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Anatolia - Home of Eternity Volume III The Cultic World and Its Representation in Early Iron Age Anatolia
Studies in Digital Heritage
Hand Drawing Versus Computer Vision in Archaeological RecordingAs 3D scanning and photogrammetry are supplanting traditional illustration techniques with increasing speed, archaeologists and architectural historians have sounded alarms about what stands to be lost if hand drawing is altogether eliminated from fieldwork. This paper argues that the most direct threat is to a particular form of archaeological illustration which does not necessarily share the advantages attributed to other kinds of drawing. Recording by means of “technical drawing” communicates a collectively agreed interpretation of the ancient record, and its primary benefit is not stimulating creative thought but rather enhancing human observation. A review of two cases comparing the illustration of ancient Greek architecture through analogue and digital methods indicates that, in practice, both approaches draw attention away from the ancient subject and focus it on distracting protocols for the great majority of the time spent in the field. Even so, technical drawing requires p...
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This paper argues for a 'perennial phenomenology' (or 'soft' perennialism) varying from the traditionalist notion of a 'perennial philosophy.' Perennial phenomenology offers a more nuanced form of perennialism that focuses on spiritual/mystical experiences rather than the teachings and beliefs of different religions. While teachings and beliefs vary greatly, the mystical experiences associated with different mystical traditions have striking commonalities. I suggest four experiential aspects that support a perennial phenomenology. These aspects also necessitate a reconsideration of the debate between perennialism and constructivism. Significantly, these experiential elements are present when mystical experiences occur outside the context of spiritual traditions, to people who know little or nothing about spirituality and consider themselves non-religious. Treating mystical experiences exclusively in the context or religion and spiritual traditions has been a major failing in debates between constructivists (or contextualists) and perennialists. There is a common landscape of mystical experience that precedes interpretation and conceptualization by spiritual traditions. This paper contributes to a reopening of discussion about perennialism that has been underway in recent years.
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arXiv (Cornell University)
RCNF: Real-time Collaborative Network Forensic Scheme for Evidence Analysis2017 •
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Antithrombin-binding Octasaccharides and Role of Extensions of the Active Pentasaccharide Sequence in the Specificity and Strength of Interaction2008 •
Journal of Experimental Biology
Adrenergic Control of Red Cell pH in Salmonid Fish: Roles of the Sodium/Proton Exchange, Jacobs-Stewart Cycle and Membrane Potential1990 •
2024 •
Yearbook of Conrad Studies, Poland
Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster in search of a transcultural space2017 •