scholarly journals Mermaids, Mere-Maids and No Maids: Mermaid place names and folklore in Britain

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Young
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
Isle Of Man ◽  
British Culture ◽  
Different Parts

Fifty mermaid place names relating to landscape features have been identified in Britain (including the Isle of Man). The names are attested from the 16th to the 21st Century: some are extremely well documented, while others have only passing written references. Taken together these names allow us to distinguish different folklore traditions in different parts of the island. For instance, there is a freshwater ‘mere-maid’ in eastern England; and a more familiar marine mermaid attested in the southwest of England. There are also – just as interestingly – large areas of Britain for which no mermaid place names are recorded. The article concludes with a reflection on the ‘Archetypal Modern Mermaid’ (AMM) that dominated in British culture by the 1800s.

3. The place-names of the Isle of Man

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Gelling
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Isle Of Man

Homo sapiens and Criminality

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-230
Author(s):  
Shanta Balgobind Singh ◽  
Marion Pluskota
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Human Behavior ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Behavior Management ◽  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Different Parts

History has shown that primitive societies, with their well-developed value and norm systems, were self-governing. Needs of the people led to the development of mechanisms for survival. As primitive societies became more complex, a need arose for knowledge of the nature and structure of the communities in which they lived. Moral laws and rules, which governed primitive communities, were organized around the family and tribal environment. Even in the 21st century, forms of human behavior management center on tribal authority systems in different parts of the world. Crime is a social construction that has been widely theorized by historians, sociologists, anthropologists, and, of course, criminologists. Researchers have long tried to answer the questions as to why crime exists, how it is defined, how it can be controlled, and what makes it more prevalent in certain communities than in others. This special issue addresses many of these questions and reflects on contemporary research in the criminological field. The authors are at the forefront of the research on crime and shed new light on our societies’ ability to identify, reduce, or cope with criminality.

scholarly journals Reforming Police: Opportunities, Drivers and Challenges

2005 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip C. Stenning ◽  
Clifford D. Shearing
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Quiet Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Different Parts

A few years ago, David Bayley and Clifford Shearing (1996) argued that at the end of the 20th century we were witnessing a ‘watershed’ in policing, when transformations were occurring in the practices and sponsorship of policing on a scale unprecedented since the developments that heralded the creation of the ‘New Police’ in the 19th century. In this special issue of the journal, we and our fellow contributors turn our attention to a somewhat neglected aspect of this ‘quiet revolution’ in policing (Stenning & Shearing, 1980), namely the nature of the opportunities for, and challenges posed by, the reform of policing in different parts of the world at the beginning of the 21st century. Our attention in this issue is particularly focused on the opportunities, drivers and challenges in reforming public (state-sponsored) police institutions.

THE PLACE-NAMES OF THE ISLE OF MAN. By J. J. Kneen. Parts i-iii. 1925-6. The Manx Society: Douglas.

Antiquity ◽  
1927 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 248-248
Author(s):  
Alan Mawer
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Isle Of Man

scholarly journals The Application of Durkheimian Theories in the 21st Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 76-90
Author(s):  
Anna-Maria Lazzarotto
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Contemporary Sociology ◽  
The Law ◽  
Different Parts

Classical sociological theorists have been criticised for being too vague, incomplete, and ever too conservative and notwithstanding all the efforts and consideration that has been dedicated to linking different parts of Durkheimian thought to the law itself, contemporary sociology and criminology frequently disregard its potential within the current study of law and criminology. This paper, however, will strive to explore and prove, through a Durkheimian lens, how classical sociological frameworks can provide us with a series of diverse aspects to analyse modern values and circumstances.

American Gothic Art

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoph Grunenberg
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
American Art ◽  
Film Music ◽  
Fashion Design ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
American Gothic ◽  
Cross Pollination ◽  
Gothic Art ◽  
British Culture

This essay surveys the gothic in American art from its earliest influence by 18th- and 19th-century British culture to gothic boom in late 20th- and early 21st-century culture. The gothic links not only to goth subculture of the 1980s but also to multiple expressions in film, music, fashion, design and architecture. This cross-pollination between art, literature and more ephemeral forms of gothic popular culture is a a typical product of postmodernism. American gothic has become a ubiquitous signifier for dark moods in times of change and crisis as expressed in a contemporary mordant mindset, the liberal indulgence in horror, macabre images and flirting with disaster.

Analysis of geomorphic environment elements and landscape features of cultural administrative place names

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (17) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fulong Liu ◽  
Kun Meng
Keyword(s):  
Place Names ◽  
Landscape Features

The Changing Nature of Gay Rugby Clubs in the United Kingdom

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Ken Muir ◽  
Eric Anderson ◽  
Keith D. Parry ◽  
David Letts
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Social Acceptance ◽  
Societal Change ◽  
Attitudes Toward Homosexuality ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Impact ◽  
British Culture

Rugby has traditionally existed as a leading definer of masculinity in British culture, which has included overt homophobia. However, cultural attitudes toward homosexuality have improved rapidly in the 21st century. To assess the impact of wider societal change on gay rugby teams, we employed a multiple methods investigation across five gay rugby teams in England. Results show that, whereas athletes once played for these teams to escape homophobia in broader rugby culture, this is no longer true. Affiliation with gay clubs is now primarily for social purposes, and gay rugby clubs now protect the physical safety of gay men from being less prepared to play the game, whereas before it was safety from homophobia. This research shows that gay rugby clubs have undergone an organizational shift in response to the increased social acceptance of sexual minorities.

scholarly journals Toponyms and Identity in Hanang’ District: Their Origin and Meaning

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-116
Author(s):  
Chrispina Alphonce ◽  
Eliakimu Sane
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Landscape Features ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Post Modification ◽  
Informative Content

Abstract This article is centred on place identity in Hanang’ District. Informed by the literature about place identity, the study describes the origin and the sociolinguistic meaning of place names following the analysis of 110 names that were collected from different places around Hanang’ District. Snowball sampling was appropriately used to obtain 15 informants for face-to-face interviews. Our analysis revealed that many place names in Hanang’ are predominantly from Datooga language and a few from Kiswahili, Nyaturu, Iraqw, Alagwa and Maasai. The qualitative analysis of the names revealed that the names have informative content deriving from landscape features, plants, people, animals and names of birds, events, activities, and the behaviour of some objects in the place. Sometimes, post-modification is done for descriptive specification. This is to say that marked geographical features and events in a particular place characterise the place in Hanang’. Therefore, place names in Hanang’ serve to describe the people’s history, beliefs, or label important features. There is a trend of shift in a number of place names in Hanang’ as a result of contact with the Bantu speakers. This has, consequently, contributed to the replacement of some indigenous sounds by the Kiswahili sounds that contributed to the loss and/or hybridization of names in terms of spelling and pronunciation.

scholarly journals Opening a Pandora's Box: Proper Names in English Phraseology

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Partizia Pierini
Keyword(s):  
Proper Names ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Family Names ◽  
Low Levels ◽  
British National Corpus ◽  
Qualitative Part ◽  
British Culture ◽  
National Corpus

This article explores the linguistic-cultural aspects and usage of phraseological units involving personal and place names in English. The introductory sections outline the linguistic features of proper names and phraseological units. The qualitative part of this study provides a list of units belonging to four phraseological types (idioms, stereotyped similes, binomials, formulae), drawn from idiom dictionaries. An investigation of the sources of names shows that the personal and place names involved are historically, socially or culturally prominent in British culture. Here is noted a predominance of personal over place names, and within the former, a predominance of male over female names, and first names over family names, with a number of hypocorisms. The quantitative part of the study consists of a corpus search of the selected units in the British National Corpus in order to find their frequency and distribution across registers. The search reveals that they have very low levels of occurrence, and are more commonly used in written registers, in particular, in fiction, journalism and miscellaneous texts.

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