Purpose and methodology This document examines the continuum of land rights in the context of a set of existing theories and metaphors of land as property. The document is based on relevant literature, the authorâs research projects and the authorâs participation in a number of workshops.
Stupor is the lack of critical mental function and a level of consciousness wherein a sufferer is almost entirely unresponsive and only responds to base stimuli such as pain. Those in a stuporous state are rigid, mute and only appear to be conscious, as the eyes are open and follow surrounding objects. The word derives from the Latin stupor. Being characterized by impairments to reactions to external stimuli, it usually appears in infectious diseases, complicated toxic states, severe hypothermia
Learner's definition of TORPOR. [singular] formal. : a state of not being active and having very little energy. The news aroused him from his torpor. fall/sink into (a state of) torpor.