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Saying the Saffu and Beating the Law: The Changing Role of Sacred Sites in the Oromo Politico-Juridical System
2013
This chapter presents a semiotic analysis of the role of sacred sites and other physical features and objects in key political/religious rituals of the Oromo people living in the Horn of Africa. Theoretically, it builds on Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction of the concept of ‘archive’ as an intersection of the topological and the nomological of the place and the law. For Derrida, the place of the archive is not a locatable place, but a topos, the marking of a discourse. In contrast to the European tradition based primarily on archives inscribed in writing and summarised in a codified law, for the traditional Oromo society, laws were part of the oral tradition – a mixture of religion, law and …
Asthma - The Construction of the Masculine Body
1994
This article focuses on understanding the social construction of male identity in Finland in the 1960s and 1970s. Sporting experiences of the author are used as material for memory-work (Erinnerungsarbeit), the key experience here being illness (Asthma). By writing through it, the author thematizes the healthy, sporting, and disciplined body inscribed in hegemonic masculinity.
Miradas oblicuas : infancias, paisajes y comunidades interrumpidas en el cine de Dominga Sotomayor
2020
Dominga Sotomayor propone, en De jueves a domingo (2012), Mar (2014) y Tarde para morir joven (2018), exploraciones de la intimidad de una familia, una pareja y una comunidad. En estos acercamientos, la intimidad se configura en grados variables de tensión con el afuera y lo público. En estas oscilaciones se pone en evidencia una de las características más recurrentes y estudiadas del cine chileno contemporáneo: la conversión de la intimidad en el locus sobre el que se proyectan, de manera indirecta, los conflictos del pasado y el presente. Este artículo considera la forma en que el cine de Sotomayor se inscribe en el panorama actual del cine chileno y, a través de él, en su escenario socio…
The Configuration of Space Through Architecture in the Thinking of Gadamer
2017
Although Gadamer stresses the importance of temporality, historicity and tradition, the aim of this contribution is to underline the uniqueness of architecture in Truth and Methods’ investigation relative to the essence of a work of art. The uniqueness of architecture for Gadamer lies not only in the fact that it gives space for the expression of all other kinds of artworks; a building has to be to understood as self-sufficient and as autarchic, but also as inscribed in the concrete historical life. A further aspect of the uniqueness of architecture originates in the fact that a building determines our way of life or our dwelling even in a political sense.
Mapping the political toponymy of educational namescapes: A quantitative analysis of Romanian school names
2019
Abstract This study sets out to map the political toponymy of Romanian schooling network. Starting from the theoretical premise that national memory is toponymically inscribed, inter alia, on a series of public organizations that form an institutional namescape, the paper reads the Romanian historical memory through the looking glass of school names. Exhaustive data was collected for the Romanian secondary schools bearing a nominal identity (N = 2850). Data were analyzed in terms of the ethnic and gender distribution, the social (occupational), spatial, and historical structures of the Romanian educational namescape. Our findings reveal that the political toponymy of the Romanian schooling …
IG VII 53, an epigraphic rara avis in the corpus of greek metrical inscriptions
2017
Este artigo tem como objetivo estudar a inscrição publicada no IG VII 53 de uma perspectiva liguística. Ele consiste de uma seção em prosa que inclui um epigrama dedicado aos Mégaros caídos em combate nas guerras Pérsicas. A inscrição foi supostamente composta no século V a. C., mas o texto preservado não foi inscrito antes do IV século a. C. Após reavaliar a bibliografia principal sobre o texto, que estudou a inscrição principalmente do ponto de vista arqueológico, histórico ou literário, nós aplicamos uma análise linguística em dois níveis, baseada: a) na comparação dos dados linguísticos com a prosa epigráfica ou outras influências literárias, e b) nas restrições métricas que poderiam de…
A Glimpse over the Rising Walls
2009
The authors focus on societal perceptions of the Polish post-communist transformation as reflected in the rising discourse of gated communities. Guarded, (video-) controlled and/or walled housing estates have been on the sprawl in the Polish metropolises throughout the 1990s and 2000s. However, only recently they have been discursively constructed—under the banner of “gated communities”—as a social and political issue in the country. The authors look at this issue from a vantage point offered by Laclau and Mouffe's theory of discourse, which allows the authors to combine a spatial and a linguistic analytical perspective. The analysis emphasizes the manner in which societal perceptions of b…
Expanding the Family Frame: Social Specialists, Mediated Experiences, and Gendered Images of Mobility in Transnational Wedding Videos
2021
This contribution explores the role of wedding videos in shaping transnational social relationships. Examining the production and aesthetic means of these ‘mobile images of mobility’, I show how videographers serve as ritual and social specialists to bring to the fore a fictionalized, imagined place of transnational social relationships. As evidence of ‘memory objects’ for life events, these videos form the basis for mediated experiences in transnational settings, relating those depicted to those engaging in and those watching the videos. They all become part of the social relationships that are inscribed in the video. Yet this imaginary filmic space creates gendered, contested spaces of mo…
Rural people’s literacy skills in the remembrance of the departed: the writing of personal names on sepulchral monuments at the turn of the nineteent…
2013
At the end of the nineteenth century, more and more sepulchral monuments made of a durable material began to be erected in Finnish rural graveyards. The personal names inscribed on the monuments to...
The Chevroches zodiacal cap and its Burgundy relations
2009
AbstractThe excavation of an unexplored secondary agglomeration in Chevroches (France), from 2001 to 2002 has led to the discovery of a bronze dome of a type unknown in the Ancient world. It is inscribed with three lines in Greek transcribing Egyptian and Roman months, and the twelve signs of the Zodiac. This paper presents the first observations and some other finds from similar objects in Burgundy.