Mataco al capone biography
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The Social Life of Spirits - Ruy Blanes, Diana Spirito Santo (Eds.)
Peter J. Bräunlein
In: Anne Koch & Katharina Wilkens (eds.): The Bloomsbury Handbook of The Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion, 2020, 273-282
In this essay, the aesthetics of spirits are unfolded as effects of communication, sensory activities, bodily mediation, and imagination. Evolutionary and cognitive approaches to religion explain why the conception of bodiless agents such as ghosts and spirits are widespread, why animism is basic to religion, why the human sensorium perceives spiritual beings, and why spirits are “good to think.” Such explanations are helpful for understanding the aesthetics of spirits in a very general sense. However, to explore aesthetic complexities within the multifaceted spiritscapes around the globe, anthropological approaches to studying the body, the senses, and emotion are more productive. This will be demonstrated by three ethnographic case studies that illustrate three different modes of spirit “aesthesis”: through bodily affects such as the ‘knot-in-stomach’ sensation (among the Bidayuh, Borneo), through performative events such as rituals of possession (in Zanzibar), and through the singing of a spirit-medium or through direct, physical
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Mother’s Day 1919 was dedicated to the mothers whose sons fought for freedom. President Wilson decreed that flags be flown at all government buildings (wasn’t this done normally back then?) and requested that people fly the flag at their homes “as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of the country.” The carnation was the flower of the day, the New York Times said–“white carnations for a mother dead, and pink ones for those who are still the center of the home.”
New York Times, May 11, 1919
President Wilson called on America’s soldiers to write to their mothers. The order made its way down the line in messages from Secretary of War Newton Baker
and up-and-coming Acting Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt.
National Archives (Identifier 6283187)
If penning a few sentences to Mom was just too hard, maybe because you were busy saying good-bye to your little French mother,*
Norman Rockwell, Life magazine, March 13, 1919
or because you didn’t know how to read and write,** you could just copy off of this handy-dandy flyer. I wonder how many mothers scratched their heads and asked, “Who’s Timmy?”
Red Cross et al., 1919
I was going to suggest that we celebrate t
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2018 is over!
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