This text invites you to rethink the concept of “syncretism” understood as a religious merger where hybridization is praise fruitful alliances, spread under term miscegenation. paradigm has overshadowed deeply particular logic and aesthetics like Andean. Consequently, this investigation starts from study festive items: costumes masks that are analyzed coexistence Andean colonial practices, well...

Social representation of leprosy in active patients under medical control is made up elements that come from the medical discourse and also from the discourse that about this disease circulates in society. This syncretism is expressed in each context a specific way on the components of the representation notion, beliefs, attitudes and behaviors - making of it a complex reality. On account of be...

This research offers a contribution, through art theory and practice, to an emerging culturally orientated discourse regarding mixed reality interaction. It seeks to deconstruct and analyse syncretic, hybridized agency, particularly in mixed reality data transfer systems. Recent developments in bridging autonomous relationships with digital representation, through mixed reality interfacing, hav...

The Western world has seen a significant shift in the epistemic values of spiritual seekers in the past quarter of a century; many have referred to the new epistemic approach as postmodern spirituality. Among the attributes unique to this growing cultural force are the prominence of mystery, enchantment, and the prehension of a numinous other (which need not be a theistic other) as key means of...

Abstract Recent expansion of alternative frameworks for archaeological interpretation, particularly non-Western ones, provides an opportunity to revisit and challenge orthodox narratives in the discipline. The Melanesian concept kastom a framework understand contradictions arising from selective nature colonial-era culture change. One facet these transitions is widespread adoption integration C...

This text discusses reuse and modifications of older graves in southern Sweden during the Late Iron Age early medieval period (c. 9th to 12th centu- ries AD). Post-burial practices have general been interpreted as means nego- tiate status, identity rights land, while later part they are comprehended expressions religious insecurity syncretism. In this text, continuity post-burial whole is stres...