Date: December 11, 2013 By: Editor অমিত কুমার সাহা, অধ্যাপক, সংস্কৃত বিভাগ, এম.ইউ.সি. উইমেন্স কলেজ, বর্ধমান Download PDF Version “ইমা রুদ্রায় তবসে। যথা শমসদ্দ্বিপদে চতুষ্পদে বিশ্বং পুষ্টং গ্রামে অস্মিন্ননাতুরম্”১—বৈদিক ঋষির এই প্রার্থনার মধ্য দিয়ে বন্যপ্রাণী সংরক্ষণের হার্দিক প্রয়াস লক্ষ্য করা যায়। সেখানে রুদ্রদেবতাকে স্তুতি করা হয়েছে যাতে দ্বিপদ ও চতুষ্পদ প্রাণীরা সুস্থ থাকে এবং গ্রামে সকলে পুষ্ট ও…
Date: January 9, 2014 By: Editor অধ্যাপক অরবিন্দ পাল, ভট্টর কলেজ, দাঁতন, দর্শন বিভাগ জন্তুর কেবল জীববৃত্তি আছে আর মানুষের জীববৃত্তি এবং বুদ্ধিবৃত্তি উভয়ই বর্তমান। ব্যাপক অর্থে ‘মানুষ’ বলতে সাধারণত বোঝায় ‘মনুষ্য – জাতির (Homo – Sapiens) অন্তর্গত কোন সভ্য বা ব্যক্তি’। কোন সভ্য যে মনুষ্য জাতির অন্তর্গত তা জানা যায় তার দেহ – কোষ, দেহ – কোষের অন্তর্গত ক্রোমোজোম্ পরীক্ষা করে। ‘মানুষ’ শব্দটিকে ব্যাপক…
Date: January 30, 2014 Author: Editor Sourav Kumar Nag, The University of Burdwan, India Abstract It is a paradox that T.S.Eliot, one of the chief architects of modernism, was interested in primitivism. Primitivism to Eliot was not a matter of the past but a timeless guiding principle that goes hand in hand with modernism. A believer in Pound’s…
Date: January 21, 2014 By: Editor Karen Dalke, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay Download PDF Version Abstract We sometimes look to our closest primate relatives when exploring culture, while excluding other species. Rather than expect animals to conform to the definition of culture constructed by humans, what if we use other anthropological concepts to explain another species? Horses are very…
Date: January 24, 2014 By: Editor Partha Bhattacharjee, the University of Burdwan, India Abstract One of the more interesting elements in Avatar is the neural connection fibers (Tsahaylu) that each living creature is born with on the planet –“Pandora, a densely forested habitable moon orbiting the gas giant Polyphemus in the Alpha Centauri star system”. Animals, humanoids and even the trees have these neural connection fibers, allowing all living…
Date: December 11, 2013 By: Editor Krishanu Maiti, Panskura Banamali College, West Bengal, India Abstract This paper aims to discuss the deconstructionist Jacques Derrida’s contribution to the contemporary critical animal studies. Derrida is concerned with a critical thinking that starts with a dismantling of straightforward distinction between the human and the animal and he questions the hierarchical position…
Date: December 16, 2013 By: Editor P. Prayer Elmo Raj, Karunya University, Coimabtore, India Abstract The human-animal discretion marks a noteworthy dialectic in Agamben’s philosophical corpus that connotes the conception of human’s interconnection with the animal other has established anthropological features as inherently encountering the systemic networks of power that underlies the social echelons. The incomprehensible biblical image…
Date: December 11, 2013 Author: Editor Stella Hockenhull, University of Wolverhampton, UK. Abstract In 2011, Uggie the dog appeared in Hazanavicius’s 2011 film, The Artist. This was not his first role having appeared beforehand in Lawrence’s adaptation of the novel Water for Elephants also 2011 where he is also listed as cast, and as a skateboarding dog in an advert, amongst his…
Date: December 16, 2013 By: Editor Eunice E.OMONZEJIE, Ambrose Alli University, Nigeria Download PDF Version Abstract In African human societies, animals as part of the physical environment play an important role in the conceptualization of spirituality and belief systems. The manner in which they are depicted in narrative fiction often reflects the attitude of a people about animals embedded…
Date: December 11, 2013 By: Editor Blossom N. Fondo, The Higher Teachers’ Training College, The University of Maroua, Cameroon Abstract The extinction of many animal species and the threat of further extinction of even more is one of the main hazards that the natural environment is facing today. From the massive destruction of the natural habitats of these…