Joseph A P Wilson
Biographic Data
| ID | 167683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph A P Wilson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph A P |
| FAMILY NAME | Wilson |
| SIGNATURE | WILSON J A P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2231-4196 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mother Earth’ is an Ancient Meme in the Global North: Continuity between Eurasian-American ‘Mother Earth’ Concepts Demonstrated in the Athabaskan Case
In this response to Sam Gill, I contend that European colonizers were not the first to combine and synthesize the goddesses of Eurasia and North America. I suggest that Athabaskan-speaking Native Americans share one identifiable Mother Earth concept with Yeniseian linguistic cousins in post-neolithic Siberia. Further, I regard this concept as congenitally related to a particular Mother Earth deity common to late ancient north Europe, via the mult…
Late Holocene Technology Words in Proto-Athabaskan: Implications for Dene-Yeniseian Culture History
This study will review previously published Proto-Athabaskan (P-A) linguistic reconstructions related to weapons and ceramics technologies present on both sides of the Bering Strait. Na-Dene (N-D) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, consisting mostly of the Athabaskan languages of the western interior, plus the Eyak and Tlingit languages of the southern Alaska coast. Athabaskan-Eyak (A-E) constitutes a distinct branch of N…
Recasting Paul as a Chauvinist within the Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications for the Authorship Debate on 1 Corinthians 14.34-35
The mandate for women's silence in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 is an incongruity within Paul's undisputed writings. Critical scholars expressed doubts about these verses' authorship beginning in the nineteenth century. The consensus of egalitarian Paulists today is that vv.34-35 are not Paul's sentiments. Disagreements about circumstances beyond this fact remain unresolved. Supporters of the quotation/refutation ("Q/R") hypothesis argue that Paul quot…
Postscript to the Union of Two Worlds: An Expository Note
This note is a follow-up, update, and correction of ‘The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion’, published in Folklore in 2016. First, the note addresses evidence presented by a new publication. Next, it adds an omitted illustration of the comparison of a Navajo ‘Big Fly’ with a Tibetan ‘enemy god’. Finally, it corrects a small-but-meaningful error and clarifies a resulting interpretation about the…
Guest Editor’s Introduction: Contested Space and Value in Confucian Environmental Ethics
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The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion
This study reconstructs elements of proto-Athabaskan folklore and religion, challenging received wisdom about the character of Southern Athabaskan culture. Detailed parallelism between Athabaskan and Old World folklore traditions, especially Inner Asian ones, means we must now consider that Southern Athabaskan cultures may retain significant elements of proto-Athabaskan belief systems originating in Asia
The Cave Who Never Was: Outsider Archaeology and Failed Collaboration in the USA
The alleged 1982 discovery of a phantasmagorical Late-Antique necropolis in southern Illinois has largely escaped the attention of professional archaeologists, despite thousands of artefacts having been sold to naive collectors and would-be revolutionary scholars for more than a quarter of a century. The site (named Burrows Cave after its notorious finder) is a staple of outsider archaeology, like 10,000-year-old pyramids and ancient astronauts. …
The Life of the Saint and the Animal: Asian Religious Influence in the Medieval Christian West
This paper seeks to challenge the notion that European Christianity was untouched by Asian religious influence during much of the Common Era. Rather, I propose that certain Indian ethical tenets were incorporated into Christian ascetic practices as a consequence of interaction with heretical intermediaries. In medieval Europe, the spiritual kinship of animals and humans was widely taken for granted by common folk and heretical clerics. Indic reli…
A New Perspective on Later Migration(s): The Possible Recent Origin of Some Native American Haplotypes
■ Productive as the recent collaboration between genetics and anthropology has been, additional insights are within reach. Molecular DNA evidence has been beneficial to the study of the peopling of the Americas, but the interpretation of this very complex dataset has been constrained by longstanding assumptions. The use of DNA evidence to test lesser-known historical hypotheses may reveal a more complicated picture of demography in American antiq…
Spider Woman Walks This Land: Traditional Cultural Properties and the Navajo Nation (review)
Kelli Carmean. Spider Woman Walks This Land: Traditional Cultural Properties and the Navajo Nation. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2002. xx 1 175 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $70.00, paper, $24.95
The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion
This study reconstructs elements of proto-Athabaskan folklore and religion, challenging received wisdom about the character of Southern Athabaskan culture. Detailed parallelism between Athabaskan and Old World folklore traditions, especially Inner Asian ones, means we must now consider that Southern Athabaskan cultures may retain significant elements of proto-Athabaskan belief systems originating in Asia
The Cave Who Never Was: Outsider Archaeology and Failed Collaboration in the USA
The alleged 1982 discovery of a phantasmagorical Late-Antique necropolis in southern Illinois has largely escaped the attention of professional archaeologists, despite thousands of artefacts having been sold to naive collectors and would-be revolutionary scholars for more than a quarter of a century. The site (named Burrows Cave after its notorious finder) is a staple of outsider archaeology, like 10,000-year-old pyramids and ancient astronauts. …
Late Holocene Technology Words in Proto-Athabaskan: Implications for Dene-Yeniseian Culture History
This study will review previously published Proto-Athabaskan (P-A) linguistic reconstructions related to weapons and ceramics technologies present on both sides of the Bering Strait. Na-Dene (N-D) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, consisting mostly of the Athabaskan languages of the western interior, plus the Eyak and Tlingit languages of the southern Alaska coast. Athabaskan-Eyak (A-E) constitutes a distinct branch of N…
The Life of the Saint and the Animal: Asian Religious Influence in the Medieval Christian West
This paper seeks to challenge the notion that European Christianity was untouched by Asian religious influence during much of the Common Era. Rather, I propose that certain Indian ethical tenets were incorporated into Christian ascetic practices as a consequence of interaction with heretical intermediaries. In medieval Europe, the spiritual kinship of animals and humans was widely taken for granted by common folk and heretical clerics. Indic reli…
A New Perspective on Later Migration(s): The Possible Recent Origin of Some Native American Haplotypes
■ Productive as the recent collaboration between genetics and anthropology has been, additional insights are within reach. Molecular DNA evidence has been beneficial to the study of the peopling of the Americas, but the interpretation of this very complex dataset has been constrained by longstanding assumptions. The use of DNA evidence to test lesser-known historical hypotheses may reveal a more complicated picture of demography in American antiq…
Recasting Paul as a Chauvinist within the Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications for the Authorship Debate on 1 Corinthians 14.34-35
The mandate for women's silence in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 is an incongruity within Paul's undisputed writings. Critical scholars expressed doubts about these verses' authorship beginning in the nineteenth century. The consensus of egalitarian Paulists today is that vv.34-35 are not Paul's sentiments. Disagreements about circumstances beyond this fact remain unresolved. Supporters of the quotation/refutation ("Q/R") hypothesis argue that Paul quot…
Postscript to the Union of Two Worlds: An Expository Note
This note is a follow-up, update, and correction of ‘The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion’, published in Folklore in 2016. First, the note addresses evidence presented by a new publication. Next, it adds an omitted illustration of the comparison of a Navajo ‘Big Fly’ with a Tibetan ‘enemy god’. Finally, it corrects a small-but-meaningful error and clarifies a resulting interpretation about the…
Spider Woman Walks This Land: Traditional Cultural Properties and the Navajo Nation (review)
Kelli Carmean. Spider Woman Walks This Land: Traditional Cultural Properties and the Navajo Nation. Walnut Creek CA: AltaMira Press, 2002. xx 1 175 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. Cloth, $70.00, paper, $24.95
A New Perspective on Later Migration(s): The Possible Recent Origin of Some Native American Haplotypes
■ Productive as the recent collaboration between genetics and anthropology has been, additional insights are within reach. Molecular DNA evidence has been beneficial to the study of the peopling of the Americas, but the interpretation of this very complex dataset has been constrained by longstanding assumptions. The use of DNA evidence to test lesser-known historical hypotheses may reveal a more complicated picture of demography in American antiq…
The Life of the Saint and the Animal: Asian Religious Influence in the Medieval Christian West
This paper seeks to challenge the notion that European Christianity was untouched by Asian religious influence during much of the Common Era. Rather, I propose that certain Indian ethical tenets were incorporated into Christian ascetic practices as a consequence of interaction with heretical intermediaries. In medieval Europe, the spiritual kinship of animals and humans was widely taken for granted by common folk and heretical clerics. Indic reli…
The Cave Who Never Was: Outsider Archaeology and Failed Collaboration in the USA
The alleged 1982 discovery of a phantasmagorical Late-Antique necropolis in southern Illinois has largely escaped the attention of professional archaeologists, despite thousands of artefacts having been sold to naive collectors and would-be revolutionary scholars for more than a quarter of a century. The site (named Burrows Cave after its notorious finder) is a staple of outsider archaeology, like 10,000-year-old pyramids and ancient astronauts. …
Guest Editor’s Introduction: Contested Space and Value in Confucian Environmental Ethics
.
The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion
This study reconstructs elements of proto-Athabaskan folklore and religion, challenging received wisdom about the character of Southern Athabaskan culture. Detailed parallelism between Athabaskan and Old World folklore traditions, especially Inner Asian ones, means we must now consider that Southern Athabaskan cultures may retain significant elements of proto-Athabaskan belief systems originating in Asia
Postscript to the Union of Two Worlds: An Expository Note
This note is a follow-up, update, and correction of ‘The Union of Two Worlds: Reconstructing Elements of Proto-Athabaskan Folklore and Religion’, published in Folklore in 2016. First, the note addresses evidence presented by a new publication. Next, it adds an omitted illustration of the comparison of a Navajo ‘Big Fly’ with a Tibetan ‘enemy god’. Finally, it corrects a small-but-meaningful error and clarifies a resulting interpretation about the…
Recasting Paul as a Chauvinist within the Western Text-Type Manuscript Tradition: Implications for the Authorship Debate on 1 Corinthians 14.34-35
The mandate for women's silence in 1 Corinthians 14.34-35 is an incongruity within Paul's undisputed writings. Critical scholars expressed doubts about these verses' authorship beginning in the nineteenth century. The consensus of egalitarian Paulists today is that vv.34-35 are not Paul's sentiments. Disagreements about circumstances beyond this fact remain unresolved. Supporters of the quotation/refutation ("Q/R") hypothesis argue that Paul quot…
Late Holocene Technology Words in Proto-Athabaskan: Implications for Dene-Yeniseian Culture History
This study will review previously published Proto-Athabaskan (P-A) linguistic reconstructions related to weapons and ceramics technologies present on both sides of the Bering Strait. Na-Dene (N-D) is a large family of indigenous languages of North America, consisting mostly of the Athabaskan languages of the western interior, plus the Eyak and Tlingit languages of the southern Alaska coast. Athabaskan-Eyak (A-E) constitutes a distinct branch of N…
Mother Earth’ is an Ancient Meme in the Global North: Continuity between Eurasian-American ‘Mother Earth’ Concepts Demonstrated in the Athabaskan Case
In this response to Sam Gill, I contend that European colonizers were not the first to combine and synthesize the goddesses of Eurasia and North America. I suggest that Athabaskan-speaking Native Americans share one identifiable Mother Earth concept with Yeniseian linguistic cousins in post-neolithic Siberia. Further, I regard this concept as congenitally related to a particular Mother Earth deity common to late ancient north Europe, via the mult…
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