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Links and Factoids

By: Sam Vaknin

...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...rewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the American consul at Lima, wrote in 1826 of the 'deep hypocrisy' o... ...m/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the econ... ...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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The Religious Dimension

By: Donald Broadribb

..., University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1953. The Spiritual Legacy of The American Indian, by Joseph Epes Brown. © 1982 by Joseph Epes Brown. Reprint... ..., New York, 1972. The paper by Paul Radin “The Religious Experiences of an American Indian” was published in Eranos 18-1950, © Eranos Foundation, Asco... ...ological Mechanism In Mysticism Contrasting Viewpoints A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176 Orenda Deity And Pantheon Time, Space, Direction... ...ill meet time and time again in this book, particularly in the chapters on American Indian and Australian Aboriginal beliefs. Analysis “in Jung’s mann... ...t of the University of Florida, a specialist in the philosophical bases of American Indian thought, has kindly contributed Chapter 5, “A Chorus of Pow... ... 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... ...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...

...What Is Religion? 1Buddhism 16Christianity 59Mysticism 118A Chorus Of Powers: American Indian Belief 176The Sacred Land: Australian Aboriginal Religion 238Conclusion 277References 293The Collected Works Of Carl Jung 299...

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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... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...from psychological power to physically aggressive and even violent power. One of Adler‘s early papers was on the instinct towards aggression. Anthro... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...he worst outcomes of the power drive is using violence to achieve our ends. Either it is the Crips fighting the Bloods, Cain killing Abel, the Americ... ... warlike mentalities the kill ratios went up in World War II. Japanese as yellow bellied slant-eyed sadists who would dive their bombers into Americ... ...ng money in any way possible is acceptable. ―At the genetic or instinctual level, perhaps our genes predispose us to violence, as some anthro...

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

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...s losing one‘s job. Sex makes us happier, as does enjoying one‘s job. The Americans, who spend much more time working are much higher on the happine... ...ed at home, in your neighborhood or in school is the truth, divine truth. Americans eat with their forks in their right hands, Europeans with the for... ...ies ate their meals together. She was appalled by the poor manners of the American students. Her mother had taught her good table manners at home, r... ... with your fork in your left hand and your knife in your right). But the Americans had very poor manners. They cut all their food first then put the... ...the right hand. The Norwegian assumed that after a few weeks the ignorant Americans would follow her lead of good manners. After two weeks she was ca... ... 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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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...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... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ...detail them would fill volumes. Suffice it here to single out two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Fr... ...mperio Español.‖ By the nineteenth century—despite having lost thirteen American colonies—the English paraphrased that phrase to boast proudly: ―T...

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Information Technology Tales

By: Brad Bradford

...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... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that Ch... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. 13 Som... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar‘s ―The American Printer‖ 1887 1... ...detail them would fill volumes. Suffice it here to single out two famous Americans, Thomas Jefferson for his belief in print power, and Benjamin Fr... ... Imperio Español.‖ By the nineteenth century—despite having lost thirteen American colonies—the English paraphrased that phrase to boast proudly: ―T...

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The Path of Splitness

By: Indrek Pringi

... 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... ...ew lions? When there were millions of grazing animals? Why didn’t the North American natives colonize the land where millions of bison lived? It ... ...hapter Three: Summary of Hominid-Human development 205 The earliest North American cultures invented bone-tools and flint tools by themselves. B... ...plitting with crude stones as the first form of stone technology. After North American humans began splitting Mammoth-bones: did they start evolving... ...Neanderthals In Europe, and the Clovis Culture exterminating the earlier North American humans, and taking over the continent. The same basic histor... ... underdog at the beginning; was romantic to say the least. What if the North American Indians tried to do it? Or the Irish…? Oops, I forgot…that ...

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The Marketing of Ideas and Social Issues

By: Seymour Fine

...to The New State of the Economy (Allvine and Tarpley 1977), Philip Kotler wrote: Americans will have to pay more attention to resource conservation... ...lives. (p. xiii) In the book the authors succinctly speak of reformulation of the American Dream such that our society will have “to expect less in... ...intended to be fruitful and multiply ("Save the Whales" 1979): The materialistic American dream, while dominant, is not universal. Young adults sh... ...perform psychotherapy and attorneys may legally serve as real estate brokers. The American Institute of Architects has modified its rules to permit ... ...s, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trade and professional organizations, such as the American Medical Association, National Rifle Association, America... ...of objects as gifts, has long attracted the attention of sociologists and cultural anthropologists. For scholarly yet highly readable treatments, o...

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Cyclopedia of Economics

By: Sam Vaknin

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... fraud scandals signals the end of an era. Disillusionment and disenchantment with American capitalism may yet lead to a tectonic ideological shift... ...nsforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of the oppresso... ...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

...de and supersede one's moral obligations towards non- affiliated humans. Thus, an American's moral obligation to safeguard the lives of American f... ...igation to save the lives of innocent civilians, however numerous, if they are not Americans. The larger the number of positive self-definitions I ... ...ical Islamists are now advocating the mass slaughter of Westerners, particularly of Americans and Israelis, regardless of age, gender, and alleged c... ... fraud scandals signals the end of an era. Disillusionment and disenchantment with American capitalism may yet lead to a tectonic ideological shift... ...nsforming itself into an outpost and beacon of Western (first British-French, then American) neo-colonialism. As the representative of the oppresso... ...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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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... ...s ago, talk of delocal agriculture was a source of aggravation to cultural anthropologists, who believed that old cultures do not disappear, but repro... ...s to use genetic modification to produce and patent a variety suitable for American conditions. Potential cultivation of Jasmine rice by American supe... ... produced, and they have rather tended to be TV serials; cinemas show many American movies as is the case elsewhere in Asia. From citizen to gl... ... US army during the Korean war; sex trade has always flourished around all American military bases. In 1983, it was said that there was only one broth... ...man - O. Löfgren 1979, 1987). A meritocrat is defined as particularly an American idol who succeeds through his own abilities and energy (cf. McName... ...kman - O. Löfgren 1979, 1987). A meritocrat is defined as particularly an American idol who succeeds through his own abilities and energy (cf. McNam... ...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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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

..., and at the word terminology I should insinuate a comment on that eminent American bi- ologist, Professor Mark Baldwin, who has carried the language ... ...ing the obverse side, and a head thereon—of Newton, as I live! One detects American influ- ence here. Each year, as we shall find, each denomination o... ...*But see Gidding’s Principles of Sociology, a modern and richly suggestive American work, imperfectly appreciated by the Brit- ish student. See also W... ...machinery. He is the great primitive of modern Utopias, and Bellamy is his American equivalent. Hitherto, either slave labour (Phaleas),** or at leas... ...one, one expects a person as precise and insistent and in- structive as an American advertisement—the advertisement of one of those land agents, for e... ... 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

...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...e papers were first published in the British Fortnightly Review and in the American Cosmopolitan. In the latter peri- odical they were, for the most p... ...f exemplary muscularity, popular preachers, popular bishops, and popu- lar anthropologists vied with titled ladies of liberal outlook in the service o... ...d, is the gist of this paper—that only a very small minority of English or American people have more than half mastered the splendid heritage of their...

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

By: William James

... I take my place behind this desk, and face this learned au- dience. To us Americans, the experience of receiving instruction from the living voice, a... ...uous an act. Particularly must this be the case on a soil as sacred to the American imagination as that of Edinburgh. The glories of the philosophic c... ...rd a sweet savor;” we “taste and see that he is good.” “Spiritual milk for American babes, drawn from the breasts of both testaments,” is a sub-title ... ...God:” God’s Breath in Man is the title of the chief work of our best known American mystic (Thomas Lake Harris), and in cer- tain non-Christian countr... ...secondary or even tertiary order. But, quite apart from the fact that many anthropologists—for instance, Jevons and Frazer —expressly oppose “religion... ...o practical fruits, and the ex- tremely practical turn of character of the American people has never been better shown than by the fact that this, the... ...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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The Theory of the Leisure Class

By: Thorstein Veblen

...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... ...h to a greater extent than the latter. So it comes, for instance, that the American farmer and his wife and daughters are notoriously less modish in t... ...s the French peasant-pro- prietor parsimonious and frugal, and induces the American millionaire to found colleges, hospitals and museums. If the canon... ...l of the corset is not infrequent among the higher social classes of those American cities, for instance, which have recently and rapidly risen into o... ...the most striking mark of reversion in modern communities, the case of the American colonies might be cited as an example of such a reversion on an un... ...to- wards a secularization of men’s habits of thought. In this respect the American community should afford an excep- tionally convincing illustration...

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