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Ophelia: A Prism (2023)
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“I go to a crazy competitive HS and I hate it”: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of High School Competitive Suffering Using Reddit
No full text“Competitive suffering” describes a situation in which one student shares their suffering with a peer and instead of being met with compassion, advice, or just listening, that peer decides to one-up their peer’s suffering by claiming that they suffer more. Though talked about extensively on social media, in blogs, and conversationally, competitive suffering has not been defined or studied scientifically. The goal of this thesis was to conduct exploratory research on competitive suffering using a qualitative approach. To get a broad spectrum of participants, I collected data through the Reddit forum “r/highschool” and used reflexive thematic analysis to analyze the text of 32 posts. Through this, suffering in a high school context was operationalized and four themes were identified and discussed: Quantifiable Reason for Suffering, Helplessness, Attribution, and Motivation for Posting. From there, a theoretical model for competitive suffering was created. Implications include working towards providing school counselors and teachers a greater understanding of competition culture, a deeper understanding of the suffering of high school students, communication to students that mistakes are recoverable, high school students opting for compassion, not competition, between each other, and conducting further research on competitive suffering
Changelings– Turn and Face the Strange: Folklore, Identity, and Imperialism in 19th Century Ireland
No full textThis project examines the legal evolution of changeling murders in 19th century Ireland, murders committed under the suspicion that the victim was a fairy imposter, and their intersection with political and social history. In Irish folklore, changelings were fairies who would assume the place of an individual, usually a child. They were not, however, perfect substitutes, and would display behavioral or physical differences, revealing their true nature. The most effective way of banishing a changeling and returning the original person was though violence. Utilizing court records, newspapers, and archival materials I explore the ways in which folklore was utilized by both the Irish and the English as a means of both oppression and identity, and the way that folklore can be used to contextualize the transitions in Ireland’s legal and social systems
Buddha in a Box: Exploring Museum and Ritual Meanings of Animate Himalayan Sculpture
No full textExhibition of Himalayan deity statues (Tib. sku tshab) in Western museums often fails to acknowledge their sacred nature and associated practices. From a Buddhist perspective, these objects are physical manifestations of deities and have crucial ritual functions. In reconciling objects interpreted in museological terms with their original context(s), this paper uses the case of the Allen Memorial Art Museum in Oberlin, OH. Physical examination and archival research with their objects, alongside ritual manuals, anthropological theory, and museum history, will aid in establishing museums as sites of meaning-making, provide an overview of Tibetan Buddhist consecration, and contextualize Asian objects in Western spaces. Arguing that museums often lack consideration of Tibetan Buddhist thought and practice regarding animate statues, this paper suggests frameworks for an anthropological understanding of Buddhist animacy and explores how these institutions could utilize the concept of “third spaces” to appropriately represent and discuss the different worlds sacred objects occupy
The Field Belonging to Boaz: Creating Kinship through Land, Labor, Food, and Feeding
No full textRuth’s decision to glean in a field where she might find favor (Ruth 2:2) sets in motion a transformation of Ruth from Moabite outsider to Judean insider. When Ruth happens upon the “field belonging to Boaz,” a servant identifies her as a nameless foreigner: “a Moabite woman . . . from the fields of Moab” (2:6). By the end of the book, the village elders compare her to “Rachel and Leah who together built up the house of Israel” (4:11). Crucial to Ruth’s incremental transformation are three directives that Boaz gives Ruth when he meets her in his field and greets her as “my daughter” (2:8): stay in my field; drink water from my vessels; and sit with my reapers and eat bread. Anthropological and archaeological studies of agriculture, foodways, and the materiality of food-related objects shed light on the kinship dimensions of each of these three directives. The back-and-forth interactions between Ruth, Boaz, the land, and its produce over two months of harvesting gradually lace Ruth into the “clan of Elimelech,” the father of her dead husband, and place her under the protective “cloak” of the Israelite god
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No full textOphelia: A PrismFebruary 2-5, 2023 Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Mieko Gavia \u2711Directed by H. Harvey \u2711
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No full textOphelia: A PrismFebruary 2-5, 2023 Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Mieko Gavia \u2711Directed by H. Harvey \u2711
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_ophelia/1008/thumbnail.jp
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No full textOphelia: A PrismFebruary 2-5, 2023 Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Mieko Gavia \u2711Directed by H. Harvey \u2711
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_ophelia/1010/thumbnail.jp
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No full textOphelia: A PrismFebruary 2-5, 2023 Irene and Alan Wurtzel Theater, Oberlin College
By Mieko Gavia \u2711Directed by H. Harvey \u2711
More information about this productionhttps://digitalcommons.oberlin.edu/images_ophelia/1027/thumbnail.jp
