scholarly journals If not a shaman, then what?

Ethnologies ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 141-155
Author(s):  
Bridget Cauthery
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Blind Spot ◽  
Entry Point ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
And Performance

Abstract Reflecting on his fieldwork among the Malagasy speakers of Mayotte in the western Indian Ocean, Canadian anthropologist Michael Lambek questions why the West has such a “blind spot” when it comes to the human activity of trance. Querying the West’s blind spot has led me to argue that trance, as related in the ethnographic record, may be perceived as an attribute or characteristic of the Other. In this article, celebrated Canadian modern dancer Margie Gillis’ relationship with trance in her creative and performance practice is explored. Trance becomes an-Other entry point — one that has not been touched upon during Gillis’ lifetime — for interpreting both her role as a performer and her performing body.

Detrital and authigenic minerals in sediments from the western part of the Indian Ocean

1986 ◽  
Vol 50 (355) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Tsirambides
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Oxygen Isotope ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
The Other ◽  
Authigenic Minerals ◽  
Volcanic Material ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Isotope Analyses ◽  
Mn Oxides

AbstractMineralogical and oxygen isotope analyses have been performed on nine western Indian Ocean core samples in order to distinguish the detrital from authigenic minerals in the sediments. Following the removal of carbonates, organic constituents and Fe and Mn oxides, the residue was separated into five size fractions, the principal minerals present being feldspar, quartz, clinoptilolite, and clay minerals.Oxygen isotope compositions for two samples reflect an authigenic origin for clinoptilolite by the submarine alteration of volcanic material. Oxygen isotope compositions of two separates (free from feldspar and clays) suggest a detrital origin for the quartz in this area. The same mode of origin is apparent for the other components too, except possibly for some smectite which may have formed authigenically.

Making the Archive and Archiving the Making: insights and outcomes from a major research project

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
SIMON WATERS
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Electroacoustic Music ◽  
The Other ◽  
Technical Level ◽  
Research Projects ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Aesthetic Judgement ◽  
And Performance

This paper seeks to address some of the problems faced by those archiving an area of musical practice – electroacoustic music and the sonic arts – which is, by definition, involved with technologies which change and develop, and which unsurprisingly is itself in a state of flux and transformation. Drawing on the experience gained from two linked research projects – one looking at the development of the practice, the other seeking to archive it – it is suggested that the two apparently disparate areas of activity can be fruitfully regarded as overlapping in many respects. Both activities involve selection and aesthetic judgement, both strive for an elusive ‘completeness’ while acknowledging its impossibility, and at a technical level the strategies now emerging for searching and collating information from ‘separate’ archives look increasingly like the strategies used in some areas of ‘real-time’ composition and performance practice. It is argued that archivists of material from such a disparate and rapidly developing practice, rather than aiming for spurious ‘coverage’ of the field, should acknowledge and celebrate their difference from each other, while conforming to simple principles which will allow their archived content to be searched and collated dynamically by individual users, each querying and configuring the material optimally for their own purposes.

Diptera, Bombyliidae and Myiodaria (Coenosiinae, Muscinae, Calliphorinae, Sarcophaginae, Dexiinae, Tachininae), from the Seychelles and neighbouring Islands

Parasitology ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Bezzi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
The Other ◽  
Final Report ◽  
Special Series

[This paper is the final report on the Diptera collected by the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition under Professor J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., in the Seychelles and other islands of the Western Indian Ocean in 1905 and 1908–9. Many reports on the insects collected have appeared in the special series of volumes devoted to that Expedition, Tr. Linn. Soc.London, ser. 2 (Zool.), xii–xviii (from 1907 onwards), but it has not been possible to include all the entomological contributions in that series. I am greatly indebted to the Editor of Parasitology for accepting the present work, which was offered for publication in this journal as it deals with a number of parasitic forms—Bombyliidae, Sarcophaginae, Tachininae, etc. A list of all the other reports on Diptera collected by this Expedition, with full references, is given in Ent. Monthly Mag., 58, 1922, p. 184.

English Private Trade on the West Coast of India, c. 1680–c. 1740

Itinerario ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Davies
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
West Coast ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
East India Company ◽  
The West ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
West Coast Of India ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
English East India Company ◽  
Indian Ocean World

This article explores the private trade networks of English East India Company merchants on the west coast of India during the first half of the eighteenth century. Existing studies of English private trade in the Indian Ocean have almost exclusively focused on India's eastern seaboard, the Coromandel Coast and the Bay of Bengal regions. This article argues that looking at private trade from the perspective of the western Indian Ocean provides a different picture of this important branch of European trade. It uses EIC records and merchants' private papers to argue against recent metropolitan-centred approaches to English private trade, instead emphasising the importance of more localised political and economic contexts, within the Indian Ocean world, for shaping the conduct and success of this commerce.

scholarly journals Flatfoot in Africa, the cirripede Chthamalus in the west Indian Ocean

PeerJ ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. e11710
Author(s):  
Noa Simon-Blecher ◽  
Avi Jacob ◽  
Oren Levy ◽  
Lior Appelbaum ◽  
Shiran Elbaz-Ifrah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Cryptic Species ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
West Indian ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Rocky Intertidal ◽  
Morphological Data ◽  
The West ◽  
African Species ◽  
West Indian Ocean

Barnacles of the genus Chthamalus are commonly encountered rocky intertidal shores. The phylogeography of the different species in the Western Indian Ocean is unclear. Using morphological characteristics as well as the molecular markers mitochondrial cytochrome oxygenase subunit I (COI) and the nuclear sodium-potassium ATPase (NaKA), we identified four clades representing four species in the Western Indian Ocean and its adjacent seas. Among these species, a newly identified species, Chthamalus barilani, which was found in Madagascar, Zanzibar and Tanzania. Chthamalus from the coasts of Tanzania and Zanzibar is identified morphologically as C. malayensis, and clusters with C. malayensis from the Western Pacific and the Indo Malayan regions. C. malayensis is regarded as a group of four genetically differentiated clades representing four cryptic species. The newly identified African clade is genetically different from these clades and the pairwise distances between them justify the conclusion that it is an additional cryptic species of C. malayensis. This type of genetic analyses offers an advantage over morphological characterization and allowed us to reveal that another species, C. barnesi, which is known from the Red Sea, is also distributed in the Arabian Sea and the Persian Gulf. We could also confirm the presence of the South African species C. dentatus in the Mozambique channel. This represents the Northeastern limit of C. dentatus, which is usually distributed along the coast of southern Africa up to the Islands of Cape Verde in West Africa. Altogether, based on a combination of morphology and genetics, we distinct between four clusters of Chthamalus, and designate their distribution in the West Indian Ocean. These distinctions do not agree with the traditional four groups reported previously based merely on morphological data. Furthermore, these findings underline the importance of a combining morphological and genetics tools for constructing barnacle taxonomy.

Role of friction and orography in the Asian-African monsoonal system

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Dalu ◽  
Marco Gaetani ◽  
Cyrille Flamant ◽  
Marina Baldi
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
West African Monsoon ◽  
Tropical Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Ekman Pumping ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
Impermeable Barrier ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Marine Air

<p>The West African monsoon (WAM) originates in the Gulf of Guinea when the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) makes its landfall; whilst, the south Asian monsoon (SAM) originates in the Indian ocean when the ITCZ crosses the equator. The monsoonal dynamics are here studied after landfall using Gill’s tropospheric model with an implanted Ekman frictional layer (EFL). Ekman pumping increases low level convergence, making the lower monsoonal cyclone deeper and more compact that the upper anticyclone, by transferring tropospheric vorticity into the EFL. In the upper troposphere, air particles spiral-out anticyclonically away from the monsoons, subsiding over the Tropical Atlantic, the Tropical Indian ocean, or transiting into the southern hemisphere across the equator. Whilst marine air particles spiral-in cyclonically towards the WAM or the SAM, the latter appears to be a preferred ending destination in the absence of orography. The Himalayas introduced as a barrier to the monsoonal winds, strengthen the tropospheric winds by tightening the isobars. The Somali mountains (SMs), introduced as a barrier to the Ekman winds, separates the WAM and the SAM catch basins; thus, the Atlantic air particles converge towards the WAM and the Indian ocean particles converge towards the SAM. The Indian Ghats (IGs), introduced as a semi-impermeable barrier to the Ekman winds, deflect the marine air particles originated in the western Indian ocean towards the south-eastern flank of the SAM. In short, an upper single anticyclone encircles both monsoons; the Himalayas strengthen the upper-level winds by increasing the pressure gradients; the SMs split the EFL cyclone, keeping the marine air particles to the west of SMs in the WAM basin and the particles to the east of SMs in the SAM basin; the IGs guides transmit the air particles, deflecting them towards Bangladesh.</p>

scholarly journals Four new species of Acalypha L. (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from the West Indian Ocean Region

PhytoKeys ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 140 ◽  
pp. 57-73
Author(s):  
Iris Montero-Muñoz ◽  
Geoffrey A. Levin ◽  
José M. Cardiel
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Molecular Evidence ◽  
Indian Ocean Region ◽  
The West ◽  
Ocean Region ◽  
West Indian Ocean ◽  
Conservation Assessments ◽  
First Time

Four new species of Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae, Acalyphoideae) from the Western Indian Ocean Region, based on morphological and molecular evidence, are described, illustrated, and mapped. Acalypha gillespieae sp. nov., A. leandrii sp. nov. and A. nusbaumeri sp. nov. are endemic to Madagascar, and A. mayottensis sp. nov. is known only from Mbouzi islet (Mayotte), in the Comoros Archipelago. We also describe for the first time in Acalypha the presence of membranous or chartaceous perules covering the axillary buds. Preliminary conservation assessments of the new species are also provided.

Two new species of Okenia (Gastropoda: Nudibranchia: Goniodorididae) from eastern Australia and Tanzania

Zootaxa ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 1657 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM B. RUDMAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Australian Species ◽  
Eastern Australia ◽  
Two New Species

Two new species of the nudibranch genus Okenia Menke, 1830 (Goniodorididae) are described, one from eastern Australian waters and one from the western Indian Ocean. Okenia atkinsonorum sp. nov. is the third Australian species reported to feed on the bryozoan Pleurotoichus clathratus (Harmer, 1902) and is very similar in external shape and colour to the other two species, O. hallucigenia Rudman, 2004 and O. stellata Rudman, 2004. Okenia rhinorma sp. nov. is reported from Tanzania and the Red Sea. Its body shape and anatomy suggest it is related to the ascidian-feeding group in the genus characterised by O. aspersa (Alder & Hancock, 1845).

Shallow overturning circulation of the Western Indian Ocean

2005 ◽  
Vol 363 (1826) ◽  
pp. 143-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Friedrich A. Schott
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Southern Hemisphere ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Western Indian Ocean ◽  
Southwest Monsoon ◽  
The Other ◽  
Return Flow ◽  
Northeast Monsoon ◽  
Equatorial Upwelling ◽  
The Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean differs from the other two oceans in not possessing an eastern equatorial upwelling regime. Instead, the upwelling occurs dominantly in the northwestern Arabian Sea and, to a lesser degree, around the Indian subcontinent. Subduction, on the other hand, occurs dominantly in the Southern Hemisphere. The result is a shallow Cross–Equatorial Cell connecting both regimes. The northward flow at thermocline levels occurs as part of the Somali Current and the southward upper–layer return flow is carried by the Ekman transports that are directed southward in both hemispheres. The main forcing is by the Southwest Monsoon that overwhelms the effects of the Northeast Monsoon and is the cause for the annual mean Northern Hemisphere upwelling and southward Ekman transports. In the Southern Hemisphere, the annual mean upwelling at the northern rim of the Southeast Trades causes a zonally extended open–ocean upwelling regime that is apparent in isopycnal doming in the 3–12○ S band; it drives a shallow Subtropical Cell.

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