scholarly journals BARROW 6 OF VODOSLAVKA BURIAL GROUND. THE GRAVE OF SCYTHIAN NOBILITY

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-212
Author(s):  
S. O. Kuprii ◽  
O. V. Lifantii ◽  
O. V. Shelekhan
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Burial Ground ◽  
The West ◽  
Animal Sacrifice ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Small Mound ◽  
Social Level ◽  
Grave Goods ◽  
The Way

This is the first publication of the barrow 6 of burial ground placed near Vodoslavka village in Novotroitskyi district of Kherson Oblast of Ukraine. Under the small mound of soil 1.4 m height two wealthy persons were buried in the same catacomb with two entering pits. Due to stratigraphy observation, the funeral rate in this case had two phases. Firstly, the body of Scythian noble warrior was placed in the grave in his armour and with weapon. Near him on the West his horse was putted in separate small grave. Some time since, the woman’s corpse dressed in ceremonial gown with gold decoration was placed near man in his grave. Lately, the grave was robbed (probably not long time since funeral rates). But robbers used the second entering pit for their purpose. It is very uncommon, that after taking some of the grave goods and disturbing the upper part of bodies, thefts have leaved in the second entering pit the animal sacrifice (?) — horse corpse. The grave goods demonstrate the high social level of the two Scythians. The man was buried with representative set of weapon: set of ranged weapon, spears and javelins, scaled armour and antique greaves. On the woman’s skeleton the number of gold clothes decorations were recorded. Besides that, the set of silver table ware was found inside the catacomb, and the entrance to the grave was lock with wagon parts. The analysis of the gold appliquйs and rings, armour, weapon and silver vessels shows the time of burial — second—third quarter of the 4th century BC. The area, where these noble Scythians found their last resting place, was strategically important at that time. This barrow was built on the way that leaded from the Bosporan Kingdom to the center of the Scythia in the Dnieper River area.

scholarly journals Research by S. M. Sergeev at the burial complex near the village Maima-Chergachak

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 132-137
Author(s):  
S. S. Radovsky ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Burial Ground ◽  
The West ◽  
Funeral Rite ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Village ◽  
Burial Grounds ◽  
Grave Goods

The article presents the results of the work of S. M. Sergeev at the burial complex near the village. Maima. In 1934, after being transferred to the Oirot Regional Museum, the researcher unearthed two mounds of the Scythian-Saka period at this burial ground. According to the characteristics of the funeral rite and grave goods, the necropolis under consideration, with a high degree of probability, belongs to the Bystryan culture of the northern foothills of Altai. Currently, on the right bank of the Katun, in the vicinity of the designated village, three burial grounds of the community under consideration(Maima VI, VII, XIX) are known, however, all of them are located east of the Chuisky tract,while the indicated monument is located to the west of it. Perhaps S. M. Sergeev recorded another burial ground of the Bystryanskaya culture, which is now not preserved, located on the territory of the Maiminsky archaeological complex.

Politicizing the Body: Property, Contract, and Rights

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Moira Gatens
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Rich Source ◽  
The West ◽  
The Way

This article examines the politicization of the human body focusing on the way this issue was conceived in the West. The human body has long been used as a source of metaphor for political theorists and the very notion of body politic leans on the image of a unified and discrete entity that has commanding parts and obeying parts that may be robust or ailing, strong or weak. This article suggests that aside from political theory with a rich source of metaphor, the human body also serves as the nexus where political conceptions of the universal and the particular meet.

The ‘unacceptable face’ of the West European Upper Palaeolithic

Antiquity ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (206) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G. Bahn
Keyword(s):  
Harsh Environment ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Standard Textbook ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Academic Debate ◽  
The Way

More than a century ago the publications of Gdouard Lartet laid the foundations for the nomenclature and stratigraphy of the French Upper Palaeolithic. Academic debate arising from Lartet's work continued until the 1930s by which time the framework and classification of the period were fixed. They have remained fairly static ever since. Indeed, the French system appeared unimpeachable, so that scholars strove to apply it, unchanged, to widely differing areas. Since the 1930s most work on the French sequence has been designed to confirm the results of old and 'untrustworthy' excavations, and to shore up an original framework with additional information. The situation is much the same for the way of life of palaeolithic man: the standard textbook description of savage hunters eking a living from a harsh environment was in vogue for a very long time, and one might be forgiven for believing that this hypothesis had always been dominant; this is not the case. It is little-known fact in this country that during the latter part of the nineteenth century there were major arguments in academic circles concerning the way of life in the Palaeolithic, and in particular the question of domestication during that period. Were it not for the demise of Piette and the subsequent dominance of Breuil, it is possible that the present orthodox account of the Upper Palaeolithic might be very different

scholarly journals İslam ve Batı / Islam and the West

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 639
Author(s):  
Bayram Demircigil
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Wishful Thinking ◽  
General Situation ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Historical Account ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Way

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>The relationships between Islam and the West that has been become high on the agenda for the Islamic world and for our country throughout the last two centuries. It seems that this phenemonen will remain for a long time. Therefore, this topic is one of the major issues that needs to be analyzed extensively because it is mainly concerned with our country’s and Islamic world’s future. The author İbrahim Kalın addressed the historical account of the relationships between Islam and the West quite competently in his book titled “Islam and the West”. The major theme of this work is the way of thinking that there is still a common ground between the two civilisations which have a long history of conflicts, consequently the possibility of creating a peaceful atmosphere between both still exists.</p><p>We could argue that one of the objectives that the author aimed to accomplish through this book is to provide an intellectual basis for the relations between Islam and the West as well as making a contribution to promoting and developing a dialog and reconcilitation between Muslims and the West. However, it might be an accurate conclusion that the general situation presented or suggestions made by depending on a few good examples in this book rely to a large extent on wishful thinking when we take into consideration that the relations between the two civilisations are based predominantly on prejudice, hostility and aggression along the history. Indeed, the author himself admits this fact in some of the phrases of the book. </p><p><strong>Öz</strong></p><p>İslam dünyasının, özellikle de ülkemizin birkaç asırdır gündemini meşgul eden ve bundan sonra da meşgul edecek gibi görünen İslam-Batı ilişkilerinin doğru ve objektif biçimde derinlemesine ele alınması gerekmektedir. Zira bu konu, İslam dünyasının ve ülkemizin geleceğini çok yakından ilgilendirmektedir. Bu bakımdan, İbrahim Kalın’ın söz konusu eseri büyük önem arz etmektedir. Bu eserin ana temasını, uzun bir tarihi geçmişi olan ve büyük çapta anlaşmazlıklar ve çatışmalar silsilesinden oluşan İslam-Batı ilişkilerinde bazı uzlaşı noktalarının da bulunduğu ve ikisi arasında sağlıklı bir diyalog zemininin oluşturulmasının mümkün olduğu, dolayısıyla bu iki medeniyet arasındaki kavga halinin aslında kaçınılmaz bir durumu yansıtmadığı düşüncesi oluşturmaktadır. Bu temelden hareketle yazar, eserinde İslam ve Batı arasındaki ilişkiler için entelektüel bir zemin oluşturmayı ve iki medeniyet arasında diyalog ve barış ortamının geliştirilmesine katkı sunmayı amaçlamaktadır.</p><p>İbrahim Kalın’ın birkaç örnekten yola çıkarak iki medeniyet arasında bir uzlaşı zemini oluşturulması yönündeki çabasının, aktüel durum dikkate alındığında, pek gerçekçi görünmediği ve bir temenniden ibaret kalacağı söylenebilir. Aslında yazar da satır aralarında bu gerçeği itiraf etmektedir. Bununla birlikte yazarın tarihsel süreç içinde İslam-Batı ilişkilerini güzel bir üslupla ele aldığı böyle bir çalışma, bir iyi niyet göstergesi olarak son derece değerlidir.</p>

Our Most Troubling Madness

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Defeat ◽  
Social World ◽  
Epidemiological Evidence ◽  
The West ◽  
Social Settings ◽  
The Social ◽  
Brain Alteration ◽  
Benign Course ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

This book examines the way schizophrenia is shaped by its social context: how life is lived with this madness in different settings, and what it is about those settings that alters the course of the illness, its outcome, and even the structure of its symptoms. Until recently, schizophrenia was perhaps our best example—our poster child—for the “bio-bio-bio” model of psychiatric illness: genetic cause, brain alteration, pharmacologic treatment. We now have direct epidemiological evidence that people are more likely to fall ill with schizophrenia in some social settings than in others, and more likely to recover in some social settings than in others. Something about the social world gets under the skin. This book presents twelve case studies written by psychiatric anthropologists that help to illustrate some of the variability in the social experience of schizophrenia and that illustrate the main hypotheses about the different experience of schizophrenia in the west and outside the west--and in particular, why schizophrenia seems to have a more benign course and outcome in India. We argue that above all it is the experience of “social defeat” that increases the risk and burden of schizophrenia, and that opportunities for social defeat are more abundant in the modern west. There is a new role for anthropology in the science of schizophrenia. Psychiatric science has learned—epidemiologically, empirically, quantitatively—that our social world makes a difference. But the highly structured, specific-variable analytic methods of standard psychiatric science cannot tell us what it is about culture that has that impact. The careful observation enabled by rich ethnography allows us to see in more detail what kinds of social and cultural features may make a difference to a life lived with schizophrenia. And if we understand culture’s impact more deeply, we believe that we may improve the way we reach out to help those who struggle with our most troubling madness.

Marie Ulčová and her Contribution to the West Bohemian Museums

2018 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-23
Author(s):  
Nela Štorková
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
The West ◽  
West Bohemia ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Second World

While today the Ethnographic Museum of the Pilsen Region represents just one of the departments of the Museum of West Bohemia in Pilsen, at the beginning of the twentieth century, in 1915, it emerged as an independent institution devoted to a study of life in the Pilsen region. Ladislav Lábek, the founder and long-time director, bears the greatest credit for this museum. This study presents PhDr. Marie Ulčová, who joined the museum shortly after the Second World War and in 1963 replaced Mr. Lábek on his imaginary throne. The main objective of this article is to introduce the personality of Marie Ulčová and to evaluate the activity of this Pilsen ethnographer and the museum employee with an emphasis on her work in the Ethnographic Museum of the Pilsen Region. The basic aspects of the ethnographic activities, not only of Marie Ulčová but also of the Ethnographic Museum of the Pilsen Region in the years 1963–1988, are described through her professional and popularising articles, archival sources and contemporary periodicals.

The Logical Square and the Table of Oppositions

2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 400-416
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Kienzler
Keyword(s):  
Reduced Form ◽  
Square Of Opposition ◽  
Logical Square ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Square Of Opposition ◽  
The Way

The way Frege presented the Square of Opposition in a reduced form in 1879 and 1910 can be used to develop two distinct versions of the square: The traditional square that displays inferences and a “Table of Oppositions” displaying variations of negation. This Table of Oppositions can be further simplified and thus be made more symmetrical. A brief survey of versions of the square from Aristotle to the present shows how both aspects of the square have coexisted for a very long time without ever being properly distinguished.

The Mistaken Identification of “The West” with “Modernity”

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
John Obert Voll
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic World ◽  
Historical Perspectives ◽  
Important Impact ◽  
Mistaken Identification ◽  
Nature Ofthe ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Way

The relationships between Islam and the West are complex. Even theperceptions of those relations have an important impact on the nature ofthe interactions. If the basic images that are used in discussing “Islam andthe West” are themselves ill-defiied or viewed in inconsistent ways, therelationships themselves are affected in sometimes dangerous ways.Inconsistent and contradictory terms of analysis can lead to misunderstandingand conflict.One of the most frequent conceptual mistakes made in discussingIslam and the West in the modem era is the identification of “the West”with “modemity.” This mistake has a significant impact on the way peeple view the processes of modernization in the Islamic world as well as onthe way people interpret the relationships between Islam and the West inthe contemporary era.The basic generalizations resulting from the following analysis can bestated simply: 1) “modernity“ is not uniquely “western”; 2) “the West” isnot simply “modernity”; and 3) the identifixation of “the West” with“modemity” has important negative consequences for understanding therelationships between Islam and the West. Modernity and the West aretwo different concepts and historic entities. To use the terms interchangeablyis to invite unnecessary confusion and create possible conflict’andinconsistency. This article will address the problem of definition and theapplication of the defined terms to interpreting actual experiences andrelationships.Understanding the difficulties raised by the identification of theWest with modernity involves a broader analysis within the frameworkof world history and global historical perspectives. In such an analysis, ...

Charlemagne’s Health in ‘Old Age’: Did It Affect Carolingian Military Strategy?

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-53
Author(s):  
Bernard S. Bachrach
Keyword(s):  
Old Age ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Strategy ◽  
The West ◽  
Long Time

During the first thirty-three years of his reign as king of the Franks, i.e., prior to his coronation as emperor on Christmas day 800, Charlemagne, scholars generally agree, pursued a successful long-term offensive and expansionist strategy. This strategy was aimed at conquering large swaths of erstwhile imperial territory in the west and bringing under Carolingian rule a wide variety of peoples, who either themselves or their regional predecessors previously had not been subject to Frankish regnum.1 For a very long time, scholars took the position that Charlemagne continued to pursue this expansionist strategy throughout the imperial years, i.e., from his coronation on Christmas Day 800 until his final illness in later January 814. For example, Louis Halphen observed: “comme empereur, Charles poursuit, sans plus, l’oeuvre entamée avant l’an 800.”2 F. L. Ganshof, who also wrote several studies treating Charlemagne’s army, was in lock step with Halphen and observed: “As emperor, Charlemagne pursued the political and military course he had been following before 25 December 800.”3

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