1. introduction reza barahani(1984), in his “male history”, focuses on the murder of son by father, in ferdowsi’s rustam and sohrab, in the canonical epic of shahnameh. he, thence, juxtaposes it to father’s murder by son, in sophocles’ “oedipus rex”, to conclude that in oriental culture, it is always the “new” that is sacrificed by the hands of the “old”, whereas in western culture it is the co...

From the beginning of the scienti® c revolution, scientists, philosophers, and laypersons have been concerned about the eå ects of knowledge on social relations. Although views diå er about the details of this knowledge± society interface, most observers have understood that the kind of knowledge that emanates from established science can indeed be quite powerful in practice. In exploring both ...

The article discusses the question of why and how normalization between United Arab Emirates (UAE) Israel took place managed to evolve into a peace agreement. It offers an additional explanation neorealists' scholarly commonly accepted argument: that it was only behavior revisionist state Iran motive for signing agreement two states. Furthermore, argues relations began in 2004 could have materi...

This paper examines the limits of Cynical parrhesia. Based on fieldwork with artist-activists in post-recession Dublin, I recount their fraught efforts to use adventurous artistic expression provoke a critical awakening an audience strangers, who instead respond derision. My focus is thus narrow but prevalent feature artists’ work and lives, public’s experience challenging genres provocative pu...

The doorbell rang as I hung up the phone, and then heard my father's deep, imposing voice fill our entryway.I stood walked slowly into unlit hallway unnoticed wife, Allison, hugged father took his coat bag. Though she'd only met him once, at mom's funeral, wanted her to share dislike for man. From what I'd told her, Allison knew enough about warrant a little enmity, or so thought, but she cheer...

Anthropology is nothing if it not a particular way of describing the world. Yet what most precious to – terms and concepts that mark as discipline can also be tricky. When resurgent boundaries exclusions twist truth telling faking in any which way, anthropology might find new urgency thinking about conceptual life tries express. How engages has always depended on (attention to) how are used, so...

Behavior therapy is relevant not just to the needs of victims of terrorism, but also to the understanding and modification of psychological processes that lead to the perpetration of terrorist acts. A key process of this kind is prejudice. In this paper, human prejudice is defined as the objectification and dehumanization of people as a result of their participation in evaluative verbal categor...

It is well known that the Nazis treated human beings with extreme cruelty but it less widely recognized that the Nazis also took some pains to develop and pass extensive animal protection laws. How could the Nazis have professed stich concern for animals while treating humans so badly? It would be easy to dismiss Nazi proclamations on animals as mere hypocrisy but there may be other explanation...

Sometime during the last decade, the cell phone became ordinary. We now take for granted that we can call anyone, anytime and anywhere, and have moved on to ask whether such a call would be safe while driving, or socially acceptable in public places. The technology arena has also moved on-from voice to wireless information. Yet the cellular revolution is less than 20 years old, and the entire h...

Buddhist scholars like Kenneth Ch’en thought that filial piety was a special feature of Chinese Buddhism. Later, John Strong employed “popular Buddhist stories” to show that filial piety was also important in Indian Buddhism, but he asserted that it was “a Buddhist compromise with the Brāhmanical ethics of filiality operating at the popular level.” On the other hand, Gregory Schopen, who mainly...