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Parasites and Sanitation in Eighteenth-Century Newport, Rhode Island: The Pratt, Brown, and Tate Families
Authors: Gallagher Diana S.
Published: May 2010

Archaeologists see privies as goldmines of information, as assemblages of materials that can tell us much about people's daily lives. The artifacts excavated from privies were not saved deliberately and, in fact, no one who put anything in one ever thought it would come back out. Broken dishes, a button, or a pin: no one would ever try to retrieve those things. Even less would a person be thinking about the human intestinal parasites that can tell us about diet, sanitation, yard use and gardening, domestic animals, and, of course, health. Can we look at parasite levels, specific species, and life cycles and say something about the daily lives and relative status of three households in the thriving commercial town of Newport? We can, although this is an area of study that is still developing. In this essay, three eighteenth-century privies from Newport, Rhode Island, will be discussed in terms of the questions they can help us answer about the levels of health and sanitation for each of these households and how those relate to their residents' experiences and status within the larger community. The parasites from these privies, along with seeds, bones, and artifacts, will be used to help illuminate an eighteenth-century landscape of daily life, sanitation, health, and illness.
Glimpses of the Other before Orientalism: The Muslim World in Early American Periodicals, 1785–1800
Authors: Battistini Robert
Published: May 2010

Americans did not have the luxury of merely contemplating the Muslim world between 1785 and 1800. Over a hundred American sailors were captive in Algiers in this period. The escalation and temporary resolution of this dispute informed the imagery of Muslims in hundreds of articles published in American magazines. These Muslim people and places ranged across centuries of time, thousands of miles, and multiple ethnicities, and the images did not conform to one or even a few models. American magazine readers learned that Muslims were as diverse and complex as they themselves. This study considers much of the magazine archive from this period and finds clear patterns that parallel the historical experience of America with Algiers. Though the non-Barbary regions (Persia, Arabia, and Turkey) remained objects of fascination and even delight, the Barbary Coast (generally, the northern African coast) emerged as a pragmatic political concern by the mid-1790s. These magazines are a significant source about a crucial moment in American nation-formation. Muslims were an ethnic, religious, and cultural Other by which Americans began to imagine themselves. Though nineteenth-century Americans learned to think of Muslims through the familiar Orientalist categories, this periodical archive reveals an anxious, uncertain dance before the eventual swagger.
Calvin and Locke: Dueling Epistemologies in The New-England Primer , 1720–1790
Authors: Schnorbus Stephanie
Published: May 2010

Most historians agree there was a shift away from Calvinism and toward Enlightenment thought during the eighteenth century. When discussing that shift in relation to children's literature or education, some historians use The New-England Primer as an example of unchanging Calvinism. Other historians argue that changes, especially the addition of certain illustrated lessons, secularized the primer. This essay argues that the changes to illustrations and their accompanying text in The New-England Primer can best be understood through a grasp of John Calvin's and John Locke's theories of knowledge. An examination of text, images, and epistemology in The New-England Primer reveals that the shift from Calvin to Locke was neither complete nor terribly secularizing. The changes that did occur, beginning with significant ones in the 1750s, are an excellent example of how Christianity and the Enlightenment interacted, and they call into question whether secularization is the best characterization of that interaction.
"Astrology's from Heaven not from Hell": The Religious Significance of Early American Almanacs
Authors: Tomlin T. J.
Published: May 2010

Although the astrological content of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century almanacs has most often been characterized as offering an "occult" spirituality, this essay argues that almanac astrology could not have been practiced and would not have been popular without its connection to mainstream Protestantism. Almanac-makers, like natural philosophers, viewed the cosmos as a legible text through which God communicated. Astrology, a clearly organized system for explaining occurrences in the natural world, was a means toward that end. As used by almanac-makers, it did nothing to challenge and everything to promote British America's prevailing religious sensibility. For some almanac-makers, this was a sincere and intentional effort to instruct readers in spiritual truth; for others, it was merely a successful attempt to meet readers' expectations. Influenced by European practice, the American market for books, and an interplay between producers and consumers, the astrology at the center of early America's most widespread form of print was, as one almanac-maker put it, "a handmaid fit for bless'd theology."
Negotiating Jewish Canadian Identity: Montreal Yiddish Literary Journals in the Interwar Period
Authors: Margolis Rebecca
Published: May 2010

In the first decades of the twentieth century, Yiddish journals emerged worldwide in tandem with the periodical press as a vanguard of modern Jewish culture. Canada's Yiddish publishing capital of Montreal produced a dozen interwar journals dedicated to Yiddish literature. The journals published innovative works by writers across Canada while forging links with both international Yiddish culture and world literature. With a shared a roster of Canadian writers, the journals gave voice to ideological rifts in the Yiddish world: journals of the 1920s such as Nyuansn promoted an "art for art's sake" approach; the proletarian journals that dominated the Depression era such as Montreol and Heftn linked literature with the struggle of the working class. Together, the journals provided a forum for emerging writers in a minor Yiddish center, closely connected to the major centers in Europe and the United States, to negotiate their evolving identities as Canadian Jews.
The Antisemitic Origin of Michelangelo's Horned Moses
Authors: Bertman Stephen
Published: May 2010

Rather than reflecting, as many have claimed, a benign "mis-translation" of Exodus 34 by St. Jerome, the horns on Michelangelo's famous statue of Moses are emblematic of a millennium-long tradition of antisemitism that stretched from antiquity to the days of the Italian Renaissance. Both through literary invective and iconography, Jews were portrayed as horned devils ministering to Satan. The recent cleaning of the paintings of the Sistine Chapel has revealed how Michelangelo adorned a portrait of Aaron's father-in-law with a circular yellow badge of shame, an antisemitic symbol common in Renaissance Italy that became the precursor of the yellow Magen David imposed on Jews by the Nazis five centuries later. By endowing Moses with horns, Michelangelo not only mocked the giver of the Ten Commandments but also satirized his nemesis Pope Julius II, whom the facial features of the portrait resemble.
Meir b. Elijah of Norwich and the Margins of Memory
Authors: Krummel Miriamne Ara
Published: May 2010

"Meir b. Elijah of Norwich and the Margins of Memory" is a study of Meir of Norwich's use of acrostics to record his English Jewish identity. In the face of the 1290 Expulsion, which follows upon many episodes of anti-Jewish violence and antipathy, Meir attempts to have his name recorded in perpetuity. This essay details some of those moments of violence in order to give voice to Meir's world and to clarify Meir's desire to be remembered.
Deconstruction Anticipated: Koigen and Buber on a Self-corrective Religion
Authors: Urban Martina
Published: May 2010

The following paper reconsiders Jacques Derrida's vision of a "religion without religion," the pristine, originary moment of the religious. What exercises Derrida are the dogmatic and exclusionary implications of the concept of revealed religion. I refer to David Koigen (1877–1933) and Martin Buber (1878–1965) as two philosophers who presented alternative ways to broach this problem. Rather than restructuring historical religion into a universal faith unfettered by the paradigms of Abrahamic religion, as Derrida does, they map a self-corrective religion. They thus allow for a new reading of key Derridean notions such as "performativity," "acts of faith," "possibility," "decision," and "ambiguity." Koigen introduced the term "meta-religion" into the debate on religion. I propose to extrapolate from his and Buber's writings on religion a concept of meta-religion that delineates a self-critical reflection on the foundations of theistic faith. What remained implicit in Koigen's writings gains a much more pronounced articulation in Buber's biblical hermeneutics as amplified by his philosophy of dialogue. Buber identifies basic faith postures in the biblical text that can furnish the discursive framework for a meta-religious reflection on the institutional and normative configurations of Judaism.
Poland and Post-Memory in Second-Generation German Jewish Fiction
Authors: Fachinger Petra
Published: May 2010

This article discusses three contemporary German Jewish novels by second-generation writers that describe the search of their middle-aged protagonists, also children of Holocaust survivors of Polish descent, for their parents' traumatic past. This search takes the protagonists of Jeannette Lander's Die Töchter [The Daughters], Lothar Schöne's Das Jüdische Begräbnis [The Jewish Burial], and Minka Pradelski's Und da kam Frau Kugelmann [Here Comes Mrs. Kugelmann] on a journey to Poland. These fictive journeys into the past are, like the organized group tours to the death camps, structured around destruction and redemption. Poland and Israel, as diametrically opposed spaces, represent the past and the future of Jewish life respectively. Although only in Und da kam Frau Kugelmann is this redemption associated with Israel, in all three texts the journey to Poland is portrayed as a prerequisite for healing transgenerational trauma and for facilitating new self-understanding. The article demonstrates that this belief in the redemptive power of the journey to Poland is grounded in the authors' generational affiliation as well as in their intimate connection to Poland.
Affective Historiography: Schindler's List, Melodrama and Historical Representation
Authors: Maron Jeremy
Published: May 2010

With Hayden White's notion of the "content of the form" of narrative as a starting point, this article argues that the melodramatic form of Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993) constitutes a distinct mode of historical representation that must be critically accounted for alongside the manifest content of the film. This argument is made by linking Linda Williams' discussion of melodrama as an operative mode concerned more with the emotional retrieval of innocence than with rational psychological causality to Peter Brooks's invocation of Freudian case studies to understand how narratives can work towards the revelation of an original "truth" whose ontological status is unclear. Through this integration of Williams and Brooks, the melodramatic quality at play in Schindler's List , which is often read as a liability against the film's representation of history as it affords access to registers of emotional excess that cannot be explained through narrative logic, can be understood as an essential feature of the film's historiography. Moreover, given this tendency towards emotional excess rather than rational causality, this article suggests that the melodramatic historical form can productively address (although not necessarily resolve) the epistemological challenges posed by the Holocaust to representational rendering.
“Truer ’n Hell”: Lies, Capitalism, and Cultural Imperialism in Owen Wister’s The Virginian , B. M. Bower’s The Happy Family , and Mourning Dove’s Cogewea
Authors: Humphreys Sara
Published: May 2010

This essay investigates the social and national implications of lying in the popular Western formula through a close reading of three works that cross gender and cultural lines: Owen Wister’s The Virginian (1902), Bertha Muzzy (B.M.) Bower’s The Happy Family (1907), and Mourning Dove’s Cogewea (1927). In the popular Western formula, lying is a narrative convention with a didactic purpose. The liar is usually a cowboy, whose acts of linguistic deception perform specific cultural work, organizing characters into economic and racial strata. The cowboy liar can legitimately lie only to certain groups or social members within specific contexts, thus defining those who either possess or lack the cultural capital to demand honesty. In contrast, Mourning Dove reconfigures the convention of lying in the popular western to support an Indigenous worldview, in which each individual in the collective community of the ranch has value beyond capitalist, neo-colonial definitions of worth. As such, Mourning Dove’s Western opposes the discourse of capitalism—with its requisite social disparities—that underpins both Bower’s and Wister’s Westerns.
Locating the Modern Mexican in Josefina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother
Authors: Lutenski Emily
Published: May 2010

“Locating the Modern Mexican in Josephina Niggli’s Step Down, Elder Brother ” turns away from Niggli’s more popularly studied Mexican Village to her second novel, published in 1947. The shift to Step Down, Elder Brother , which focuses on the industrial city of Monterrey instead of the Mexican village, opens up a set of questions about what it means to be Mexican in the modern, post-Revolutionary moment. Niggli’s interest in the Mexican frontier’s major city provides a surprising definition that runs counter to the one provided by her first novel. Instead of focusing on discourses of mestizaje and indigenismo as the defining qualities of Mexican identity, she suggests “Mexican” is a spatial category instead of a racial one. Further, this essay contends that this definition reconfigures Niggli’s relationship to a Chicana literary tradition, where she has been positioned as a precursor to “the new mestiza ,” thus interrogating the use of the autobiographical in literature and intersecting issues of racial and gendered authenticity.
Stepping onto the Yakama Reservation: Land and Water Rights in Raymond Carver’s “Sixty Acres”
Authors: Wriglesworth Chad
Published: May 2010

Raymond Carver grew up in Yakima, Washington, yet his work is rarely interpreted as an engagement with the social, ecological, and economic histories of the Pacific Northwest. In an attempt to reconnect Carver’s work to place, this essay looks at “Sixty Acres,” an early and nearly forgotten story set on the Yakama Indian Reservation at mid-twentieth century. While reading the story alongside histories of federal land and water policies in the Columbia River Basin, the essay traces how the Yakama War, the inequitable irrigation of the Yakima Valley, and the construction of The Dalles Dam and inundation of Celilo Falls have marginalized the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. However, the essay also considers how Carver—like many white writers from the Pacific Northwest during the 1960s—was attempting to identify with Native Americans by creating an image of a Columbia River Indian that corresponds more with his own feelings of social and economic marginalization, than the actual experiences of indigenous peoples.
Processing of Pro–B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: Furin and Corin as Candidate Convertases2
Authors: Semenov Alexander G , Tamm Natalia N , Seferian Karina R , Postnikov Alexander B , Karpova Natalia S , Serebryanaya Daria V , Koshkina Ekaterina V , Krasnoselsky Mihail I , Katrukha Alexey G
Published: May 2010

Background: B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and its N-terminal fragment (NT-proBNP) are the products of the enzyme-mediated cleavage of their precursor molecule, proBNP. The clinical significance of proBNP-derived peptides as biomarkers of heart failure has been explored thoroughly, whereas little is known about the mechanisms of proBNP processing. We investigated the role of 2 candidate convertases, furin and corin, in human proBNP processing.

Methods: We measured proBNP expression in HEK 293 and furin-deficient LoVo cells. We used a furin inhibitor and a furin-specific small interfering RNA (siRNA) to explore the implication of furin in proBNP processing. Recombinant proBNPs were incubated with HEK 293 cells transfected with the corin-expressing plasmid. We applied mass spectrometry to analyze the products of furin- and corin-mediated cleavage.

Results: Reduction of furin activity significantly impaired proBNP processing in HEK 293 cells. Furin-deficient LoVo cells were unable to process proBNP, whereas coexpression with furin resulted in effective proBNP processing. Mass spectrometric analysis revealed that the furin-mediated cleavage of proBNP resulted in BNP 1–32, whereas corin-mediated cleavage led to the production of BNP 4–32. Some portion of proBNP in the plasma of heart failure patients was not glycosylated in the cleavage site region and was susceptible to furin-mediated cleavage.

Conclusions: Both furin and corin are involved in the proBNP processing pathway, giving rise to distinct BNP forms. The significance of the presence of unprocessed proBNP in circulation that could be cleaved by the endogenous convertases should be further investigated for better understanding BNP physiology.
Preparation of solid composite polyferric sulfate and its flocculation behavior for wastewater containing high concentration organic compounds
Authors: Wang R. M. , Wang Y. , He Y. F. , Li F. Y. , Zhou Y. , He N. P.
Published: May 2010

A new kind of inorganic polymer flocculant, the solid composite polyferric sulfate (SPFS) was prepared using ferrous sulfate and Na-Bentonite. The obtained SPFS was characterized by FT-IR spectra, thermogravimetric analysis (TG), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray Diffraction (XRD). It showed that SPFS was a kind of composite inorganic polymer, which was the complex of PFS and Na-Bent, not only a simple mixture of raw materials. The synthetic mechanism and surface structure of SPFS were also discussed. Acting as a kind of environment-friendly flocculating agent, the solid composite polyferric sulfate (SPFS) was applied in pretreatment of potato starch industry wastewater, a typical wastewater containing high concentration organic compounds, which COD was above 6,000 mg/L. The results showed that the COD removal value reached 4,070 mg/L with COD removal rates being 46.6%. Based on these results, it is suggested that the SPFS can be attractive pretreatment agent for the starch industry wastewater.
Recent development of an in-situ image detecting system for floc characterization and monitoring
Authors: Dongsheng Wang , Jiang Feng , Jiankun Xie , Xuzheng Xu , Chonghua Yao , Yunzhong Jiang
Published: May 2010

Coagulation control plays a significant role in the final yield of sludge volume during water and wastewater treatment. The precise control of coagulant dosage, floc formation and aggregation behaviour becomes the important target for the coagulation process both in water and wastewater treatment. A critical review is presented first in this paper on the recent advances in coagulation control. In particular, the development of an in-situ image detecting system (IDS) based on characterization of floc properties, involving average diameter, fractal dimension and apparent strength is discussed. The results show that the data obtained from the IDS are generally in accordance with the outcome of common coagulation experiment, and have sensitivity for the slow stirring rate, raw water turbidity and coagulant dosage, in different degrees. The combination of IDS and ANN model is also discussed. This provides a possibility for applying the proposed IDS to control the coagulation process in water and wastewater treatment.
Oxidation of aniline in the presence of phenolic acids
Authors: Janosevic Aleksandra , Ciric-Marjanovic Gordana
Published: May 2010

Aniline was oxidized with ammonium peroxydisulfate (APS) in aqueous solutions of various phenolic acids: 5-sulfosalicylic acid (SSA), 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNSA) and gallic acid (GA). Polymerizations were performed at the constant molar ratios [acid]/[aniline]=0.5 and [APS]/[aniline]=1.25. The conductivity of synthesized polyaniline (PANI) is affected by the dopant anion type and decreases in order: PANI-SSA > PANI-DNSA > PANI-GA, the last polymer being nonconducting. This decrease is in accordance with the increase of initial pH value of the reaction mixture. The differences in molecular structure of synthesized PANI have been revealed by FTIR spectroscopy. FTIR spectra of PANI-SSA and PANI-DNSA show typical features of PANI conductive emeraldine salt segments. On the contrary, FTIR spectrum of PANI-GA shows absence of bands typical for conducting PANI polaronic lattice, and indicates the higher oxidation state of this polymer than that of emeraldine, the presence of substituted phenazines as constitutional units, as well as significant content of monosubstituted benzene rings which reflects low polymerization degree and/or pronounced chain branching. The strong hydrogen bonding between GA and PANI can obstruct propagation of oligoanilines and formation of longer conducting PANI chains.
Amplifying characteristics Er-doped chalcogenide glass
Authors: Petrovic Vesna , Stojanovic Nikola , Slankamenac Milos , Lukic Svetlana
Published: May 2010

The paper presents the measurement results of optical amplifying characteristics of Er-doped As-S-Ge chalcogenide glasses. The measurements included the amplification of useful laser source power during propagation along two axes of samples. A fluorescence maximum at the wavelengths between 1500 nm and 1540 nm was identified, which corresponds to the transition of electrons from the 4I13/2 level to the 4I15/2 level within the 4f shell of Erbium ions (Er3+). Measuring the signal strength showed that the passage through the erbium doped chalcogenid glass amplification of the useful signal occurs and this increase is proportional to the length of propagation through the doped glass.
Bernard Stiegler: Philosophy, Technics, and Activism
Authors: Crogan Patrick
Published: May 2010

This essay characterizes the principal theoretical coordinates of Stiegler's philosophy of technology and assesses its relevance for critical explorations between culture and the political. The focus is on Stiegler's major philosophical series, Technics and Time, and how he articulates therein his contribution to the philosophical consideration of technics in relation to key influences such as Gilbert Simondon, André Leroi-Gourhan, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, and Immanuel Kant. It then examines the activist dimension of Stiegler's later writing projects in the context of his work at the Pompidou Centre's Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation of which he is the founding director, and with Ars Industrialis, the association he co-founded to promote a renewed public sphere engagement with key questions of contemporary technocultural becoming. A review of the critical reception of Stiegler's work in Anglophone contexts ensues
Knowledge, Care, and Trans-Individuation: An Interview with Bernard Stiegler
Authors: Crogan Patrick
Published: May 2010

This interview explores the cultural and political dimensions of Stiegler's enterprise. Stiegler explains his conceptualization of cultural politics and why it is key to his analysis of contemporary crises – social, economic, and environmental. He situates his work in relation to the problematization of the conventional spectrum of left and right political positions. Referring to the work of Marx, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and Gilbert Simondon, Stiegler characterizes his account of cultural capitalism in relation to his critique of the philosophy of technology. He talks about how his more recent publishing and public activities proceed from his account of the necessity to invent a viable cultural program for inter-generational reengagement with the technical milieu beyond the widespread disenchantment with social and political processes.
Telecracy Against Democracy
Authors: Stiegler Bernard
Published: May 2010

The text we publish here is the first chapter of Bernard Stiegler's La Télécratie contre la Démocratie. The broad argument of Stiegler's book (and of this introductory chapter) is that what he terms “telecracy” is ruining democracy by short-circuiting the normal mechanisms of politics and destroying the foundations of citizenship, as understood since the Greeks. As a result, television and the wider “televisual” program industries have become the central political issue within our societies.
Technology and Politics: A Response to Bernard Stiegler
Authors: Beardsworth Richard
Published: May 2010

This paper considers Bernard Stiegler's contribution to contemporary critical theory. Stiegler's singular understanding of technology widens critical debate on the specificity of contemporary society and prolongs, in a novel manner, remaining commitments of recent French philosophy to the Marxist analysis of capitalism, underpinned by Freudian libidinal economy. I argue that the originality of Stiegler's work lies in his understanding of retentional finitude: what he calls “tertiary memory.” This understanding provides him with critical purchase on contemporary capitalist forms. It has allowed him most recently to develop an embryonic critique of political economy, focused on technological and libidinal practices of consumerism. His technological analysis of contemporary reality, buttressed by “technological” readings of Marx and Freud, are important in this context. I suggest, however, that neither reading is ultimately convincing for the critical-philosophical purpose in hand. For, they do not provide the non-technological detail and distinctions needed to further transformative reflection on our contemporary economic condition. Without such distinctions, Stiegler's work simplifies complex modern society and ends up in an unmediated politics of education. The article expounds thereby the Janus-faced nature of Stiegler's engagements: an excellent philosophical reflection on contemporary technology, on the one hand, a technologically determinist (and rather apocalyptic) analysis of the economy, society, and culture, on the other.
Bernard Stiegler and the Time of Technics
Authors: James Ian
Published: May 2010

This paper examines Bernard Stiegler's thinking about technics as developed in the first two volumes of his Technics and Time trilogy. It does so against the backdrop of Francis Fukuyama's highly influential thinking about technologically driven historical progress in The End of History and the Last Man (1992). The paper argues that Stiegler's account of an originary supplemental logic structuring the relation of the human to the technical offers an understanding of technological development which is radically different from that of Fukuyama. It shows how Stiegler's philosophy of time and technical prosthetics emerges in what is called a transformative combination of a range of thinkers (most notably Husserl, Heidegger, Derrida, and Virilio). It concludes by arguing that Stiegler's time of technics, together with his thinking of epiphylogenesis, epochal redoubling, and the evolution of technical systems, yields an understanding of historical time which implies very different conceptions of contemporary and future political development than those implied by Fukuyama's idiosyncratic Hegelian/Kojèvian model.
The Limits of Human Progress: A Critical Study
Authors: Simondon Gilbert
Published: May 2010

Human progress cannot be measured by what people produce but by the stages of production. The shift from the development of language in the classical period to religion in the medieval and technical progress after the Renaissance does not tell the whole story. Each of these domains forms an internally consistent system involving people as both agents and subjects of development, and each system tends towards a stifling completeness at its height. Each successive system represents a more primitive need: to communicate, to be at one with the world, to sustain life. As such, each is progressively more universal. But technical progress is not truly systemic, passing by peoples of the underdeveloped world, and requires reflexive thought to bring out this failure, and to integrate technical progress with human progress as a whole.
What New Humanism Today?
Authors: Barthélémy Jean-Hugues
Published: May 2010

Jean-Hugues Barthélémy argues for a reading of humanism and Enlightenment that strips them of their scientistic and Eurocentric implications and makes the values of both available for contemporary appropriation. Drawing on the work of Gilbert Simondon and mobilizing his conception of the relationship between human beings and technology against the conception implicit in Marx, he seeks to establish a ground for an encyclopedist humanism – a genetic encyclopedism – that lies beyond both the humanism combated by Heidegger and that philosopher's own anti-anthropological positions.
"Romanticism" and "Development" in Nepalese Anthropology
Authors: Fisher James F
Published: May 2010

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Migration, adaptation and socio-cultural change: The case of the Thakalis in Pokhara
Authors: Chhetri Ram Bahadur
Published: May 2010

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Development and underdevelopment: A preliminary sociological perspective
Authors: Mishra Chaitanya
Published: May 2010

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Employment, working conditions and mode of living: The case of the Nepali watchmen in Bombay
Authors: Paudel Phanindreshwar
Published: May 2010

DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v2i0.1070Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.2 1990 p.59-66
Television and the child in Nepal: An assessment of viewing patterns
Authors: Baral Dyuti
Published: May 2010

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Community Development as a Strategy to Rural Development
Authors: Pyakuryal Kailash
Published: May 2010

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National Integration in Nepal
Authors: Gurung Ganesh , Bhandari Bishnu
Published: May 2010

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Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur by Dr Rishikeshab Raj Regmi
Authors: Jha Hemant Kumar
Published: May 2010

Kathmandu, Patan and Bhaktapur by Dr Rishikeshab Raj RegmiNirala Publications, New Delhi. DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v4i0.1090Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.4 1994 p.146-149
Ethnicity and Nationalism in the Nepali Context: A perspective from Europe
Authors: Kievelitz Uwe
Published: May 2010

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Bheja as a strategic cultural convention: Community resource management in the Barha Magarat
Authors: Dhakal Suresh
Published: May 2010

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Forest, people's participation and conflicts in Nepal
Authors: Regmi Rishikeshab Raj
Published: May 2010

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Restoration of democracy and people's empowerment in Nepal
Authors: Pyakuryal Kailash N
Published: May 2010

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Environmental pollution and awareness in Pokhara City: A sociological perspective
Authors: Parajuli Biswo Kalyan
Published: May 2010

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An anthropological perspective on shifting cultivation: A case study of Khoriya cultivation in the Arun Valley of Eastern Nepal
Authors: Dhakal Suresh
Published: May 2010

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Social engineering approach to air quality challenge: The case of Kathmandu
Authors: Arya Ramesh C
Published: May 2010

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Anthropology, society and development in Nepal: A native perspective
Authors: Devkota Padam Lal
Published: May 2010

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Ethnicity and identity
Authors: Regmi Rishikeshav
Published: May 2010

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Notes on Lagi-Lagitya relations in Jumla
Authors: Gurung Om
Published: May 2010

DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v8i0.1118Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.8 2003 p.12-17
The position of Dalit women in caste system
Authors: Luitel Samira
Published: May 2010

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Quantifying "Peoples' participation and psychological empowerment": A model of individual behaviour in Nepal
Authors: Tanner Philip , Parajuli Dhirendra B
Published: May 2010

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NGO/INGO centred approach: An alternative approach to development
Authors: Ghimire Harihar
Published: May 2010

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An obituary to Prof. GS. Nepali
Authors: Gurung Ganesh Man
Published: May 2010

DOI: 10.3126/opsa.v8i0.1130Occasional Papers in Sociology and Anthropology Vol.8 2003 p.227-229
The Dalit Context
Authors: Gurung Harka
Published: May 2010

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Water resources in Nepal: Institutional analysis based on legal provisions
Authors: Magar Shyamu Thapa
Published: May 2010

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Foreign aid, sustainable development and Rapti IRDP
Authors: Subedi Madhusudan Sharma
Published: May 2010

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Sustainability or sustainable development: An anthropological perspective
Authors: Kattel Shambhu Prasad
Published: May 2010

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Do males always like war? A critique on Francis Fukuyama and his hyper masculine assertions on "Feminization of World Politics"
Authors: Luintel Youba Raj
Published: May 2010

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La stratigraphie de l'Âge du Bronze et de l'Âge du Fer à Roucadour (Thémines, Lot) ; analyse culturelle et incidences paléogéographiques
Authors: Gascó Jean
Published: May 2010

Le site de Roucadour (Thémines, Lot), fouillé dès les années 1925, est depuis 1995 l'objet de nouvelles recherches. Une nouvelle importante stratigraphie a été mise au jour, notamment pour l 'Âge du Bronze et le Néolithique. Ces nouveaux travaux de terrain ont été entrepris pour décrire les processus ď évolution géomorphologique locaux, obtenir des datations radiocarbone, acquérir des informations supplémentaires sur les paléoenvironnements et interpréter les fonctionnements du site. Ce texte compare les données chronoculturelles connues aux informations réunies depuis cette date. Les différentes phases d'occupation du site sont sommairement analysées sur le plan culturel puis économique pour proposer une hypothèse d'évolution du statut du site dans l'organisation territoriale caussenarde. Pendant l'Âge du Bronze ancien Roucadour s'inscrit dans une tradition mêlant tout autant influences atlantiques que continentales. Le Quercy est alors également en relation avec le Sud de la France. Mais le petit groupe de paysans qui s 'installe dans la doline exerce alors des activités spécialisées de chasse. Au cours du Bronze moyen, Roucadour est un petit lieu de peuplement agropastoral. Il livre des productions peu originales où le style céramique du Noyer est mal représenté si ce n 'est tardivement. L'Âge du Bronze récent et final est largement présent avec une stratigraphie qui enregistre les mutations culturelles du Bronze final II. Le site joue alors un rôle important dans l'économie du causse de Gramat. À l'Âge du Fer il n'est plus autant central. Puis durant l'Antiquité et le second Âge du Fer Roucadour semble délaissé ou limité à un espace de production agricole.
La séquence néolithique de la grotte du Gardon (Ain)
Authors: Voruz Jean-Louis , Perrin Thomas , Sordoillet Dominique
Published: May 2010

The Gardon cave, located in the south of the Jura, has been excavated over more than fifteen years. The aim of such a long excavation was to draw up a new point of reference both on a chronological and cultural level for the Upper Rhone Basin. Its stratigraphy, which shows occupation layers and flood levels due to karstic movements, made it possible to confirm the palaeoenvironnemental variations established in the Jura by Michel Magny on the basis of lake level fluctuations. During the Early Neolithic era, between 5300 and 4800 ВС, the cave was occupied on several occasions, either by cattle breeders close to the southern groups (Late Cardial or Limbourg), or by local hunters who continued to use flint knapping techniques from the local Mesolithic tradition, even if they certainly knew some of the Neolithic techniques. The Middle Neolithic era is the best-represented period on the site, with ten levels of semi-permanent occupation (dwelling or sheepfolds), defining four cultural phases in the Saint-Uze and the NMB (Néolithique Moyen Bourguignon-Burgundian Middle Neolithic). At the beginning of the Final Neolithic era, circa 3500 to 3000 ВС, a collective cremation burial (reminiscent of the SOM-Early Clairvaux), occupied the cave entrance and, finally, the Neolithic stratigraphy is completed by two layers corresponding to the Chalain and Bellbeaker groups. This paper thus draws up a first assessment of the Neolithic elements found during the excavation of the Gardon cave, while waiting for the final publication on the site. (Translation: Muriel Perchet)
Une production de grandes lames par pression à la fin du Néolithique, dans le nord de la Sardaigne (Contraguda, Perfugas)
Authors: Costa Laurent Jacques , Pélegrin Jacques
Published: May 2010

Les fouilles du site de Contraguda (Perfugas) dans le nord de la Sardaigne ont permis la découverte d'un atelier spécialisé dans la fabrication de grandes lames en silex, probablement daté du Chalcolithique (fin IV- IIIe millénaire cal. ВС). Le présent article vise à présenter la reconstitution des modalités de fabrication de ces grandes lames et à discuter de la place économique de cette production spécialisée, tant à une échelle locale que régionale. La haute technicité de cette production, en termes de savoir- faire et d'outillages (pression au levier, pointe métallique), souligne l'importance " extra-utilitaire " de ces produits aux caractéristiques exceptionnelles et place le site de Contraguda dans ce phénomène global d'émergence d'ateliers spécialisés à la fin du Néolithique dans différentes régions du vieux continent.
La fonction des outillages en matières dures animales et en silex au Néolithique final. Le cas des sites littoraux des lacs de Chalain et Clairvaux (Jura, France) au 30e siècle avant notre ère
Authors: Beugnier Valérie , Maigrot Yolaine
Published: May 2010

Dans le cadre de cet article, nous présentons la synthèse de deux études fonctionnelles conduites au départ de façon indépendante, portant respectivement sur l'outillage en matières dures animales et en silex de deux sites d'habitat datés du Néolithique final. Les gisements sont implantés en bordure des lacs de Chalain et Clairvaux, dans le Jura, et sont tous deux affiliés au groupe de Clairvaux. Par la reconstitution des chaînes opératoires liées au travail des peaux, du bois et des matières dures animales, la place accordée à chacune de ces industries au sein du système technique a été définie. Ce travail a ainsi permis de mettre en évidence une gestion contrastée de ces assemblages qui renvoie dos à dos l'outillage en silex et en os, d'une part, et l'outillage en bois de cerf, d'autre part.
Étude préliminaire sur des poignards gravés de type Remedello découverts dans les Préalpes du Sud (Chastel-Arnaud, Drôme, France) et réflexions sur leur insertion dans le Néolithique final régional
Authors: Morin Alexandre , Picavet Régis , Carles Jacques , Bernard Cyril
Published: May 2010

Des gravures réalisées sur une paroi rocheuse viennent d'être récemment authentifiées dans les Préalpes du Sud (Chastel-Arnaud, Drôme, France). Un premier relevé a permis de distinguer une série de poignards et d'autres motifs encore mal identifiés. Pour les poignards, les premières comparaisons renvoient aux productions de la culture Remedello, en Italie du Nord, dont les traces sont rarissimes dans les Alpes françaises. Un descriptif des gravures et une réflexion sur leurs implications dans le Néolithique final régional sont proposés. Par le biais de certaines productions d'armatures et de pointes en silex, les auteurs s 'interrogent et mettent en perspective de possibles filiations culturelles entre les Préalpes du Sud et l'Italie du Nord, dans lesquelles le cuivre pourrait jouer un rôle significatif.