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Deutsch im Kreis Schanfigg
(2012)
In dieser Arbeit wird unter Schanfigg nach Kessler "Schanfigg im weitern Sinne" verstanden, d.h. die Dörfer des politischen Kreises Schanfigg [...]. Da Dialekte im Gegensatz zu Hochsprachen nicht-normierte Sprachvarietäten darstellen, zeichnen sich die Ortsgrammatiken durch eine jeweils enorme Formenvielfalt in lautlicher und in morphologischer Hinsicht aus. Dies war denn auch eines der Ziele der Untersuchung: Mit Hilfe der Prager Phonologie und der auf ihr beruhenden Morphologie sollte aufgezeigt werden, wie groß die allophonische und allomorphische Bandbreite ist, derer sich die Sprecher im Gespräch unbewußt bedienen. Sehr schön läßt sich dies anhand der Verbalmorphologie bei den unregelmäßigen Verben (Kurzverben) aufzeigen. Ein weiteres Ziel der Untersuchung war es, die Stellung der Ortsdialekte des Schanfiggs und ihres Gesamts, also das Schanfigger Diasystem, innerhalb der dem Schanfigg benachbarten Mundarten darzustellen. Idealerweise hätten das Prättigau, das Churwaldner Tal und die Churer bzw. Churerrheintaler Mundarten herangezogen werden müssen. Da aber leider keine Untersuchungen zu den Verhältnissen im Prättigau und im Churwaldner Tal vorhanden sind, wurden die Schanfigger Verhältnisse mit denjenigen der Stadt Chur (vgl. Eckhardt 1991) und des Deutschen im Bezirk Imboden (vgl. Toth und Ebneter 1996) verglichen.
Peri-urban Land Transactions : Everyday Practices and Relations in Peri-urban Blantyre, Malawi
(2012)
This book explores the changing land relations in the peri-urban villages of Blantyre in Malawi. It questions and debates how and why the peri-urban villages have become the locus of the selling and buying of customary land, the practices and also the relations involved. The book provides rich ethnographic insights on the commodification of land relations, custom, practices, disputes and social relations between land sellers, land buyers, traditional leaders, and intermediaries. The transactions draw strength from the growing peri-urbanization and monetization of social relations, both of which push towards land decisions at family and individual levels. Bigger groups like the village, clan or extended family have minimal, if not symbolic role only. Village headmen benefit materially by taking gifts (signing fee) rationalized by custom on reciprocity, while estate agents claim commission. Numerous constraints are negotiated about the ownership, rights to sale, multiple selling and the use and sharing of land money. Peri-urban land transactions offer scope for examining a wider range of social and economic relations, and the subtle ways in which the state infiltrates the everyday lives of actors. Overtime, the practices reproduce but also transform land relations in significant but less appreciated ways.
Das Buch ist in vier größere Teile aufgeteilt: Zunächst werden die wichtigsten Entwicklungen in der Frankfurter Universitätsmedizin bis zum Kriegsbeginn verfolgt (Allgemeines, Entrechtungen/Entlassungen, Berufungen, Kliniken und Institute). Anschließend wird die Universitätsmedizin im Krieg beschrieben (Allgemeines, Berufungen, Kliniken und Institute). Schließlich werden separat die schlimmsten Schandtaten und Verbrechen Frankfurter Universitätsmediziner (unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Berner, Mengele und Hirt) und abschließend die (bescheidenen) oppositionellen Aktivitäten dargelegt
Die Goethe-Universität ist 1914 als erste deutsche Hochschule von Bürgern für Bürger gestiftet worden. Seitdem gibt es ein enges Band zur Frankfurter Bürgerschaft. Dieses Bündnis hat die Universität mit ihrer Umwandlung zu einer Stiftung 2008 bekräftigt. So wendet sie sich an ihre Bürger, um tatkräftige Unterstützung bei der Herausbildung eines international wettbewerbsfähigen Profils in Forschung und Lehre weiter zu schärfen. Wir sind stolz, dass sich viele Persönlichkeiten des gesellschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Lebens für die Goethe-Universität engagieren, Professuren stiften, Stipendien geben oder bei der Nachwuchsförderung helfen. Ihr Engagement ist "bürgerliche Ehrensache", von der die gesamte Rhein-Main-Region profitiert. ...
Aufgabe dieser Magisterarbeit ist die digitale Visualisierung von literarischen Strukturen digitalisierter Literatur. Textgrundlage bilden ausgewählte Loreley-Gedichte. Nach einer theoretischen Einordnung dieser Arbeit sowie zweier Digitalisierungsprojekte der Literaturwissenschaft (Heinrich-Heine-Portal und Projekt Loreley) sollen im Hauptteil die Möglichkeiten einer grafischen Illustration mit digitalen Mitteln formaler und semantischer Strukturen erörtert und exemplarisch demonstriert werden. Als Auszeichnungssprache zur digitalen Erfassung sowie zur Kodierung der Interpretationen wird die XML-Applikation TEI-Lite verwendet. Die Visualisierung erfolgt mittels XSLT als XHTML und SVG.
Recent fieldwork on North Andros Island by the authors resulted in the collection of six species of Pterophoridae
(Lepidoptera), five of which were previously unrecorded for the Bahamas in published accounts. Three
additional species are noted for the Bahamian fauna based on specimens collected in the 1980s on other islands.
Representative specimens are illustrated from North Andros along with genitalic images for species where these
are not readily available in other publications. In addition, images of the larva and pupa are provided for a reared
species for which the life history was previously unknown.
Snoqualmia, new genus, is described for two species of polydesmid millipeds from the northwestern
United States: Snoqualmia snoqualmie, new species, from Washington State, and S. idaho, new species,
from Idaho. Males of S. idaho possess unusually complex gonopods, perhaps the most complex to be found in the Order
Polydesmida. Snoqualmia is placed in context with other polydesmid genera known from North America. The
polydesmid fauna of North America is discussed, as well as characters of the gonopods of the family.
Zwischen 1700 und 1850 erfährt der Begriff des Ausdrucks in Kunst und Wissenschaft eine deutliche Aufwertung und Verbreitung. Die damit einhergehenden praktischen und diskursiven Veränderungen unterschiedlicher Ausdruckskulturen erforscht der vorliegende Band in Form eines interdisziplinären Dialogs.
Ausdrucksphänomene werden dabei als Figuren des Wissens verstanden, zum einen als Darstellungsweisen des Schauspielers, Musikers, Malers, Rhetors oder Wissenschaftlers. Zum anderen als Denkfiguren, die das grundlegende Verhältnis von Affekt und Ausdruck, etwa die Probleme der künstlerischen Gestaltung in Malerei und Schauspiel oder die Systematisierungen der Rede durch die Rhetorik kulturwissenschaftlich erschließen. Erst durch eine Analyse seiner Formierungsprozesse wird die Erfolgsgeschichte des Ausdrucksbegriffs nachvollziehbar.
All over Africa, an explosion in cultural productions of various genres is in evidence. Whether in relation to music, song and dance, drama, poetry, film, documentaries, photography, cartoons, fine arts, novels and short stories, essays, and (auto)biography; the continent is experiencing a robust outpouring of creative power that is as remarkable for its originality as its all-round diversity. Beginning from the late 1970s and early 1980s, the African continent has experienced the longest and deepest economic crises than at any other time since the period after the Second World War. Interestingly however, while practically every indicator of economic development was declining in nominal and/ or real terms for most aspects of the continent, cultural productions were on the increase. Out of adversity, the creative genius of the African produced cultural forms that at once spoke to crises and sought to transcend them. The current climate of cultural pluralism that has been produced in no small part by globalization has not been accompanied by an adequate pluralism of ideas on what culture is, and/or should be; nor informed by an equal claim to the production of the cultural - packaged or not. Globalization has seen to movement and mixture, contact and linkage, interaction and exchange where cultural flows of capital, people, commodities, images and ideologies have meant that the globe has become a space, with new asymmetries, for an increasing intertwinement of the lives of people and, consequently, of a greater blurring of normative definitions as well as a place for re-definition, imagined and real. As this book - Contemporary African Cultural Productions - has done, researching into African culture and cultural productions that derive from it allows us, among other things, to enquire into definitions, explore historical dimensions, and interrogate the political dimensions to presentation and representation. The book therefore offers us an intervention that goes beyond the normative literary and cultural studies' main foci of race, difference and identity; notions which, while important in themselves might, without the necessary historicizing and interrogating, result in a discourse that rather re-inscribes the very patterns that necessitate writing against. This book is an invaluable compendium to scholars, researchers, teachers, students and others who specialize on different aspects of African culture and cultural productions, as well as cultural centers and general readers.
The most popularised concept in the economics of innovation literature has been the national system of innovation (NSI). It was in the late 1980s that the concept that Frederik List coined as the National Political Economy of Production took off again with different thinkers writing about the peculiarities and distinctions of the Japanese, American, British, German, East Asian Tigers and other varieties of system construction. Freeman defines National System of Innovation as the network of institutions in the public and private sectors whose activities and interactions initiate, import, modify and diff use new technologies. Richard Nelson defines it as a set of institutions whose interactions determine the innovative performance of national firms. Lundvall defines the system of innovation as the elements and relationships which interact in the production, diffusion and use of new and economically useful knowledge and are either located within or rooted inside the borders of a nation state. The normative assumption is that those nations that succeeded in building economic strength relied on the science, engineering, technology and innovation capability that made them to achieve an innovation advantage to put them ahead in the world, acquiring national or regional economic leadership as the case may be depending on what level of analyses is selected to look at particular failure, success or progress they made.. In this volume we have a glimpse of how in different African economies from Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, South Africa and Nigeria specific cases have been taken to explore how systems of innovation is evolving.
It is the aim of this book while clarifying doubts and misconceptions, to provide a thorough reappraisal of the intellectual and rich cultural heritage of Islam with regards to the principles and practice of medicine and its representation to the world in the language of today. In nine chapters a range of topics are discussed including: The Promotion of Medical Education and Health Services; Personal and Environmental Hygiene; Circumcision; Manners of Eating; Social and Mental Heath; Curative Medicine; The Provision of Adequate and Potable Water; Magic, Witchcraft, Enchantments and Charms; Euthanasia; Suicide; The Rehabilitation of the Sick and the Needy; The Source of Human Creation; Sex Differentiation and Determination; Healing through Miracles; Magic and Soothsaying; HIV Infection and AIDS; Abortion; Females in Medical Practice; and The Challenges of Modem Medicine to Muslims.
From an exploration of the cooperative movement's various international iterations to a perspicacious survey of the history of cooperatives in Tanzania, Dr. Lyimo highlights the issues facing farmers and business people and illustrates the way in which cooperative effort- enterprises that put people, and not capital, at the center of their business- can not only improve members' economic power in bargaining for better marketing conditions and prices, but also to increase employment opportunities, thereby improving the standard of living for a large number of people.