Quoth Bal Thackeray : "For us,Shivaji is not merely a king,but the presiding deity of Maharashtra." Asks Francesco Brighenti : "For "us" who ? For all Marathi...
Dear All: The following sounds fascinating: From The Times 1 May 2007: http://tinyurl.com/39dsqt "Chimps’ gestures linked to early sign language" 'Hand and...
That's a reference to the same study in PNAS I posted a link to this morning, Sudha: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Indo-Eurasian_research/message/6694 Link...
Dear List, John Colarusso is having technical problems posting, so I am passing his message on. Please note the link to John's paper at the end. Here is a link...
... For more on the Piraha question, Everett's article has naturally prompted considerable discussion on the Linguist List, with a variety of criticisms and...
Dear List, Being interested in the evolution of language, and especially of kinship terminologies, I happened to mention this topic to a senior biological ...
... Radio-4 must have given a botched version of the findings, Nick. Your friend should have read the original article. It's true that we've long known that...
The 3rd University Of Chicago Conference On Eurasian Archaeology Regimes and Revolutions: Power, Violence, and Labor in Eurasia Between the Ancient and the...
Dear Nick, I especially liked your comparison of Tullus and Indra and want to take up some details with you regarding it. Will you be at Edinburgh this ...
... John, I know Italians gesture quite a lot. But Scandinavians rarely do, or they do it very moderately. Obviously, culture is a heavy factor here. The same...
There is an article in the currrent (May 7, 2007) issue of the New Yorker on the illegal art trade from India, "The Idol Thief," by Patrick Radden Keefe. It...
No time to go into this in detail, but on the gesture/language issue, work coming out of David McNeill's lab at the U. of Chicago is really critical: ...
Allen's correct; it's not yet fully on line, but here's the abstract: http://tinyurl.com/26dr84 There is also an interesting article in The Art Newspaper by...
Frankly I'm a bit shocked it's taken Indianapolis so long to ratify the ICOM (International Council of Museums) code of conduct. Most Australian museums and...
... In India, ritual, art, dance employ mudraa gestures. For example, Mudras, the ritual hand-poses of the Buddha priests and the Shiva priests of Bali. There...
[Mod. note. A little as in genetic drift, here we have an epitomal example of topic drift ('thread splitting'). Interesting as gestures in art in premodern...
Dear List, Since we've added a number of members in the last few months -- we currently have 779 on the List -- it may be useful to remind everyone of current...
If Prof Cohen thinks that not posting the caves' "address" will prevent pillage, he'd better think again. He heard about the caves from a herder. The same guy...
... I doubt it. See 3 articles about the current King of Nepal http://www.kingofnepal.net/files/articles.html ... Not just Coburn, but bunch of others by now...
I agree with Joanna. For a find of this importance, heavily armed guards would need to be present 24 hours a day 7 days a week 52 weeks of the year. I speak...
Victor H. Mair
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May 4, 2007 11:20 pm
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Colleagues, I'm reading a book by Stuart Ray Sarbacker entitled __SamAdhi: The Numinous and Cessative in Indo-Tibetan Yoga__ (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005)....
Victor H. Mair
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May 5, 2007 12:01 am
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There should be a closing quotation mark after 2000). Sorry for the confusion. Victor...
Victor H. Mair
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May 5, 2007 12:28 am
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Here is the report in the New York Times: HYPERLINK "http://tinyurl.com/3dcd2h"http://tinyurl.com/3dcd2h Buddha Paintings Found in Nepal Filed at 7:37 p.m. ET ...
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