scholarly journals Small WORLD: Ancient Egyptian Architectural Replicas from the Tomb of Meketre

Humans ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-28
Author(s):  
Arlette David
Keyword(s):  
Small World ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ancient Egyptian

The paper presents a study of the context, functions, and rationale behind architectural replicas sealed off in ancient Egyptian tombs, the finest exemplars of which having been excavated in the Theban tomb of Meketre (ca. 2000 B.C.). The analysis is preceded by clarifications regarding the terminology used, the point of view from which they have to be considered, and the developments that led to their presence in the funerary assemblage. It is suggested that in the sealed ‘replicas chamber’ or burial chamber in which they were deposited, it was mainly the winged ba, a connective agent between the worlds of life, death, and eternity, that was meant to enter the imaginary realm of the replicas and feed the deceased in order to revivify him.

scholarly journals Vulnerability of the Maritime Network to Tropical Cyclones in the Northwest Pacific and the Northern Indian Ocean

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 6176
Author(s):  
Zhicheng Shen ◽  
Xinliang Xu ◽  
Jiaohao Li ◽  
Shikuan Wang
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Tropical Cyclones ◽  
Small World ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Northwest Pacific ◽  
Power Law Distribution ◽  
Northern Indian Ocean ◽  
Maritime Networks ◽  
Port System

Maritime networks are one of the most important types of transportation networks in international logistics and it accounts for 90% of the global trade volume. However, the structure of maritime networks is severely impacted by tropical cyclones, especially the maritime network in the Northwest Pacific and the northern Indian Ocean. This paper investigates the vulnerability of the maritime network in the Northwest Pacific and the northern Indian Ocean to the influence of tropical cyclones through removing ports at high or very high tropical cyclones hazard levels and analyzing how the network structure characteristics change from a complex network point of view. From the results, we find that this maritime network is a small-world network and the degree distribution of ports follows a power law distribution. The ports in East Asia are impacted more severely by the tropical cyclones. Moreover, this maritime network exhibits some vulnerability to tropical cyclones. However, the interconnection of the survived ports is not severely impacted, when the network is attacked by tropical cyclones. The port system in the Philippines is most vulnerable to the influence of tropical cyclones, followed by the ports systems in Japan and China. The paper also shows that it is important for studies of maritime network vulnerability to identify the ports that are both important to the regional and cross-regional logistics and severely impacted by natural hazards. The findings provide a theoretical basis for optimizing the port layout and improving the ability of the network to resist damage caused by tropical cyclones.

scholarly journals Further Thoughts on the Location where Narmer probably Buried

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bohai Xu
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Character ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Body ◽  
Chinese Characters ◽  
Construction Technique ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Mortise And Tenon ◽  
To Come ◽  
The Comparative Study ◽  
The Way

In my point of view, the construction technique of mortise-and-tenon joinery in China may come from Egypt. And we can get a hypothesis that Narmer (Yu the Great) may use the Egyptian boats to come to Zhejiang, China (中国浙江). Besides, in my point of view, the single-log coffin in the Royal Mausoleum of Yue Kingdom on the Seal Mount resembles Abydos boats in meaning and shape. By the way, from the remains of Narmer (Yu the Great) in China and Japan, it can further prove hyperdiffusionism from Egypt by Grafton Elliot Smith. Besides, a series of conclusions can be drawn from the comparative study of Ancient Egyptian hieroglyph characters and ancient Chinese characters: the hieroglyph name of eighth nome of Upper Egypt is the Chinese character Ji(冀). The ancient Abydos city is the Yang (阳) city which was the capital of Chinese recorded several Emperors, Yao (Iry-Hor/Ro), Shun (Ka/Sekhen), Yu (Narmer). Furthermore, we can get a conclusion that Double Phoenixes Greeting the Sun in the archway in Yu mausoleum (大禹陵) resembles winged sun disk symbol in Egypt in meaning and shape. By the way, in my point of view, wupeng boat(乌篷船) resembles the unique and striking black boat of Tomb 100, the oldest tomb with painted decoration on its plaster walls at Nekhen. So in this paper and the previous paper the Location where Narmer probably buried, I can get a hypothesis that Yu(Narmer) chose Fanshan (反山) as his tomb at first , but died while on a hunting tour to the eastern frontier of his empire, so the fleet used the wood pile to fasten the Wupeng boat(乌篷船), and used the Wupeng boat(乌篷船) to carry the body of Narmer(Yu the Great), used Burying Stones(窆石) to bury him in Yu mausoleum (大禹陵) , Mount Kuaiji (会稽山) , south of present-day Shaoxing (绍兴).

scholarly journals A POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVE OF A VOYAGE TO EGYPT IN THE TRAVELOGUE UNDER THE AFRICAN SUN BY MILORAD RAJČEVIĆ

2020 ◽  
pp. 217-231
Author(s):  
UROŠ MATIĆ
Keyword(s):  
Far East ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
History Of Archaeology ◽  
Colonial Discourse ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
The Far East ◽  
History Of ◽  
Modern Egypt ◽  
Insight Into

Milorad Rajčević (1890–1964), a famous Serbian traveller, adventurer, and travelogue writer, also went to Egypt in 1921 as part of his world travels. Impressions and experiences from his travels were published consecutively in Belgrade magazine Little Journal and in the form of monographs Under the African Sun (1924 and 1925) and In the Far East (1930). These writings provide us with an important insight into the Serbian bourgeois class image of both ancient Egypt and Egypt in the time Rajčević made his journey. His impressions and experiences from Egypt were transmitted through his travelogue Under the African Sun and were shaped by colonial discourse of a European traveller. It provides us with an insight into the attitudes towards ancient and modern Egypt before academic interest in studying ancient Egyptian past in Serbia. The travelogue contains numerous Orientalist ideas about Arabic population of Egypt. From the point of view of history of archaeology, particularly important are his comments on progress and modernisation. In that context, his comparisons of European with Ancient Egyptian cultural and technical achievements play a significant role. This paper analyses the content of the travelogue Under the African Sun from a postcolonial perspective and argues that although certain ideas inherent to colonial episteme of his time can be recognized, it is not possible to pinpoint the exact sources Rajčević used.

Russian Rock: Beyond Common Sense and the Ethos of Consumption

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 352-367
Author(s):  
Yulia V. Vatolina ◽  
Vadim E. Semenkov ◽  
Aleksey V. Polyakov
Keyword(s):  
Common Sense ◽  
Rock Music ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Ancient Egyptian ◽  
Symbolic Resources ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Sensus Communis

Addressing the phenomenon of Russian rock, the authors proceed from the theoretical assumptions that the process of “disenchantment” (M. Weber), which began in the new European world in the 16th century and is still going on, has led to the inescapable domination of the logic of ordinary sensus communis or common sense in it, which has betrayed the sacred and is rooted in the structures of everyday life. One of the very few domains that exist on grounds other than common sense is the world of rock music. This is the point of view from which the article analyzes Russian rock. The authors show that the otherness of the worlds of Russian rock music is established by musicians in various ways. The article explicates what symbolic resources are used for their establishment and assembly. These are Buddhist symbols (“Aquarium”), and images of the ancient Egyptian and Medieval worlds (“Piknik”), and the grotesque and paradoxical poetics of the OBERIU members (“AuktYon”), and the tradition of alchemy (“Orgia Pravednikov”). The article reveals that the overall otherness of Russian rock can be clarified by the concept of carnival modification by M.M. Bakhtin, who wrote that over time, the carnival would move from the square to the symbolic dimension of culture. One of these manifestations of carnivality in the cultural and symbolic dimension of the world is Russian rock, where everything is built on a game that unfolds on the other side of the “common sense-feeling” with its inherent monologism and absolute indifference to the experience of a unique “I”. In general, the game element serves in Russian rock for questioning the values of the mass world, their problematization. It is also important that Russian rock manages to develop its own special language of symbols to express the carnival worldview. This article discusses those of them that cast the position of “here-being” “I” and value orientations of the authors of Russian rock poetry: the mortal or macabre symbolism, the kingdom or tsardom, the images of zoomorphic and ornithomorphic creatures, and the carnival itself as a symbol of otherness and freedom. By abolishing social givens, predicates and assignments, rock music attacks the “I” form as a “package” of the self, produced by a certain subject positionality, and the “I” is drawn into the game of both “I” forms and subject positionalities. This inevitably leads to a “re-evaluation of the value” and “I” form, and subject positionality — renewal of the perspective of vision of the “world” and yourself in it — behind which stands “the acquisition of a new spiritual state” (W. Benjamin). Russian rock is puzzled by the search for a way of spiritual transformation, transformation of the “I”, and this is why it is valuable for us.

scholarly journals “C’est la vie, c’est la narration”: The Reader in Christine Brooke-Rose’s Textermination and David Lodge’s Small World

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-71
Author(s):  
Corina Selejan
Keyword(s):  
Reader Response ◽  
Small World ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Critical Discourse ◽  
Academic Conferences ◽  
Academic Novels

Abstract This article considers two metafictional academic novels from the reader’s point of view. It argues that this critical vantage point is suggested (if not imposed) by the fictional texts themselves. The theoretical texts informing this reading pertain either to reader response or to theories of metafiction, in an attempt to uncover conceptual commonalities between the two. Apart from a thematic focus on academic conferences as pilgrimages and the advocacy of reading as an ethically valuable activity, the two novels also share a propensity for intertextuality, a blurring of the boundaries between fictional and critical discourse, as well as a questioning of the borderline between fiction and reality. The reading of fiction is paralleled to the reading of (one’s own) life and self-reflexivity emerges as crucial to both types of literacy.

The Geosciences Applied to Lunar Exploration

1962 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 169-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Green
Keyword(s):  
Lunar Surface ◽  
Probable Mechanism ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Lunar Exploration ◽  
Geological Model ◽  
Apply Geophysics ◽  
Surface Features ◽  
The Impact

The term geo-sciences has been used here to include the disciplines geology, geophysics and geochemistry. However, in order to apply geophysics and geochemistry effectively one must begin with a geological model. Therefore, the science of geology should be used as the basis for lunar exploration. From an astronomical point of view, a lunar terrain heavily impacted with meteors appears the more reasonable; although from a geological standpoint, volcanism seems the more probable mechanism. A surface liberally marked with volcanic features has been advocated by such geologists as Bülow, Dana, Suess, von Wolff, Shaler, Spurr, and Kuno. In this paper, both the impact and volcanic hypotheses are considered in the application of the geo-sciences to manned lunar exploration. However, more emphasis is placed on the volcanic, or more correctly the defluidization, hypothesis to account for lunar surface features.

How a sheperd guides a sheep herd?

1984 ◽  
Vol 75 ◽  
pp. 331-337
Author(s):  
Richard Greenberg
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Single Ring ◽  
Damping Effects ◽  
Ring Particle

ABSTRACTThe mechanism by which a shepherd satellite exerts a confining torque on a ring is considered from the point of view of a single ring particle. It is still not clear how one might most meaningfully include damping effects and other collisional processes into this type of approach to the problem.

The growth of mica polytypes as studied by conventional and high-resolution TEM

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 174-177
Author(s):  
A. Baronnet ◽  
M. Amouric
Keyword(s):  
Water Pressure ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Temperature Fields ◽  
Natural Occurrence ◽  
Growth Mechanisms ◽  
Long Period ◽  
High Resolution Tem ◽  
Layer Stacking ◽  
Experimental Works ◽  
Potential Use

The origin of mica polytypes has long been a challenging problem for crystal- lographers, mineralogists and petrologists. From the petrological point of view, interest in this field arose from the potential use of layer stacking data to furnish further informations about equilibrium and/or kinetic conditions prevailing during the crystallization of the widespread mica-bearing rocks. From the compilation of previous experimental works dealing with the occurrence domains of the various mica "polymorphs" (1Mr, 1M, 2M1, 2M2 and 3T) within water-pressure vs temperature fields, it became clear that most of these modifications should be considered as metastable for a fixed mica species. Furthermore, the natural occurrence of long-period (or complex) polytypes could not be accounted for by phase considerations. This highlighted the need of a more detailed kinetic approach of the problem and, in particular, of the role growth mechanisms of basal faces could play in this crystallographic phenomenon.

Radiation Damage in Ceramics

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 600-603
Author(s):  
T. E. Mitchell ◽  
M. R. Pascucci ◽  
R. A. Youngman
Keyword(s):  
Radiation Damage ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Nuclear Waste Storage ◽  
Waste Storage ◽  
Storage Media ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
Fundamental Point ◽  
Small Defect ◽  
Present Understanding

1. Introduction. Studies of radiation damage in ceramics are of interest not only from a fundamental point of view but also because it is important to understand the behavior of ceramics in various practical radiation enyironments- fission and fusion reactors, nuclear waste storage media, ion-implantation devices, outer space, etc. A great deal of work has been done on the spectroscopy of point defects and small defect clusters in ceramics, but relatively little has been performed on defect agglomeration using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) in the same kind of detail that has been so successful in metals. This article will assess our present understanding of radiation damage in ceramics with illustrations using results obtained from the authors' work.

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