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Tropical ginsberg: the resonance of Allen Ginsberg on the Tropicália
No full textDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Comunicação e Expressão, Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras/Inglês e Literatura Correspondente, Florianópolis, 2010Through a dialogical relation between poems and song lyrics, and the socio-political contexts which surrounded these texts, this research discusses the resonance that North American poet, Allen Ginsberg, had over the Brazilian musical movement, the Tropicália. The corpora are the poems "Howl" (1956), "America" (1956), "Supermarket in California" (1955), "Sunflower Sutra" (1955), "Song" (1954), and "Wild Orphan" (1952), written by Allen Ginsberg, and the songs "Batmacumba" (1968), composed by Caetano Veloso, and Gilberto Gil, "Baby" (1968), composed by Caetano Veloso, "Geléia Geral" (1968), composed by Gilberto Gil and Torquato Neto, "Alegria, Alegria" (1967), composed by Caetano Veloso, and "Domingo no Parque" (1967), composed by Gilberto Gil. The main theoretical and critical parameters of this research include: Mikhail Bakhtin and his reflections on intertextuality; James J. Farrell, who believes that the American counterculture began with the Beats; Claudio Willer, who stresses the importance of Allen Ginsberg to the Beat movement, as well as to the birth of the American counterculture; Christopher Dunn, who emphasizes the historical, social, and political relevance of the Tropicália; and Celso Favaretto, who discusses in depth the complexity of most of the Tropicália songs. Based on such parameters, this research suggests that the life and work of Allen Ginsberg had great resonance over the creation of the Tropicália.Através de uma relação dialógica entre poesia e letras de música e o contexto sócio-político que circundava tais textos, este estudo discute a ressonância que o poeta Norte Americano, Allen Ginsberg, teve sobre o movimento musical Brasileiro, a Tropicália. A corpora são os poemas "Howl" (1956), "America" (1956), "Supermarket in California" (1955), "Sunflower Sutra" (1955), "Song" (1954), e "Wild Orphan" (1952), escritos por Allen Ginsberg, e as músicas "Batmacumba" (1968), composta por Caetano Veloso, e Gilberto Gil, "Baby" (1968), composta por Caetano Veloso, "Geléia Geral" (1968), composta por Gilberto Gil e Torquato Neto, "Alegria, Alegria" (1967), composta por Caetano Veloso, e "Domingo no Parque" (1967), composta por Gilberto Gil. Os principais parâmetros teóricos e críticos desta pesquisa incluem: Mikhail Bakhtin e suas reflexões sobre intertextualidade; James J. Farrell, que acredita que a contracultura Americana começou com os Beats; também em Claudio Willer, que salienta a importância de Allen Ginsberg no movimento Beat e no nascimento da contracultura Americana; Christopher Dunn, que enfatiza a relevância histórica, social e política da Tropicália; e Celso Favaretto, que discute em profundidade a complexidade da grande maioria das músicas da Tropicália. Baseando-se em tais parâmetros identificados, esta dissertação sugere que a vida e obra de Allen Ginsberg tiveram grande ressonância sobre a criação da Tropicália
Una de cal y otra de arena: building comparable real wages in a global perspective
No full textThis paper discusses some of the criticisms recently raised by Rafael Do-bado-González (2015) about our work on real wages in the Americas in the long run (Allen et al. 2012). Although addressing a series of issues, Dobado mainly questions our use of the welfare ratio methodology to assess standards of living in colonial Spanish America. In this article we explain how, despite its limitations, this methodology provides a solid, transparent metric to compare economic devel-opment across space and time. In particular, welfare ratios present more econom-ically relevant information on living standards than the commodity wages that Dobado prefers (Dobado González and García Montero 2014). We argue that Do-bado fails to offer convincing evidence against our findings; hence we stand by these results, which suggest that the divergence between North and Latin Ameri-ca began early in the colonial period
Orin Daniel Allen Jr. Reunion
No full textGrandchildren of Orin Daniel and Eleanor Merkley Allen are Larry Allen, Lorin Allen, Duane Massey, Vivian Allen, Eric Bodily, Janet Bodily. Middle Row: Ira Dell Massey, J.D. Massey, Allen Massey, Todd Searle, Diana Searle, Flynn Searle, Kathleen Allen, Debbie Bodily, E\u27lynn Massey. Front Row: Maureen Massey, Christine Caldwell, Eugene Searle, Leon Roberts, Jim Anthon Allen, Lillian Allen
The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas: A Labour Market Approach.
No full textPart of a long-run project to put together a systematic database of prices and wages for the American contingents, this paper takes a first look at standards of living in a series of North American and Latin American cities. From secondary sources we collected price data that - with diverse degrees of quality - covers various years between colonization and independence and, following the methodology now familiar in the literature, we built estimations of price indexes for Boston, Philadelphia, and the Chesapeake Bay region in North America and Bogota, Mexico, and Postosi in Latin America exploring alternative assumptions on the characteristics of the reference basket. We use these indexes to deflate the (relatively more scarce) figures on wages, and compare the results with each other, and with the now widely known series for various European and Asian cities. We find that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four times the World Bank Poverty Line (WBPL) in North America while only two times the WBPL in Latin America. These wages place the North American colonies among the most advanced countries in the world alongside Northwestern European countries and the Latin American colonies among the least developed countries at a similar level to Southern European and Asian countries. These wage differences existed from the early colonial period because wages in the American colonies were determined by wages in the respective metropoles and by the Malthusian population dynamics of indigenous peoples. Settlers would not migrate unless they could maintain their standard of living, so wages in the colonies were set in the metrople. Political institutions, forced labour regimes, economic geography, disease environments and culture shaped the size of the economy of each colony but did not affect income levels
Eric Voegelin's thought and its significance for political theology
No full textThe philosopher Eric Voegelin (1901-85) held that at the
heart of an adequate political philosophy must be a
philosophy of consciousness. This study discusses
Voegelin's thought in its significance for "political
theology", by which is understood that mode of theological
thinking which focuses on the relationship of
Christian faith to the pursuit of social justice.
The study falls into two parts. Part One is an exposition
of Voegelin's thought with the perspective of political theology continuously in mind. Chapter One justifies the choice of this perspective. There follow chapters an the symbol of the metaxy, which Voegelin takes from Plato and which is fundamental to his thought, and on the rational structure of symbols and their articulation. Then the modes of symbolic discourse most important for Voegelin are considered in turn: myth, classical philosophy, Christian theology, history, and politics. Part One finishes with a discussion of Voegelin's work on the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures.
Part Two concentrates on three topics central to the
concerns of Voegelin and political theologians alike.
Besides being intrinsically important, these topics
permit one to estimate how valuable is Voegelin's work as
a resource for political theology. The topics are the
relationship between individual and societal transformation;
the scope and limits of Christian hope for the attainment of a just social order within history; and the nature of political responsibility and irresponsibility in the light of faith. The thesis ends with a summary of its conclusions.
It is argued that Voegelin's thought offers a powerful
and constructive challenge to political theologians, but
that political theology in turn provides a vantage point
which reveals certain serious shortcomings in Voegelin's
powerful thought. In particular, it is argued that
Voegelin fails to articulate adequately the social
implications of his own philosophical principles
Process and meaning in spatial archaeology: investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian space and place
No full textExamines Northern Iroquoian archaeology through various lenses at multiple spatial levels, including individual households, village constructions, relationships between villages in a local region, and relationships between various Iroquoian nations and their homelands. Scholarship from both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border, presents contextualized analysis of settlement and landscape.--Provided by publisher.Introduction: Settlement, space, and Northern Iroquoian societies / Eric E. Jones and John L. Creese -- Dwelling, daily life, and power at Parker Farm / Erin C. Rodriguez and Kathleen M. S. Allen -- Growing pains: explaining long-term trends in Iroquoian village scale, density, and layout / John L. Creese -- Iroquoian settlements in central New York State in the sixteenth century: a case study of intra- and inter-site diversity / Kathleen M. S. Allen and Sandra Katz -- Multi-scalar perspectives on Iroquoian ceramics: aggregation and interaction in precontact Ontario / Jennifer Birch, Robert B. Wojtowicz, Aleksandra Pradzynski, and Robert H. Pihl -- Refining our understanding of sixteenth and seventeenth-century Haudenosaunee settlement location choices / Eric E. Jones -- Cross-border interaction in Iroquoian bioarchaeological investigations / Crystal Forrest -- Revisiting Onondaga Iroquois prehistory through social network analysis / John P. Hart, William E. Engelbrecht -- The study of Northern Iroquoia: before and after the international boundary / Ronald F. Williamson, Dean Snow
Seabed foraging by Antarctic krill: Implications for stock assessment, bentho-pelagic coupling, and the vertical transfer of iron
No full textA compilation of more than 30 studies shows that adult Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) may frequent benthic habitats year-round, in shelf as well as oceanic waters and throughout their circumpolar range. Net and acoustic data from the Scotia Sea show that in summer 2-20% of the population reside at depths between 200 and 2000 m, and that large aggregations can form above the seabed. Local differences in the vertical distribution of krill indicate that reduced feeding success in surface waters, either due to predator encounter or food shortage, might initiate such deep migrations and results in benthic feeding. Fatty acid and microscopic analyses of stomach content confirm two different foraging habitats for Antarctic krill: the upper ocean, where fresh phytoplankton is the main food source, and deeper water or the seabed, where detritus and copepods are consumed. Krill caught in upper waters retain signals of benthic feeding, suggesting frequent and dynamic exchange between surface and seabed. Krill contained up to 260 nmol iron per stomach when returning from seabed feeding. About 5% of this iron is labile, i.e., potentially available to phytoplankton. Due to their large biomass, frequent benthic feeding, and acidic digestion of particulate iron, krill might facilitate an input of new iron to Southern Ocean surface waters. Deep migrations and foraging at the seabed are significant parts of krill ecology, and the vertical fluxes involved in this behavior are important for the coupling of benthic and pelagic food webs and their elemental repositories
E-Finance: An Introduction
No full text" Franklin Allen, James McAndrews and Philip Strahan, October 2001 Abstract: E-finance is defined as "The provision of financial services and markets using electronic communication and computation". In this paper we outline research issues related to e-finance that we believe set the stage for further work in this field. Three areas are focused on. These are the use of electronic payments sys tems, the operations of financial services firms and the operation of financial markets. A number of research issues are raised. For example, is the widespread use of paper-based checks efficient? Will the financial services industry be fundamentally changed by the advent of the internet? Why have there been such large differences in changes to market microstructure across different financial markets?
Portable high-performance superconducting : high-level platform-dependent optimization
No full textThesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994.Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-172).by Eric Allen Brewer.Ph.D
Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood.
No full textContents1. Seeing whole , Julian C Hughes, Stephen J Louw & Steven R Sabat 2. Ageing and human nature , Michael Bavidge 3. Dementia and personal identity , Harry Lesser 4. Identity: self and dementia , John McMillan 5. Into the darkness: losing identity with dementia , Jennifer Radden & Joan M Fordyce 6. Can the self disintegrate? Personal identity, psychopathology and disunities of consciousness , E Jonathan Lowe 7. Keeping track, autobiography and the conditions for self erosion , Michael Luntley 8. The discursive turn, social constructionism and dementia , Tim Thornton 9. The return of the living dead: agency lost and found? , Carmelo Aquilina & Julian C Hughes 10. Dementia and the identity of the person , Eric Matthews 11. Meaning-making in dementia: a hermeneutic perspective , Guy A M Widdershoven & Ron L P Berghmans 12. I am, thou art: personal identity in dementia , Catherine Oppenheimer 13. Spiritual perspectives on the person with dementia: identity and personhood , F Brian Allen & Peter G Coleman 14. 'Respectare': moral respect for the lives of the deeply forgetful , Stephen G Post 15. Understandings of dementia: explanatory models and their implications for the person with dementia and therapeutic effort , Murna Downs, Linda Clare & Jenny Mackenzie 16. Personhood and interpersonal communication in dementia , Lisa Snyder 17. From childhood to childhood? Autonomy and dependence through the ages of life , Harry Cayton 18. Mind, meaning and personhood in dementia: the effects of positioning , Steven R Saba
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