Three cemeteries and a Byzantine Church: a ritual landscape at Yasieleh, Jordan

Antiquity ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 78 (300) ◽  
pp. 306-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulla Al-Shorman
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
Byzantine Church ◽  
Ritual Landscape

The Byzantine period in Jordan represents a dramatic change in landscape from the Roman period that preceded it. In this case study the author shows how a sixth century Byzantine church was surrounded by three cemeteries which reflected and maintained the social ranks of the congregation and their different roles in agricultural production.

Who are the Visigoths?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel Koch
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Traditional View ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Careful Examination ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Roman World ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
Insight Into

Although the Visigoths were an ethnic group within the kingdom of Toledo, the traditional view on Visigothic identity in sixth-century Spain has been challenged by abundant research concerning ethnicity in the transformation of the Roman world. The use of the term Gothus in sources of the kingdom of Toledo clearly manifest the presence of Visigoths and an awareness of a Visigothic identity. Careful examination of the records, however, suggests that the ethnic label Gothus differs from its established understanding. This chapter represents a case study of a particular source offering an exceptional insight into the social and political environment of the city.

Agricultural production and installations in Byzantine Cappadocia: a case study focusing on Mavrucandere

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-61
Author(s):  
Nilüfer Peker
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Wine Making ◽  
Religious Architecture ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Byzantine Period

While there has been extensive research conducted on Byzantine religious architecture in Cappadocia, little work has been done on agricultural installations there. The valley of Mavrucandere in Cappadocia contains a settlement which has a remarkable agrarian installation complex. Resembling a factory, this area highlights the architectural and the organizational structure of the wine-presses in Cappadocia. In the light of the new findings, this article aims to examine the organization of the wine-making process, the location of the installations in the settlement, and the importance of the installations for the region's trade activities during the Byzantine period.

scholarly journals Sociotechnical Change and Institutional Adjustment in Paddy Rice Farming During Post Green Revolution in Indonesia

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Awaluddin Yunus ◽  
Darmawan Salman ◽  
Eymal B. Demmallino ◽  
Ni Made Viantika
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Rice Field ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Rice Farming ◽  
Institutional Adjustment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Individual Actor ◽  
The Village

The development of rice field agriculture in Indonesia has entered the post green revolution phase. The sociotechnical changes occurred during the green revolution, the economic gap among farmers also ensued amid the increase in production while the social sustainability was maintained. The research purpose is to analyze the institutional adjustment conducted by the farmer society in facing the problems caused by green revolution in order to maintain the social sustainability. For the purpose mentioned above, the case study was carried out in a village in a center of green revolution. The result of the research shows that: (1) The sociotechnical changes had been taking place during the pre-green revolution era, green revolution, and post-green revolution in the form of land management, seeds procurement, planting and managing the crops, and harvest and post-harvest. The sociotechnical changes encouraged the increase in agricultural production in which created the gap between the affluent and the underprivileged in a village and had the potential to disturb the social sustainability of rice field agribusiness. (2) The institutional adjustment occurred in the sociotechnical changes in the forms of land ownership dynamics, employment dynamic and village’s new occupation dynamic. This institutional adjustment has the function to dampen the tension on the marginalized individual actor caused by the post green revolution new social structure. (3) The social sustainability in the rice field agriculture could be maintained because the social tension caused by the post green revolution social technical changes could be dampened by the institutional adjustment. The institutional adjustment by the village community contributed into the social sustainability of the rice field agribusiness.

scholarly journals Multitemporalidade do uso e cobertura da terra utilizando a plataforma Google Earth: estudo de caso do Centro Sócio Educacional Fazendinha Esperança, Marituba, Pará

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 2874
Author(s):  
Thaiany E Silva Paixão ◽  
Igor Sandro Borges Mesquita ◽  
Merilene Do Socorro Silva Costa ◽  
Carla Renata de Oliveira Carneiro ◽  
Carolina Da Silva Gonçalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Physical Structure ◽  
Google Earth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Municipal Management ◽  
Social Environmental ◽  
Economic Improvement

Diante da importância do Centro Sócio Educativo Fazendinha Esperança (CESEFE) na melhoria da gestão municipal, o qual vem promovendo ações para a benfeitoria das questões socioambientais de Marituba (Pará), a partir de projetos voltados ao meio ambiente, buscou-se analisar as mudanças do uso e cobertura da terra do CESEFE nos anos de 2006 e 2019. Neste estudo utilizou-se a geotecnologia para analisar a dinâmica do uso da terra na localidade estudada, por meio do Sistema de Informação Geográfica (SIG) e da plataforma Google Earth, tendo como fundamento as modificações da área nos anos 2006 e 2019. Sendo assim, classificou-se o uso e cobertura da terra em: estrutura física; produção agrícola; arborização e outros. As análises qualitativas e quantitativas nos anos estudados foram realizadas a partir das interpretações visuais baseadas nos resultados das tabelas de atributos do SIG. Todas as classes obtiveram mudanças, tendo como resultado a diminuição relevante da produção agrícola, classificada inicialmente em 33% e ao final com 18% da área total. No entanto, houve um aumento considerável na arborização do espaço, uma vez que inicialmente detinha 2% e atualmente representa 32,5% da propriedade. As duas classes interligam-se pelo fato de estarem inseridas no projeto de educação ambiental. Portanto, é possível identificar o Centro Sócio Educativo Fazendinha Esperança (CESEFE), como uma organização que atua na melhoria social, ambiental e econômica de alguns bairros maritubenses. A diminuição da produção agrícola é justificada pela inserção de práticas ligadas ao sistema de Quintal produtivo, corroborando para o aumento da arborização. Palavras-Chave:desmatamentos, atividades agropecuárias, transformações na paisagem.  Multitemporality of land use and coverage using the google earth platform: case study of the socio-educational center Fazendinha Esperança, Marituba, Pará A B S T R A C TIn view of the importance of the Fazendinha Esperança Socio-Educational Center (CESEFE) in improving municipal management, which has been promoting actions for the improvement of socio-environmental issues in Marituba (Pará), from projects focused on the environment, we sought to analyze the changes of CESEFE land use and coverage in the years 2006 and 2019. In this study geotechnology was used to analyze the dynamics of land use in the studied location, through the Geographic Information System (GIS) and the Google Earth platform, based on the modifications of the area in the years 2006 and 2019. Therefore, the use and coverage of land was classified as: physical structure; Agricultural production; afforestation and others. Qualitative and quantitative analyzes in the years studied were performed based on visual interpretations based on the results of the GIS attribute tables. All classes have undergone changes, resulting in a significant decrease in agricultural production, initially classified at 33% and at the end with 18% of the total area. However, there was a considerable increase in the afforestation of the space, since it initially held 2% and currently represents 32.5% of the property. The two classes are interconnected because they are part of the environmental education project. Therefore, it is possible to identify the Centro Sócio Educativo Fazendinha Esperança (CESEFE), as an organization that works in the social, environmental and economic improvement of some maritubenses neighborhoods. The decrease in agricultural production is justified by the insertion of practices linked to the productive Yard system, corroborating the increase in afforestation.Keywords: geotechnology, dynamics of land use, environmental education.

Social Design for Services Framework

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melanie SARANTOU ◽  
Satu MIETTINEN
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Service Design ◽  
Social Design ◽  
Practical Action ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World

This paper addresses the fields of social and service design in development contexts, practice-based and constructive design research. A framework for social design for services will be explored through the survey of existing literature, specifically by drawing on eight doctoral theses that were produced by the World Design research group. The work of World Design researcher-designers was guided by a strong ethos of social and service design for development in marginalised communities. The paper also draws on a case study in Namibia and South Africa titled ‘My Dream World’. This case study presents a good example of how the social design for services framework functions in practice during experimentation and research in the field. The social design for services framework transfers the World Design group’s research results into practical action, providing a tool for the facilitation of design and research processes for sustainable development in marginal contexts.

Lord Dacre and the Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment

2005 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Scottish Enlightenment ◽  
North East ◽  
The Social ◽  
Romantic Movement ◽  
Scottish History

Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre) made several iconoclastic interventions in the field of Scottish history. These earned him a notoriety in Scottish circles which, while not undeserved, has led to the reductive dismissal of Trevor-Roper's ideas, particularly his controversial interpretation of the Scottish Enlightenment, as the product of Scotophobia. In their indignation Scottish historians have missed the wider issues which prompted Trevor-Roper's investigation of the Scottish Enlightenment as a fascinating case study in European cultural history. Notably, Trevor-Roper used the example of Scotland to challenge Weberian-inspired notions of Puritan progressivism, arguing instead that the Arminian culture of north-east Scotland had played a disproportionate role in the rise of the Scottish Enlightenment. Indeed, working on the assumption that the essence of Enlightenment was its assault on clerical bigotry, Trevor-Roper sought the roots of the Scottish Enlightenment in Jacobitism, the counter-cultural alternative to post-1690 Scotland's Calvinist Kirk establishment. Though easily misconstrued as a dogmatic conservative, Trevor-Roper flirted with Marxisant sociology, not least in his account of the social underpinnings of the Scottish Enlightenment. Trevor-Roper argued that it was the rapidity of eighteenth-century Scotland's social and economic transformation which had produced in one generation a remarkable body of political economy conceptualising social change, and in the next a romantic movement whose powers of nostalgic enchantment were felt across the breadth of Europe.

Endangered Butterflies and their Non-Native Host Plants: Examining Shifting Values of Belonging in Restoration

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Robert M. Anderson ◽  
Amy M. Lambert
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Restoration ◽  
Native Species ◽  
Puget Sound ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Remote Island ◽  
Scientific Truth ◽  
Native Host

The island marble butterfly (Euchloe ausonides insulanus), thought to be extinct throughout the 20th century until re-discovered on a single remote island in Puget Sound in 1998, has become the focus of a concerted protection effort to prevent its extinction. However, efforts to “restore” island marble habitat conflict with efforts to “restore” the prairie ecosystem where it lives, because of the butterfly’s use of a non-native “weedy” host plant. Through a case study of the island marble project, we examine the practice of ecological restoration as the enactment of particular norms that define which species are understood to belong in the place being restored. We contextualize this case study within ongoing debates over the value of “native” species, indicative of deep-seated uncertainties and anxieties about the role of human intervention to alter or manage landscapes and ecosystems, in the time commonly described as the “Anthropocene.” We interpret the question of “what plants and animals belong in a particular place?” as not a question of scientific truth, but a value-laden construct of environmental management in practice, and we argue for deeper reflexivity on the part of environmental scientists and managers about the social values that inform ecological restoration.

THE HIMYARITE KINGDOM ON THE EVE OF AND AFTER THE ETHIOPIAN DOMINANCE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY A.D. IN THE MARTYRDOM OF ST. ARETHAS AND HIS COMPANIONS AND IN THE ACTS OF ST. GREGENTIUS

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 678-700
Author(s):  
V Christides
Keyword(s):  
Social Structure ◽  
Red Sea ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
South Arabia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Preliminary Study

Based on two important hagiographical works written in Greek, the Martyrdom of St. Arethas and his companions and the Acts of St. Gregentius, the aim of this paper is to continue my preliminary study of the countries around the Red Sea in pre-Islamic times, especially in the sixth century A.D. The most valuable information in the Martyrdom concerns the hazardous voyage of the Ethiopian army from the main port of Adulis across the Red Sea to South Arabia (ca 525 A.D.). This work illuminates aspects of that expedition which do not appear in such detail in any other source. In addition, it describes the ports of the Red Sea in the sixth century, i.e., Klysma, Bereniki, Adulis, etc., corroborating the finds of archaeology and epigraphy. Concerning the controversial Acts of St. Gregentius, the present author has tried to discuss only some vital information reflecting the social structure of South Arabia during its Ethiopian occupation until the Persian conquest of it (ca 525 A.D. – ca 570 A.D.), and attempted to trace the origin of just one law (the treatment of animals) among those supposedly imposed on the Himyarites by the so-called archbishop Gregentius.

MYTHOLOGIZING YORUBA ORATURE: LOBOTO MIZING SWIVELLED PULSES OF LAUGHTER IN NIYI OSUNDARE’S WAITING LAUGHTERS AND REMI RAJI’S A HARVEST OF LAUGHTERS

Imbizo ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-42
Author(s):  
Niyi Akingbe
Keyword(s):  
Seasonal Variations ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Oral Poetry ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Oral Performance ◽  
The Social ◽  
Momentary Happiness ◽  
Political Turmoil

Every literary work emerges from the particular alternatives of its time. This is ostensibly reflected in the attempted innovative renderings of these alternatives in the poetry of contemporary Nigerian poets of Yoruba extraction. Discernible in the poetry of Niyi Osundare and Remi Raji is the shaping and ordering of the linguistic appurtenances of the Yoruba orature, which themselves are sublimely rooted in the proverbial, chants, anecdotes, songs and praises derived from the Yoruba oral poetry of Ijala, Orin Agbe, Ese Ifa, Rara, folklore as well as from other elements of oral performance. This engagement with the Yoruba oral tradition significantly permeates the poetics of Niyi Osundare’s Waiting laughters and Remi Raji’s A Harvest of Laughters. In these anthologies, both Osundare and Raji traverse the cliffs and valleys of the contemporary Nigerian milieu to distil the social changes rendered in the Yoruba proverbial, as well as its chants and verbal formulae, all of which mutate from momentary happiness into an enduring anomie grounded in seasonal variations in agricultural production, ruinous political turmoil, suspense and a harvest of unresolved, mysterious deaths. The article is primarily concerned with how the African oral tradition has been harnessed by Osundare and Raji to construct an avalanche of damning, peculiarly Nigerian, socio-political upheavals (which are essentially delineated by the signification of laughter/s) and display these in relation to the country’s variegated ecology.

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