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Los urbanizadores de Arequipa : a study of the effects of urbanization on Quechua folklore, language and traditions in a southern Peruvian city
No full textThe thesis endeavours to assess the changes which have taken place, due to urbanization, in certain fundamental aspects of Quechua culture among migrants from the Southern Peruvian Sierra who have settled in the pueblos jóvenes, “shanty towns” of Arequipa, Peru.
In 7 chapters, based on material taped from 45 Quechua informants, the thesis discusses the urban milieu, evidence for the continuance of a riddling tradition, a folk song tradition, and traditional Quechua belief systems in the city. The thesis also examines the linguistic aspect of Quechua in the urban environment, whether it still constitutes a functional means of communication, and whether the closer proximity to Spanish in the city has resulted in what might be classed as an urban dialect of Quechua.
The thesis concludes that whereas Quechua immigrants to the city have been willing to adapt to city life in its more material aspects, in the more symbolic aspects of their culture, they have been less willing to change. Consequently, many features of Quechua culture appear, for the present, to be thriving in the city. Evidence for the survival of the symbolic aspects of Quechua culture are contained throughout the main body of the thesis in the Quechua transcriptions and English/Spanish translations of interviews given by informants, in the English translations of the riddles, in the synopses of the folktales narrated by the informants, and in the appendices, where the full Quechua transcriptions of some 32 folktales, 36 riddles and 24 songs are contained.
The thesis maintains that the Quechua immigrants to Arequipa constitute a new subculture which looks to the city for material support, but which is still heavily based on Quechua linguistic and cultural values. There has been a weakening of Quechua language and cultural traits in the city as a result of urbanization, but there does not appear to be the wholesale adoption of “western” ways to the detriment of Indian language and culture as was once suspected
Paul F. Baum. — Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book
No full textBlakeley L., Léaud F. J. Paul F. Baum. — Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 12e année (n°45), Janvier-mars 1969. p. 95
Paul F. Baum. — Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book
No full textBlakeley L., Léaud F. J. Paul F. Baum. — Anglo-Saxon Riddles of the Exeter Book. In: Cahiers de civilisation médiévale, 12e année (n°45), Janvier-mars 1969. p. 95
Say What I Mean : Metaphor and the Exeter Book Riddles
No full textThe Exeter Book riddles are a heterogeneous collection, and at first glance it seems they have little III common beyond the riddle format and the final teasing challenge, Say what I mean, or Say what I am. The riddles range in length from a few lines to over a hundred, in tone from the religious to the mundane to the obscene; their subjects can be as specific as a butter churn or as broad as creation itself. One crucial similarity, however, does unify the riddles: all (well, almost all) are built around underlying, unstated metaphors. These metaphors-- such as a sword is a warrior, a ship is a dragon, water is a mother-- shape the riddles, governing their content and structure. (A small minority of the Exeter Book riddles are non-metaphoric. I will return to them later, but the thesis will concentrate on the metaphoric riddles). Recognition of the bond between riddles and metaphor dates back at least to Aristotle. Good riddles do, in general, provide us with satisfactory metaphors, he writes in the Rhetoric, for metaphors imply riddles, and therefore a good riddle can furnish a good metaphor (1405b
Semantic and Semiotic Features of Riddles about Chinese Characters
No full textThe article was submitted on 9.03.2020.The article analyzes the phenomenon of a riddle about Chinese character. The author reveals it relationship with the cultural tradition of China and demonstrates it possibilities for studying Chinese. It analyzed various types of the riddles in detail. The author comments various types of interaction between the semantic and semiotic aspects of this kind of riddles.В статье проанализирован феномен китайской иероглифической загадки, ее связь с китайской культурной традицией и возможность использовать иероглифические загадки для повышения эффективности изучения китайского языка. Подробно рассмотрены разные типы иероглифических загадок. Раскрыты различные типы взаимодействия семантического и семиотического аспекта иероглифической загадки
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Hayo Haya Maaseh [= Once upon a time]
No full textAnthology of East European Jewish folklore, with introduction and sources. The anthology includes: songs, tales, traditions, customs, jokes, proverbs, riddles. Authored by Chaim Ben Zion Elon-Baranik (born 1901). Published immediately after the Second World War. Illustrations by Moritz Oppenheimer, L. Pilichowski, Yosef Budko, E.M. Lilien (his signature in print). Most of the illustrations are printed on separated chrome paper, on one side of the page. Folklore publishing, Tel Aviv. HaIvri press, Jerusalem. 22 em. [1],303, [3] pages. Excellent condition. Chipped top of spine. . '... Olb price140-160This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: HebrewChaim Ben Zion Elon-Barani
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
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