scholarly journals APROXIMACIÓN A LA NOCIÓN DE PERSONA EN MAM

Author(s):  
Cecilio Luis Rosales ◽  
Cecilio Luis Rosales

Para el estudio de la noción de persona en mam consideré importante, desde el punto de vista metodológico, partir de la descripción de los ritos dedicados a la Siembra del niño y a la Siembra del ombligo. Son dos rituales de los llamados de destino y propiciatorio, respectivamente, ambos se practican en el cuerpo del recién nacido. Dichos rituales los vinculo con el mito de la creación del hombre mam con el objetivo de contextualizar la noción que se tiene de persona.La Siembra del ombligo es tarea reservada a la b’etx’el, partera, mientras que la de la cruz le corresponde al chiman, es decir al ajq’ij. Los conceptos usuales con los que se conocen los rituales de Siembra de la cruz son dos: el xochil, que define la manera en que se establece el lugar sagrado para depositar las cruces de la familia, las de la comunidad y las de la región; por lo general son sitios en donde hay laguna, cerros, volcanes y ríos; y el pusunke, que es la ceremonia de la bebida ceremonial ofrecida a la cruz y a las entidades anímicas de los bautizados. El problema de configurar lo que los mames entienden por persona es muy complejo por varias razones: se carece de estudios que aborden dicho punto entre este grupo indígena. Los conceptos atribuibles a la noción de persona en estas páginas son, por razones de traducción, aproximaciones. Por lo tanto, presento los dos rituales y el mito de creación del hombre mam como una manera de acercarnos al entendimiento del tema, y se añaden otros asuntos relacionados, que podrían profundizarse en el futuro, tales como: el principio de intercambio y de reciprocidad; la jerarquía política religiosa; el uso y manejo del tiempo, y el espacio en el calendario ritual, entre los principales.   ABSTRACT For the study of the notion of person in mam — indigenous people from Mesoamerica— I considered it important, from the methodological point of view, to part from the description of the rituals dedicated to the Siembra del niño —“Seedtime of the offspring”— and the Siembra del ombligo —“Seedtime of the navel”—. Both ritual are practiced on the body of newborn. I link these rituals with the myth of the creation of the human being within the mam with the objective of contextualizing their notion of person. Seedtime of the navel is a task reserved to the b'etx'el or midwife, while the propitiatory ritual or Ritual de la cruz corresponds to chiman, that is to say, to ajq'ij. The basic concepts of the Ritual de la cruz are the following: xochil, which defines the sacred place where to deposit the crosses of the family, the community and those belonging to the region; generally they are located in sacred places as lagoons, hills, volcanos and rivers; and pusunke, the ceremonial drink, is offered to the cross and the animic entities of the baptized ones.The problems to understand the mam conception of person are very complex for several reasons, but the basic problem is still the lack of studies and an specific methodology to approach this issue. The concepts related to the notion of person in these pages are, for reasons of translation, obviously only an aproximation. Therefore, I present both mam rituals, as well as the myth of creation of the humanity, as a way to approach the understanding of the subject. Other related subjects are added, that should be further investigated in the future such as: a) the principle of interchange and reciprocity; b) the religious political hierarchy, c) the use and handling of time and space in the ritual calendar. Specialists termed this ritual “propitiatory ritual”, while mam people called it Siembra de la cruz and in another region is called Ritual de la cruz. The chiman´s lexicon b´etx´el is related to the way in which a mam speaks to his grandfathers, but in the southern mam region of Guatemala, this term is used in a reciprocal way in grandfathers - grandson kinship relations; while across the mountain and in the central mam region of Chiapas, México, the term used is b'etx’el or yoq´ol, taking the meaning of “who gives massages” o “who pulses with her hands”, same word that designates the midwife.

2020 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 236-242
Author(s):  
K. Galiyeva ◽  
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S. Isakova ◽  

The article is devoted to the definition of concept in modern linguistics. Various points of view and definitions of the basic concepts are considered: "concept", "conceptual sphere", "content". The aim of the article is to describe and explain such a complex unit as a concept from the point of view of linguistics. The object of research is studied in its various manifestations, the combination of verbal and nonverbal means of information expression in the conceptual sphere is revealed. the relevance of this topic is due to the need for a detailed consideration of the concept of concept based on the works of prominent scientists and linguists. Researchers treat the concept as a cognitive, psycholinguistic, linguocultural, cultural and linguistic phenomenon. The concept is an umbrella term because it "covers" the subject areas of several scientific fields: primarily cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics.


2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-87
Author(s):  
Petko Hristov

Among the Orthodox Christians on the Balkans, the rituals of Christian baptism and marriage traditionally give rise to ritual kinship relationships, not only among individuals but also among family groups that were until then unrelated. Only among Bulgarians, Serbians, and Macedonians, these relationships are carried on hereditarily and are constructed according to the patrilineal kinship model. The godfather’s role ( kumstvo) is inherited as symbolic capital by the family-kin groups of both the godparents and the godchildren. These are relations of symbolic inequality and have a ritual character: both the calendar feast cycle and the lifecycle rituals are marked by symbolic rights and obligations, which are still observed until the present day in most Bulgarian families, for example, mandatory gift exchange. The belief in the power of the godparent’s curse is still alive today in a number of regions in Bulgaria. On the other hand, the godparent tradition among Bulgarians acquired new meaning and new dimensions during the decades of socialism and postsocialist transition. During the last two or three decades, the godparent relationship has become a way of building new social networks, often of a clientelist nature. More and more often, ritual kinship relations are used for benefits and hierarchical ascent, similarly to nepotism. This process leads to the reformation of social networks—it still functions as social capital, but to each new generation. Every new family chooses different godparents, thus creating new social networks. Research about godparent relations among Bulgarians and, more generally, on the Balkans, is based on both existing studies on the subject and on the author’s personal fieldwork research in Bulgaria.


Author(s):  
Anna A. Toropova ◽  

Family issues and the topic of social family policy in Greece is the subject of researches by a number of Greek sociologists (V. Filias (Β. Φίλιας), G.-S. Prevelakis (Γ.-Σ. Πρεβελάκης), H. Simeonidou (Χ. Συμεωνίδου), G. Georgas (Γ. Γεωργάς), L. Musuru (Λ. Μουσούρου), L. Maratu-Aliprandi (Λ. Μαράτου-Αλιπράντη). It seems interesting and useful to consider the situation in Greece from the point of view of its ambivalent nature: traditional values and patriarchal order, on the one hand, and adherence to liberal European sentiments, on the other. In the modern world, there is a "reformatting of ideas about the essence of family and marriage" [Noskova A. V., 2017: 123], which leads, in particular, to the rejection of having children, to increasingly frequent divorces "for no reason", to irresponsibility in awareness roles in the family, to the vulnerability of socialization, to the infantilism of adults, to avoidance of awareness of problems of various kinds, to egocentrism. Modern Greece is not an exception. The growing number of single-parent families in cities, low birth rates, divorces, loneliness, depression are characteristic features of many families. This allows us to speak about the “crisis of the Greek family” [Γεωργάς, 2010]. This research may be of interest to specialists dealing with the topic of the family, and significantly supplement the existing research in the domestic sociological field.


1975 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-221
Author(s):  
Dieter B. Kapp

AbstractThe present article is concerned with “the chapter of the description of the [four] categories of women”, the strībhedavarana-khaa, which comprises the stanzas 463–467 of the great romantic poem Padumāvatī. It was composed ca. 1540 A.D. by the Muslim poet Malik Muammad Jāyasī, the most significant representative of the ūfī poets of Oudh, in Old Avadhi, the language of his native country.This study opens with a general introduction about the author and his chef-d'œuvre, which also gives the contents of the epic. The subject dealt with here is introduced by a short synopsis on the tradition of the description of the four categories of women, i.e. padminī, citriī, śakhinī, and hastinī, in Sanskrit erotic literature. Text and translation of the strībhedavarana-khaa, together with exhaustive notes, form the greater part of this article. The notes which appear after the translation of each verse, aim mainly at comparing Jāyasī's conception of the four categories of women with those held by authors of Sanskrit texts on this subject. For purpose of comparison, more than ten Sanskrit texts, beginning with Kokkoka's Ratirahasya, which was composed before 1200 A.D., have been cited. Besides, various quotations both from Sanskrit literature and from Arabic narrative literature have been given as illustrative examples, particularly in those cases, where no parallels for specific details in Jāyasī's description could be found in the Sanskrit texts referred to.The comparison of Jāyasī's conception of the four categories of women with those held by Kokkoka and his epigones, points to the conclusion that probably Jāyasī has not used any definite literary source for writing this particular chapter, but rather has relied upon possibly wide-spread popular traditions of this system of classification of women.Two conspicuous peculiarities in Jāyasī's very detailed description which are worthy of special note, have been discussed at the conclusion of the introductory remarks. The first is the “confusion” of the termini sakhinī and sighinī, that has been imputed to the poet by several editors of his œuvre; from my point of view, however, this “confusion” was fully intended by the author. The second peculiarity is Jāyasī's apparently individual interpretation of the so-called “sixteen śgāras”, i.e. “methods of decoration of the body”, which combined with the “twelve ābharaas”, i.e. “ornaments”, are generally known as the complete ornamentation of woman. According to Jāyasī, the “sixteen śgāras” are the “sixteen physical refinements”, divided into four groups: (1) four parts of the body (in the widest sense of the word) having “longness”, i.e. hair, fingers, eyes, neck, (2) four having “shortness”, i.e. teeth, breasts, forehead, navel, (3) four having “broadness”, i.e. cheeks, buttocks, arms, calves, and (4) four having “slenderness”, i.e. nose, waist, belly, lips.


2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (129) ◽  
pp. 247
Author(s):  
Xavier Lacroix

O artigo denuncia a perda do verdadeiro sentido do corpo no dualismo e na falsa valoração do corpo, opondo-lhe a articulação de natureza, espírito e liberdade. O pensamento ocidental que faz vinte séculos se obstina em distinguir e em opor corpo e alma conduz ao intelectualismo de Descartes, reforçado pela relação tecnicista com o mundo, e a cisão sujeito-objeto que domina a modernidade. Mostra quatro exemplos, respectivamente no transumanismo, na gender theory, nas atuais representações da família e em certas formas de religiosidade. Em seguida apresenta uma abordagem filosófica, falando da contribuição da fenomenologia, da pertença a um corpo maior e, depois de resumir a argumentação filosófica, da tarefa de articular natureza e cultura. Apresenta também os argumentos de tipo teológico (criação, encarnação, antropologia ternária de corpo, alma e espírito...), culminando no mistério pascal e no critério ético significativamente corporal da parábola do juízo. ABSTRACT: The article denounces the loss of the true meaning of the body in the dualism and false valuation of the body, opposing his articulation of nature, spirit and freedom. The Western thought that is twenty centuries old is obstinate in distinguishing and in opposing body and soul leading to the intellectualism of Descartes, reinforced by the technical relationship with the world, and the subject-object Division that dominates modernity. The article shows four examples, respectively in the “transhumanism”, on gender theory, in the current representations of the family and in certain forms of religiosity. The article then presentes a philosophical approach, talking about the contribution of Phenomenology, of belonging to a larger body and, after summarizing the philosophical argumentation.


Al-Ahkam ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 263
Author(s):  
Nur Aris

This paper intends to review the basic concepts of crescent issue as the most fundamental concepts of the Hijri calendar systems. The crescent basic concept of ṭulū‘ al-hilāl, based on these principles: first, put the crescent as a matter of objective existence does not depend on the subject or observer, but the object itself. Second, the lower moon extremity as a conceptual reference for basic concepts. Third, the beginning of the lunar calender is based on crescent moon rising. This paper also tries to determine the cause of the beginning of lunar calender with the normative traditions of the prophet to analyze the visual sighting of the crescent and istikmāl from the philosophy of Islamic Law’s point of view. Normative cause of fasting Ramadan is not obligatory visual sighting of the crescent of Ramadan, but the rising of the crescent (ṭulū‘ al-hilāl). Visual sighting of the crescent and istikmāl and also Astronomy is a way to find out and make sure that the cause has occurred and they are not the cause by itself


2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (04) ◽  
pp. 39-55
Author(s):  
Rosa Lagos Torres

Este artículo muestra los efectos de la época y la cultura actual sobre la relación con el cuerpo, considerado como una unidad de valor en el mercado. Desde el psicoanálisis, en un recorrido por la noción de cuerpo tanto en Freud como en Lacan, se presenta una noción de cuerpo distinta a la de la medicina, diferenciando cuerpo y organismo, estableciendo que no hay El cuerpo, sino tantos cuerpos como sujetos, siendo el cuerpo concebido como una construcción a partir de la palabra y de la imagen, dando lugar al síntoma (Freud) como metáfora alojada en el cuerpo y como sinthome (Lacan) en tanto acontecimiento del cuerpo que empalma al sujeto con su modalidad de gozar, al hablante ser en su singular modalidad de satisfacción pulsional. This paper shows the effects of the times and the current culture on the relationship with the body, considered as a unit of value in the market. From the psychoanalysis point of view, on a tour of the notion of the body, with Freud, and Lacan both, the notion of body is different from the body presented by the medicine, distinguishing between body and organism. Stating that there is not A body, but many bodies as subjects, being the body, conceived as a construction from the word and the image, resulting in the symptom (Freud) and housed in the body as a metaphor and as a sinthome (Lacan) in all events of the body, that matches the subject with its way jouissance to the parletre in its singular modality of pulsional satisfaction.


2019 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 371-377
Author(s):  
Judith Wambacq ◽  

Avec son livre La machine sensible, Stefan Kristensen réalise, de façon magistrale, deux objectifs. D’abord, il met en lien la pensée de deux philosophes qui sont à première vue très éloignés l’un de l’autre. Il s’agit de Félix Guattari et de Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Traditionnellement, Merleau-Ponty est considéré comme le philosophe du corps, tandis que Guattari est connu comme le philosophe du corps sans organes. Merleau-Ponty est un phénoménologue, tandis que Guattari prétend abandonner le point de vue du sujet. Kristensen démontre avec succès quel est le terrain commun des deux auteurs : la critique de la conception psychanalytique du sujet.Le deuxième objectif du livre découle directement du premier : présenter au lecteur une alternative à la conception intimiste de la subjectivité, soit comprendre la subjectivité comme fondamentalement parcourue par une altérité. Merleau-Ponty a été l’un des premiers, à l’instar de Paul Schilder, à mettre l’accent sur le caractère collectif et intersubjectif de cette altérité. Guattari a compris que cette altérité possède des sédiments politiques et historiques.With his book La machine sensible, Stefan Kristensen accomplishes two goals in a masterly way. First, he links the works of two philosophers who are very different at first sight: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Félix Guattari. Traditionally, Merleau-Ponty is considered the philosopher of the body, whereas Guattari is known as the philosopher of the body without organs. Merleau-Ponty is a phenomenologist, whereas Guattari pretends to abandon the point of view of the subject. Kristensen identifies the common ground of the two authors: the criticism of the psychoanalytical conception of the subject.The second goal of the book derives directly from the first: present the reader with an alternative for the intimate conception of subjectivity, that is, present him or her with the idea that subjectivity is always characterized by an alterity. Merleau-Ponty, following the example of Paul Schilder, has been one of the first to stress the collective and intersubjective nature of this alterity. Guattari has understood that this alterity has political and historical sediments.Con il suo libro La machine sensible, Stefan Kristensen realizza magistralmente due obiettivi. Innanzitutto, egli mette in relazione il pensiero di due filosofi a prima vista molto distanti tra loro: Félix Guattari e Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Se tradizionalmente Merleau-Ponty è considerato il filosofo del corpo, Guattari è invece noto come il filosofo del corpo senza organi. Merleau-Ponty è un fenomenologo, mentre il pensiero di Guattari intende abbandonare il punto di vista del soggetto. Kristensen propone allora di leggere la critica della concezione psicoanalitica del soggetto come terreno comune tra i due autori. Il secondo obiettivo del libro discende direttamente dal primo: presentare al lettore un’alternativa alla concezione intimista della soggettività, ovvero concepire la soggettività come fondamentalmente percorsa da un’alterità. Merleau-Ponty è tra i primi, sulla scorta di Paul Schilder, a porre l’accento sul carattere collettivo e intersoggettivo di questa alterità. Dal canto suo, Guattari ha compreso che questa alterità possiede dei sedimenti politici e storici.


1971 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
pp. 139-158

Edward Foyle Collingwood was born on 17 January 1900 at Lilburn Tower, near Wooler, Northumberland, and died suddenly of a heart attack at Lilburn Tower on 25 October 1970. He came of a very old Northumberland family whose roots go back before 1600 and branches of it spread all over the country, but what is of much greater significance from the scientific point of view is that he was descended from John, the third brother of Admiral Lord Collingwood of Caldbourne and Hethpool, the two older brothers dying without issue. John’s only son, Edward John, bought Lilburn Tower in 1842 from the trustees of H. J. W. Collingwood of Cornhill, and was succeeded one after another by his three sons, Edward John, a bachelor who died in 1903, Arthur Burdett who died without issue in 1927, and Colonel Cuthbert George who had lived at Glanton Pyke and moved to Lilburn Tower in 1928. He immediately handed over the Lilburn Estates to his eldest son, Edward Foyle, the subject of this notice, who was in fact only three generations removed from the Admiral. Edward Foyle Collingwood’s mother Dorothy, still living at the time of writing, is the daughter of the Rev. William Fawcett of Somerford Keynes, Gloucestershire, and the name Foyle recalls her grandmother who was coheiress with her sister of the Somerford Keynes estate, and his mother was always a strong influence in the family. Three other sons were born in quick succession so that they formed a close-knit family and were able to do together all the usual country sports and pastimes of boys and did them well, especially shooting and fishing. Edward went to Osborne in 1913, Dartmouth in 1914, and a year later joined the Navy as a midshipman in H.M.S. Collingwood (by special arrangement). Two of his brothers survive him, Group Captain C. J. Collingwood who followed him through Osborne and Dartmouth just one year behind, and the youngest, Lieutenant-General Sir George Collingwood.


The comparative study of the gill structure of the Lamellibranchia may be said to date from 1875. Williams, it is true, had in 1854 published two papers on the subject, but owing to the fact that the morphological relations of the gill lamellæ to the gill axis and to other parts of the body were not then understood, and owing to the somewhat wild and fantastic mode of argument affected by this author, they cannot claim to be seriously regarded as the first important contribution to the literature of the subject. The few remarks on the different types of Lamellibranch gills made by Leuckart in 1848 (p. 113), Hancock in 1853 (p. 290), and Duvernoy in 1854 (p. 37) are of interest only from an historical point of view, and do not come within the range of the modern treatment of the subject; and the excellent figures and remarks on gill structure made by Deshayes in 1844-1848 cannot claim to be considered in the present connection, being purely descriptive and not comparative. It was Posner who first attempted a systematic investigation of the subject, and in his memoir of 1875 he discussed, not very astutely, the minute structure of the gills of Anodonta and eleven other genera of bivalve Mollusca. Some fifteen months later Peck, who in 1875, independently of Posner’s work, had commenced a similar investigation, published his important observations on the gills of Area, Mytilus, Dreissensia and Anodonta . It was this paper which first placed the comparative study of the gills upon a sound basis. The investigation was conducted in the laboratory of Professor Ray Lankester and under his direction, and the working hypothesis around which the paper was written, and which has stood the test of time ever since, was, as the author explains, supplied by Professor Lankester. An adequate terminology was propounded for the grosser and finer parts of the gill, and this terminology remains in general use at the present day.


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