Boria Sax
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 101963 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Boria Sax |
| NOMBRES | Boria |
| APELLIDO | Sax |
| FIRMA | SAX B |
| AFILIACIONES | Mercy University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 47 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 11 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1985 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
When adam and eve were monkeys
This chapter uses the term &s;anthropocentrism&s; as it is understood by anthropologist Philippe Descola. This is one of a handful of ontologies with which cultures endeavour to make sense of the world. In September 1906, a pygmy named Ota Benga was exhibited in the monkey house by the New York Zoological Park. The motif of a simian Adam and Eve would appear regularly in illustrations to popular books of natural history throughout the Victorian e…
Animals in Folklore
This essay surveys the representation of animals in folklore from the fables of Aesop to the search for Bigfoot. Unlike most of modern culture, folklore attributes great power, understanding, autonomy, and significance to animals. While folklorists have often found this deeply poetic, they were also made uncomfortable by the suggestion of magic and, to protect their claim to superior rationality, tried to distance themselves from folktales. The E…
Zootropia, Kinship, and Alterity in the Work of Roberto Marchesini
As one confronts a mantis, the boundaries between both individuals and species seem to fall away. This sort of experience, which is the foundation of Marchesini’s work, may not be universal, but it
Steven H. Semken, Soul External

Pamela Newkirk, Spectacle

Jocelyne Porcher. Pour une Mort Digne des Animaux
Jocelyne Porcher, Pour une mort digne des animaux. Introduction by Elisabeth de Fontenay. Paris: Éditions du Palais, 2014. 107 pp. € 14.50
Jocelyne Porcher, an Introduction

Jocelyne Porcher, Vivre avec les animaux

The Posthumanism of Roberto Marchesini

Wild Justice
The Magic of Animals
This article looks at familiars in a context of folklore. Possible precedents for familiars include shamanic animal helpers, mascots of deities or saints, and local spirits, all of which are usually classified by folklorists as "grateful animals." Stories of witches and familiars are in the mainstream of European folklore, and their sole novelty lies in the fact that those figures were demonized. One result of the witch trials in England was that…
On the horizon
Adaptive individualization
Purpose – Despite the predictions and expectations that the online education will become a “killer app” and with major impact on education, the first generation of online education has led to more disappointments than success stories. The current – one‐size‐fits‐all static approach is extremely ineffective and leads to increased effort on the part of faculty and instructors teaching online courses. This paper discusses adaptive learning as an alt…
The library and the internet
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue of On the Horizon, which is devoted to the next wave of innovation in online education; analyzes the traditional tension between the realm of books and reality, and to examine ways it which this may be influenced by digital technologies; and reviews possible alternatives to the structure of the traditional classroom for online education. Design/methodology/approach Building on th…
Can we talk? Course management software and the construction of knowledge
Purpose This paper aims to explore the question: how well do course management systems (CMS) support constructivist pedagogy; how well do they support conversation? Design/methodology/approach This article reviews the basic pedagogical orientation of CMS as recently represented by analysts and proponents, while offering an analysis of the implications of these theoretical positions for learner activity within CMS. It compares CMS structural desig…
Constructing the café university
Purpose This paper aims to examine changes occurring in the organization and delivery of learning at the level of higher education, and argues that it is now possible to envision the shape and structures of the future digital university. Design/methodology/approach Beginning with a history of the basic organizational paradigm underlying the traditional university, this paper systematically explores the impact on this paradigm of new technological…
Shift happens
Purpose The purpose of this editorial is to ask the question as to whether the current “cohort” model of education, particularly in the USA, can survive in an internet connected world. It also questions, with the development of increasingly porous political borders, particularly with respect to knowledge, whether the current education system can play the heroic role of maintaining US economic hegemony in the world. Design/methodology/approach Thi…
Medievalism, Paganism, and the Tower Ravens
The ravens in the Tower of London are allowed to move freely on the Tower Green, but their wings are clipped to prevent them from flying very far. They are widely believed to have been domesticated by Charles II in the seventeenth century, because of an ancient prophesy that Britain would fall if the ravens leave the Tower. In fact they were only brought to the Tower in the late 1900s, and the legend only dates from about the end of World War II.…
How Ravens Came to the Tower of London
According to popular belief, Charles II of England (reigned 1660-1685) once heard a prophecy that if ravens left the Tower of London it would "fall," so he ordered that the wings of seven ravens in the Tower be trimmed. Until recently, this claim was not challenged even in scholarly literature. There are, however, no allusions to the Tower Ravens before the end of the nineteenth century. The ravens, today meticulously cared for by Yeoman Warders,…
Storytelling in a liminal time
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an introduction to the special issue of On the Horizon on “Storytelling in a liminal time”
A story in small lessons magnified
Purpose This paper aims to outline the beginnings of online education. Design/methodology/approach This article is a narrative account by an “early adapter” of her initiation into online learning, at a time when few people could even conceive the potentialities of the mode and nobody could clearly envision them. Findings This article reveals a side to the endeavor that is usually edited out of more formal histories, which focus primarily on major…
Storytelling and the “information overload”
Purpose This article seeks to examine the various functions served by storytelling, from its origins in prehistoric times to the post‐industrial age. Design/methodology/approach Historical records are rich in stories, yet they seldom provide the full social context in which these were told. This article attempts to reconstruct part of that context on the basis of anthropological and biological theories. Findings Storytelling appears to have devel…
The case study
Purpose Storytelling is traditionally associated with an oral tradition, dating back to the age of the hunter‐gatherer. Beginning with the etymology of the word, “story,” this article attempts to show how both written and oral storytelling evolved in relation to changing needs in society, from story telling among hunter‐gatherers to current forms of storytelling in today's organizational settings. Design/methodology/approach This article examines…
The oral epic and the web site
Purpose The paper seeks to illustrate the way in which internet and hyper‐text practices reflect ancient and classical literary practice, both of which differ from linear published manuscripts. Design/methodology approach The essay traces the shifts and alterations in the transformations from oral text and protonarrative, through manuscripts, printed texts, hyper‐text. It then compares the narrative structures and practices of ancient epics with …
All that knowledge, and so what? Scholarship in the digital university
Purpose To ascertain how scholarship will be impacted by digital media. Design/methodology/approach This paper breaks down the vocation of scholarship into subsidiary tasks. It examines how their relative importance has changed in the modern era. Finally, it looks at which tasks will be facilitated or complicated by digital media, particularly by the internet. Findings The tasks of collecting and storing information have been made far faster and …
Understanding Nazi Animal Protection and the Holocaust
It is well known that the Nazis treated human beings with extreme cruelty but it less widely recognized that the Nazis also took some pains to develop and pass extensive animal protection laws. How could the Nazis have professed such concern for animals while treating humans so badly? It would be easy to dismiss Nazi proclamations on animals as mere hypocrisy but there may be other explanations for the contradiction. For example, anecdotal report…
The Magic of Animals
This article looks at familiars in a context of folklore. Possible precedents for familiars include shamanic animal helpers, mascots of deities or saints, and local spirits, all of which are usually classified by folklorists as "grateful animals." Stories of witches and familiars are in the mainstream of European folklore, and their sole novelty lies in the fact that those figures were demonized. One result of the witch trials in England was that…
What is a "Jewish Dog"? Konrad Lorenz and the Cult of Wildness
This paper explores the Nazi view of nature as violent but orderly, contrasted with what the Nazis took to be the chaos and confusion of human society. In imposing strict authoritarian controls, the Nazis strove to emulate what they viewed as the natural discipline of instinct. They saw this as embodied in wild animals, especially large predators such as wolves, while the opposite were domesticated mongrels whose instincts, like those of overly c…
Wild Justice
The Mermaid and Her Sisters
The Mermaid and Her Sisters: From Archaic Goddess to Consumer Society Boria Sax Boria Sax Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 43–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/7.2.43 Published: 01 July 2000
Can we talk? Course management software and the construction of knowledge
Purpose This paper aims to explore the question: how well do course management systems (CMS) support constructivist pedagogy; how well do they support conversation? Design/methodology/approach This article reviews the basic pedagogical orientation of CMS as recently represented by analysts and proponents, while offering an analysis of the implications of these theoretical positions for learner activity within CMS. It compares CMS structural desig…
Zootropia, Kinship, and Alterity in the Work of Roberto Marchesini
As one confronts a mantis, the boundaries between both individuals and species seem to fall away. This sort of experience, which is the foundation of Marchesini’s work, may not be universal, but it
The Posthumanism of Roberto Marchesini

Constructing the café university
Purpose This paper aims to examine changes occurring in the organization and delivery of learning at the level of higher education, and argues that it is now possible to envision the shape and structures of the future digital university. Design/methodology/approach Beginning with a history of the basic organizational paradigm underlying the traditional university, this paper systematically explores the impact on this paradigm of new technological…
How Ravens Came to the Tower of London
According to popular belief, Charles II of England (reigned 1660-1685) once heard a prophecy that if ravens left the Tower of London it would "fall," so he ordered that the wings of seven ravens in the Tower be trimmed. Until recently, this claim was not challenged even in scholarly literature. There are, however, no allusions to the Tower Ravens before the end of the nineteenth century. The ravens, today meticulously cared for by Yeoman Warders,…
The case study
Purpose Storytelling is traditionally associated with an oral tradition, dating back to the age of the hunter‐gatherer. Beginning with the etymology of the word, “story,” this article attempts to show how both written and oral storytelling evolved in relation to changing needs in society, from story telling among hunter‐gatherers to current forms of storytelling in today's organizational settings. Design/methodology/approach This article examines…
All that knowledge, and so what? Scholarship in the digital university
Purpose To ascertain how scholarship will be impacted by digital media. Design/methodology/approach This paper breaks down the vocation of scholarship into subsidiary tasks. It examines how their relative importance has changed in the modern era. Finally, it looks at which tasks will be facilitated or complicated by digital media, particularly by the internet. Findings The tasks of collecting and storing information have been made far faster and …
Academic tradition in a digital age
Contemporary institutions of higher education encourage veneration of the past through anachronisms their rhetoric and their design. This characteristic, however, owes less to scholarship or tradition than to a mood of nostalgia. Universities tend to have far greater longevity than institutions of government or commerce. They have managed to survive the Industrial Revolution and other upheavals with remarkably little structural change. Neverthele…
The Basilisk and Rattlesnake, or a European Monster Comes to America
This article looks at legends of the basilisk, a fabulous creature of ancient and medieval lore that was believed to kill with a glance, and shows how many characteristics of the basilisk were transferred to the rattlesnake in the New World. The deadly power of "fascination, " also known as "the evil eye, " which legend attributes to both basilisk and rattlesnake, was understood as an expression of resentment over the perceived lack of status of …
Beyond Censorship Boria Sax
Some Reflections on the Utopian Commonwealth of Beavers
News and Analysis
News and Analysis
Understanding Nazi Animal Protection and the Holocaust
It is well known that the Nazis treated human beings with extreme cruelty but it less widely recognized that the Nazis also took some pains to develop and pass extensive animal protection laws. How could the Nazis have professed such concern for animals while treating humans so badly? It would be easy to dismiss Nazi proclamations on animals as mere hypocrisy but there may be other explanations for the contradiction. For example, anecdotal report…
Holocaust Images and Other Powerful Ambiguities in the Debates on Animal Experimentation
Wiccans on Wicca
Animals in Religion
The Basilisk and Rattlesnake, or a European Monster Comes to America
This article looks at legends of the basilisk, a fabulous creature of ancient and medieval lore that was believed to kill with a glance, and shows how many characteristics of the basilisk were transferred to the rattlesnake in the New World. The deadly power of "fascination, " also known as "the evil eye, " which legend attributes to both basilisk and rattlesnake, was understood as an expression of resentment over the perceived lack of status of …
Classics
Mensch und Tier, Vol. XI
What is a "Jewish Dog"? Konrad Lorenz and the Cult of Wildness
This paper explores the Nazi view of nature as violent but orderly, contrasted with what the Nazis took to be the chaos and confusion of human society. In imposing strict authoritarian controls, the Nazis strove to emulate what they viewed as the natural discipline of instinct. They saw this as embodied in wild animals, especially large predators such as wolves, while the opposite were domesticated mongrels whose instincts, like those of overly c…
Bestial Wisdom and Human Tragedy
A radical redefinition or blurring of the boundaries between the human and animal realms, between “us” and “them,” can sometimes open dramatic new aesthetic and cultural possibilities. This paper discusses the earliest example of this, an ancient Akkadian fragment known, a bit deceptively, as “The Fable of the Fox.” Set against the background of a terrible drought which may well have destroyed the Akkadian Empire, it records the exchanges of a fo…
Anthrozoology and Literature
The Mermaid and Her Sisters
The Mermaid and Her Sisters: From Archaic Goddess to Consumer Society Boria Sax Boria Sax Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, Volume 7, Issue 2, Summer 2000, Pages 43–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/7.2.43 Published: 01 July 2000
The Holocaust and Blood Sacrifice
This article looks at affinities between the Holocaust and blood sacrifice of archaic times. It begins with a discussion of the practices and beliefs which have accompanied sacrificial rites in the past. This is followed by a discussion of ancient animal sacrifice, out of which came the practice of kosher slaughter. Christians rejected kosher slaughter, together with all sacrificial rites, and kosher slaughter has evoked intense controversy on bo…
Jakob von Uexküll and the anticipation of sociobiology
Animals in the Third Reich
Academic tradition in a digital age
Contemporary institutions of higher education encourage veneration of the past through anachronisms their rhetoric and their design. This characteristic, however, owes less to scholarship or tradition than to a mood of nostalgia. Universities tend to have far greater longevity than institutions of government or commerce. They have managed to survive the Industrial Revolution and other upheavals with remarkably little structural change. Neverthele…
Students as “customers”
The idea of students as “customers” at institutions of higher learning evokes intense controvery, but it is usually understood simplistically. The word “customer” is derived from the Latin “ consuescere ” meaning “to become acquainted with”. In marketplaces of the Renaissance it suggested a bond founded on familiarity and trust. Early universities were located near marketplaces, and shared some of their vibrant atmosphere. Today, as well, there i…
All that knowledge, and so what? Scholarship in the digital university
Purpose To ascertain how scholarship will be impacted by digital media. Design/methodology/approach This paper breaks down the vocation of scholarship into subsidiary tasks. It examines how their relative importance has changed in the modern era. Finally, it looks at which tasks will be facilitated or complicated by digital media, particularly by the internet. Findings The tasks of collecting and storing information have been made far faster and …
Storytelling in a liminal time
Purpose – This paper aims to provide an introduction to the special issue of On the Horizon on “Storytelling in a liminal time”
A story in small lessons magnified
Purpose This paper aims to outline the beginnings of online education. Design/methodology/approach This article is a narrative account by an “early adapter” of her initiation into online learning, at a time when few people could even conceive the potentialities of the mode and nobody could clearly envision them. Findings This article reveals a side to the endeavor that is usually edited out of more formal histories, which focus primarily on major…
Storytelling and the “information overload”
Purpose This article seeks to examine the various functions served by storytelling, from its origins in prehistoric times to the post‐industrial age. Design/methodology/approach Historical records are rich in stories, yet they seldom provide the full social context in which these were told. This article attempts to reconstruct part of that context on the basis of anthropological and biological theories. Findings Storytelling appears to have devel…
The case study
Purpose Storytelling is traditionally associated with an oral tradition, dating back to the age of the hunter‐gatherer. Beginning with the etymology of the word, “story,” this article attempts to show how both written and oral storytelling evolved in relation to changing needs in society, from story telling among hunter‐gatherers to current forms of storytelling in today's organizational settings. Design/methodology/approach This article examines…
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