Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military: Keeping the Enemy Dead in British Frontier Warfare

2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 285-303 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon J. Harrison
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Military Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Other Hand

As a result of colonial wars with indigenous peoples, especially in Africa and North America, a distinction seems to have arisen in Western military culture between ‘civilized’ and ‘savage’ enemies. The behavior of civilized enemies in battle appeared rational and constrained by rules. Savage enemies, on the other hand, evinced emotional and unregulated violence. Above all, they were distinguished by an excessive brutality they seemed to display towards their enemies in customs such as cannibalism and the taking of body parts as trophies (see, for example, Marks 1970: 246). In short, the differences between civilized people and savages in warfare were especially evident in their behavior toward enemy dead.

scholarly journals Contribution to identify the causal gents of Dutch elm disease in the Czech Republic

2008 ◽  
Vol 43 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 142-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Dvořák ◽  
M. Tomšovský ◽  
L. Jankovský ◽  
D. Novotný
Keyword(s):  
Czech Republic ◽  
North America ◽  
Molecular Biology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dutch Elm Disease ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Ophiostoma Ulmi ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Subspecies Level ◽  
First Time

This study provides new data on Dutch elm disease in the Czech Republic. <I>Ophiostoma novo-ulmi</I> is reported for the first time in the area of the Czech Republic, as well as both subspecies ssp. <I>novo-ulmi</I> (indigenous in the area of the Ukraine and Moldavia), and ssp. <I>Americana</I> indigenous in North America. The majority of the recorded strains belonged to <I>O. n.-u.</I> ssp. <I>novo-ulmi</I>, while <I>O. n.-u.</I> ssp. <I>Americana</I> and hybrids of these two subspecies were found less frequently. On the other hand, <I>Ophiostoma ulmi</I> was not found at all in the investigated samples. Identification on the subspecies level was performed by methods of molecular biology, i.e. PCR and RFLP of gene regions<I> cu</I> and <I>col1</I>.

Reduced Mobility or the Bow and Arrow? Another Look at “Expedient” Technologies and Sedentism

2010 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jim A. Railey
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
North America ◽  
Agricultural Intensification ◽  
Causal Link ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Bow And Arrow ◽  
Reduced Mobility ◽  
Subsistence Practices

Parry and Kelly (1987) argued for a causal link between expedient technologies and sedentism, and their explanation has widely influenced lithic analysts. There are some problems with their explanation, however, including disconnects in the reported timing of the shifts to expedient technologies, agricultural intensification, and sedentism. On the other hand, across much of North America the transition to an expedient technology appears to correlate more closely to the arrival of the bow and arrow. This is supported by data from a large excavation project in southern New Mexico, which shows that indicators of the shift to an expedient technology cannot be attributed to reduced mobility or any observable changes in subsistence practices, but do appear to correlate temporally with the appearance of arrow points.

scholarly journals STATUS PEWARISAN TRANSEKSUAL DALAM PERSPEKTIF HUKUM WARIS ADAT MINANGKABAU

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-225
Author(s):  
Sonny Dewi Judiasih ◽  
Elycia Feronia Salim ◽  
Agitha Putri Andany Hidayat ◽  
Cynthia Kurniawan ◽  
Rifny Meirizka ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
The Other ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
Hormonal Factors ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
The Times ◽  
Adat Law

Abstrak Seiring perkembangan zaman, dewasa ini terdapat orang yang berkeinginan mengubah jenis kelaminnya yang disebut sebagai transeksual. Faktor yang menyebabkan seseorang menjadi transeksual selain dari faktor hormonal dapat juga terjadi karena pengaruh faktor lingkungan. Dalam hal ini akan menimbulkan masalah dalam segala aspek hukum dan bidang kehidupan salah satunya terkait dengan pewarisan bagi transeksual. Di Indonesia, eksistensi hukum adat terutama dalam hal waris masih diakui. Masyarakat adat khususnya adat Minangkabau yang menjunjung tinggi nilai-nilai dan norma agama Islam tentunya menolak keberadaan transeksual di lingkungan mereka dan dengan ditolaknya keberadaan transeksual di Adat Minangkabau, transeksual tidak berhak dalam pewarisan dalam waris adat khususnya di Minangkabau. Tujuan dari penulisan ini adalah untuk mengetahui, menjelaskan dan menganalisis tentang pewarisan transeksual dalam Hukum Waris Adat Minangkabau. Kata Kunci : agama, hukum adat, hukum waris, transeksual Abstract Along with the times, there are people who wants to change their sex, which is called transsexual. Factor that cause a person to become transsexual aside from hormonal factors can also occur due to the influence of environmental factors. On the other hand returning to norms and religion is considered to violate the norms and values of custom and religion, in this case, it will cause problems in all aspects of law and life, one of which is related to inheritance for transsexual. In Indonesia, the existence of Adat Law esspecialy in heir matter still recognized. Indigenous peoples especially Adat Minangkabau, who uphold Islamic religious values and norms naturally reject the existence of transsexual in their environment. There fore, transsexual are not entitled to inhertitance in Adat Minangkau in inheritance. The purpose in this paper is to find out, explain, and analyze abput transsexual inhertitance in Minangkabau Adat Law. Keyword : adat law, inheritance adat law, religion, transsexual

scholarly journals Gambling with the Windigo: Theorizing Indigenous Casinos and Gambling in Canada

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-122
Author(s):  
Darrel Manitowabi
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indigenous Epistemology ◽  
Plural Form ◽  
Land Dispossession ◽  
Other Hand

The legacy of colonialism in Canada manifests through land dispossession, structural violence and assimilative policies. Casinos are an anomaly emerging in Canada, becoming major economic engines, generating capital for housing, education, health, and language and cultural rejuvenation programs. On the other hand, the literature on Indigenous casinos raises crucial questions about compromised sovereignty, addiction, and neocolonial economic and political entrapment. This article theorises Indigenous casinos as a modern expression of the windigo. In Algonquian oral history, the windigo is a mythic giant cannibal. The underlying meaning of the windigo is the consumption of Indigenous peoples leading to illness and death. One can become a windigo and consume others, and one must always be cautious of this possibility. I propose casinos and Indigenous-provincial gambling revenue agreements are modern-day windigook (plural form of windigo).  This framework provides an urgently needed new theorisation of casinos, grounded in Indigenous epistemology and ontology.

Impatiens parviflora (small balsam).

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Tanner
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Forest Vegetation ◽  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Impatiens Parviflora ◽  
Undisturbed Forest ◽  
Successful Invader

Abstract I. parviflora is an exceptionally successful invader of many European countries. Its spread has been rapid, it is abundant in many parts of its exotic range and is one of few plants to successfully invade undisturbed forest vegetation. It is consequently regarded as undesirable by some, though there is little evidence of negative economic, social or environmental impacts. Further spread in central Europe is not likely as the species is already very abundant. In North America, on the other hand, it is still very localized. Even without clear evidence for impacts, a further spread there should not be encouraged by deliberate or careless transport of the species.

North America

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond Pierotti ◽  
Brandy R. Fogg
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Reciprocal Relationship ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intermountain West ◽  
Reciprocal Relationships ◽  
Historical Relationship

This chapter explores the historical relationship between Indigenous Americans and wolves illustrated through the stories of Indigenous peoples of North America, especially on the Great Plains and the Intermountain West. Tribal accounts have not been previously employed in scholarly examinations of the origins of “dogs” or studies of domestication. All the Plains tribes examined closely (Cheyenne, Lakota, Blackfoot, Pawnee, Shoshone) have stories characterizing wolves as guides, protectors, or entities that directly taught or showed humans how to hunt, creating reciprocal relationships in which each species provided food for the other or shared food. Indeed, evidence from tribes suggests a coevolutionary reciprocal relationship between Homo sapiens and American Canis lupus that existed until at least the nineteenth century.

The regions of infestation of wool by Noogoora burr (Xanthium strumarium), their climates and the biological control of the weed

1974 ◽  
Vol 25 (5) ◽  
pp. 775 ◽  
Author(s):  
AJ Wapshere
Keyword(s):  
Biological Control ◽  
North America ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Economic Importance ◽  
The Other ◽  
Xanthium Strumarium ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Biological Control Agents ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Pyralid Moth

The distribution in Australia of a vegetable fault in wool caused by Noogoora burr, Xanthium stumarium, is outlined. The climates of the region in Australia where the burr produces maximum contamination of wool and where it is of the greatest economic importance are compared with the climates of North America (Texas) and the Indian subcontinent (New Delhi) from where the cerambycids, Mecas saturnina and Nupserha vexator, have been introduced respectively as biological control agents for the weed. The comparisons suggest that neither agent is climatically pre-adapted to the region in Australia where Noogoora burr has the greatest economic importance. On the other hand, a pyralid moth, Oeobia vevbascalis, from Pakistan is well adapted to the climates of the regions affected.

Retrofitting Fossil Power Plants for Increased Flexibility

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikhil Kumar ◽  
Sundar Venkataraman ◽  
Debra Lew ◽  
Greg Brinkman ◽  
David Palchak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Power Plant ◽  
North America ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
The Other ◽  
Renewable Generation ◽  
Operational Flexibility ◽  
Initial Cost ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wear And Tear

Increased renewable generation on the grid along with market deregulation has resulted in a significant increase in the cycling of coal and gas-fired power plant. This increase in cycling will result in increased wear-and-tear costs for units that were not traditionally designed for cycling. Asset owners can make operational changes to mitigate the wear-and-tear impact or alternatively retrofit existing units for improved flexibility. With retrofits, these plants can provide increased operational flexibility, or in other words cycle more, but this comes at an initial cost. On the other hand, increased flexibility in terms of faster starts, better turndowns and ramp rates also provides opportunity for the asset owners to recover their costs in the market. This paper evaluates the operational, as well as cost-benefit of retrofitting power plants for flexibility using a portfolio of generation resources in North America.

Indications of a Paleo-Indian Co-Tradition for North America

1954 ◽  
Vol 20 (01) ◽  
pp. 64-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Cotter
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Culturally Diverse ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Base ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Western Area ◽  
Continental Area ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Good Number

It is time to consider some recent trends in thought on the paleo-Indian and certain inferences which may be derived from trait evidence so. far discovered. Recently, some specialists on the problem have begun to realize that, although a good number of flaked blade types from the “early man” horizon have been found scattered over North America, there are also certain associated artifacts which bear significant similarities over a continental area. Thus, the idea is taking shape that the paleo-Indian here was not represented by many culturally diverse groups, but was, on the other hand, living perforce in a relatively culturally homogeneous manner since he existed on much the same economic base for several thousand years. Although different techniques and fashions of artifact manufacture were developed, these changes did not necessarily indicate change in a mode of living. In discussing the western area with reference to Danger Cave, Jennings (1953) proposes that many of these “early man” manifestations could be lumped together as the Desert culture.

scholarly journals Modeling a Pre-Touch Reaction Distance around Socially Touchable Upper Body Parts of a Robot

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 7307
Author(s):  
Dario Alfonso Cuello Mejía ◽  
Hidenobu Sumioka ◽  
Hiroshi Ishiguro ◽  
Masahiro Shiomi
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Upper Body ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Reaction Distance ◽  
Distance Analysis ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Touch Interaction

Although before-touch situations are essential to achieve natural touch interactions between people and robots, they receive less attention than after-touch situations. This study reports pre-touch reaction distance analysis results around touchable upper body parts, i.e., shoulders, elbows, and hands, based on human–human pre-touch interaction. We also analyzed the effects of gender, approach side, speed, and acclimation in modeling the pre-touch reaction distance, and found that the distance around the hands is smaller than the distance around the shoulders and elbows, and speed and acclimation affect the distance. On the other hand, gender and approach side do not significantly affect the pre-touch reaction distance. Finally, we implemented the results in a male-looking android and confirmed that it reacted toward pre-touch based on the obtained model.

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