Word: mayan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From these studies, Damasio, who is chairman of the University of Iowa's neurology department, concludes that consciousness is a layered edifice, like some Mayan pyramid or Mesopotamian ziggurat. It is based on an inchoate feeling of self that arises from the brain's detailed "diagram" of the body. Damasio says this diagram, which is continuously revised by the senses, can be thought of as the "protoself"; it props up the rest of the structure...
Said is by no means inventor of the art of the suspect but emblematic personal history. Last year a similar scandal erupted regarding I, Rigoberta Menchu, the autobiography of a Mayan peasant whose story of the horrors wrought by Guatemalan authorities became an international sensation...
...thousand-year-old Mayan artifact will be returned to Guatemala next week thanks to the efforts of Harvard archaeologist Ian Graham...
...Instant Oatmeal; I can have my photos developed in an hour; I can check my e-mail daily. American marketing is everywhere. Coca-Cola (a.k.a. "Coca") and Pepsi have made inroads to even the most remote towns--towns which still do not have running water. (I even visited a Mayan village where the bubbly has been incorporated into a sacred healing ceremony.) If you walk through Comitan in the late afternoon, you can hear the loud cheers of the audience on the Mexican version of "The Price is Right." Tommy Hilfiger and Winnie the Pooh and American sports team regalia...
McAnany, a professor of archaeology at Boston University, will spend her year studying archaeological evidence from ongoing studies of pre-Mayan life in South America...