Tolstoy and Music

Tolstoy, Alexandra

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“…6.8). Paul Tolstoy and Brigitte Chevalier are completing a quantitative seriation based on a broad range of coded observations, which include attributes of temper and firing applicable to all recovered pottery, however featureless or eroded (Ford and Willey 1949;Phillips, Ford, and Griffin 1951;Evans, Meggers, and Estrada 1965;Tolstoy 1958Tolstoy , 1989.5).…”

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An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Tolstoy¹,

DeBoer²

1989

Journal of Field Archaeology

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inventory of its archaeological resources, to organize the recovered evidence into a chronological framework, and to identify major trends through time in environmental conditions, settlement patterns, diet, technology, exchange activities, and any other recoverable aspects of prehistoric human behavior in the region. We believe such an agenda is the prerequisite for the proper definition and pursuit of more narrowly formulated problems.Several preexisting questions were kept in mind in the course of this work. These determined the nature of some of the evidence sought and the manner in which it was assessed. One very large problem relevant to this area is that of the time depth of Tropical Forest culture, as defined by Steward (1949: 698-710), on Ecuador's coastal plain generally. Another broad question is that of the constraints that may have limited sociopolitical evolution in the northern Andean area. More specific questions include the origins of the present occupants (the Chachi or Cayapa) of the region, the nature of the settlement system of which La Tolita was a part, and the character of earliest sedentary life in the region.1. The work was funded by grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and from the Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide a la Recherche (FCAR) of the Province of Quebec. Brigitte Chevalier, Line Rigazio, and Daniel Poulin, students from the Universite de Montreal, and Elka Weinstein, a student from York University, assisted in this work. Sara Stinson, although pursuing investigations of her own in physical anthropology, also managed to donate considerable and much appreciated effort to our project. Jorge D. Marcos, sub-director of the Instituto Nacional de Patrimonio Cultural del Ecuador for the coastal region, made our work possible by granting the necessary permit and by his unstinting help and support thereafter. Esmeraldas Province in northern Ecuador has long been known as the location of the coastal site of La Tolita) at the mouth of the Santiago River. The rainforest interior of this area) howevet; remained archaeologically unexplored until recently. The work reported in this article should eventually help us better understand both the phenomenon of La Tolita and the broader trends of development on Ecuadors coastal plain) an area notable for its early evidence of village farming and of a Tropical Forest way oflift. Thus fat; more than 80 sites have been located in the Santiago-Cayapas basin) and 6 of them have been tested by excavation. The ceramic sequence consists of six major phases) each of which can be characterized in terms of its material remains) settlement patterns) and links with other regions.Ongoing studies of pollen) phytoliths) and macro botanical remains indicate a rainforest environment over the last two millennia) as well as the cultivation of maize in at least two early phases. Ceramics suggest regional persistence and then decline of a La Tolita-like complex some two centuries after the apparent demise of La T...

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An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

Tolstoy¹,

DeBoer²

1989

Journal of Field Archaeology

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“…87 Moreover, he adamantly rejects state sponsorship of the arts, which he likens to military spending and condemns as just as detrimental to human life as war. 88 In Tolstoy's view, most artists waste their potential acquiring useless skills to please authority, sacrificing their time, energy, and intelligence to what is effectively an aesthetic industrial complex. Tolstoy had no patience for pomp and circumstance, even less for the egos of Great Men.…”

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If Books Could Kill: Leo Tolstoy and the Cultural Cold War

Kaufman¹

2023

American Quarterly

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or readers accustomed to the explosion-laden, big-screen adaptations of James Bond, Ian Fleming's fifth novel, From Russia with Love (1957), ends somewhat unexpectedly-with a literal battle of books. The climax finds 007 on the Orient Express in the company of Tatiana Romanova, an apparent Russian defector who has helped him acquire a decoding device from the Soviet consulate in Istanbul. In Trieste, the pair are joined by a man claiming to be a fellow British agent sent from London to aid their escape. In actuality, he is Donovan "Red" Grant (a.k.a. Krassno Granitski), a merciless assassin sent by SMERSH, the counterintelligence branch of Soviet state security, and he is packing a deadly firearm disguised as a copy of War and Peace. After secretly drugging Romanova and luring Bond into a false sense of security, Grant holds the agent at gunpoint and reveals SMERSH's devious plan to discredit and murder the famous British spy. As the train enters the tunnel at Simplon Pass, Grant fires, but the bullet is blocked by Bond's gunmetal cigarette case, which he has cleverly shoved into his copy of Eric Ambler's 1939 thriller The Mask of Dimitrios. In the ensuing scuffle, 007 manages to kill the Soviet assassin with the villain's own weaponized War and Peace-death by Tolstoy. 1 Fleming had a fascination with book-guns and their ironic commentary on the relationship between culture and violence. We learn in Goldfinger (1959) that Bond keeps his Walther PPK in hollowed-out volume titled The Bible Designed to Be Read as Literature, 2 a Good Book clearly not meant for good deeds. Similarly, the great Russian tome serves as a useful device. For one, it is huge; an agent could easily bludgeon an opponent with even the flimsiest of Dover Thrift Editions. Its girth also makes it ideal for concealing an explosive charge. On a figurative level, of course, the novel is a heavy-handed cultural cipher. Michael Denning points out that "[this] scene is not only a virtuoso Bond ending but is also an amusing allegory of a wider battle of books, with the plucky English thriller besting the powerful Russian work of literature." 3 There is, however, more than political allegory at work here. The [44.224.250.200] Project MUSE (2024-07-15 01:36 GMT)

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Государственно-правовое регулирование импорта вин и винной торговли в Российской империи в XVIII веке (State and Legal Regulation of Imports of Wines and the Wine Trade in the Russian Empire in the 18th Century)

Shkunov

2011

SSRN Journal

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Tolstoy and Music

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An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

An Archaeological Sequence for the Santiago-Cayapas River Basin, Esmeraldas, Ecuador

If Books Could Kill: Leo Tolstoy and the Cultural Cold War

Государственно-правовое регулирование импорта вин и винной торговли в Российской империи в XVIII веке (State and Legal Regulation of Imports of Wines and the Wine Trade in the Russian Empire in the 18th Century)

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