scholarly journals Historical-Linguistic Research of the Name of the Rachmaninov’s Clan: from the Indian Brahmans to the Russian Rachmaninov

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 116
Author(s):  
Tamara V. Parshina
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Russian People ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Way

The article is about the roots of the word Rachmaninov and the people who established this clan in Russia. Analysis of the famous theory about the royal roots of the Rachmaninov clan failed to be proved, neither historical facts nor their dates could be proved with the historical documents. The information which is used by the contemporary authors was taken from the S. A. Satina article, who, in her turn, relied on the book by some I. I. Rachmaninov, published in 1895 in Kiev. But there was no such the author, his real name was N. P. Vasilenko. The genuine information was found in the family tree of the Tambov’s branch of Rachmaninovs. The author studied the way of transformation of the original word “Brahman” to the Russian family name. The word belongs to the Hindu literary language saṃskṛta, goes back to the XX century BC with the meaning “the name of Hindu priests serving their God Brahma”. The word got to the Russian lands by the end of X century AC, was used in the Russian religion books, became customary for the Russian people with the meaning of “the dweller of the land near Eden”. When the clan of Moldovian noblemen arrived to Moscovia, the native Russians called them RACHMANs and later changed the name according to the Russian morphological rules for RACHMANINOV with the meaning “the son of Rachman”.

Subgrouping the Sogeram languages

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Daniels ◽  
Danielle Barth ◽  
Wolfgang Barth
Keyword(s):  
Historical Linguistic ◽  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Language Family ◽  
Linguistic Research ◽  
The Way

Abstract Historical Glottometry is a method, recently proposed by Kalyan and François (François 2014; Kalyan & François 2018), for analyzing and representing the relationships among sister languages in a language family. We present a glottometric analysis of the Sogeram language family of Papua New Guinea and, in the process, provide an evaluation of the method. We focus on three topics that we regard as problematic: how to handle the higher incidence of cross-cutting isoglosses in the Sogeram data; how best to handle lexical innovations; and what to do when the data do not allow the analyst to be sure whether a given language underwent a given innovation or not. For each topic we compare different ways of coding and calculating the data and suggest the best way forward. We conclude by proposing changes to the way glottometric data are coded and calculated and the way glottometric results are visualized. We also discuss how to incorporate Historical Glottometry into an effective historical-linguistic research workflow.

scholarly journals Prospects and Challenges of Afan Oromo: A Commentary

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (6) ◽  
pp. 606-612
Author(s):  
Tamene Keneni Walga
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
African Languages ◽  
Unfair Treatment ◽  
The People ◽  
The Way

Afan Oromo- the language of the Oromo- is also known as Oromo. The word ‘Oromo’ refers to both the People of Oromo and their language. It is one of the widely spoken indigenous African languages. It is also spoken in multiple countries in Africa including Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan and Tanzania among others. Moreover, it is spoken as a native language, second language and lingua-franca across Ethiopia and beyond. Regardless of its scope in terms of number of speakers and geographical area it covers, Afan Oromo as a literary language is only emerging  due to perpetuating unfair treatment it received from successive Ethiopian regimes. This commentary sought to examine prospects and challenges of Afan Oromo. To this end, drawing on existing literature and author’s own personal observations, salient prospects and challenges of Afan Oromo have been presented and briefly discussed. Suggestions to confront the challenges foreseen have been proposed by the author where deemed necessary. The paper concludes with author’s concluding remarks concerning the way forward.

scholarly journals Survival of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson processes

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (03) ◽  
pp. 798-814
Author(s):  
Erik Broman ◽  
Ronald Meester
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Convergence ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Survival Probability ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Random Trees ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Percolation Clusters ◽  
The Family ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
The Way

We study the survival properties of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson processes. We determine the so-called branching number (which is the reciprocal of the critical value for percolation) for these random trees (conditioned on being infinite), which turns out to be an almost sure constant. We also shed some light on the way in which the survival probability varies between the generations. When we perform independent percolation on the family tree of an inhomogeneous Galton-Watson process, the result is essentially a family of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson processes, parameterized by the retention probability p. We provide growth rates, uniformly in p, of the percolation clusters, and also show uniform convergence of the survival probability from the nth level along subsequences. These results also establish, as a corollary, the supercritical continuity of the percolation function. Some of our results are generalizations of results in Lyons (1992).

Ethnology and the Study of Culture Change

Africa ◽  
1932 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-392
Author(s):  
Fritz Krause
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
World Economic ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The Way

The ‘Five Year Plan of Research’ of the Institute described in this Journal, vol. v, no. 1, aims at a scientific study of the change in the cultural life of African peoples which, like an inevitable destiny, takes place under the influence of Western civilization. The object of the study is to provide a sound basis for dealing with practical questions of administration and education. Such an investigation must be based on an intensive knowledge of the original culture of the people to be studied; it must ascertain the foreign influences effecting the change, as well as the way in which they affect the culture of the people; and it has to study the changes being brought about by them in the culture. In order to start with concrete phenomena the investigation should, in the first instance, be confined to the changes that are being brought about by world economic conditions in the traditional social order of selected African communities, and in particular to the changes in the economic organization of native society. The study of changes in economic conditions must, however, inevitably lead to an examination of the way in which these affect the family, tribal organization, religious beliefs and sanctions, and the whole social organization. Regarded from the scientific point of view, this is a task which touches upon the most important problems of culture. Ethnology, as the most comprehensive and the most fundamental of the culturesciences, is to an especially high degree interested in this problem and in this investigation. Being myself a student of ethnology as a culturescience, I am venturing to discuss here the questions of principle involved, especially since the principles of culture-science underlying the ‘five year plan’ coincide to a large extent with my own conceptions.

scholarly journals Context: The Role of Place and Heritage in Genealogy

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 58
Author(s):  
Graeme Aplin
Keyword(s):  
Background Information ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
The People ◽  
Geographical Environment ◽  
The Family

Genealogical research often focuses to varying degrees on the family tree and the ancestors that inhabit it, often ignoring, or at least downplaying, broader issues. There is, however, much scope for broadening the research by adding leaves and flowers to the fruit (the people) on the tree. The broader context to a person’s ancestry is often intriguing and enlightening, providing background information that places the people in their environments, perhaps explaining their actions and lifestyles in the process. Two aspects of this context are dealt with here. The first aspect relates to the place in which each person lives, in other words, to their geographical environment, both natural and social or human made. Secondly, their personal heritage is considered: this includes the most important items in their lives, perhaps inconsequential to others but with long-term meaning for them and quite possibly for their descendants. Other broader aspects of heritage may well be relevant, too.

scholarly journals Sea Imagery in Hala Alyan’s Salt Houses

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-43
Author(s):  
Yousef Awad
Keyword(s):  
Family Tree ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Right ◽  
Unborn Baby ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Abstract This article examines how Palestinian American novelist Hala Alyan employs sea imagery in her debut novel Salt Houses (2017) to reflect her characters’ emotions and thoughts. In particular, this article shows that by examining a number of events in which characters are sitting by the sea or wading into the waters of the sea, the reader is given an insight into these characters’ inner feelings and beliefs and the way they perceive their identities and contextualise their experiences as they move from one city to another. As the novel relates the narratives of four generations of a Palestinian family, sometimes using flashbacks, sea imagery increasingly occupies central positions in these narratives which reveal Alia’s and her descendants’ endeavours to express their opinions through memories and experiences of displacement, exile and estrangement. Although the title of the novel rightly heralds the significance of houses, it is the sea that forcefully emerges as a pivotal component in the narratives that these characters relate in their quests for a homeland that lives in the older generation’s memories and the young people’s imaginations. As Alia’s granddaughter, Manar, visits Palestine in the final chapter of the novel and draws the family tree of the Yacoubs on Jaffa’s beach, including her unborn baby, memories and imaginations merge to assert the right of Palestinians to “belong” to their homeland.

scholarly journals PENGENTASAN KEMISKINAN BERBASIS DASAWISMA (ANALISIS KRITIS PROGRAM ANTIKEMISKINAN)

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Miftakhul Choiri
Keyword(s):  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
Local Institutions ◽  
Government Programs ◽  
Policy Structure ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Effective Policy ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Way

AbstractEvaluate to program of policy to against poorness require to be done to get the model or more effective policy strategy. Strategy which on the market by emphasizing at participation of entire citizen as well as state requirement to develop the people potency as maximum. Dasawisma as local institutions at the RT level of 10 -20 members of the family, spearheading the success of an existing government programs. This study is a descriptive and comparative analysis, descriptive method is intended to discover concepts related to poverty alleviation based on local institutions. In this case some of the concepts will be presented as they are, to understand the way the mind poverty alleviation system comprehensively. The comparative method was intended to compare the concept that local institutions and other bases to be elaborated in a new concept of poverty alleviation by dasawisma basis.Conclusion from this research is policy to against poorness base on the dasawisma require not only a way of newly think of the policy content, but also the way of newly think of the policy structure. Keyword: strategy, poverty, dasawisma AbstrakEvaluasi terhadap program kebijakan pengentasan kemiskinan perlu dilakukan untuk mendapatkan model atau strategi kebijakan yang lebih efektif. Strategi yang ditawarkan adalah dengan menekankan pada partisipasi seluruh warga negara dan juga kebutuhan negara untuk mengembangkan potensi rakyat dengan semaksimal mungkin. Dasawisma sebagai institusi lokal di tingkat RT yang terdiri dari 10 -20 anggota keluarga, menjadi ujung tombak keberhasilan suatu program pemerintah yang ada. Penelitian ini bersifat deskriptis, komparatif analisis, dengan metode deskriptif dimaksudkan untuk menemukan konsep yang berkaitan dengan pengentasan kemiskinan berbasis institusi lokal. Dalam hal ini beberapa konsep akan dipaparkan sebagaimana adanya, untuk memahami jalan pikiran sistem pengentasan kemiskinan secara komperhensif. Metode komparatif dimaksudkan untuk membandingkan konsep yang sudah dan basis institusi lokal yang lain untuk dielaborasi dalam sebuah konsep baru pengentasan kemiskinan dengan basis dasawisma. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah kebijakan pengentasan kemiskinan berbasis dasawisma membutuhkan tidak hanya sebuah cara baru berpikir tentang isi kebijakan, tetapi juga cara baru berpikir tentang struktur kebijakan.Kata Kunci: strategi, kemiskinan, dasawisma

scholarly journals Survival of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson processes

2008 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 798-814
Author(s):  
Erik Broman ◽  
Ronald Meester
Keyword(s):  
Uniform Convergence ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Survival Probability ◽  
Critical Value ◽  
Random Trees ◽  
Family Tree ◽  
Percolation Clusters ◽  
The Family ◽  
Watson Process ◽  
The Way

We study the survival properties of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson processes. We determine the so-called branching number (which is the reciprocal of the critical value for percolation) for these random trees (conditioned on being infinite), which turns out to be an almost sure constant. We also shed some light on the way in which the survival probability varies between the generations. When we perform independent percolation on the family tree of an inhomogeneous Galton-Watson process, the result is essentially a family of inhomogeneous Galton-Watson processes, parameterized by the retention probability p. We provide growth rates, uniformly in p, of the percolation clusters, and also show uniform convergence of the survival probability from the nth level along subsequences. These results also establish, as a corollary, the supercritical continuity of the percolation function. Some of our results are generalizations of results in Lyons (1992).

O casă, o poveste. Casă țărănească din satul Sucutard, comuna Geaca, județul Cluj - Parcul Etnografic „Romulus Vuia”

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 216-231
Author(s):  
Carmen Raicu ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
Close Relation ◽  
The Core ◽  
The People ◽  
Historical Figures ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Status ◽  
Peasant Family ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

The aim of describing the house from Sucutard village, exhibited in the The National Ethnographic Park “Romulus Vuia” in Cluj-Napoca, is to better understand the way of living for a peasant family in a Transylvanian village, in the second half of the XIXth century and the first half of the XXth century. In this respect, I interviewed the family descendants, who lived in this house themselves during their childhood and early teenage years. Their personal experience made this research closer to the reality and gave a sense of authenticity. The interviews took place both in the village, on the very ground where the house was originally built and also in the actual place, where it has been moved in 1966. The house is described in close relation with the people that lived in it – moments in which important events with historical figures took place in its yard, the close connection with all the other peasants in the village, their occupations, their day-to-day life inside and outside the house, traditions. Each part of the house and also the surroundings have some story connected to the the way it was used or built. This travel back in time is important in order to see some of the values that were at the core of the peasants’ life in the northern Transylvanian villages and that remained the same, although there were huge changes in the status of the region. In the related period of time, from 1878 up to 1966, the region was part of Hungary during the Austro-Hungarian Dualism up to 1918, part of Romania up to 1940, part of Hungary up to 1944 and again part of Romania afterwords. Of course all this course of events affected the village but in their house and in their yard, the peasants continued to live, in essence, as they always did.

scholarly journals Tradisi Naur Kelaci Dalam Upacara Perkawinan Di Desa Subaya Kecamatan Kintamani, Bangli

HUMANIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 38
Author(s):  
I Dewa Gede Adi Pramana ◽  
I Wayan Suwena ◽  
I Gst Putu Sudiarna
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
The People ◽  
The Family ◽  
Strict Regulation ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
The One ◽  
Religious Theory ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

Subaya Village is the one of the Desa Bali Aga which is located in Kitamani, Bangli district. This village is still retaining the traditional culture which is given by their ancestors. “Naur Kelaci” is the strict regulation of the marriage for Desa Subaya people. It is held on every purnamaning sasih kasa. The poeple believe on sasihkasa to pay the kelaci, based on their reliance that sasihkasa is the best day in paying the kelaci. Naur Kelaci is the one of the last chain from the wedding ceremony of the people who had been married. Hence, based on the understanding, the problem of this research is stated as the following (1) How is the procces of the NaurKelaci in Desa Subaya? (2) What is the function of Naur Kelaci in the wedding ceremony in Desa Subaya?The proccess of NaurKelaci ceremony could be analyzed by the religious theory, while thefunction, is analyzed by the theory of fuctional structural, and simbolic interaction. NaurKelaci tradition andn wedding ceremony is the concept used in this reserach. This research used ethnography reserach method which is categorized as a qualitative research. In order to get the data, interviewing the participants was conducted. The result of this study shows that the ceremony of Naur Kelaci is purposed to avoid the doom in life especially in the family, and it is the way to purify themselves from the negativety, at once also for the village itself from the dirtiness.

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