On the Borders of Italy

2018 ◽  
pp. 124-145
Author(s):  
Erin Maglaque
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 6, we turn to examine Coppo’s Del Sito de Listria, his regional description of his adopted homeland. In this text, we can see the relationship between Coppo’s experience of family and political life in Isola, and his humanist scholarship. His geographical writing and homemade woodcut maps began to reflect his new perspective onto the empire from his study in Isola. Through classical literature, contemporary humanist writing, and most importantly, through his own witnessing of Istrian Roman material culture, Coppo wove an alternative history for Istria than that imposed by the Venetian empire.

scholarly journals Sicily Before the Greeks. The Interaction with Aegean and the Levant in the Pre-colonial Era

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 172-205
Author(s):  
Davide Tanasi
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Complex Dynamics ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Local Material ◽  
Gradual Process ◽  
Multiple Variables ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThe relationship between Sicily and the eastern Mediterranean – namely Aegean, Cyprus and the Levant – represents one of the most intriguing facets of the prehistory of the island. The frequent and periodical contact with foreign cultures were a trigger for a gradual process of socio-political evolution of the indigenous community. Such relationship, already in inception during the Neolithic and the Copper Age, grew into a cultural phenomenon ruled by complex dynamics and multiple variables that ranged from the Mid-3rd to the end of the 2nd millennium BCE. In over 1,500 years, a very large quantity of Aegean and Levantine type materials have been identified in Sicily alongside with example of unusual local material culture traditionally interpreted as resulting from external influence. To summarize all the evidence during such long period and critically address it in order to attempt historical reconstructions is a Herculean labor.Twenty years after Sebastiano Tusa embraced this challenge for the first time, this paper takes stock on two decades of new discoveries and research reassessing a vast amount of literature, mostly published in Italian and in regional journals, while also address the outcomes of new archaeometric studies. The in-depth survey offers a new perspective of general trends in this East-West relationship which conditioned the subsequent events of the Greek and Phoenician colonization of Sicily.

scholarly journals NAVEGANDO ENTRE SAMBAQUÍES: EVIDENCIAS DEL USO DE EMBARCACIONES ENTRE LAS SOCIEDADES CONSTRUCTORAS DE CONCHEROS

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (28) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Elena Margarita Saccone
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Indirect Evidence ◽  
Coastal Areas ◽  
Maritime Culture ◽  
Shell Mounds ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Los Grupos

Resumen: Este artículo se propone indagar sobre la relación de los sambaquíes con el medio y las evidencias que los vinculan con una cultura marítima incluyendo el posible uso de la navegación por parte de los grupos que los produjeron. Las evidencias indirectas del uso de la navegación se relacionan, entre otros, con la ubicación de los sitios en zonas costeras, la complejidad de las sociedades que los construyeron, analogías etnográficas y hallazgos de cultura material vinculada con los elementos necesarios para producir embarcaciones. A través de la serie de evidencias indirectas planteadas se pretende afirmar que esta línea de trabajo debe ser profundizada ya que puede aportar una nueva mirada a las investigaciones sobre los grupos sambaquieros y podría conducir a una reinterpretación en particular sobre su movilidad.Abstract: This paper intends to explore the relationship between shell mounds and their environment and the evidence that relates them with a maritime culture, including the possible use of navigation by the groups who built them. Indirect evidence of navigation refers, among others, to the location of sites in coastal areas, the complexity of the groups that produced them, ethnographic analogies and material culture findings related to the necessary elements for the production of watercraft. Through this series of indirect evidences, we intend to state that this topic should be explored further because it can provide a new perspective on the research of shell mound groups and could lead to new interpretations especially about their mobility. 

Revelation and Political Philosophy

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 249-250
Author(s):  
Charles Butterworth
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Current Debate ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Islamic Fundamentalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Cultural Origins ◽  
The Relationship

This is a "work in progress" presentation based on mearch I am nowconducting about the development of Islamic political philosophy duringthe classical period of Islam. My contention is that a better understandingof that tradition puts the current debate about Islamic fundamentalism orresurgence into a new perspective. Behind the sensational, popular demandsfor greater adherence to the strictures of the revealed law of Islamlies an issue of fundamental importance: how divine revelation is to beunderstd and interpreted for political guidance. Those who developedIslamic political philosophy spoke directly to this issue and did so in amanner that merits the attention of contemporary Muslim activists, scholarsinterested in Islam, and thoughtful human beings in general. Theythought clearly about the relationship between religious belief andpolitical practice because they addressed the issue ditectly and withoutpreconceptions. Consequently, whatever our religious and cultural origins,we can benefit greatly from their teaching.One of my goals is to refocus current social science scholarship whileengaging Muslim scholars in debate on topics they deem urgent. Lately,there have been many, perhaps too many, reports and prognostics concerningthe success of resurgent Islam as well as the challenges it posesto Middle Eastern and western regimes. Such studies invariably talkabout, rather than with, those calling for greater attention to Islamic preceptsand practices; they presuppose and reinforce an attitude of "us" and"our valued' vetSUS "them" and "their values." Such a posture not onlyfosters antagonism and misunderstanding, it also ignores the way Muslimsare now addressing this complex phenomenon.Indeed, for almost a decade, Muslims trained in the West have beeninvestigating how western learning, especially the social sciences, illuminatestraditional Islamic sciences and vice versa. This task addresses, atthe highest level, the issue behind the call for application of the Shari'ahand offers the best Contemporary possibility of achieving some kind ofintercultural understanding. It offers those interested in western and Islamicculture a unique opportunity to delve mare deeply into another cultureand thereby understand the other and their own culture better.Another goal is to investigate how philosophers within the classicalperiod of Islam understood revelation and its outward manifestationprophecy-to influence political life. While mast scholars recognize the ...

Ethnicity and early Greek states: historical and material perspectives

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 131-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Group Identity ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
State Structure ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Greek World

This article is an exploration of two distinct but related aspects of political life in the early Greek world, ethnicity (the conscious expression of group identity), and the existence of ethne, a term used very loosely in antiquity and now applied to most forms of state structure other than the polis. It is a review of a problem, namely a tendency to focus on the polis when studying state formation and a consequent need to re-examine certain assumptions about the relationship between material culture and group identity in order to trace ethnos development in the archaeological record. It is also an examination of current and potential avenues of research, illustrated with reference to one particular region, Achaia.

Centralization and Effectiveness of Reward Management in Multinational Enterprises

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Tekieli ◽  
Marion Festing ◽  
Xavier Baeten
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Identity Theory ◽  
Multinational Enterprises ◽  
Role Identity ◽  
Management Decision ◽  
Role Identities ◽  
Management Decision Making ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Subsidiary Managers ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Based on responses from 158 reward managers located at the headquarters or subsidiaries of multinational enterprises, the present study examines the relationship between the centralization of reward management decision making and its perceived effectiveness in multinational enterprises. Our results show that headquarters managers perceive a centralized approach as being more effective, while for subsidiary managers this relationship is moderated by the manager’s role identity. Referring to social identity theory, the present study enriches the standardization versus localization debate through a new perspective focusing on psychological processes, thereby indicating the importance of in-group favoritism in headquarters and the influence of subsidiary managers’ role identities on reward management decision making.

Classics and Irish Politics, 1916-2016

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Postcolonial Studies ◽  
Classical Literature ◽  
Northern Irish ◽  
Classical Culture ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
Irish Politics

This collection addresses how models from ancient Greece and Rome have permeated Irish political discourse in the century since 1916. The 1916 Easter Rising, when Irish nationalists rose up against British imperial forces, was almost instantly mythologized in Irish political memory as a turning point in the nation’s history and an event that paved the way for Irish independence. Its centenary has provided a natural point for reflection on Irish politics, and this volume highlights an unexplored element in Irish political discourse, namely its frequent reference to, reliance on, and tensions with classical Greek and Roman models. Topics covered include the reception and rejection of classical culture in Ireland; the politics of Irish language engagement with Greek and Roman models; the intersection of Irish literature with scholarship in Classics and Celtic Studies; the use of classical allusion to articulate political inequalities across hierarchies of gender, sexuality, and class; meditations on the Northern Irish conflict through classical literature; and the political implications of neoclassical material culture in Irish society. As the only country colonized by Britain with a pre-existing indigenous heritage of expertise in classical languages and literature, Ireland represents a unique case in the fields of classical reception and postcolonial studies. This book opens a window on a rich and varied dialogue between significant figures in Irish cultural history and the Greek and Roman sources that have inspired them, a dialogue that is firmly rooted in Ireland’s historical past and continues to be ever-evolving.

Psychology: Volume 5

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World View ◽  
Science Volume ◽  
Western World ◽  
Mental Life ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Difference ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Indian Setting ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Relationship

This survey of research on psychology in five volumes is a part of a series undertaken by the ICSSR since 1969, which covers various disciplines under social science. Volume Five of this survey, Explorations into Psyche and Psychology: Some Emerging Perspectives, examines the future of psychology in India. For a very long time, intellectual investments in understanding mental life have led to varied formulations about mind and its functions across the word. However, a critical reflection of the state of the disciplinary affairs indicates the dominance of Euro-American theories and methods, which offer an understanding coloured by a Western world view, which fails to do justice with many non-Western cultural settings. The chapters in this volume expand the scope of psychology to encompass indigenous knowledge available in the Indian tradition and invite engaging with emancipatory concerns as well as broadening the disciplinary base. The contributors situate the difference between the Eastern and Western conceptions of the mind in the practice of psychology. They look at this discipline as shaped by and shaping between systems like yoga. They also analyse animal behaviour through the lens of psychology and bring out insights about evolution of individual and social behaviour. This volume offers critique the contemporary psychological practices in India and offers a new perspective called ‘public psychology’ to construe and analyse the relationship between psychologists and their objects of study. Finally, some paradigmatic, pedagogical, and substantive issues are highlighted to restructure the practice of psychology in the Indian setting.

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