Imponderabilia - the international student anthropology journal Mythical Creatures List, Mythical Creatures A-Z - StumbleUpon Amazon Amondawa tribe where nobody has an age and words like 'month' and 'year' don't exist By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 15:28 GMT, 20 May 2011 Only divisions of day and night, rainy and dry seasonAge is marked by changing your name An Amazonian tribe has been discovered that has no concept of time or dates, scientists said today. The Amondawa people of Brazil do not even have words for 'time', 'week', 'month' or 'year', said Chris Sinha, of the University of Portsmouth. He argues that it is the first time scientists have been able to prove time is not a deeply entrenched universal human concept, as previously thought. Two researchers (left) pose with members of the Amondawa tribe in Brazil. Professor Sinha, who reported his findings in the journal Language And Cognition, said: 'For the Amondawa, time does not exist in the same way as it does for us. 'We can now say without doubt that there is at least one language and culture which does not have a concept of time as something that can be measured, counted or talked about in the abstract.
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The List Blog - StumbleUpon 10. Why are dogs committing suicide by jumpingoff the Overtoun Bridge? The Overtoun Bridge is an arch bridge located near Milton, Scotland, overthe Overtoun Burn. A burn is a term used to describe a type of streamwhich is smaller than a river. Milton is a village in West Dunbartonshire,which is just on the outskirts of Dumbarton. The Overtoun Bridge hasgained public attention because of the unusually large number of dogs thathave allegedly leaped to their deaths off the bridge. The long leap from the bridge onto the waterfalls of the Overtoun Estatealmost always results in immediate death. There have been a number of theories as to why dogs are choosing to endtheir lives by jumping off the bridge, ranging from the bridge being hauntedto the canines suffering from depression, or even picking up depressed orsuicidal feelings from the bridge. 9. In the 1960s a group a marine biologists planted microphones in the world’soceans to record the songs of blue whales. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
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40 Photo-Illustrated Questions to Refocus Your Mind Asking the right questions is the answer… It’s not the answers you get from others that will help you, but the questions you ask of yourself. Here are 40 thought-provoking questions to help you refresh and refocus your thinking: Please share your thoughts with us in the comments section below. Also, check out our sister site, Thought Questions, for more photo-illustrated questions like these; and check out The Book of Questions if you’re interested in reading even more inspiring, thought-provoking questions.Title photo by: Helga Weber For all other photo credits please refer to ThoughtQuestions.com Related 40 Questions Everyone is Afraid to Ask Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers. April 13, 2012 In "Aspirations" 40 Questions that Will Quiet Your Mind Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers … because asking the right questions is the answer. August 5, 2015 In "Happiness" 25 Photo-Illustrated Reminders to Help You Find Happiness
L’amicizia deve tornare a essere il pilastro della società | L'INDISCRETO Non è un rapporto secondario all’amore, ma l’unica possibilità di ampliare la nostra sfera di affetti oltre quella della famiglia tradizionale. Solo l’idea di amicizia può farci ripensare l’idea di città e di convivenza, lo sostiene Franco La Cecla, urbanista e antropologo. In copertina: Hans Thoma , Luna. di Riccardo Papacci Nelle argomentazioni dei primitivisti, in particolare in quelle di John Zerzan, ricorre l’urgenza di dimostrare come anche nelle comunità più primitive emergano chiari ed evidenti segni di amicizia. L’antropologia moderna è una disciplina che nasce in età positivista, quindi con un impianto epistemologico che, almeno nelle pretese, prendeva a modello le scienze fisiche, ciò che ne spiega i frequenti ed emblematici contatti con la frenologia e altre amenità. Un interessante focus sull’amicizia dal punto di vista antropologico si trova in Essere amici (Einaudi, 2019) di Franco La Cecla. Le periferie andrebbero fatte sparire.
Before I Die & Candy Chang - StumbleUpon What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public. After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa. The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding. The Before I Die book is a celebration of these walls and the stories behind them. 2011, New Orleans, LA. Cordoba, Argentina. Najaf, Iraq. Brooklyn, NY.
Glossaire des Syndromes propres à une culture La liste ci-dessous est une compilation personnelle. L'essentiel des références qui ont permis de la constituer sont indiquées dans la page précédente dans le lien Bibliographie et sites. Elles sont nord-américaines dans leur quasi totalité. .Les parties empruntées au DSM sont entre parenthèses et sont marquées à leur fin propre par DSM. La traduction française du DSM IV est dépendante de la vision culturelle américaine ; ce qui est paradoxal considérant la philosophie du projet de l'American Psychiatric Association. Quels arguments permettent d'avancer cette opinion ? - Sur 25 syndromes référencés, plus de la moitié relève du monde hispanique (en réalité de celui des "Latinos" des E.U.), du monde asiatique (enfin seulement Chine - Corée - Japon) et des autochtones américains. - Le monde arabo-berbère n'est pas représenté. - Cela dit cette annexe est une avancée dans la prise en compte de l'altérité ou pour le moins une brèche dans la nouvelle croyance monoidéique au Génie Statistique.
Two Spirits, One Heart, Five Genders Those who arrived in the Native American Garden of Eden had never seen a land so uncorrupted. The Europeans saw new geography, new plants, new animals, but the most perplexing curiosity to these people were the Original Peoples and our ways of life. Of all of the foreign life ways Indians held, one of the first the Europeans targeted for elimination was the Two Spirit tradition among Native American cultures. At the point of contact, all Native American societies acknowledged three to five gender roles: Female, male, Two Spirit female, Two Spirit male and transgendered. LGBT Native Americans wanting to be identified within their respective tribes and not grouped with other races officially adopted the term “Two Spirit” from the Ojibwe language in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1989.