The Cradle of Exotica

2020 ◽  
pp. 4-25
Author(s):  
Karen Polinger Foster
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Natural World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Status ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Commercial Enterprise ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
And Control ◽  
Clay Tablet

This chapter discusses the role of exotica in the Mesopotamian mind. By 1875, The Epic of Gilgamesh had begun to emerge from the thousands of clay tablet fragments freshly unearthed in the remains of the great royal library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh. Gilgamesh’s drive to possess the exotic is rooted in long-standing Mesopotamian tradition. From the third millennium on, when he supposedly reigned, scholar-scribes organized and classified nearly all aspects of the natural world. Thematic lists of flora and fauna, heavenly bodies, precious and semiprecious materials, and topographical features provided the educated elite with a means of conceptualizing patterns and interrelationships. For Gilgamesh, as for many Mesopotamian rulers, the acquisition and display of exotica were key aspects of kingship. Once secured within the walled, urban cores of Mesopotamian cultural identity, exotica offered tangible signs of wide-ranging military might, commercial enterprise, and political status and control.

scholarly journals Dilemmas of resistance: How concerns for cultural identity shape and constrain resistance among minority groups

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew G Livingstone ◽  
Russell Spears ◽  
Antony Manstead ◽  
Damilola Makanju ◽  
Joseph Sweetman
Keyword(s):  
Social Identity ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Integrative Review ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Psychological Models ◽  
Key Aspects

A major theme in social psychological models of collective action is that a sense of shared social identity is a critical foundation for collective action. In this review, we suggest that for many minority groups, this foundational role of social identity can be double edged. This is because material disadvantage is also often coupled with the historical erosion of key aspects of ingroup culture and other group-defining attributes, constituting a threat to the very sense of who “we” are. This combination presents a set of dilemmas of resistance for minority groups seeking to improve their ingroup’s position. Focusing on the role of ingroup language and history, we present an integrative review of our research on five different dilemmas. We conclude that the central role of social identity in collective action and resistance can itself present challenges for groups whose core sense of who they are has been eroded.

scholarly journals The Changing Role of Marketing in the Third Millennium

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 39
Author(s):  
Reshma Sreedharan ◽  
Rehin KR
Keyword(s):  
Competitive Advantage ◽  
Dynamic Environment ◽  
New Techniques ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Changing Role ◽  
New Millennium

<div><p><em>In the 21<sup>st</sup> century, any marketer has to face stiff competition due to the dynamic environment. Nowadays, marketers are offering more value to the customers so that they can gain a competitive advantage. The present customers are now digitally conscious and are opposing the traditional way of marketing. The marketers have to identify the new techniques which can be used to target the new millennium customers and earn sizeable profits. This paper focuses on the emerging marketing trends and its repercussions.<strong></strong></em></p></div>

Role of Eloesser flap and thoracoplasty in the third millennium

2002 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 605-623 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Deslauriers ◽  
Louis F Jacques ◽  
Jocelyn Grégoire
Keyword(s):  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium

scholarly journals The Role of Practical Training in Productivity and Profitability of Organizations in the Third Millennium

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 ◽  
pp. 1970-1975
Author(s):  
Morteza khanmohammadiotaqsara ◽  
Mohammad khalili ◽  
Aabbas mohseni
Keyword(s):  
Practical Training ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium

scholarly journals The Role Of Islamic Values In The Formation And Development Of Civil Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (03) ◽  
pp. 236-239
Author(s):  
Akmal Nasriddinovich Abdullaev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Religious Values ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Islamic Values

The article analyzes one of the most pressing problems of the third millennium from a socio-philosophical point of view: the importance of religious values in the formation of civil society, dialectical relationships, compatibility and problems of Islamic values and values of civil society.

scholarly journals RIPENSARE LA SCUOLA COME LUOGO PRIVILEGIATO DI EDUCAZIONE

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-44
Author(s):  
Rosa Indellicato
Keyword(s):  
Modern Society ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Good Education ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium

The emerging educational question is at the center of a lively cultural debate that revolves around important questions: what is the role of the school in post-modern society? What is the goal of education in the time of globalization? The answer can only be articulated considering the profound transformations that are connoting advanced modernity, in which more and more different conceptions of education and formation coexist, also due to the multicultural and multiethnic character of our society at the beginning of the third millennium. At this point it must be strongly emphasized that a good education moves from a "holistic" anthropological perspective, where they simultaneously find equilibrium between homo rationalis and homo senties. A model of education united by two perspectives: an emotional thinking and an intelligent feeling.

scholarly journals The role of pneumonectomy in thoracic surgery in the third millennium

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 2-2
Author(s):  
Luca Bertolaccini ◽  
Lorenzo Spaggiari
Keyword(s):  
Thoracic Surgery ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Millennium

The Role of Vitamins in Hemostasis

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 (02) ◽  
pp. 191-198
Author(s):  
Armand J Quick
Keyword(s):  
Vitamin K ◽  
Physiological Mechanism ◽  
Factor Vii ◽  
Clotting Factors ◽  
The Third ◽  
Abnormal Bleeding ◽  
Vitamin Q ◽  
Tissue Thromboplastin ◽  
And Control

SummaryThe physiological mechanism to prevent and control abnormal bleeding is dependent on three vitamins (C, K, and Q). Two of these are unequivocally established as essential for hemostasis while the existence of the third (Q) is supported by experimental evidence and by clinical and therapeutic observations (Quick 1972; Quick 1974). The interrelationship of these three vitamins has remained moot except for clue observations. Both vitamins C and K have a key structure in their molecules which supplies a redox mechanism, ascorbic acid and 2-methyl, 1,4-naphthoquinone, respectively. Both vitamins are concerned with growth. Lack of vitamin C, which clinically is the basic defect in scurvy, does not appear to cause a defect in blood coagulation while vitamin K affects the clotting mechanism by being essential for the production of four distinct clotting factors: prothrombin, factors VII, IX and X.In this presentation an attempt is made to correlate the action of the vitamin K-dependent clotting factors grouping them in a diagram to show how two systems of thrombin formation exist, one being essentially intrinsic, the second extrinsic requiring tissue thromboplastin and factor VII. The possible interlocking of vitamin Q in this mechanism is presented.

scholarly journals PATHOGENETIC TREATMENT OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION: THE PLACE OF CALCIUM ANTAGONISTS

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
E. O. Taratukhin ◽  
N. N. Teplova
Keyword(s):  
Arterial Hypertension ◽  
Calcium Antagonists ◽  
Therapeutic Strategies ◽  
Channel Blockers ◽  
Third Generation ◽  
Peripheral Vascular ◽  
The Third ◽  
Key Aspects ◽  
New Evidence

The paper describes the key aspects of arterial hypertension pathogenesis and the relevant therapeutic strategies. The authors discuss the role of increased peripheral vascular resistance and hypervolemia as factors which can be targeted by calcium channel blockers. The new evidence on this medication class, including the third-generation calcium antagonists, is presented. 

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