reading time ago in a place a discussion, just could not help but draw a parallel with that sometimes occur in the blogs. Because beyond idiolects (hehehehe, not what they think, is: "1. M. Ling. Set of features typical of the way of expression of an individual." Royal English Academy), there is something unknown number called "argumentation." And is this strange power to propose a thesis (or idea) supported in compelling reasons, the same as a contrargumentación or rebuttal. Yes or do need to speak in the nature are those that are. Far we are when we read certain taradeces, too far we expect that certain "Australopithecus" will be able to deliver something more than "idiot" or guttural sounds denoting the same tenor.
Is what we are against these good people? No, no way, are free to continue to demonstrate that the distance between apes and mankind runs through them. Under no circumstances is thought to limit their already limited capacity of expression, on the contrary the idea is to show that you can maintain a height and capacity dissent exposition of ideas. This short compilation of a list of Philosophy-from what I can make bias-is accessible to understand and exciting. Here it goes: Anthropology
0015 Date: Monday, March 31, 1997 20:32:10 +0100
From: Peter Bellarmine / pbelarmino@arrakis.es
Title: The Bushman dissected
Friends of the list, I retired lawyer, I have lived over forty years out of Spain, and find great entertainment online. Wanted to introduce here the issue of anthropology dissected Bañolas Bushman, current for some time in the English press. For friends outside of Spain briefly summarize the recent history of the case. Darder Museum in Banyoles (Gerona) is conserved in decades, the stuffed body of a warrior Bushman, dressed in white trousers and spear in hand, in a display case, which apparently was bought by the collector in Paris Darder century XIX, and shown in a context of natural history of man, along with other stuffed animals. About five years ago some pure spirits began their protest, accused the museum of racism, disrespect by a human being, and so on. The protesters carried its sensitivity to the authorities in some African countries, which demanded, through diplomatic channels, the Government of Spain, the withdrawal of his cabinet stuffed Bushman. The mayor of Banyoles, which had previously ignored the criticism, pressure from the Foreign Minister, Abel Matutes, decided last month to remove the Bushmen of the circuit that could be visited by the public. But apparently not enough. It was not enough in the warehouse detain relic Museologists Association of Catalonia considers "high net worth and museum." Federico Mayor Zaragoza, a senior Unesco maximum, has proposed moving the warrior "in his home country, Botswana ', to get there burial (note how Botswana, republic born thirty years ago the former British colony of Bechuanaland, has become the hand of the head of the Unesco a nation of warrior Bushman, who more than belong to the Kalahari Botswana). Joan Solana, mayor of Banyoles, now proposes to incinerate the body of the Bushman dissected and bury the ashes in the cemetery of the city, not to hold any type of ceremony (as if it were not already a cremation ceremony) or put in no memorial tomb (which will not be so grave, but landfill ash) for he says, "not to feed future controversy." In many natural history museums, history of science, human history, there are dummies that represent Australopithecus, cavemen, soldiers, warriors ... What difference do these dummies with the Bushman dissected Bañolas? Well, sawdust, wood or straw is covered with cardboard, cloth or plastic instead of human skin parchment. Wanting to incinerate the Bushman is intended to test disappears, but in proposing to bury the ashes in the graveyard, do not search may permit "rest in peace" while waiting for his soul is reunited with his body? These days We also discuss about the mummy of Lenin, which is dissected as the Bushman, but mummified with a special embalming technique requires high maintenance costs: Ho Chi Minh, Agostino Neto, or Kim Il Sung are also mummified, available to pilgrims and tourists, and no demands for such a display. And what about Egyptian mummies. Should they be incinerated and buried in a garden of the British Museum? Jeremy Bentham, sitting in his chair, or stuffed in a closet still in the staff room at the University of London, and every time there's meeting the cabinet must be opened so that mummy can continue to carry the particular obsession panoptic expressed in the will of Bentham. Would you be the turn after the Bushman of Banyoles, the body of Santa Teresa or many relics that Christianity continues to admire (because at the time were not burned or buried)? The next step, once out of respect have been quietly withdrawn from circulation all the relics, mummies, embalmed bodies or dissected, will occur when the defenders of animal rights (non-human) protest the display of many animals ( nonhuman) stuffed in so many cabinets and museums. At the end of the John Paul II has recognized that animals (nonhuman) have, however imperfect, its particular soul. If only as evidence that for decades remained a warrior Bushman stuffed into a museum of natural history should be preserved as a relic. And if you calculate the sensitivity of tourists can be hurt, may withdraw from the public circuit, as is often placed in secluded collections jars with deformed fetuses dipped in formaldehyde. It's funny that those who want to destroy the evidence, as if nothing had happened, seeking to restore the human sensitivity to such repair always neurotic, have no qualms about turning a blind eye while exploiting dozens of African illegal workers in agriculture Catalan present. Of course, the sheets, drawings and photographs of books ethnology and anthropology have their days numbered: that of Botswana as they learn that in many classical works displayed their ancestors without the shirt and tie, which, despite independence, they have left behind the British.
Anthropology 0019 Date: Wednesday, April 2, 1997 9:58:22 +0200 (METDST)
From: Xavier Martinez Allué / xallue@nil.fut.es
Title: Re: Bushman dissected
A nuncio that I am a friend and companion of Dr. Arcelin, Cambrils physician who started the controversy bushman soldier whose remains are used to attract the curious, to clear doubts. But I would run away from the controversy itself and would make the announcement in the preceding paragraph and which has more to do with social anthropology to physical anthropology. The body of Banyoles is that, a corpse. Not a stuffed black, not a warrior. If it was a professional soldier, we should respect as the people here and instead of contempt, granting professional status. He was a soldier. A military heroism in our culture we keep in effigy, usually in more or less equestrian statues in our squares and avenues. I can not see the mummy of the Cid in an urn. What matters is the document. And give each one the name it deserves. Is not "the Banyoles black "beyond what Dr. Arcelin might be" the black of Cambrils' live for now and a health care professional people. How about THE CORPSE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN MILITARY PAST CENTURY preserved to illustrate Darder museum visitors?
Anthropology 0020 Date: Wednesday, April 2, 1997 19:01:26 +0100
From: Peter Bellarmine / pbelarmino@arrakis.es
Title: Neither military nor the bushman soldier
Friends List Xavier Allué sends a first (I guess) answer to Bushmen bañolense comment on the document or historical-anthropological relic that the authorities want to transform the object preserved in a glass case Darder Museum in ashes buried quietly in the cemetery of the beautiful town of Girona. I suggest, before moving on, clarify concepts. First: Allué says that this is not a warrior, but a "soldier Bushman ',' a professional soldier 'claims that" was a military man. " Please respect the concepts: Allué clergyman or priest called a shaman or a witch? Soldiers and military are jobs that require an organization that exists only in the city, the civitas, the state society, civilization. Guerrero goes tribal use in pre-state societies, if only for abuse of the terms might be called "war" to what the bushman did: the Yankees are so glad you mention in your story the Seminole Wars, like the Punic Wars, but do so in order to raise the consciousness which was no more than a butcher. Bushman, as such, ie not as a soldier in the service of his gracious Majesty (and is not the case, as the Banyoles is not about British uniform but tribal loincloth) may be a hunter, but military never . It could be a healer, but no medical tourism nor could call their walks Kalahari. Secondly, we are Allué says no to a "Black stuffed" (note: I always have called Bushman, and only once mentioned quotation marks around the popular derogatory racial epithet) or to a "warrior", but against a 'mortal remains' against' a corpse. " "Blow death" and "corpse." Well either. I have in my hands a magnificent nineteenth-century tome, bound in full leather: I can say that my book is surrounded by the "remains" of a cow, which is bound between a "dead"? Nor are 'mortal remains' or 'body' stuffed animal or the mummy (the transformations performed by the taxidermist or make disappear the embalmer precisely the dead: a well-cured ham is not Patanegra corpse or remains of the holy pig from which it derives). I suggest to a friend Allué carrying the argument to another field. Bushman is not preserved in the Museum of the Army (which at best are kept stuffed the horses pulling the carriage in which Alfonso XIII was attacked), or a Diocesan Museum (although, as is the case you may be able to achieve some mosen to start a process of beatification), or the National Science Museum (where they have a thousand stuffed animals, and when the opportunity arises, even a primitive hunter who kept frozen glacier). Neither the Army nor the Church nor the State have nothing to do. There is therefore no spoils of war, neither holy nor scientific material. Bushman is in Banyoles Banyoles, ie in a small village in a museum that comes from the private collection which was peculiar character was Darder, an antiquarian, a curious anthropologist, humanist enthusiasm for the natural history of man, which simply buy it in Paris (and if you bought it was because there and then sold it.) Those who dissected, who bought it and moved to Gerona, they did so moved by the rare and curious thing, with pre-scientific curiosity of the collector, the nature lover, with feathers of the bird of paradise elephant tusks, and hopefully a valuable unicorn horn or narwhal. Today, this piece is pre-history of science, archeology museum (at the end of the millennium museologist will seem a very dull and cold scene, prefers the Bushman or even holographic virtual reality and interactive media). But it should be retained and that is pure confusion of ideas hiding in a warehouse, incinerated or provide it with a passport that never had to "return" to Botswana from which he never emerged. Krausist ideological laziness that will likely suffer reduced to ashes Bushman parchment (like environmentalism comes to recycling sawdust filling or wood). What will they do with the spear? But it is likely that to do so, within a few years will be rebuilt the cabinet of yore with a virtual stuffed Bushman as amorphous representation that was preserved for a century, at the end of last millennium, and so on. Not if the case of the Bushman is one sign. In the nineteenth century the bracket would have said, for example, "Aboriginal Kalahari Hunter." At the end of the twentieth century could say without fear: "Example of nineteenth-century anthropological document." But "war trophy Military botswana European colonialism 'or' African incorrupt corpse 'or' Unknown Soldier ' nor "shows sensitivity for human rights in post-revolutionary France" or "Still Life."
Anthropology 0021 Date: Wednesday, April 2, 1997 22:52:47 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Ana L. Valdés / agora@algonet.se
Title: Re: Neither military nor the bushman soldier
First, a presentation. My name is Ana Luisa Valdés, I'm Uruguayan anthropologist and journalist, living in Sweden for twenty years. With regard to this interesting discussion about the Bushmen of Banyoles, which was an international issue at the Olympics in Barcelona 92, I recommend a number of excellent American magazine Harper's Bazaar, a few years ago discussed the issue of hundreds of mummies and bones that fill the museums of the world. The name of the article, "The skelets On Our closets" (The skeletons in our closets) reflected well the dilemma of our civilization, which in the nineteenth century collections, archives and classified, in a curious mixture of determinism and social Darwinism. I was born in Uruguay, English and Italian descent, my ancestors came to the Rio de la Plata at the end of last century. At the same time Argentina and Uruguay also ended with its "Indian problem" with massacres similar to Peter refers Bellarmine. The last Indians Uruguay, called "charruas" were sold to a circus entrepreneur in Paris, which leads them to France for exhibition, exhibited as Buffalo Bill in the U.S.. But these poor charruas Paris weather they feel bad, died of constipation and diseases of the lungs within a few months after arriving. The employer felt cheated, he paid her good money for these six Indians. (Three of them were called Guyunusa, Zapico and Tacuabé). When they died led to a taxidermist that mummified. Once dead, they were sold to the Museum of Man in Paris, which exhibited a few years ago, when there were protests from various organizations of indigenous people. Then transferred to a room of "Objects Divers' where they can be seen only with permission of the management of the museum and research licenses the university where you work. My thinking is this: who are the heirs today exterminated tribes, ethnic groups missing? To what extent can we speak of "claim" the rights of these peoples, victims of 'collecting' white? This problem of museums has been before in the table, with marble Egin, taken from the Parthenon to England in the last century, or the mummy of Tutankhamun, on display at the Louvre, or the altar of Pergamon, which required the Germans the use of seventy thousand men to transport it to Berlin ... Conclusion: it would close all museums. Are proof of our dedication to looters and imperialist ...
Conclusion: What
Bushman was dissected? No idea, we are checking. What about our position on this issue? Ah, that's a topic for another post!
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