Search results for "Landscape"

Intra- and Trans-Generational Phenotypic Responses of the Greater Wax Moth, Galleria mellonella, to a Low-Nutrition Larval Diet

2020

We investigated the intra- and trans-generational effects of larval diet on immune function, body size and development time of the greater wax moth, Galleria mellonella (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). We found that moths reared on a diet diluted with cellulose (a low-nutrition diet) were about one-third smaller, had about one-fifth longer development time and exhibited about 10% stronger encapsulation responses as compared with moths reared on the standard diet. The low-nutrition parental diet prolonged the development time of male offspring that were fed the low-nutrition diet by about 4% and the development time of female offspring that were fed the standard diet by about 1%. However, females t…

Conclusion. L’habitat de hauteur entre Protohistoire et haut Moyen Âge : pour une approche diachronique

2023

Au travers de ces quelques contributions, ce dossier entend proposer de nouvelles perspectives pour l’approche des occupations de hauteur, en prônant notamment une collaboration plus étroite entre spécialistes des âges des Métaux et de l’Antiquité tardive et du haut Moyen Âge. Cette coopération peut se traduire d’une part à l’échelle des sites, lorsque l’occasion se présente, d’autre part à l’échelle de territoires plus ou moins vastes afin de mettre en évidence l’existence de logiques spatia...

Introduction. L’habitat de hauteur entre Protohistoire et haut Moyen Âge : regards croisés

2023

L’étude des sites de hauteur est aujourd’hui une thématique largement mise à l’honneur par la recherche archéologique. En témoignent les publications collectives et manifestations scientifiques récentes sur le sujet, en particulier pour les âges des Métaux ainsi que pour l’Antiquité tardive et le haut Moyen Âge, périodes au cours desquelles cette forme d’occupation du sol tient une place particulière (pour les publications récentes sur le sujet, voir, entre autres, Delrieu, Furestier, 2018 ; ...

Integrating soil survey, land use management and political ecology: A case study in a border area between Peru and Ecuador

2013

In Latin America countries, competition for access to natural resources among different groups has been a major reason for the outburst of violence over the last decades. One of the main aims of the political ecology concerns the understanding of the environmental conditions that can underlies the social conflict among people. Such understanding needs to be based on a detailed investigation of the natural resources of the landscape, mainly the soils. Few years ago the Italian Ministry for Foreign Affairs financed a soil survey with a humanitarian purpose: the development of a peace plan between Peru and Ecuador by improving the socio-economic conditions of the rural populations living in th…

Agrārpolitika: docenta Ed. Šīrona Latvijas Universitātē 1931/32. m. g. rudens semestrī lasīto lekciju konspekts

1932

Il design nelle produzioni in pietra lavica dell’Etna. Processi naturali, artificiali, culturali

2018

Il testo indaga il progetto di elementi e oggetti in pietra lavica, che declina il carattere di “preziosità” di un materiale connotato da una forte identità territoriale e versatilità nell’uso. In particolare, di alcune produzioni in lava si vuole esplorare la capacità comunicativa ed evocativa rispetto al “paesaggio culturale” del Monte Etna, indicato dall’UNESCO come “uno dei più attivi vulcani iconici del mondo e uno straordinario esempio di processi geologici continui ”. Si analizzeranno alcune sperimentazioni che, pur esprimendo declinazioni del design diverse per modalità di produzione e fruizione condividono l’attenta considerazione degli originari processi di formazione del material…

Spatial interaction in Sámiland: Regulative and transitory chronotopes in the dynamic multilingual landscape of an indigenous Sámi village

2013

Using the example of the linguistic landscape of an indigenous Sámi village in northern Scandinavia, this article explores multilingualism in public signs located in public spaces of the village. Based on long-standing ethnographic and discourse analytical research on multilingualism in the spaces and practices in the peripheral locality of Sámiland, I will focus on the temporal and spatial dimensions of the signs. In this, Bakhtin’s concept of the chronotope is applied. Two chronotopes are identified and examined with regard to language change, mobility and multilingualism in public spaces. It is argued that linguistic landscapes often highlight spatial normativity and creativity, as well…

Representation and videography in linguistic landscape studies

2017

AbstractMuch Linguistic Landscape scholarship relies on visual data collection, primarily the use of still photography; however, the field has yet to address the theoretical underpinning of such visual and spatial representation. Furthermore, digital video is currently as easy to capture and share as digital photographs were when Linguistic Landscape studies first became prominent in the early 2000s. With these two points in mind, this article first grounds the documentation and analysis of the Linguistic Landscape in a theory of visual representation; it then provides a framework for videographic methodologies drawing on recent work in the related fields of anthropology and cultural geogra…

Inclusive ethnographies

2017

Abstract In ethnographically oriented linguistic landscape studies, social spaces are studied in co-operation with research participants, many times through mobile encounters such as walking. Talking, walking, photographing and video recording as well as writing the fieldwork diary are activities that result in the accumulation of heterogeneous, multimodal corpora. We analyze data from a Hungarian school ethnography project to reconstruct fieldwork encounters and analyze embodiment, the handling of devices (e.g. the photo camera) and verbal interaction in exploratory, participant-led walking tours. Our analysis shows that situated practices of embodied conduct and verbal interaction blur th…

Frozen actions in the Arctic linguistic landscape: a nexus analysis of language processes in visual space

2011

Abstract This article examines the linguistic landscape (LL) of seven villages above the Arctic Circle, in the region called North Calotte. The area forms a complex nexus of contested and changing multilingualism, particularly as regards to endangered indigenous Sami languages and Kven and Meankieli minority languages. Viewing LL as a discursively constructed space and consequently signs as ‘frozed actions’ by various actors, and by adopting a Nexus analytical approach we examine three interrelated aspects of Arctic LLs: (1) the synchronic aspect by addressing the question of how languages are used in the landscapes of northern villages in the year 2008; (2) the historical aspect through id…