Ricerc@Sapienza

This paper considers Claude Perrault’s views on animal language
and cognition, one of the leader members of the early Parisian Académie
royale des Sciences, where comparative anatomy emerged in the late seventeenth
century. Perrault rejects both the Cartesian hypothesis of beasts as
mere automata and of the Pineal Gland as siège de l’âme within the human
brain. He conceives the animal soul as an immaterial and cognitive agent
spread in the whole body, involved in the functional regulation of the all life

Scope of the present paper is to draw attention to the ethnic and cultural complexity in the Jawf region (Northern Yemen) during the 1st millennium BCE. The analysis will concentrate in particular into some linguistic and cultural traits that characterize the documentation that is traditionally associated with the tribe of Amīr, which is generally considered to be installed in Southern Arabia only during the end of the 1st millennium BCE.

The publication, financed from the founds of the Jagiellonian University Faculty of Management and Social Communication, aims at a multidisciplnaty and international recognition of some of the most recent trends in the studies in Communication; Language, Literature and Philosophy; Geography and Urban Planning; History; Law.