marijuana, marijuana preparations for use, number of people present during intoxication and the common places and time of use. All results of this thesis should serve the general public to understand better the issue of cannabis use.
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Rituals of Days
KULÍKOVÁ, Markéta
This practical thesis consists of a cycle of five paintings. These paintings are large-format, painted with acrylic paint. As for form and content, these paintings represent a figurative expression of the importance of personal, everyday rituals in the relationship of two people. The accompanying theoretical part focuses on the foundations of the practical part. It explains topics such as ritual, ritualised behaviour and intimacy; it also includes a chapter on everydayness in art, namely painting.
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Dance as a part of a ritual language
Stavělová, Daniela
The term ritual language is used in relation to the meaning of the dance in a carnival event, where it has a certain potential and power, and is a coherent and dynamic factor of the event. The focus of the study is to stress that the dance text is not only a choreographic structure, but a total function which links social interactions with structures of dance according to the type of communication used.
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Culture and Ritual
KOLESOVÁ, Lucie
The work deals with whole description of ritual theory. The first chapter focuses on ritual from point of view its function, rise and meaning in culture. The part two deals with ritual as performance, first of all relation ritual and theatre. The third chapter states some of typology of ritual and important representatives who occupies with ritual and some of theirs main opinions and ideas. The next chapter completes anthropological approaches to ritual with others important anthropologists, who represent this approaches. The fifth chapter devotes other types of ritual, as burial rituals, healing rituals, annual rituals, which are complete with description visual examples.
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Funeral Ceremony Songs of the South Bohemian Blata in the Second Half of the 20th Century
Tyllner, Lubomír
The agricultural area of South Bohemia belongs to the regions where the steady advancement of industrialization created conditions for survival of continuous phenomenons of traditional culture, survival incomparably longer then in other regions. Up to the 1970s, in the region of Blata in South Bohemia had been kept a traditional funeral rite that in a great part contained of songs above the open coffin of the deceased.
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Art and ritual: The Return of art to the ritual
SLUKOVÁ, Tereza
In this thesis, a student (Tereza Slukova) will examine the relationship between art and ritual, and the transformation both of these concepts have undergone. She will also examine their mutual coexistence and interaction throughout the history of Western culture. The student will base her analysis on the possible definition of both of these concepts and she will try to uncover the moments when their mutual interaction can be considered. In a subsequent part of her thesis, she will identify modern efforts to return art to is ritual function and the impact of these efforts on the transformation of traditional ways of creating, presenting and perceiving art.
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The Phenomenon of the Present Tatoo and Piercing in Light of Rritual Behaviour
JERSÁKOVÁ, Klára
Tattoos and piercings are modern trends in the present time. Society still has prejudice against people who have tatoos because being tattooed was description only applied to offenders in the past. I´ll try to change that point of view about tattooes and people with piercing in my thesis. I´ll concentrate on explaining the concepts of tattos and piercing within a historical context and then I{\crq}ll gradually progress towards understanding these phenomena into their present day forms. Consequently, I´ll explain the concepts of ritual partly from an anthopoloigcal and also partly from a psychological point of view, as well as the currrent meaning for society and how this affects the individual. The most important point of this thesis is to explain if it is possible to comprehend tattooing and piercing as curative behaviour within the present postmodern society. The target of thesis is analyse the motivational factors for tattooing and piercing by identifying and analysing the ritual aspect of today{\crq}s phenomenon of tattooing and piercing, with a point of view towards the absence of ritual within the present postmodern society. I have used the qualitative investigative method with the help of a structured interview with a specific target group and I{\crq}ve also used observation, as a research method. Furthermore, I have used a second type of updated analysis (found in literature). The main target is the composite of a person who is tattooed and pierced; as opposed to the minimum prerequisite for this procedure which are having at least two tattoos or two piercings per individual. The additional file contains information of those tattooed people or by the people who do the piercing. The research questions regard the qualitative character of the development and have been determined based upon the results that are evident for some people that a tattoo symbolizes the kind of personal expression. On the contrary, piercing is largely done just as a fashion statement. Tattooing and piercing are on the rise independently from the escape of an individual life period and it means that they doesn´t pose medical problems. The large significance presents the choice of motives, which are the main factors of the respondents for the further motivation for an additional tattoo or piercing.
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Burial Rituals
BOHOŇKOVÁ, Denisa
This work mainly deals with burial rituals and a way of handling with dead bodies from past times to the presence. The first chapter tries to define basic terms speci-fied by various authors. The second chapter deals with a description of burial ritu-als during present and past times. This chapter mainly focuses on the Czech tradi-tion and is completed by G. Maiell{\crq}s research on contemporary exploitation of crematoriums. The third part of the work deals with the burial rituals of pre-Christian cultures in Europe, especially Celtic, Germanic and Slavonic traditions. The fourth chapter focuses especially on the rituals of noneuropean cultures, e.g. Chinese or Islamic. The last part of this paper includes special ways of burying of dead bodies, e.g. children{\crq}s burials, burials of young people or dealing with dead bodies by unusual situations, e.g. during epidemic periods.
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Symbols and Rituals in Scout Troop
OŠLEJŠEK, Kamil
This work is deal with symbols and ritulas in a scout troop and their´s importace in education of childs, teen-agers and adults in spare time. Introduction of theoretic part is about scout movement, beginning scouting, history, basic commision and ideas of movement. Also describes scout troop and his activity. Theoretic part contains charakteristic of symbols and rituals in human life, definitions of symbol and rituals and deal with importace of symbols and rituals for human life. Practical part contains characteristic of symbols and rituals in international scouting and in czech organization Junák {--} svaz skautů a skautek ČR. Conclusion of practical part describes concrete symbols and rituals in scout troop. Ideas of scouting, symbols and rituals are extented around all the world and they are important element of education in spare time.
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A Man during a Loss of a Close Person, Pedagogic Approach and Prevention
HLINÁKOVÁ, Ludmila
The work deals with the issue of a loss of a close person. The theoretical part describes several attitudes towards death, different views of death, the loss of a close person and the process of coping. The work also mentions several ways of how to help and pedagogic approach towards children that encountered death. The practical part consists of a quality survey in the form of controlled conversations. The conversations were conducted with people that experienced death of a close person in their childhood. This section also contains a suggestion for an appropriate approach to help these children to overcome the loss. Aducational approach trying to make the issue of death more accesible for children not yet affected with the loss is included. The suggested solutions are for children of the early, middle school age and for adolescents are dealt with separately.
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