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Panel planned for the 2021 meeting of the Society for Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture / Théorie et culture existentialistes et phénoménologiques (EPTC/TCEP) [originally planned for 2020 but canceled due to COVID-19] Please note that Congress 2021 has been switched to a virtual format and that the EPTC/TCEP will not be taking part in this event. We would still like to hold this panel in a separate online format, so submissions are still welcome.
Explaining, Interpreting, and Theorizing Religion and Myth: Contributions in Honor of Robert A. Segal, Nickolas B. Roubekas and Thomas Ryba (eds.), Leiden, Koninklijke Brill NV.
Cultural Myth Criticism and Todays Challenges to Myth2020 •
This article pays particular attention to Cultural Myth Criticism, and how this new perspective deals with the main challenges that myth encounters today: social globalization, culture of immanence, and logic of consumerism.
Journal for The Theory of Social Behaviour
Toward a theory of myth2020 •
Myth has a convoluted etymological history in terms of its origins, meanings, and functions. Throughout this essay I explore the signification, structure, and essence of myth in terms of its source, force, form, object, and teleology derived from archaic ontology. Here I offer a theoretic typology of myth by engaging the work of contemporary scholar, Robert A. Segal, who places fine distinctions on criteria of explanation versus interpretation when theorizing about myth historically derived from methodologies employed in analytic philosophy and the philosophy of science. Through my analysis of an explanandum and an explanans, I argue that both interpretation and explanation are acts of explication that signify the ontological significance, truth, and psychic reality of myth in both individuals and social collectives. I conclude that, in essence, myth is a form of inner sense.
Mythmaking Across Boundaries
INTERPRETING MYTHMAKING OUTSIDE OF THE BOX: FOUR THEORIES YOU HAVE ALMOST CERTAINLY MISSED2016 •
If there is anything that radically set the 20 th century apart from what had gone before, it is the two unprecedented developments: the birth of psychology and the rise of the fantastic. The two processes were not unrelated: psychology came in the wake of discovering that the human mind contains a dimension that is only partially accessible to consciousness. The literary fantastic, in turn, was an attempt to explore this dimension and its influence on the human mind. Both psychology and the fantastic identified myth to be foundational for their fields, either as a record of alternative modes of thought or as a narrative strategy hardwired into human cognitive architecture. One result of this rediscovery of myth has been the proliferation of myth theories. In this chapter I look at four approaches to myth that have not made it into the myth theory canon. These include Immanuel Velikovsky's euhemerist reading of world myths as a memory of cosmic catastrophes and near-extinction events witnessed by various human societies in the past; Julian Jaynes' proposal about Greek myths—especially those recorded in the Iliad—as narrative accounts of bicameral consciousness that preceded our modern subjective consciousness; Sean Kane's comparative perspective on world mythtelling traditions as forms of humanity's dialogue with nature; and Jonathan Gottschall's social Darwinist reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey that positions these texts as narrative testimonies of a struggle for Darwinian fitness within an exacting eco-cultural niche. Starting with a brief taxonomy of myth theories, their types, and contexts in which they emerged and functioned, I call attention to the fact that any theoretical approach to myth is inescapably mythopoeic. Theories of myth are attempts to recreate the meaning of myths once their literal account is " no longer accepted, " 1 and also attempts to identify the source and urgency of specific myths both to the people Züleyha Çetiner-Öktem. Ed. Mythmaking Across Boundaries. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2016
Humaniora. Czasopismo Internetowe
Does myth have to be old? Philosophical reflection on mythThe present paper is an introduction to the debate on the contemporary methodology of research on myths. I attempt herein to elucidate the essence of myth, with the attempt being carried out in two parts. In the first part, I overview a history of the philosophical debate on the subject as well as I specify the reasons why myth ought to be reunited with truth anew, as was the case with Greek philosophers. In the latter part, I deal with the analysis of myth in relation with a human being – both in the individualist senseand in the social one, with the latter sense performing a significant role in understanding the world as well as humanity at large. Furthermore, I suggest what the essence of myth might be and what validity it can have for the contemporary man. The reflection included in the present text is inspired by some pertinent philosophical conceptions that allow me to show that it is possible to say something new about myth and the research thereupon.
National Academy of Managerial Staff of Culture and Arts Herald
Myth as the Phenomenon of Culture.pdf2018 •
This paper aims at exploring myth as a phenomenon of culture. The authors have used anthropological integrative approach, semiotic method of representing myth as a language of culture, as well as phenomenological method. Myths provide meaning and purpose to all elements of culture. Myth underlies cultural reality – it is a core of culture. If we imagine culture as an onion comprised of different layers (the “onion” model of culture), than myth is the center of it – it is a core beyond articulation. It generates our beliefs and assumptions that are rarely explicated, however there beliefs and assumptions shape both the structure of personality and culture. They are taken for granted, but support any culture. They manifest themselves in an explicit form in values, purposes, goals, strategies, philosophies, which motivate us and shape our reality. Mythology is one of the ways to comprehend and interpret the world around us. Its basic concepts are the “world” and “human”. Through the lens of these concepts, people realized their destiny in the world and formed life attitudes during the early stages of human development. Giving place to philosophy and science, mythology has not lost its important place in human history. Mythological narratives were borrowed by many religions. In recent decades, representatives of literature and art have intentionally used myths to express their ideas. They have not only rethought ancient myths, but have created new mythological symbols. Nowadays, an interest in myths and mythologies has dramatically increased, and it is not by chance. The famous researchers of the primitive cultures and mythologies as the ways of mastering and interpreting the world have demonstrated the creative power and heuristic potential of myths that will be manifested in the future.
Classical Journal 109
And Now for Something Completely Different: Addressing Assumptions about Myth2013 •
2013 •
Due in large part to changing river patterns, a portion of Mound A of the Shiloh Mound complex and Shiloh National Military Park is eroding into the Tennessee River. Mound A is one of the largest Mississippian period Indian mounds in the Tennessee River Valley, and one of the largest mounds on National Park Service land. The mound and village complex were built in the centuries immediately following A.D. 1000, when the site was the political and ceremonial center of a society dominating this part of the region. Engineering studies demonstrated that Mound A was seriously threatened by erosion, and that, regardless of whatever stabilization and mitigation efforts were employed, at least 25 or more feet of the mound and adjoining bluff line in the site area would be lost to erosion. The archeological project reported herein was undertaken to mitigate, in part, the damage brought about by the ongoing erosion in the vicinity of Mound A, and focused on the area of direct impact, or near-certain loss. The excavations conducted from 1999–2004 recovered information from the top to the bottom of the mound on the east side, a vertical span nearly 7 meters in height on the south end and 9 meters on the north side. Seven major construction stages and over 600 features were found in the portion of Mound A examined.The archeological investigations were multidisciplinary in nature and took place over five field seasons (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003, and 2004). Intensive remote sensing and archeological testing programs were conducted in the vicinity of Mound A and to a lesser extent elsewhere over the mound complex in 1999 and 2001. These followed by planning workshops held in mid-2000 and early 2002 involving a number of scholars and land managers to decide how to proceed. A large scale archeological mitigation program was started and partially completed from 2002–2004, with the vast majority of the fieldwork occurring in 2002 and 2003. evidence for the construction and use of Mound A found during the 1999–2004 excavations is recounted stage by stage, including occupation surfaces, structures, individual features, and major construction episodes. Geoarcheologically-based interpretations of how the mound was built and used are presented, together with analyses of the material remains found associated with each stage. These include the results of radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dating, analyses of the soil chemistry of occupation surfaces and summary discussions of the lithic, ceramic, and paleosubsistence remains (i.e., carbonized plant remains, bone, phytoliths, and shell) found in the deposits. Additional analyses document the carbonized textiles found in the deposits.
43. Kazı Sonuçları Toplantısı, Cilt 2
Bolvadin Üçhöyük 2021-2022 Yılı Kazıları2024 •
2019 •
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Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Feasibility of two-dimensional ultrasound shear wave elastography of human fetal lungs and liver: A pilot study2019 •
IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Bathyraja griseocauda: Pollom, R., Dulvy, N.K., Acuña, E., Bustamante, C., Chiaramonte, G.E., Cuevas, J.M., Herman, K., Paesch, L., Pompert, J. & Velez-Zuazo, X2019 •
Work (Reading, Mass.)
Occupational stress, working condition and nutritional status of military police officers2012 •
Journal of Immunology
Streptococcal cell wall-induced arthritis. Requirements for neutrophils, P-selectin, intercellular adhesion molecule-1, and macrophage-inflammatory protein-21997 •
Physics in Medicine & Biology
A modular phantom and software to characterize 3D geometric distortion in MRI2020 •
2015 •