Ash Asudeh
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199206421
- eISBN:
- 9780191738081
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199206421.003.0010
- Subject:
- Linguistics, Semantics and Pragmatics, Syntax and Morphology
Resumptive pronouns in Vata, as in Swedish, pattern like gaps with respect to certain diagnostics, particularly with respect to weak crossover and islands. This chapter develops an analysis of Vata ...
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Resumptive pronouns in Vata, as in Swedish, pattern like gaps with respect to certain diagnostics, particularly with respect to weak crossover and islands. This chapter develops an analysis of Vata resumptives as syntactically inactive resumptives, which are nonetheless licensed semantically like syntactically active resumptives, as found in Irish and Hebrew. I first review some of the key resumptive pronoun data in Vata and then provide an analysis along the same lines as those in previous chapters.Less
Resumptive pronouns in Vata, as in Swedish, pattern like gaps with respect to certain diagnostics, particularly with respect to weak crossover and islands. This chapter develops an analysis of Vata resumptives as syntactically inactive resumptives, which are nonetheless licensed semantically like syntactically active resumptives, as found in Irish and Hebrew. I first review some of the key resumptive pronoun data in Vata and then provide an analysis along the same lines as those in previous chapters.
David L. Haberman
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199929177
- eISBN:
- 9780199332960
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199929177.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter examines the religious world associated with banyan (Vata) trees, known for their connection with longevity and immortality. The banyan is a remarkable tree that not only propagates ...
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This chapter examines the religious world associated with banyan (Vata) trees, known for their connection with longevity and immortality. The banyan is a remarkable tree that not only propagates itself through its figlike fruit, but over time sends down aerial roots that become supportive trunks themselves; a banyan tree can have over a thousand such trucks making it virtually impervious to death. It is identified with the Akshaya Vata, the Immortal Banyan, the only individual tree ever designated with a proper noun in Hindu scriptures. Although it is associated with many gods, it is often regarded as a form of the mighty Shiva. In the summer, however, women wrap the banyan with string and worship it with food offerings in a ritual called the Vata Savitri Vrat. In this context the tree is identified with the goddess Savitri, the one able to bring the dead back to life.Less
This chapter examines the religious world associated with banyan (Vata) trees, known for their connection with longevity and immortality. The banyan is a remarkable tree that not only propagates itself through its figlike fruit, but over time sends down aerial roots that become supportive trunks themselves; a banyan tree can have over a thousand such trucks making it virtually impervious to death. It is identified with the Akshaya Vata, the Immortal Banyan, the only individual tree ever designated with a proper noun in Hindu scriptures. Although it is associated with many gods, it is often regarded as a form of the mighty Shiva. In the summer, however, women wrap the banyan with string and worship it with food offerings in a ritual called the Vata Savitri Vrat. In this context the tree is identified with the goddess Savitri, the one able to bring the dead back to life.
Stefan Ecks
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814724767
- eISBN:
- 9780814760307
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814724767.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter discusses popular notions of health, with a focus on perceptions of how different drugs are digested and on the humoral balance between the “hot” belly and the “cool” mind. The first ...
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This chapter discusses popular notions of health, with a focus on perceptions of how different drugs are digested and on the humoral balance between the “hot” belly and the “cool” mind. The first principle of Bengali body concepts is that the belly is the somatic center of good health. For Bengalis, health depends on the proper alignment between the belly and the mind. In this alignment, the belly is a “hot” source of energy that needs to be controlled by the “cool” sovereignty of the mind. The opposition between “cool” mind and “hot” belly is based on a humoral worldview. Indian Ayurvedic humoralism is based not on four but on three humors (tridosha) called vata, pitta, and kapha. Pitta tends to be hot and kapha to be cold, while vata is in-between.Less
This chapter discusses popular notions of health, with a focus on perceptions of how different drugs are digested and on the humoral balance between the “hot” belly and the “cool” mind. The first principle of Bengali body concepts is that the belly is the somatic center of good health. For Bengalis, health depends on the proper alignment between the belly and the mind. In this alignment, the belly is a “hot” source of energy that needs to be controlled by the “cool” sovereignty of the mind. The opposition between “cool” mind and “hot” belly is based on a humoral worldview. Indian Ayurvedic humoralism is based not on four but on three humors (tridosha) called vata, pitta, and kapha. Pitta tends to be hot and kapha to be cold, while vata is in-between.
