scholarly journals Bilingualism and Literary (Non-)Translation: The Case of Trieste and Its Hinterland

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 673-690
Author(s):  
Martina Ožbot
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Literary Translation ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Parallel Lives ◽  
The City ◽  
Culture And Language

This article addresses the question of weak translation activity in bilingual settings. It presents an analysis of the situation in the city of Trieste and its surroundings, where a substantial Slovene minority has lived for centuries alongside the Romance-speaking (mainly Italian) population as well as various other smaller ethnic groups. The Italian and the Slovene communities have had different histories and at various points conflicts between them have arisen, sparked by national issues and complicated further by political circumstances. To a large extent, the two ethnic groups have lived parallel lives, often showing only minimal interest in each other’s culture. This has had an impact on literary translation, the output of which has been rather modest until recently, and often even more so on the reception of translated works – in spite of the city’s rich literature in both Italian and Slovene. This article seeks to identify and explore the nature of this translational relationship, taking into account the underlying social, political, cultural, literary, and linguistic factors. It argues that the situation began to change in the early 1990s when the asymmetries between the two ethnic groups started to diminish and the Slovene culture and language gained greater recognition, which in turn opened new prospects for translation.

Russian Youth in Moscow in the System of Interethnic Relations

2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 88-105
Author(s):  
Lyubov V. Ostapenko ◽  
Roman A. Starchenko ◽  
Irina A. Subbotina
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Russian Population ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
The Face ◽  
Interethnic Interaction ◽  
Interethnic Marriages ◽  
The City

Young people’s participation in optimizing interethnic relations is becoming particularly important in the face of growing interethnic tension, a rise of distrust and suspicion between countries and nations. Based on the analysis of data from the survey carried out among Muscovites aged 16-29, the article is aimed at showing the scale and nature of interethnic interaction between the Russian population of the capital and representatives of other ethnic groups in Moscow, attitude towards such contacts in different spheres of life (including interethnic marriages), young people’s evaluation of the interethnic situation in the city and opinion on the reasons for its instability.

The Gujun Site of the Eastern Zhou Period in Xingtang County, Hebei

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-51
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Warring States Period ◽  
Residential Areas ◽  
Unique Form ◽  
Warring States ◽  
Water Wells ◽  
Spring And Autumn Period ◽  
Eastern Zhou ◽  
Cultural Connotations ◽  
The City

Abstract In the years 2015 through 2017, archaeological excavations were conducted to the Gujun Site in Xingtang County, which recovered burials, chariot-and-horse pits and sacrificial pits, house foundations, water wells, ash pits, kilns, ash ditches and other features, from which artifacts made of gold, bronze, jade, stone, bone, horn and antler, shell and cowry, pottery, etc. were unearthed. The date of this site was from the late Spring-and-Autumn Period to the mid and late Warring-States Period, in which the city site, burials and residential areas were existing together; their dates, locations and cultural connotations are all closely related to the Xianyu tribe and Zhongshan State, especially the chariot-and-horse and animal victim pits with unique form were the first archaeologically discovered remains of this type. The discovery of the Gujun Site reflected the convergence and evolutions of the cultures of the ethnic groups in the Northern Frontier Zone and the Huaxia System, and provided important materials for the researches on the processes of the Sinicization of the northern ethnic groups such as Rong and Di and the configuration of the Chinese nation as a pluralistic integration.

The position and residential patterns of ethnic groups in Paramaribo’s development in the twentieth century

2008 ◽  
Vol 79 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 239-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ad de Bruijne ◽  
Aart Schalkwijk
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Factors ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Ethnic Concentration ◽  
Residential Patterns ◽  
Urban Periphery ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

Analyses ethnic residential patterns, in terms of spatial segregation, in Paramaribo, as these developed historically, and their correlation to the changing socioeconomic position of the various ethnic groups. Authors first point out how Paramaribo is at present one of the most multiethnic and multicultural cities of the Caribbean, and discuss the continuing importance of ethnic identity and boundaries. They further describe the history of Paramaribo's development since the period of slavery and after abolition, when many Creoles migrated to the city. Hindustani started migrating in higher numbers to Paramaribo since the early 20th c., mainly to the urban periphery, and since the 1960s also more Javanese. More recently (since the 1980s) migrants to Paramaribo include Maroons, Amerindians, Chinese, and Brazilians. Authors examine in how far the residential patterns were determined by socioeconomic factors, and/or by ethnicity. They conclude that socioeconomic factors have overall become more influential in residential patterns than ethnicity. They point out that residential ethnic mixing has increased, as almost half of Paramaribo's neighbourhoods are mixed, with no dominant ethnic group, although some ethnic concentration continues, as a quarter of the neighbourhoods can be called Creole, one-fifth of them Hindustani, and Creoles (and Maroons) reside for a higher percentage in the city centre, and Hindustani and Javanese more in the urban periphery.

Open Admissions and Equal Access: A Study of Ethnic Groups in the City University of New York

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Lavin ◽  
Richard Alba ◽  
Richard Silberstein
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Educational Inequality ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Academic Standards ◽  
Open Admissions ◽  
Definitive Evidence ◽  
Admissions Policy ◽  
The University ◽  
The City

In 1970 the City University of New York (CUNY) adopted a policy which guaranteed admission to every graduate of the city's high schools. Designed to increase the proportion of minority students in the university and to slow the reproduction of social inequality,CUNY's open-admissions policy has been criticized as a threat to academic standards and as an unnecessary expense during periods of economic scarcity. In this article, David Lavin,Richard Alba, and Richard Silberstein argue instead that there has been no definitive evidence of a decline in standards and that the policy has been successful in reducing educational inequality. Basing their conclusions on a detailed study of the first three classes admitted under this policy, the authors examine its effects on the university's ethnic composition and integration at various levels, and on the academic performance of different ethnic groups.

Signs and Meanings in the Representations of their Home City by the School Pupils of Daugavpils

2012 ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Mairita Folkmane ◽  
Ilva Skulte
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Semiotic Analysis ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
The Public ◽  
Living Together ◽  
Ethnic Schools ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

Daugavpils historically was the place where different ethnic groups are living together, interacting on the public spaces. The mixture of cultures is represented in the city landscape - home to every inhabitant, still having differents accents, figures and symbolical meanings. The following paper is based on the semiotic analysis of the pictures made by the pupils of different (ethnic) schools of Daugavpils, in order to understand what and how cildren "see" their city - what are the signs they use to construct the message about their city together and what do they mean - how different is a pictorial message. To do the analysis collection of the children drawings was made for an exhibition in the hall of the city munipality of Daugavpils - a material for our research. The findings show that besides of expected reference to different cultural traditions and some aestetical preferences, no difference exists between the way children represent their city. Diversity of cultural footprints in the landscape of the city and the pride for their city is present in the works of children coming from different ethnic, linguistic and cultural environments.

scholarly journals Surname affinity in Santiago, Chile: A network-based approach that uncovers urban segregation

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. e0244372
Author(s):  
Naim Bro ◽  
Marcelo Mendoza
Keyword(s):  
Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Population Structure ◽  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
High Socioeconomic Status ◽  
Socioeconomic Index ◽  
High Degree ◽  
The City

Based on a geocoded registry of more than four million residents of Santiago, Chile, we build two surname-based networks that reveal the city’s population structure. The first network is formed from paternal and maternal surname pairs. The second network is formed from the isonymic distances between the city’s neighborhoods. These networks uncover the city’s main ethnic groups and their spatial distribution. We match the networks to a socioeconomic index, and find that surnames of high socioeconomic status tend to cluster, be more diverse, and occupy a well-defined quarter of the city. The results are suggestive of a high degree of urban segregation in Santiago.

scholarly journals Kontestasi antar orang asli Papua terhadap hak pertuanan di Kaimana

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Cahyo Pamungkas
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The Social ◽  
Customary Rights ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

This article is addressed to describe the social relations within the Papuan ethnic groups and between Papua native and migrants concerning some customary rights in Kaimana district. This research describes the struggle of inland and beach tribes in fighting for customary rights of land in Kaimana. Moreover, it captures the respond of migrants in dealing with the customary right. This study shows the recognition of the the eldest ethnic in Kaimana is a strategy and discourse constructed by Papua ethnic groups that have felt marginalized while migrants have taken their resources. This right could be understood as the need for recognition of Papua ethnic groups. The most important issue is not who the native of Kaimana is, but what the proper ways to give recognition to Papua ethnic groups which had been left behind in development are. The relation between the Papua natives and migrants in Kaimana is not complicated as the migrants have no privileges in the political contestation. However, these relationship are affected by the differences in religious affiliations. The Muslim Papua ethnic groups generally have a closer relationship with the Muslim migrants. The analytical framework of this study using the theoretical framework of identity and ethnicity to look at the issue. Does the definition of identity and ethnicity according to sociological theories are still relevant to understanding the issue of claims of ethnic identity in the city of Kaimana.

scholarly journals Ethnographic tourism as a reserve of social and economic development of Ukrainian Carpathians

2016 ◽  
pp. 141-147
Author(s):  
Natalia Dnistryanska
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social And Economic Development ◽  
Wellness Tourism ◽  
The City ◽  
Ethnic Festivals

Ethnographic tourism is considered as a provision of tourist services through engaging the attractive elements of traditional culture and way of life of ethnic groups of a certain nation. Ukrainian Carpathians have a great potential of ethnographic resources that form the material and spiritual components of the traditional culture of Ukrainian people. Concentration of resources of ethnographic tourism is significantly differentiated in Huzul, Boyko and Lemko ethnographic areas. Resources of ethnographic tourism in Hutsul ethnographic region, on the basis of which Verhovyna-Kryvorivnya, Kosiv, Yaremcha, Vyzhnytsya-Putyla and Rakhiv-Yasinya tourist clusters form, are preserved, ordered and information actualized best of all. The largest centre of ethnographic tourism in Boyko ethnographic area is the city of Turka. The basis of ethnographic tourism within Lemko ethnographic region may be holding of ethnic festivals. Prospects of ethnographic tourism in the Ukrainian Carpathians depend on its cooperation with other types of tourism – active sports and wellness tourism, ecotourism, agrotourism. Key words: ethnographic tourism, tourist resources, Ukrainian Carpathians, ethnographic areas, tourist clusters.

Jonatan Meir, Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948), trans. Avi Aronsky. Leiden: Brill, 2016. 269 pp.

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Cultural Factors ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Institutional Economic ◽  
The City ◽  
Potent Factor

This chapter reviews the book Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem (1896–1948) (2016), by Jonatan Meir, translated by Avi Aronsky. In Kabbalistic Circles in Jerusalem, Meir focuses on the proliferation of Sharabian yeshivot and shows that it represented a critical move toward exotericism within what was previously one of the most esoteric branches of modern Kabbalah. He highlights the institutional, economic, and cultural factors underlying this phenomenon—the last pertaining to the competing claims of ethnic groups such as the Baghdadis, Bukharins, and immigrants from Aleppo (Halabis). Meir explores these changes in the context of the literary and political life of pre-state Jerusalem to demonstrate how the Sharabian seminaries became a potent factor in the life of the city.

The Code of Silence across the Hong Kong Eurasian Community(ies)

Meeting Place ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicky Lee
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
Code Of Silence ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The City

This chapter examines the dynamics of Hong Kong’s Eurasian community (from the 1860s to the 1960s) in terms of the community’s perception of its own members, the attitudes of its members towards their own European and Chinese heritage, and the mutual perceptions and interactions with other ethnic groups in the city during the period in question. Despite the fact that many Eurasians have served in various roles in Hong Kong, in both the public and private sectors, from doctors and lawyers to nurses, teachers, clerks and stenographers, particularly since the late 1800s, not much is known about this community. Unlike other ethnic groups such as the Parsee and the Portuguese communities, who shared a common religion common cultural practices identity, the sense of community among Eurasians was nebulous and sporadic. Ironically, one common practice shared by members of this community was a conscious attempt to de-emphasize their membership of this ethnic group and a reluctance to acknowledge their Eurasian heritage both on an individual and collective level.

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