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Evil, Progress, and Fall: Moral Readings of Time and Cultural Development in Roman Literature and Philosophy
2014
Latveešu saimneeciskà senkultura
1922
Short-term occupations at high elevation during the Middle Paleolithic at Kalavan 2 (Republic of Armenia).
2021
The Armenian highlands encompasses rugged and environmentally diverse landscapes and is characterized by a mosaic of distinct ecological niches and large temperature gradients. Strong seasonal fluctuations in resource availability along topographic gradients likely prompted Pleistocene hominin groups to adapt by adjusting their mobility strategies. However, the role that elevated landscapes played in hunter-gatherer settlement systems during the Late Pleistocene (Middle Palaeolithic [MP]) remains poorly understood. At 1640 m above sea level, the MP site of Kalavan 2 (Armenia) is ideally positioned for testing hypotheses involving elevation-dependent seasonal mobility and subsistence strateg…
Два своеобразных словаря латышского языка
2016
Latviesu-igauņu vārdnīca. Projektijuht [Manager of the project] Arvi Tavast. Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015, 737 pp. Igauņu-latviesu vārdnīca . Atb. red. [Ed.] Valts Ernstreits. Rīga: Latviesu valodas aģentūra, Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus, 2015, 1096 pp. Review Two Peculiar Dictionaries of Latvian Estonian-Latvian dictionary (ed. Valts Ernstreits) and Latvian-Estonian dictionary (manager of the project Arvi Tavast) have been published at the same time and with the same design. Each of the dictionaries consists from more than forty thousand headwords, however they are not of the same size, Estonian-Latvian dictionary has significantly more pages. The reason is the Estonian-Latvian…
Beauty and the Cosmetic Secret
2018
Cosmetic surgery is often linked to the perception that women who resort to cosmetic interventions to alter their physical appearance are vain, superficial, and narcissistic. Few investigations have acknowledged and explored the individual’s personal motivations and experiences of her action and choice with regards to aesthetic surgery. By focusing on subjective experience, alternative insights can be gained on the cosmetic procedure(s) and on how their reshaped body influences an individual’s lifeworld experience. The article explores the perceived benefits and consequences of reshaping, enhancing, and/or reducing a perceived flaw or shortcoming of the body. From this exploration the focus…
Tokooos! as a linguistic fashion: The recontextualization and appropriation of Lingala youth language
2020
Abstract This paper focuses on Lingala youth language (Bantu; DR Congo) and its recontextualization and use in the media and advertising industry, promoting music(ians), lifestyle products and telecommunication companies. Adolescents’ linguistic practices are often picked up and diffused by musicians and other public individuals, or at times even appropriated by them. This is exemplified by the innovative expression tokooos, which was used and diffused by the Congolese musician Fally Ipupa. The paper discusses the changing youth language practice Lingala ya Bayankee/Yanké from in-group language (of Congolese street-based adolescents) to a recontextualized commodified register, diffused beyo…
Rapping the ‘Better folk’: Ideological and scalar negotiations of past and present
2017
Drawing on sociolinguistics of globalization, discourse studies and global hip hop studies, this article examines how the ideological sociocultural and -historical reality of Finland is (re)constructed and (re)negotiated in a local rap song and how the song takes issue with the official, but often tension-ridden Finnish–Swedish bilingualism. Its specific, ironic take arises from the fact that the rap artist is Finnish-speaking, but echoes a Swedish-speaking minority who are traditionally and stereotypically seen as a privileged, historical elite. The song exemplifies how rap can constitute a site for investigation of language ideological debates in bi/multilingual societies and how national…
Assemblage of art, discourse and ice hockey : designing knowledge about work
2021
This article examines speculative design's capacity to co‐produce knowledge about contradictions and potentialities of work in professional ice hockey. Building on the Deleuzian concept of assemblage, speculative design has been used for two purposes: (a) to bring together the perspectives of art, anthropology, discourse studies, and professional sports in co‐constructing knowledge about hockey work; and (b) to analyze and present the key findings of an ethnography on hockey work through an art exhibition of speculative hockey memorabilia. As such, these art pieces showed the intertwined relationships of material, discursive, and affective aspects in hockey work as well as the multiplicity …
«Copier vaut mieux»? Una requisitoria sui plagi letterari
2019
Il plagio letterario resta un argomento tra i più discussi e controversi; ripubblichiamo un articolo di fine Ottocento che può fornire alla discussione nuovi spunti.
El cuerpo enamorado en “resurrección” de L. Tolstói
2012
Revisión crítica de la antropología filosófica del maduro Tolstói sobre el cuerpo enamorado, proyección de sus ideas religiosas sobre la mujer y la sexualidad que lastran la calidad de su obra literaria tardía por los discutibles dualismos platonizantes e idealistas en las descripciones de los móviles de las acciones de los protagonistas. Critical review of the philosophical anthropology of the mature Tolstoy about the body in love. His novel Resurrection shows that the quality of the writer’s late literary works was hindered by his religious ideas about women and sexuality, which entailed dubious platonizing and idealistic dualisms in the descriptions of the main characters’ motives.