21 research outputs found
Dressing down criminals, deviants and other undesirables
Fear of just censure and the sense of shame it produced kept Roman citizens from doing wrong
(Cic. Rep. 5.6). Invective functioned socially as a strategy of social sanction. One amongst a
number of commonly identified topics of accusation in the Roman tradition of ridicule was
unusual appearance, clothing or demeanour. Not surprisingly, John the Baptist emerges from
the desert attired distinctly, demoniacs come out of the tombs so fierce that no one would pass
by them (Mt 8:28), a man with an unclean spirit lives amongst the tombs and, even though
adorned with fetters and chains, cannot be controlled (Mk 5:15–20). Herod pretentiously puts
on the royal robes and is eaten by worms and dies (Ac 12:21). A woman uninvited enters a
rich man’s dinner party with an alabaster flask of perfume and anoints the feet of Jesus (Lk
7:38). Clearly, in each case, unusual appearance, clothing, and demeanour suggest a lapse
from the appropriate, socially acceptable style of deportment and clothing. Oddities in dress
and demeanour were equated with oddities in behaviour and provided a powerful rhetorical
means of excluding undesirables from society.http://www.hts.org.zaam201
Mockery and secretism in the social world of Mark's Gospel
Londonxiv, 204 p.: bibl., index; 23 c
Sumptuous clothing and ornamentation in the Apocalypse
Using different categories of social psychology on body decoration and dress, this article examines the author’s course of shifting political, moral, religious and eschatological values as reflected in the clothing and ornamentation motifs deployed in the narrative of the Apocalypse. The article focuses on questions such as the eschatological values betrayed by the author’s deployment of clothing and ornamentation themes, the meaning adduced from the passages in the Apocalypse where body surface is taken seriously, ancients’ connection of clothing and body decoration with the person and society, and the social values reflected by dress and ornamentation, such as honour/shame, status, boundaries, and identity personally and collectively.Spine cut of Journal binding and pages scanned on flatbed EPSON Expression 10000 XL; 400dpi; text/lineart - black and white - stored to Tiff
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The socio-rhetorical force of ‘truth talk’ and lies : the case of 1 John
This article canvassed Greek and Roman sources for discussions concerning truth talk and
lies. It has investigated what social historians and/or anthropologists are saying about truth
talking and lying and has developed a model that will examine the issue of truth and lying in
socio-religious terms as defined by the Graeco-Roman sources. The article tracked down the
socio-rhetorical force of truth talk and lies, in terms of how they are strategically deployed to
negotiate authority, to exert epistemic control, to define a personal and communal identity and
to defend innovation in the midst of competing truth claims. It focused on the New Testament
writing (1 John) and demonstrated that the author, in his desire to establish and defend his
vision of truth, resorts to a style of truth talk endemic to the literary habits of Graeco-Roman
antiquity. In so doing, the author established himself as a credible witness, set himself apart
from those propounding falsehoods and, to some extent, distanced himself from the vision of
truth propounded in the Gospel of John.http://www.hts.org.z
The socio-rhetorical force of ‘truth talk’ and lies : the case of 1 John
This article canvassed Greek and Roman sources for discussions concerning truth talk and
lies. It has investigated what social historians and/or anthropologists are saying about truth
talking and lying and has developed a model that will examine the issue of truth and lying in
socio-religious terms as defined by the Graeco-Roman sources. The article tracked down the
socio-rhetorical force of truth talk and lies, in terms of how they are strategically deployed to
negotiate authority, to exert epistemic control, to define a personal and communal identity and
to defend innovation in the midst of competing truth claims. It focused on the New Testament
writing (1 John) and demonstrated that the author, in his desire to establish and defend his
vision of truth, resorts to a style of truth talk endemic to the literary habits of Graeco-Roman
antiquity. In so doing, the author established himself as a credible witness, set himself apart
from those propounding falsehoods and, to some extent, distanced himself from the vision of
truth propounded in the Gospel of John.http://www.hts.org.z
Polarization wave at the onset of collective cell migration
Collective cell migration underlies morphogenesis, tissue regeneration, and cancer progression. How the biomechanical coupling between epithelial cells triggers and coordinates the collective migration is an open question. Here, we develop a one-dimensional model for an epithelial monolayer which predicts that after the onset of migration at an open boundary, cells in the bulk of the epithelium are gradually recruited into outward-directed motility, exhibiting traveling-wave-like behavior. We find an exact formula for the speed of this motility wave proportional to the square root of the cells' contractility, which accounts for cortex tension and adhesion between adjacent cells