Strange People Research Articles

„ვაჟას ნაქონი ტყვია ვარ, / ჯერ თოფში გაუსროლელი“

Whether you are looking from personal or creative stand­point, Goderdzi Chokheli was a reclusive person. The inner conflict he had with life was the cause of many events for him. In one poem, he seemed to ex­plain the essence of this contradiction: “I left one world and I came to ano­ther”. This “other” was alien to him. Of course, life required adaptation, com­promise, but it could not adapt Goderdzi Chokheli to its pattern. In the constant and intense conf­lict, sometimes one won and sometimes the other. At last, G. Cho­kheli took refuge in art and turned the creative process into an arena in which he overcame soulless and godless modernity and imposed his own order on it. Here began the tragic perception of reality, of life in general, which brought on the aesthetics of Chokheli. Chokheli's relationship with the world is a model of Christian thinking – experience eternity in a transient world. With this intention, he began to compose a new emotional reality. We can divide people into two groups in his work: those filled with kindness and those defiled by cruelty. From this point of view, the writer's position is also obvious and does not require special research. His rhetorical question also sounds natural: “Why is my being enveloped by this ephemeral world, which is cloudy as fog?!”. The unstoppable process of human cruelty exposes and inten­sifies the feeling that the drama of kindness has begun, the apo­calyptic time has come. Although, Chokheli's stories take place in geographically limited area, the cry of the microcosm could be heard from Gudamakari. Chokheli's artistic thinking, his work is the revealed secret of the visible and the invisible, the reality and the fiction, the real and the mythical. That is why he is the bearer of the unshakable code of culture and tradition at the same time. Goderdzi Chokheli's characters are strange people, strange in their life and death. He depicts people with the heart of an angel who believe that honesty is the pride of a man. Faithfulness and protection of spiritual values ​​turned out to be completely incom­patible for the era of the writer. That's why he was looking for lost love and kindness, collecting sorrows to ease our sadness and pain.

Telling the Story of the “Stranger People”: Archaeological Imaginaries and Indigenous Encounters in Mary Noailles Murfree's Regionalist Fiction

Telling the Story of the “Stranger People”: Archaeological Imaginaries and Indigenous Encounters in Mary Noailles Murfree's Regionalist Fiction

Raganavimas Lietuvos kaimo bendruomenėje XXI a. pradžioje (folkloro ekspedicijų duomenimis)

The article is based on the materials collected during four folklore fieldwork sessions that took place in the different regions of Lithuania in the first decade of the 21st century. The aim is to present popular beliefs and legend-like narratives related to harmful magic that are still preserved in the Lithuanian villages, and the informants’ attitudes towards them. The point of departure for the analysis was the category of the “strange people” discussed by Norbertas Vėlius in his book “Mythical Beings of the Lithuanian Legends”. However, as folklore data from the beginning of the 21st century reveals, some subcategories of these “strange people” discerned in the book are by now totally extinct from the living tradition (like werewolves or “soul-seers”), while others, including witches, wizards, evil-eyed people and partly, charmers, have inextricably merged together. Thus the article focuses on a general, overlapping phenomenon, namely witchcraft. Having taken into account the universal character of this phenomenon, the author strives to discern its peculiarities that are typical to the Lithuanian village communities. Using comprehensive analysis of the figure of the neighborhood witch developed by the Slovenian folklore researcher Mirjam Mencej, the author discusses typical features and activities of this quasi-mythical being, as reflected in the Lithuanian fieldwork material, i. e. harming of livestock, love magic, curses, and evil-eye. The neighborhood witch is perceived as acting within the framework of the opposition between one’s own and other, moreover, representing both sides of it. Precisely this, according to the author, induces great fear and anxiety that other members of the community exhibit towards this figure, at the same time resulting in its exceptional persistence and longevity.

Another Tradition of Chinese Medical Knowledge Dissemination: The Characteristics and Significance of the 'Zhiguai Medical Cases' of the Song Period.

During the explanation of the origin of 'prescription,' an interesting phenomena in the accumulation and diffusion of medical knowledge in the Song Period is that many prescriptions contain narratives with bizarre elements, such as those given by God through dreams, received from 'strange people,' or from animals appearing in these dreams. This study features an anecdote called 'zhiguai Medical Cases,' which contains bizarre elements in the dissemination process of prescription, narrative of the treatment experience, and specific content of prescription, called a 'zhiguai prescription.' In previous research, such prescriptions were often called a 'God-delivered prescription.' However, a 'zhiguai prescription' appears adequate because it includes a number of factors beyond the 'God-delivered prescription.' This study examines the background of the intensive emergence of massive zhiguai medical cases in the Song Period, reviews the characteristics and significance of the zhiguai prescriptions in the context of postwar medical history, and finally investigates the influence of the bizarre narrative by tracing the dissemination of related prescriptions. This study found that the zhiguai prescription experiences were different from the so-called 'academic' that was formed in the Song Period, and it was 'another' method of medical knowledge dissemination based on their narratives. The emergence of many zhiguai medical cases in the Song Period, especially in the Southern Song period, is related to the activities of the literati official. The literati officials of the Song Period frequently witnessed strange or anomalous phenomena in their daily life. They relied on them to relieve the powerlessness of reality and left records. In addition, unlike the authors of the zhiguai genre of the previous era, they maintained an attitude faithful to the facts when recording them. The massive appearance of the zhiguai medical cases in the Song Period was the result of the combination of the intention of the literati official who valued medicine their medical knowledge to spread the awareness, their reliance on the strange or anomalous phenomena, and their attitude that emphasized a realistic narrative. The significance of the zhiguai prescription of the Song Period can be found in the supplementation and diffusion of existing medical knowledge. In previous research, these were collectively described as 'public experienced methods'; however, various characteristics were found by analyzing the nineteen cases of zhiguai medical cases in Yijianzhi by comparing them with the related contents of the herbal medicine and prescription books of the time. In the use of herbal medicines for specific diseases, there are cases that are unusual or meaningful when compared with existing herbal medicine or prescription books, and thus, this became a decisive basis for the expansion of herbal knowledge in the later period. Moreover, new treatment methods that were not often seen in medical books at the time were introduced, and they have been continuously transmitted to the medical and herbal medicine books since then. Additionally, this study also found cases that were focused on promoting medical knowledge that was not well-known, and the knowledge that must be known, although they were recorded in the existing medical and herbal medicine books. The record of the zhiguai medical cases evidently had its meanings in supplementing and disseminating existing medical knowledge. Prescriptions in the record of the zhiguai medical cases of the Song Period were subsequently recorded in various medical and herbal medicine books, and they handed down until the Ming and Qing period. Later, when a zhiguai prescription was described in a medical book, its bizarre narrative was not omitted, leaving a trace in the name of the prescription. It can be seen that this bizarre narrative served as a decisive opportunity for the prescription to be transmitted later, considering that existing medical books mentioned the related narratives in Yijianzhi as the source for these subsequent transmissions. When discussing the characteristics of the Song Period in Chinese medical history, many studies state that a strong academic medical trend was centered on the pulse and internal medicine, referring to the development of printing technology, the literati official's interest in medicine, and the compilation of medical books. The contents and dissemination of the zhiguai medical cases of the Southern Song confirm 'another' tradition of medical knowledge transmission that relied on the bizarre phenomena and its narratives in Chinese medical history. Its transmission to the Ming and Qing period signifies the continuation of this tradition into later times. The fact that the zhiguai medical cases were later recorded in medical books in the Ming and Qing period clearly shows the dynamism of how knowledge of the 'case' affects the knowledge expansion of medicine, thereby revealing the power of 'another' tradition called the 'zhiguai' narratives.

Human robot interaction as a service for combatting COVID-19: an experimental case study.

COVID-19 pandemic has changed today’s routines in a variety of fields such as society, economics, health, etc. It is surely known that the most powerful weapon to fight against the disease is the social distancing. Hence, it is strongly recommended by the authorities to decrease human to human interaction (HHI) in order to stop the spread. However, daily routine of people must continue somehow, because of the fact that it is not known when the pandemic will end permanently. Thus, new approaches should be adapted in social environments for COVID-19 prevention. Human robot interaction (HRI) can be seen as a vital mechanism to provide risk free routines in the society. For this purpose, we offer a human robot interaction as a service (HRIaaS) for eatery locations such as restaurants, cafes, etc. where customers should interact with the staff. The proposed service aims to utilize personal smartphones and decrease the number of HHIs for such environments in which strange people involved. Moreover, an experimental case study is conducted to obtain an evaluation with a real world scenario when the proposed service is used versus a contemporary routine with HHIs. The evaluation results show that an average reduction of 41% is achieved per customer in the number of HHIs between customers and serving staff.

Morte súbita pós-estresse não traumático em cão submetido a procedimento estético

Environments for bathing and grooming procedures expose animals to a large number of stressors, such as dryer’s noise, changes in temperature and manipulation by strange people, causing apprehension, anxiety and fear that can lead to death due to physical trauma in attempts to escape or due to respiratory collapse secondary to acute stress. We report the case of a 6-month-old female Shih-tzu, with no previous signs of respiratory or cardiovascular disease, who died a few hours after bathing in a pet shop, with symptoms of stress and acute respiratory failure and with necroscopic changes compatible with hemorrhage and pulmonar edema, without signs of cranial trauma or trauma in other organs. The importance of minimizing stress in grooming procedures is emphasized, in order to avoid these acidentes, as well as the presence of the veterinarian responsible for the establishment, so that appropriate and early measures can be taken to prevent these potentially fatal conditions.

Крымское путешествие Виктора де Карамана

This paper analyses a poorly-known source on the history of the Crimea, the travelogue by French Victor de Caraman, who visited the peninsula in spring 1784. The 22-year-old traveller made a tour of Europe as a part of the educational programme foreseeing practical acquaintance with the life of foreign countries and strange peoples. His travel diary was intended for memory and not for publication. Later on, de Caraman made an outstanding career on the French diplomatic service. The Crimean fragment of his travelogue was published after his death. Although de Caraman was under protection of almighty Grigorii Potemkin and Russian generals in the Crimea, his evaluations of the events on the peninsula were often unpleasant to Russia. He paid attention to a series of crises events appearing on the eve and after the unification of the Crimea with Russia. Simultaneously, the traveller marked the government’s actions towards the integration of the region into the imperial structure and opportunities of the economic development of the country. De Caraman described the strongholds of the Russian army and Black Sea navy in the Crimea in details. He also studied the natural environment and population of the peninsula. Interesting are his reflections on the Crimean antiquities and particularly an episode with “excavations” at the ancient town atop Mangup plateau. The Russian translation of de Caraman’s travelogue with necessary comments is published.

ВАРИАНТЫ МОТИВА ИСКУПЛЕНИЯ ГРЕХОВ: ЗАМЕТКИ О ЖИЗНИ НЕКРАСОВСКОГО СЮЖЕТА О ВЕЛИКОМ ГРЕШНИКЕ В РУССКОЙ КУЛЬТУРЕ ХХ ВЕКА

Problem statement. There are two versions of the plot about two great sinners in the Russian literature and culture. The first version is Nekrasov’s one, based upon a folk tale, in which one sinner killed the other and earned God’s pardon for this. The second version is the same Nekrasov’s text, shortened and transformed into a song in which only one great sinner remains. Instead of committing a murder, he repented in a monastery. The versions express the opposite positions. The second one preaches such Christian virtues as repentance and humility. On the contrary, the first version shows that one can achieve salvation only by rebellion and murder. It has a revolutionary/ social connotation. The purpose of the article. These two versions of the plot are not always distinguished in the research literature. The purpose of the article is to draw a distinction between the versions and to analyze their functioning. Review of scientific literature on the problem. Nekrasov’s plot was thoroughly studied in 1920s-1960s. M.N. Klimova examined the second version in her book Ot protopopa Avvakuma do Fiedora Abramova: Zhitiya greshnykh sviatykh v russkoi literature (From the archpriest Avvakum to Theodore Abramov: hagiography of the sinful saints in the Russian literature), 2003. Methodology and research results. The comparative method along with the motif analysis leads to the conclusion that the full version of the plot was used by A. Kuprin in Demir-Kaya: Vostochnaya legenda (Demir-Kaya), 1906. The shortened version, widely known as the song performed by F. Chaliapin, could affect Stepan Razin’s image created by V. Shukshin in his film as well as the concept of the Strannyie liudi (Strange people) film (1969). The unique version of the plot, which differs from both full and short versions, is discovered in L.M. Leonov’s Deianiya Azlazivona, 1921. Conclusion. When analyzing the plot, one should identify the possible sources of the plot on the basis of the differences of two versions mentioned above.

Alterity and Occidentalism in Fourteenth-Century Icelandic Texts: Narratives of Travel, Conversion, and Dehumanization

This article analyses five fourteenth-century Old Norse travel narratives in light of the learned geographical tradition of medieval Iceland. Three of the narratives, Þorvalds þáttr víðfǫrla, Eiríks saga víðfǫrla, and Yngvars saga víðfǫrla, focus on the travels of Nordic people to eastern Europe and Asia; while the latter two, Eiríks saga rauða and Grœnlendinga saga, tell of travels to the continent later named North America. While the travels to the East deal with pilgrimage and the search for the terrestrial Paradise in the service of individual salvation and missionary activities in Scandinavia and Iceland more specifically, the travels to the West are focused on the violent conquest and Christianization of newfound peripheral areas and their peoples. What these narratives have in common, and owe to the learned (Plinian) tradition, is their dehumanized view of foreign and strange people: the giants and monsters of the East, and the skrælingar (indigenous peoples) and einfœtingar (sciopods) of the West. In these sagas travels to the East, while dangerous, introduce heroes to courtly manners, encyclopedic knowledge, and salvation; whereas travels to the West lead to mayhem and death and all attempts at settlement there fail miserably, making Greenland the westernmost outpost of Christianity in the world. This article aims to show how this learned tradition was adapted for use in saga literature to contrast the monstrous and heathen periphery with the more central and piously Christian Iceland.

Among Strange Peoples, in Foreign Temples We Would Learn to Respect Ourselves - Images of Distant Cultures in Early Polish Accounts of Tibet, India and Korea -

Among Strange Peoples, in Foreign Temples We Would Learn to Respect Ourselves - Images of Distant Cultures in Early Polish Accounts of Tibet, India and Korea -

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Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall

Reviewed by: Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic by Peter C. Mancall Shepard Krech III Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic. By Peter C. Mancall. Early Modern Americas. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Pp. xvi, 197. $29.95, ISBN 978-0-8122-4966-8.) In recent years an active research topic on the early modern era has been the intersection of human beings and the natural world (or "nature"). From all sides have come significant works investigating the science of describing natural history and the invention of exoticism and the endemic or the indigenous. Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic explores the natural world as conceived in the sixteenth-century Atlantic basin. With footings in both history and anthropology, Peter C. Mancall is well positioned to plumb the topic—and the result, which started as the Mellon Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, proves the adage that good things can and at times do come in small packages. The author regards this work as an "extended essay" (p. x). With a core text of 137 pages, generous spacing and margins, and engaging illustrations (including twelve color plates), it delights as it enlightens at every turn. Nature and Culture in the Early Modern Atlantic consists of three chapters, a postscript, and a note on sources. Mancall states that he has drawn on images, printed texts, folklore, and oral history for his analysis. In fact, the first two are clearly of paramount importance, and images are both central to and a great strength of this work. In the first chapter, Mancall pushes the frontiers of the other-than-natural world, both to establish the boundaries of the natural world and to address how people at the time knew what they knew. His answers pertain principally to the Europeans, as we see (and read about) both monstra marina on oceanic maps and curious beings, human or not (such as bipedal creatures with faces on their chests), on continental maps. Mancall wonders if the Europeans really believed in such boundary-bursting creatures, but he also notes that in 1500 the wondrous categories of indigenous people were not that different. But as the sixteenth century unfolded, the wonders in European cultural conceptions yielded to newer methodologies of description and explanation embedded increasingly in an encyclopedic and, in citations, authoritative science. The second chapter explores what Mancall calls a "new ecology," drawing extensively on the extraordinary visual evidence in maps linked to Nicolas [End Page 412] Vallard of Dieppe and António de Holanda—including the Atlas Miller (1519) and in the Histoire Naturelle des Indes (circa 1590s). The maps, for example, contrast fully clothed, city-dwelling Europeans with naked, forest-dwelling native people of the New World and Africa. They reflect strong interests in commodification and trade. They depict not just strange people, some feathered in their wear (and others cannibals—a common trope), but also novel mammals and birds. The maps and other materials also contrast the deforested lands and cities of Europe with the forested lands and architecturally simpler living spaces of Africa and the Western Hemisphere. That change was coming to the latter, however, is reflected in images of commodification and of the cutting of valuable trees in the New World; a portent, ominous or not, of the future as well as a symbol of the broader Columbian exchange of plants with dietary or medicinal value and other commodities. Chapter 3, "The Landscape of History," is a case study of the manipulation by the English of an imagery of landscape and people originally conceived with what we would now call ethnographic intent, in order that it might be reconciled with their understanding of their claim on Indian lands as legitimate. Mancall draws on depictions of Algonquians on the Carolina coast—John White's watercolors, Thomas Harriot's text, Richard Hakluyt's editions, and Theodor de Bry's engravings—to discuss processes of selection and alteration from painting to engraving that benefited the promoters in England and not the Native people in Carolina. Again, analysis of the visual materials deeply informs the discussion. The postscript, "The Theater of Insects," draws its title...

La presión social para ser madre hacia mujeres académicas sin hijos

This article identifies the main actors who express social pressure to be mother, as well as the different linguistic forms it takes, and it exposes two coping strategies used by academic women from a gender perspective. This study takes a qualitative approach with an intentional sample of five academic women from public universities in Northern Mexico. Some results suggest that there are diverse actors who pressure women to be mother such as family, colleagues at work, friends and even strange people. For some academic women, the feeling of pressure was denied, however, the narratives expose how such demands are naturalized and incorporated in their own discourse. Finally, confrontation and re-interpretation were the two main copping strategies used by those women.

Charles Mills’s Liberal Redemption Song

Charles Mills’s Liberal Redemption Song

Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay

Reviewed by: Bone Talk by Candy Gourlay Fiona Hartley-Kroeger Gourlay, Candy Bone Talk. Fickling/Scholastic, 2019 [272p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-338-34963-4 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-338-34965-8 $11.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 Gourlay, Candy Bone Talk. Fickling/Scholastic, 2019 [272p] Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-338-34963-4 $18.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-338-34965-8 $11.99 Reviewed from galleys R Gr. 5-8 Samkad's upcoming manhood initiation should be a joyous occasion, but it's causing [End Page 122] friction with his best friend, a tomboy named Luki; then omens delay the ceremony and the threat of attack from an enemy tribe disrupts the quotidian rhythms of his mountain village. The return of his long-absent agemate further upends Sam's world: Kinyo brings with him news of a strange people called Americans, who are waging war in the lowlands. Kinyo's American friend, Mister William, seems harmless and friendly enough, but not so the three American soldiers who enlist the villagers to perform a gruesome burial, and whose candy and strange "kodak" device fail to conceal a casual, sneering cruelty. Gourlay (Tall Story, BCCB 2/11) layers carefully researched aspects of indigenous Filipino culture (including practices such as headhunting and animal sacrifice) at the turn of the century with elements of a classic boy's coming-of-age tale in this British import. Sam's loving father, troublesome tomboy friend, faithful dog, rural setting, and introspective meditation on manhood and masculinity shine against a backdrop of American imperialism and colonialism. The Philippine-American War (also known in the U.S. as the Philippine Insurrection) is a historical moment little explored in American fiction for children, and Sam's story is sure to provoke conversation about colonial oppression and silencing of indigenous voices. The informative author's note and acknowledgments section provides historical and cultural context and an overview of the author's extensive research. Copyright © 2019 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

‘I’m writing about strange people, people on the edge, people that society doesn’t like much’: the precariat in the work of Agnes Owens.

This article explores the way in which Agnes Owens, a 20th century working-class writer from Scotland, gives a literary voice to those most marginalized and underprivileged, a category of workers that is often defined as the precariat. The first part of the article traces the historic origins of the term precariat within marxism, then linking it to the growing number of people working today in low paid, short-term and uninsured jobs often beyond the pale of the rest of society. Their accompanying condition of neo-poverty is what Agnes Owens sought to dramatize in her novels and short stories, two of which – “Arabella” and Bad Attitudes – are chosen for more detailed discussion. The article seeks to show how Owens not only documents the lives of this modern precariat, but also how these new forms of social deprivation are feminized, since it is clearly the women who are most vulnerable in this new context of social and economic precarity.

Żydowskie modele historiograficzno-egzegetyczne doby hellenistycznej w kontekście aktywności literackiej diaspory aleksandryjskiej

The expression of Jewish identity in national and political terms is found in a wide range of writings and literary genres. The form which lent itself most readily to this purpose was undoubtedly history writing. History, as the story of the people’s past and origin, had always been highly valued in Judaism. Much of the biblical material has a “history-like” character in the sense that it tells the story of the people within a chronological framework. In the Hellenistic age the Jews had a new reason to retell the story of their past. The spread of Hellenism under Alexander the Great and his successors was accompanied, at least initially, by considerable Greek curiosity about the strange peoples of the East. A number of writers, such as Hecataeus of Abdera, Demetrius, Artapanus, Pseudo-Hecataeus and Eupolemus, attempted to satisfy it. They did express themselves in forms which might have been accessible to the Greeks.We may distinguish three main approaches to the past in the Jewish Hellenistic literature: the Septuagint as an example of religion work, chronicles and the historical romances, the epic and philosophical poets.

The Effect of Patriarchal Ideology on Daughter's Character Building in Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie

The character of daughter is built by her father patriarchal ideology in patrilineal kinship. For example, that issue was depicted on Laura as a daughter in Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie (1971). This study aims to explain the way of Laura thinking and behaving which are influenced by her father patriarchal ideology. Then, this study aims to explain the success of her father patriarchal ideology on Laura character building in that novel. This study was a kind of library research. The research method of this study was close reading by using feminism approach. The results of this study showed that first, the character of Laura had been built by her father patriarchal ideology through the way of thinking in Little House on the Prairie (1971). Laura had a forward thinking pattern for the future. She also had the ability to think quickly and logically. She also had a similar thought with her father about the animal skill. She was also able to think critically, as an adult about her safety and the Ingalls family. Second, the way of Laura behaving was also built by her father patriarchal ideology. Laura had an affectionate behaviour toward fellow creatures. She was also be nice when she made a new relationship with the stranger people. She also had a polite behaviour to respect others. Third, Laura father patriarchal ideology was successfully influenced her daughter character building in Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie. Pa as Laura father was considered became the protector for Laura and the Ingalls family. He was also positioned as the superior one by Laura, even he was considered became a hero for the Ingalls family. Pa was also considered had an important role by Laura in her life and also the Ingalls family.

Access Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump Era

Access Denied: The Continuing Challenge to Environmental Sciences in the Trump Era

A Case Report of Psychosis in Parkinson Disease Treated with Anticholinesterase Drug

Case report: We present a 68-year-old male, retired civil servant who was seen in the neurology clinic at Barau Dikko Teaching hospital, Kaduna-Nigeria with a complaint of abnormal movements of upper and lower limbs for one year, and difficulty in walking for two months. The abnormal movement started on the distal part of both upper limbs simultaneously. It was noticed more at rest and got aggravated during movements. He was diagnosed with PD and was treated with L-dopa and Artane. However, six weeks after the commencement of his therapy he started developing a visual hallucination that subsequently became so intense that he started isolating himself and became suspicious of the wife conniving with strange people to kill him. His psychosis was initially treated with clozapine which controlled the hallucination to some extent but made his dyskinesia worse. This prompted us to stop the clozapine and to decrease the l-dopa, while introducing an anticholinesterase pyridostigmine which helped in treating the psychotic episode. Discussion: The use of psychotropic medication may control the psychotic features but will aggravate the PD. A trial with anticholinesterases has been found to be effective in the control of psychosis in PD.