An Ancient Iroquois Rite
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Medical, religious and social reasons for and against an ancient rite.
This month’s issue of the Journal of Medical Ethics is a special issue devoted entirely to the ethics of infant male circumcision—an elective surgical practice that is currently performed on around a third of the world’s male population. The last time the Journal ran a symposium on this issue was in 2004, and there has been relatively scant discussion of the practice in the ethical literature s...
متن کاملAn Initiation Rite for Intelligent Machinery
This paper discusses an experimental software project that interactively trains an artificial intelligence program with user input. The project is a commentary on the humanmachine relationship inspired by the infamous Turing 'imitation' game. The software is an anthropomorphic play modeled on the different stages of an initiation rite (separation, margin and aggregation) observed by Van Gennep ...
متن کاملRITE: Rich Information Television
When the Internet became more interactive it turned passive consumers of information into active providers of such. Over the time, volunteers built impressive databases filled with information for virtually every niche. In this paper we present RITE, an idea for augmenting films and TV serials with supplementary information that is freely available on the Internet. An easy, yet powerful interfa...
متن کاملAncient Gold Mining Activities in India - An Overview
Gold was obtained through washing or panning of the river sands during initial periods of civilisation. With the advent of knowledge of metallurgical processing of ores it was recovered through mining of in-situ quartz reefs, and then from auriferous sulphide ores. The metal mining activities are evidenced in the form of large number of ‘ancient metal mines’ or ‘old workings’ and ‘placer mining...
متن کاملAtonement: the Rite of Healing
There has recently been a number of books on the Christian understanding of atonement. What has been fascinating for me is the extent to which these books do, or more often do not, use the Old Testament material on atonement as the basis for what they have to say. The New Testament speaks in a variety of ways about atonement, and this has become the centre of Christian dogmatics; but this ‘aton...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Scientific American
سال: 1902
ISSN: 0036-8733
DOI: 10.1038/scientificamerican06071902-401a