Peter Kingsley
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 497760 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Peter Kingsley |
| NOMBRES | Peter |
| APELLIDO | Kingsley |
| FIRMA | KINGSLEY P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6950-8318 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1990 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Shamans among the Greeks
Kingsley Peter. Shamans among the Greeks. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°19, 2024. pp. 237-248
Health work and skills in the last mile of disease elimination. Experiences from sleeping sickness health workers in South Sudan and DR Congo
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is considered a highly promising candidate for elimination within the next decade. This paper argues that the experiential knowledge of frontline health workers will be critical to achieve this goal. Interviews are used to explore the ways in which HAT workers understand, maintain, and adjust their skills amidst global and national challenges. We contrast two cases: South Sudan where HAT expertise is scattered …
Catafalque
One World-One Health and neglected zoonotic disease
NGOs, doctors, and the patrimonial state – tactics for political engagement in Nigeria
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) feature prominently in global health and development discourses. Such discourses often assume that NGOs provide a supplement to, and critical engagement with, struggling government health care systems. In contrast, interviews and ethnography with patients, health care providers, and NGO workers in Kebbi State, Nigeria, suggest a more problematic mode of state/NGO interaction. Focusing on larger NGOs, this res…
In the dark places of wisdom
A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found forty years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them ... Sensational new information about a group of ancient philosophers who were so intensely practical that, two and a half thousand years ago, they shaped our existence and the world we live in ... These are just two ingredients of this extraordinary book, which uncovers an astonishing reality…
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
Empedocles played a crucial role in the development of western culture; yet little is known or understood about this man, who lived in Sicily in the fifth-century BC. This is mainly becuase his teaching has been reconstructed by modern shcolars first and formost on the basis of Aristotle's hostile reports - producing a picture which is disconnected and lacking in depth. Using material never exploited before, Peter Kingsley presents the first full…
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
Meetings with Magi
There are not many people who can be said to have done something first. To Xanthus of Lydia belongs the distinction of being the first person on record to write in Greek about Zoroaster and aspects of Iranian religion. Not a Greek but writing in Greek, and living in the country that still joins Asia and Europe, he was to play an exemplary role in presenting details of an eastern religion directly to a western audience.
Notes on air
In fragment 38 Diels–Kranz, Empedocles turns to describe the creation of ‘everything that we now see’: γαî τε κα πντος πςλυκμων ἠδ' ὐγρς ρ ιτν ἠδ' αἰθρ σΦγγων περ κκλον ἂπαντα. Here, as so often with Empedocles, the influence of Zeller and Diels has proved decisive in determining later interpretations of the text. They understood the words ιτν ἠδ' αἰθρ as meaning ‘and Titan aither ’; ‘; the text has been mistranslated ever since. In fact the conj…
Empedocles and his Interpreters
L'A. analyse dans le fragment 6 de Theophraste (selon la classification de Diels) l'idee que les quatre elements naturels correspondent a quatre divinites. L'A. tente de retrouver la voix d'Empedocle en la separant de l'interpretation deformante qu'en a donne Theophraste et qui semble se retrouver dans les travaux de Diels
Empedocles' Sun
Few things can be more confusing, or confused, than the ancient reports about Empedocles' astronomy. Attempts in the modern literature at resolving the difficulties invariably either add to the confusion, or end by urging the need to ‘acknowledge the insufficiency of our data and suspend judgment’. In fact, as we will see, it is possible not only to reconstruct Empedocles' own ideas but also to retrace the history of their subsequent misunderstan…
Ezekiel by the Grand Canal
The one text that has influenced the history of Jewish – not to mention Christian – mysticism and apocalyptic literature more than any other is undoubtedly the book of Ezekiel; and the single most influential passage in it is undoubtedly the opening chapter, centring on Ezekiel's vision of the “likeness of the glory of God”
The Greek origin of the sixth-century dating of Zoroaster
Zoroaster is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C. This has been a tradition, within Zoroastrianism itself, for around two thousand years. Up until recently in the West its accuracy was widely considered an established fact.Western scholars came across the evidence for this tradition in the nineteenth century. Many immediately gave it a warm reception. After all, such a late dating was far better suited to the forward-looking, evolutionary…
The Greek origin of the sixth-century dating of Zoroaster
Zoroaster is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C. This has been a tradition, within Zoroastrianism itself, for around two thousand years. Up until recently in the West its accuracy was widely considered an established fact.Western scholars came across the evidence for this tradition in the nineteenth century. Many immediately gave it a warm reception. After all, such a late dating was far better suited to the forward-looking, evolutionary…
One World-One Health and neglected zoonotic disease
NGOs, doctors, and the patrimonial state – tactics for political engagement in Nigeria
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) feature prominently in global health and development discourses. Such discourses often assume that NGOs provide a supplement to, and critical engagement with, struggling government health care systems. In contrast, interviews and ethnography with patients, health care providers, and NGO workers in Kebbi State, Nigeria, suggest a more problematic mode of state/NGO interaction. Focusing on larger NGOs, this res…
Empedocles and his Interpreters
L'A. analyse dans le fragment 6 de Theophraste (selon la classification de Diels) l'idee que les quatre elements naturels correspondent a quatre divinites. L'A. tente de retrouver la voix d'Empedocle en la separant de l'interpretation deformante qu'en a donne Theophraste et qui semble se retrouver dans les travaux de Diels
Ezekiel by the Grand Canal
The one text that has influenced the history of Jewish – not to mention Christian – mysticism and apocalyptic literature more than any other is undoubtedly the book of Ezekiel; and the single most influential passage in it is undoubtedly the opening chapter, centring on Ezekiel's vision of the “likeness of the glory of God”
Empedocles' Sun
Few things can be more confusing, or confused, than the ancient reports about Empedocles' astronomy. Attempts in the modern literature at resolving the difficulties invariably either add to the confusion, or end by urging the need to ‘acknowledge the insufficiency of our data and suspend judgment’. In fact, as we will see, it is possible not only to reconstruct Empedocles' own ideas but also to retrace the history of their subsequent misunderstan…
The Greek origin of the sixth-century dating of Zoroaster
Zoroaster is said to have lived in the sixth century B.C. This has been a tradition, within Zoroastrianism itself, for around two thousand years. Up until recently in the West its accuracy was widely considered an established fact.Western scholars came across the evidence for this tradition in the nineteenth century. Many immediately gave it a warm reception. After all, such a late dating was far better suited to the forward-looking, evolutionary…
Ezekiel by the Grand Canal
The one text that has influenced the history of Jewish – not to mention Christian – mysticism and apocalyptic literature more than any other is undoubtedly the book of Ezekiel; and the single most influential passage in it is undoubtedly the opening chapter, centring on Ezekiel's vision of the “likeness of the glory of God”
Empedocles and his Interpreters
L'A. analyse dans le fragment 6 de Theophraste (selon la classification de Diels) l'idee que les quatre elements naturels correspondent a quatre divinites. L'A. tente de retrouver la voix d'Empedocle en la separant de l'interpretation deformante qu'en a donne Theophraste et qui semble se retrouver dans les travaux de Diels
Empedocles' Sun
Few things can be more confusing, or confused, than the ancient reports about Empedocles' astronomy. Attempts in the modern literature at resolving the difficulties invariably either add to the confusion, or end by urging the need to ‘acknowledge the insufficiency of our data and suspend judgment’. In fact, as we will see, it is possible not only to reconstruct Empedocles' own ideas but also to retrace the history of their subsequent misunderstan…
Meetings with Magi
There are not many people who can be said to have done something first. To Xanthus of Lydia belongs the distinction of being the first person on record to write in Greek about Zoroaster and aspects of Iranian religion. Not a Greek but writing in Greek, and living in the country that still joins Asia and Europe, he was to play an exemplary role in presenting details of an eastern religion directly to a western audience.
Notes on air
In fragment 38 Diels–Kranz, Empedocles turns to describe the creation of ‘everything that we now see’: γαî τε κα πντος πςλυκμων ἠδ' ὐγρς ρ ιτν ἠδ' αἰθρ σΦγγων περ κκλον ἂπαντα. Here, as so often with Empedocles, the influence of Zeller and Diels has proved decisive in determining later interpretations of the text. They understood the words ιτν ἠδ' αἰθρ as meaning ‘and Titan aither ’; ‘; the text has been mistranslated ever since. In fact the conj…
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
Empedocles played a crucial role in the development of western culture; yet little is known or understood about this man, who lived in Sicily in the fifth-century BC. This is mainly becuase his teaching has been reconstructed by modern shcolars first and formost on the basis of Aristotle's hostile reports - producing a picture which is disconnected and lacking in depth. Using material never exploited before, Peter Kingsley presents the first full…
Ancient Philosophy, Mystery, and Magic
In the dark places of wisdom
A set of ancient inscriptions on marble found forty years ago in southern Italy, recording details so bewildering that scholars have kept silent about them ... Sensational new information about a group of ancient philosophers who were so intensely practical that, two and a half thousand years ago, they shaped our existence and the world we live in ... These are just two ingredients of this extraordinary book, which uncovers an astonishing reality…
NGOs, doctors, and the patrimonial state – tactics for political engagement in Nigeria
Non-governmental organisations (NGOs) feature prominently in global health and development discourses. Such discourses often assume that NGOs provide a supplement to, and critical engagement with, struggling government health care systems. In contrast, interviews and ethnography with patients, health care providers, and NGO workers in Kebbi State, Nigeria, suggest a more problematic mode of state/NGO interaction. Focusing on larger NGOs, this res…
One World-One Health and neglected zoonotic disease
Catafalque
Health work and skills in the last mile of disease elimination. Experiences from sleeping sickness health workers in South Sudan and DR Congo
Human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) is considered a highly promising candidate for elimination within the next decade. This paper argues that the experiential knowledge of frontline health workers will be critical to achieve this goal. Interviews are used to explore the ways in which HAT workers understand, maintain, and adjust their skills amidst global and national challenges. We contrast two cases: South Sudan where HAT expertise is scattered …
Shamans among the Greeks
Kingsley Peter. Shamans among the Greeks. In: ASDIWAL. Revue genevoise d'anthropologie et d'histoire des religions, n°19, 2024. pp. 237-248
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