Hey Steve, Michael, all - Maybe this was posted and I missed it due to travel. But it's interesting that MIT's Technology Review (a favorite of mine for the...
Here's a link to the one-paqe printable version of the article, John Robert: http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19843 I haven't...
Dear John Robert, I read the "Genetics of Language" article, at: http://www.technologyreview.com/Biotech/19843/page1/ I already get MIT Technology Review, but...
Irene Good has passed on this program for a Workshop to be held at UC Berkeley on January 17th and 18th, entitled "Luxury Goods: Production, Exchange, and...
Dear List, We have, from time to time, discussed continuities among various forms of hominid behavior (e.g., use of tools, "language," etc.). Now, somewhat in...
Victor H. Mair
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Jan 3, 2008 9:58 pm
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[Mod. note. Dear Victor: here also is a link to the full (free access) article, entitled "Rapid facial mimicry in orangutan play": ...
Victor H. Mair
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Jan 3, 2008 10:30 pm
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Dear Victor, That's a great perspective....: let's stick to it !!! Best Volker == ... -- Dr. Volker Thewalt Kapellenweg 8 69257 Wiesenbach 49 6223 970122 ...
An unusually interesting story in today's _Hindustan Times_ on the Indus Valley and the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI). The story focuses on why, after...
[Mod. note. I don't expect it will be recorded, but Richard usually publishes his slides and makes his papers available on the Web as well. You can download...
Dear List, It is most encouraging to hear a skeptic like Chris saying such things! Perhaps I can breathe a bit easier now after having struggled for 35 years...
Victor H. Mair
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Jan 4, 2008 11:27 pm
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My copy reached here today and I'm sending the table of contents. Elena Efimovna Kuz'mina edited by Victor H. Mair The Prehistory of the Silk Road University...
Dear Arvind, You are right. A Google search on "Tamilu talegala naduve" brings up so many hits where this book by B.G.L. Swamy is being recommended as the...
This is a expansion/resend of my post from last night, with typos fixed. It replaces the earlier version in the archives. I've also changed the subject heading...
See this link: http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/07-45bec.htm for a useful summary/review (picked up from the Agade list) of Roger Beck, A Brief History of...
Dear List, This news item was kindly called to my attention by Bjarte Kaldhol about a month ago: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2111400.htm ...
Victor H. Mair
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Jan 6, 2008 7:36 pm
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Dear List, It may be of passing interest that the Han Dynasty Chinese Buddhists held that the Dharma arrived carried by a white horse, hence the first ...
HI I just found a goodie The Mingeikan (Folk Crafts Museum) has the following: http://tinyurl.com/3aghmv Below text courtesy of JAANUS (Japanese Architecture ...
Thanks, John! JAANUS and Mingeikan surely are right, but the practice should go back further to actual sacrifice of horses. This is attested earlier, for...
Dear Michael, You are quite right about the sacrifice of horses, a topic easily traceable to at least the Andronovo culture and Sintashta for a horse and...
With regard to John's post: ... I'd like to add a very short comment regarding both sacrifice of horse and the previously mentioned book by E.E. Kuz'mina, The...
Sinologists and comparativists on the List may be interested in this story from the NY Times (from Saturday) on stalled factory reform in China: "In Chinese...
The following paper appeared today in the print edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: Eugène Morin, "Evidence for declines in human...
A follow-up on the Hamburg terra cotta warriors exhibition collapse. The following long message came to me from a curator at a major American museum who wishes...
Victor H. Mair
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Jan 9, 2008 2:18 pm
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Dear all, Doris Srinivasan says she has difficulty to get on the list and has asked me to post the following query: I wish to have opinions on a Sanskrit...
I am interested in Doris' question too. If I may rephrase more broadly, then the question is: were there ancient Hindu/Sanskrit theophoric names of the form...
I guess the subject is related to Satavahana, Ikshvaku and Abhira kings of Andhra and central-east India region. I think the only mother-goddess in those names...
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