scholarly journals The Pleistocene Moraine Stages of West-Central Peru

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (62) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chalmers M. Clapperton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Field Mapping ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
West Central ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Abstract Detailed field mapping in three massifs of the central Andes of Peru indicates that there are four glacial moraine stages. Historical evidence and correlation with Patagonia and South Georgia suggest that the three youngest stages relate to Neoglacial re-advances which culminated before 4000 b.p., between a.d. 1750 and 1800 and during the late nineteenth century. The oldest moraine stage may be of late Wisconsin/Weichselian age. The absence of older moraines suggests that the Peruvian Andes were not high enough earlier in the Pleistocene to support larger glaciers.

scholarly journals The Pleistocene Moraine Stages of West-Central Peru

1972 ◽  
Vol 11 (62) ◽  
pp. 255-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chalmers M. Clapperton
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Central Andes ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Peruvian Andes ◽  
Field Mapping ◽  
South Georgia ◽  
West Central ◽  
Late Nineteenth

AbstractDetailed field mapping in three massifs of the central Andes of Peru indicates that there are four glacial moraine stages. Historical evidence and correlation with Patagonia and South Georgia suggest that the three youngest stages relate to Neoglacial re-advances which culminated before 4000 b.p., between a.d. 1750 and 1800 and during the late nineteenth century. The oldest moraine stage may be of late Wisconsin/Weichselian age. The absence of older moraines suggests that the Peruvian Andes were not high enough earlier in the Pleistocene to support larger glaciers.

scholarly journals Saxon Kent versus Roman London? Presenting Borderland Heritage at the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood, Kent

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ethan Doyle White
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Fifth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Western Border ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Standing on Kent’s western border with Greater London, the Faesten Dic in Joyden’s Wood is one of Britain’s less-well known linear earthworks. There has been speculation as to its origins since the late nineteenth century, although as of yet no conclusive dating evidence has been revealed. This article reviews the archaeological and historical evidence for the site, before exploring the ways in which the heritage of this earthwork has been presented to the public by the Woodland Trust, a charity which own Joyden’s Wood, focusing on how both information boards and installed sculptures have foregrounded the narrative of the earthwork as a fifth-century defensive barrier between ‘Roman London’ and ‘Saxon Kent.’ This, in turn, has interesting connotations regarding the current administrative divisions between Greater London and Kent.

Vocal Vulnerability: Tenors, Voix mixte and Late Nineteenth-Century French Opera

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 138-164
Author(s):  
Sean M. Parr
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Mode I ◽  
Physical Practice ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
Italian Opera ◽  
French Opera ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Unique Ability

AbstractIt is now a historical commonplace that nineteenth-century operatic singing became generally louder and heavier over the course of the century. Early in the century, before the advent of singers such as Gilbert-Louis Duprez, tenors sang high notes with a light, mixed voice, sometimes even falsetto. Strikingly, while such singing was virtually eliminated from Italian opera by the end of the century, the vocal practice continued in certain cases in the French repertory, some of which were created with one particular tenor in mind, Jean-Alexandre Talazac (1851–1896). Talazac was praised for his unique ability to sing high notes both softly and loudly. This article investigates the physical practice of producing what pedagogues and critics have called voix mixte, an enigmatic timbre applied to moments of soft, high tenor singing. In exploring these moments of what I call ‘léger mode’, I suggest that, by singing high notes softly in a post-Duprez operatic world, tenors transcend stage gestures through their use of a formerly normative performance style to mark moments musically as representations of vocal and masculine vulnerability. The historical evidence also argues for a renewed focus on what soft tenor singing might do for opera today.

INTERPRETING RUPTURE IN ORAL MEMORY: THE REGIONAL CONTEXT FOR CHANGES IN WESTERN SERENGETI AGE ORGANIZATION (1850–1895)

2003 ◽  
Vol 44 (3) ◽  
pp. 385-412 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAN BENDER SHETLER
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Historical Evidence ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
And Gender

This essay argues that the apparent discrepancies between oral tradition and other kinds of historical evidence in the western Serengeti, Tanzania, result from a rupture in time and space. As people were incorporated into a meta-ethnic region to the east dominated by the Maasai in the last half of the nineteenth century, they created new ways of calculating time and organizing space based on new kinds of age-sets. Within this larger context of widespread disasters the small, unconsolidated western Serengeti ethnic groups that we now know as Nata, Ikoma, Ishenyi and Ngoreme formed their identities. New generational and gender contests of power came into play as western Serengeti peoples responded creatively to the pressures of the late nineteenth century by mobilizing their own internal cultural resources.

Contents of Western Sociology of Religion as a Science and Educational Discipline

2002 ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
Liudmyla O. Fylypovych
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
International Society ◽  
Sociology Of Religion ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
The West ◽  
Late Nineteenth

Sociology of religion in the West is a field of knowledge with at least 100 years of history. As a science and as a discipline, the sociology of religion has been developing in most Western universities since the late nineteenth century, having established traditions, forming well-known schools, areas related to the names of famous scholars. The total number of researchers of religion abroad has never been counted, but there are more than a thousand different centers, universities, colleges where religion is taught and studied. If we assume that each of them has an average of 10 religious scholars, theologians, then the army of scholars of religion is amazing. Most of them are united in representative associations of researchers of religion, which have a clear sociological color. Among them are the most famous International Society for the Sociology of Religion (ISSR) and the Society for Scientific Study of Religion (SSSR).

John Lloyd Williams (1854–1945): profile of a Snowdonian botanist

2006 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Dewi Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Plant Physiology ◽  
Marine Algae ◽  
Plant Distribution ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Major Study ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Late Nineteenth

John Lloyd Williams was an authority on the arctic-alpine flora of Snowdonia during the late nineteenth century when plant collecting was at its height, but unlike other botanists and plant collectors he did not fully pursue the fashionable trend of forming a complete herbarium. His diligent plant-hunting in a comparatively little explored part of Snowdonia led to his discovering a new site for the rare Killarney fern (Trichomanes speciosum), a feat which was considered a major achievement at the time. For most part of the nineteenth century plant distribution, classification and forming herbaria, had been paramount in the learning of botany in Britain resulting in little attention being made to other aspects of the subject. However, towards the end of the century many botanists turned their attention to studying plant physiology, a subject which had advanced significantly in German laboratories. Rivalry between botanists working on similar projects became inevitable in the race to be first in print as Lloyd Williams soon realized when undertaking his major study on the cytology of marine algae.

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