Short commentary on the occasion of World Coconut Day, celebrated 2nd September every year

Why does the festival of Christmas appear to be expanding worldwide while other festivals decline? Why do people emphasize their local rituals, given this is a global festival? Is this a religious festival whose values have been destroyed by materialism? What is the relationship between this family celebratory meal and the divine family to which it pays obeisance? These seemed to be questions t...

Archaeologists often interpret the physical evidence for large-scale consumption of food and beverages as the remains of feasts that successfully enhanced personal reputations, consolidated power, or ensured community solidarity. However, ethnographic accounts illustrate the potential for “feast failure”: people may or may not contribute, may or may not come to the feast, may or may not be sati...

Mediation, as a form of dispute resolution, is widely practiced. Nations across the world recognize it an increasingly appropriate resolution. But existential question remains. Can we rightly ascribe word ‘law’ to processes mediation? This article makes one qualified proposition. Mediation extra-legal process, unless used realize law (and justice). for two reasons. First, mediation’s and mediat...

Masi Periyannasamy is known as the village guardian deity located in Kollimalai hills Namakkal district. The structure of temple built under a roof covered with grass. It has lion its vehicle. This at considered to be original temple. said that Periyannan Swamy temples have been constructed and Trichy by taking soil from this little associated folklore dialects. idolatry began worship human bei...

This article is a critical interdisciplinary study of biohacking as specific case transhumanism and its goals enhancement age intervention. It focuses on the organising principles underlying movement's relationship to ageing technoscience. The argument traces how historical scientific body technologies molecularisation, functional age, optimisation, quantification made possible vision amenable ...

This essay develops a theory of relational authority in the most unpromising setting of international relations. Relational authority locates legitimacy in a social contract between a ruler, who provides a social order of value to the ruled, and the ruled who comply with the ruler's commands necessary to the production of that order. International politics are near universally assumed to be an ...

treated, and the hospital served the clinical purposes of the Collegium Medico-Chirurgicum. The Charite became an exemplar in Germany, and by the nineteenth century had high standing, with such notables as Virchow, Henle, von Helmholtz, Du Bois Reymond, and Koch becoming associated with it. With its Marxist approach this little history includes more social and political history than would be th...