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Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs,
hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an
inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar
Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead
languages, these sign-systems have always been living, evolving
signifiers, responsive to their circumstances and able to
continuously redefine themselves and the nature of the world.
Garcia tells the story of the present life of these sign-systems,
examining the contemporary impact they have had on poetry, prose,
visual art, legal philosophy, political activism, and environmental
thinking. In doing so, he brings together a wide range of
indigenous and non-indigenous authors and artists of the Americas,
from Aztec priests and Amazonian shamans to Simon Ortiz, Gerald
Vizenor, Jaime de Angulo, Charles Olson, Cy Twombly, Gloria Anzald
a, William Burroughs, Louise Erdrich, Cecilia Vicu a, and many
others. From these sources, Garcia depicts the culture of a modern,
interconnected hemisphere, revealing that while these "signs of the
Americas" have suffered expropriation, misuse, and mistranslation,
they have also created their own systems of knowing and being.
These indigenous systems help us to rethink categories of race,
gender, nationalism, and history. Producing a new way of thinking
about our interconnected hemisphere, this ambitious, energizing
book redefines what constitutes a "world" in world literature.
Waking and the Reticular Activating System in Health and Disease
provides a comprehensive overview on the "activating" properties of
the RAS. In health, the RAS provides the basis against which we
assess the external world, and in disease it distorts that world
and shatters our self-image. This book describes the physiology of
each process, how it is disturbed in each disorder, and what the
most appropriate treatment should be.
Dr. Garcia-Rill discusses the understanding of the RAS as a
system not only modulating waking, but also in charge of survival
mechanisms such as fight vs flight responses and reflexes. The full
spectrum of these functions helps explain the complexity of
symptoms evident in such disorders as disparate as schizophrenia
and Parkinson s disease. The purpose is to develop an understanding
of this homeostatic mechanism that has synergistic action with
other mechanisms such as appetite. The author addresses the
mechanisms that control waking and arousal, and especially how
those mechanisms malfunction in certain neurological and
psychiatric disorders.
First comprehensive overview on Waking and the Reticular
Activating System in Health and Disease
Offers a new way of thinking about brain function and the role
of the RAS in our waking lives
Written by a leading translational neuroscience researcher"
Nine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the
Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of
the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a
work that was also written during a time of feverish social,
political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and
colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and
cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many
other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in
creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the
story of the world's creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and
analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually
need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have
already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of
the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that
have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of
COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the
Popol Vuh-while implicated in deep social crisis-nonetheless
insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social,
political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into
creativity and world creation.
Nine short essays exploring the K'iche' Maya story of creation, the
Popol Vuh. Written during the lockdown in Chicago in the depths of
the COVID-19 pandemic, these essays consider the Popol Vuh as a
work that was also written during a time of feverish social,
political, and epidemiological crisis as Spanish missionaries and
colonial military deepened their conquest of indigenous peoples and
cultures in Mesoamerica. What separates the Popol Vuh from many
other creation texts is the disposition of the gods engaged in
creation. Whereas the book of Genesis is declarative in telling the
story of the world's creation, the Popol Vuh is interrogative and
analytical: the gods, for example, question whether people actually
need to be created, given the many perfect animals they have
already placed on earth. Emergency uses the historical emergency of
the Popol Vuh to frame the ongoing emergencies of colonialism that
have surfaced all too clearly in the global health crisis of
COVID-19. In doing so, these essays reveal how the authors of the
Popol Vuh-while implicated in deep social crisis-nonetheless
insisted on transforming emergency into scenes of social,
political, and intellectual emergence, translating crisis into
creativity and world creation.
Arousal in Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases focuses on the
dysregulation of arousal found in many neurological and psychiatric
disorders. Chapters describe the physiology of each process, how it
presents in each disorder, and the most appropriate treatment(s).
The book also imparts the understanding of the RAS as a system that
not only modulates waking, but also survival mechanisms, such as
fight vs. flight responses and other reflexes. This book helps
neuroscientists, sleep researchers, neurologists and psychiatrists
understand the basic mechanisms that modulate arousal in health and
disease. In addition, it promotes therapies that can alter the
severity and manifestation of multiple disorders.
Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs,
hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an
inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar
Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead
languages, these sign-systems have always been living, evolving
signifiers, responsive to their circumstances and able to
continuously redefine themselves and the nature of the world.
Garcia tells the story of the present life of these sign-systems,
examining the contemporary impact they have had on poetry, prose,
visual art, legal philosophy, political activism, and environmental
thinking. In doing so, he brings together a wide range of
indigenous and non-indigenous authors and artists of the Americas,
from Aztec priests and Amazonian shamans to Simon Ortiz, Gerald
Vizenor, Jaime de Angulo, Charles Olson, Cy Twombly, Gloria Anzald
a, William Burroughs, Louise Erdrich, Cecilia Vicu a, and many
others. From these sources, Garcia depicts the culture of a modern,
interconnected hemisphere, revealing that while these "signs of the
Americas" have suffered expropriation, misuse, and mistranslation,
they have also created their own systems of knowing and being.
These indigenous systems help us to rethink categories of race,
gender, nationalism, and history. Producing a new way of thinking
about our interconnected hemisphere, this ambitious, energizing
book redefines what constitutes a "world" in world literature.
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