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(Re)definisanje tradicije na primeru world music fenomena

Author(s): Marija Ajduk / Language(s): Serbian / Issue: 1/2014

The paper problematizes the understanding of the concept of tradition in the context of the world music phenomenon. Marketed as a hybrid music genre, from the perspective of anthropological theory, the world music genre is a complex cultural phenomenon, the result of mixing global and local influences which are reflected not only in the creation of a specific sound, but through different perceptions of music itself (the audience, musicians, producers, creators of cultural policies etc.) By analyzing the Serbian world music scene as exemplified by the work of the World Music association of Serbia, as well as the Serbia World Music Festival in Takovo, I will attempt to determine the way in which the concept of world music is perceived in local narratives, whether it is experienced as a form of musical tradition and if so, what is signified and represented as tradition in this context.

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(Re)Designing Human. Genetics in Cinema. The Dialectics of Past, Present and Future

Author(s): Aneta Jalocha / Language(s): English / Issue: 04/2013

The aim of the article is to analyse representations of genetic engineering in chosen science fiction films: GATTACA (1997), The Island (2005) and Never Let Me Go (2010). In the first section of the article, the author delineates the emergence of the concept of ‘biotechnology’ and the moment of its identification with genetics and molecular biology. In the following, she draws attention to sociocultural functions of genetics and the dynamics of forming public understanding of the scientific subdiscipline. In film interpretations, the author focuses on genetic engineering technologies depicted and the ethical issues raised by the depiction. She argues that science fiction creates images of the future immersed in the past and the present; and that science fiction should be recognized as an important space of negotiating the meanings and roles of genetic engineering; both reflecting and shaping the public concerns on the rapidly expanding domain of biotechnology.

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(С)поделена природа? Природно наследство и местно развитие в един регион от българо-сръбското пограничие

Author(s): Ivaylo Markov / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 1/2017

The article is focused on a border region between Bulgaria and Serbia which is geographically dominated by Ruy Mountain (whose ridge is the boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia) and the valley of Erma river forming two huge defiles along its way in this mountainous region – the Lomnishko defile (in Bulgaria) and the Poganovsko defile (in Serbia). The micro region (from natural and geographical point of view) shared until 1919 several cultural, social and economic characteristics (from an anthropological point of view), thus forming a common historical and geographical entity. The demarcation of the boundary between Bulgaria and Serbia as a result of the Treaty of Neuilly split the region between the two countries. The border regime, which was rigid and impermeable through the whole second half of the 20th century, made the zones on the both sides of the border well guarded, but industrially underdeveloped periphery. With the opening of the border in the period after 1989 and especially with the intensification of the European integration processes the character of the Bulgarian-Serbian border is undergoing changes and is gradually turning into a bridge for diverse trans-border initiatives. A great deal of these initiatives are connected with the well preserved ecology of the region, which is evaluated at present as a treasure by the local authorities and communities who believe it to be an important resource and instrument for the overcoming of the peripheral position of the region.

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15. Yüzyilda Hitay’da Bir Timurlu Sefir: Giyaseddin Nakkaş’in Hitay Gözlemleri

Author(s): Betül Mutlu / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 67/2011

Hıtay Sefaretnamesi is our oldest known travel book written by Hoca Gıyaseddin Nakkaş in Persian in 1422 and transleted into Ottoman Turkish in 1728 by Küçükçelebizade İsmail Asım. Mirza Baysungur of the Timurid Mirza’s was commissioned as an envoy Hoca Gıyaseddin Nakkaş , while performing the embassy official duty, has not only satisfied with the physical observations but also dealt with social and cultural structure of Hıtay society and transferred them to his prepared report in detail. İn this regard Hıtay Sefaretnamesi can not be ignored as a source is important in the 15th century research as well as being our first travel book. The present paper analyses the narration and observation notes of the Hıtay Sefaretnamesi.

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18. ve 19. Yüzyıllarda İstanbul ve Osmanlı Devleti’nde Yaşanan Değişimler Çerçevesinde Yalı Olgusunun Gelişimi

Author(s): Melisa Elif Ilhan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 11/2018

Even though yalı (“waterfront”) mansions are an important part of Istanbul’s skyline, architecture and history, they have not been evaluated with an integrative approach yet. Research that has been conducted separately and from different angles and scopes by different disciplines is making it harder to grasp the entire picture. The initial step for eliminating this difficulty could be presenting the two main sources through which yalı mansions had been nourished and shaped. First of these sources is the Westernization process which had become a struggle between the old and new for the Ottoman Empire. It is not possible to tackle Ottoman Empire’s 18. and 19. centuries without taking into account the place and importance of the Westernization process. It could be argued that, even though they were very violent from time to time, reactions against “new” could not reach their target of “preserving the old” in this period. Similarly from yalı mansions’ perspective, it is observed that with each passing year Western-oriented architectural movements such as baroque and neoclassicism had been more visibly embraced and used. The second main source, on the other hand, is the connection formed between yalı mansions and the traditional architectural concepts. Especially during the early republican period, this connection had been studied under the topic of “Turkish House”; with an emphasis put on the desire to live as a part of nature, wood’s cultural and practical status within this context and hall-centered house layout. In this paper, aforementioned two main sources and the organic bond between them have been basically explained through a comprehensive literature survey. Purpose of this paper is to act as a starting point for gathering the pieces of knowledge regarding these two main sources which have been separately accumulated by history, architecture, urbanization and sociology disciplines to form a meaningful whole for further studies.

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18. ve 19. yy Polonya’sında Soylu Yaşantısı ve Kültürü (Adam Mickiewicz’in “Pan Tadeusz”u Bağlamında)

Author(s): Seyyal Körpe / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 51/2016

Poland which had been named by Ottoman Empire as Lehistan, occupying by his neighbours Austria, Russia and Prussia in the year of 1795 was completely deleted from the map of Europe. After the failure of November uprising, which was broke out under the leadership of a group of young officers from the Polish army, a process of migration which was named as “great migration” began in the country. A large number of soldiers, officers and intellectuals, refuging primarly Germany, and then France left the country. The renowned Polish poets such as Adam Mickiewicz, JuliuszSlowacki, Cyprian Kamil Norwid and Zygmunt Krasinski were included between the poets, who took part in this migration. This great poets of the Poland not only described their longing for home and the glorious history of the nation, but also underlined the national errors, which determined the fate of the country in their works. Pan Tadeusz or the last foray in Lithuania, which was writen between the years 1832-1834 by Adam Mickiewicz the national poet of Poland is one of the masterpiece of 19th. century Polish literature. The artist in his consisting of twelve parts work described a sense of longing for Lithuanian territory, where he had spent his childhood years, Lithuanin nature and Lithuanin beauty which he had recorded in his mind. The other issue which he handled in his this composition is the noble life and culture of the year of 1811. Pan Tadeusz in order to protect the national unity was writen primarily to remind the Polish people the necessity of conserve the elements of the noble culture, customs and traditions which are increasingly being lost. From this work can be obtained information about the way of spending time, hunting tradition, consumed food and drink names of aristocrats.

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1835 NÜFUS SAYIMINA GÖRE ARDANUÇ SANCAĞININ DEMOGRAFİK YAPISI

Author(s): Ali Irfan KAYA,Faruk TASKIN / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 42/2019

Since its foundation, Ottoman State classified and recorded in the Tahrir Defterleri (Tax Registers) the territories it conquered according to their revenues. Based on these records, researchers endeavour to have estimated demographic data on the Ottoman State. Similar practices continued as part of other practices in the later periods of the Empire such as Avârız Defterleri, Temettü’ât Defterleri, etc. In the Ottoman State, the first census in modern sense was conducted in Anatolia and Rumelia provinces during the reign of Mahmut II in 1831 (H. 1251). This census included only male population. It appears that the census starting in 1831 continued for 3-5 years. At the time, the census in Ardanuc sanjak of Cıldır province was carried out in 1251 in the Islamic calendar (A.D. 1835). This census recorded Muslim and non-Muslim populations in central Ardanuc and its villages. Ardanuc register of 1835 including Muslim, non-Muslim and Copt registers provides information about the male population in a total of 48 settlements with Ardanuç Kal’ası as the centre in Ardanuc sanjak. Some of the villages mentioned in the study may not be within the borders of Ardanuc municipality today.

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19. Yüzyılın Son Çeyreğinde Osmanlı Mahkemelerinde Vasi Tayini

Author(s): Seda Saraç Özturan / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2018

The article we will examine is case law / legal representatives in a record book in court records formed in the frame of Ottoman legal structure. From these cases; It examines the reasons for the issue of vassal status, the conditions that are effective in the emergence of such a situation, what it means, the obligations and boundaries of the legal entity as the legal representative, and the rights and responsibilities of the persons appointed as legal representatives. In addition, the forms of reflection of changes in Ottoman law structure to court records and changes and developments in Ottoman society structure are emphasized.

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1920 – 1950’li YILLAR AZERBAYCAN EDEBİYATINDA MİLLİ MANEVİ İDEALLER HAKİM İDEOLOJİNİN GİRDABINDA

Author(s): Yasar RIZAYEV / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2009

1920-1950s, national-spiritual ideals of the Azerbaijan literature in the servitude of the judge ideology. This article is dealt from in which condition was national-spiritual ideals of Azerbaijan literature in the servitude of the soviet ideology and problems of Azerbaijani writers lived during this period.

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2017. aasta Eesti Rahvaluule Arhiivis ja Eesti presidendi rahvaluulepreemia

Author(s): Astrid Tuisk / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 70/2018

An overview is given by Astrid Tuisk.

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21ST CENTURY GEORGIAN-RUSSIAN TRANSLATION: PRIORITIES AND INNOVATIONS IN INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE

Author(s): Irine Modebadze / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2016

Translation is an integral part of intercultural communication and one of the most actual forms of exchange of spiritual values. The evolution of literary traditions and associated changes in translation norms have a substantial impact on perceptions about the adequacy of translation. Serious fluctuations in translation priorities are fixed in post-soviet space.This article will provide the results of research carried out for the first time that deals with the specificity of modern translation strategies through the analysis of five new translations of Shota Rustaveli’s poem. Analysis has proved that the postmodern mentality of translators at the end of the 20th century seeks to give the reader comprehension of the original – here the priority is attributed not to domestication but to hermeneutical interpretation of the text. A tendency of synthesis is outlined towards translation and publishing innovations, the main goal of which is translation of an original with preservation of the specificity of its cultural alter and decoding of a text from the position “other” is not “stranger”.

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29. rahvusvaheline huumorikonverents Montrealis

Author(s): Piret Voolaid ,Liisi Laineste / Language(s): Estonian / Issue: 68/2017

Piret Voolaid and Liisi Laineste write about the 29th annual conference of the International Society for Humor Studies, which took place at the University of Quebec, Canada, on July 10–14, 2017.

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3D modelácia vybranej kultúrnej pamiatky na základe dobových historických i grafických dokumentov

Author(s): Ladislav Župcán / Language(s): Slovak / Issue: 01/2019

Various alternatives to the virtual environment have opened new application possibilities for both cultural and educational institutions. At present, it is not appropriate to talk only about monuments, artefacts and digitization, visual model reconstructions, multimedia guides, podcasts. It is also necessary to point to practical examples in defined areas and to create the necessary visions of cyber culture in the Slovak environment in terms of virtual collections and cyber artefacts. The presented study reflects the current state of the virtual world on the example of a selected 3D monument from the last phase of the Hungarian environment. The aim of the study is to design a conceptual vision of the creation of digital – virtual artefacts in the cyber – museum world for the needs of museums and universities in order to promote their activities and attract the interests of percipients.

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67 A 90 Numaralı H. 1077 – 1080 (M. 1666 - 1670) Tarihli Kırım Kadıasker Defterine (Şer`iyye Siciline) Göre Yahudilerin Sosyo – Kültürel Hayatı

Author(s): Mehmet Caner Çavus / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 1/2019

The Kadıasker Notebooks, also known as Şer`iyye records, are one of the most important sources of history research. Between 1666 and 1670, we examined the Crimean kadiasker book with the number 67 A 90 and made evaluations about the cases by examining the cases of the Jews’s routine lives in the Crimean region. These cases led us to understand and evaluate the social structure of the Jewish community living in Crimea in social, economic, administrative and legal fields. We have reviewed all kinds of details, from the names of the places where the Jews live, from the professions they work to, from their own cases to the cases of Muslims. We tried to put all aspects of the relationship of the İslamic law with the Jews.

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677 Sayılı Kanun, Türbeleri “Millileştirme” ve Yıkıcı Sonuçları: Geç Osmanlı’dan Cumhuriyet’e Türbedarlık

Author(s): Gökçen Beyinli Dinç / Language(s): Turkish / Issue: 2/2017

One of the foundational laws of the Republic of Turkey on the exclusion of the Ottoman heritage and Islam is the Law 677 which was enacted in 1925. The Law outlawed the mystic orders and closed their lodges as well as hundreds of shrines in the country and prohibited visiting them. Shrine keepers were dismissed and replaced by shrine officers in some shrines. Relying substantially on Republican archives, Parliamentary Proceedings and the previously untapped archival evidence from the Istanbul Museum Directorate of Shrines (İstanbul Türbeler Müze Müdürlüğü), this article examines the transformation of this occupation and “nationalization” of shrines from 1925 to the 1970s by situating the analysis within its legal context. It will elaborate who was a shrine keeper in the late Ottoman Empire, what happened to the shrines and shrine keepers after the shrines were closed down, the theft incidents the new shrine officers were involved with, policies regarding the “nationalization” of shrines and the tensions as well as negotiations between different actors regarding the shrines. Aiming to shed light on a previously untackled aspect of republican history, the article demonstrates how the abandonment of shrines and the policy of nationalizing and turning them into museums brought along a rupture in the cultural history of the country and contributed to the destruction of historical heritage.

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712 jelentősége a 25. dinasztia kronológiájában és az egyiptomi-kusita történelemben

Author(s): Gábor Erdos / Language(s): Hungarian / Issue: 2/2010

In 2001, Dahn’lel Kahn suggested a new chronology for the history of the 25th (kushite) dynasty which he based on new data of the inscription of Sargon II at Tang-i Var published in 1999. Although his new chronology reinterpreted the events of the contemporary Egyptian and Kushite history at many points, it is not free from misinterpretations and shortcomings. Th e author of the present essay tries to prove why he thinks that Dahn’el Kahn’s theory can not be accepted without any doubts by interpreting the known sources more precisely and joint studying such biblical and Assyrian sources which haven’t been study in the context of the problem yet.

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74 Grupa Biednych z Ustki. Semantyka i sposoby wytwarzania

Author(s): Xawery Stanczyk / Language(s): Polish / Issue: 03/2017

The aim of this article is to analyse the semantics of the urban legend about 74 GrupaBiednych music group. The legendary band was formed in the late 1960s in a small town Ustka on the coast of the Baltic Sea. The amateur musicians created one of the most original groups of the music underground, combining psychedelic rock, free jazz, improvisation, oriental rhythmicity and happening art. However, the group did not achieve success and nowadays is barely recalled in memories and anecdotes as a mysterious hippie band from geographical and symbolic peripheries of the country.

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90 години Старозагорска опера и 70 години от одържавяването й

Author(s): Emiliya Zhunich / Language(s): Bulgarian / Issue: 2/2016

90 years ago a group of enthusiasts form an opera ensemble, as it occurs in many other localities. And if after one or two titles everything finishes mainly because of lack of funding, exactly in that consists the heroism of citizens of Stara Zagora: the only amateur ensemble which exists 21 years long, and after that it is nationalized in 1946. The nationalization is a kind of recognition but this leads to shocks. In 1967 lays the beginnings of the annually organized Festival of the Opera and Ballet Arts – a mirror of the achievements in the area of music and performing arts. Because of a conflagration end of 1991 the ensemble left homeless. In 2015 the State Operа Stara Zagora celebrates its 90th anniversary, and on the 1st of April 2016 it is 70 years since its nationalization.

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9th Annual Conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies

Author(s): Piret Voolaid / Language(s): English / Issue: 77/2019

The 9th annual conference of the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies under the heading “Perception and Performativity in Arts and Culture in the Age of Technological Change” took place at the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu, Estonia, from the 5th to the 7th of September 2019.

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A case study of ageism in political debates: are social media a latent source of generational hatred?

Author(s): Lucie Vidovicová,Michaela Honelová / Language(s): English / Issue: 2/2018

This paper discusses how negative stereotypes, cultural conflicts and tensions related to age and generational membership are used in election campaigns. The social media are presented here as a venue where the political values are discursively paired with age and generational membership and perpetuate risks of an increase in ageism and generational conflict in symbolic universes. It presents a case study of YouTube video political campaigning and Facebook site commentaries to draw a picture of negative connotations used to build the “we” versus “them” generational categories which may result in further deepening the ageist moods in Czech society.It further shows, how these discursive practices may influence the perception of intergenerational relations in our society, but it also argues that they may have only limited influence over the actual behaviour of both younger and older in elections and political representations. The conclusion calls for deeper understanding of connections between generational conflict, age, and voting behaviour.

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