Author: Joseph E. Couture File Type: pdf Dr. Joseph Couture (1930-2007), known affectionately asDr. Joe, stood at the centre of some of the greatestpolitical, social, and intellectual struggles of Aboriginal peoples incontemporary Canada. A profound thinker and writer, as well as a giftedorator, he easily walked two paths, as a respected Elder andtraditional healer and as an educational psychologist, one of the firstAboriginal people in Canada to receive a PhD. His work challenged andtransformed long-held views of Canadas Indigenous peoples, andhis vision and leadership gave direction to many of the current fieldsof Aboriginal scholarship. His influence extended into numerousareas--education, addictions and mental health treatment,community development, restorative justice, and federal correctionalprogramming for Aboriginal peoples.With a foreword by Aboriginal rights activist Lewis Cardinal, AMetaphoric Mind brings together for the first time key worksselected from among Dr. Joes writings, published andunpublished. Spanning nearly thirty years, the essays invite us toshare in his transformative legacy through a series of encounters, withAboriginal spirituality and ancestral ways of knowing, with Elders andtheir teachings, with education and its role in politicization,self-determination, and social change, and with the restorative processand the meaning of Native healing. Shaped by his social sciencetraining but also by his apprenticeship in Medicine Ways, his writingsallow us to experience the richness and power of fully functionalIndigenous culture.Ruth Couture is a qualitative researcher withextensive experience in marketing research and participatory holisticresearch. She is the author of numerous research reports for theMistissini Cree, for the University of Saskatchewans IndigenousPeoples Health Research Centre, and, with Dr. Joseph Couture,for the Aboriginal Peoples Collection, Public Safety Canada.Virginia McGowan has been involved in appliedanthropology research on the health and well-being of indigenouspeoples for over twenty years. She currently leads research activitiesfor a division of Correctional Service Canada and has published journalarticles and discussion papers for both the federal and provincialgovernments.

Author: Mark Y. Herring File Type: pdf The digital age has transformed information access in ways that few ever dreamed. But the afterclap of our digital wonders has left libraries reeling as they are no longer the chief contender in information delivery. The author gives both sides--the web aficionados, some of them unhinged, and the traditional librarians, some blinkered--a fair hearing but misconceptions abound. Internet be-all and end-all enthusiasts are no more useful than librarians who urge fellow professionals to be all things to all people. The American Library Association, wildly democratic at its best and worst, appears schizophrenic on the issue, unhelpfully. My effort here, says the author, is to talk about the elephant in the room. Are libraries obsolete? No! concludes the author (also). The book explores how libraries and librarians must and certainly can continue to be relevant, vibrant and enduring.**

Author: Christina Walter File Type: pdf Western accounts of human vision before the nineteenth century tended to separate the bodily eye from the rational mind. This model gave way in the midnineteenth century to one in which the thinking subject, perceiving body, perceptual object, and material world could not be so easily separated. Christina Walter explores how this new physiology of vision provoked writers to reconceive the relations among image, text, sight, and subjectivity.Walter focuses in particular on the ways in which modernist writers such as H.D., Mina Loy, D. H. Lawrence, and T. S. Eliot adapted modern optics and visual culture to develop an alternative to the self or person as a model of the human subject. Critics have long seen modernists as being concerned with an impersonal form of writing that rejects the earlier Romantic notion that literature was a direct expression of its authors personality. Walter argues that scholars have misunderstood aesthetic impersonality as an evacuation of the person when it is instead an interrogation of what exactly goes into a personality. She shows that modernist impersonality embraced the embodied and incoherent notion of the human subject that resulted from contemporary physiological science and traces the legacy of that impersonality in current affect theory. Optical Impersonality will appeal to scholars and advanced students of modernist literature and visual culture and to those interested in the intersections of art, literature, science, and technology.

Author: Erich B. Anderson File Type: pdf Cataphracts were the most heavily armored form of cavalry in the ancient world, with riders and mounts both clad in heavy armor. Originating among the wealthiest nobles of various central Asian steppe tribes, such as the Massegatae and Scythians, they were adopted and adapted by several major empires. The Achaemenid Persians, Seleucids, Sassanians and eventually the Romans and their Byzantine successors. Usually armed with long lances, they harnessed the mobility and mass of the horse to the durability and solid fighting power of the spear-armed phalanx. Although very expensive to equip and maintain (not least due to the need for a supply of suitable horses), they were potential battle winners and remained in use for many centuries. Erich B Anderson assesses the development, equipment, tactics and combat record of cataphracts (and the similar clibinarii), showing also how enemies sought to counter them. This is a valuable study of one of the most interesting weapon systems of the ancient world.