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Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment is a 2005 ethnographic study of Vita, a Brazilian center for those abandoned by their families, written by anthropologist João Biehl during his fieldwork there from 1995–2003. [1]
The stories in The Jungle Book were inspired in part by the ancient Indian fable texts such as the Panchatantra and the Jataka tales. [7] For example, an older moral-filled mongoose and snake version of the "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi" story by Kipling is found in Book 5 of Panchatantra. [8] In a letter to the American author Edward Everett Hale, Kipling ...
Abandonment is a term often used by mystic and ascetic writers to signify the first stage of the union of the soul with God by conforming to God's will, [1] for example in the work of Jean Pierre de Caussade, Abandonment to Divine Providence:
Jean Pierre de Caussade (7 March 1675 – 8 December 1751) was a French Jesuit priest and writer. He is especially known for the work ascribed to him known as Abandonment to Divine Providence, and also his work with the Nuns of the Visitation in Nancy, France.
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Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (titled Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive for the British edition) is a 2005 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author first defines collapse: "a drastic decrease in human population size and/or political/economic/social complexity, over a considerable area, for an extended time."
Child abandonment may lead to the permanent loss of parental rights of the parents. [7] Some states allow for reinstatement of the parental rights, with about half of the states in the US having had laws for this purpose. [8] [9] Perpetrators can also be charged with reckless abandonment if victims die as a result of their actions or neglect. [10]