Marks are everywhere. On boundary stones they delineate borders and proclaim property ownership. In the form of seals they communicate identity and state authority. Hallmarks and trademarks denote quality and origin. Heraldic devices are used for military organization and to indicate family and clan affiliation. Corporate brand insignia are intended to evoke emotional and experiential associations to stimulate transactions. The scientific study of marks is not a recent or isolated trend, as demonstrated by the studies of traditional marking systems collected in this volume. Nevertheless, mark studies have not yet attained full recognition as a legitimate field of inquiry, while much of the valuable research being conducted proceeds in relative isolation. This collection of research takes us a step forward in addressing the absence of a broad view across disciplines, and provides a preliminary basis for the sharing of information among scholars working around the world.

Traditional Marking Systems: A Preliminary Survey

Politics & Social Sciences

BOARDMAN, JOHN

Digard, Jean-Pierre

Evans Pim, Joám

Yatsenko, Sergey A.

Perrin, Oliver T.

Babayarov, Gaybulla

Baroin, Catherine

Basu, Chandreyi

Bazylkhan, Napil

Chernetsov, Alexey V.

Social Sciences

Dunkling Books

<p>The open challenge to the widespread acceptance of lethality and lethal intent trespasses the limits of an ideology for social change entailing a new scientific model based on the refutation of killing-accepting science. This volume brings together 24 authors and 14 disciplines (Anthropology, Arts, Biology, Economics, Engineering, Geography, Health Sciences, History, Linguistics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology and Sociology) to seriously consider the prospects for the realization of nonkilling societies and to challenge each discipline’s role in the necessary social and scientific transformation.</p>

Toward a Nonkilling Paradigm

Brauer, Jurgen

Younger, Stephen M.

Urbain, Olivier

Sponsel, Leslie E.

Tyner, James

Giorgi, Piero P.

Marlin, Tepper

Haws, David

DeGue, Sarah

Center for Global Nonkilling

This volume arises from a crucial question formulated by political scientist Glenn D. Paige: “Is a Nonkilling Society Possible?” Paige (and much of the evidence brought for-ward in this book) reminds us that nonkilling societies, characterized by no killing of humans and no threats to kill, do exist in spite of having passed largely unnoticed to most of the scientific community. Most authors who are contributing to this volume have been repeating the same crucial fact for decades: killing-free societies, as those imagined by Paige in his book, are not a utopian dream; they are a genuine actuality that has been in existence for millenia. It can probably be said louder but not more clearly. This volume provides firm evidence that the only feasible answer to Paige’s question is undoubtedly affirmative.

Nonkilling Societies

Anthropology

Engineering Nonkilling: Scientific Responsibility and the Advancement of Killing-Free Societies

Wagner, David

Bhaneja, Balwant

Drago, Antonino

Mushtaq, Usman

Nosrat, Amir

Bowen, W. Richard

Patkar, Vivek

D’Ambrosio, Ubiratan

Science & Math

The importance of rethinking media and entertainment from a nonkilling perspective is self-explanatory. In "Nonkilling Global Political Science", Glenn Paige pointed out how violence is "socially learned and culturally reinforced". This social effort is by no means casual or due to some innate taste or demand for violence content historically considered repugnantbut rather, "violent media socialization is useful for a state in need of professional patriotic killers". Nonkilling creativity throuought the ages also shows how a life-enhancing media is possible. At the Center for Global Nonkilling we sincerely hope that the contributions compiled in this volume may help shape an alternative to the lethal ideology that permates media that may enhance the value of life.

Nonkilling Media (Nonkilling Studies)

Nonkilling Spiritual Traditions (Nonkilling Studies)

Tsomo, Karma Lekshe

Cicovacki, Predrag

Allen, Douglas

Dhakal., Pradeep

Te Maiharoa, Kelli

Tanabe, Juichiro

Bothra, Shivani

Philosophy

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