scholarly journals Picturing Megaliths in Twentieth- Century Swedish Archaeology

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-125
Author(s):  
Cornelius Holtorf
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
The Third ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

ln this paper I will begin a discussion about the ways in which megaliths appear in archaeological images. My discussion of examples is not comprehensive and the selection of images far from complete, but I hope nevertheless to present some key elements of the pictorial vocabulary with which megaliths have been seen and depicted by archaeologists working in Sweden during the twentieth century. However, entering the third millennium of our chronometrical tirnescale should not only be an occasion to look back, but also an opportunity to look forward and reflect upon the way ahead. Recent discussions about the problems with established ways of depicting archaeological sites and objects, and suggestions for new kinds of images and illustrations, should concern us all and lead to an active engagement of archaeologists with questions of visual (re)presentation.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 257-268
Author(s):  
Jagjeet Lally
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Global History ◽  
Multiple Forms ◽  
The Third ◽  
Merchant Networks ◽  
Continental Interior ◽  
The Way

The endurance of terrestrial forms of connectivity over the Eurasian continental interior lies at the heart of this book. By reviewing the life of such connections in the twentieth century, this chapter draws out this book’s four major interventions. The first concerns the value of examining long-term patterns of change and the virtue of thinking across such divides as Mughal and British, pre-colonial and colonial. The second relates to the way this book thinks about empires in novel ways, whether by taking a trans-imperial framework or by focussing on the ways non-political entities—such as merchant networks—persisted through periods of imperial flux and the rise and fall of empires. The third is the focus on space, particularly interior or inner-continental space, and its place within global history. The final contribution is to provide an impetus to scholars to think of the synchronicity of multiple forms of globalisation and their interrelation.

Introduction to Core Texts of the Sŏn Approach (Sŏnmun ch’waryo禪門撮要‎)

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-36
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Selection Of

The Introduction presents the early twentieth-century compendium Core Texts of the Sŏn Approach, a work of Sŏn revivalism in Korea, as an attempt to look back over the intervening centuries to the Sŏn of the mid-Koryŏ period (late 1100s and 1200s) in order to compile a compact textual repository of authentic Korean Sŏn. Many modern reference works give Kyŏnghŏ Sŏngu (1849?–1912) as the compiler of this Sŏn compendium, though this attribution is by no means certain. The fifteen texts in Core Texts of the Sŏn Approach, eight by Chinese authors and seven by Korean authors, are described. This is followed by an explanation of the rationale behind the selection of five of the fifteen texts for translation. Two topics singled out for attention are the huatou Chan of Dahui Zonggao and the story of Patriarchal Master Chin’gwi and Śākyamuni Buddha.

Leibniz’s Formal Theory of Contingency

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-43
Author(s):  
Jeffrey McDonough ◽  
Zeynep Soysal
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Formal Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Analysis Theory ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Way

This essay argues that, with his much-maligned “infinite analysis” theory of contingency, Leibniz is onto something deep and important – a tangle of issues that wouldn’t be sorted out properly for centuries to come, and then only by some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century. The first two sections place Leibniz’s theory in its proper historical context and draw a distinction between Leibniz’s logical and meta-logical discoveries. The third section argues that Leibniz’s logical insights initially make his “infinite analysis” theory of contingency more rather than less perplexing. The last two sections argue that Leibniz’s meta-logical insights, however, point the way towards a better appreciation of (what we should regard as) his formal theory of contingency, and its correlative, his formal theory of necessity.

De-contaminating the aDNA – archaeology dialogue on mobility and migration: discussing the culture-historical legacy

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (27) ◽  
pp. 53-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Furholt
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Ancient Dna ◽  
Historical Legacy ◽  
Archaeological Material ◽  
The Third ◽  
Local Contexts ◽  
Third Millennium ◽  
Third Millennium Bc ◽  
Data Source ◽  
And Migration

While the newly available ancient DNA data have shaken a lot of archaeological debates, they have, despite their enormous potential, not yet had any meaningful impact on the way we view prehistory. Instead of using this new data-source to explore new questions, or at least to re-assess the old ones, aDNA results have been tacked onto some of the most outdated narratives in European prehistory, stemming from the early twentieth century. The simplified Steppe migration narrative builds upon long-outdated culture-historical concepts, sloppy classification work, and a reliance on a monothetic culture concept which was convincingly deconstructed 50 years ago by David Clarke. In this paper, a polythetic approach to the material of the third millennium BC presents a different picture of the period. Additionally relying on a practice-based approach to how new transregional objects and practices are integrated into local contexts, it is argued that these two adjustments to our approach to the archaeological material can significantly improve the aDNA - archaeology dialogue, and better integrate the different datasets.

Living and Doing Psychology

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jai B. P. Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
Ancient Time ◽  
Societal Culture ◽  
Third Phase ◽  
Indian Context ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Organisational Behaviour ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
The Way

As I look back at about 45 years of my research journey, I see three somewhat overlapping phases showing that my research has co-evolved with the way I have related to my milieu. The first 15 years witnessed my struggle to outgrow the alien framework by conducting research that, I thought, addressed the most salient socio-cultural issues in the Indian context with the methods that seemed to be the most appropriate. For the next 15 years, I tried to claim a legitimate space for my research on the international landscape. My encounters there—enriching and yet frustrating—led me to realise that I can at best be an Indian cultural psychologist. In the third phase, therefore, I returned to focus on my ongoing interest in organisational behaviour that I believe is deeply embedded in the Indian societal culture inheriting psycho-philosophical thoughts from the ancient time. Hence, I have been exploring, through multi-authored, multi-centred and multi-methods research, how the ancient Indian wisdom has filtered through contemporary experiences to create an inclusive Indian mindset that manifests in social and organisational behaviour.

scholarly journals Eenders en anders: Die leksikons van Afrikaans en Nederlands in die een-en-twintigste eeu —’n loodsstudie

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 135-154
Author(s):  
Nerina Bosman
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Research ◽  
Loan Words ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Synchronic Comparison ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
The Way

Early research into the Afrikaans vocabulary was mainly diachronic and comparative (Dutch being the “mother” language from which Afrikaans developed) and the relationship between the lexicons of the two languages was not explored in any great detail towards the end of the twentieth century. This state of affairs changed with the publication of Groot Woordeboek Afrikaans en Nederlands (“Great Dictionary Afrikaans and Dutch”) in 2011, a dictionary with an amalgamated lemma list. One of the outcomes of the lexicographic project was the realisation that less than fifty percent of the lemmas in the dictionary were absolute cognates, words which are similar in both form and meaning. This finding prompted a synchronic comparison of word forming processes in Afrikaans and Dutch, using two small newspaper corpora from 2009 as well a selection of neologisms. Analysis of the data shows that although Afrikaans and Dutch differ in the way in which loan words are incorporated—Dutch speakers prefer to take over the words as they are, whereas Afrikaans speakers make use of calques— the morphosemantic process of compounding is still the most productive way for adding words to the lexicon. The two languages do not make use of each others’ coinages, one indication that their lexicons are increasingly growing apart.

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