Arguments for the Age of Serpent Mound

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-450 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley T. Lepper ◽  
James R. Duncan ◽  
Carol Diaz-Granádos ◽  
Tod A. Frolking
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Fort Ancient ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Radiometric Ages ◽  
Original Construction ◽  
Original Configuration

Serpent Mound, in northern Adams County, Ohio, USA, is one of the most iconic symbols of ancient America and yet there is no widely agreed upon date for the age of its original construction. Some archaeologists consider it to have been built by the Adena culture around 300bc, while others contend it was built by the Fort Ancient culture aroundad1100. There have been three attempts to obtain radiometric ages for the effigy, but they have yielded inconclusive results. The iconography of the earthwork offers an alternative means of placing the mound in its cultural context. Serpent imagery is abundant in the Fort Ancient culture as well as in the more encompassing Mississippian Ideological Interaction Sphere. Pictographs from Picture Cave in Missouri include a serpent, a humanoid female and a vulvoid in close association. We interpret these elements, in the light of Siouan oral traditions, as First Woman and her consort the Great Serpent. The Picture Cave imagery dates to betweenad950 and 1025. We argue that these same three elements are represented in the original configuration of Serpent Mound and therefore situate its design and original construction in the Early Fort Ancient period.

Ayurveda and Communicable Diseases

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashok G. Naikar ◽  
Ganapathi Rao ◽  
Panchal Vinayak J.
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
World View ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Practical Aspect ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Local Health ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Pertinent Question ◽  
Cultural Domination

Indian medical heritage flows in two distinctive but mutually complimenting streams. The oral tradition being followed by millions of housewives and thousands of local health practitioners is the practical aspect of codified streams such as Ayurveda, Siddha, Unani. These oral traditions are head based and take care of the basic health needs of the people using immediately available local resources. Majority of these are plant based remedies, supplemented by animal and mineral products. Many of the practices followed by these local streams can be understood and evaluated by the codified stream such as Ayurveda. These streams are not static, historical scrutiny of their evolution shows the enriching phenomena at all times. Thus we have more than 7000 species of higher and lower plants and hundreds of minerals and animal product used in local health tradition to manage hundreds of disease conditions. A pertinent question that arises here is that in which basis these systems got enriched. Is it just trial error method over a point of time which gave rise to this rich tradition, is it an intuitive knowledge born out of close association with nature. One of the reasons for this attitude can be, that one is always made to believe that the science means that which can be explained by western models of logic and epistemology. The world view being developed and adopted by the dominant western scientific paradigm never fits in to the world view being followed and practiced by the indigenous traditions. This is well accepted by us due to the last 200 yrs of political and cultural domination by western and other alien forces.

Mobile Phones Like Any Other ICT?

2011 ◽  
pp. 92-108
Author(s):  
Panayiota Tsatsou
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Close Association ◽  
National Level ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Of Greece

This chapter explores mobile phones and how they have been received in juxtaposition with the Internet and in close association with socio-cultural contexts of life. By examining the Greek case and its particularities, the chapter provides some sense of why different Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as mobile phones and the Internet, might be received and adopted differently by people living in the same socio-cultural context (at the national level). In the case of Greece, statistical and historical data confirm the contrasting receptions of mobile phones and the Internet but empirical evidence is lacking to explain the exceptionally high adoption rates of mobile phones in the country. Thus, the chapter reports on original empirical evidence obtained in elite actors’ interviews and focus groups of ordinary people to explain the contrasting ways mobile phones and the Internet have been received in the country. On the basis of these empirical findings, the chapter finds that certain socio-cultural contexts, such as that of Greece, favour mobile phones more than the Internet, thus making mobile telephony a distinctive case of ICT.

CONVERGENT APPROACH OF LIBERALIZATION AND REGIONAL INEQUALITIES - AN ANALYSIS

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Puranjoy Ghosh ◽  
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Bibhu Kaibalya Manik ◽  
Pallavi Das ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Market Efficiency ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Policy Coherence ◽  
Regional Inequalities ◽  
Coherent Integration ◽  
Alternative Means ◽  
Convergent Approach ◽  
Sustainable Developmental Goals ◽  
Political Economic

Coherent integration for transformation and structural adjustments in the socio-political, economic and cultural realms of each unit within the framework of social democracy might have appeared to be contributory to market-efficiency and the objectives of neo-liberalization as well as economic growth. In the present dispensation the authors have taken the attempt to analyse scales of normative frameworks in the socio-political, socio-economic and cultural context under various timelines to suggest as alternative means, in addition to policy coherence for the sustainable developmental goals.

Representation of Spatial Relations on the Specific Test, Draw-A-Person-with-Face-in-Front, as Indicative of Literacy Skills in Australian Aboriginals and “Westerners”

1984 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 275-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anneliese A. Pontius
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Spatial Relations ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Recent Criticism ◽  
Specific Test ◽  
Remedial Intervention ◽  
The Face ◽  
Simple Measurement ◽  
Aboriginal Children

A novel test, Draw-A-Person-With-Face-In-Front, uses simple measurement with a ruler to detect subtle misrepresentation of spatial relations within the pattern of the human face (in contradistinction to facial recognition tests). Studies have repeatedly shown a close association between misrepresentation of the face and low or absent skills in widely diverse cultural populations and time periods. Recent criticism by Davidson that neglects to consider this particular test and the replications of similar results does not address the main point of my study of Australian Aboriginal children or the specification of remedial intervention made possible by fractionating factors of specific under-used capability within a cultural context.

Cultural Memory and Gādaliyā Luhār Identity in Gujarat

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-214
Author(s):  
Sahdev Luhar ◽  
Dushyant Nimavat
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Oral Narratives ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Valid Evidence ◽  
Specific Community ◽  
Cultural Amnesia

Focused on the cultural memory of the Gādaliya Luhār community in Gujarat, this article discusses ways in which oral traditions and cultural memory among nomadic groups in India shape the identity of a community under the challenge of cultural amnesia. The Gādaliyā Luhārs claim Rājpūt status and close association with the kings of the Mewar region of Rajasthan, but experienced double cultural amnesia, first under the Mughals and later in the British Empire, which affected their identity. The article seeks to assess the authenticity of the community’s assertions of cultural memory in the light of some historical documents and asks to what extent cultural memory through oral narratives can be taken as valid evidence for understanding the cultural identity of a specific community.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Immunocytochemical Localization of Amyloid Protein AA in the “Dense Fibrillar Inclusions” of the Reticuloendothelical Cells

1977 ◽  
Vol 35 ◽  
pp. 438-439
Author(s):  
T. Shirahama ◽  
M. Skinner ◽  
A.S. Cohen
Keyword(s):  
Amyloid Fibril ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Gel Filtration ◽  
Fibril Formation ◽  
Amyloid Protein ◽  
Electron Microscopic ◽  
Amyloid Deposits ◽  
Amyloid Fibril Formation ◽  
Electron Microscopic Technique ◽  
Lysosomal System

A1thought the mechanisms of amyloidogenesis have not been entirely clarified, proteolysis of the parent proteins may be one of the important steps in the amyloid fibril formation. Recently, we reported that "dense fibrillar inclusions" (DFI), which had the characteristics of lysosomes and contained organized fibrillar profiles as well, were observed in the reticuloendothelial cells in close association with the foci of new amyloid deposits. We considered the findings as evidence for the involvement of lysosomal system in amyloid fibril formation (l). In the present study, we attempted to determine the identity of the contents of the DFI by the use of antisera against the amyloid protein (AA) and an immuno-electron microscopic technique.Amyloidosis was induced in CBA/J mice by daily injections of casein (l). AA was isolated from amyloid-laden spleens by gel filtration and antibody to it was produced in rabbits (2). For immunocytochemistry, the unlabeled antibody enzyme method (3) was employed.

Linear Arrays of Helical Polyribosomes in Cells Exposed to Antitumor Drug Vincristine Sulfate

1969 ◽  
Vol 27 ◽  
pp. 358-359
Author(s):  
Awtar Krishan
Keyword(s):  
Close Association ◽  
Annulate Lamellae ◽  
Large Array ◽  
Vincristine Sulfate ◽  
Linear Arrays ◽  
Golgi Membranes ◽  
Related Drug ◽  
Drug Leads ◽  
Lethal Doses ◽  
Vinblastine Sulfate

Earle's L-929 fibroblasts treated with mitosis-arresting but sub-lethal doses of vinblastine sulfate (VLB) show hypertrophy of the granular endoplasmic reticulum and annulate lamellae. Exposure of the cells to heavier doses of vincristine sulfate (VCR), a VLB-related drug, leads to the accumulation of large amounts of helical polyribosomes, Golgi membranes and crystals in the cytoplasm. In many of these cells a large number of helical polyribosomes are arranged in prominent linear rows, some of which may be up to 5 micrometers in length. Figure 1 shows a large array of helical polyribosomes near a crystalline mass (CRS) in an Earle's L-929 fibroblast exposed to VCR (5ϒ/ml.) for 3 hours At a higher magnification, as seen in figure 2, the helical polyribosomes are seen arranged in parallel rows. In favorably cut sections, a prominent backbone like "stalk" of finely granular material, measuring approximately 300Å in width is seen in close association with the linear rows of helical polyribosomes.

SEM analysis of fish scale cross sections: A technique study

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 744-745
Author(s):  
M.E. Lee ◽  
A. Moller ◽  
P.S.O. Fouche ◽  
I.G Gaigher
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Scanning Electron Microscopy ◽  
Cross Sections ◽  
Soft Tissues ◽  
Close Association ◽  
Sem Analysis ◽  
Fish Scale ◽  
Fish Scales ◽  
Micro Structures ◽  
Scanning Electron

Scanning electron microscopy of fish scales has facilitated the application of micro-structures to systematics. Electron microscopy studies have added more information on the structure of the scale and the associated cells, many problems still remain unsolved, because of our incomplete knowledge of the process of calcification. One of the main purposes of these studies has been to study the histology, histochemistry, and ultrastructure of both calcified and decalcified scales, and associated cells, and to obtain more information on the mechanism of calcification in the scales. The study of a calcified scale with the electron microscope is complicated by the difficulty in sectioning this material because of the close association of very hard tissue with very soft tissues. Sections often shatter and blemishes are difficult to avoid. Therefore the aim of this study is firstly to develop techniques for the preparation of cross sections of fish scales for scanning electron microscopy and secondly the application of these techniques for the determination of the structures and calcification of fish scales.

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