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Figures from the Houston, Tex Census Bur are utilized in a study of death rates among the local Spanish pop. 1949-1950 is taken as the base yr. 3 tables present: (1) Age-Sex Specific Death Rates for Anglo-White & Spanish-Surname Pop (per 1,000 pop), (2) Standardized Death Rates by Sex for Anglo-White & Spanish-Surname Pop for Selected Causes of Death, (3) Life Expectancies for total/sum White & Spanish-Surname Pop. Factors contributing to the unfavorable mortality of Latin Amer F's include cultural emphasis on modesty, which may deter them from seeking Med assistance, greater readiness to accept, & general cultural resignation. Need for further res is stressed esp re role definition & diff'ial acquisition of Anglo culture. L. Tumin.

Confusion and Search for Gods -- 1. Obscurities in Man's World -- 2. Cabin on the Nechako -- 3. The General Method of the Present Book -- I. Early Man's World -- 1. Modern Specialization and Mythical Wholeness -- 2. The Theocentric or Enthusiastic World -- 3. Enthusiasm in the Mythical World -- 4. Man's Mortality -- II. Gods -- 1. Gods and the Ancient Way of Life -- 2. Nature and Gods -- 3. Gods and the Human World -- 4. Nature and Concealment -- 5. The Play of Gods -- III. Nature and Man -- 1. The Solidity of the Ancient World -- 2. Western Philosophy -- 3. Things and Gods -- 4. Godlessness -- 5. Freedom -- 6. Christianity -- IV. Man and Animals -- 1. Nature, the Ever-Hidden -- 2. Technology and Nature -- 3. Some Traits of Animal Life -- 4. Culture and Nature's Play -- 5. Animal and Human Societies -- 6. Wisdom -- 7. Wisdom and Gods -- 8. The Godliness of Things and Animals -- V. Culture -- 1. Cult — Co-play with Gods -- 2. Man's Responsive Attitude in Cults -- 3. Man's Erring -- 4. Man in Nature's Play -- 5. Contemporary and Mythical Man -- 6. Language -- 7. Man's Guilt -- 8. Spatio-Temporal Play -- 9. The Relativity of Culture -- VI. The Greatness of Man -- 1. The Wail of a Dead Tree -- 2. The Event of Philosophy -- 3. Rational and Transcendental Ethics -- 4. Great Men -- 5. Opinions -- 6. Freedom -- 7. Mediation between Gods and Men -- 8. The Encumbrance of Lordly Dwelling in Contemporary Times -- VII. Death -- 1. Death-Birth -- 2. Death of Gods -- 3. Death and Time -- 4. Holy and Profane Things -- 5. Death and Language -- VII. Reincarnation -- 1. The Dioscuri Brothers -- 2. Karmic Guilt -- 3. The Accomplishment of Man's Mission -- 4. Man's Fidelity to Himself -- 5. Man's Life — Participation in Nature's Life -- 6. Animism -- 7. The Dream -- 8. Inner Life -- 9. Freedom to Guilt -- Conclusive Note.

Death ritual offers a primary channel for the study of values and general life orientation. As a series of complex symbol sets, each of which has multiple referrents, it clarifies and reinforces relationships among the living as well as between living and dead. An analytical example is taken from the Aymara. Each symbol set is described in terms of its relationship to manifest function, social structure, ecology, dogma, and other ceremonies. The most consistently reinforced attitude is found to be that of negativistic fatalism. This tends to confirm much that has already been written about the Aymara, and, when combined with brief examinations of death ritual in other cultures, argues for the rite's plasticity, and therefore its analytical usefulness.

In our January issue we announced Mr. Martin Bodmer's resignation from the ICRC, of which he had been a member since 1940, and his election to honorary membership. Now we have regretfully to inform our readers of Mr. Bodmer's death on 22 March 1971. We have already summarized Mr. Bodmer's important work for the Committee over many years. During the funeral, Mr. M. A. Naville, ICRC President, delivered an address; the extracts which are quoted below express better than any other comment the significance of this loss for the International Committee:The International Committee of the Red Cross also is in mourning. With Martin Bodmer's death it loses a companion of thirty years' standing, a colleague and a friend who, throughout that long period, ceaselessly offered the institution the resources of his culture, loyalty and goodwill and who always assumed his share of the Committee's responsibilities.

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The world of Southeast Asian scholarship has suffered an immeasurable loss with the death in October 1969 of Professor George Coedès, the undisputed doyen of those who have studied the early history of the region. In a lifetime of scholarly activity, beginning with the publication of his first article on the early history of Cambodia in 1904, Professor Coedès prepared a rich heritage for those who seek to understand the intricacies of the history and culture of the Indianised states of Southeast Asia.

The relative stability of many rates of suicide, particularly those of national groups, has for a long time been of interest to sociologists. Durkheim (1952), an early and major writer on suicide, used the fact of relative stability as an argument for the existence of a social dimension to individuals' actions, even such an apparently personal action as suicide (Cresswell, 1972). Durkheim argued that each nation had a collective tendency towards suicide such that, providing the circumstances of the nation did not change in any essential way, its suicide rate also would not change. His followers, taking this sort of position as given, have related suicide rates to components of social structure or culture of the groups to which the rates refer (e.g. Gibbs & Martin, 1964). Such a procedure implies a relationship, not necessarily a specifically causal one, between suicide and the various aspects of society with which it is correlated. For the procedure to be potentially valid two major conditions must hold good. The first is that the aggregate numbers of 'suicides' which are used to compile suicide rates do actually represent the real number of suicidal deaths in a given population over a given period of time. This pre-supposes, of course, that some deaths have defining characteristics in their manner of occurrence which clearly demarcate them as suicide; given this, the problem is one of identification rather than of definition. The second condition is that since suicide rates are compiled from individual deaths, it should be possible to posit, if not actually demon-strate, a relationship between the social or cultural influences which are supposed to generate stable rates of suicide and the individual instances of suicide.

My aim in this lecture shall be to situate the world of color within the traditional context of the Islamic culture of Persia; to explore the conceptual motivations that provoked its intense crystallization and saturation during the Safavid era; and to ultimately follow this world of color as it is annihilated into nothingness within the presence of Absolute Light. We will therefore witness the conceptual birth, life and death of color as a cyclical yet timeless, metaphysical expression of the Absolute within the world of phenomenal forms.Tis light makes color visible; at nightRed, green and russet vanish from thy sight.So too the light by their contraries are shown.From the dark jungle as a lion brightColor from the viewless Spirit leaps to light.Rūmī