Merryl Wyn Davies
Biographic Data
| ID | 73249 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Merryl Wyn Davies |
| GIVEN NAMES | Merryl Wyn |
| FAMILY NAME | Davies |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIES M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | 3G'S Development Trust |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Postmodern times
Freeze Framing Muslims
Western images of Islam and Muslims have been frozen in history and are recycled with mundane regularity. These ‘freeze frames’ emerged at the beginning of Islam and have, over centuries, acquired certain key elements and descriptors. Association of Islam with promiscuity and licentiousness was common during the eight and tenth centuries. The Crusades added war-like violence to the picture, and embedded Islam within the concept of evil. Two furth…
Darwin and the Left
September 11
Barbaric Others
The word barbarian is derived from the Greek term 'barbaroi' - or one who cannot speak Greek. As the Greeks believed that language was the tool of reason, non-Greek speakers, therefore, were considered devoid of the facility to reason or to act according to logic. This concept of barbarism in turn shaped the early anthropological observations of Columbus and the first European visitors to the Americas. Barbaric Others examines the convenient myop…
The future of Eastern Europe
Rethinking knowledge
Knowing One Another
Knowing One Another
Rethinking knowledge
The future of Eastern Europe
Barbaric Others
The word barbarian is derived from the Greek term 'barbaroi' - or one who cannot speak Greek. As the Greeks believed that language was the tool of reason, non-Greek speakers, therefore, were considered devoid of the facility to reason or to act according to logic. This concept of barbarism in turn shaped the early anthropological observations of Columbus and the first European visitors to the Americas. Barbaric Others examines the convenient myop…
September 11
Darwin and the Left
Freeze Framing Muslims
Western images of Islam and Muslims have been frozen in history and are recycled with mundane regularity. These ‘freeze frames’ emerged at the beginning of Islam and have, over centuries, acquired certain key elements and descriptors. Association of Islam with promiscuity and licentiousness was common during the eight and tenth centuries. The Crusades added war-like violence to the picture, and embedded Islam within the concept of evil. Two furth…
Postmodern times
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Civilization (3 works) · History (3 works) · Islam (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works)