This article discusses the traces of two Early Modern Arab figures dramatized in The Moor’s Account (2014) by Laila Lalami and Leo Africanus (1992) Amin Maalouf. Marginality, nomadism, humanism are lives Mustafa Al-Zammouri/Estebanico a black from Zammour taken as slave sold to Spanish conquistador who joined Narváez Expedition Africanus/Alhassan Alwazzan was captured pirates sent gift Pope X (...

this article is to describe the effects of modernity on iran. the development of modernity was not confine within the western societies. other countries such as iran, too, experienced it. there has been three reactions to modernity. while some embraced it and some rejected it, and many tried to approach it rationally. accordingly the article has been constructed in two parts. in the first part,...

This paper examines almost 30 years of disputation concerning the disposal of the world's largest stockpile of the toxic organochlorine, hexachlorbenzene. It describes the study of a chemicals company in its attempt to manage the disposal of the toxic waste in a collaborative fashion with government, environmentalists and the local community. The study describes the new processes and structures...

The transformation of society towards modernity and the attendant socio-economic challenges it has imposed on African societies have compelled insensitive traditional structures of governance to hijack traditional customs and practices to serve their ulterior motives. Thanksgiving to chiefs (kubika chiutsi, in Shona language), is one such traditional practice that has been manipulated to serve ...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this article is to trace the foundations of DD Palmer's sense of self and philosophy of chiropractic to its sources in modern Western philosophy as well as current metatheories about modernity. DISCUSSION DD Palmer's sense of self was indicative of a modern self. A modern self is characterized as a self that developed after the Western Enlightenment and must come to t...

The growth of cybercommunities is a notable social phenomenon. Empirical studies of cybercommunities have described new forms of social behaviour that call for deeper conceptual analysis. Drawing on evidence from our research in the cybercommunity Second Life, the authors examine the sociology of cybercommunities through the lens of Giddens’ abstract theories of modernity. In particular, the au...

Abstract In the song cycle Libro de cantares (1987), Spanish-Cuban composer Julián Orbón (1925–91) entered into a dialogue with work of two other men who, like him, were displaced under Franco regime: he re-used Asturian folk songs compiled by Eduardo Martínez Torner in 1920; and followed compositional models deployed Manuel Falla Siete canciones populares españolas (1914). this article I argue...