Rice and Revolution Joanna Davidson
The Upper Guinea Coast in Global Perspective,
01/2016, Letnik:
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Book Chapter
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Along the Upper Guinea Coast, rice has played a significant role in shaping land and livelihoods, persons and population flows, desires, dreams, disappointments, spiritual and moral life, and ...interactions and transactions for many hundreds of years, or perhaps even a few thousand. For several centuries this area of West Africa was known to Europeans as the Grain or Rice Coast, signalling their recognition of the importance, abundance and defining aspect of rice in this region (or, more selfishly, their own interest in securing this rice in their trade along the coast). But both before and after European dominance in this
The national museum of saudi arabia, the centerpiece of the King Abdulaziz Historical Center in Riyadh, was built in 1999 as part of the centennial celebrations (calculated according to the Islamic, ...or Hijri, calendar) commemorating the capture of the city by Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the first king of Saudi Arabia, in 1902. The museum’s gently curved, dun-colored west wall faces the old Murabba Palace and was designed to evoke the canyon walls of the dry Najd highlands that dominate the central region of the Arabian Peninsula.
At the entrance to the first gallery, which is called “Man and the Universe,”
Our Flesh Was Made from Corn Leonor Hurtado Paz y Paz; Cristóbal Cojtí García
Religion and Sustainable Agriculture,
10/2016
Book Chapter
The Mayan civilization unites spirituality, science, and agriculture, thus creating an agriculture that is in harmony with nature, the individual, and society, weaving all the elements together as ...part of the cosmic fabric. Harmony is created by respecting principles that consider the human being as one integral element of the whole system rather than the main or dominant element of that system. In this context, the person respects the life of all other elements, understanding that all elements are alive and have their own mission. Another principle is “You are my other self”—this principle considers that one’s life influences
Early Positivism Evaldas Nekrašas
The Positive Mind,
02/2016
Book Chapter
Positivism is closely related to science. In many ways, positivism originated from scientific progress. Hence, tracing the roots of positivism, it seems quite natural to start by analyzing the ...circumstances in which science begins to oppose and sever itself from philosophy, the discipline of which it was a part for centuries. This separation occurred in modern times and has impacted later relationships between philosophy and the sciences. However, before embarking on a discussion of how these relationships were changed by the first scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, one should perhaps evaluate an old belief that, allegedly, for many centuries,
