scholarly journals Alone in the Country of the Catholics: Labrador Inuit in Prague (1880)

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-45
Author(s):  
Markéta Křížová
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
General Public ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Moravian Church ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Czech Lands ◽  
Labrador Inuit ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Abstract The ethnographic shows of the end of the 19th century responded to an increased hunger for the exotic, especially among the bourgeois classes in Europe and North America, and to the establishment of both physical and cultural anthropology as scientific disciplines with a need for study material. At the same time they served as a manifestation of European superiority in the time of the last phase of colonialist thrust to other continents. “Scientific colonialism” reached also to regions without actual colonial or imperial ambitions, as the story of Labrador Inuit who visited Prague during their tour of Europe in November 1880 will prove. The reactions of local intellectuals and the general public to the performances of the “savages” will be examined in the context of the Czech and German nationalist competition and the atmosphere of colonial complicity. Thanks to the testimony of a member of the group, Abraham Ulrikab, supplemented by newspaper articles and other sources, it is possible to explore the miscommunication arising from the fact that the Inuit were members of the Moravian Church, professing allegiance to old Protestant tradition in the Czech Lands and cultivating a fragmented knowledge of Czech history and culture.

The Pioneer in American Life Insurance Marketing

1938 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 65-75
Author(s):  
J. Owen Stalson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Life Insurance ◽  
General Public ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
The United States ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Fire Insurance

Colonial America gave little thought to life insurance selling. The colonists secured protection against marine risks from private underwriters, first in London, eventually at home. It has been asserted that Philadelphia had no fire insurance until 1752; Boston none before 1795. The first corporations formed in this country for insuring lives were those of the Presbyterian Ministers Fund (1759) and a similar company organized for the benefit of Episcopal ministers (1769). Neither of these corporations offered insurance to the general public. In the last decade of the eighteenth century many insurance companies were formed in the United States. At least five were chartered to underwrite life risks, but only one, The Insurance Company of North America, appears to have accepted any. There is no basis for saying that any of these early companies tried to sell life insurance.

Introduction

1996 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Aldenderfer
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Scholarly Communication ◽  
Spatial Thinking ◽  
Perceived Utility ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Natural Tendency ◽  
History Of ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Although spatial thinking has long been a part of anthropological inquiry, it has waxed and waned in its perceived utility and centrality to the field. Although the papers in this volume attest to a vigorous tradition of spatial thinking in anthropology and further suggest that, for at least some branches of the field, spatial thinking and analysis are truly central to their definition and mission, it is nevertheless clear that this has not always been the case. Further, despite differences in historical trajectories of development between the two major subfields of anthropology—cultural anthropology and archaeology— in terms of the way space has been used, it is also clear that the two subfields share a number of common interests and themes that deserve discussion and exploration. This exploration is not only interesting from a purely historical perspective, but also has a very practical, down-to-earth dimension. The literature on the history of science is replete with cases of communication failures both within and between scientific disciplines. While in many cases this is merely annoying (different terms used to describe the same procedure, for instance), there are occasions when these failures lead to the creation of a highly idiosyncratic jargon used by small cliques of investigators, which clearly offers the opportunity to inhibit scholarly communication. This, in turn, can lead to redundancy of effort, failure to learn from the mistakes of others, and wasted time and money. By providing a forum in which similarities and differences can be examined, the natural tendency of scientific disciplines to form these cliques can be overcome. I intend this paper to be such a forum for an exploration of the ways in which geographic information systems (GIS) have been employed by anthropologists and archaeologists as represented by the authors of the papers presented in this volume. I will briefly describe the GIS for those readers unfamiliar with it and then turn to a review of the history of spatial thinking and the kinds of tools used to implement this thinking for each of the subdisciplines.

A marketing audit of the actuarial profession

1991 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. J. H. Milne ◽  
G. M. Bagot ◽  
A. C. Buchanan ◽  
A. R. Goodman ◽  
A. K. Gupta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
General Public ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Pension Scheme ◽  
Press Coverage ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Company Directors ◽  
Set Up

ABSTRACTThis paper presents the results of research into the marketing of the actuarial profession including a SWOT analysis, public awareness and image of the profession amongst target groups (general public, undergraduates, journalists, company directors, pension scheme trustees and insurance intermediaries), and the desire to allocate more resources to the profession's public awareness and image. The paper also contains an analysis of the national press coverage achieved by the profession and reports on developments in North America where a task force on strengthening the actuarial profession has been set up.

scholarly journals ”The History of Human Stupidity”: Vojtěch Frič and his Program of a Comparative Study of Religions

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-67
Author(s):  
Markéta Křížová
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
General Public ◽  
Central European ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Czech Lands ◽  
The Comparative Study

Abstract The present article represents a partial outcome of a larger project that focuses on the history of the beginnings of anthropology as an organized science at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, in the broader socio-political context of Central Europe. Attention is focused especially on the nationalist and social competitions that had an important impact upon intellectual developments, but in turn were influenced by the activities of scholars and their public activities. The case study of Vojtěch (Alberto) Frič, traveler and amateur anthropologist, who in the first two decades of the twentieth century presented to European scientific circles and the general public in the Czech Lands his magnanimous vision of the comparative study of religions, serves as a starting point for considerations concerning the general debates on the purpose, methods, and ethical dimensions of ethnology as these were resonating in Central European academia of the period under study.

scholarly journals Open Access and Authors’ Rights Management: A Possibility for Theology?

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-56
Author(s):  
Kevin L. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
General Public ◽  
Management Program ◽  
Academic Disciplines ◽  
Professional Organizations ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Rights Management ◽  
Theological Institutions ◽  
Dissemination Of Research

Several academic disciplines have begun to understand the benefits of open access to scholarship, both for scholars and for the general public. Scientific disciplines have led the way, partially due to the nature of scholarship in those areas and partially because they have felt the crisis in serials pricing more acutely than others. Theological studies, however, have largely been insulated from the push for open access; considering the reasons for that is the first task of this article. It is also the case, however, that the missionary impulse that stands behind much theological scholarship is a strong incentive to embrace the opportunities afforded by digital, online dissemination of research and writing. After discussing this imperative for global distribution, the bulk of the article focuses on how theological institutions, and especially their libraries, can encourage and support scholars in making their work freely accessible. Copyright issues, including the elements of a successful copyright management program, are discussed, as are some of the technological elements necessary for an efficient and discoverable open access repository. Options for licensing, both at ingestion of content and at dissemination to users are also considered. Finally, it is argued that the role of consortia and professional organizations in supporting these initiatives is especially important because of the relatively small size of so many theological institutions.

scholarly journals Editorial

2008 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. i-vi
Author(s):  
Katherine Bullock
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
General Public ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Public Image ◽  
Edward Said ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Significant Barrier

One of the paradoxes facing conservative Muslims in North America is that whiletheir apologetic literature stresses “Islam as justice” – that justice is the paradigmaticQur’anic virtue after piety – in the eyes of the general public the progressiveMuslims have claimed the mantle of justice. This is a shame, since conservative ortraditionalMuslims are held to be generally unjust, whereas, as followers of Islam’straditional teachings, they ought to be at the forefront of the struggle for social andeconomic justice. There are two dimensions to this perception: one is externallygenerated and constitutes a very real threat to NorthAmerica’sMuslims; the secondone is internally generated and constitutes a significant barrier to Islam’s positivereception by NorthAmerican society.It is not an original statement to note that Islam’s general public image is bad.Many scholars, among them Edward Said, Karim Karim, and Jack Shaheen, havedemonstrated time and again how the western legacy of Orientalism moved out ofthe academy and into the secular media with the rise of the film and print mediaindustries. Such post-9/11 experts as Mahmoud Hamdani have noted the refining ofthis image into a “good Muslim”/“bad Muslim” dichotomy. The secular or “moderate”Muslims receive the accolade of the “good Muslims,” while traditional andconservativeMuslims are the “badMuslims.” Efforts by Daniel Pipes and other neoconservativewriters to ensure that the general public and policy makers do not distinguishbetween moderate conservatives and those who endorse violence to achievetheir goals have, unfortunately, been very successful.The Clarion Fund’s mass mailing of the DVD “Radical Obsession” to 28 millionhouseholds in September 2008 clarifies the enormous power behind such neoconservativegoals. “Radical Obsession,” which purports to be only about jihadism,manages through its imagery to connect allMuslims to violence.An excellently executedpiece of propaganda, it will likely have the desired goal: creating fear in thegeneral public’s mind about conservative Muslims. (Secular and progressiveMuslims will also suffer in the long run, as the general public will not be able to distinguishbetween a secular and a non-secular Muslim, which is why the supportvoiced by some of these Muslims vis-à-vis the DVD is disappointing, to say the least.) ...

scholarly journals JALALUDDIN RAKHMAT DAN PEMIKIRAN SUFISTIKNYA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Scientific Disciplines ◽  
Science Philosophy ◽  
Islamic Science ◽  
Younger Generation ◽  
Muslim Scholars

<p><em>Jalaluddin Rakhmat, known as Kang Jalal, is a brilliant Muslim intellectual and intellectual, has sharp reasoning and can speak across disciplines, not only in communication, but also in various other disciplines such as political science, philosophy and Islamic sciences in detail and in depth. The ideas and thoughts put forward by Jalal on various occasions have become the attention and study material of various groups, including Muslim scholars, bureaucrats, politicians and intellectuals themselves. Jalal's ability to adopt various scientific disciplines has received recognition from other Muslim scholars and intellectuals, including the younger generation who want to broaden their horizons in various fields of human life, especially in the field of Islamic science. Jalal is considered as an ideal Muslim intellectual figure, with many ideas, forward thinking and his ideas become valuable discourses and contributions in solving problems and fostering a society that is developing widely.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: </em></strong><em>Jalaluddin Rakhmat, Sufistik.</em><strong><em></em></strong></p>

scholarly journals Употребление показателей множественного числа существительных в современных халха-монгольском и бурятском языках

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 660-667
Author(s):  
Anna V. Mazarchuk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Data ◽  
Field Data ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Study Material ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Reliable Source ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Introduction. The article deals with the use of nominal plurality markers in modern Khalkha and Buryat. Nominal plurality markers are used optionally in the Mongolic languages. However, in Buryat they are used more often than in Khalkha. Goals. In order to find out how much the figures differ at the moment (and then make some relevant conclusions), the author has collected two small corpora of newspaper articles on politics, economy, culture, and sports published in the Buryat online newspaper Buryad Unen and Mongolian web-based edition Unuudur written from April to August of 2020 — in the period preceding the start of this research, as it was critical for the author to have the utmost up-to-date materials. Materials. The Mongolian mini-corpus comprises 10 032 words, and the Buryat mini-corpus consists of 10 261 words. Newspaper articles have been chosen as study material because publicistic writings absorb language novelties faster and in greater amount than fiction or scholarly works, thus better reflecting the present-day state of the language. The field data could be a more reliable source of material but field work is currently hindered because of the epidemic situation. The author decided not to use the online corpora, which are way bigger than the manually collected ones (and this is certainly their great advantage) because it was necessary to compare texts similar in subject and volume, and written approximately at the same period of time. It is not always technically feasible to restrict the field of search in the online corpora, which makes it difficult to compare the obtained results for the two languages. Results. The collected data shows that in the Mongolian newspaper articles the plurality markers are used about 3,5 times as frequently as in the Buryat ones. Along with it, Middle Mongolian plurality markers are known to have been used about four times as frequently as in Modern Mongolian. In the conclusion the author poses questions for further study which arose after obtaining the quantitative data.

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