Down to Earth Archaeology collects sixteen archaeological papers by Professor William Y. Adams chosen by the author, who added introductory commentary to each. These articles were written at various ...times during his lengthy and productive academic career for different purposes and for different audiences. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way, either as conference proceedings or contributions to various Festschriften, and as such he wanted to enable them to reach a wider readership than they had originally. He described this collection as his ‘dernières pensées’. The essays encompass a wide range of topics, from reflections upon the successes, failures and lessons learned from the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia in the 1960s, in which Bill was very much a leading figure and which he was uniquely positioned to critique, to discussions and criticisms of the theoretical framework of ‘New’ or ‘Processual Archaeology’ and its application of ‘scientific’ methods. Other papers included here are seminal works discussing the ideological concepts of typology and classification and their practical application to archaeological excavations, notably his own major excavations conducted at the large Nubian cityscapes of Meinarti, Kulubnarti and Qasr Ibrim, and the ceramic kilns at Faras."
The writing of Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio is dedicated precisely to qualifying that humanism in any of its variants and main derivations (subject, country or history, for example); humanism that ...replaces and relaunches the idea of God in Modernity in the key of subject and sacrificial history, as will be show later when talking about Mientras no cambien los dioses, nada habrá cambiado in more detail.
Este ensayo contrapone las nociones ferlosianas de "gracia" y "destino" y las lleva al terreno de la decisión existencial. Introduce una noción de "infrapolítica" entendida como práctica teórica a ...partir de formas de vida. Refiere a la noción de "infrafilosofía" desarrollada por François Jullien. Y vincula todo ello a una "fenomenología de lo inaparente" expresamente antisacrificial y, así, antihegeliana.
Emergence of ecocriticism in English Literature in the recent decades has opened new avenues to analyze literary texts from an ecological perspective. William Stanley Merwin, a contemporary American ...Poet Laureate and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, has written numerous poems insisting the importance of ecological balance and the need to stop the destruction of nature. Every element in this universe has its own value in terms of its uniqueness, individuality and usefulness and hence it is merely unfair to compare one element with another with regard to its size, shape or use. Right to existence should be independent of the economic value of the element, but the saddest part is that most of the times economic value of things add significance to its existence. By recognizing the intrinsic worth of other living beings, one recognizes the solidarity of all life forms. This thought has been clearly demonstrated by Merwin in his poems. This research study will analyze the poems of W. S. Merwin from an ecocritical standpoint and it will highlight the importance of mutual existence of every life form to have a sustainable development and to prevent the collapse of naturally existing ecosystems.
From the analysis of cultural productions that valued "peace and love," such as Woodstock and Piedra Roja, represented in the novel Palomita Blanca (Lafourcade) and the namesake film by Raúl Ruiz, ...the present work questions the alleged suicides by overdose or out of love committed by female artists as well as the addictions they have faced as responses to sustained gender violence. Hence, it is concluded that just as art reproduces and promotes violence against women, it can also be an agent that enables a new agreement and understanding of the violence that they would supposedly exercise against themselves.
A respected anthropologist reflects on his lifelong passion for the American Southwest and his journey studying the varied cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.
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