Ancestors or Ghosts: the Cult of the Dead in a Bai Village in Southwest China

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Xue YANG
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Basic Belief ◽  
Moral Reflection ◽  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
Ideal Person ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of

When it comes to ancestor worship> the basic belief is that the spirit of the dead would affect their living family. However> the cult of the dead in a Bai village in southwest China shows deconstruction and moral reflection of ancestors. From the perspective of social relationships? people separate their ancestors from other families' ancestors who arc also recognised as ghosts or uninvited guests. Besides?they divided their deceased relatives into ancestors and ghosts through cultural definition of a good death and bad death>thus they need a bridge rite to help the spirit of the dead in a bad death to be an ancestor. In regard to the netherworld, people wish their deceased relatives go to western heaven at the same time they regard them as suffering ghosts in hell because of their guilty during their lifetime. Moreover>the living family have an obligation to provide and help their dead release from suffering. By examining the attitudes and acts of distinguishing? transforming, and equating between ancestors and ghosts>this article further argues that the cult of the dead in Bai is not only an ethical act of obeisance but also an expression of ideal person hood and a belief in living family as the salvation of the dead.

The Good Death in Kaliai: Preparation for Death in Western New Britain

1977 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 367-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Counts
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Separation Process ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Sufficient Time ◽  
The Dead ◽  
New Britain

Examination of the preparation for death among the Kaliai, an isolated Melanesian people, offers the basis for instructive comparisons with the institutionalization of death and the dehumanization of the dying in North America. The Kaliai see death not as an end to life, but a transition between different life states. This is a gradual separation process, not a sudden cleavage of the dead from the living. The good death comes with the acquiescence of the dying person and after sufficient time for the severance of social relationships.

scholarly journals Patterns of Memory in Askold Melnyczuk’s Novels as an Example of Ukrainian-American Émigré Fiction

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Marta Koval
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
European History ◽  
Family Stories ◽  
Traumatic Memories ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of

Although Ukrainian emigration to North America is not a new phenomenon, the dilemmas of memory and amnesia remain crucial in Ukrainian-American émigré fiction. The paper focuses on selected novels by Askold Melnyczuk (What is Told and Ambassador of the Dead) and analyzes how traumatic memories and family stories of the past shape the American lives of Ukrainian emigrants. The discussion of the selected Ukrainian-American émigré novels focuses on the dilemmas of remembering and forgetting in the construction of both Ukrainian and American narratives of the past. The voluntary amnesia of the Ame- rican-born Ukrainians in Melnyczuk’s novels confronts their parents’ dependence on the past and their inability to abandon it emotionally. Memories of ‘the old country’ make them, similarly to Ada Kruk, ambassadors of the dead. The expression becomes a metaphoric definition of those wrapped by their repressed, fragmentary and sometimes inaccessible memories. Crucial events of European history of the 20th century are inscribed and personalized in the older generation’s stories which their children are reluctant to hear. For them, their parents’ memories became a burden and a shame. Using the concept of transgenerational memory, the paper explores the challenges of postmemory, and eventually its failure. 

Tamil Theology and Ancestor Worship

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-2) ◽  
pp. 126-129
Author(s):  
Ramarajapandian V
Keyword(s):  
Ancestor Worship ◽  
The People ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

In ancient times, the loved ones had the tradition of worshipping their virtues after their demise. The practice of growing more and more family was practiced when those who worked for their family to progress were worshipped after their deaths. One of the rituals is to make the dead sieve. The ancestral worship is to pay tribute to the experiences of the ancestors who have been with us in the relationship and blood of the tribes. This cult was associated with the middle stone worship of the people of this group over time. These are the foundations of the study of the ancient cult sculptors and theories of the present day.

What Is Behavior?

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Christopher M. Furlow
Keyword(s):  
Living Organism ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Measurable Change

Prior to implementing interventions, practitioners must first develop definitions of behavior that are objective. This chapter first provides a definition of behavior and provides three criteria for determining whether something is a behavior: it is demonstrated by a living organism, in interaction with the environment, and the interaction results in measurable change within the environment. Next, the chapter outlines how practitioners should develop operational definitions of behaviors of interest. Then, the chapter provides a description of the dead man’s test, a heuristic that practitioners often utilize when determining if something qualifies as a behavior suitable for intervention. Finally, the chapter describes the meaningful operant dimensions of behavior, such as frequency, duration, latency, and magnitude.

scholarly journals Landscape—A Review with a European Perspective

Land ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 85 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katia Talento ◽  
Miguel Amado ◽  
Josè Carlos Kullberg
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
European Perspective ◽  
A Value ◽  
Terrain Vague ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Present Text

This article aims to act as a general literature review regarding the landscape, analyzing it through a synthesis of the main concepts and processes that have generated, and subsequently developed, the word “Landscape”. It is a versatile theme, because it has always been studied by various disciplines, through different theories, which sometimes even conflict with each other. Through the present text, we understand the importance and the unique value of the landscape, a value that has nowadays been transfigured by the strong industrialization and strong brand of man in the territory. Thus, the first part of the research is, to some extent, a reflection on current issues that are related to the landscape. It is also a tool for integration, including in the definition of “Landscape”, even those heavily humanized, exploited, degraded, abandoned, and residual; the so-called “Drosscape”, “Friche”, and “Terrain Vague”. The solution is not to negatively interpret these types of scenarios, but rather to enhance them as they are, filled with potential and creativity. This concept is achieved by means of an operation of recycling or reuse of waste, which is capable of germinating new life cycles within the “dead nature” of our increasingly cemented territories.

Defining the gift

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 675-685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Elder-Vass
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Potential Contribution ◽  
Economic Role ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Late Modern

AbstractEconomics has tended to neglect giving, and thus both its important contemporary economic role and its potential contribution to alternative, non-market systems. To remedy this, it will need to draw on the broad debates on the nature of the gift that have developed in and across the other social sciences. This paper addresses several of these by asking how we should define the terms gift and giving. It rejects definitional associations of giving with obligation, reciprocity and the development of social relationships. Such definitions exclude many phenomena commonly understood as giving and underpin misguided attempts to analyse gifts in contemporary late-modern societies in terms derived from anthropological discussions of very different societies. Instead, the paper develops a definition of the gift based on contemporary giving institutions. A more open, contemporary definition of the gift helps to sensitise us to the continuing importance of gift institutions in social and economic life.

Artinskian conodonts from the Dingjiazhai Formation of the Baoshan Block, west Yunnan, southwest China

2002 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsumi Ueno ◽  
Yoshihiro Mizuno ◽  
Xiangdong Wang ◽  
Shilong Mei
Keyword(s):  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Warm Water ◽  
Early Permian ◽  
Northern Margin ◽  
Stratigraphic Unit ◽  
Current Definition ◽  
Conodont Fauna ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
First Time

Permian conodonts were recovered for the first time from the Dingjiazhai Formation, a well-known diamictite-bearing stratigraphic unit in the Gondwana-derived Baoshan Block in West Yunnan, Southwest China. The conodont fauna occurs in limestone units within the upper part of the formation and consists of Sweetognathus bucaramangus (Rabe), S. whitei (Rhodes), Mesogondolella bisselli (Clark and Behnken), and an unidentified ramiform element. Based on the known stratigraphic distribution of 5. bucaramangus (Rabe), the fauna is referable to the upper Sweetognathus whitei-Mesogondolella bisselli Zone, and thus is dated as middle Artinskian according to the current definition of the stage. The Dingjiazhai Formation is overlain paraconformably by the Woniusi Formation, which is represented mostly by basalts and basaltic volcaniclastics related to rifting volcanism during the separation of the Baoshan Block from Gondwanaland. The present discovery of conodonts from the upper part of the Dingjiazhai Formation reveals that the glaciogene diamictites in the Dingjiazhai Formation are older than middle Artinskian, and the inception of rifting volcanism of the Baoshan Block is later than middle Artinskian.Occurrence of an essentially warm water element, Sweetognathus bucaramangus (Rabe), in the Dingjiazhai conodont assemblage notwithstanding, the entire fossil faunas including brachiopods and fusulinoideans from the limestone units of the formation can be best interpreted as a middle latitudinal, non-tropical, and still substantially Gondwana-influenced assemblage developed at the northern margin of Gondwanaland just after deglaciation in the southern hemisphere during Early Permian time. This time could be regarded as the beginning of the Cimmerian Region, which had mixed or transitional paleobiogeographic characteristics between the Paleoequatorial Tethyan and cool/cold Gondwanan realms, and which became well developed during Middle Permian time.

Towards an Exergy-Based Explosion Energy Model for Boiling-Liquid Expanding-Vapor Explosions

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan C. Ramirez ◽  
Suzanne A. Smyth ◽  
Russell A. Ogle
Keyword(s):  
Pressure Vessel ◽  
Ambient Pressure ◽  
Maximum Energy ◽  
Explosion Energy ◽  
Superheated Liquid ◽  
Boiling Liquid ◽  
Dead State ◽  
Vapor Explosions ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of

A boiling liquid, expanding vapor explosion (BLEVE) occurs when a pressure vessel containing a superheated liquid undergoes a catastrophic failure, resulting in a violent vaporization of the liquid. The exposure of a pressure vessel to a fire is a classic scenario that can result in a BLEVE. The thermomechanical exergy of a pressure vessel’s contents provides — by definition — an upper bound on the work that can be performed by the system during the explosion. By fixing the values of ambient pressure and temperature (i.e., the dead state), exergy can be interpreted as another thermodynamic property. This rigorous and unambiguous definition makes it ideal to estimate the maximum energy of explosions. The numerical value of exergy depends on the definition of the dead state. In this paper we examine the effect of different definitions for the dead state on the explosion energy value. We consider two applications of this method: the contribution of the vapor head-space to the explosive energy as a function of the fractional liquid fill of the vessel, and the effect of the vessel burst pressure.

Structures of care in the Iliad

1996 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Lynn-George
Keyword(s):  
Funeral Rites ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Structures Of Care

When Andromache emerges from the inner chamber in Book 22, ascends the walls of Troy and looks out over the plain, she beholds a spectacle of ruthless brutality. She who has not been aware of the final combat, nor of the slaying of her husband, is suddenly confronted by the receding trail of utter defeat. Swift horses drag her husband's corpse into the distance, the cherished head disfigured as it is dragged, raking the dust of what was once their homeland. The violence of the scene is forcefully conveyed by one word in particular. The swift horses drag Hektor ⋯κηδ⋯στως (22.465)—without κ⋯δος without care, ‘sans soucier de, brutalement’. In itself the word ⋯κηδ⋯στως provides a definition of violence, one captured in Shakespeare's phrase ‘careless force’. Violence is, in its harsh brutality, specifically heedlessness, an absence of any form of care. When Achilles hurls the slain suppliant Lykaon into the river he utters the taunt, ‘the fish, ⋯κηδ⋯ες, will lick clean your wound's blood’ (21.122–3). The discarded corpse is denied funeral rites: in place of the care that the relations of the dead traditionally bestow in tending, washing, enshrouding, lamenting, and burying the dead, here the heedless creatures of nature, fleeting visitors, will attend to the corpse, ‘clean’ it, but utterly without care, completely oblivious to the oblivion they create by destroying. In Book 24 Achilles will describe the gods themselves as ⋯κηδ⋯ες (526).

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