Buddhism and Its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations ed. by C. V. Jones (review)

In delay-tolerant wireless sensor networks, messages for sensor data are delivered using opportunistic contacts between intermittently connected nodes. Since there is no stable end-to-end routing path like the Internet and mobile nodes operate on battery, an energy-efficient routing protocol is needed. In this article, we consider the probabilistic routing protocol using history of encounters and transitivity protocol as the base protocol. Then, we propose an energy-aware routing protocol in intermittently connected delay-tolerant wireless sensor networks, where messages are forwarded based on the node’s remaining battery, delivery predictability, and type of nodes. The performance of the proposed protocol is compared with that of probabilistic routing protocol using history of encounters and transitivity and probabilistic routing protocol using history of encounters and transitivity with periodic sleep in detail, from the aspects of delivery ratio, overhead ratio, delivery latency, and ratio of alive nodes. Simulation results show that the proposed protocol has better delivery probability, overhead ratio, and ratio of alive nodes, in most of the considered parameter settings, in spite of a small increase in delivery latency.

Book Review| February 01 2018 Review: A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada by Fannie Kahan A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada. By Fannie Kahan. Edited and with an introduction by Erika Dyck. (Winnipeg, University of Manitoba Press, 2016. xl + 130 pp.) Tisa Wenger Tisa Wenger Yale University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2018) 87 (1): 181–183. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.181 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Tisa Wenger; Review: A Culture’s Catalyst: Historical Encounters with Peyote and the Native American Church in Canada by Fannie Kahan. Pacific Historical Review 1 February 2018; 87 (1): 181–183. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2018.87.1.181 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2018 by the Pacific Coast Branch, American Historical Association2018 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Book Review| May 01 2010 Review: Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West, by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West. By Shih-Shan Henry Tsai. (Armonk, N.Y., M. E. Sharpe, 2008. xiv + 266 pp. $69.95 cloth, $27.95 paper) Robert J. Antony Robert J. Antony University of Macau Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2010) 79 (2): 305–306. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.305 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Robert J. Antony; Review: Maritime Taiwan: Historical Encounters with the East and the West, by Shih-Shan Henry Tsai. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2010; 79 (2): 305–306. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2010.79.2.305 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search This content is only available via PDF. © 2010 by the Regents of the University of California Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Journal Article The Glass Curtain between Asia and Europe: A Symposium on the Historical Encounters and the Changing Attitudes of the Peoples of the East and the West Get access The Glass Curtain between Asia and Europe: A Symposium on the Historical Encounters and the Changing Attitudes of the Peoples of the East and the West. Ed. by Raghavan Iyer. Foreword by the Dalai Lama. London, New York, Toronto: Oxford University Press. 1965. 356 pp. Bibliog. 42s. Malcolm Caldwell Malcolm Caldwell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 42, Issue 2, April 1966, Pages 275–276, https://doi.org/10.2307/2611645 Published: 01 April 1966

Book Review| April 01 2012 Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010 Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010, T. M. Devine and David Hesse. Arthur Williamson Arthur Williamson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Polish Review (2012) 57 (1): 133–136. https://doi.org/10.2307/41557958 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Arthur Williamson; Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters, 1500-2010. The Polish Review 1 April 2012; 57 (1): 133–136. doi: https://doi.org/10.2307/41557958 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All Scholarly Publishing CollectiveUniversity of Illinois PressThe Polish Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

This chapter offers some preliminary insights on how religious difference is constructed and acted upon by migrants and local society. It brings together three different ethnographies of Sikh communities in Central Italy: Rome, Reggio Emilia and Terni. The chapter analyzes the interplay between Sikh associations, Gurdwaras, civil society, Catholic parishes and regional and local political institutions in producing different and often conflicting meanings of religious diversity and how this has changed in the last decade. In developing a comparative perspective, the chapter attempts to trace continuities and discontinuities across different national localities with respect to the role played by religion in migrants' histories of encounter with local society. The chapter moves from the recognition that, at present, regional locality constitutes one of the most relevant arenas where religious difference is recognised and acted upon by migrants, institutional actors and civil society. The case of Sikh communities reveals to be interesting. Keywords: Central Italy; illegal migrants; migrant associations; Reggio Emilia; religious diversity; Sikh communities; Terni

In this paper, we propose SAGE-PRoPHET, a security enhanced PRoPHET routing protocol that enables secure dissemination of post disaster situational messages using history of group encounters. Post disaster rescue and relief operations are essentially group based, where volunteers and rescue workers, belonging to different rescue groups, relay situational information relevant to their group to their respective relief camps, in multiple hops on a peer-to-peer basis. Now, it is evidently better to route situational information, destined for a relief camp of a particular group, through volunteers of that group or who has a history of encountering volunteers of that group frequently. Such history of encounters based routing resembles the PRoPHET routing protocol for delay tolerant networks that forwards messages intended to a particular receiver through those nodes that encounter that receiver frequently. However, to use PRoPHET for such group based routing of group specific messages the protocol needs to be tuned to use history of group encounters rather than individual encounters. On the other hand, PRoPHET assumes that nodes in the network are trusted and cooperate towards message forwarding. Such assumption turns out inaccurate in presence of malicious nodes that may severely impede the delivery, accuracy and timeliness of situational messages. Therefore, integrating proper security components with PRoPHET is extremely important. Our proposed protocol adapts PRoPHET for post disaster group encounter based routing and enhances it by incorporating certain security elements into it to provide full security against possible attacks by malicious nodes in the network. Simulation results show that our proposed protocol, in a disaster scenario, offers better performance in comparison to other well known routing protocols.

Research Article| May 01 1998 From World-Systems to Post-Coloniality: Teaching the History of European Imperial Encounters in the Modern Age Alice Conklin Alice Conklin Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1998) 1998 (71): 150–163. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1998-71-150 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Alice Conklin; From World-Systems to Post-Coloniality: Teaching the History of European Imperial Encounters in the Modern Age. Radical History Review 1 May 1998; 1998 (71): 150–163. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1998-71-150 Download citation file: Zotero Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter Books & JournalsAll JournalsRadical History Review Search Advanced Search The text of this article is only available as a PDF. Copyright © 1998 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc.1998 Article PDF first page preview Close Modal You do not currently have access to this content.

Comments on S. R. Fischer's 'Mangarevan doublets:Preliminary Evidence for Proto-Southeastern Polynesian' Jeff Marck Ssteven Roger Fischer (2001) has recently published arguments for an early Eastern Polynesian protolanguage distinct from Proto-Eastern Polynesian and Proto-Central Eastern Polynesian. Many aspects of the work constitute valuable contributions to fleshing out the early language (pre)history of Eastern Polynesia. Linguists will have many colleagues in archaeology and anthropology who welcome the presentation of some of F's data and conclusions. However, the data do not always mean what F says they do. He deviates from several important conventions in linguistics in his presentation and, in general, the work lacks a well-developed sense of language, population, and their interaction in the sociolinguistic sense. Geologists have a concept called "uniformitarianism," which involves the general idea that geological formations to be observed today are the result of weathering, sedimentary, glacial, uplifting, meteoric, and other processes that, in the main, can be observed today. While there is no similar term with a similar meaning generally employed in linguistics, some writers (Christy 1983, Labov 1994:21-25) propose that we should simply use the geological term for our general sociolinguistic concept, which might be stated roughly as "In the main, sociolinguistic processes of prehistory fell within the general range of those to be observed today." F violates this general principle in the present work and in an earlier one. Fischer (1992) presents a number of valuable linguistic observations, but then claims that they mean things, in the sociolinguistic sense, that they do not. Paraphrasing criticisms of that work from Marck (1996a and 1996b), the problem with Fischer (1992) is as follows. He presents a study of the Rapanui language (Easter Island) where his grammatical comparisons are a unique addition to our knowledge of Eastern Polynesian internal relationships and are consistent with the view that the Rapanui language developed in isolation after an early break from other Eastern Polynesian languages. However, he reaches the unwarranted conclusion that, based on those observations, we can conclude that "one courageous canoeful of East Polynesians were the first [End Page 225] and only ones to arrive on Rapanui until their descendants' historical encounter with Europeans in 1722" (Fischer 1992:187). Such a conclusion is not recoverable from the comparative method of linguistics. F presents a well developed argument that careful examination of the Rapanui language reveals no non-Polynesian substrate, and a similar strong argument that post-settlement (of the "one courageous canoeful") influence from other languages cannot be demonstrated for the period prior to European contact. But we cannot infer from this that there was a single canoeful of initial settlers or that there was no contact with other people from the beginning of settlement to the time Europeans appeared. Neither does it establish that more people over a longer period of time were not involved in Rapanui's initial or even continuing settlement through some generations—a century or more. His data simply show that such potential continuing influxes and later contacts had no perceptible linguistic results. Such lack of impact is actually common in what we know of same-source immigration and of even very meaningful later contacts from elsewhere in terms of world languages, even with borrowing of material and subsistence items and their sociolinguistic results. It must be confusing, to nonlinguists, to read some of F's work and wonder how a linguist can infer the things he does. We cannot, and the present work (Fischer 2001) contains more of such errors. In addition, there is substantial misuse of historical and comparative linguistic concepts and terminologies. There are two general kinds of problems with Fischer (2001). The first involves the linguistics. The second involves a kind of circularity, with archaeological and linguistic inference feeding upon each other more than they rightly should. The problems occur in that general order, so I will give my comments by page or section of the article, with a final summary. The main linguistic problem I see is a lack of clarity about when we can refer to components of a language as substratum, and how that directs or informs us when we then have to talk about inheritance...

Buddhism and its Religious Others: Historical Encounters and Representations, edited by C. V. Jones. Oxford University Press, 2022. 230pp. Hb. £65.00. ISBN-13: 9780197266991.

Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks' historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted, against overwhelming odds, in the defeat of the Persian army – has inspired a series of literary responses to Xerxes in which he is variously portrayed as the archetypal destructive and enslaving aggressor, as the epitome of arrogance and impiety, or as a figure synonymous with the exoticism and luxury of the Persian court. Imagining Xerxes is a transhistorical analysis that explores the richness and variety of Xerxes' afterlives within the ancient literary tradition. It examines the earliest representations of the king, in Aeschylus' tragic play Persians and Herodotus' historiographical account of the Persian Wars, before tracing the ways in which the image of Xerxes was revisited and adapted in later Greek and Latin texts. The author also looks beyond the Hellenocentric viewpoint to consider the construction of Xerxes' image in the Persian epigraphic record and the alternative perspectives on the king found in the Jewish written tradition.

In order to better answer these questions, this thesis will be divided into four chapters. Chapter 1 “Theorising the Kaifeng Jewish descendants” reviews three bodies of literature: (a) Jews and China—a historical encounter, (b) conceptualising emerging Jewish communities, and (c) disputed Jewishness in Israel’s immigration policy, so that to situate the Kaifeng Jewry issue in a broader societal and academic discourse. Chapter 2 “Kaifeng Jewry in the PRC” traces the development of the community from the 1950s to the 1990s, revolving around the ethnic classification campaign that erased Kaifeng Jewry from China’s minzu picture and the modification campaign in 1996 that erased Jewish minzu on paper officially. Chapter 3 “To “return” or to stay, that is the question” invokes accounts of four Kaifeng Jewish descendants who made different choices regarding aliyah and concludes with their motivation either to “return” or to stay. Chapter 4 “Being Chinese in the promised land” investigates the Kaifeng immigrants’ mixed identity as being Chinese and Jewish simultaneously, proposing an examination of “Israeliness” as a competing, alternative socio-cultural awareness to “Chineseness;” it also looks into the racialisation logic and racism confronted by the Kaifeng immigrants that contain their integration into Israeli society.

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The history of Christian-Muslim encounter is a growing field in areas of Christian theology and Islamic Studies. While there is arguably no particular systematic discipline or approach, anyone who enters the history of the theological encounters between these two religions is met with a large body of work which reflects an unusual complexity and degree of nuance. These range from polemical and irenic approaches by those who were writing in response to critiques of their faith without any direct contact with one another, to those Muslim and Christian writers who lived and wrote within the shared culture and civilization of the Arab East.