Chiang Professor Shaffer ENC1102 12 September 2011 Summary Assignment In “Animism and the Alphabet”‚ David Abram‚ a journalist in the Environmental Ethics and a founder of the Alliance for Wild Ethics (AWE)‚ asserts that through the evolution of the human language‚ there is a widening gap in the relationship between humanity and nature. Through the examples of pictographic systems and hieroglyphics‚ Abram suggests that our earliest forms of writing stemmed off of our ecological origins
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Annotation on David Abram David Abram wrote an essay Animism and the Alphabet‚ which is about how alphabets have affected human society. He talks about how alphabets have worked as a differentiation between human and nature. Socrates and Plato are used as his supporting points. I made annotations as I read this piece‚ and there are two lines that captured my interest. They are annotations on “ Without writing‚ knowledge of the diverse properties of particular animals‚ plants and places can be preserved
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Isaiah Graham Farmer ENG 11-940 9/13/2013 A Summary of David Abram’s Animism and the Alphabet David Abram’s selection‚ “Animism and the Alphabet” conveys that human’s disconnection from the natural world is partially at fault with the alphabet‚ it also asserts that alphabet originates from the natural world. Abrams supports his ideas by mentioning several great thinkers throughout history including Plato‚ Socrates and others. Abram’s also compares modern ways to the customs of indigenous
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Annotation’s made from David Abram Animism and the Alphabet In Animism and the Alphabet‚ David Abram‚ founder and creative director of the Alliance for Wild Ethics‚ goes in depth about how writing and the alphabet developed over the years by various groups of people. After annotating the text‚ I was able to consider the arguments presented by David Abram and found myself questioning many of his viewpoints. As I was reading my annotations‚ one that jumped out at me was when I wrote “may not be “true”
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of nature and the ethnocentrism has positioned human beings above all other things. Nature has become resources for people and nothing more than that. David Abram‚ the author of the Ecology of magic‚ travels into the wild‚ traditional land in search of the relation between magic and nature; the meaning nature holds in the traditional cultures. Abram intends to communicate his realization of the magical awareness of the countless nonhuman entities and the necessity of the balance between the human
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The term “animism” is defined as the belief of a life-force existing within non-human forms. In other words‚ according the this idea‚ non-human forms such as thunder‚ rocks and trees are possessed by spirits and souls. The term‚ first developed as “animismus” by chemist/physicist Georg Ernst Stahl in 1832‚ defined as the “doctrine that animal life is produced by an immaterial soul”‚ was reintroduced in 1871 by English anthropologist Sir Edward Burnett Taylor to be defined as the “theory of the
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most importantly form relationships with the people‚animals‚and natural settings around them. However David Abram in Chapter 4 “ Animism and the Alphabet” from his novel The Spell of the Sensuous ‚ brings our attention to the idea that literacy and the process of becoming a species that depends on the written word to communicate has pushed us into the environmental crisis which we encounter today. Abram begins his discussion with a reflection of cultures who used orality as a means of communication and
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“Of Mice and Men” Essay "Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck is a historical fiction play novelette. The novel is about the hardships of living in the Great Depression as a mentally challenged man. Lennie’s death was foreshadowed by what happened in Weed‚ and also by death of Curley’s wife. The ending of the novel is inevitable because of Lennie’s actions or other people’s reactions. George killed him in what he thought was a humane way to die. Lennie’s death was foreshadowed by what happened
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Animism is a name that is directed towards a complex of primitive beliefs that imputes a soul or spirit to all things both animate or inanimate. It is derived from Latin anima which is breath‚ spirit and life. The idea of Animism was derived from one of the earliest anthropological accounts of the origin of religion. Tylor’s theory‚ created by Edward B. Tylor in 1866
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Tylor’s theories to expand on his own. Both anthropologists grew up in strict Protestant households‚ yet later went on to question the nature behind the foundations of religion. E.B. Tylor viewed animism as the heart and foundation of all religion‚ and based many of his speculations from that observation. Animism‚ and consequently religion to Tylor‚
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