scholarly journals КЪМ ВЪПРОСА ЗА БЪЛГАРСКОТО ЕТНИЧЕСКО МАЛЦИНСТВО В ОЛТЕНИЯ, РУМЪНИЯ. ЕЗИКЪТ НА СВИНИЧАНИТЕ КАТО ЕТНОГРАФСКА ГРУПА НА БЪЛГАРСКИЯ НАРОД / ON THE BULGARIAN ETHNIC MINORITIES IN OLTENIA, ROMANIA. THE LANGUAGE OF THE INHABITANTS OF SVINIȚA AS AN ETNOGRAPHIC GROUP WITHIN THE BULGARIAN PEOPLE

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (04) ◽  
pp. 62-75
Author(s):  
DANIELA ANDREY
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Common Features ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
Scientific Value ◽  
Bulgarian People

The inhabitants of the Sviniţa village in Mehedinţi County are Bulgarian natives who have preserved their ethnic identity and 15th-century dialect which shares common features with the one spoken in Novo Selo (Vidin). Bulgarian, Hungarian, Serbian and Romanian linguists have proved or, on the contrary, have put into question the Bulgarian origin of the population of Sviniţa, based on the study of its material and spiritual culture as reflected in local vocabulary, ethnonymy, onomastics, etc. This dialect represents both old and new grammatical features of Bulgarian, such as: the reduction of unstressed vowels: а:ъ (браздḁ), е:ъ (е) (бóлън); Bulgarian-specific reflexes ь:ъ, ър/ръ, ъл/лъ, (бърдо, бръв, вълна, ябълка) which are impossible to pronounce in Serbian; phonetic changes such as the elision of h (aiduk); the absence of the infinitive, etc. The presentation of this material is not intended to question the scientific value of previous works and earlier authors’ capacity to account for certain aspects of the history and language of the Bulgarian minorities in Oltenia, but rather aims at providing an overview of the abundant bibliography, mostly unknown to Romanian scholars, and at emphasising that the language and culture of this minority may still represent a viable subject for research.

scholarly journals The Narrative about the History of the Shenekhen Buryats

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. p1
Author(s):  
L. B. Badmaeva
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
National Pride ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
First Time ◽  
Soviet Historiography ◽  
Empirical Material

The article is devoted to the narrative written by Bodongut Abida about the history of the emigration of the Aga Buryats to China at the beginning of the XX century, which was of an economic and ethno-protective nature. The aim of this research is to introduce into scientific circulation a new document on the history of Buryat emigration.  In the Soviet historiography until now days, it was customary to keep silent about the emigration of the Buryats to China. The main attention is focused on the content of the written monument in the Old Mongolian script. The structure of the work is considered. For the first time is given the biographical information about Bodongut Abida. The data used for this research were taken from this document and the Buryat chronicles written in Old Mongolian script in XIX century. Based on the results of the analysis, it was found that the process of loss of the native language and the ethnic identity among the Buryats of China received significantly less development than the Buryat ethnos in Russia. The empirical material shows that the one of the most important factors in the consolidation of the ethnic group and the ethnic identity of the Shenekhen Buryats is the language, the possession of the Mongolian script, which is the traditional letter of the Mongolian peoples. Besides the sense of national pride and national self-awareness, as well as the factor of the compact settlement of the ethnos in the dominant Mongolian-speaking environment are the factors of their consolidation. In addition, the present state of the language and culture of the Shenekhen Buryats is presented, based on the expedition materials of the author of this paper.

Genes, cognition, and social behavior: Next steps for foundations and researchers

2011 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur Lupia
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Political Science ◽  
National Science Foundation ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Unpublished Report ◽  
Summary Statement ◽  
The One ◽  
Scientific Value

Editor's note This well circulated but heretofore unpublished report is the summary statement of an interdisciplinary meeting of scholars convened by the National Science Foundation in Arlington, Virginia on June 28, 2010. The workshop, which was funded by the NSF's Political Science Program (Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences Grant #1037831), was convened to answer two compelling questions: Are studies of social behavior that build from discoveries about genes and/or cognition of greater social and scientific value than studies of the same topics that ignore such factors? And, how can fundable research on genes, cognition, and politics generate transformative scientific practices, infrastructure, and findings of high social value? Assembled for the workshop were a group of scholars representing diverse yet increasingly connected research areas, including genetics, cognitive science and neuroscience, decision making and risk analysis, economics, political science, and sociology. The resulting report outlines the substantial challenges facing interdisciplinary research but also describes the considerable contributions to knowledge that could result from sustained collaborations between biologists, geneticists, and brain scientists on the one hand and social scientists on the other. Following this main report are three white papers by Jeremy Freese. Elizabeth Hammock, and Rose McDermott, which address importmant considerations related to the discussion. For a download of the full report, see http://www.isr.umich.edu.cps/workshop.Welcome.html.

Some Important Factors Hindering the Civic Integration of Ethnic Minorities

2021 ◽  
Vol X (2) ◽  
pp. 35-48
Author(s):  
Kakha Gabunia ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
General System ◽  
Language Barrier ◽  
The State ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Local Staff ◽  
Majority Group ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic

The purpose of this article is to compile and group the list of problems that hinder the integration of ethnic minorities in the political, economic and cultural life of the country, based on research conducted by various organizations over the past 10 yearს. According to these studies, the main problem is, on the one hand, the language barrier and, on the other hand, ethnic-nationalist tendencies and stereotypes. These national mythologies and notions play one of the crucial roles in the formation of national self-identification. Ethno-nationalist tendencies are strong both in minorities and in ethnic Georgians. There are several factors behind the emergence of the ethnonationalism in Georgia First of all, it is the legacy of Soviet totalitarianism, as well as the result of the current socio-political situation. Understanding these two factors will give us a better answer as to why ethnic-nationalist sentiments are still prevailing in Georgia and why the integration of the ethnic minorities is hindered, despite being repeatedly declared by the state. The language barrier of ethnic minorities is also an important problem in the process of integration into society. The education system should make the knowledge of the state language accessible to ethnic minorities and, at the same time, ensure the protection of minority languages. To do this, the state must maximize and encourage local staff; The general system of education should ensure the upbringing of the citizen of the country and not put any group (even the majority) in an advantageous situation. show the advantage of any (even the majority) group.

scholarly journals Jewish fish (ΙΧΘΥΣ) in post-supersessionist water: Messianic Judaism within a post-supersessionistic paradigm

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Willitts
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
New Testament ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Messianic Judaism ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
The One ◽  
The Church

This article defines, explains and argues for the necessity of a post-supersessionistic hermeneutical posture towards the New Testament. The post-supersessionistic reading of the New Testament takes the Jewish nature of the apostolic documents seriously, and has as its goal the correction of the sin of supersessionism. While supersessionism theologically is repudiated in most corners of the contemporary church through official church documents, the practise of reading the New Testament continues to exhibit supersessionistic tendencies and outcomes. The consequence of this predominant reading of the New Testament is the continued exclusion of Jewish ethnic identity in the church. In light of the growing recognition of multiculturalism and contextualisation on the one hand, and the recent presence of a movement within the body of Messiah of Jewish believers in Jesus on the other, the church’s established approach to reading Scripture that leads to the elimination of ethnic identity must be repudiated alongside its post-supersessionist doctrinal statements. This article defines terms, explains consequences and argues for a renewed perspective on the New Testament as an ethnic document; such a perspective will promote the church’s cultivation of real embodied ethnic particularity rather than either a pseudo-interculturalism or the eraser full ethnicity.

scholarly journals Metodologia Powszechnego Spisu Ludności I Mieszkań 2011 r. w zakresie pytań etnicznych

2013 ◽  
pp. 97-133
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Gołata
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Sample Survey ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Regional Dialects ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
Small Area Statistics ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
The One

The aim of the study is to assess the methodology of 2011 Population and Housing Census in terms of ethnic questions. The study focused on questions concerning national minorities and ethnic and regional dialects aside from issues of religion. Assessing census methodology legal regulations were discussed, including relation between census estimates and statutory rights of national minorities. In this topic, attention was paid to the protection of “privacy” and the confidentiality of personal data, the reliability of ethnic data obtained in censuses and the need for their acquisition. Afterwards relationship between international recommendations and the way the recognition of ethnic questions in 2011 census was presented. With regard to methodological issues, first methods of conducting population censuses were discussed. Comparing the traditional method, and the one based on administrative records, the attention was drawn to the fulfillment of the UN Recommendations as concerns basic characteristics of the census. Focused on register-based approach, the possibilities of estimating information relating to national and ethnic minorities were discussed. Attention was paid to the consequences of defining different categories of the census population and sample survey conducted within the 2011 census. Possibilities of small area statistics and calibration were presented. Particular attention was paid to the possibility of estimating information on national and ethnic minorities.

scholarly journals To Publish, Make Known and Sell or Promoting Printed Books in the Incunabula Period

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-356
Author(s):  
Lucia Lichnerová
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
The Other ◽  
Book Production ◽  
Book Market ◽  
Design Elements ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Printed Books ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The One

The study To Publish, Make Known and Sell is based on verified existence of competition tensions between the 15th century typographers/publishers, related to the absence of functional regulatory tools of book production of the incunabula period. The increase in the number of book-printers within the relatively narrow geographical area, disregard of publishers’ privileges, the emergence of pirated reprints, as well as insufficient self-promotion on the book market through introducing novelties had concentrated typographers’ attention on devising new tools of securing their triumph in publisher’s competition – the so called book advertisements. The author has analysed 44 promotional posters of the incunabula period from several points of view and attempted to identify their design elements, which on the one hand showed signs of certain standardization, while on the other hand they were subject to personal creativity of their creator. She gives detailed overview of the circumstances of the origin, typographic design and contents of book advertisements of several kinds within the context of promoting either the existing or planned editions, of one edition or a group of books; specifically focusing on the unique types of advertising. In conclusion, the author cites the circumstances of the extinction of book advertisements related to the rise of the new promotional tool – booksellers’ catalogue and submits a bibliography of the book advertisements dating from the 15th century.

scholarly journals The essentialness of diachrony

Diacronia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisc Gafton
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Natural Entities ◽  
The One ◽  
And Function

Natural entities—plants and animals, on the one hand, society, language, and culture, on the other—emerge through an assiduous diachronic effort, respond to diachronically developed needs, exist and function diachronically. However, through the instruments at his disposal, man can only perceive and grasp the “fragment”, seizing it for a prolonged instant, which explains his objective tendency to segment the spatiotemporal reality according to his own proportions and abilities. Reality itself, however, cannot be subjected to the unnatural segregation of one of its own products and elements, and cannot be fully comprehended in any other way than how it exists: as a whole. At the end of the synchronic road, what offers comprehension and understanding of the ontologically-becoming whole is the path of the diachronic method.

Creolization and Creole Communities in the Portuguese Atlantic: São Tomé, Cape Verde, the Rivers of Guinea and Central Africa in Comparison

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
GERHARD SEIBERT
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Central Africa ◽  
Cape Verde ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
Local Cultures

The Portuguese maritime expansion from the 15th century led to interactions and trade between Europeans and Africans. In places where the Portuguese established permanent bases, social interaction with Africans entailed processes of biological and cultural mixing, the outcome of which varied significantly depending on the different geographic, demographic, political and linguistic circumstances. In particular historical and social-cultural contexts, acculturation assumed the form of creolisation, a concept that is defined as a process of ethnicisation and indiginisation whereby former ethnic identities disappear and are replaced by a new ethnic identity. According to this definition, Creole societies only emerged in the archipelagos of Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, but not in the Rivers of Guinea, where creolisation only partly occurred with regard to one particular group. Creole cultures did not emerge in Kongo or Angola either, where local cultures and languages remained largely intact.

Curriculum Development, Implementation and Evaluation of Project Integrated Online Training

2010 ◽  
pp. 342-363
Author(s):  
Peter Haber ◽  
Erich Herber ◽  
Manfred Mayr
Keyword(s):  
Global Market ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Highly Qualified ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Management Skills ◽  
Virtual Collaboration ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Certification Programs ◽  
Addie Model ◽  
The One

New project management skills and processes are prerequisites to meet the challenges of the globalization. Enterprises, companies and institutions that are operating in transnational and distributed ICT projects on global market need highly qualified project-managers for virtual collaboration. Most training organizations and certification programs focus only on classical soft and technical skills. Participants and most important managers of distributed projects however need training and practice in virtual collaboration and intercultural aspects to be able to consider international socio-cultural issues encountered in business. Therefore, the target of Pool2Business (P2B) was to establish on the one hand a modular online course to address certain specific requirements and qualifications of a company as well language and culture specific differences between participants and on the other hand to ensure with Project Integrated Training parts that the learning outcomes can be immediately used in practical application. By following an adapted and extended ADDIE Model, the P2B-Consortium was able to establish the whole Curriculum more effectively by having the same strategies, following the same procedures and knowing the next steps to fulfill the target of P2B.

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