Roberto Santos

3rd Period

Annotated Bibliography


1. Bernstein, Anaya. "Religious Bodies Politic: Rituals of Sovereignty in Buryat Buddhism."
Scribd. UChicago Press,
1 Nov. 2013. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo16552160.html

In this article the author is trying to send out a message of relationship between transnational
religion and politics from the Buddhist population. Also it talks about the rapid social change and
the fall of the Soviet Union also, it tries to show the key point of political change on religious
people.
2. Dean, Cornelia. "Groups Call for Scientists To Engage the Body Politic." The New York
Times. The New York Times, 8 Aug. 2011. Web. 19 Apr.
2014.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09emily.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0>.

This artile on Science and the body politic talks and shows how the public life in America is
completely absent. What the author message is trying to get at how unknowleged of the science
in their nation and how it affects them. Also the government wants more scientist to join the
government in order to have a say in how the laws work.
3. FASSIN, DIDIER. "ETHICS OF SURVIVAL: A DEMOCRATIC APPROACH TO THE
POLITICS OF LIFE." . N.p., 11 Jan. 2004. Web. 1 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.humanityjournal.org/humanity-volume-1-issue-1/ethics-survival-democratic-
approach-politics-life>.
In the web article the message Fassin wants to get out is that the basic of how humans work and
what needs they need in order to Biologically survive. Also as a 1
st
point of view of how survival
on war is he explains what and how you need to do in order to stay in this world. He also states
that the social sciences have largely drawn from these two repertoires: the former has
been used to comprehend the government of populations and human beings; the latter
has nourished the sociology and anthropology of sciences and techniques.
4. McMahon, Mary, and O. Wallace. "." WiseGeek.
Conjecture, 29 Mar. 2014. Web. . <http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-the-body-politic.htm>.

This is a straight to the point article on the body politic and how it works and what it is. He tries
to inform you on how you can use the body politic in order to get past the point of understanding
it and using in your way. They also mention on how body politics talks about how societies must
function as a whole not only as individuals. Stressing the point of how church itself is used as a
body politic and emphasizing the interconnected nature of god and church.
5. ROCHOWANSKI, ALMUT . "Civil war, secession and the body politic | open Democracy."
open Democracy. N.p., 7 Mar. 2014. Web. 17 Apr. 2014. <http://www.opendemocracy.net/od-
russia/almut-rochowanski/civil-chechnya-society-war-secession-and-body-politic>.
Almut talks about how a community based on closness and informal ties abstract norms for
governing organized groups. He also mentions all of Russians informal army and how the get
troops in either the easy war or hard way. He talks about a club and how a small organization
can change a whole country. In his conclusion he mentions how everything need to have a need
for rules.
6. "The Body Politic." - Tools Ideas
Environment. N.p., n.d. Web. 17
Apr. 2014. http://www.wholeearth.com/issue/2098/article/91/the.body.politic#

This Body politic meantions how family plays an important role in and how a nation as a family
is a part of the government and how they act as parents. In there use of metaphors they
compare and contrast how real life parents and how the government way of being our own
parents control and being strict is. They try to make a point by showing you how all the family
members help each other out and how that can happen if we treat and respect each other
parents.

7. Warman, Tyler . "The American Body Politic." California Political Review. N.p., 30 Mar.
2014. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
<http://www.capoliticalreview.com/top-stories/the-american-body-politic/>.
They talk about how the constitution make the United states how it is and how it works. They
talk about the history and how the United Kingdom had us and how our Founding Fathers
changed this nation to what it is now and how we can still keep it as a nation as they imaged it
would be.
8. "When the Body Politic Ceases To Be an Idea | Manifesta Journal." When the
Body Politic Ceases To Be an Idea | Manifesta Journal. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Apr. 2014.
They talk about how disaster that the mere fact that based on religion, nationality, gender or race
and that not all governed are recognized as people. It talks about how to reconstruct a civil link
among sense data and what people do and experience the system of words and notions that serve
them as the exist and act. American social compact can be seen through the efforts to make a
legitimate government for the people and maintained by the people. They also talk about how the
American body politic can only exist as long as the governments duties to the people and the
protection of our rights never falter.