19,405 research outputs found
Animal sacrifice, politics and the law in Tamil Nadu, South India
Full text linkAfter describing and explaining the significance of animal sacrifice in a typical Tamil village goddess festival, this chapter considers the debates surrounding the passing of the Madras Animals and Birds Sacrifices Prohibition Act 1950 and addresses the puzzling issue of its non-enforcement. Why did Chief Minister Jayalalitha suddenly insist upon implementing the Act more than 50 years later, and why did she so quickly change her mind? These legislative and policy reversals are set against a background of tensions between the competing visions of religiosity held by reformist, urbanised, generally high-caste Hindus and their traditionally minded, rural, generally lower caste counterparts. When ruling on such issues the higher Indian courts display strong reformist tendencies, further reinforced in recent years by the growing influence of the extreme brand of reformism known generically as Hindutva. The political and legal dimensions of these struggles have emerged even more clearly in the more recent jallikattu (bull-taming) controversy
Introduction:The judicialisation and politicisation of sacrifice
Full text linkThe introduction focuses on the issues raised by the debate on animal sacrifice over the centuries, both in the West and in South Asia. Not only did the current Indian judicial system evolve from the British colonial legacy, but internationally, many current arguments on the protection of animals call upon Indian religious and philosophical concepts as well as Western notions and values. The recent judicialisation of these debates has led to the emergence of new questions, worldwide, concerning the legal status of animals and focusing particularly on animal sacrifice and ritual slaughter. In South Asia, animal sacrifice was criticised over the centuries by sectarian and devotional movements, but these criticisms gained new impetus from the actions of Christian missionaries who projected onto India the opposition between religio and superstitio used by the first Christian writers in rejecting animal sacrifices in ancient Rome. This had a profound impact on nineteenth-century Hindu reformist leaders who also took a stand against animal sacrifice. This aspect of the debate has been taken up by Indian judges, some of whom take a spiritualistic approach to religion and are pushing for Hindu religious reforms
Isolation, Enumeration and Identification of Enterococci
No full textIn the United States the presence of the coliform group of organisms, especially Escherichia coli, serves as an indicator of fecal contamination. In recent years there has been a steady increase of interest in the enterococci, members of the genus Streptococci, as indicators. |It is still debatable whether the coliforms or the enterococci are better indicators of contamination in food and water. However, there is a definite trend toward the use of the enterococci in preference to the coliform group for the detection of bacterial contamination.|It is of interest to note that the enterococci are used in some countries as official indicators of fecal pollution. This is true in France and Germany. |This project is designed not to determine the sanitary significance of the enterococci, but rather to isolate, identify and enumerate them from natural sources, together with the coliforms isolated from the same sources.ProQuest Traditional Publishing Optio
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
No full textAnthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
No full textAnthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Debra Y. Anthony Oral History Interview
No full textOral history interview with Debra Anthony, a native of Tampa, Florida. Anthony was born in 1960 at Clara Frye Hospital, the only hospital where blacks could receive medical care. Her family lived in Central Park Village, a public housing project, for over twenty years, moving in shortly after it was built and leaving in 1979. She attended Booker T. Washington Middle School in the early 1970s, the period when white children were first bused in from the suburbs, which was a difficult experience for both black and white students. Anthony has good memories of growing up in Central Park Village in spite of its negative reputation. She attributes its decline to the destruction of the African American business community on Central Avenue. Anthony was saddened by Central Park Village\u27s demolition in 2007 because it was such a major part of her childhood, and she is hesitant about the city\u27s plans to develop the area
Asylum Determination in Europe:Ethnographic Perspectives
Full text linkDrawing on new research material from ten European countries, Asylum Determination in Europe: Ethnographic Perspectives brings together a range of detailed accounts of the legal and bureaucratic processes by which asylum claims are decided. The book includes a legal overview of European asylum determination procedures, followed by sections on the diverse actors involved, the means by which they communicate, and the ways in which they make life and death decisions on a daily basis. It offers a contextually rich account that moves beyond doctrinal law to uncover the gaps and variances between formal policy and legislation, and law as actually practiced.The contributors employ a variety of disciplinary perspectives – sociological, anthropological, geographical and linguistic – but are united in their use of an ethnographic methodological approach. Through this lens, the book captures the confusion, improvisation, inconsistency, complexity and emotional turmoil inherent to the process of claiming asylum in Europe
Peggy van Praagh, "Swanhilda", Coppelia (Act II) [ca. 1940] [picture] /
No full textTitle from caption.; Condition: Good.; Part of the collection: Dame Peggy van Praagh collection.; Caption: "Peggy van Praagh 'Swanhilda' Coppelia (Act II). Photo Anthony copyright"--Left to right beneath image.; "Peggy van Praagh ... Coppelia, c. 1940"--Accession record
- …
