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Arabic Music And Burroughs's The Ticket That Exploded, David M. Holzer

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Arabic Music and Burroughs's The Ticket That Exploded" David Holzer discusses how the experience of hearing Arabic music in Tangier and being exposed to the healing music of the Master Musicians of Joujouka, a remote village in the foothills of the Ahl Srif mountain range in Northern Morocco, significantly influenced both the writing of William Burroughs and his multi-media experiments. This essay considers what Arabic music and specifically that of Joujouka meant to Burroughs, with particular reference to The Ticket That Exploded (1962). Drawing on The Ticket, Burroughs’s letters, critical studies and biographical material, it …

Utopia In Progress In Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters, Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "Utopia in Progress in di Prima's Revolutionary Letters" Estíbaliz Encarnación-Pinedo describes Diane di Prima's Revolutionary Letters (1971) within the context of social transformation and spatiality studies. In the context of the socio-political revolt and utopian revival of the 1970s, di Prima's utopia is grounded in reality and in progress; and it needs people's help and strength to be attained. In the first section of the article Pinedo analyzes a group of letters which serve as "tips" or a "how-to" guide to prepare for a revolution and in the second part she considers letters in which glimpses …

The Beat "Pad", Heike Mlakar

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article "The Beat 'Pad'" Heike Mlakar analyzes the importance of Joan Vollmer's and Hettie Jones's Manhattan apartments as centers for the upcoming avant-garde movement of the time in order to understand the meaning of "home" in postwar bohemianism in general and specifically for female Beats. In sensationalized late 1950s films and in print media, the Beats were associated with low-rent Beat "pads" in poor urban areas, in which wild all-night parties were held—sites of drug use, destitution, and sexual promiscuity. Both Vollmer and Jones contributed greatly to the formation of the Beat Generation by providing the perfect setting …

Walking The Walk: Linking Teaching And Advocacy, Danielle Morrison

Occasional Paper Series

Discusses the author's journey from being a teacher to being a teacher for change.

Beyond The Story-Book Ending: Literature For Young Children About Parental Estrangement And Loss, Megan Mason Matt

Occasional Paper Series

Analyzes over thirty books for young children on the topics of abandonment, estrangement, divorce and foster care.

Book Review: The Question Of The Animal And Religion: Theoretical Stakes, Practical Implications, A. G. Holdier

Between the Species

No abstract provided.

History Reclaimed: Sister Betty Ann Mcneil, D.C., Tells The Hidden Story Of The Daughters Of Charity During The Civil War

DePaul Magazine

This article excerpts from Sr. Betty Ann McNeil, D.C.'s “Balm of Hope: Charity Afire Impels Daughters of Charity to Civil War Nursing,” based on her finds while serving as the archivist for the Daughters of Charity, Province of Emmitsburg, Md. The collection is valuable for it gives names which have been suppressed in later transcriptions.

Associating Mathematics To Its History: Connecting The Mathematics We Teach To Its Past, Joseph M. Furner, Ernest A. Brewer

Transformations

Across the USA and around the world now, globalization has taken a strong hold. The purpose of this paper is to explore the historical considerations that can be incorporated in the teaching of mathematics. The paper will also provide suggestions for teaching math by interweaving historical elements into the mathematics instruction. Teachers should strive to bridge the cultural and historical gap among all students by incorporating innovative ideas as well as historical and cultural connections into their teaching so to foster understanding, appreciation, and tolerance for the richness inherent in diversity and a sound understanding of mathematics and appreciation for …

Reef Society And The Tyranny Of Data, Robert Wintner

Animal Sentience

Modern science now approaches divergent processes in many areas, including health assessments of marine eco-systems and social aspects of marine species. Scientific data have long enjoyed a reputation for objectivity but incidents of science-for-hire, data spinning/skewing and political jading are more frequent than ever. In the field of reef creature sensitivity, technical treatises can “logically” explain away what a person of average education can clearly observe on any given reef. Western medicine discounted anecdotal evidence of any cure outside the 4% margin of error until those cures demanded attention and in some cases application. Modern science must now enter an …

Still Wondering How Flesh Can Feel, Gwen J. Broude

Animal Sentience

Reber believes he has simplified Chalmers’s “hard problem” of consciousness by arguing that subjectivity is an inherent feature of biological forms. His argument rests on the related notions of continuity of mind and gradual accretion of capacities across evolutionary time. These notions need to be defended, not just asserted. Because Reber minimizes the differences in mental faculties among species across evolutionary time, it becomes easier to assert, and perhaps believe, that sentience is already present in early biological forms. The more explicit we are about the differences among these mental faculties and the differences across species, the less persuasive is …

Review Of Praying And Preying: Christianity In Indigenous Amazonia By Aparecida Vilaça, Aleksandar Boskovic

Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America

No abstract provided.

The Edict Of King Gälawdéwos Against The Illegal Slave Trade In Christians: Ethiopia, 1548 -- Featured Source, Habtamu M. Tegegne

The Medieval Globe

This study explores the relationship between documentary-legal prescriptions of slavery and actual practice in late medieval Ethiopia. It does so in light of a newly discovered edict against the enslavement of freeborn Christians and the commercial sale of Christians to non-Christian owners, issued in 1548 by King Gälawdéwos. It demonstrates that this edict emerged from a dramatic and violent encounter between the neighboring Sultanate of Adal, which was supported by Muslim powers, and the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia, which had the support of expanding European powers in the region. The edict was therefore issued to reaffirm and clarify the principles …

Land And Tenure In Early Colonial Peru: Individualizing The Sapci, "That Which Is Common To All", Susan E. Ramirez

The Medieval Globe

This article compares and contrasts pre-Columbian indigenous customary law regarding land possession and use with the legal norms and concepts gradually imposed and implemented by the Spanish colonial state in the Viceroyalty of Peru in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Natives accepted oral histories of possession going back as many as ten generations as proof of a claim to land. Indigenous custom also provided that a family could claim as much land as it could use for as long as it could use it: labor established rights of possession and use. The Spanish introduced the concept of private property …

Chinese Porcelain And The Material Taxonomies Of Medieval Rabbinic Law: Encounters With Disruptive Substances In Twelfth-Century Yemen, Elizabeth Lambourn, Phillip I. Ackerman-Lieberman

The Medieval Globe

This article focuses on a set of legal questions about ṣīnī vessels (literally, “Chinese” vessels) sent from the Jewish community in Aden to Fustat (Old Cairo) in the mid-1130s CE and now preserved among the Cairo Geniza holdings in Cambridge University Library. This is the earliest dated and localized query about the status of ṣīnī vessels with respect to the Jewish law of vessels used for food consumption. Our analysis of these queries suggests that their phrasing and timing can be linked to the contemporaneous appearance in the Yemen of a new type of Chinese ceramic ware, qingbai, which confounded …

The Future Of Aztec Law, Jerome A. Offner

The Medieval Globe

This article models a methodology for recovering the substance and nature of the Aztec legal tradition by interrogating reports of precontact indigenous behavior in the works of early colonial ethnographers, as well as in pictorial manuscripts and their accompanying oral performances. It calls for a new, richly recontextualized approach to the study of a medieval civilization whose sophisticated legal and jurisprudential practices have been fundamentally obscured by a long process of decontextualization and the anachronistic applications of modern Western paradigms.

Editor's Introduction To "Legal Worlds And Legal Encounters" -- Open Access, Elizabeth Lambourn

The Medieval Globe

This introduction presents and draws together the articles and themes featured in this special issue of The Medieval Globe, “Legal Worlds and Legal Encounters.”

The Medieval Globe 2.2 (2016)

The Medieval Globe

No abstract provided.

Mutilation And The Law In Early Medieval Europe And India: A Comparative Study -- Open Access, Patricia E. Skinner

The Medieval Globe

This essay examines the similarities and differences between legal and other precepts outlining corporal punishment in ancient and medieval Indian and early medieval European laws. Responding to Susan Reynolds’s call for such comparisons, it begins by outlining the challenges in doing so. Primarily, the fragmented political landscape of both regions, where multiple rulers and spheres of authority existed side-by-side, make a direct comparison complex. Moreover, the time slippage between what scholarship understands to be the “early medieval” period in each region needs to be taken into account, particularly given the persistence of some provisions and the adapatation or abandonment of …

Common Threads: A Reappraisal Of Medieval European Sumptuary Law, Laurel Wilson

The Medieval Globe

Medieval sumptuary law has been receiving renewed scholarly attention in recent decades. But sumptuary laws, despite their ubiquity, have rarely been considered comprehensively and comparatively. This essay calls attention to this problem and suggests a number of topics for investigation, with specific reference to the first phase of European sumptuary legislation in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It argues that comparative study demonstrates that this chronology closely parallels the development of the so-called “Western fashion system” and that the ubiquity of sketchy or nonexistent enforcement is evidence for the symbolic importance of sumptuary legislation, rather than its instrumentality. Comparison across …

Toward A History Of Documents In Medieval India: The Encounter Of Scholasticism And Regional Law In The Smṛticandrikā, Donald R. Davis Jr.

The Medieval Globe

In order to understand the legal use and significance of documents in medieval India, we need to start from the contemporaneous legal categories found in the Sanskrit scholastic corpus called dharmaśāstra. By comparing these categories with actual historical documents and inscriptions, we gain better insight into the encounter of pan-Indian legal discourse in Sanskrit and regional laws in vernacular languages. The points of congruence and transgression in this encounter will facilitate a nuanced history of documents and their use beyond unhelpfully broad categories of written and oral. A new translation of one major scholastic discussion of documents is presented as …

Severing Ties: A Lacanian Reading Of Motherhood In Joyce Carol Oates’S Short Stories "The Children" And "Feral", Uroš Tomić

Bearing Witness: Joyce Carol Oates Studies

This paper approaches two of Joyce Carol Oates’s short stories (“The Children” and “Feral”) from a Lacanian perspective on the tripartite structure of personality in an attempt to analyze questions of motherhood and the parent-child separation process. Although published 35 years apart both stories deal with mothers who have trouble containing their maternal attitude and children who become elusive entities for their parents. Utilizing as well the concept of what Oates has termed “realistic allegory” in the analysis of characters situated within highly specific settings and circumstances, the paper aims to shed light on Oates’s vision of the workings of …

How To Buy A Russian Umbrella, Michelle Vandenbos

Tahoma West Literary Arts Magazine

No abstract provided.

Campus Vol Iv N 1, Don Duncan, Bill Hauser, Barrie Bedell, John Hodges, Ralph Talbot, Rusty Barton, Ed Johnston, Don Hodgson, Bob Rossi, Dick Chase

Campus

Duncan, Don. "To Be Bop Or Not To Be". Prose. 2.

Hauser, Bill. "After Hours Almanac". Prose. 4.

Bedell, Barrie and John Hodges. "Camera Crime". Picture. 5.

Anonymous. "God I thank Thee That I Am Not As Other Men". Prose. 7.

Talbot, Ralph. "What's Wrong With Denison Men and Women". Prose. 8.

Barton, Rusty and Ed Johnston. "Fashions For Fall". Prose. 9.

Anonymous. "The Return of the Native". Prose. 10.

Hodgson, Don. "Harold and The Broken heart". Prose. 12.

Rossi, Bob. "Sweat, Blood, and Cheers..." Cartoon. 13.

Anonymous. "Reunion At Denison". Prose. 14.

Chase, Dick. "Campus Works Out With The …

Campus Vol Iii N 4, Robert Wilson, Bill Hauser, Don Hodgson, Hugh Wittich, Rusty Barton, Ed Johnston, Bob Rossi, Tom Rees, Jack Matthews, Gene Horyn, Terry Thurn

Campus

Wilson, Robert. "The Last of the Huldars". Prose. 2.

Hauser, Bill. "Guide to After Hours Antics". Prose. 3.

Hodgson, Don. "Father Time Reflects". Prose. 4.

Wittich, Hugh. "Looking Ahead". Prose. 6.

Subler, Doc. "Do You Know Your Campus?" Picture. 7.

Barton, Rusty and Johnston, Ed. "Campus College Fashions". Prose. 8.

Bedell, Barry and John Hodges. "So You Think You're an Operator?- or - An Expose of Conditions At Denison in 1920". Prose. 10.

Rossi, Bob. "Ah! Spring Vacation (Or...All Hell Breaks out in The United States)". Cartoon. 11.

Rees, Tom. "Panhell Panorama". Picture. 12.

Matthews, Jack. "Scenes From Midnight in …

Campus Vol Iii N 3, Lynn Olwin, Terry Thurn, Ralph Gilbert, Jim Marshall, Tom Cooperrider, Terry Thurn, Rod Wishard, Gene Horyn, Jack Mathews, James Gould

Campus

Olwin, Lynn. "The Vacuum. "Prose. 2.

Gilbert, Ralph and Terry Thurn. "Backstage With Home of The Brave". Prose. 4.

Marshall, Jim. "Boy Meets Laundromat". Prose. 6.

Cooperrider, Tom. "From One Room". Prose. 7.

Thurn, Terry. "Evaluation of a Blind Date". Picture. 8.

Wishard, Rod. "The Case Presented". Prose. 10.

Horyn, Gene. "Tug of War With Time Clocks". Prose. 11.

Gould, James and Jack Matthews. "Cigarettes and Coke and Wild, Wild Coeds". Prose. 13.

Campus Vol Iii N 2, Lynn Olwin, Hugh Wittich, Ed Subler, Ralph Gilbert, John Blashill, Jim Stiverson-Terry Thurn, Kenneth Shelford, Dave Fairless, Jack Mathews-George Ducro, Gene Horyn, Don Hodgson

Campus

Olwin, Lynn. "The Picture". Prose. 2.; Wittich, Hugh. "Mister Diablos". Prose. 3.; Subler, Ed. "A Backward Glance". Picture. 4.; Gilbert, Ralph. ""Going Uphill?" Or, An India Ink Indictment of the Drag as the Air Gets Mighty Thin Towards the Top, Mother". Cartoon. 6.

Blashill, John. "Local Man Killed". Prose. 7.

Stiverson, Jim and Terry Thurn. "Sadie Hawkins Dance". Picture. 8.

Shelford, Kenneth. "Night and John Barlow -- A Sketch". Prose. 10.

Fairless, Dave. "'Twas The Night Before Christmas". Picture. 11.

Ducro, George and Jack Mathews. "The Case of the Consumptive Capon". Prose. 12.

Hoyrn, Gene. "Forty-Three years of Progress". Prose. …

Campus Vol Ii N 3, Nancy Sayre, Hugh Wittich, Jay Shaw, William T. Utter, Spiros Mandamadiotis, Glen Bammann, Terry Thurn, Sam Robinson, Olney Dekker, Jane Roudebush

Campus

Sayre, Nancy. "The Long & Short of It". Prose. 2.

Wittich, Hugh. "The Long & Short of It". Prose. 2.

Shaw, Jay. "The Most Unforgettable Professor I've met". Prose. 4.

Utter, Wm. T. "The Most Unforgettable Student I've Met". Prose. 4.

Mandamadiotis, Spiros. "Traitors Are Innocent". Prose. 5.

Bammann, Glenn. "Exposé". Prose. 6.

Robinson, Sam and Terry Thurn. "How They Do It At Denison". Picture. 8.

Dekker, Olney. "Quite a Record". Prose. 10.

Findeisen, Bob. "New Courses". Prose. 11.

Findeisen, Bob. "Budget Blues$". Prose. 12.

Roudebush, Jane. "Campus Wheel". Picture. 15.

Anonymous. Untitled. Poem. 15.

Football Follies: Featuring The Struggles Of Female Soccer Players Internationally, Jen R. Wisniewski

The Downtown Review

Female soccer players face social, economic, and cultural discrimination both in the United States and around the world. Men's soccer teams receive social and financial bonuses while women's teams are left with second-rate fields, equipment, budgets, and options. This paper cites various studies on women's soccer teams in Turkey, Brazil, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, Israeli, and even the United States in order to document how female soccer players still face injustice and hardship in order to continue playing the sport they love.

The Relevance Of Intuitions In Experimental Philosophy Surveys, Alexander Lidiak

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

Experimental philosophy (X-Phi) is a novel approach to philosophy, which surveys people’s intuitions in order to support or undermine philosophical theories. It is a major assumption of X-Phi that these surveys accurately capture people’s intuitive responses to philosophical issues. The central purpose of this research is to investigate whether this is a safe assumption. One of the most influential X-Phi surveys discovered a surprising asymmetry in people’s “intuitions” about intentionality (Knobe, 2003). In my project, I distribute the same survey questions but provide a philosophical definition of intentionality to participants in advance. It will be investigated how the survey results …

Taiko: Its Past And Present In Japanese Society, Nathan Mueller, Eric Desormeaux, Dallas Ferrell, Alexander Kallweit, Tyler Henderson, Brandon Lau

Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado

The significance of Taiko in Japanese culture is far beyond being a percussion instrument. “Taiko” also refers to the art of drumming and is claimed to represent the spirit of Japanese people. Since ancient times, Taiko was used in the battlefield, Shinto and Buddhist religious ceremonies, festivals, royal courts, and theatrical arts performance. However, the origin of the Taiko remains unclear as well as its connection with Korean drum. The sacred power of Taiko for Japanese people is difficult to clarify in modern context. Japan is moving toward modernization, while promoting the importance of cultural preservation. It is important to …