scholarly journals Art. XIV.—On the Uzbeg Epos

1880 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 365-378
Author(s):  
Arminius Vambéry

I Have to remark before all, that the manuscript referring to Sheibani Khan, upon which I am speaking, ought not to be confounded with the Sheibani-nameh, edited by the Russian Orientalist K. Berezin, in 1849, in I. Biblioteka Vostochnikh Historikof. The last-named is an insignificant little treatise of the deeds accomplished by the famous Uzbeg chief, and may be divided into two different parts. The first, containing one of those numerous compilations of the history of the Turks, must be ranked amongst the third class of imitators of Ala-eddin Djuveini and of Rashid-eddin Tabibi, with the only exception that the anonymous author, being probably of Turkish origin, has less disfigured the Turkish and Mongol nomina propria than many of his predecessors and subsequent writers upon the same subject. In the second part the author dwells at some length upon that branch of the Djenghizides of which Abulkhair Khan, the ancestor of Sheibani, was an offspring—I mean to say upon the family of Djudji Khan, and here we meet with certain details and genealogical data not to be met with in most of the books treating the same subject.

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-42
Author(s):  
Karl Jansen-Winkeln

In this short Beiträge three points relevant to the history of the Third Intermediate Period are presented. 1. The genealogical data of the family of the army scribe Nespaqashuty written on a fragmentary block statue from Karnak have hitherto been misunderstood. The owner of the statue is not Nespaqashuty ii, who lived in the time of Siamun, but a grandson of Amenemone i. The statue may have been dedicated by his son Ankhefenkhons during the time of Osorkon ii. 2. According to stela Cairo je 66285, the Libyan chief and later king Shoshenq i had a statue of his father Nimlot A erected in the temple of Abydos. The offering established for this statue is written with a hieroglyph simply to be read ḥtp “offering,” not ẖntj “statue” or qnyt “portable image” as proposed before. 3. Some aspects of the chronological and political relations between Bocchoris and Shabako and their predecessors Tefnakhte and Piankhy are considered as well as the supposed reason for the attack on Bocchoris by “Sabakôn.”


Author(s):  
Vadim Markovich Rozin

This article offers a nontraditional approach towards studying the poetics of literary work, which considers personality of the reader and analysis of the reality that he reconstructs and experiences. The empirical material is comprised on the authorial analysis of the poetics of Meir Shalev's novel “Fontanelle”. This literary work features the four major themes: love of the protagonist Michael, creation of the new world from its inception, the characteristic of life values of a person, and discussion of the peculiarities of reality that Meir Shalev builds as an artist. In the first theme, the author reveals several images of love, reflecting on the mystical love of the protagonist for the young woman Ana, love in the family and marriage, love for children. At the same time, the author discusses not only the way that Meir Shalev understands and describes love in “Fontanelle”, but also talks about the own interpretation of love. In the plotline of the second theme, the author also distinguishes two lines: the story the protagonist’s grandfather Apupa, who carries his beloved Amuma on his shoulders across the country, seeking a place where they could create a home and family; and the story of gradual development of a small settlement into a city, created by Apupa and Amuma on the mountain, and several Jewish families at the lower valley. Discussing in the third topic the anchors of human life, the author emphasizes such values as effort, love, family and family line, creativity, indicating that Michael is not alone, he is loved, he gets involved in family history, as well as the history of Israel and Jewish culture, drawing strength in the heroes of this story. The last part of the article gives characteristic to the reality of “Fontanelle” and explains why the author liked it.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Przybyszewska

The history of the inhabitants of the house at 5 Krupnicza Street in Krakow inspired to write this book, the aim of which is to present the history of two families who came to Krakow from different parts of Poland. The „Pod Matką Boską” tenement house, which has become a life haven for so many generations of Reiss and Chłopicki, including medical professors associated with the Jagiellonian University, is the basis of a much wider story about the intertwining of human lives. Thanks to these circumstances, we restore memory, and we often realise for the first time how far fates of families intertwine and connect with each other. Reaching deeply into the family roots, we not only find numerous family ties, but also appreciate their importance. We also understand better how history influences the course of life and how individual decisions can influence the course of events. The pages of this book will include wellknown and distinguished figures, who have their place in the history of politics and science, as well as doctors, military leaders, politicians. There will be also room for those who cared about family and public matters without publicity, serving current and everyday matters, but without whom great things could not have been fulfiled.


Author(s):  
Rosemary L. Hopcroft

This chapter provides an overview of The Oxford Handbook of Evolution, Biology, and Society. Chapters in the first part of this book address the history of the use of method and theory from biology in the social sciences; the second part includes chapters on evolutionary approaches to social psychology; the third part includes chapters describing research on the interaction of genes (and other biochemicals such as hormones) and environmental contexts on a variety of outcomes of sociological interest; and the fourth part includes chapters that apply evolutionary theory to areas of traditional concern to sociologists—including the family, fertility, sex and gender, religion, crime, and race and ethnic relations. The last part of the book presents two chapters on cultural evolution.


2018 ◽  
pp. 141-158
Author(s):  
Jérémie Fischer

The article is an attempt to show the leading elements of the attitude towards Jews, the attitude of Father Claude-Antoine Pochard (1766-1833), tutor in the family of a Gniezno governor Joseph Skórzewski. Numerous trips across Polish territories and neighboring countries enabled him to come into direct contact with Jewish issues in Central and Eastern Europe, and his up till now unpublished memoirs shed light on some interesting aspects of the history of European  Jews.The article consists of three parts. The first part presents direct or indirect contacts of Father Pochard with Jews during his trip to Bavaria, Saxony, Prussia, Wielkopolska, the land annexed by Russia and Lithuania. The second part shows Fr. Pochard’s reactions to the presence of Jews – dislike and avoiding closer contacts. There is also an attempt to show the difference in the positions of both the Catholic side, represented by Fr. Pochard, and the Jewish side, the climate of hostility and mutual prejudices. The third and last part shows cases where Fr. Pochard revises his views in contact with professionalism and honesty encountered in traveling Jewish innkeepers and merchants, and also other specific moments when there was escalation of tension in his relations with the Jews. The whole article is an interesting panorama of Christian-Jewish relations in the  first half of the nineteenth century, when there were economic contacts but no cultural exchange.


Author(s):  
Lucas A Kaminski ◽  
Luis Volkmann ◽  
Curtis J Callaghan ◽  
Philip J DeVries ◽  
Roger Vila

Abstract Mutualistic interactions between butterflies and ants can evolve into complex social parasitism. ‘Cuckoo’ caterpillars, known only in the Lycaenidae, use multimodal mimetic traits to achieve social integration into ant societies. Here, we present the first known ‘cuckoo’ butterfly in the family Riodinidae. Aricoris arenarum remained in taxonomic limbo for > 80 years, relegated to nomen dubium and misidentified as Aricoris gauchoana. We located lost type material, designated lectotypes and documented the morphology and natural history of the immature stages. The multifaceted life cycle of A. arenarum can be summarized in three phases: (1) females lay eggs close to honeydew-producing hemipterans tended by specific Camponotus ants; (2) free-living caterpillars feed on liquids (honeydew and ant regurgitations); and (3) from the third instar onward, the caterpillars are fed and tended by ants as ‘cuckoos’ inside the ant nest. This life cycle is remarkably similar to that of the Asian lycaenid Niphanda fusca, despite divergence 90 Mya. Comparable eco-evolutionary pathways resulted in a suite of ecomorphological homoplasies through the ontogeny. This study shows that convergent interactions can be more important than phylogenetic proximity in shaping functional traits of social parasites.


2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (03) ◽  
pp. E ◽  
Author(s):  
Luisa Massarani ◽  
Ildeu Moreira ◽  
Bruce Lewenstein

Science communication is today a well-established ―although young― area of research. However, there are only a few books and papers analyzing how science communication has developed historically. Aiming to, in some way, contribute to filling this gap, JCOM organized this special issue on the History of Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST), joining 15 contributions, from different parts of the globe. The papers published in this issue are organized in three groups, though with diffuse boundaries: geography, media, and discipline. The first group contains works that deal descriptively and critically with the development of PCST actions and either general or specific public policies for this area in specific countries. A second set of papers examines aspects of building science communication on TV or in print media. The third group of papers presents and discusses important PCST cases in specific areas of science or technology at various historical moments.


Author(s):  
Robin Law

The transatlantic slave trade peaked in the third quarter of the eighteenth century, when more than 80,000 slaves annually were being shipped from Africa for the Americas. This overshadowed the older-established trade in slaves northwards from West Africa across the Sahara Desert to the Muslim world, which was probably under 10,000 annually. Despite the long history of commerce, direct European involvement in Africa remained limited. In contrast to the Americas, European colonial occupation of African territory was minimal before the later nineteenth century. Some African states maintained diplomatic relations with their trading partners across the Atlantic. The operation of the Atlantic trade had the effect of linking up different parts of Africa with each other, as well as with Europe and the Americas. The autonomous (or northern-oriented) character of the West African historical process might seem to be self-evidently illustrated by one of the major developments of this period, a series of jihads, or ‘Islamic Revolutions’, in which Muslim clerics seized power from existing ruling groups.


1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. David Kirk ◽  
Susan A. Mcdaniel

AbstractThis paper has two purposes. First, to explore what existing adoption legislation may indicate about the meaning and function of adoption practices in North America and Great Britain. Second, to consider some possible policy implications revealed by clearer understanding of the social meaning of existing adoption laws. The first part of the paper summarizes briefly the history of legal adoption. The second examines what is explicitly and implicitly revealed by adoption law and policies about the social purposes of adoption and about prevailing social values concerning the family. The third part examines possible avenues of policy change in North America.


Author(s):  
Р.Г. ДЗАТТИАТЫ

Средневековая грузинская рукопись «Памятник эриставов», или «Хроника ксанских эриставов», содержит немало сведений о средневековой истории части современной Республики Южная Осетия. В первой части «Хроники», составленной монахами Ларгвисского монастыря, отражены события, отстоявшие от времени написания текста (начало XV в.) более чем на 8-9 столетий. «Хроника» сохранила предание об исходе рода Эристовых из северной части Алании-Осетии после неудачной попытки перехватить власть у Царазоновых. Частично отмечен и путь следования изгнанников-переселенцев - перевал Закка, или Сбайыфцæг, и далее в Едыс - в Верхнюю Двалетию, или Урстуалта. В «Хронике» обозначены места временного и постоянного проживания колонии беженцев в разных пунктах Двалетии среди двалов. Сперва руководители колонии именовались Бибилури-Бибылта, по имени старшего царевича, а затем Квенипневели или Ларгвели - по названию местности выделенной им резиденции. Последние зафиксированы даже с добавлением обретенного титула - «эристави». Первое название (Бибылта) сохранилось у осетин, а второе - у грузин (Сидамон-Эристави). Они вошли в грузинскую феодальную структуру как видные представители феодальной знати. На местах проживания переселенцев археологами обнаружены погребения с характерными элементами экипировки знатных воинов - пояса с набором, указывающим на особый статус в воинской иерархии алан. Зафиксированные в погребениях деформированные черепа также указывают на алан, у которых искусственная деформация черепа была распространена в раннем средневековье и являлась социальным маркером. После утверждения восточно-грузинским монархом власти Сидамоновых-Эриставовых в ущельях р. Ксани новоявленные грузинские феодалы в последующие века принимали самое активное участие в военно-политических событиях, происходивших в Грузии. Эриставы сохранили память о своем осетинском «аристократическом» происхождении и именовались в последующие времена Сидамон-Эристави. The medieval Georgian manuscript “The Monument of the Eristavs”, or “The Chronicle of the Ksanian Eristavs”, contains a lot of information about the medieval history of the part of the modern Republic of South Ossetia. The first part of the “Chronicle”, composed by the monks of the Largvis monastery (early XVth century), reflects the events, which predate the time of their written record for more than 8-9 centuries. The “Chronicle” preserved the legend of the exodus of the family of the Eristavs from the northern part of Alania-Ossetia after an unsuccessful attempt to intercept power from the Tsarazons. The route of the expellees-resettlers is partly marked - the Zakka pass, or Sbajyftsag, and further to Edys - in the Upper Dvaletia, or Urstualta. The “Chronicle” indicates the places of temporary and permanent residence of the refugees’ colony in different parts of Dvaletia among the Dvals. Firstly, the leaders of the colony were called Bibiluri-Bibylta, by the senior prince’s name, and then Kvenipneveli, or Largveli, by the local name of the residence provided to them. The latter ones are fixed even with the addition of the acquired title - “Eristavi”. The first name (Bibylta) was preserved among the Ossetians, and the second - among Georgians (Sidamon-Eristavi). They entered the Georgian feudal structure as prominent representatives of the feudal nobility. At the places of residence of the immigrants, archaeologists discovered burials with characteristic elements of equipment of noble warriors - a belt with a set indicating a special status in the military hierarchy of the Alans. The deformed skulls found in the burials also point to Alans, whose artificial cranial deformation was widespread in the early Middle Ages as a social marker. After the approval of the Sidamon-Eristav’s power in the gorges of the Ksani River by the Eastern Georgian monarch, the newly-born Georgian feudal lords took active part in the military and political events that took place in Georgia in the following centuries. The Eristavs preserved the memory of their Ossetian «aristocratic» origin and were called in later times the Sidamon-Eristavi.


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