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<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> This book describes and analyzes the processes by which recent economic and political developments have impinged on traditional social institutions and relationships within a small (bazaar) town in the far western mountains of Nepal, and affected the historic links between townspeople and villagers who live in the surrounding countryside. It also assesses the implications for local people of the district administration in their midst.</p>
The term cognition refers to unconscious mechanisms in the mind that bring about representations. Social cognition may be defined as any cognitive process that involves other people. These processes can be involved in social interactions at a group level or on a one-to-one basis. This chapter identifies the scope of social cognition and recent research on the mechanisms of social cognition and its component processes in the brain. The study of social cognition uses the same measures as any other area of cognitive science. Some measures are especially helpful in the study of communication and emotion. These include: autonomic responses, brain activity, neuronal activity, scalp electrical impulses, cerebral blood flow, and non-verbal behavior. Mechanisms of social cognition are thought to be crucial for reading faces, detecting eye gaze, recognizing emotional expressions, perceiving biological motion, and detecting goal-directed actions and agents. This chapter further discusses how pathology affects social cognition. It also poses some burning questions from interactions in everyday life.
L’article fait état de l’application d’un programme-pilote s’inscrivant dans la lignée des interventions de prévention secondaire qui s’emploient à réduire la gravité des symptômes de stress. Développée à partir du protocole MBCT conçu pour prévenir la rechute dépressive, sa spécificité réside dans l’adaptation de son matériel didactique qui repose sur le triptyque méditation de pleine conscience-cognition-psychoéducation à l’objet du stress professionnel. La transposition du modèle princeps a fait l’objet d’une recherche expérimentale randomisée et contrôlée sur une population non clinique en milieu industriel dans le but d’évaluer l’effet dudit programme sur le stress et les symptômes associés. Les résultats suggèrent des apports préliminaires quant aux bénéfices générés sur la santé psychique d’un groupe de travailleurs.
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous "tribal" people, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. It describes the deep divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of an historic confrontation over land. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reaction of one community to domination by another. To preserve their ancestral lands under a traditional tenure system indigenous people stress their common identity and cultural apartness from the rest of Nepalese society. This book therefore explores the link between culture and politics in a community subordinated by a more powerful group and threatened with what it regards as economic disaster and cultural annihilation.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous "tribal" people, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. It describes the deep divisions which have arisen between the two groups as a result of an historic confrontation over land. In the widest sense it is concerned with the reaction of one community to domination by another. To preserve their ancestral lands under a traditional tenure system indigenous people stress their common identity and cultural apartness from the rest of Nepalese society. This book therefore explores the link between culture and politics in a community subordinated by a more powerful group and threatened with what it regards as economic disaster and cultural annihilation.</p>
<p>A Tibetan-English-Chinese-English glossary based on two Tun-huang text fragments. (Michael Walter and Manfred Taube 2006-05-15, revised by Bill McGrath 2008-01-03)</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> After reviewing scholarly debates regarding the usefulness of distinguishing, descriptively or analytically, the differences between "tribes" and "castes"/ "peasants," the paper proposes a contrast between these two categories in terms of their relationship to land. Thus, whereas most "caste-peasants" in east Nepal enjoyed land under <em>raikar</em> tenure – a form of freehold – which could be bought and sold, the "tribal" Limbus traditionally possessed theirs under what was termed <em>kipat</em> – which was inalienable and acquired only through kinship rights. <em>Kipat</em> was thus more than an economic asset; it was the basis of their identity as a people. In this sense they shared a conception of land as held by countless indigenous or "tribal" people in south Asia and elsewhere. (Lionel Caplan 2010-02-01)</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> In recent years there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples are depicted in the literatures of the West. This study eschews the tendency to regard virtually all depictions of non-Western "others" as amenable to the same kinds of "orientalist" analysis, and argues that the portrayals found in such writings must be examined in their particular historical and political settings. These themes are explored by considering the voluminous literature about the "Gurkhas," those legendary soldiers from Nepal who have served in Britain's Imperial and post-Imperial armies for more than two centuries. The authors, most of whom are or were British officers who have served in Gurkha regiments, find in their subjects the quintessential virtues of the European officers themselves: the Gurkhas appear as warriors and gentlemen.</p>
<p><strong>Creator's Description:</strong> In recent years there has been a growing interest in how non-Western peoples are depicted in the literatures of the West. This study eschews the tendency to regard virtually all depictions of non-Western "others" as amenable to the same kinds of "orientalist" analysis, and argues that the portrayals found in such writings must be examined in their particular historical and political settings. These themes are explored by considering the voluminous literature about the "Gurkhas," those legendary soldiers from Nepal who have served in Britain's Imperial and post-Imperial armies for more than two centuries. The authors, most of whom are or were British officers who have served in Gurkha regiments, find in their subjects the quintessential virtues of the European officers themselves: the Gurkhas appear as warriors and gentlemen.</p>