Katia winter biography of mahatma
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Ethics/Nonkilling/Anthropology
Introduction
[edit | edit source]- This Course is based mainly on "Reflections on the Possibilities of a Nonkilling Society and a Nonkilling Anthropology", chapter prepared by Professor Leslie E. Sponsel (University of Hawaiʻi) for Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm (Honolulu: Center for Global Nonkilling, 2009). The Course is part of the Interdisciplinary Program on Nonkilling Studies at the School of Nonkilling Studies.
Is a nonkilling society possible? What are the possibilities of a nonkilling political science? These are the two elemental, central, and pivotal questions that Glenn D. Paige (2002) raises and explores in his ground breaking book which is generating a quiet but accelerating and far-reaching revolution in theory and praxis throughout the world (Bhaneja 2008, http://www.globalnonviolence.org). The present essay addresses these two questions and related matters from one anthropologist’s perspective and cites some of the extensive l
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Henri Cartier-Bresson
French photographer (1908–2004)
Henri Cartier-Bresson | |
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Henri in 1972 | |
| Born | (1908-08-22)22 August 1908 Chanteloup-en-Brie, France |
| Died | 3 August 2004(2004-08-03) (aged 95) Céreste, France |
| Burial place | Montjustin, France |
| Alma mater | Lycée Condorcet, Paris |
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| Spouses | Ratna Mohini (m. 1937; div. 1967) |
| Children | 1 |
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Henri Cartier-Bresson (French:[ɑ̃ʁikaʁtjebʁɛsɔ̃]; 22 August 1908 – 3 August 2004) was a French artist and humanist photographer considered a mästare of candid photography, and an early user of 35mm film.[1] He pioneered the genre of street photography, and viewed photography as capturing a decisive moment.[2][3]
Cartier-Bresson was one of the founding members of Magnum Photos in 1947.[4] In the 1970s, he largely[clarification needed] discontinued his photograp