scholarly journals Runyoga: Från arisk blodsmystik till nyandlig självutveckling

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 69-89
Author(s):  
Fredrik Gregorius
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Ethnic Background ◽  
Spiritual Practice ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Alternative Spirituality ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Racial Supremacy

Rune yoga is a spiritual practice based on the idea that the Runic alphabet can be used for spiritual and magical purposes. Based on an interpretation of the Runes where every letter in the alphabet is considered to contain within it a source of mystical powers Rune Yoga uses techniques inspired by Indian yoga to channel these forces. While contemporary Rune Yoga has become a part of Heathen and Alternative Spirituality that attracts people from a variety of Ethnic background the origin of the practice lies within the Ariosophical movement, a racial form of Esotericism that developed in Germany and Austria in the early 20th century. In this article the origin of Rune Yoga within the Ariosphical movement is presented, how it was integrated in ideas about Aryan racial supremacy. The article continues to show how Rune Yoga later migrated to North America and became a practice used within a non-racial milieu and what aspects remained from the original Ariosophical movement. The article argues that while some aspects of Ariosophical thinking remains within Rune Yoga the racial aspects have ceased to be important. Rather than focusing on race modern Rune Yoga focus in self-improvement for the individual and there is a lack of collectivist goals.

A bird that changes colour without moulting: how the wîskicâhk (Canada Jay, Perisoreus canadensis) tricked the taxonomists

2021 ◽  
Vol 99 (3) ◽  
pp. 183-195
Author(s):  
Dan Strickland ◽  
Stéphanie M. Doucet
Keyword(s):  
Spectral Analysis ◽  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Colour Change ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Museum Specimens ◽  
Cautionary Tale ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Perisoreus Canadensis ◽  
Animal Colouration

Avian and mammalian colours are thought to be constant in life and in museum specimens, but several early 20th-century taxonomists singled out the Canada Jay (Perisoreus canadensis (Linnaeus, 1766)) as having unstable feather pigments and warned against using old museum specimens for taxonomic purposes. One such error was Brisson’s (1760) original naming of the species as “the Brown Jay of Canada”. Another was Ridgway’s (1899) naming of the “Gray Jay” as a new subspecies, Perisoreus (canadensis) griseus, through inappropriate comparison of fresh grey specimens with old brown ones. We discovered that browning of initially grey plumage also occurs between annual moults in living individuals of the Canada Jay’s Pacific morphotype. We documented this change using photographs and re-sightings of colour-banded individuals and through spectral analysis of year-old (brown) and incoming (grey) rectrices collected from the same moulting individuals. To assess the distribution of this colour change, we compared September vs. May eBird photographs from across North America. We showed that seasonal colour change is normal in the Pacific morphotype but rare in the two other morphotypes. Collectively, these data have important implications for the taxonomy of the Canada Jay and are a cautionary tale for taxonomists studying animal colouration.

Genurile romanului românesc (1901-1932). O analiză cantitativă

Transilvania ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 53-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei Terian ◽  
Daiana Gârdan ◽  
Emanuel Modoc ◽  
Cosmin Borza ◽  
Dragoș Varga ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Present Article ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
Genre Theory ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Self

Combining the instruments of quantitative analysis with those of genre theory, the present article studies the ratio, characteristics, and tendencies underpinning the most important subgenres of the Romanian novel between 1901 and 1932. Among these subgenres, we lay special emphasis on those of popular fiction, on the social, historical, sentimental, psychological, and philosophical novel, as well as on the so-called “event novel”. The conclusions of our inquiry illustrate the ever-growing divide between artistic literature and popular fiction, the recasting of the Romanian novelistic subgenres during the early 20th century, and the gradual relocation of the novelists’ focus from the unmediated depiction of events towards the world and the individual self.

scholarly journals Some Thoughts on Biography and the Historiography of the Twentieth-Century Arab World1

2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-20
Author(s):  
Laila Parsons
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
North American ◽  
English Language ◽  
Life Story ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
English Speaking World

The number of English-language biographies of Arab subjects is tiny compared to the number of English-language biographies of North American and European subjects. I argue that this discrepancy is due to three main factors: the preponderance of historians of Europe and North America in history departments in the English-speaking world; the limited crossover market for serious biographies of Arab subjects; and difficulties arising from access to, and the style of, the Arabic sources. A fragment from the life-story of Fawzi al-Qawuqji, an early-20th-century Arab nationalist and soldier, is introduced as a way of pointing to the challenges of using Arabic memoirs to craft a biographical narrative in English.

scholarly journals Identification and Identity: Differentiating the Conceptual terms

wisdom ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-52
Author(s):  
Iryna RAYEVSKA ◽  
Olena MATUZKOVA ◽  
Olga GRYNKO
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Existential Approach ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
Individual Self ◽  
World Image

The problem of identity and identification has been occupying a prominent place in research studies since the early 20th century and is one of the most relevant issues in the science of the late 20th - early 21st centuries. It is determined by the changes in socio-cultural reality in the post-modern societies of the second half of the 20th century, the crisis in the existential approach to the personality studies, enhanced integrative trends in the scientific thinking, its humanitarianization and anthropocentric nature. This research paper looks at the actualization of the studies on identity and identification, describes the history and scope of the identification studies, substantiates the differentiation between the terms of individual/collective identity and identification. The subject of the article is the phenomenological and conceptual essence of identity and identification. The goal of the article is to substantiate identity and identification as the phenomena and scientific concepts. The methodological basis of the research includes the complex of the general research methods, namely: observation, description, induction and deduction, analysis and synthesis, taxonomy and modelling. The differentiation of the investigated terms reduces to the fact that identification serves as a foundation for constructing identity, so they correlate as a mechanism, process, and result of such mechanism’s operation in an individual self-conscious. Identification is seen as a cognitive-and-emotional mechanism of identity construction, due to which the subject constructs his or her own sameness. Identity is a result of recognition and emotional assessment of the individual-and-group and collective characteristics by an individual or group. Such characteristics have been endorsed by the relevant others as a result of constructing the world image, the image of the collective, of individual's or group's self and their place in there, basing on the specific identifying features.

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