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    Reflexion des Beitrags von Birgit Kynast

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    Mirror Landing - As Remembered by Birgit Hult

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    Notes - This account, Memories Mirror Landing by Birgit Hult, was compiled by Birgit's daughter, Jean Elvira Male, it documents the Hult family's experiences in Mirror Landing from 1912 - 1916. The Hults, who were originally from Sweden, arrived in Mirror Landing with two young children, a third child was born during their stay in Mirror Landing. Upon arriving in the area, the Hults made friends with the Gauthier family. The wives became good friends and would swap piano lessons for English lessons. Details of the log home where the family lived and the surrounding landscape were recalled. A memory about a large forest fire that occurred near the family home and dances that were attended in the town are discussed. Jean recalls her mother's memories regarding the animosity towards the North West Mounted Police that was felt by the people of Mirror Landing. The Hult family retained a strong connection to the Swedish heritage and practised many Swedish traditions, such as flying the Swedish flag and eating hot cross buns stuffed with Swedish Marzipan soaked in warm milk. Photos and a postcard written in 1915 are included in this article (10 pages

    Reflexion des Beitrags von Birgit Kynast

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    Knowing Through Popular Music in the Western Pacific Island World

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    Pacific Indigenous scholars have long emphasized the role of relationality for Pacific Islanders’ epistemologies. In this article, the author rethinks music in terms of the procedural knowledge inherent in and specific to popular music-making by exploring the latter as knowledge practices in Micronesia. This approach opens new vistas on the relationality at the heart of Western Pacific music-making. The author calls the musical manifestation of that relational capacity sound ties, suggesting that if, following Epeli Hau‘ofa, Oceania is “humanity rising from the depths of brine”, then it is not least the sound ties of knowing in and through music that mould that very humanity of people who are at home with the sea into aquapelagic assemblages that are, after all, so much more than water and land

    Nachahmen im Mittelalter: Dimensionen - Mechanismen - Funktionen

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    Nachahmen zählt zweifelsfrei zu den grundlegenden Kulturtechniken der Menschheit. Es verfügt über moralische, soziale, rechtliche, politische, theologische oder künstlerisch-kreative Dimensionen und entfaltet eine immense Wirkmacht mittels des Illusorischen. In einem neuartigen, interdisziplinären Zuschnitt vereint dieser Band ausgewählte Analysen der Mechanismen und Funktionen des bewussten Imitierens von Personen und Gegenständen, Handlungen und Vorstellungen als omnipräsentem Orientierungs-, Verhaltens- und Erziehungsmuster des christlichen Mittelalters. Er verbindet dabei aktuelle Forschungsprojekte zu programmatisch-konzeptionellen Nachahmungen in Architektur, Text und Ritual

    Reflexion des Beitrags von Eugenio Riversi

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