575 research outputs found
Documenting folk science – Solega honeybee knowledge as a case study
No full textThe documentation of a community’s traditional knowledge about various aspects of the natural world can result in a rich, culturally relevant corpus of language material. Ethnobiological investigations frequently lead to discoveries of species or ecological phenomena unknown to ‘western’ science, while simultaneously recording a potentially endangered domain of language and traditional knowledge. Honeybees, along with the various products they yield, are highly valued by communities living in most parts of the world, and it is to be expected that people will have detailed and in-depth traditional knowledge of this important group of species. In this paper, I describe my efforts to document the honeybee knowledge of the Solega (Dravidian, southern India), and present some of the insights community members have into various aspects of this insect’s behaviour, ecology and physiology. The Solega lexicon contains many words to describe various bee types, honeycomb growth stages and honey varieties. Much of what the Solega know about honeybee biology was discovered by ‘western’ science two to three centuries ago. This includes an awareness that the single ‘queen bee’ found in each honeybee colony is female, that she is the mother of all the worker bees that make up the bulk of a colony’s population, and that the birth of a second queen usually results in the division of the colony into two separate entities. The Solega are also aware of the direct link between the visits of foraging bees to flowering plants, and the development of fruit on those plants, as well as of the floral origins of honey. While such facts might seem mundane to most people living in urban communities, I argue that they represent significant insights, based on inductive reasoning, on the part of the Solega, and are therefore worth recording in an ethnobiologically-focused language documentation project. These insights appear all the more remarkable when it is noted that the Solega are gatherers of wild honey, and have never been beekeepers. The Solega, lacking any scientific instrumentation, formal methodology or artificial hives, have been able to uncover extremely hard-to-observe aspects of honeybee biology simply through opportunistic interactions with these insects on honey-gathering excursions. I conclude by noting that folk science should be perceived as an autonomous, self-contained body of knowledge in its own right, and that language documenters should resist the temptation to be dismissive of those elements of folk science that appear to be commonplace
Documenting traditional biological and ecological knowledge: An Indian example
No full textLike many non-industralised communities around the world, the Sholaga of southern India have a profound knowledge of the biological world around them. Documenting the language that encodes such themes helps not only to document the language as a whole, but also to preserve an important aspect of cultural heritage
KUDETA JUNTA MILITER MYANMAR TERHADAP AUNG SAN SUU KYI 2021
No full textThis paper aims to find out and analyze how the coup carried out by the Myanmar military junta against Aung San Suu Kyi. This research began on November 8, 2022, the Government of Myanmar held a presidential election. The election was won by Aung San Suu Kyi through the National League Democracy (NLD) party. The election was won by Aung San Suu Kyi through the National League Democracy (NLD) party. The opposition through the Union Solidarity and Development did not recognize the election results. They claim that Aung San Suu Kyi's victory in Myanmar's election was carried out by fraud. This made the opposition party reject and the military junta supported the decision. Through the Myanmar military junta, Aung San Suu Kyi was arrested and the election was deemed invalid. The coup by the military junta against Aung San Suu Kyi was carried out so that Myanmar was declared a state of emergency after the military coup led by the military junta in Myanmar. Based on this the author tries to analyze how the military junta carried out a coup against Aung San Suu Kyi
Theoretical and Textual Approaches to Contemporary Humanitarian Narrative: The Cases of Roberto Saviano’s Gomorra, Aung San Suu Kyi’s Letters from Burma, Jerry Piasecki’s Marie in the Shadow of the Lion and Nadine Gordimer’s The Ultimate Safari
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is to describe how some forms of fictional and non-fictional texts can be configured as and within the framework of humanitarian practices. In exploring the definitions and features of humanitarianism and humanitarian literature, the thesis attempts to answer the question of what purpose these texts try to serve. In examining the works Marie in the Shadow of the Lion (2000) by Jerry Piasecki, The Ultimate Safari (1989) by Nadine Gordimer, Gomorra (2006) by Roberto Saviano and Letters from Burma (1996) by Aung San Suu Kyi, we will argue that the scope of these books can be located by analogy to social and political humanitarian practices. Beyond their differences in genre, style and subject matter, these texts share a common feature: they are performative, namely they strive to do things with words. The humanitarian texts discussed in this thesis can be shown to act in the world in order to implement the values proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Solega defenestration : Underspecified perspective shift in an unwritten Dravidian language
No full textBased on original fieldwork, this paper discusses reported speech and thought constructions in Solega (Dravidian). Following McGregor (1994) we claim that reported speech can only be comprehensively characterised if it is identified as a syntactic construction in its own right, a construction we label a framing construction. In natural discourse, elements of the framing construction, particularly clauses referring to the reporting event, may be left unexpressed. We term framing constructions without a matrix clause ‘defenestrated clauses’. While defenestrated clauses in Solega leave perspective shifts underspecified, they include several distinctive strategies that allow us to reconsider the role of morpho-syntactic marking in the expression of perspective shifts. © John Benjamins Publishing CompanyPeer reviewe
Supplemental Material - Can Computerized Simulation be Used to Assess Surgical Proficiency in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeries? A Systematic Review
No full textSupplemental Material for Can Computerized Simulation be Used to Assess Surgical Proficiency in Laparoscopic Colorectal Surgeries? A Systematic Review by Si Yuan Chang, Kai Siang Chan and Aung Myint Oo in Surgical Innovation</p
Aung San Suu Kyi: il crollo di un mito?
No full textLa transizione politica birmana si è caratterizzata finora come un percorso a luci ed ombre, che si è riflesso anche nell'ascesa e successiva caduta dell'icona Aung San Sul Kyi, un tempo molto popolare fra le cancellerie occidentali ed oggi soggetta a pesanti critiche
empirical analysis of Myanmar
No full textThesis(Master) --KDI School:Master of Public Policy,2017Myanmar has suffered continuous long-term trade deficits. However, there have still been no definite conclusions regarding the relationship between trade deficits and economic growth. This paper therefore aims to examine whether trade deficits have a positive or negative effect on Myanmar’s economic growth through an empirical analysis of the years 1989 to 2015. This paper utilizes the Johansen co-integration test and the Vector Error Correction Model to respectively analyze the long-run and short-run relationship between trade deficits and economic growth in the case of Myanmar. The results show that in the long-run, there is a significant negative relationship between trade deficits and economic growth. However, in the short-run, there is an insignificant negative relationship between trade deficits and economic growth.Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Literature Review
Chapter 3: Data Collection and Methodology
Chapter 4: Empirical Results
Chapter 5: Summary of the Findings, Policy Implications, and ConclusionmasterpublishedWint Thu AUNG
The question of universals in ethnobiological nomenclature: Re-examination with southeast Asian linguistic data
No full textThe classification and naming of plants and animals is said to follow a number of “universal” constraints cross-linguistically. While these constraints are generally accepted in the literature, few have been rigorously tested with a large language sample. In particular, the languages of mainland southeast Asia appear to have been neglected in such endeavours, even though it is common knowledge that some key constraints are violated in this region. Here, we investigate the construction of “Generic” plant and animal names in 22 languages of mainland southeast Asia, and show that the vast majority of these — especially among plant and fish ethnotaxa — are two-part “secondary names”, in contrast to a major constraint that predicts that such names should be one-part “primary names”. This appears to be a widespread areal feature, and has implications for the validity of other nomenclatural “universals”, which remain to be similarly tested
General Aung San – the Father of Burma’s Independence
No full textThe author presents General Aung San (1915-1947) as a dedicated fighter for independence and through his complicated biography outlines the crucial period of Burma’s history: the end of the British colonial rule. The paper also presents the cultural differences that complicated Burmese-British relations.
It appears that Aung San’s nationalist spirit had been already shaped in his childhood. He became famous as a student leader during his education at Rangoon University in the 1930’s. In 1938 he had been elected the Secretary General of the most significant nationalist force: the Association We-Burmese (Do-Bama Asi-Ayone). On the one hand he was involved in lawful political activity, on the other he tried to acquire weapons by all possible means to start an armed struggle for independence. He created numerous political organizations of different political orientation (including the Communist Party of Burma). Eventually he arrived in Japan, where he received military training. In 1941, with the help of Japanese agents, he was able to create the Burma Independence Army in Thailand, which entered Burma together with the Japanese troops in 1942.
His co-operation with the Japanese forces was tortuous and painful, but he served as the Minister of War in their puppet Burmese Government. When it became obvious that the Allies will win, he established contacts with them and in August 1944 founded the Anti-Fascist Organisation. On March 27, 1945 he started an anti-Japanese uprising to help the British forces entering the country. At the end of the war his relations with the British authorities were very complex: the civil administration wanted to arrest him and bring him to justice as a war criminal, but the military commanders appreciated his help and wanted to collaborate with him and his Burmese forces. The second approach prevailed and in 1946 he headed the Burmese colonial government under the British Governor. In January 1947 he successfully negotiated Burma’s independence in London. The famous Panglong Agreement reached with the leaders of national minorities in February constituted another success of his. In April his party won the majority in the elections to the Constitutional Assembly and Aung San started his work on the constitution. In July, during feverish preparations for independence, he was assassinated together with six other members of the government. U Nu, his old friend and political successor completed his task of building up the independent state. The present military junta constitutes the first Burmese government, which does not respect General Aung San much owing to the prodemocratic activities of Aung San Suu Kyi, his daughter
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