Byzantine Lives: Discussing Nonbinary Sexuality, Gender, and Race in Byzantium

When looking at eating beyond physical nourishment, British anthropologist Mary Douglas (1921-2007) defined food as a cultural system, or code that communicates not only biological information, but social structure and meaning. What can a study of food and faith teach us, as scholars of religion, that we might not otherwise know? This article outlines thematic and pedagogical approaches to teaching food and religion through the lens of five semesters of teaching this course to undergraduate and graduate students. In it, I explore the topics of Food memory and community; Food and scripture; Food, gender and race; and Stewardship and Charity, thinking about spiritual and physical nourishment in the world's major religious traditions.

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Exploring the Facial Color Representative Regions Using the Humanae Images

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology ◽

10.2352/j.imagingsci.technol.2020.64.6.060406 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Yuchun Yan ◽

Hayan Choi ◽

Hyeon-Jeong Suk

Keyword(s):

Image Analysis ◽

Future Study ◽

Skin Color ◽

Color Difference ◽

Facial Skin ◽

Female Images ◽

Gender And Race ◽

Facial Landmarks

It is difficult to describe facial skin color through a solid color as it varies from region to region. In this article, the authors utilized image analysis to identify the facial color representative region. A total of 1052 female images from Humanae project were selected as a solid color was generated for each image as their representative skin colors by the photographer. Using the open CV-based libraries, such as EOS of Surrey Face Models and DeepFace, 3448 facial landmarks together with gender and race information were detected. For an illustrative and intuitive analysis, they then re-defined 27 visually important sub-regions to cluster the landmarks. The 27 sub-region colors for each image were finally derived and recorded in L ∗ , a ∗ , and b ∗ . By estimating the color difference among representative color and 27 sub-regions, we discovered that sub-regions of below lips (low Labial) and central cheeks (upper Buccal) were the most representative regions across four major ethnicity groups. In future study, the methodology is expected to be applied for more image sources.

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A RESPONSE TO "DIFFERENCES IN MOTOR PROFICIENCY ACCORDING TO GENDER AND RACE" BY CAROL E. PLIMPTON AND CELIA REGIMBAL

Perceptual and Motor Skills ◽

10.2466/pms.75.4.105-106 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 75 (4) ◽

pp. 105

Author(s):

MARTIN DALE RUCK

Keyword(s):

Motor Proficiency ◽

Gender And Race

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On Haslanger’s Meta-Metaphysics: Social Structures and Metaphysical Deflationism

Disputatio ◽

10.2478/disp-2018-0013 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (50) ◽

pp. 201-216

Author(s):

E. Díaz-León

Keyword(s):

Social Structures ◽

Gender And Race ◽

Area Of Concern ◽

Analytic Metaphysics

Abstract The metaphysics of gender and race is a growing area of concern in contemporary analytic metaphysics, with many different views about the nature of gender and race being submitted and discussed. But what are these debates about? What questions are these accounts trying to answer? And is there real disagreement between advocates of differ- ent views about race or gender? If so, what are they really disagreeing about? In this paper I want to develop a view about what the debates in the metaphysics of gender and race are about, namely, a version of metaphysical deflationism, according to which these debates are about how we actually use or should use the terms ‘gender’ and ‘race’ (and other related terms), where moral and political considerations play a central role. I will also argue that my version of the view can overcome some recent and powerful objections to metaphysical deflationism of- fered by Elizabeth Barnes (2014, 2017).

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