scholarly journals Whose Minority? The Resistant Identity of the Moldavian Csangos

2021 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 483-505
Author(s):  
Stelu Şerban
Keyword(s):  
Collective Identity ◽  
Local History ◽  
Collective Identities ◽  
Expressive Culture ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
Political Modernization ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Village ◽  
Roman Catholics

Abstract The article is based on my fieldwork in 2002 in a village in Eastern Romania with a multi-confessional population made up mostly of Roman Catholics/Csangos and Orthodox Christians. The core premise of the analysis is that the collective identity manifested here transcends ethnic and confessional divides. The field data about the village’s cross-cultural life fall into the following categories: the oral history of the village, the performing of rituals, and the local history of modernization. These topics inform a single collective identity that is grounded in an expressive culture (Fredrik Barth) and as such requires critical reflection on the cultural complexity of collective identities as the Csangos, which have been formed within multiple and overlapping social and historical contexts. The subject is the different temporalities that emerge during political modernization. In conclusion, in the Csangos’ case, the constructivist concept of ethnicity should be revisited and complemented with an acknowledgment of Csangos’ benign self-identification, which sheds light on their discrete or hidden identity.

Finding a Voice: the Community Dramas of Monticchiello

1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (25) ◽  
pp. 77-96
Author(s):  
Richard Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Italian Comedy ◽  
Full Study ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Survey ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Regular Contact ◽  
The Village

The regular community drama activity of the village of Monticchiello in Italy has been pursued for nearly a quarter of a century, but is still little known abroad. A full study of the phenomenon is as much a study of the community, past and present, as it is a piece of theatrical analysis, in the area where there is a complete interlock between social history and the theatrical activity which a society produces. Since the work and history of the Teatro Povero have too many ramifications for everything to be summarized or even alluded to in one article, Richard Andrews here sets out to introduce the subject to students of theatre ‘by example’ – aiming to dig a single trench into the strata, in order to convey the outlines of the subject, hopefully without damage to the evidence needed for a more complete survey. Richard Andrews is Professor of Italian at Leeds University, having previously taught at Swansea and Kent. For the past fifteen years his research interests have been mainly concentrated on theatrical material, and he is currently preparing a study of sixteenth-century Italian comedy for Cambridge University Press. His regular contact with Monticchiello dates from 1983, and has been supported by a systematic analysis of all the texts produced there since 1967.

scholarly journals Two Anatolys and One “Angelica”: On the History of the “Southwestern Literary School”

Literary Fact ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 280-313
Author(s):  
Alena L. Yavorskaya ◽  
Andrei B. Ustinov
Keyword(s):  
Radical Change ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Viktor Shklovsky ◽  
Creative Life ◽  
The Revolution

The subject of the paper is the cultural life of Odessa in the 1910s, and the reconstruction of Anatoly Gamma’s biography, who was 21 when he died in the fall of 1918. His creative life was very short, and appeared to be almost a literary hoax. However, Gamma’s poetry reflected a radical change in the artistic paradigm after the Revolution of 1917. Here the authors reprint all the existing Gamma’s poems published in 1917–18 in the Odessa periodicals. After the tragic death of another Odessa poet Anatoly Fioletov at the age of 21, Gamma’s name happened to appear in obituaries dedicated to both poets. One of those memorial articles entitled “On Two Anatolys (Anatoly Gamma, Anatoly Fioletov)” was published in the Kharkov magazine “Muses” under the nom de plume “Angelica d’Éspré,” which the authors decipher in this essay. Most importantly, being associated with Anatoly Fioletov, Eduard Bagritsky and other Odessa poets, Gamma became a part of a cultural phenomenon that was called by Viktor Shklovsky in 1932 the “Southwestern Literary School.”

“To Help a Million Sick, You Must Kill a Few Nurses”: Nurses’ Occupational Health, 1890–1914

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Risk ◽  
Local History ◽  
National Context ◽  
Health Issues ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Experience Of Illness

Although nursing is recognized today as a serious occupational health risk, nursing historians have neglected the theme of occupational health and individual nurses’ experience of illness. This article uses the local history of three case study institutions to set nurses’ health in a national context of political, social, and cultural issues, and suggests a relationship between nurses’ health and the professionalization of nursing. The institutions approached the problem differently for good reasons, but the failure to adopt a coherent and consistent policy worked to the detriment of nurses’ health. However, the conclusion that occupational health was somehow neglected by contemporary actors was, nevertheless, erroneous and facilitated omission of the subject from historical studies concentrating on professional projects and the wider politics of nursing. This article shows that occupational health issues were inexorably connected to these nursing debates and cannot be understood without reference to professional projects.

Aspiration for Independence

2016 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 299-312
Author(s):  
Irina Andrianova
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Special Investigation ◽  
Outstanding Achievement ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Book Selling ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Publishing Business

This article analyzes Anna Dostoevskaia’s (1846–1918) publication work on the basis of new evidence drawn from hitherto unpublished archival materials. Dostoevskaia’s contribution to the world of publishing has never before been the subject of a special investigation; the documents testifying to her massive work, such as her memoir, correspondence and notebooks, all kept in archives, have never been published. Anna Dostoevskaia was not only the wife of the great Russian author Feodor Dostoevsky, but also one of the first female publishers and book-sellers in Russia. In the second half of the nineteenth century, when women were struggling for economic independence and equal rights to take up “men’s jobs,” Dostoevskaia managed to start out and successfully handle a publishing business. The article expands on Dostoevskaia’s educational and professional development, the history of her publishing and book-selling business, and the difficulties she encountered in the process. Her most outstanding achievement was Dostoevsky’s Complete Works which underwent seven editions (1882–1906). Anna Dostoevskaia had an immense contribution to the publishing business of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and played an important role in the enhancement of the cultural life and feminist movement in Russia.

scholarly journals Geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Nikolai V. Belenov
Keyword(s):  
Field Research ◽  
Field Work ◽  
Fundamental Difference ◽  
Special Study ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Village ◽  
Linguistic Material

Geographical vocabulary existing in ethno-linguistic environment, has a significant impact on the formation of its toponymic nomenclature. This influence is manifested both in the form of toponymic formants and in the basics of geographical names originating from this ethno-linguistic environment. The relevance of this work is definted by the fact that until now geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language, as well as other Samara-Bends dialects, was not the subject of special study, and was not introduced into academic and research circulation. The purpose of this article is description and lexico-semantic and etymological analysis of geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language. General theoretical and methodological basis of the research was made up of the works of Russian and international researchers on the toponymy and dialectology of the Mordovian languages. Vocabulary data is based on the materials of field research that the author conducted in the village Tornovoe of the Volga district of the Samara region during the field-work in 2017 and 2018. The main methods of linguistic research are descriptive and comparative methods. They were used in the collection and analysis of linguistic material. The results of the study showed that the geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect of the Moksha-Mordovian language fully reflects all the phonetic and accentual features of this dialect. It was also revealed that there is a fundamental difference between the composition of geographical vocabulary of the Tornovsky dialect and the same vocabulary of the neighboring dialects of the Moksha-Mordvin language, Shelehmetsky and Bahilovsky. A significant part of the geographical vocabulary in tthe Tornovsky dialect is borrowed from the Russian and Turkic Kipchak languages which reflects ethnolinguistic history of its speakers.

scholarly journals POTENTIALS OF SIMPING TEMPLE SITES AS HISTORY TOURISM BASED ON LOCAL CEREMONY VALUES

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Fandu Dyangga Pradeta ◽  
Denny Arinanda Kurnia
Keyword(s):  
Problem Formulation ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Tourist Attractions ◽  
Cultural Conditions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
The Village ◽  
Descriptive Method ◽  
Collection Methods

The Blitar region has tourism potential that can attract visitors both from its natural attractions and historical attractions. Some tourism objects that are worthy of consideration in this area are spread evenly throughout the Blitar district. In this Kademangan area there are several interesting tourist attractions to visit such as Bukit Bunda, Bukit Bonsai, Kampung Coklat and others. In addition there are also interesting historical tours in this area, one of which is the Simping Temple Historical Site in Sumberjati Kademangan village, Blitar Regency. The purpose of this study was to determine and understand the history of the establishment of the Simping Temple, to find out the socio-cultural conditions of the community around the Simping Temple Historical Site and to understand the potential of the historical tourism object of the Simping Temple in the Kademangan area. The object of this study was in the village area Sumberjati, Kademangan District, Blitar Regency. The subject of this research is the source of the data requested for information in accordance with the research problem formulation. This research uses a descriptive method through a qualitative approach that directly looks at the conditions and phenomena around Simping Temple. Data collection methods used used observation, interviews and documentation studies. This study explains that Simping Temple has potential tourism objects to be developed with the values ​​of local wisdom.

The big history of the small homeland (about the book of E. V. Elantsev «The village of Abat and Abat volost in the beginning of the XVIII – early XX centuries»)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 75-82
Author(s):  
Petin D.I. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Science ◽  
Local History ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Territorial Unit ◽  
Wide Circle ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
History Of ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
The Village ◽  
Revolutionary History

This publication is an analytical review of the popular science work of the Tyumen local historian Yevgeny Vladimirovich Elantsev «Abatskoye village and Abatskaya volost at the beginning of the 18th – beginning of the 20th centuries», published in the city of Ishim this year. The author of the review is one of the official reviewers of the book, which covers two hundred years of pre-revolutionary history using the example of a large administrative- territorial unit that was part of the Ishim district of the Tobolsk province (now the territory of the southeast of the Tyumen region). According to the author of the review, the publication makes a significant contribution to the study of the socio-economic development of Western Siberia in the 18th – early 20th centuries. The principles of the system and the determinism made it possible to analyze the publication, regarded as a phenomenon of science, having its own structure, at the same time, entering into the community of historical and local history knowledge. Based on the specifics of the topic, the main scientific method used to write this publication is problematic. Noting the relevance, novelty, as well as a number of other undoubted advantages of the book novelty, the review also contains subjective critical passages, which are regarded as possible ways for further information improvement of the publication and study of the topic. The author of the review concludes that Yevgeny Vladimirovich Elantsev presented to the scientific community a full-fledged, high-quality historical and local lore work, which has rich facts and is focused on a number of applied areas of the humanitarian sphere. The review is addressed to a wide circle of readers, including, first of all, researchers of the history of historical science, Russian historiography, the pre- revolutionary history of Russia and the local history of Siberia, and the practice of local history.

HOBBIT PLAYERS: DEVELOPMENT OF ROLE- PLAYING GAMES IN KRASNOYARSK REGION (1980-1990)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Arina Shurygina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public History ◽  
Role Playing ◽  
Local History ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
Role Playing Games ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Local history as a kind of public history is gaining more and more popularity among researchers every year, because awareness of local historical experience is a tool for regional and personal self-identification, a way to define oneself, one’s uniqueness in the large multicultural world. Based on the study of the role-playing movement, it is possible to trace not only any peculiarities of the Krasnoyarsk cultural processes, but also to understand what influence the events of the “big” history had on the local history of the development of the role-playing movement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in a specific cultural and historical period. The aim of the study is to reconstruct significant cultural events that contributed to the creation of the role movement, the influence of the socio-cultural environment on the role movement in the region, as well as to record the events characteristic of this subculture through the analysis of interviews with people participating in these events. The object of the study is the role-playing movement of Tolkienists in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, while the subject of the history (interviews) of informants who stood at the origins of the role-playing movement in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the 1980s-90s. To conduct the study, the following tasks were set: conducting an interview with participants in the role movement as a subculture characteristic of the Soviet period in the history of the culture of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, and interpreting the received empiric material and identifying the features and trends in the development of the role movement subculture.

scholarly journals CREATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ETHNIC TOLERANCE OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE NORYA VILLAGE

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-349
Author(s):  
L.V. Neklyudova
Keyword(s):  
Practical Experience ◽  
International School ◽  
Local History ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Practical Application ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Theoretical Substantiation ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Village

The article gives theoretical substantiation and experience of practical application of knowledge on development of ethnic tolerance of pupils in the conditions of the international school cooperation in an Udmurt rural school. For multinational and multicultural Udmurtia this problem is particularly relevant. In villages there is an increase in social problems, which lead to a decrease in the level of culture of the population. The success of social changes will largely depend on the activities of rural schools. The concept of "tolerance" is considered from different positions, the conditions of its development in school are substantiated, and the components of the tolerant environment are given. For the development of ethnic tolerance of adolescents in school, it is necessary to create conditions for the study of other national and cultural traditions. However, in order for teenagers to understand and study the culture of another people, it is necessary, first of all, that they know and understand the culture of their people, the history of their native area, village, and then compare the cultural traditions of different peoples, find common and differences in them ("Respect the other, being able to respect yourself"). The article describes the practical experience of the development of ethnic tolerance of students in the conditions of international school cooperation in the school of village Norya. The village has been cooperating with settlements in the Finno-Ugric countries for about 20 years, which are engaged in local history and, more broadly, the revival and preservation of the culture of their peoples. Positive changes are observed not only in the school itself; such activities give a powerful impetus to the development and prosperity of the village.

scholarly journals Dinamika Peradaban Kampung di Bangka

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 190-213
Author(s):  
Rusydi Sulaiman
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Subject Matter ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
Colonial Policy ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Village ◽  
Vast Territory

Indonesia is known for its vast territory consisting of thousands of islands. One of them is Pulau Bangka—an  island which also includes many villages in the right and left row of roads with other completeness as the reality of the village in Bangka. Sociologically, the island is harmed because the form of the village in Bangka is more due to colonial policy in the middle of  nineteen century. It was , different from previous village land inherited by the ancestors (Atok-Nek) in Bangka. This article focuses on early village discussions in Bangka named kampung  with qualitative research methods sourced from data  related to the subject matter.  This research produces several sub-discussions, namely: village philosophy, archaeological data in Bangka, the  history of kampung in Bangka,  kampung and strengthening civilization. Kampung does not appear immediately in the history of Bangka, but there were in long process. Early Bangka people inherited some ranges; memarung, panggung, bubung kampung and nganggung. Then adopted by Malay Islam (urang lah. In philosophical Islam, there was a process of strengthening local wisdom values  as a form of kampung civilization in Bangka  island.

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