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Simultaneously a meditation on death and an enacted ritual towards renewal and consolation, the poems in Lola Lemire Tostevin's Cartouches are a tribute to the power of languages to provide a negotiation through grief and understanding, using the poet's Egyptian pilgrimage as the crucial point of journey and intuitive comprehension. Ruminating on the sacralization of death and renewal in another culture, Tostevin navigates grief and consolation through language and ritual. Hieroglyphs have "intuitive or emotional knowledge," and the Isis hieroglyph is invoked as part of the ritual of consolation, as a life-symbol rather than as a death-symbol. What evolves is a found site for interaction with the dead, and a renewal based on bodily inscription.
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AbstractThis essay offers an historical investigation of the crossing of sensory cultures in the Iroquois missions of the seventeenth century in an attempt to assess the role that light played, as matter and as symbol, in the encounter between the Jesuits and the Iroquois. The analysis of the relations between vision and audition in these two cultures permits us to better understand the popularity of shiny materials in the missionizing context. While the Jesuits opposed word and image, the audible and the visible, the Iroquois saw vision as the equivalent of the voice. This equivalence was manifest in the use of shiny materials like, for example, shell bands (wampum) in the transmission of important speeches. The play of light on the surface of things subsumed the differences between sight and hearing for the Iroquois. It could be that this was the reason the missionaries privileged luminous décor in their apostolic activities among the Iroquois. Through creating interiors adorned with candles, wampum and textiles, the Jesuits sought to “convert” the Amerindians to their conception of a beyond that was immeasurably more luminous and life-giving than the glints of light off the surface of things. It remains that, for the Iroquois, these intermittent reflections were precious in themselves : such glimmers vitalized the social fabric, replenished forces, and distributed an inestimable bounty to the whole community.
Keywords: Clair, Iroquois, mission jésuite, les sens, image, wampum, décors lumineux, Clair, Iroquois, Jesuit missions, senses, image, wampum, luminous decor, Clair, Iroqueses, jesuitas misiones, sensos, imágenes, wampum, decoración luminosa
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People diagnosed with schizophrenia who consider themselves to have recovered were interviewed to identify what they believe resilience is and how it may have been involved in their recovery.Analysis of definitions of resilience provided by participants resulted in the following synthesis of meaning; being resilient means adopting an attitude of striving to overcome the adversity caused by the experience of schizophrenia. The process of striving enables the person to learn about themselves, the effect of the schizophrenia illness on them, and how to manage it in the context of the life they want to live. Striving to overcome schizophrenia involves struggle, including repeated backwards steps and during this, the individual seeks out and uses supportive people and systems. Having then learned how to overcome and manage the challenges of the schizophrenia illness the individual is then able to apply the same resilient attitude to engage in new challenges and experiences to grow their life in ways unrelated to the illness. Through experiencing the severe adversity of schizophrenia, the person has learned how to be resilient.The presentation will describe the process for becoming resilient with schizophrenia, including factors found to be supportive and factors found to be challenging to the process. An instrument for measuring the resilience of a person diagnosed with schizophrenia is being developed from the research findings.
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This paper presents a overall review and an interpretation of the vast existing literature on union democracy in the United States.
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This article examines the extent to which the stratification of secondary education in Quebec, favoured by the education market, has an impact on social inequalities regarding access to university. Based on a longitudinal survey—the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS)—we show that students whose schooling was limited to the regular curriculum of the public school system are significantly less likely to enter university than their peers from private institutions or those who took advanced placement classes in a public school. These differences remain significant when controlling for student performance and social background. A double hypothesis has been put forward for interpreting these results. On the one hand, stratification engenders unequal conditions of schooling among pupils, insofar as classroom composition is determined very much by social and educational factors. On the other hand, stratification allows, at an institutional level, students to follow differentiated educational paths.
Keywords: marché (scolaire), inégalités sociales, accès à l'Université, écoles (secondaires), reproduction sociale, école privée (ou école privée/publique), market (education), social inequalities, access to university, (secondary) schools, social reproduction, private school (or private/public school)