Silent Knowledge

Silent Knowledge
Author: Carlos Castaneda
Publisher:
Total Pages: 51
Release: 1996-01-01
Genre: Magic
ISBN: 9781888294118

Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent

Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent
Author: Allison Mickel
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2021-03-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1646421159

For more than 200 years, archaeological sites in the Middle East have been dug, sifted, sorted, and saved by local community members who, in turn, developed immense expertise in excavation and interpretation and had unparalleled insight into the research process and findings—but who have almost never participated in strategies for recording the excavation procedures or results. Their particular perspectives have therefore been missing from the archaeological record, creating an immense gap in knowledge about the ancient past and about how archaeological knowledge is created. Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent is based on six years of in-depth ethnographic work with current and former site workers at two major Middle Eastern archaeological sites—Petra, Jordan, and Çatalhöyük, Turkey—combined with thorough archival research. Author Allison Mickel describes the nature of the knowledge that locally hired archaeological laborers exclusively possess about artifacts, excavation methods, and archaeological interpretation, showing that archaeological workers are experts about a wide range of topics in archaeology. At the same time, Mickel reveals a financial incentive for site workers to pretend to be less knowledgeable than they actually are, as they risk losing their jobs or demotion if they reveal their expertise. Despite a recent proliferation of critical research examining the history and politics of archaeology, the topic of archaeological labor has not yet been substantially examined. Why Those Who Shovel Are Silent employs a range of advanced qualitative, quantitative, and visual approaches and offers recommendations for archaeologists to include more diverse expert perspectives and produce more nuanced knowledge about the past. It will appeal to archaeologists, science studies scholars, and anyone interested in challenging the concept of “unskilled” labor.

The Voice of Knowledge

The Voice of Knowledge
Author: Don Miguel Ruiz
Publisher: Amber-Allen Publishing
Total Pages: 248
Release: 2010-02-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1934408042

In The Voice of Knowledge, Miguel Ruiz reminds us of a profound and simple truth: The only way to end our emotional suffering and restore our joy in living is to stop believing in lies — mainly about ourselves. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, this breakthrough book shows us how to recover our faith in the truth and return to our own common sense. Ruiz changes the way we perceive ourselves, and the way we perceive other people. Then he opens the door to a reality that we once perceived when we were one and two years old — a reality of truth, love, and joy. “We are born in truth, but we grow up believing in lies. . . . One of the biggest lies in the story of humanity is the lie of our imperfection.” — don Miguel Ruiz • From the international bestselling author of The Four Agreements • A New York Times bestseller • Over 300,000 copies sold in the U.S.

Silent Messengers

Silent Messengers
Author: Sven Dupré
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Total Pages: 395
Release: 2011
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3825816354

This book speaks about a world of mute objects ranging from plant bulbs, divining rods, and archeological findings to drawn, painted, or printed images. It describes the functions of these objects as ambiguous and polyvalent carriers of knowledge, and it analyzes the ways in which networks of scholars, craftsmen, mathematicians, anatomy professors, or merchants active in the Low Countries attributed new meanings to them. The book examines a period in which cities like Antwerp and Amsterdam were nodal points in the international exchange of goods, news, and skills. (Series: Low Countries Studies on the Circulation of Natural Knowledge - Vol. 1)

With the Silent Knowledge

With the Silent Knowledge
Author: Ray Elliott
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780996767200

With The Silent Knowledge is a novel about the flawed prison system in the United States. Set in Southern Illinois in the early 1970s, the story follows one non-violent offender from his arrival at a maximum-security prison that incarcerates forgers to mass murderers through his release and for a short time during his parole, ostensibly to attend college. The main character is an extremely bright man who has been convicted for the third time for writing bad checks. He is revealed to be an alcoholic with a sociopathic personality, but his time in prison accomplishes nothing to help insure that he will behave any differently when released the next time. He takes college courses and edits the prison newspaper, but is in constant conflict with the powers that control and run the prison. Throughout the novel, it becomes apparent that he will only continue his deviant behavior and this negative cycle. Ultimately, it is a cautionary tale about a costly and over-crowded prison system that merely isolates criminals from society for a time but does little in the way of true rehabilitation - especially for non-violent offenders who would be better off receiving psychological and medical support instead of being placed among the most hardened and dangerous criminals.

The Silent Word

The Silent Word
Author: Robert Young
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 190
Release: 1998
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9789971692117

The book comprises a selection of the papers presented at an international conference on "Meaning as Production: The Role of the 'Unwritten'", held in Singapore in 1995. It takes textual analysis beyond the traditional boundaries of literary studies, into a more culturally dynamic field of social semiotics, rhetorical studies, hermeneutics and theories of interpretation. There are also essays that explore the issues with reference to canonical literary texts or authors.

Knowledge, Language and Silence

Knowledge, Language and Silence
Author: Anna Brożek
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2015-12-22
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9004312676

Izydora Dąmbska (1904-1982) was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. Her output consists of almost 300 publications. The main domains of her research were semiotics, epistemology and broadly understood methodology as well as axiology and history of philosophy. Dąmbska’s approach to philosophical problems reflected tendencies that were characteristic of the Lvov-Warsaw School. She applied high methodological standards but has never limited the domain of analyzed problems in advance. The present volume includes twenty-eight translations of her representative papers. As one of her pupils rightly wrote: “Dąmbska’s works may help everyone [...] to think clearly. Her attitude of an unshaken philosopher may help anyone to hold oneself straight, and, if necessary, to get up after a fall”.

Silent Cells

Silent Cells
Author: Anthony Ryan Hatch
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2019-04-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1452960941

A critical investigation into the use of psychotropic drugs to pacify and control inmates and other captives in the vast U.S. prison, military, and welfare systems For at least four decades, U.S. prisons and jails have aggressively turned to psychotropic drugs—antidepressants, antipsychotics, sedatives, and tranquilizers—to silence inmates, whether or not they have been diagnosed with mental illnesses. In Silent Cells, Anthony Ryan Hatch demonstrates that the pervasive use of psychotropic drugs has not only defined and enabled mass incarceration but has also become central to other forms of captivity, including foster homes, military and immigrant detention centers, and nursing homes. Silent Cells shows how, in shockingly large numbers, federal, state, and local governments and government-authorized private agencies pacify people with drugs, uncovering patterns of institutional violence that threaten basic human and civil rights. Drawing on publicly available records, Hatch unearths the coercive ways that psychotropics serve to manufacture compliance and docility, practices hidden behind layers of state secrecy, medical complicity, and corporate profiteering. Psychotropics, Hatch shows, are integral to “technocorrectional” policies devised to minimize public costs and increase the private profitability of mass captivity while guaranteeing public safety and national security. This broad indictment of psychotropics is therefore animated by a radical counterfactual question: would incarceration on the scale practiced in the United States even be possible without psychotropics?