Book Review: In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India

A review of In Search of Identity: Debates on Religious Conversion in India by Sebastian C. H. Kim

Marina La Malinche: Writing Across Cultures

Tulisan ini membahas karya pengarang perempuan Prancis, Kim Lefévre. Lefévredilahirkan di Vietnam dari ayah Prancis dan ibu Vietnam—ia sendiri kini tinggal di Prancis.Karya-karya autobiografinya berkenaan dengan kompleksitas identitas campurannya. Dalamkarya novelnya Marina la Malinche, ia menyajikan kehidupan seorang wanita penerjemah,Malinche, selama invasi Spanyol di Meksiko. Malinche saat ini dianggap oleh orang Meksikosebagai pengkhianat bangsa. Dalam novel itu Lefévre menggunakan tokoh Malinche sebagaicermin problem identitasnya. Penerjemah hanyalah seorang “pengkhianat” ketika ia menjadikorban kekuatan di luar dirinya

On the Biological Standard of Living of Eighteenth-Century Americans: Taller, Richer, Healthier

This study analyses the physical stature of runaway apprentices and military deserters based on advertisements collected from 18th-century newspapers, in order to explore the biological welfare of colonial and early-national Americans. The results indicate that heights declined somewhat at mid-century, but increased substantially thereafter. The findings are generally in keeping with trends in mortality and in economic activity. The Americans were much taller than Europeans: by the 1780s adults were as much as 6.6 cm taller than Englishmen, and at age 16 American apprentices were some 12 cm taller than the poor children of London

Generalized cylindrical coordinates for characteristic boundary conditions and characteristic interface conditions

The aim of this report is to derive generalized coordinates for the specific case of mapping only the streamwise and radial coordinate of a cylindrical coordinate system, while leaving the azimuthal coordinate unchanged. The characteristic equations and the required matrices for the transformation from conservative to characteristic form are presented for this specific case. All equations and procedures are based on previous work on generalized characteristic boundary conditions (Kim &amp; Lee, 2000) and characteristic interface conditions (Kim &amp; Lee, 2003).<br/