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Siran Deraniyagala’s Contribution to Maritime Archaeology in Sri Lanka
Get PDFThis appreciation of Siran Deraniyagala traces certain steps taken, which promoted and established maritime archaeology in Sri Lanka. He made the Archaeological Impact Assessment (AIA) of a project for Galle Harbour possible by expanding the mandate of the Archaeology Department to cover the territorial sea, thus providing the Department with oversight and statutory control over this vast area. He made it possible for the Department to conduct such surveys even when it lacked specialists in its own cadre and freed the Department from having recourse to supplementary votes for non-budgeted activities by making the project proponents bear the cost of AIAs. The significant impact Deraniyagala had on Maritime Archaeology of Sri Lanka is described and gratefully acknowledged
The Pioneer who Ushered a New Era in Sri Lankan Archaeology: Siran Upendra Deraniyagala
Get PDFIn this appreciation written in Sinhala, the practical, team-oriented, detailed, organized and intuitive approach of Siran Deraniyagla’s archaeological excavations and surveys is described. Stories from the field and rare images are presented herein, demonstrating how Deraniyagala led by example
Megalithic Cemeteries and Land Use in the Yān Oya River Basin of Sri Lanka
Get PDFMegalithism is a cultural phenomenon associated with mortuary rituals. Societies that practise megalithism construct burials and memorials using stone slabs in memory of the dead as a form of ancestor worship. Archaeological evidence shows that the remains of these cultural practices that originated during the Neolithic period, occur in various geographical zones around the globe. Across peninsular southern India and Sri Lanka megalithism is observed, reflecting the cultural identity of Early Protohistoric-Iron Age communities of South Asia and practised even today, in certain parts of India. In Sri Lanka, the Yān Oya macro region of the North Central Dry plains is a geographical region where megalithism is prevalent and visible on the landscape. Megalithic groups appear to have widely dispersed across the Yān Oya river basin from the early quarter of the 1st millennium BCE to the early quarter of the 1st millennium CE with their adaptive strategy contributing to the formation of the cultural landscape of the region. In this paper, the megalithic cultural complex in the Yān Oya macroregion is discussed using evidence from archaeological surveys and excavations, with a focus on territorial expansion, resource exploitation and land use pattern. Archaeological evidence points to a series of three patterns or phases where the megalithic community in the region developed from a nomadic or semi nomadic pastoral subsistence to a sedentary village based agro-pastoral subsistence
Boyhood Masculinity and Violence: How Toys and Sporting Equipment Taught Young Men Violence in Canada, 1900-1950: Boyhood Masculinity and Violence
No full textIn this essay I discuss the subject of violence and how toys and sporting equipment were used to teach young boys masculine behaviours that were aligned with the heterosexual ideologies of the first half of the 20th century in Canada
« L’ombre d’Imana » ou "l’expérience du dire" du génocide au Rwanda
Get PDFÉcrit en 2000 « L’ombre d’Imana » de Véronique Tadjo invite à penser la relation témoignage-littérature dans le cadre du génocide des Tutsi du Rwanda. Si l’œuvre illustre bien qu’écrire l’expérience génocidaire est possible, son écriture hétéroclite lui confère un statut difficilement classable qui démontre la complexité d’une telle entreprise, notamment au sein de l’espace littéraire qui relève de la fabulation. « L’ombre d’Imana » fait partie des premiers textes écrits par des écrivains qui n’ont pas vécu directement le drame et son éclatement reflète les tentatives de circonscrire un événement traumatique qui semble pousser l’imagination et le langage à (et hors de) leurs limites. Si le texte réaffirme donc la posture engagée de l’auteure, il illustre surtout « l’expérience du dire » (Ngandu 2011) qu’engendre le génocide qui suppose tout un travail de façonnage du discours.
Comment l’auteure, en tant que témoin « tiers » (Coquio 2004), représente-t-elle ce temps de violence extrême ? Comment transmet-elle la mémoire des victimes et par quelles stratégies littéraires, esthétiques et discursives rend-elle son témoignage percutant dans l’optique d’une transmission crédible et convaincante ? En nous focalisant sur le jeu entre le factuel et le fictionnel, entre autres, cet article explore la transformation artistique de son témoignage visant un choix des meilleures façons de dire les faits
Acknowledgements
Get PDFAcknowledgements of contributors to the Behavioural Sciences Undergraduate Journal Volume 3, Issue 1
Front Matter
Get PDFThe Mount Royal Undergraduate Humanities Review (MRUHR) is an online, student-run, annual journal of undergraduate research in the Humanities. The MRUHR invites submissions from Mount Royal University students of essays or other kinds of intellectual work appropriate for an online journal that are relevant to the subjects taught by the Mount Royal Department of Humanities (History, Philosophy, Women’s Studies, Gender Studies, Religious Studies, Indigenous Studies, Canadian Studies, or Art History)
Turning the Tables: Involving Undergrads as Researchers in SoTL
Get PDFWe report on the experience of working on a research project where students and faculty worked together as peers. The project investigated the challenges and enablers that helped or hindered faculty engage in SoTL work, and what might help encourage their colleagues to engage. The findings were instrumental in identifying components for a guide for SoTL. The findings from the study have been published elsewhere. In this paper we report on the experience of two undergraduate students who took a central role guided by experienced researchers, in collating, coding and analyzing the results, and of two experienced researchers. We share a brief overview of the project and its outcomes, provide detail of the involvement of the students and hear from them and the researchers about the experience of taking part in the project. The findings from both the original study and the student experiences will be of interest to others interested in work in this field