scholarly journals NATURE CONSCIOUSNESS IN THE POETRY OF SUMITRANANDANPANT

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (9SE) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Manju Rani
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Single Element ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Natural Activity ◽  
Natural Equilibrium ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Ancient Civilizations

The environment is the basis of life on our earth, which is the basis for the emergence, development and survival of not only human but also different kinds of fauna and flora. The environment has an important role in the progress that human has made from the development of civilization to the present age, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that the development of human civilization and culture is the result of similar and harmony of human environment, that is why many ancient civilizations have adverse environment Due to the collapse of the era, many species and species of plants have become extinct and this crisis is increasing in many.In fact, the environment is not a single element but a group of many elements and all these elements or components, in a state of natural equilibrium, create an environment in which the development of human, animal, flora, etc., continues uninterrupted. But if any one of these elements is deficient or its natural activity is obstructed, then it also has a bad effect on the other elements, due to which a new odd situation is born. This asymmetry adversely affects climate, flora, fauna and humans. Which becomes the cause of crisis for the existence of world. पर्यावरण हमारी पृथ्वी पर जीवन का आधार है, जो न केवल मानव अपितु विभिन्न प्रकार के जीव जन्तुओं एवं वनस्पति के उद्भव, विकास एवं अस्तित्व का आधार है। सभ्यता के विकास से वर्तमान युग तक मानव ने जो प्रगति की है उसमें पर्यावरण की महती भूमिका है और यह कहना अतिश्योक्ति न होगी कि मानव सभ्यता एवं संस्कृति का विकास मानव पर्यावरण के समानुकूल एवं सामन्जस्य का परिणाम हैं यही कारण है कि अनेक प्राचीन सभ्यतायंे प्रतिकूल पर्यावरण के कारण काल के गर्त में समा गई तथा अनेक जीवों एवं पादप समूहों की प्रजातियाँ विलुप्त हो गयी और अनेक पर यह संकट गहराता जा रहा है।वास्तव में पर्यावरण कोई एक तत्व नहीं है अपितु अनेक तत्वों का समूह है और ये सभी तत्व अथवा घटक एक प्राकृतिक सन्तुलन की स्थिति में रहते हुए एक ऐसे वातावरण का निर्माण करते है जिसमें मानव, जीव-जन्तु, वनस्पति आदि का विकास अनवरत चलता रहे। किन्तु यदि इनमें से किसी एक भी तत्व में कमी आ जाती है अथवा उसकी प्राकृतिक क्रिया में अवरोध आ जाता है तो उसका बुरा प्रभाव दूसरे तत्वों पर भी पड़ता है, जिससे एक नई विषम परिस्थिति का जन्म होता है। इस विषमता से जलवायु, वनस्पति, जीव जन्तु एवं मानव पर प्रतिकूल प्रभाव पड़ता है। जो जीव जगत के अस्तित्व के लिये संकट का कारण बन जाता है।

scholarly journals Astronomy to understand a human environment

1998 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 211-213
Author(s):  
S. Isobe
Keyword(s):  
School System ◽  
Environmental Science ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Science Courses ◽  
The Public ◽  
Global Environmental Problems ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
Set Up ◽  
School Period

Astronomy is an important science in understanding a human environment. However, it is thought by most politicians, economists, and members of the public that astronomy is a pure science having no contribution to daily human activities except a few matters relating to time. The Japanese government is studying a reorganisation of our school system to have 5 school days per week, instead of 6 days per week, and this July its committee made a recommendation to reduce school hours for science and set up new courses for practical computers and environmental science. I currently made a proposal. It is very difficult for most of the school pupils, who will have non-scientific jobs, to understand science courses currently taught in school, because each science is taught independently from the other sciences. Therefore, their knowledge of sciences obtained during their school period does not greatly help their understanding of global environmental problems.

Past and Present Farming: Changes in Terms of Engagement

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Armstrong Oma
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Husbandry Practices ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact

In archaeology, changes in human–animal relationships are rarely considered beyond the moment of domestication. This is influenced by Ingold’s idea that domestication led to a shift in the human engagement with animals (Ingold 2000: 61–76; see Armstrong Oma 2007: 62–4, 2010 for critique). I do not question the validity of such a claim; however, I argue that changes in terms of engagement also happened beyond domestication, and that various configurations of human–animal relationships have existed throughout history. Further, I argue that such changes also have consequences for the environment, by choice of land use strategies and husbandry regimes. A twofold purpose is pursued: first, to investigate how changes in social systems, in my case changes in terms of engagement between humans and animals, affect land use in such a way as to impinge upon natural systems and ecosystems. Second, I wish to grasp the political underpinnings of the models that are employed by archaeologists and, by doing so, to deconstruct the political use of the past (see also Stump, Chapter 10 this volume). Alternative models regarding economic strategies are sought, and the implications of these are discussed. Human–environment studies frequently deal with the impact of human intrusive land use strategies on ecosystems. Awareness has been created around these processes regarding land use techniques and practices (for example Denham and White 2007; Mazoyer and Roudart 2006). However, in European archaeology the impact of husbandry practices upon ecosystems has received considerably less, if any, attention. People in past societies from the Neolithic onwards made the conscious decision to live with animals as herders or as farmers, blending together social and economic choices that had repercussions for landscape developments and ecosystems. Investigations into the relationship between environmental changes caused by husbandry practices and the social systems that instigated those changes are an important contribution to research on past environmental development. These changes are identifiable in the archaeological record.

The Ferry

Antiquity ◽  
1944 ◽  
Vol 18 (71) ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
F. W. Robins
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
New World ◽  
Sacramento River ◽  
The Other ◽  
Small Animals ◽  
The World ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The 19Th Century

The story of the ferry is, at the outset, the story of the boat. It begins with prehistoric man noticing that wood will float and possibly, from the riding of birds and small animals, that it will carry a burden according to its size and character. Observant and imitative, the human animal, in the childhood of the world, proceeds to experiment gingerly and doubtfully at first, boldly and confidently—perhaps in some cases too boldly and confidently, later. He mounts himself astride a log and propels it, probably at first with his legs, towards the opposite bank of the river near which he lives. On the other side lies a new world, with resources untapped, especially in the matter of food, which he is anxious to reach. Even in the middle of the 19th century Pickering (Races of Man) speaks of men in the tide waters of the Sacramento river crossing, standing on split logs.

scholarly journals Too good to be a sport? Why dog agility struggles in gaining recognition as a sport

2016 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 745-761 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samu Pehkonen ◽  
Hanna-Mari Ikonen
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Expert Interviews ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The One ◽  
Elite Sports ◽  
Important Milestone

Over the last two decades, the Finnish community of dog agility practitioners has worked diligently towards gaining recognition for agility as a sport. The process reached an important milestone in 2016 when the National Sports Council listed the Finnish Agility Association as eligible for financial support from the state. As one of the pioneer countries in this regard, Finland is of great interest, as the agility sport continues to become more popular and professionalised worldwide. Using the findings from a qualitative study of media coverage and expert interviews about attempts to gain recognition for agility as a sport, this article explores the strategies that practitioners and the Finnish Agility Association have utilised in their work. This article shows that recognition comes with the need to find a balance between elite sports, on the one hand, and sport for all on the other. Although agility may risk losing some of its particular character as a human–animal teamwork dynamic, it has the potential to contribute to the culture of sports more widely.

The Dog-Eared Dictionary: Human-Animal Alliance in Chinese Civilization

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 589-613 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claire Huot
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Olfactory Ability ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Functional Versatility

What does the dog mean in Chinese culture? The answers can be found in China's first dictionary, theShuowen jiezi, written by Xu Shen in 121 CE. TheShuowenholds cynological knowledge well beyond the dog's olfactory ability, because it includes notes on vocalization discrimination, situational gait, and even behavioral and personality traits. The dog is also upheld as the representative of all nonhuman animals, undoubtedly because of its morphological and functional versatility but certainly also because it was the human's main interface and companion at the beginning of Chinese civilization. The Chinese graphs for the word “dog” embody both views: generically animalistic or eerily resembling human depictions. As a rift slowly took place in the partnership between humans and dogs when urbanization began, the graphs themselves were manipulated to clearly demarcate one from the other. Eventually dogs became discursive scapegoats. This paper traces the destiny of the dog in semantic and graphic terms.

Segmentary State Formation and the Ritual Control of Water Under the Incas

1993 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 480-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Gose
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Political Organization ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Structure ◽  
Life And Death ◽  
Plant Life ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The One ◽  
Divine Kingship

There is a strange and unacknowledged paradox in the historiography of the Incas. On the one hand, few would deny that theirs was a typically theocratic archaic state, a divine kingship in which the Inca was thought to.be the son of the Sun. On the other hand, the standard descriptions of Inca political structure barely mention religion and seem to assume a formal separation between state and cult.1I believe that these secularizing accounts are misguided and will show in this essay that the political structure of the pre-Columbian Andes took form primarily around a system of sacred ancestral relics and origin points known generically ashuacas. Each huaca defined a level of political organization that might nest into units of a higher order or subdivide into smaller groupings. Collectively they formed a segmentary hierarchy that transcended the boundaries of local ethnic polities and provided the basis for empires like that of the Incas. However, these huacas were also the focus of local kinship relations and agrarian fertility rituals. The political structure that they articulated therefore had a built-in concern for the metaphysical reproduction of human, animal, and plant life. Political power in the pre-Columbian Andes was particularly bound up with attempts to control the flow of water across the frontier of life and death, resulting in no clear distinction between ritual and administration.

Queering History

PMLA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 120 (5) ◽  
pp. 1608-1617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Goldberg ◽  
Madhavi Menon
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Annual Convention ◽  
Methodological Problems ◽  
Human Animal

The Essay that Follows was Prompted by a Session at the 2004 MLA Annual Convention, “Ten Years Since Queering The Renaissance,” organized by Madhavi Menon and chaired by Jonathan Goldberg. The other panelists were Jeffrey Masten and Richard Rambuss, two of the contributors to the 1994 volume, and Laurie Shannon. The papers ranged widely from theoretical questions about the activity of queering to the practices of glossing texts, from relations between queering and gendering to the ways in which queering might also throw into question the human-animal divide. The essay below picks up on some of the broadest theoretical questions raised by the panel, emphasizing the need to continue the work begun a decade ago and suggesting some methodological problems and challenges to be faced.

Animal geographies II

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 453-462 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice J. Hovorka
Keyword(s):  
Animal Research ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
Animal Agency

Hybridizing animal geographies scholarship encourages creative conversations among geography sub-disciplines and generates holistic knowledge of human-animal relations. This article surveys existing trends in ‘hybridity’ as a foundational concept emerging from animal geographies primarily located within human realms of geography. Fully operationalizing hybridity requires affective engagements with animals through interdisciplinary investigations of animal agency, behaviours and experiences. To this end, this article explores how animal research in geography may benefit from further extension into human-environment geographies, physical geographies and geomatics to capitalize on hybridity as both concept and practice.

scholarly journals The Philosophy of ‘Fish’

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-37
Author(s):  
Helena Hastings-Gayle
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Human Animal

Animals occupy a unique form of experience relative to our own. Our encounters with them often lead to contemplations of human perspective and identity. This essay analyses the human-animal encounter in D.H. Lawrence’s poem ‘Fish’ and the speaker's approaches in comprehending the other. The essay extrapolates this to explore ideas of knowledge and identify the poem's challenges to anthropomorphic perspectives and Christian principles

scholarly journals Almanach antropologiczny. Communicare. Tom 8. Miasta/Zwierzęta

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Local Characteristics ◽  
Interesting Study ◽  
Human Animal ◽  
The One ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
19Th And 20Th Century ◽  
Interspecies Relations

An interesting study on interspecies relations in cities, set in concrete cultural phenomena. It is a radical re-definition of human-animal relations, an analysis of mutual dependencies, a description of complexity and dynamics of changes in urban spaces. On the one hand, the publications refers to various cultural contexts, on the other hand, it shows local characteristics of the presented phenomena and the Polish perspective, which includes different towns. The book may inspire reflections on relations between humans and animals in future cities as well as the ways of organising them, especially in the context of the 19th and 20th century modernising movements.

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