scholarly journals Evil Spirits as Viewed by the Tuvans

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-146
Author(s):  
Anay-Khaak O. Bazyrchap ◽  
Arzhaana A. Kongu
Keyword(s):  
Field Studies ◽  
General Description ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Popular Knowledge ◽  
Evil Spirits ◽  
Changing Process ◽  
Ritual Practices

Purpose. The article is devoted to the classification of demonological images in the views of the Tuvans based on the materials gathered during field studies. The mythology associated with evil spirits is subject to transformation. It is a dynamic, ever-changing process. Therefore, the publication of new field materials on this topic will help to clarify the existing ideas about the mythology of the Tuvan ethnos and its evolution. Results. The work gives a general description of evil spirits and their habitats, as well as functional and semantic characteristics, which are reflected in ritual practices and popular knowledge. For the Tuvans, most places inhabited by evil spirits are ambivalent, that is, sacred and forbidden at the same time, as well as transboundary. The results of our studies show that certain places are considered by the Tuvans as sacred due to their ideas about the strength of the earth itself, as well as their beliefs about the existence of spirit masters of the area. Conclusion. In general, the study revealed common and specific features in the anthropology of space, its development, taking into account the management of the economy and the traditional way of life of the Tuvans.

Small Industry, Gimmicks and Moscow Statistics, or How the Small Russian Enterprise Came into the World (Russian Physiological Sketch, 1830-1840)

2009 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Yu. Golubitsky
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Russian Enterprise ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Xix Century

The article considers business practices of Moscow small industry in the XIX century, basing upon physiological sketches of N. Polevoy and I. Kokorev, statistical data and the classification of professions are also presented. The author claims that the heroes of the analyzed sketches are the forefathers of Moscow small businesses and shows what a deep similarity their occupations and a way of life bear to the present-day routine existence of small enterprises.

DONG SON BRONZE DRUM - THE WORK OF THE LAC VIET PEOPLE

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nguyen Van Hao
Keyword(s):  
Classification Criteria ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Tribal Identity ◽  
The Relationship

Bronze drums are widely distributed, broader than the range of a nation. Therefore, the identification of each kind of drum is a basic subject, should be concerned. In determining the tribal identity of the drum, the classification of drum is the key stage, the relationship between the objective of the classification and classification criteria is the relation as shape and shadow, if there is no right criteria then the result of division will be difficult to reach the desired goal. Likewise, the criterion of the pattern on the bronze drum brought to the affirmation is the Dong Son bronze drum of the Lac Viet people. And the parallel is the affirmation of the culture, way of life, residence of the nation created the drum.

scholarly journals Ecotoxicological Assessment of Microplastics in Freshwater Sources—A Review

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
Martina Miloloža ◽  
Dajana Kučić Grgić ◽  
Tomislav Bolanča ◽  
Šime Ukić ◽  
Matija Cvetnić ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Complex Problem ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Inorganic Pollutants ◽  
Ecotoxicological Assessment ◽  
Characterization Methods ◽  
Special Concern ◽  
Micro Organisms ◽  
Insight Into

High living standards and a comfortable modern way of life are related to an increased usage of various plastic products, yielding eventually the generation of an increased amount of plastic debris in the environment. A special concern is on microplastics (MPs), recently classified as contaminants of emerging concern (CECs). This review focuses on MPs’ adverse effects on the environment based on their bioactivity. Hence, the main topic covered is MPs’ ecotoxicity on various aquatic (micro)organisms such as bacteria, algae, daphnids, and fish. The cumulative toxic effects caused by MPs and adsorbed organic/inorganic pollutants are presented and critically discussed. Since MPs’ bioactivity, including ecotoxicity, is strongly influenced by their properties (e.g., types, size, shapes), the most common classification of MPs types present in freshwater are provided, along with their main characteristics. The review includes also the sources of MPs discharge in the environment and the currently available characterization methods for monitoring MPs, including identification and quantification, to obtain a broader insight into the complex problem caused by the presence of MPs in the environment.

Problems of Legal Regulation Tourism Safety Problems and Ways to Solve Them

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 515
Author(s):  
Valerii TATSIIENKO ◽  
Ivan MIROSHNYKOV ◽  
Volodymyr KROITOR ◽  
Alevtina BIRIYKOVA ◽  
Elvira ORZHYNSKA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Legal Regulation ◽  
General Description ◽  
History Of

The article provides a general description of the safety of tourism, namely: the history of the issue of ensuring safety in tourism is analyzed, the concept, types and tasks of tourism safety are revealed, and the classification of risks (threats) and sources of danger in the field of tourism is considered; defined the concept, structure and content of the administrative and legal institute of tourism safety, and also disclosed the legal regulation in the field of tourism safety; disclosed the concept and content of administrative and legal tourism safety regime, classify it into types (sub-regimes); describes the administrative and legal measures to ensure the safety of tourism; highlighted the main security problems in the field of tourism and formulate ways to solve them. The purpose of the thesis is a comprehensive and comprehensive research theoretical and practical problems of administrative and legal ensuring the safety of tourism.

scholarly journals Lusatian Folklore in the Slavic Research of the Italian Wolfango (Wolf) Giusti

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Yarema Kravets’ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Mood Classification ◽  
The Way ◽  
Literary Legacy

Purpose: The article is devoted to the Sorbian studies work of the Italian Slavic scholar of Lusatian origin Wolfango Giusti (1901-1980) “The Folk Lusatian Serbian Song” (1926), totally unknown in Ukrainian Slavic scholars’ circles. The author of a large number of Sorbian studies publications printed in the 1920s and 1930s in the pages of Italian Slavic editions, he became a true popularizer of Lusatian culture, and his works found a special reverberation in the research papers of authoritative Sorbian scholars. W. Giusti’s name as researcher and translator has recently been more frequently mentioned in Slavistic publications, his interest in Ukrainian poetry, esp. in the 1920s, is written about. The interest in W. Giusti’s literary legacy is linked, in particular, to his being interested in T. Shevchenko’s and M. Shashkevych’s lyrics. In the research under analysis, the Italian scholar stressed that “the soul of the Lusatian people has found its best and fullest expression in their folk song”. Also mentioned by W. Giusti were Ukrainian folk songs, rich in their multi-genre samples. Results: The paper presents a classification of the most characteristic folk songs, the classification coming to be basis-providing for the Italian scholar: W. Giusti relied on authoritative research papers, including those by the scholars K. Fiedler and B. Krawc. The Italian Slavicist acquaints us with songs of love between brother and sister, love songs about the way of life of the whole people, songs resonating with the motif of fidelity. Neither has the literary scholar bypassed the issue of the neighbouring peoples’ influence experienced by Lusatian culture, particularly that of a Germanic culture, providing some examples of a “spiritual analogy” with German folk songs. W. Giusti completed his short essay by promising to offer the reader, before long, “other genres of the extremely rich Lusatian folklore”. The promise came to be fulfilled as early as the next year, in the work published under the title “Folk Lusatian Serbian Songs”. Key words: Lusatian folklore, Wolfango Giusti, folk song, motif of fidelity/infidelity, dramatic mood, classification of songs, aspects of “Wendish” folklore, Germanic influence.

Hasidic Performance as a Reconstruction of Biblical Life

2021 ◽  
pp. 203-218
Author(s):  
Daniel Reiser
Keyword(s):  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Literary Expression ◽  
Jewish Thought ◽  
Ritual Practices

This chapter discusses a breakthrough by Moshe Idel on the shift in focus in the study of kabbalah and Hasidism from the search for systematic thought and theology to an enquiry into kabbalistic techniques, practices, and rituals. It explores the veritable paradigm shift in kabbalistic scholarship that had an impact on every other field in the study of Judaism. It also talks about finding literary expression through the performative dimension of experience, which is responsible for shaping the Jewish way of life. The chapter describes Idel’s studies of Hasidism, wherein he was primarily interested in the performance by the elite or the tsadikim and excluded a whole range of more popular ritual practices. It investigates the performative dimension of Hasidism in the context of halakhah, folklore, or mystical praxis that has bolstered the performative approach to the study of Jewish thought.

scholarly journals Sustainability in the Anthropocene: Between Extinction and Populism

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 2538
Author(s):  
Manuel Arias-Maldonado
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Policy Goal ◽  
Natural Systems ◽  
Climate Policies ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Climate Action ◽  
The Face ◽  
The One

The pursuit of environmental sustainability has been affected by two significant developments in the last years. On the one hand, the Anthropocene hypothesis suggests that the human impact on the environment has increased to such a degree, that natural systems are now disrupted at a planetary level. The most dangerous manifestation of the Anthropocene is climate change, where there is need for greater urgency in the face of insufficient climate action. There are a number of scientists who currently warn of the possibility that failing to reduce the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere may render the Earth uninhabitable in the first place. A first goal of this paper is thus to ponder how the sustainability paradigm may be affected in the face of this threat and whether, in fact, sustainability may be displaced by “habitability”. On the other hand, some climate policies are eliciting the reaction of a populist movement—from Trumpism to the gilets jaunes in France—that opposes the rise of environmentally-related taxes and denies climate change or questions the severity of its effects. Both as a concept and as a policy goal, sustainability thus finds itself under double pressure: as it must focus on keeping the planet inhabitable, while the political opposition to measures directed towards decarbonization also increases. In what follows, the paper suggests that sustainability should be understood as a technocratic project to keep the planet safe for humanity rather than imposing a new way of life for all its inhabitants. This is not to imply that moral or ideological debate is to be curtailed, but rather to differentiate between achieving environmental sustainability and seeking the reshaping of socionatural relations.

Science and creativity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flavia Bruno
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Reactions ◽  
Scientific Conference ◽  
Scientific Terminology ◽  
Educational Standard ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Earth Structures ◽  
Lithospheric Plates ◽  
Living Organisms

<p>I teach Natural Sciences in a Liceo Artistico, a type of secondary school in Italy. It is designed to give students the skills to progress to any university, but specifically devoted to art related topics.<br>During my career I have been following the national educational standard of the Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca of my Country.<br>During the years students are involved in meaningful hands-on activities   such as the study of the rocks in the country, preparation of easy chemical reactions and observations through a microscope of vegetal and animal organisms. These last ones are very interesting in a Liceo Artistico where many topics focus on the study of the morphology.<br>The theory confirms what the students learn during the practical activities, furthermore it is important to acquire a correct scientific terminology as well as to be able to express scientific issues.<br>I teach during the year the following main topics:<br>Science of Earth: the Solar System, the two motions of the Earth, structures of the Earth surface (rivers, lakes, glaciers, oceans and seas), the Earth’s Spheres, the movement of lithospheric plates.<br>Biology: the characteristics and functions of living organisms especially the cells and the biodiversity. The Evolution, Mendel’s genetic laws, organism-environment relationship in order to valorize and to maintain the biodiversity. Chemistry: state of matter, classification of matter, the Mendeleev’s Periodic Table, the main chemical reactions, atomics models, chemical bonds, chemical nomenclature.<br>The extra-curricular course proposal of my school (POFT-Piano dell’Offerta Formativa Triennale) includes my project whose title is “Science and creativity”. The achievement is to create a link between scientific subjects and the art ones in order to approach knowledge which appear distant but have really many points to share.<br>Every year some classrooms study different topics such as the Nanoparticles, Biomimetic and this year the Adaptations of the animals.<br>After a scientific conference, plastic models and graphic drawings will be realised by the students, who starting from the scientific reality, can express their creativity.<br>During the years I organize some educational visits for example to the Botanic Garden as well as to the countryside; in this way the students have opportunities to create an e-book with texts and photographs.<br>For instance two years ago my classroom created an e-book with botanical cards and the following year another one with the title “Rocce a Milano” where students took pictures and texts about this topic.<br>Many classrooms and teachers are involved in this project for example Plastic and Drawing teachers, as well as Multimedia teachers. I manage to gather the interested teachers and to realize the projects.<br>With our productions we participate in competitions and we are sometimes selected.</p>

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document