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‘Gab mir ein Gott zu sagen, was ich leide’: Sonatorrek and the myth of skaldic lyric
"... these lines from Goethe’s Torquato Tasso (V, 5, 3432-3) in the course of their discussions of Sonatorrek. Aside from the obvious thematic similarity between Egill’s poem and this little fragment, what could its persistence in the critical literature suggest? For one thing, the quotation presents us ..."
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these lines from Goethe’s Torquato Tasso (V, 5, 3432-3) in the course of their discussions of Sonatorrek. Aside from the obvious thematic similarity between Egill’s poem and this little fragment, what could its persistence in the critical literature suggest? For one thing, the quotation presents us
Ancestral Narratives and Historical Consciousness
"... To introduce myself, I’d like to say that my research is on ancestry in literature. This is a broad topic, which could be applied to many possible contexts, so I have narrowed my focus to one specific area. I am interested in the recent novels by Thomas Keneally and Christopher Koch, and more broadl ..."
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broadly the situation of the Irish in Australia. So I am looking at Australians with Irish ancestry. This paper will look at the relationship between ancestral narratives and historical consciousness; or rather, how ancestry coincides with historiography. First I’ll ask a rather obvious question: what
Coin perception studies and the concept of schemata
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"... The proposition that perception is in-fluenced by object value and perceiver need has enjoyed an exciting career since it was given prominence by Bruner and Goodman in an oral and, later, a printed report (3) of dramatic differ-ences between rich and poor children in their judgments of coin sizes. W ..."
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. Whether that study or subsequent ones can be said to have upheld the proposition may be questionable; but the effect on psy-chologists is beyond doubt. They were refreshed and stimulated. The ideas, the experimental approach, and the re-sults were new, and quite obviously ap-pealed to current needs
Articles The Evolutionary Geometry of Human Anatomy: Discovering Our Inner Fly
"... The human body is one still frame in a very long evolutionary movie. Anthropologists focus on the last few scenes, whereas geneticists try to trace the screenplay back as far as possible. Despite their divergent time scales (millions versus billions of years), both disciplines share a reliance on a ..."
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third field of study whose scope spans only a matter of days to months, depending on the organism. Embryology is crucial for understanding both the pliability of anatomy and the modularity of gene circuitry. The relevance of human embryology to anthropology is obvious. What is not so obvious
A Service of zbw Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft Leibniz Information Centre for Economics Social capital and fertility intentions: The case of Italy, Bulgaria, and West Germany OF DEMOGRAPHY 2 / 2012
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levels of public support. In both countries, consequently, informal supportive networks based on family relationships and kinship have a strong tradition and a high relevance for getting things done. In Germany, however, support by family policy is much stronger and the importance of such supportive
Effect of Leadership Style on Political Participation in Nigeria
"... This paper explains that, pattern of political grouping, pressure groups, social economic as well as business organization, so also the voting pattern in Nigeria portrays the unrelenting quest in search of political leadership by the inhabitant of the country to avail them from such perpetual deteri ..."
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and solidarity in favour of a particular political associate or person determined at the level of ideology, Kinship (in Nigerian) or ethnic diversity (as the case may be) plays a plethora of roles which include acting as symbol that provides for candidates to contest election in other to form (acceptable
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"... Summary This paper focuses on the links between migration and sustainable livelihoods, looking in particular at the institutional factors that connect the two. It argues that much of the development literature makes the false assumption that sedentary patterns in society are the norm, instead makin ..."
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on the ability of pioneering groups of individuals to contract and manipulate effectively a wide range of kinship and other ties in order to mobilise the social and political resources necessary for colonisation ... as a 4 result of the need for mobility, there were few barriers to the flow of populations from
Of Attitudes and Engagement: Clarifying the Reciprocal Relationship Between Civic Attitudes and Political Participation
"... In this essay, we draw on broader psychological theories of the attitude-behavior relationship to postulate specific reciprocal patterns of causality between the civic attitudes and forms of political and civic engagement featured in contemporary political communication research. We then examine th ..."
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of hypotheses (H1) we advance grows from the empirical and theoretical kinship between the classic political efficacy variables (external and internal efficacy) and those political behaviors we have earlier described as strategic (voting, political action, and media use). As noted earlier, there is ample
M nite Attitudes to Property
"... The ability of human beings to enjoy life on this earth is threatened at all times, in all places, by a simple fact: each human being must have access to the earth's limited physical resources. For this reason, questions of property- who has aright to own what and under what conditions- are fun ..."
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The ability of human beings to enjoy life on this earth is threatened at all times, in all places, by a simple fact: each human being must have access to the earth's limited physical resources. For this reason, questions of property- who has aright to own what and under what conditions- are fundamental ones for every society. Any community concerned about economic justice must come to somedecision about the proper allocation of resources among its members. Since physical resources are essential not only for human survival but for the growth of human personality-for the enjoyment of life- the proper division of property rights remains an important problem even for relatively prosperous societies. Despite what would appear to be the uncontestable nature of such an assertion- that property rights are fundamental to the exercise of justice in any community- little attention has been given to the just distribution of property in Mennonite communities. One searches in vain in Mennonite literature, including journals and books dealing with social and economic issues, for a discussion of this important problem. There are, of course, many possible explanations for this. An