Misconceptions and Mistranslations

2022 ◽  
pp. 103-117
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Midil Rutun
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Traditional Practice

For years the Yapese language has been perceived to be on its way out. In this chapter, this perceived looming death of language is examined as a necessary tangent to traditional Yapese practices, specifically traditional Yapese dances. It examines how the preservation of the traditional practice of dancing is important to the survival of the language and how meaning is created. In this chapter, meaning is specifically gleaned from the body and the spaces from which the traditional Yapese dances emerge. Furthermore, this chapter illustrates how instances of failure to appropriately use meaning in association with dance has resulted in lost meaning.

A review on traditional practice of tooth brushing in Ayurveda and its relevance in current era

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Durgawati Devi ◽  
Rajeev Kumar Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Medicinal Plants ◽  
Oral Hygiene ◽  
Tooth Brushing ◽  
The Body ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Herbal Products ◽  
Dental Floss ◽  
Lifestyle Pattern

Abstract Ayurveda recommends sound and healthy life. It basically focuses on prevention rather than treatment. It includes a systematic lifestyle pattern which is composed of several principles and activities. Dinacharya (Daily routine) is one of the important principles. It includes various activities started from just before sunrise. All these activities are necessary for the maintenance of homeostasis of the body. Tooth brushing is one of the essential routines of Ayurveda daily practices. Traditionally it has been advocated with a soft twig of medicinal plants with or without herbal tooth powder. There are so many medicinal plants have been described in this context. Contradictory plants have also been described. Oral hygiene products are so much advanced and globalized nowadays. There are so many types of toothbrushes; dentifrices, dental floss, tongue scrapers, mouthwashes, oral irrigators, etc. are available along with specifications. Contemporary oral hygiene products esp. dentifrices are chemically rich and have their own side effects. No doubt these products have their own advantages like easy availability and adjustability according to current lifestyle. But their safety is questionable on long-term use. Herbal products have additional benefits over it that those are natural and easily adjustable and acceptable with body physiology.

scholarly journals Andine kropsopfattelser. Relationer mellem aymaras kropsbegreb og sundhedssystem

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Bech Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Health System ◽  
Medical System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Specific Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Sources Of Knowledge ◽  
Body Concept ◽  
Different Sources

The Aymara of Bolivia have different ways of healing their illnesses and use different sources of knowledge in the health system. According to their traditional practice they tend to start curing on a home basis using their own knowledge and experience. Otherwise they may consult the local “curanderos” who exercise different abilities. Resorting to the official medical system is rare. Apart from a specific knowledge of the effects of plants, minerals, and animal ingredients it is shown that their concept of the body influences the choice of healers and healing methods. The body concept is essentially a concept of balancing body liquids and the relation between body and nature. The latter gives evidence to talking about cultural embodiment and using the body as a metaphor of the Andean society.

scholarly journals Physical education and new forms of activity following the implementation of the core curriculum in Norway in 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (12) ◽  
pp. 56-68
Author(s):  
Judith Helene Bratten ◽  
Jolanta Kilanowska
Keyword(s):  
Physical Education ◽  
Core Curriculum ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Relaxation Techniques ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Inner Experiences ◽  
The Core ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
Core Elements

Teaching physical education is intended to stimulate lifelong joy of movement for students and help them to master life. The core elements of this subject and the interdisciplinary topic of health and life skills, introduced in the new core curriculum (i.e., Fagfornyelsen 2020), enable a broader understanding of students’ holistic development. This article aims to highlight how using movement activities such as yoga, qigong, massage, expressive dance, and visualisation and relaxation techniques, collectively referred to as activities with low pulse and little exertion, can contribute to achieving the aforementioned goals. In 2017, one of the authors conducted an autoethnographic study at the secondary school in Norway where she worked (Bratten, 2017). She studied which feelings and experiences stood out as meaningful ones for students and teachers in activities with low pulse and low exertion, hereinafter referred to as LpLe-activities. The results were divided into the following categories: different, bodily experiences, and usefulness. The phenomenological approach and Shusterman’s theory of somaesthetics were used to clarify the findings. This discussion demonstrates that the aforementioned activities can create inner security and give students faith in themselves and contribute to goal achievement in physical education. This happens through good and deep sensory experiences and inner experiences that students get in the classes. Such an approach to physical education teaching, focussing on what occurs in the body, has been untraditional and requires knowledge and teachers’ desire to enrich the traditional practice of the subject.

THEATRICAL POST-CORPOREITY. DIGITIZING THE BODY IN A NEW CULTURE OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 118-132
Author(s):  
Leila F. Salimova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
The Body ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Dramatic Text ◽  
Virtual Theater ◽  
Virtual Body

The article deals with such a cultural phenomenon as the post-corporeity, that is, what has replaced the traditional practice of bodily interactions and sensations, as a result of the temporary total creative drift of culture into cyberspace. Virtual theater experiments represent a complete subtraction, the exclusion of the actor’s and audience’s body from the dramatic text, the demarcation of the sensory and tactile base of the performance itself. The post-drama emphasis on visualization has been replaced by a new round of verbalization, where the story is forced to shorten in favor of the brevity of the virtual genre due to technological difficulties. Digital theater offers to discover the erogenous zones of the virtual body in order to freely respond to the cyber-desires of the viewer.

The Pediatrician's Role in Setting Standards of Day Care for Children

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 91 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-238
Author(s):  
Esther H. Wender
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Day Care ◽  
Large Body ◽  
Cognitive Stimulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Optimal Care ◽  
Traditional Practice ◽  
The Family ◽  
Optimal Health

The goal of pediatric practice is to promote optimal health, growth, and development of infants, children, and adolescents, and pediatric training is aimed at this goal. Thus, pediatrics has long been involved in establishing optimal health practices affecting nutrition, supervision of the environment, preventive health services, and the promotion of practices that optimally enhance social and emotional development. These generic areas of expertise apply in unique ways to children cared for in groups, especially very young children. A large body of research has been produced by pediatricians and other health professionals that addresses the specific health needs of infants and children in group care. Studies have especially addressed the spread and control of infectious disease and the prevention of injury in groupcare settings. Pediatric research, often in collaboration with psychologists, educators, and other professionals, has also addressed issues pertinent to optimal cognitive stimulation and behavioral management of the developing child, as well as the prevention of abusive practices. Thus, much of what constitutes the body of pediatric knowledge is crucial to the optimal care of young children in group settings. In the traditional practice of pediatrics, pediatricians apply their expertise to the care of individual children in the context of the family. The unwritten contract for pediatric care is between the parents and the pediatrician on behalf of the child. However, the school, day-care, or other community-based programs become an extension of the family, and the pediatrician relates to those community programs on behalf of children and their families. What the pediatrician recommends on behalf of the individual child becomes a recommendation to the program as well as to the child's family.

Representing utility and deploying the body

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Spurrett
Keyword(s):  
Functional Activity ◽  
Degrees Of Freedom ◽  
The Body ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Processing Demands ◽  
The Many

Abstract Comprehensive accounts of resource-rational attempts to maximise utility shouldn't ignore the demands of constructing utility representations. This can be onerous when, as in humans, there are many rewarding modalities. Another thing best not ignored is the processing demands of making functional activity out of the many degrees of freedom of a body. The target article is almost silent on both.

Neuron-glia relationship during the early postembryonic development of the nervous system in some oligochaetes

1978 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 600-601
Author(s):  
Wiktor Djaczenko ◽  
Carmen Calenda Cimmino
Keyword(s):  
Nervous System ◽  
Glial Cells ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Postembryonic Development ◽  
Ruthenium Red ◽  
The Body ◽  
Tubifex Tubifex ◽  
Growth Stages ◽  
Cell Processes ◽  
Cytoplasmic Processes

The simplicity of the developing nervous system of oligochaetes makes of it an excellent model for the study of the relationships between glia and neurons. In the present communication we describe the relationships between glia and neurons in the early periods of post-embryonic development in some species of oligochaetes.Tubifex tubifex (Mull. ) and Octolasium complanatum (Dugès) specimens starting from 0. 3 mm of body length were collected from laboratory cultures divided into three groups each group fixed separately by one of the following methods: (a) 4% glutaraldehyde and 1% acrolein fixation followed by osmium tetroxide, (b) TAPO technique, (c) ruthenium red method.Our observations concern the early period of the postembryonic development of the nervous system in oligochaetes. During this period neurons occupy fixed positions in the body the only observable change being the increase in volume of their perikaryons. Perikaryons of glial cells were located at some distance from neurons. Long cytoplasmic processes of glial cells tended to approach the neurons. The superimposed contours of glial cell processes designed from electron micrographs, taken at the same magnification, typical for five successive growth stages of the nervous system of Octolasium complanatum are shown in Fig. 1. Neuron is designed symbolically to facilitate the understanding of the kinetics of the growth process.

Flagellar Attachment in Selected Trypanosomes

1973 ◽  
Vol 31 ◽  
pp. 496-497
Author(s):  
J. J. Paulin
Keyword(s):  
Cell Membrane ◽  
Lateral Surface ◽  
The Body ◽  
Flagellar Pocket ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
Free Flagellum ◽  
Flagellar Axoneme

Movement in epimastigote and trypomastigote stages of trypanosomes is accomplished by planar sinusoidal beating of the anteriorly directed flagellum and associated undulating membrane. The flagellum emerges from a bottle-shaped depression, the flagellar pocket, opening on the lateral surface of the cell. The limiting cell membrane envelopes not only the body of the trypanosome but is continuous with and insheathes the flagellar axoneme forming the undulating membrane. In some species a paraxial rod parallels the axoneme from its point of emergence at the flagellar pocket and is an integral component of the undulating membrane. A portion of the flagellum may extend beyond the anterior apex of the cell as a free flagellum; the length is variable in different species of trypanosomes.

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