Dawei Buddhist culture: a hybrid borderland

Dawei is both hybrid and borderland, its Buddhist culture a stylistic and territorial puzzle. Far from the ‘heartland’ yet passed from one major polity to another over the centuries, its pagodas and monasteries provided a physical and aesthetic means to asserted distance and accommodate ‘other’. Some objects and ideas were imported; others grafted the new onto local forms to produce hybrid styles, while others are uniquely local. Is Dawei culture similarity or a new unification of the cultural diversity of Pyu, Bagan, Sri Lanka, Sukhothai and Ayutthaya? This report argues the contrary, that Dawei resilience in the face of continual threats sustained a local cultural personality that has survived until the present. The question is addressed by first classifying the sites of Dawei into four cultural zones and then discussing the extraordinary range of artefacts from these zones by material. This is preceded by a chronological summary to illustrate the often turbulent history and local chronicles

Ecocritical Analysis of R. K. Narayan’s The Man-eater of Malgudi

In the 20th as well as in the 21st century it has already been witnessed by human beings that the earth is going to encounter environmental change and this change is directing us to a disastrous future All the branches of human knowledge are concerned about this In this respect literature is not silent and plays a significant role Ecocriticism analyses the representation of nature in literature it traces the process of environmental disruption and comments on the overall situation for a solution In this research article R K Narayan s novel The Man-eater of Malgudi is seen from an ecocritical perspectiv

Volume 2, Chapter 12-12: Terrestrial Insects: Holometabola – Lepidoptera Biology and Ecology

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Südsee : Mythos, Handlungsraum, Thema ; eine Filmographie

Inhalt Spielfilme, TV Movies, Mini-Series Lamour, Dorothy The Mutiny on the Bounty / Die Meuterei auf der Bounty Dokumentarfilme, Dokumentationen, Fernsehfeature

Dragons: Myth and the Cosmic Powers

This essay investigates the significance of dragon mythology in early civilizations. Three mythical dragons are be considered, Zhulong, Apep and Makara. These examples show that the symbol of the dragon represents a triune principle of generativity, vitality and knowledge

From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism:On the Dialectics of Critique and Intoxication

There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxication with immersion, participation, and proximity, while critique is usually connected to the distance, separation, and an outsider-perspective. In this article I want to analyze this tension, but I also want to explore the possibilities, with the German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin as my guide, of a critical intoxication and/or intoxicated critique. What would be the social, political and aesthetic implications for such juxtaposition for both of these categories

From the Opium of the People to Acid Communism: On the dialectics of critique and intoxication

There seems to be an inherent tension between intoxication and critique. We tend to associate intoxication with immersion, participation, and proximity, while critique is usually connected to the distance, separation, and an outsider-perspective. In this article I want to analyze this tension, but I also want to explore the possibilities, with the German philosopher and critic Walter Benjamin as my guide, of a critical intoxication and/or intoxicated critique. What would be the social, political and aesthetic implications for such juxtaposition for both of these categories