The Study of the Northern Tungus in the Academic Project “History of Yakutia”

In this paper, it is noted that new development in the Tungus-Manchu studies has begun by the virtue of writing a three-volume work “History of Yakutia”. It was found that, as the result, a new stage of the development of the fundamental science in the field of research of the peoples of Yakutia has begun. It is emphasized that the developed concept of creating the large-volume work allowed conducting a multi-faceted investigation; new archival and other materials were drawn into research, which had not received sufficient attention previously. It is shown how, according to the concept of publishing “History of Yakutia”, in the mainstream of the history of the peoples of Yakutia, presentation of the existing material is possible not only from the point of view of the traditional ethnographic approach by each group individually and by all conventional means of subsistence of the ethnic culture. It is concluded that the development and transformation of the territory by the nomadic Tungus-Manchu Cultures was actively manifested in the expansion to the North (an example of Even-Bytantai Ulus of Yakutia can be noted) and to the East (notably, to the Far East, including the insular territory of the Russian Federation). It is noted that the Tungus-Manchu peoples of Russia fell into the category of the “northern” nations in the very course of the development of the northern territories. These nations developed a unique school of adaptation of their culture to the environmental conditions of the northern spaces. It is the vision of the Tungus histoty as a whole, and of the history of small Tungus-Manchu nations, in particular, as a powerful momentum that played an important role in the history of the development of the vast territories, that seems new and topical. There have been presented examples of the updated source base for the study of the development of the territory by Tungus ethnic minorities, which reveals the potential of a synthesis of the study of the vocabulary and folklore of the Tungus-Manchu peoples and archaeological artifacts, in comparison with archival materials (primarily, archives of Yakutia.

Systemic Reading in Literary Historiography: Politicisation and Instrumentalization of the Autonomy of the Aesthetic as a Strategy of Repositioning During the 90s

The present paper proposes to follow the evolution of the principle of the autonomy of the aesthetic during the 90’s, with a special focus on the discrepancy between its discourse and its practice, in contrast to its instantiation as a systemically challenging discourse before ’89. Starting from Mihai Iovănel’s recent landmark literary historiographical project History of Contemporary Romanian Literature: 1990-2020, put in conjunction with Gisèle Sapiro’s research on the relative nature of the autonomy in the field theory, the present study aims to show how inside of the Romanian literary field, the concept of autonomy was always instrumentalised towards certain political and ideological interests. These implicit biases are revealed as the actual function of the autonomist discourse via the contextualizing and sociological analyses performed by Iovănel which makes manifest the extra-literary facts surrounding the events within the field. Such an understanding of the autonomy of the aesthetic is also informed by Gisele Sapiro’s theoretical contributions, thus revealing the relative nature of the autonomy and its political and ideological function within the local literary field.

Checking In With Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA

Google Books and HathiTrust have been making headlines in the library world and beyond for years now, while a new player, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), has only recently entered the scene. This article will provide a “state of the environment” update for these digital library projects including project history and background. It will also examine some challenges common to all three projects including copyright, orphan works, metadata, and quality issues

Checking In With Google Books, HathiTrust, and the DPLA

Google Books and HathiTrust have been making headlines in the library world and beyond for years now, while a new player, the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), has only recently entered the scene. This article will provide a “state of the environment” update for these digital library projects including project history and background. It will also examine some challenges common to all three projects including copyright, orphan works, metadata, and quality issues

Implementando o Gitflow para Gerencia de Configuração em um Projeto de Desenvolvimento de Software Ágil: Um Relato de Experiência

In software engineering, Software Configuration Management is a set of support activities that allows for the orderly absorption of changes inherent to software development. For that, organization models for code versioning like Gitflow have been proposed. In Gitflow, two fixed branches (master and develop) are used to store the project history and be the starting point for changes. Despite the popularity of Gitflow for being considered a simple workflow, there are few: (a) reports of its use in practice and / or (b) documentation on how to deploy it in a real environment. This paper presents the process of adapting Gitflow and creating rules for its application in a real software development project. This adaptation took into account the opinions of managers and developers of a team of approximately 30 people within an agile Scrum life cycle. As a result, definitions and documents were generated to keep track of development, in addition to defining the necessary steps for its application considering the development process adopted by the team.

«THE THEME OF THE CIVIL WAR CANNOT BE MOVED TO THE ARCHIVES»: CONCERNING THE ATTITUDE OF LARAN (LBB) TO MAXIM GORKIJ’S PUBLISHING PROJECT

The article deals with the interactions between the Literary Association of the Red Army and Navy (Leningrad Baltic Branch) and Gorkij’s publishing project «History of the Civil War»: the critics and the heads of the branch encouraged its other members to support the project, but moved no further to achieve a result. The situation seemed to have emerged from their predominant interest in exploring the theme of the modern army and navy.

Estabilidade e mudança na estruturação de segmentos tópicos em cartas de leitor: contribuição à história do português brasileiro

Neste trabalho, consideramos a concepção de Eugenio Coseriu sobre os níveis de linguagem e entendemos que um processo de construção textual como tal não pertence a nenhuma língua (nível histórico), mas ao nível individual dos textos. Nesses termos, um determinado processo pode ser repetido, ao longo do tempo, em um conjunto de textos relacionados a um gênero e ser configurado como uma tradição discursiva. Nesse sentido, nosso objetivo é analisar as permanências, modificações ou exclusões da estruturação interna de segmentos tópicos mínimos em um conjunto de cartas de leitores que constituem o corpus do Projeto História do Português Brasileiro no Rio Grande do Norte (PHPB-RN). Observamos padrões de repetição, exclusão e inserção que mobilizam subunidades de duas regras prototípicas de estruturação intratópica, ligadas ao propósito comunicativo do gênero, o que constitui uma tradição discursiva. No presente caso, uma tradição instável. In this work, we consider Eugenio Coseriu´s conception about language levels and understand that a process of textual construction as such does not belong to any language (historical level), but to the individual level of texts. In these terms, a given process can be repeated, over time, in a set of texts related to a genre and be configured as a discursive tradition. In this sense, our objective is to analyze the permanences, modifications or exclusions of the internal structuring of minimum thematic segments in a set of reader’s letters that constitute the corpus of the Project History of Brazilian Portuguese in Rio Grande do Norte (PHPB-RN). We have observed patterns of repetition, exclusion, and insertion which mobilize subunits of two prototypical rules of intra-topic structuring, connected to the genre’s communicative purpose, which constitutes a discursive tradition. In the present case, an unstable tradition.

Designed for machines. Italian bridges and viaducts (1965-1990)

This contribution is a result of the researches, carried out by the authors as part of the SIXXI project - History of Structural Engineering in Italy in the 20th Century (ERC Advanced Grant, PI Sergio Poretti, Tullia Iori - www.sixxi.eu), about the transformation of Italian Engineering after the second half of the sixties. It reconstructs the evolution of the building systems introduced in the building sites of bridges and viaducts, from the presentation of industrial patents to the first applications abroad and then by national designers and companies, to examine what impact they had on the production of Italian engineering.