From Fighting to Joy in Kendo

Paragrana ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 269-280
Author(s):  
Jörg Potrafki
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Martial Art ◽  
Personal Relation ◽  
Body Activity ◽  
Japanese Art ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Individual

Abstract To trace joyful emotions in the practice of the Japanese art of fencing is quiet complicate and uncommon. As a former martial art Kendo is straightly connected with the mortal sword fighting of the Middle Ages. Today the fight with sharp swords has been replaced by a competition trough using the sportive protection armor and bamboo sword. The serious contest between the opponents with the reference to the life-or-death constellation of ancient times marks the activity in Kendo. The primary aim is the verification of the individual development, arising from the combination of an adult character and sportive skills. At the highest level of Kendo the development of a positive personal relation to the partner is being created via the hard and battlesome competition. Under specified conditions the fight yells harmony and empathy in a social interaction through the body activity of two individuals.

WESTERN NOMADIC DISCOURSE AND THE DISCOVERY OF THE OTHER

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 244-252
Author(s):  
Brahim BOUKHALFA
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Travel Literature ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries

The yearning for a journey towards the places of strangers, the longing to mingle with them and immerse themselves in their lives, and to record everything that is strange and wondrous about their lifestyle, their ways of thinking, their customs and traditions, that is the nature that characterizes man, since ancient times. The lives of the prophets, may blessings and peace be upon them, were frenetic migrations, and a constant movement, length and breadth, in search of a place of intimacy, a comfortable life, and a bright truth. Western poets, writers, philosophers and travelers have also been fond of the journey to the Naked and Islamic East, from the Middle Ages to the present day; The desire to get to know the Easterners closely, to mix with them, and then to dominate them, was evident in the so-called travel literature. It is the writing emanating from the experiences of travelers in the eastern "One Thousand and One Nights". However, these travelers have always hidden the true intentions that drove them on the journey, which, as we will present in the body of this study, are colonial motives deposited in the political consciousness of Western governments that stand behind the colonial phenomenon. It is from this perspective in the research that urgent questions come to the surface, which we are trying to answer. What are the real motives for the trip for Western writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? What is their relationship with the Western governments that were colonizing large areas of the Arab countries? What are the representations of Arabs and Muslims in so-called travel literature? The answer to these questions is to reveal to us the colonial nature of the modern West, and the extent of its contempt for non-Westerners, which is supported by myths of racial superiority and self-centeredness in that. It is a belief that has not been affected by the tremendous development in the field of human sciences that our time has witnesse

The Body between Religion and Spirituality

2009 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Giordan
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religion And Spirituality ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Religious Attitude ◽  
Spiritual Dimension ◽  
Body And Soul ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Relationship

The distinction between religion and spirituality, as it is increasingly understood in the contemporary sociology of religion, has led to a reconsideration of the relation between the individual and his/her own body. In the Christian ambit, and especially in the Catholic sphere, the traditional religious attitude has always been that of emphasizing the dichotomy between soul and body, setting a hierarchy that puts the soul in a position superior to the body's, according to an ascetic approach that, particularly in the Middle Ages, foresaw the “mortification of the body”. In the contemporary spiritualist perspective, body and soul are seen as profoundly united, and the previous dichotomy seems to leave room for a more serene and less conflictual connection with one's body: spirituality relates to the sacred by leaving room for (and deriving from) emotions, feelings, the physical and the sexual, and takes a holistic view of human nature. Such a shift from the religious dimension to the spiritual dimension in the relationship with one's body can be observed not only in popular culture but also within Catholicism itself.

scholarly journals Ecogenesis of organs and tissues formation of in cattle in the embryonic period

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 ◽  
pp. 03016
Author(s):  
Nikolay Fenchenko ◽  
Nazira Hairullina ◽  
Albina Aminova ◽  
Munir Sabitov ◽  
Fanus Shagaliev
Keyword(s):  
Live Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Internal Organs ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Serum Gonadotropin ◽  
The Individual

The article gives a comparative aspect of the organism development periodization, depending on the gender and age of the fetus. It was established that in the individual development of animals, there is a specific biological regularity of periodicity. It is indicated by the unequal growth of individual organs and the organism as a whole at different stages of ontogenesis, age-related features in the growth of individual parts and proportions of the body, as well as changes in the requirements of a growing organism to living conditions. At different stages of animal embryogenesis, there is a rather short period of a sharp increase in metabolism, as well as the intensity and usefulness of self-renewal, which to some extent, is an indicator of the growth rate of the fetus depending on gender. Pituitary and serum gonadotropins were used to induce ovulation of cows. As a result, in the group where pituitary gonadotropin was used, 87.5% of cows with pregnancy of 91.7% showed desire, 75% of serum gonadotropin with 87.5% of pregnancy. An analysis of the obtained data shows that in the second stage of embryonic development, the intensity of the formation of internal organs slows down, while the intensity of increasing the live weight of the fetus increases, regardless of groups.

scholarly journals CHANGES IN LINEAR MEASUREMENTS AND LIVE WEIGHT WITH AGE IN PUREBRED AND CROSSBRED PIGLETS

PIG-BREEDING ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
LEVSHIN A.D. ◽  
◽  
KULMAKOVA N.I. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Growth And Development ◽  
Live Weight ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Universal Method ◽  
Linear Measurements ◽  
Relative Growth ◽  
Experimental Animals ◽  
Weight Growth ◽  
The Individual

Since changes in linear measurements and the live weight of animals are manifested in a very multifaceted way, it is difficult to imagine their study and accounting using a single universal method. This problem can be solved by using a variety of methods and techniques for studying the individual development of the body. This article is devoted to the study of the features of growth and development in purebred breeding and interbreed hybridization based on the study of the intensity of live weight growth, the dynamics of average daily increases in relative growth rate and linear measurements of experimental animals.

scholarly journals Development of plastic surgery

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (5-6) ◽  
pp. 199-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marija Pecanac
Keyword(s):  
Plastic Surgery ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Medical Specialty ◽  
Neck Surgery ◽  
The Body ◽  
Surgical Reconstruction ◽  
Body Parts ◽  
Esthetic Surgery ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Reconstructive Plastic Surgery

Introduction. Plastic surgery is a medical specialty dealing with corrections of defects, improvements in appearance and restoration of lost function. Ancient Times. The first recorded account of reconstructive plastic surgery was found in ancient Indian Sanskrit texts, which described reconstructive surgeries of the nose and ears. In ancient Greece and Rome, many medicine men performed simple plastic cosmetic surgeries to repair damaged parts of the body caused by war mutilation, punishment or humiliation. In the Middle Ages, the development of all medical braches, including plastic surgery was hindered. New age. The interest in surgical reconstruction of mutilated body parts was renewed in the XVIII century by a great number of enthusiastic and charismatic surgeons, who mastered surgical disciplines and became true artists that created new forms. Modern Era. In the XX century, plastic surgery developed as a modern branch in medicine including many types of reconstructive surgery, hand, head and neck surgery, microsurgery and replantation, treatment of burns and their sequelae, and esthetic surgery. Contemporary and future plastic surgery will continue to evolve and improve with regenerative medicine and tissue engineering resulting in a lot of benefits to be gained by patients in reconstruction after body trauma, oncology amputation, and for congenital disfigurement and dysfunction.

scholarly journals Proses Penerimaan Diri Pada Remaja Tunadaksa Berprestasi Yang Bersekolah Di Sekolah Umum Dan Sekolah Luar Biasa (SLB)

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A.Istri Pritha Anindita Indra ◽  
Putu Nugrahaeni Widiasavitri
Keyword(s):  
Public School ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
The Body ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Individual Consciousness ◽  
Self Acceptance ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Age Range

Quadriplegic is a term that is used as the identification of individual who have difficulty in optimizing the function of the body. Various obstacles faced by raising various negative reactions from the quadriplegic. Types of schools chosen by the individual quadriplegic as a means to get an education can bring out difference in environmental conditions encountered, which will certainly affect the learning performance of the individual. Outside of the phenomenon, uniquely, researcher found that there were cases of quadriplegic who attended public school and extraordinary school, which are able to accept the condition of themselves to be able to achieve the achievement in adolescence. Self-acceptance is an individual consciousness to accept the conditions of self as it is, which self-acceptance is one of the individual development task that are in the age range in adolescence. Based on this thing, the researcher is interested to find out about the process of self-acceptance on meritorious quadriplegic adolescent. This study used a qualitative research method with case study research design. Respondents in this study can be divided into two categories based on gender that is male and female, which in each category used each number one respondent. The result of this study indicates that there are three phases passed by quadriplegic adolescents in the process of self-acceptance, which is the initial phase, conflict phase, and the receiving phase. There are some differences in the dynamics at each phase that passed between male and female quadriplegic adolescents.   Keywords: self-acceptance process, quadriplegic adolescent, meritorious, public school, extraordinary school.

scholarly journals Communicative and translational functionality of religion and its basic manifestations

2004 ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Leonid A. Vyhovsʹkyy
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Social Experience ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Individual Experience ◽  
Sign Systems ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Individual

Religion in society is known to be an important factor in people's social interaction because it provides a certain type of communication. In the process of such communication, the necessary information and social experience of previous generations is transmitted. Therefore, religion is to some extent a historical memory of the community. Defining itself in certain sign systems (oral traditions in ancient times, later - in the "sacred books", confessional languages, etc.), social experience of past generations becomes public and becomes the property of new generations of people. From now on, it is no longer necessary for each individual individually to experience everything in their own experience. The individual experience of a person may to some extent be replaced by the results of the experience of their predecessors, and therefore the need to "invent a bicycle" every time

Management und Kampfsport

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 15-19
Author(s):  
Elke von Oehsen ◽  
Torsten Czenskowsky
Keyword(s):  
Process Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Leadership Behavior ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
Management By Objectives ◽  
Martial Art ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Development Of Behavior

Dieser Artikel beschäftigt sich mit dem Zusammenwirken ostasiatischer Kampfkunst und Prinzipien des modernen Managements vor dem Hintergrund der gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Hinsichtlich des individuellen Reifeprozesses, des Verhaltens in Gruppen und in Unternehmen und Organisationen wird dargelegt, wie sich Manager bei der Optimierung ihres eigenen Führungsverhaltens an Kampfkunstprinzipien orientieren können. An Beispielen, wie dem Entscheidungs- und Planungsgedanken, dem Management by Objectives und der Konkurrenzforschung werden Übereinstimmungen und Unterschiede zwischen westlicher und östlicher Herangehensweisen verdeutlicht. Letztlich erweist sich das Gedankengut der Kampfkunstautoren als anregend für Manager. The article deals with the interaction of east asian martial art and principles of modern management in the view of the fact of social and economic development. Concerning the individual development of behavior in groups, companies and certain organizations, the example shows how managers orientate their own leadership behavior by martial art. Moreover, the examples dealing with decision- and planning-process, management by objectives and competition research illustrate congruence as well as differences between western and eastern approaches. Ultimately, the last ones prove to be inspiring for managers. Keywords: schulung, ostasien, leitungsprinzip, kampfkunst

scholarly journals Historicising stress: anguish and insomnia in the middle ages

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 20190094 ◽  
Author(s):  
William MacLehose
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
The Body ◽  
Historical Materials ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Modern Condition

While the concept of ‘stress' in the modern sense is a twentieth-century innovation, many of the symptoms we associate with the modern condition appear in historical materials going back many centuries. But how did premodern people understand and experience these symptoms and their relation to sleep? This study focuses on the rich materials from the central middle ages in Western Europe, a period during which understandings of the body, mind, emotions and sleep were radically different from the present. It analyses two examples, nightmares and insomnia, disease categories which illustrate medieval views of the impact of worries and anguish on sleep. Medical and other sources identified a number of ways in which the mind and body interacted with one another in complex ways which disrupted the humoral and mental balance of the individual.

Body, Discourse, and the Cultural Politics of Contemporary Chinese Qigong

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 961-991 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Xu
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Cultural Imperialism ◽  
Martial Art ◽  
International Environment ◽  
Mind And Body ◽  
Training Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Many asian cultures have rich traditions of self-cultivation that exercise mind and body through physical and meditational training. Research and scholarship with respect to those traditions have focused fruitfully on how the body is cultivated to serve as an agent of resistance against various forms of social control. Of these many writings on this subject, I will here name only a suggestive few: Joseph Alter's study of Indian wrestling (1993), for example, tracks the wrestlers' self-conscious reappropriation of their bodies from the power of the state through a regimented discipline aimed at resisting docility. John Donohue's study of the Japanese martial art karate (1993) explores how, in the West, karate's symbolic and ritual functions create a psychological dynamic that counters the prevalent fragmentation of urban life. Douglas Wile's research on Chinese taiji quart (1996) similarly reconstructs the cultural/historical context in which this martial art was created. He shows that what motivated nineteenth-century literati to create taiji quan was its representational function rather than its practical utility. That is, Taiji quan “may be seen as a psychological defense against Western cultural imperialism” (p. 26) insofar as it produced a secure sense of the national self that helped China adapt to a new international environment (p. 29). All of these studies place the body-in-cultivation in a specific historical context; they maintain that the individual, physical body both registers and reveals the national sociopolitical landscape.

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