After Cannibal Tours: Cargoism and Marginality in a Post-touristic Sepik River Society

Knowledge of illness in a Sepik society. A study of the Gnau, New Guinea

a Post - Communist Society

Analysis of a Class of Cannibal Urns

In this note we study a class of 2× 2 Pólya-Eggenberger urn models, with ball transition matrix given by M = ( 0 −b c −d ) , for arbitrary parameters b, c ∈ N, assuming the balancing condition d = c+ b. This urn model serves as a stochastic model in biology describing cannibalistic behavior of populations. The special case b = c = 1 and d = 2 was studied by Pittel [16] using asymptotic approxim...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...

on translation of politeness strategies in dialogues involving female characters in translations and retranslations of novels translated before and after the islamic revolution of iran and their effects on the image of women: a polysystem theory approach

abstract reception environment has considerable effects on accepting a translation. as the expectations of a target culture and its values and needs change throughout history, its criteria for accepting a translation or rejecting it will change accordingly (gentzler, 2001). the expectations of iran, as the reception environment in the present study, have changed after the islamic revolution. i...