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The Myth of Ulysses and Secondary Beauty

By: Antonio Mercurio

... these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek into English... ...ral titles of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of... ... Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles... ...le as of this time only in Italian: these titles have been translated into English and placed in brackets { }. A list of all the authors books with a... ...oks with a specification of which already are or soon will be available in English, is found at the end of the book. 4 Table of Contents ... ...nalysis, Sophia-Art and Cosmo- Art in your lives and your work as Cosmo-Art Anthropologists “We don’t live on bread alone but on bread and…. Beaut... ...ite creative opportunities for humanity. Whether we work as Existential Anthropologists or as Cosmo-Art Anthropologists, the first question we mu... ...ises: but what does all this have to do with the work we do as Existential Anthropologists or as Cosmo-artistic Anthropologists? People come with t...

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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...ver the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the be... ...hat laymen and the media know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vic... ... successful caesarean section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in ... ...ite in Latin is "candicans". Pure white, bright, shining - is "candidus". Hence the English words "candid" and "candidate". The word "candidus" is d... ...eating, smoking, and professed atheism. Until the age of 18 He spoke very little English. His main language was Gujarati. He wanted to be a m... ...e illnesses as they were never exposed to them. But recent findings by a team of anthropologists, economists and paleopathologists who have compl...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ... Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived ... ...erians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway is right i... ...ure. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own. Anthropologists say that our ancestors had been more prey than predator for... ...an‘s provocative book Aquatic Apes s 3 suggests such a scenario. Many anthropologists remain skeptical of Morgan‘s Aquatic Apes theory, but to me... ...tten history by millennia—a large freshwater lake lay halfway between the English Channel and today‘s boundary between Pakistan and India. A thr...

...m the North Scandinavian tongues mingle with those of their Viking cousins, but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. -- 13. He Unchained Books-The German goldsmith’s invention frees access to library books and breaks the chains of ignorance that held most of mankind in b...

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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

... Foundation, Ascona, Switzerland. N.K. Sandars, The Epic of Gilgamesh: An English Version, Penguin Classics, revised edition, Harmondsworth, 1964. © ... ... that legal authorities have regularly been forced to consult professional anthropologists to decide the status of particular areas. In Australia, rat... ...to decide the status of particular areas. In Australia, rather frequently, anthropologists consulted by the Federal government give a much wider meani... ...anslator, and whether it is the translator’s presuppositions that make the English text read “He” rather than “it.” In the same way, it is unclear how... ... averted, not by observance of religious laws but through what has come in English to be called the “atonement” by Christ. The word “atonement” in Eng... ...r by changing masks. The Latin word for mask was “persona,” from which our English word “person” derives. Let us imagine that, by analogy, the roles p... ...what they taught. Translation difficulties make this point unclear to most English-speaking Bible readers. In English we distinguish be- tween the wor... ...among Australian Aboriginal people. What we will discover is not, as early anthropologists and also early psychologists thought, a primitive level in ... ...our core themes in American Indian spirituality that this essay considers. Anthropologists may see in orenda the concept they are used to calling mana...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...but the French language may exert even greater impact on the evolution of English. The Treasure of Our Tongue nourishes the rise of democracies. ... ...lism‖ simply because they were capitalists themselves. 16. Shaping the English Language William Caxton’s print shop helps standardize The Treasu... ... Henry VIII’s first act as ―pope‖ orders and then funds the first printed English Bible. 17. Ottmar Mergenthaler Does It Again Inventors strived ... ...erians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and eventually worldwide public-ations. The doorway is right in ... ...ature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own. Anthropologists say that our ancestors had been more prey than predator for... ...rgan‘s provocative book Aquatic Apes s 3 suggests such a scenario. Many anthropologists remain skeptical of Morgan‘s Aquatic Apes theory, but to me... ...tten history by millennia—a large freshwater lake lay halfway between the English Channel and today‘s boundary between Pakistan and India. A thrivi...

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And Gulliver Returns Book VI : Our Psychological Motivations

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...o what degree are we limited or driven by our instincts, our heredity or by our environment? ―Are we basically violent beings -- as some anthro... ... driven to seek pleasure. Adler believed that we are driven for power over our environment -- for superiority. He is backed up by such modern anthro... ...from psychological power to physically aggressive and even violent power. One of Adler‘s early papers was on the instinct towards aggression. Anthro... ...ll is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus will not fight to the death over whether Hindi or Englis... ...neffective method of reducing inferiority feelings. ―Then there was the movement to teach black children Ebonics, the name for black street Englis... ...ng money in any way possible is acceptable. ―At the genetic or instinctual level, perhaps our genes predispose us to violence, as some anthro... ...y the society in which a person lives. It is based more on what is average behavior, the norm, rather than on what might be ideal behavior. An Englis... ... our citizens. We are going to help them on their way to psychological and economic fulfillment. It doesn‘t seem to me that you Americans and Englis... ...sound and light in 1687 as a Venetian shell hit it and exploded the ammunition that the Turks had stored there. I experienced the spectacle in Englis...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

...nce. The Universal symbols of Birth and Infinity are semantically correct in English, and in Mathematics, and in Gender. When you use logic organi... ... smaller, weaker members of their species should. But this is not the case. Anthropologists will tell you that most mammal species survive by the ... ...y, stinking mess… They still do not stint on their sacred nightly firewood. Anthropologists have documented all destruction of nearly all early hu... ...tors never accumulated anything enough to be found millions of years later by anthropologists today. If the only former hominids modern anthropologi... ...nerations…in the same place, in squalor, in caves… and if it is impossible for anthropologists to study the intelligent ones: because they were never... ...gration from the Portuguese to the Spanish to the Africans to the Dutch to the English is matched with a tectonic plate arriving in the exact same hi... ...ved in the exact same locations where the first Portuguese, Spanish Dutch and English colonies were founded. This is definitely not a coincidence… ... ...n Nations he conquered… including all of the civil codes of the revolutionary English Parliamentary system… have since been modified: to bring back a... ...t the property rights and privileges of a small elite class of wealthy, landed English Gentry living in America. The Constitution of the United Stat...

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Theory of the Person

By: Antonio Mercurio
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Laws of Destiny Never Disappear : Culture of Thailand in the Postlocal World

By: Matti Sarmela

...ings (Bangkok Post, The Nation) and even some artefacts. As is the wont of anthropologists, I have kept a diary of events in the country. As for field... .... For this volume, has in turn translated the interviews from Finnish into English. In selecting villagers' accounts, I have attempted to include diff... ...sk and purposeful way has dealt with the task of translating the book into English. This book is dedicated to my wife, Leena. Helsinki, 15 December 20... ...s ago, talk of delocal agriculture was a source of aggravation to cultural anthropologists, who believed that old cultures do not disappear, but repro... ...one voice, the children learn the alphabet, the multiplication tables, the English language; children's happy choral singing and speech echoes from sc... ...plain that young people can no longer speak their mother tongue without an English accent. Ever fewer consumers in Western countries as well as Thaila... ...x Matti Sarmela STRUCTURAL CHANGE IN LOCAL CULTURE Shortened English summary of Paikalliskulttuurin rakennemuutos. Raportti Pohjois-Thai... ...Ethnic Identification in a Complex Civilization: Who are the Lue. American Anthropologists 67, 1215–1230. — 1966 a. Ban Ping’s Temple: the Center of ...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...of objects as gifts, has long attracted the attention of sociologists and cultural anthropologists. For scholarly yet highly readable treatments, o... ...e downward and outward to consumers and others seeking advice. (In the history of English and German law, the advocate was a special kind of lawyer ... ...gns, value of education to dropouts and metric measurements to those accustomed to English measures. However, one wonders. Are not all marketers, ...

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And Gulliver Returns Book IV : A Look at Our Human Values

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...the mountain. He survived. On another Everest expedition, David Sharp, an Englishman, on his way down did not have oxygen. Many climbers passed him.... ...til he died. Under French law one is required to help. Under American and English common law there is no requirement. It was legal for Englishmen to... ... liberals.‖ 56 ---―Hey Ray, is it true that God is really an Englishman of the early 17 th Century? Did God speak to Moses as an Engli... ...imes as the Bible has been translated from language to language, that the English language of a few hundred years ago seems to have stuck. Even tran... ...ave stuck. Even translations of the Koran often use that older version of English.‖ --―Let‘s get back on track men. Democratic politicians ... ... tools develop we have been able to fill huge gaps in the findings of the anthropologists. ―Of course physics and chemistry are much more ver... ... need to look only at skulls and skeletons with the physical anthropologists, we can trace the genetic trail from the earliest times by ...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...d (really derived from axioms) in 1990. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped with a book of instructions in E... ...emonstrate is that there is no need to assume that the central processing unit (the English speaker) understands (or, for that matter, performs any ... ...ese debates a few points seemed to have escaped most of those involved. First, the English speaker inside the room himself is a conscious entity, r... ...s disputation). Whereas Searle would be hard pressed to prove (to himself) that the English speaker in the room is possessed of mental states – this... ...m holds: "Cogito, ergo sum". But this argument – though valid – is not strong. The English speaker (and Searle, for that matter) can easily be repl... ...vative of its potential to interact, rather than of any actual interaction. Paleo-anthropologists attempt to determine the identity of our forefat... ...) become conscious and the old ones recede into unconsciousness. Sense and Sensa "Anthropologists report enormous differences in the ways that dif...

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Cyclopedia of Philosophy

By: Sam Vaknin

...d (really derived from axioms) in 1990. The experiment envisages a room in which an English speaker sits, equipped with a book of instructions in E... ...emonstrate is that there is no need to assume that the central processing unit (the English speaker) understands (or, for that matter, performs any ... ...ese debates a few points seemed to have escaped most of those involved. First, the English speaker inside the room himself is a conscious entity, r... ...s disputation). Whereas Searle would be hard pressed to prove (to himself) that the English speaker in the room is possessed of mental states – this... ...m holds: "Cogito, ergo sum". But this argument – though valid – is not strong. The English speaker (and Searle, for that matter) can easily be repl... ...vative of its potential to interact, rather than of any actual interaction. Paleo-anthropologists attempt to determine the identity of our forefat... ...) become conscious and the old ones recede into unconsciousness. Sense and Sensa "Anthropologists report enormous differences in the ways that dif...

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...it will be a coalesced language, a synthesis of many. Such a lan- guage as English is a coalesced language; it is a coalescence of Anglo-Saxon and Nor... ...nd hold in the frame of such an uninflected or slightly inflected idiom as English already pre- sents, a profuse vocabulary into which have been cast ... ...y when every government had in it the near possibility of tyranny, and the Englishman or American looked at the papers of a Russian or a German as one... ...r- tips and shake my index-finger in my friend’s face. “By Jove!” I say in English. “They’ve got our doubles!” The botanist snaps his fingers. “Of cou... ... energetic Kinetic is probably the nearest thing to that ideal our earthly anthropologists have in mind when they speak of the “Nor- mal” human being....

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Mankind in the Making

By: H. G. Wells

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ratus of honour—is, I sub- mit, addressed to, and could be adopted by, any English- reading and English-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inqui... ...al manner. But neither of these I believe is the most abundant type in the English- speaking communities. My impression is that with most of the minds... ...aven images, and almost all the great variety of creeds professed among us English-speaking peoples prescribe certain gen- eral definitions of what is... ...e. However, it is not to Schopenhauer and his writings, at least among the English-speaking peoples, that this increas- ing realization of life as ess... ...f exemplary muscularity, popular preachers, popular bishops, and popu- lar anthropologists vied with titled ladies of liberal outlook in the service o...

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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nning and its growth to the desire to conciliate or to show good- will, as anthropologists and sociologists are in the habit of assuming, and this ini... ...n a general way that a horse is more beautiful in proportion as he is more English; the English leisure class being, for pur- poses of reputable usage... ...that the correct or reputably beautiful seat or posture is also decided by English usage, as well as the equestrian gait. T o show how fortuitous may ... ...nd what not under the pecuniary canon of beauty, it may be noted that this English seat, and the peculiarly distressing gait which has made an awkward... ... has made an awkward seat necessary, are a survival from the time when the English roads were so bad with mire and mud as to be virtually impassable f...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...passes with- out its harvest, large or small, of lectures from Scot- tish, English, French, or German representatives of the science or literature of ... ...erament, as well as the peculiar political temperament, that goes with our English speech may more and more pervade and influence the world. As regard... ... right angles. Similarly M. Taine, in the introduc- tion to his history of English literature, has written: “Whether facts be moral or physical, it ma... ...secondary or even tertiary order. But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists—for instance, Jevons and Frazer —expressly oppose “religion... ...n the whole of life. Je me’n fiche is the vulgar French equivalent for our English ejaculation “Who cares?” And the happy term je me’n fichisme re- c... ...ts more enlightened ex- amples has outgrown; and this notion our religious anthropologists at present do little to counteract. This view is so widespr...

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