1999 ◽  
Vol 1998 (2) ◽  
pp. 93-114
Author(s):  
Anders Brändström
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Author(s):  
Yekaterina Babeiko

The article is devoted to the study of the dialect language worldview based on the material of «Smolensk ethnographic collection» by Vladimir Nikolayevich Dobrovolsky (1856–1920) who was an ethnographer, local historian,folklorist, and lexicographer. The article presents general characteristics of proverbs and sayings included in the collection, describes the ways of recording and distribution of the material collected by the researcher, provides examples of proverbs and sayings, dialogues and poems, sentences and superstitious beliefs that the ethnographer, for various reasons, included in the collection. There are not many works on the study of dialect phraseology, not all Russian territories have this priceless heritage like records of phraseological material compiled at the time of their live functioning. V. N. Dobrovolsky included these phraseological units into the collection after his trips to the Smolensk region. The article proves necessity and prospects of further study of ethnographic material and formulates tasks that modern researchers of V.N. Dobrovolsky’s heritage are facing. The description of phraseological material of the collection makes it possible not only recreate the everyday life of the Smolensk peasant of the XIXth century, his life and cultural attitudes, but also to identify the features of the Smolensk dialect language worldview, to characterize paroemiological units based on national and cultural stereotypes of the Smolensk region people’s behavior.


Author(s):  
Saipira Furstenberg ◽  
Edward Lemon ◽  
John Heathershaw

Abstract This article theorises the repressive security practices of authoritarian states in the context of transnationalism and globalisation. While emerging research on transnational repression has identified a range of extraterritorial and exceptional security practices adopted by authoritarian states, it has not fully studied the implications of such practices on space and statecraft. Using data from the Central Asia Political Exile Database project (CAPE) and interviews conducted with exiled Tajik opposition groups based in Russia and Europe, we theorise the spatial connections between the territorial and extraterritorial security practices using the concept of assemblages. We further outline how these practices escalate in a three-stage model, in which exiles go on notice, are detained and then rendered or assassinated. Such an approach sheds light on the inherent links between the normalisation of security practices and the creation of transnational space with distinct forms of geographical state power that is embedded in non-national spaces and is manifested through spatially organised actors, networks, and technologies within assemblages.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-88
Author(s):  
I. A. Peremislov ◽  
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L. G. Peremislov ◽  

Japanese culture with its unique monuments of architecture, sculpture, painting, small forms, decorative and applied arts, occupies a special place in the development of world art. Influenced by China, Japanese masters created their own unique style based on the aesthetics of contemplation and spiritual harmony of man and nature. In the context of "Japan's inspiration" the work refers to the influence of the art of the Land of the Rising Sun on American decorative arts and, in particular, on the silver jewelry industry in trends of a new aesthetic direction of the last third of the XIXth century, the "Aesthetic movement". The article provides a brief overview of the history of the emergence and development of decorative silver art in the United States. The important centers of silversmithing in the USA and the most important American manufacturers of the XIXth century are described in more detail. The article also touches on the influence of Japanese aesthetic ideas on European creative groups and on the formation of innovative ideas in European decorative arts. At the same time, an attempt is made to trace the origin, development trends, evolution and variations of "Japanesque" style in American decorative and applied art, in particular, in the works of Edward Moore and Charles Osborne (Tiffany & Co jewelry multinational company).


2004 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-171
Author(s):  
José Antonio ◽  
Aguilar Rivera

In his essay on Tocqueville and Latin America Claudio López-Guerra asserts that, according to Alexis de Tocqueville, in the XIXth century Mexico and the United States had the same social state but not the same mores. The contention that follows is that religion (Catholicism v. Protestantism) is more important than equality in shaping the mores of a democratic people. In Democracy in America Tocqueville asserted: “It is true that the Anglo-Americans brought equality of conditions with them to the New World. There were neither commoners nor nobles there, and professional prejudices were always as unknown as prejudices of birth.


2016 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 207
Author(s):  
Diana De Groat Brown

http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8034.2016v18n1p207Neste artigo são explorados os anos de exílio de Guerreiro Ramos nos Estados Unidos (1966-1982), questionando como um intelectual esquerdista brasileiro, de ascendência africana, lidou com o clima social e político dos Estados Unidos nesse período. O foco está em duas questões: sua carreira na Escola de Administração Pública da University of Southern California (USC), onde ele permaneceu até sua morte, e sua relação, como um brasileiro de cor, com a política racial radical nos Estados Unidos nesse período. Argumenta-se que, na USC, o pragmatismo e a habilidade de Guerreiro Ramos de produzir sucesso em circunstâncias adversas, aprendidos durante sua carreira no Brasil, possibilitaram-lhe fazer o mesmo na USC – transformar a adversidade do exílio em um sucesso criativo equiparável. Seu brilho e carisma como intelectual e como professor granjearam-lhe admiração, respeito, popularidade e uma carreira acadêmica segura. Sua criatividade e abertura a novas ideias permitiram-lhe abraçar o campo da sociologia americana, mesmo quando continuava a se opor ao imperialismo americano e a trazer a sociologia para a crítica da administração pública americana. Quanto a sua relação com a política racial americana desse período, mesmo no Brasil, ele já havia se afastado do engajamento anterior com as questões raciais e isso continuou nos Estados Unidos. A especulação aqui é que sua identidade como um estrangeiro exótico o protegeu de sofrer, diretamente, a discriminação racial direcionada aos afro-americanos. Finalmente, seu exílio aumentou seu senso de ser um “de fora”, um “homem entre parêntesis” tanto no Brasil como nos Estados Unidos.


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