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re-digitized issue 31 from March, 1936 of the house journal of pharmaceutical Company CIBA
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re-digitized issue 31 from March, 1936 of the house journal of pharmaceutical Company CIBA
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This book summarises the recomendations and the advices of the famous Bulgarian spiritual teacher Peter Deunov (1864 - 1944) adding some extracts from the traditional medicine.
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The actuality of folklore is a key notion within the book. The papers follow the same style, with a general and systematizing approach, and a general bibliography closes the volume. Referring not only to Hungarian, but American, Russian, French, even Greek and Finnish monographs, Voigt’s work is a unique attempt to give suggestions toward a comparative and actual theory of folklore. These studies will be relevant readings to scholars of literature, communication theory, semiotics and culture theory too – just to mention some of the papers in the book.This collection of 25 papers (originally published over a period of about 25 years) is directed toward English-language readers. The papers describe the genres of folklore research, their systems, the variants and their interrelations – very important themes in the area. Several studies are devoted to history of research, and to historical stratification of folklore itself. Symbolism and ethnic characteristics of folklore items are the topics of other papers.The actuality of folklore is a key notion within the book. The papers follow the same style, with a general and systematizing approach, and a general bibliography closes the volume. Referring not only to Hungarian, but American, Russian, French, even Greek and Finnish monographs, Voigt’s work is a unique attempt to give suggestions toward a comparative and actual theory of folklore. These studies will be relevant readings to scholars of literature, communication theory, semiotics and culture theory too – just to mention some of the papers in the book.
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Main task of this work has been to examine kin relationships – in their range, content and function – of Vranje family with its extra-family relatives. The Vranje family forms kinship network wich is narrow in its range. Family maintains intimate relations with a small number of relatives, mainly with the nearest kin. Relatives up to the fourth cousins in lateral range, or in vertical range of lineage, are recognized as closer kin and with them the elementary family creates more intensive interaction and stronger connectedness than with genealogically more distant kin. Family interaction with the genealogically more distant kin is reduced to occasional gatherings. Geographic distance between a family and its relatives is an obstacle to intensive contacts and a limiting factor in forming higher degree of kinship connectedness. Low living standard also contributes that contacts among relatives are less intensive. Range, content and function of kin relationships depend upon: family structure, its internal organisation (performance of conjugal roles), situational factors, influence of psychological mechanisms and recognition of certain cultural patterns. The contacts of the Vranje families with their kin are shaped up, to a considerable extent, by traditional patterns of behaviour. Cultural patterns and kinship terminology are the part of kinship system wich change the most slowly. Changes that occur within the kinship system are for the most part structural in their nature, while content of the system is less prone to changes. In solving many of its problems, family relies on kin’s help. Relationships with kin in not limited in their role and importance only to kinship solidarity, but are included in socialization process of an individual. The kin relationships represent important part of social relationships in the modern world and they help in forming of structuralized social reality.
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The book is a digital re-edition of Anton Hangi's book as published in 1907 by publisher »Daniel A. Kajon« in Sarajevo.
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This work consists of 57 chapters in six larger parts; of these six I dedicate three to the history of medicine and doctors in Turkey, to pharmacy and cosmetics, therapeutic baths and hospitals, bungling and folk medicine in all diseases, fever and water cures, epidemics, and finally superstition in the world Medicine; the other three parts deal with love, marriage in Islam, sultanic marriages and weddings, the power of women in the Ottoman Empire, the wedding customs of the peoples in Turkey, the intimate sex life and sexual degeneracy, finally mother and child.
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This work consists of 57 chapters in six larger parts; of these six I dedicate three to the history of medicine and doctors in Turkey, to pharmacy and cosmetics, therapeutic baths and hospitals, bungling and folk medicine in all diseases, fever and water cures, epidemics, and finally superstition in the world Medicine; the other three parts deal with love, marriage in Islam, sultanic marriages and weddings, the power of women in the Ottoman Empire, the wedding customs of the peoples in Turkey, the intimate sex life and sexual degeneracy, finally mother and child.
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A bilingual book of poems by Petro Murianka (Piotr Trochanowski), originally written in Lemko and translated into Silesian. The poems introduce readers to minority literature and the linguistic and cultural diversity of Poland. Łymkowsko duszyczka is a contribution to the minority discourse and a proposition of literary dialogue between ethne living in Poland, but above all an opening of the Lemko world to Silesian recipients, most often completely unfamiliar with Lemkovyna – with the hope that they will want to get to know it better.
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"Ynzer Łidła – Our Songs. Songs, Lullabies and Counting-out Rhymes from Wilamowice", is the result of titanic work done by Tymoteusz Król, who documented oral traditions of a small ethnic group living in Wilamowice, a town between Oświęcim and Bielsko-Biała. Wilamowianie came from Western Europe in the 13th century and brought their own language and traditions. Unfortunately, due to their distinctness, Wilamowianie were often persecuted, especially in the 20th century. As a result, their culture and language began to die out. Tymoteusz Król, who undertook the task of documenting songs and lullabies, collected directly from the oldest language users, not only saved them from oblivion, but also started the process of revitalizing wymysiöeryś language, which is now used by the growing number of speakers. For some of its speakers the songs contained in this collection were the first opportunity to get to know their indigenous culture.
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The Kommission für Volksdichtung was founded in 1966, in Freiburg, Germany, to bring together ballad and folk song researchers from around the world for the International Ballad Conference. Since then, at meetings throughout Europe, ballad and song scholars have met to present their work and to learn something of the host country’s traditions. The 45th such conference was held in Prishtina, Kosovo, in 2015. This volume is a proceeding from the conference, with some of the materials published in Albanian and English. It is a collaborative publication of the Institute of Albanology in Prishtina, as the host institution of conference, and the Kommission für Volksdichtung.
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Over the past 130 years, the National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina has become a rich treasury of the cultural and historical heritage of the peoples of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This unique resource allows for a scholarly approach to studying different subjects including aspects of the preserved spiritual heritage. The collection entitled Narodne umotovorine (Folk Wisdom), along with its accompanying introductory paper, has the goal to bring a valuable manuscript of folk poems and songs kept at the Folklore Archives of the National Museum closer to the audience. This manuscript, created by Smajl O. Bradarić (1914-1993), a religion teacher from Maglaj, over the course of ten years of his collecting efforts and containing over one thousand oral lyric works, arrived to the National Museum in the middle of the 20th century. Exactly this period – from the1950s through 1980s – was the period of the greatest abundance of ethno-folkloristic contributions since the Museum was established until today.The manuscript collection created by Bradarić represents the folklore life as it was in the period between 1938 and 1948 in the area of Bosanski Novi, Derventa and Malglaj, as well as along the roads connecting these towns in northern Bosnia. This manuscript portrays the life of people de-scribed through different forms of lyric expression – and although most songs were told by elderly women and a few older community leaders who lived in the area and in the period of collection – it also contains several songs which came to the author through his students, who collected them from different people, often the younger ones. Bradarić’s collection also contains the entire songbook collected by Mihajlo Prosenik, Orthodox Christian church official, who collected it from his closest family members, with whom Bradarić collaborated. It also contains songs recorded in Maglaj, Žepče as well as parts of Central Bosnia, told by – as he puts it –Muslims and Bosnian Catholics, today ethnically labeled as Bosniaks and Croats. As such, this unique collection represents a valuable “treasure chest of the folk’s soul”. It is in fact an example of a folklore idyll collected from persons of different age, sex and religion who Bradarić met, and who were willing to share their songs with him.
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This monograph deals with a genre of children’s literature (literature for children and young adults) – the contemporary authorial fairy tales published between 2000 and 2020 in the Czech Republic and in Bulgaria. Using a comparative method and analysis of the works, the monograph follows the development shifts in the genre of authorial fairy tale in both national literatures. The work is selective, focused on the most distinctive types of authorial fairy tales. The division of the monograph into four parts (folklore-influenced fairy tales, diary and calendar fairy tales, lyricized and rhythmic fairy tales, humor and nonsense fairy tales) tends to be more orientational and approximate thanks to the mixing of different literary genres.
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The monograph presents and reflects the results of a specific research project of the same name (MUNI/A/1423/2018) carried out by a team of academic staff and students of the doctoral program of the Department of Music at the Faculty of Education, Masaryk University. The folklore song scope represents an important didactic basis, permeates music education at elementary, partly also secondary schools and specialized instrumental or singing education at elementary art schools. Due to the influence of multilayered cultural expressions and the influence of multimedia means, however, the question of how to present the musical and folklore heritage to school youth is more prominent. The object of investigation was the application of folk music to school education.
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The cult of the originally Persian god Mithras, which spread throughout the Roman Empire in the first centuries CE, represents one of the most fascinating religions of the ancient world. The Atlas of Sites and Catalogue of Evidence is a systematic heuristic contribution to the study of this cult. It provides an up-to-date list of places associated with the worship of Mithras and briefly describes the sanctuaries and artefacts discovered at these sites. In addition to confirmed Mithraic evidence, it also includes monuments of questionable nature or finds that have been excluded as non-Mithraic in later research, thus updating the now largely outdated Vermaseren corpus of Mithraic evidence from the 1960s.
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The publication presented to the reader is the result of a collaboration between sociologists from the University of Lyon II and the University of Lodz. However, recognized rural sociologists representing the academic centers of Warsaw, Krakow and Torun were invited to work jointly. The analysis of the social problems of rural areas in contemporary French and Polish societies arises both from the importance of this structural element for the two countries and from the desire to continue the long tradition of cooperation. The volume opens with texts evoking the main trends in long-term research undertaken in the rural environment, both in France and in Poland. Then there are synthetic presentations of the dynamics of the social structure in rural areas of Poland between 1991 and 2015, as well as the social problems of peri-urban areas in France. The following texts present an empirical dimension of the quality of life of Polish farmers in the era of globalization; and address the transformation of neighborhood relations in French rural communities located in peri-urban areas. Then, innovative activities of NGOs within local socio-spatial structures; as well as the transformations of folk culture in central Poland, are presented. The volume ends with a text devoted to the analysis of civic participation of residents of rural areas in Poland and France based on data from the European Social Survey. The texts brought together in this monograph concern the current social situation in France and Poland, seen from the perspectives of territory, social structure, culture and life organizations.
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