Disposables and Sacred Cows

Some Remarks On Sacred Cows: Revisiting Method Technique

Theater historians often speak of theories of acting (Carlson, 1983), although the term tends to shift in meaning across much of their commentary. Theories of broader sweep, as instanced in the writings of Grotowski, Brecht, Craig, Artaud, Chaikin, Lecoq, or Copeau involve alternative theatrical directions, and differ in scope from those about processes necessary for actors to achieve stage rea...

Pasture Evidence - Based Practice Habits : Putting More Sacred Cows Out

Sacred Cows and Sympathetic Squirrels: The Importance of Biological Diversity to Human Health

June 2006 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e231 Why are cows sacred? Travel anywhere in India and they have the right of way. Travel anywhere in the eastern United States and you’ll see squirrels, more than likely, as roadkill. Yet both species serve a similar epidemiological function: they receive bites from infected vectors that might otherwise have bitten humans, and they break the chain of pathogen t...

Sacred cows and thumping drums: claiming territory as ‘zones of tradition’ in British India

Theories that explain the origins of communal violence in South Asia often point to the discursive creation of the perception of distinct and adversarial Hindu and Muslim identity categories at the beginning of the twentieth century. This paper argues that these theories overemphasize imagined social differences without adequately considering how these boundaries were territorialized in everyda...

Slaughtering sacred cows: six institutional obstacles to advances in family planning.

In order to capitalise on new opportunities to advance contraceptive and reproductive health choices globally, organisations working in these fields will need to overcome six institutional obstacles. These are: (i) committee management; (ii) over-medicalisation; (iii) fear of risk and controversy; (iv) conferences, meetings, and symposia; (v) obsession with coordination; and (vi) fear of sex. T...