scholarly journals Feature Names and Identity in Zimbabwe

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Chabata
Keyword(s):  
Historical Event ◽  
Physical Entity ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The Way

This paper is about feature names in Zimbabwe. It focuses on the role played by place names in defining Zimbabwe, both as a physical entity and as a community of speakers with a remarkable history and a sense of nationhood. The paper thus focuses on two types of place names, that is, those that refer to the natural landscape, such as mountains and rivers, as well as those that refer to man-made features such as roads and streets, hospitals and schools. Regarding names that are bestowed onto the features of the natural landscape, we will look at how some place names vividly describe the outstanding features or characteristics of particular geographical features, that is, the extent to which the names are used as tools in describing the features; the way the eye meets the landscape. We will also look at how some names of physical features are coined in response to the landscape's 'behaviour' or in relation to the link the landscape has with historical event(s). The paper will also look at how the bestowal of commemorative names on Zimbabwean features has been used in concretising the Zimbabwean people's link with the country's history, that is, how Zimbabweans have tried to define themselves as a people through naming some of their popular places after names of the country's heroes and heroines, both living and dead.

Discussion on the Intergration of Road Landscape Design and Urban Mining and Metallurgy Culture in Huangshi City

2013 ◽  
Vol 357-360 ◽  
pp. 2002-2004
Author(s):  
Ou Xie ◽  
Yuan Sheng Tu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
Urban Mining ◽  
Urban Road ◽  
Road Design ◽  
Urban Construction ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Environment ◽  
The Way

Road Landscape design does not exist independently in urban construction but intergrates into the urban cultures by design. This article discusses based on Huangshi Mining and Metallurgy culture the urban road design from the aspects of color, pavement, blind sidewalk, plants, and public environment facilities. Also it proposes the way of design that combines cultural landscape and natural landscape according to the city geographical features, therefore makes the urban road landscape design to be more cultural and representative.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jing Meng
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
First Person ◽  
University Of Minnesota ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Cultural Revolution

Autobiography, then, has the unenviable task of confronting, confounding, and even confirming the assumptions, impressions, and (mis)conceptions about the author’s or filmmaker’s identificatory positionings. —Alisa S. Lebow1 1.Alisa S. Lebow, First Person Jewish (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), xviii. Born after the Cultural Revolution, I began to know about that historical event from the odd line in a textbook and through occasional films and television dramas set in that period. To a large extent, filmic representations, be they memoirs or fictions, form the way I perceive and make sense of this historical period that I never experienced. The Cultural Revolution, though known to many people as ten years of turmoil and disaster, seems to me a distant, tough, and yet passionate era. My parents recount anecdotes of their schooldays, and they sometimes even express longing for the ‘good old days’ of innocence and carefreeness. In the 1995 film ...

scholarly journals Perceptions of Medieval Settlement

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Gardiner ◽  
Susan Kilby
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Competing Ideas ◽  
The Way

Medieval archaeologists, possessing elements of the landscape and the buildings of the past, together with a good knowledge of the historical context, can recover many aspects of the way that space was perceived in the past. A phenomenological approach has been applied not only to castles, but also to the mundane world of peasants. Phenomenology emphasizes the experience of the world whereas archaeologists have been no less interested in the way in which that experience was manipulated and also in the competing ideas of space. Examples of encultured landscapes examined include natural places, gentry houses, village tofts, liminal places, and sites of pilgrimage. Drawing upon the evidence of place-names and documents, as well as the archaeological remains, it has been possible to reconstruct how people conceived of and experienced the world around them.

scholarly journals Transliteration System For Nepali Language

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Suresh Man Shrestha
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Place Names ◽  
The Way

Maps are one of the most popular and comprehensive documents in which people can see geographical names and are one of the most effective means to convey accurate place names. In absence of these names it would be very hard to relate the map with the ground. It is very important to standardize these names to get rid of confusion, inconsistency, uncertainty and misunderstanding the names presented in a map. It is rational to develop a Romanization (Transliteration) System for Nepali, not only to support the initiatives of United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) but also to standardize the way the Nepali geographical names are written especially in maps.

Intertwined Landscape

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-65
Author(s):  
Mostafa Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
The State ◽  
Place Names ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Natural Landscape ◽  
The Bible ◽  
State Of Israel ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals ◽  
National Enterprise ◽  
Emergent Culture

This article examines the ways in which Zionist intellectuals interacted with Arabo-Islamic culture in the Yishuv by looking into the cultivation of Islamicate knowledge pertinent to land and nature and its impact on the construction of the Jewish cultural landscape. I argue that in establishing a connection between Jews and the natural landscape of Palestine/ Israel, Jewish intellectuals relied on Arabo Islamic culture and its centuries of knowledge about the flora and the land itself. In their search to comprehend the flora and place names of the land of the Bible, Jewish individuals consulted Arabo-Islamic sources, finding them instrumental to their national enterprise. The culmination of these endeavors is that, in addition to Jewish and Western sources, Islamicate culture was one of the wellsprings from which Jewish intellectuals drew in shaping the emergent culture in the Yishuv and the early decades of the State of Israel.

The Revival of Political Science in China

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (04) ◽  
pp. 745-757 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhao Baoxu ◽  
David Chu
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Science Teaching ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Teaching And Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Important Position ◽  
The Way

As an independent basic social science, the study of politics occupies an important position among all the social sciences. In 1952, however, China abolished political science teaching and research. This was a mistake which is now being corrected. China has reestablished the field of political science in recent years.When a historical event is shown to be mistaken, people often like to describe the reasons for its having taken place as very absurd and unimaginable, as though to demonstrate how confused people were at that time compared with how smart we are now. Such a simple attitude, however, will not help us in understanding the realities scientifically nor will it help us in learning from the lessons of history, and is therefore to be avoided.This essay describes both objective conditions and the way people thought, both in the early 1950s and after 1976. It deals with two opposite events: first, the abolition of political science in China three decades ago, and second, its current revival.

scholarly journals The Etymological Poetry of W. H. Auden, J. H. Prynne, and Paul Muldoon

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Gaudern
Keyword(s):  
Critical Reception ◽  
Historical Event ◽  
Paul Muldoon ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
The Way

This book defines, analyses, and theorises a late modern ‘etymological poetry’ that is alive to the past lives of its words, and probes the possible significance of them both explicitly and implicitly. Close readings of poetry and criticism by Auden, Prynne, and Muldoon investigate the implications of their etymological perspectives for the way their language establishes relationships between people, and between people and the world. These twin functions of communication and representation are shown to be central to the critical reception of etymological poetry, which is a category of ‘difficult’ poetry. However resonant poetic etymologising may be, critics warn that it shows the poet’s natural interest in language degenerating into an unhealthy obsession with the dictionary. It is unavoidably pedantic, in the post-Saussurean era, to entertain the idea that a word’s history might have any relevance to its current use. As such, etymological poetry elicits the closest of close readings, thus encouraging readers to reflect not only on its own pedantry, obscurity, and virtuosity, but also on how these qualities function in criticism. As well as presenting a new way of reading three very different late modern poet-critics, this book addresses an understudied aspect of the relationship between poetry and criticism. Its findings are situated in the context of literary debates about difficulty and diction, and in larger cultural conversations about the workings of language as a historical event.

scholarly journals THE INFLUENCE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES OVER THE DISTRIBUTION OF CEMENT DUST AND OVER IT S ACCUMULATION WITHIN THE SOIL

1970 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gheorghe I. Craioveanu
Keyword(s):  
Cement Dust ◽  
Environmental Features ◽  
Ph Values ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
The Way

The paper emphasizes the way that the main environmental features: the wind, the slope of the field and the physical features of the soil are influencing the distribution of the cement dust on and in the soil. The influence of the wind over the spread of the cement dust is presented in part one of the paper. In the second part of the paper you can find details regarding the influence of the field s slope over the accumulation of cement dust, expressed in CO3Ca percentage and pH values. In part three, the paper presents the influence of some physical features of the soil over the accumulation of cement dust - expressed in CaCO3 percentage and pH values – on plane fields.

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