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HILL-FORTS FROM THE LATE BRONZE AGE AND THE EARLY IRON AGE IN POMERANIA: AN OVERLOOKED PROBLEM
Get PDFAlthough hill-forts from the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age associated with Lusatian culture appear in vast areas of modern Poland, they are absent in Pomerania beside the Lower Oder region. This scarcity is surprising, especially taking into account the relatively numerous appearances of hill-forts in Greater Poland, the region directly neighbouring Pomerania to the south. On the other hand, investigations conducted in the 1960s and 1970s to verify Pomeranian hill-forts described as originating from the Early Medieval and Medieval periods resulted in the detection of at least a dozen sites with material from the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. The aim of this paper is to present the problem of the supposed presence of Lusatian culture hill-forts in the central part of Polish Pomerania. It is highly probable that this kind of settlement played an important role in interregional contacts between eastern and western parts of Pomerania, together with Greater Poland and probably also Nordic Bronze Age zones. In a wider perspective, their role in the course and working of the Amber Road at the end of the Bronze Age should also be taken into account and investigated. It seems that new tools available for archaeologists, like Lidar data, modern geophysics and aerial photography, may provide new openings and new perspectives on research into this case study.Key words: Central Pomerania, Lusatian culture, Late Bronze Age, Early Iron Age, hill-forts, fortified settlements, trade/exchange routes, archaeological cartography.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/ab.v24i0.156
LITHUANIAN PATERNAL HEALTH BEHAVIOR: ALCOHOL AND RELIGION
Get PDFThis paper explores the relationship between paternal religious affiliation, practice, and health behavior, namely consumption of alcohol. This research models alcohol consumption as an aggregate sum of weekly glasses of wine, 50 ml vodka shots, half-liter bottles of beer, and cocktails. The model includes religious confession among other independent variables including self-reported health status. In confessional comparison, the largest fraction, Catholic, is the reference category opposite Orthodox, Protestant, Other non-affiliated believers and Atheist. Significantly, Other believers and Lithuanian Protestants consumed significantly more alcohol than Catholic respondents. A unit increase in prayer or religious reading did not significantly predict a change in alcohol consumption. However a unit increase in weekly work hours significantly decreases alcohol consumption in contrast to a unit increase in time spent with children. Higher consumption is associated with lower self-reported health status.KEY WORDS: consumption of alcohol, health, religion
DĖSTYTOJŲ VEIKLOS SOCIALINĖS REPREZENTACIJOS STRUKTŪRA IR JOS DINAMIKA STUDENTŲ POŽIŪRIU
Get PDFThis article presents findings of the study on the structure of social representation of lecturers’ activities and their dynamics on the basis of the credibility of a source of information. The study is sought to find out what constitutes central and peripheral elements of social representation of lecturers’ activities in view of survey participants (undergraduate programme students of Klaipėda University), whether the said elements change upon reliable and unreliable sources of information, and what determines potential dynamics of elements of the representation. Answers to the above questions will significantly help to understand lecturer-student relationships, to change negative or adverse communication attitudes into positive ones. Insights of this study can be applied in lecturers’ activities so as to better understand today’s students, a role of lecturers, formation of positive attitudes in students towards lecturers’ activities and communication.KEY WORDS: lecturers’ activity, social representation, central and peripheral elements, dynamics of the representation, credibility of information.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/tbb.v76i1.151
Проявления социальной идентичности в традиционной одежде украинской мелкой шляхты в ХІХ – первой половине ХХ в.
Get PDFManifestations of social identity in traditional dressing of the Ukrainian petty gentry in the 19th – the first half of the 20th centuries are reflected in the article by Ukrainian ethnologist Oleksandr Vasianovych (Олександр Олександрович Васянович). In the analysis of traditional clothes, it is considered some of the features of social identity of the Ukrainian petty gentry. It was revealed that the gentry borrowed some elements of another ethnic and urban culture in order to stand out among the peasants.Key words: Ukrainian gentry, traditional clothes, social identity, Polissya, Galicia
Информационные технологии в сохранении культурного наследия населения, пострадавшего от Чернобыльской катастрофы
Get PDFThe presented here article by Ukrainian cultural heritage researchers Vitaliy Borovyk (Віталій Володимирович Боровик) and Rostyslav Omeliashko (Ростислав Андрійович Омеляшко) highlights the use of state and identified areas for further implementation of modern information technology to solve the problem of saving the cultural heritage of the region affected by the Chоrnobyl catastrophe.Key words: information technology, cultural heritage, the Chоrnobyl catastrophe
Moksleivių šimtadienio tradicijos XX a. – XXI a. pradžioje
Get PDFThis article analyzes traditions of students’ 100 days party during 1924–2015 years. Article is based on the material of the interwar period schools chronicles that were written during the Soviet period, student journal material, collected memories of students and teachers that helped reveal the features of 100 days’ party attributes and identify fundamental changes of this celebration in 90 years.Key words: students’ holidays, 100 days’ party, graduates, songs, gifts, calendars
Monografija apie akustinius tradicinės muzikos tyrimus anglų kalba
Get PDFŽvelgiant iš „tradicinės“ muzikologijos taško, fizikos, akustikos metodų taikymas lietuvių tradicinės muzikos tyrimams gali pasirodyti lyg ir nebūtinas, abejotinas. Ar reikia tiksliai matuoti ir lyginti liaudies melodijų intervalus, jei dainininkai dainuoja apytikriai, „iš klausos“, ar verta centų tikslumu parodyti kažkokius nukrypimus, apie kuriuos jie net nesusimąsto? Etnomuzikologijoje tokios abejonės išsklaidytos jau prieš gerą šimtmetį – galima sakyti, jau pati etnomuzikologija (tada lyginamoji muzikologija) prasidėjo nuo Alexanderio Elliso akustinių muzikos darnų matavimų. Šis anglų mokslininkas tuometiniais labai paprastais prietaisais, akustiniais dažnių matavimais nustatė, kad „muzikinė darna yra ne vienintelė, ne „natūralioji“, netgi nebūtinai grįsta muzikinio garso sandaros dėsniais... bet labai įvairi, labai dirbtinė ir labai nepastovi“ („On the musical scale of various nations“, 1885). Taigi akustiniai metodai ne tik padeda atskleisti klausa nesuvokiamus ar sunkiai apibrėžiamus reiškinius, bet ir patikrinti muzikos teorijos hipotezes, paradigmas, iš klausos iliuzijų kylančius teiginius. Tai patvirtina ir Ryčio Ambrazevičiaus, Roberto Budrio ir Irenos Višnevskos monografija Scales in Lithuanian traditional music: acoustics, cognition, and contexts (Kauno technologijos universitetas, 2015), jau apdovanota Lietuvos kompozitorių sąjungos ir Kauno technologijos universiteto premijomis. Autorių kolektyvo darbus galima palyginti su klimato pokyčių stebėjimais, kasmet atliekamais matavimais, atskleidžiančiais nedidelius temperatūros pokyčius
Фонографические записи народной музыки в архивах Киева
Get PDFThe article by Ukrainian ethnomusicologist Iryna Dovhalyuk (Ірина Довгалюк) analyzes collections of phonographical cylinders with records of folk melodies in Kyiv archives. The first collection, which includes 270 wax phonographical cylinders with records of Ukrainian folk music, is kept in the archive funds with manuscripts and phonograms at M. Rylskyi Institute for Art Criticism, Folklore Studies and Ethnography. The second one, which represents 1017 cylinders with samples of traditional Jewish culture, is stored in the archive of the Jewish department at V. Vernadskyi National Library of Ukraine and is considered to be one of the biggest archive collections of phonograms with the Jewish folklore. The given paper explores formation of the above-mentioned collections, dates, authors and places of recording, whether there are copies of the given phonograms, etc.Key words: archive of phonograms, phonographing folk music, Ukrainian folklore, Jewish folklore, digitalization of phonographical cylinders.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/td.v12i0.155
Песни закликания весны на Среднем Полесье
Get PDFThe aim of the article by Ukrainian ethnomusicologist Marharyta Skazhenyk (Маргарита Скаженик) is to give the reader with some information on singing traditions of early spring of the Middle Polissya. It was recorded by the author in folklore expeditions of the 1990–2000s. Author presents the spring songs (‘zaklychka’ – song for invitations of the Spring), with most widespread forms of rhythm (this songs based diamb and with verse 5+4, 5+5, 4+4+6, 4+3+3 and 4+3), ritual context of these melodies (if the information about it was possible to fix), calendar period of singing, subjects and functional load. In conclusion the gives description of the condition the spring singing traditions in the period of the end of the 20th – the beginning of the 21st centuries.Keywords: Middle Polissya, spring song ‘vesnyanka’, Spring evocation song ‘zaklychka’, spring meeting rites, rhythmic form.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/td.v12i0.154
(Review) Lietuvos karai: Lietuvos XIX–XX a. nacionalinių karų sisteminė-kiekybinė analizė. Sud. Gediminas VITKUS. Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2014. – 304 p. ISBN 978-609-437-250-6
No full textBook review Lietuvos karai: Lietuvos XIX–XX a. nacionalinių karų sisteminė-kiekybinė analizė. Sud. Gediminas VITKUS. Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2014. – 304 p. ISBN 978-609-437-250-6 = Wars of Lithuania. A Systematic Quantitative Analysis of Lithuania’s Wars in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. Ed. by Gediminas VITKUS. Vilnius: Eugrimas, 2014. – 320 pp. ISBN 978-609-437-275-