This is an interesting idea: that xtian #patriarchal control of #women especially attacked and belittled or shamed use of #cosmetics. This was particularly in the heritage of the #puritans but here the author argues it developed much earlier.
The very word 'cosmetic' in English connotes superficial, shallow, trivial. Yet the classical Greek etymology connects to a notion of beauty underpinning a morally ordered universe -- cosmos, cosmology. This is a concept frequently found in #Indigenous thinking.
Since our #FemaleCosmeticCoalitions theory argues for women's #ritual use of #bodypaint as fundamental to human #symbolic#culture, we think this suppression of body art is a likely pathway to patriarchy. Where women have power and freedom, they use cosmetics and adornment -- especially in solidarity -- to express that.
This article analyses #taphonomic bias in the #archaeological record of #symbolic artefacts to check if there really was a big increase around 45,000 years. They find there was. But they also acknowledge the jump of habitual #ochre use in ritual c.160,000 yrs. That's the launching of the symbolic revolution, in our view
I've had to pause my #ThickTrunkTuesday mini-series on the social life of trees for the holidays, restarting in September. But today I want to post one tree that has been on everyone's mind since last week, #Lahaina's much loved #Banyan tree. One of the thickest trunks around! All the emotion about this tree shows just how #symbolic trees are for humans. Along with everyone else, I really hope it survived the fire.
Just learning #Python... it doesn't have constants? Really? And you're supposed to simulate them by using a naming convention? You're kidding me, right?
Not sure exactly what you're getting at; there are various approaches. If you want #symbolic#constants, use the enum module/base class, and you can have constants of any flavour you like, protected from assignment. It's in the standard library and highly recommended.
If, on the other hand, you're trying to protect the user from themselves, you can create an #object that represents a #value but which resists changing value - but you can't prevent the user assigning to a name.
The evil queen, the evil mother. The one who can't stand the time of her beauty passing.
In the brothers Grimm version I own the queen asks „Mirror mirror tell me...” there's no wall mentioned so I decided to go with Heather Pollington interpretation which is very #symbolic for our times.