The most likely victim of gun violence, in the United States, is young black males. Black men represent about 7% of the US population, and over 50% of victims of gun violence. However, the most likely person to carry a gun with a concealed carry permit is a white male: the demographic least likely to be a victim of gun violence. And so, the very common sense idea 'Well, I carry a gun to prevent myself from being victimized', it really has to be interrogated.
When a child is given a name, that name will define them for the rest of their lives, unless they change it. Don Conely, a professor at NYU, thinks that when parents name their child it defines the parents more than it does the child. So it is seen as something radical.
However in other cultures, like Africa, giving a name is simply because they like the word. For instance we have people named: X-mas, Astonishment, Worship and Saint Problem, amongst many others. The Icelandic culture however does not allow freedom in choosing names.They have a preset list of names and parents have to make sure the name they have chosen for their child is on this list. If it isn’t then they either change it, or fight for it in court.
However, it is needless to say that a name will help define you and identify you for as long as you're alive.
Dance exists in every culture. It’s thought that humans were dancing before we learned to speak.
But why do we have this desire to move, and what are we trying to communicate? Mike Williams explores the idea of ‘muscular bonding’ – that moving together creates communities. He hears how Indian Kathak dance connects body and soul, how a Northern Australian society uses dance to blur gender divides, and how watching others dance makes us move too.
Posting this mainly for the brief summary given of William McNeill's Keeping Time Together which is an excellent opener to thinking about the importance of the body, time, and interaction rituals and regularly features on reading lists for modules on the sociology of the body. If you can find a copy of it it is well worth the read:
Could something as simple and seemingly natural as falling into step have marked us for evolutionary success? In "Keeping Together in Time" one of the most widely read and respected historians in America pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement--and the shared feelings it evokes--has been a powerful force in holding human groups together. As he has done for historical phenomena as diverse as warfare, plague, and the pursuit of power, William H. McNeill brings a dazzling breadth and depth of knowledge to his study of dance and drill in human history. From the records of distant and ancient peoples to the latest findings of the life sciences, he discovers evidence that rhythmic movement has played a profound role in creating and sustaining human communities. The behavior of chimpanzees, festival village dances, the close-order drill of early modern Europe, the ecstatic dance-trances of shamans and dervishes, the goose-stepping Nazi formations, the morning exercises of factory workers in Japan--all these and many more figure in the bold picture McNeill draws. A sense of community is the key, and shared movement, whether dance or military drill, is its mainspring. McNeill focuses on the visceral and emotional sensations such movement arouses, particularly the euphoric fellow-feeling he calls "muscular bonding." These sensations, he suggests, endow groups with a capacity for cooperation, which in turn improves their chance of survival.
A tour de force of imagination and scholarship, "Keeping Together in Time" reveals the muscular, rhythmic dimension of human solidarity. Its lessons will serve us well as we contemplate the future of the human community and of ourvarious local communities.
Male, or female should be able to relate to this. Drama filled relationships, females trippin', distrust, etc. You know the drill...all in the name of love! REBLOG THIS FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Humble/Hubris: #TheWhyFactor EP drops really soon!
