Lituanus

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lithuania
ISBN : UOM:39015066331300

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Lituanus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Margaret J.-M. Sönmez,Maia Wellington Gahtan,Nadia Cannata
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429958427

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Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage by Margaret J.-M. Sönmez,Maia Wellington Gahtan,Nadia Cannata Pdf

Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage presents essays by practitioners based in language museums around the world. Describing their history, mission, and modes of display, contributors demonstrate the important role intangible heritage can and should play in the museum. Arguing that languages are among our most precious forms of cultural heritage, the book also demonstrates that they are at risk of neglect, and of endangerment from globalisation and linguistic imperialism. Including case studies from across Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia, this book documents the vital work being done by museums to help preserve languages and make them objects of broad public interest. Divided into three sections, contributions to the book focus on one of three types of museums: museums of individual languages, museums of language groups – both geographic and structural – and museums of writing. The volume presents practical information alongside theoretical discussions and state-of-the-art commentaries concerning the representation of languages and their cultural nature. Museums of Language and the Display of Intangible Cultural Heritage is the first volume to address the subject of language museums and, as such, should be of interest to academics, researchers, and postgraduate students in the fields of museum and cultural heritage studies, applied linguistics, anthropology, tourism, and public education.

Author : Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1588115844

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Studies in Baltic and Indo-European Linguistics by Philip Baldi,Pietro U. Dini Pdf

This collection of twenty-nine research papers is dedicated to the eminent Balticist, Slavicist and Indo-Europeanist, William R. Schmalstieg in commemoration of his seventy-fifth birthday. It contains contributions by specialists of mainly Baltic and Indo-European linguistics which are reflective of Schmalstieg's own scholarly interests over the decades of his career, including technical aspects of Baltic and Indo-European phonology, morphology and syntax, etymology, language universals, the history of linguistics and the Baltic text tradition. Contributors include prominent scholars from the United States and Europe, both east and west. All papers are in English, and all linguistic material in less commonly known languages is provided with an English translation, making the contents accessible to a wider audience of readers.

Author : David A. Frick
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801467523

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Kith, Kin, and Neighbors by David A. Frick Pdf

In the mid-seventeenth century, Wilno (Vilnius), the second capital of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, was home to Poles, Lithuanians, Germans, Ruthenians, Jews, and Tatars, who worshiped in Catholic, Uniate, Orthodox, Calvinist, and Lutheran churches, one synagogue, and one mosque. Visitors regularly commented on the relatively peaceful coexistence of this bewildering array of peoples, languages, and faiths. In Kith, Kin, and Neighbors, David Frick shows how Wilno’s inhabitants navigated and negotiated these differences in their public and private lives. This remarkable book opens with a walk through the streets of Wilno, offering a look over the royal quartermaster’s shoulder as he made his survey of the city’s intramural houses in preparation for King Władysław IV’s visit in 1636. These surveys (Lustrations) provide concise descriptions of each house within the city walls that, in concert with court and church records, enable Frick to accurately discern Wilno’s neighborhoods and human networks, ascertain the extent to which such networks were bounded confessionally and culturally, determine when citizens crossed these boundaries, and conclude which kinds of cross-confessional constellations were more likely than others. These maps provide the backdrops against which the dramas of Wilno lives played out: birth, baptism, education, marriage, separation or divorce, guild membership, poor relief, and death and funeral practices. Perhaps the most complete reconstruction ever written of life in an early modern European city, Kith, Kin, and Neighbors sets a new standard for urban history and for work on the religious and communal life of Eastern Europe.

Author : Garth M. Terry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : East European literature
ISBN : UOM:39015014963402

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East European Languages and Literatures by Garth M. Terry Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Lithuania
ISBN : UOM:39015078314146

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Lituanus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Saulius A. Suziedelis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810875364

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Historical Dictionary of Lithuania by Saulius A. Suziedelis Pdf

The second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Lithuania will serve as a useful introduction to virtually all aspects of Lithuania's historical experience, including the country's relations with its neighbors. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, places, and events; institutions and organizations; and political, economic, social, cultural, and religious facets.

Author : Romuald Misiunas,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082281

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The Baltic States by Romuald Misiunas,Rein Taagepera Pdf

Describes and analyzes how the Baltic nations survived 50 years of social disruption, language discrimination and Russian colonialism, and the effect of the Baltic states' stubborn invincibility on the Soviet Union. The history of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are integrated and compared.

Author : Romuald J. Misiunas,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0520082273

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The Baltic States, Years of Dependence, 1940-1990 by Romuald J. Misiunas,Rein Taagepera Pdf

In this updated edition of their renowned The Baltic States, Romuald Misiunas and Rein Taagepera bring the story of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia up to the 1990s. The authors describe and analyze how the Baltic nations survived fifty years of social disruption, language discrimination, and Russian colonialism. The nations' histories are fully integrated and compared, and some notable differences between them are pointed out. With two new chapters, a revised preface, and an appendix on the end of Soviet domination, this expanded study covers a tumultuous period of political, economic, cultural, and ecological reform.

Author : Leonas Sabaliūnas
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0822310155

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Lithuanian Social Democracy in Perspective, 1893-1914 by Leonas Sabaliūnas Pdf

Lithuanian Social Democracy in Perspective is the first book in any Western language on Lithuanian Social Democracy. In this work Leonas Sabaliunas studies the conflict between and convergence of socialism and nationalism in pre-1914 Lithuania. He analyzes the interplay of ideological priorities by observing the operations of Marxist political parties, emphasizing the origins, development, and achievements of the Social Democratic Party of Lithuania. But Sabaliunas also considers such partners and rivals as the Jewish Bund, the Polish Socialist Party, the Social Democracy of the Kingdom of Poland and Lithuania, and the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party. He focuses on the appearance of socialist parties at the local level, the politics of assertive behavior during the Russian Revolution of 1905-1906, the nature of interparty relations, and efforts to promote party unity. In particular, he investigates the projected relationship between Russia and its subject nationalities--a cardinal concern today as the Baltic peoples attempt to distance themselves from their Russian neighbors. Sabaliunas clarifies current massive Lithuanian opposition to Moscow and to its version of socialism. He stresses that in Lithuania the socialist movement from the beginning not only sought solutions to social and economic problems but also addressed issues of ethnic and national interest, especially the question of national sovereignty.

Author : Janis Jefferies,Diana Wood Conroy,Hazel Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781474275781

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The Handbook of Textile Culture by Janis Jefferies,Diana Wood Conroy,Hazel Clark Pdf

In recent years, the study of textiles and culture has become a dynamic field of scholarship, reflecting new global, material and technological possibilities. This is the first handbook of specially commissioned essays to provide a guide to the major strands of critical work around textiles past and present and to draw upon the work of artists and designers as well as researchers in textiles studies. The handbook offers an authoritative and wide-ranging guide to the topics, issues, and questions that are central to the study of textiles today: it examines how material practices reflect cross-cultural influences; it explores textiles' relationships to history, memory, place, and social and technological change; and considers their influence on fashion and design, sustainable production, craft, architecture, curation and contemporary textile art practice. This illustrated volume will be essential reading for students and scholars involved in research on textiles and related subjects such as dress, costume and fashion, feminism and gender, art and design, and cultural history. Cover image: Anne Wilson, To Cross (Walking New York), 2014. Site-specific performance and sculpture at The Drawing Center, NYC. Thread cross research. Photo: Christie Carlson/Anne Wilson Studio.

Author : Violeta Davoliūtė
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134693511

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The Making and Breaking of Soviet Lithuania by Violeta Davoliūtė Pdf

Appearing on the world stage in 1918, Lithuania suffered numerous invasions, border changes and large scale population displacements.The successive occupations of Stalin in 1940 and Hitler in 1941, mass deportations to the Gulag and the elimination of the Jewish community in the Holocaust gave the horrors of World War II a special ferocity. Moreover, the fighting continued after 1945 with the anti-Soviet insurrection, crushed through mass deportations and forced collectivization in 1948-1951. At no point, however, did the process of national consolidation take a pause, making Lithuania an improbably representative case study of successful nation-building in this troubled region. As postwar reconstruction gained pace, ethnic Lithuanians from the countryside – the only community to remain after the war in significant numbers – were mobilized to work in the cities. They streamed into factory and university alike, creating a modern urban society, with new elites who had a surprising degree of freedom to promote national culture. This book describes how the national cultural elites constructed a Soviet Lithuanian identity against a backdrop of forced modernization in the fifties and sixties, and how they subsequently took it apart by evoking the memory of traumatic displacement in the seventies and eighties, later emerging as prominent leaders of the popular movement against Soviet rule.

Author : Wendell Mayo,Alfred Erich Senn,Mikhail Kizilov,Elona Lubytė,Dovilė Budrytė,Virgil Krapauskas,Karl Altau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Lithuanians
ISBN : OCLC:1005987308

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Lituanus by Wendell Mayo,Alfred Erich Senn,Mikhail Kizilov,Elona Lubytė,Dovilė Budrytė,Virgil Krapauskas,Karl Altau Pdf

Author : Michael Huspek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781135226954

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Oppositional Discourses and Democracies by Michael Huspek Pdf

When citizens take to the streets or pack assembly halls or share their ideas through the minority press, they often give voice to truths and logic that have otherwise been given little or no airing through the available institutional channels offered by democratic states. Such discourses offer new rhetorical strategies for the expression of citizen desires, needs and emotions that otherwise go unrecognized and unaddressed. They also offer impetus for new forms of deliberation and informed action that can result in real political change. This collection explores the tensions between democratic states and the dynamics of citizen voice. In so doing, the collection addresses such questions as: What role do oppositional discourses play in increased democratization? Can oppositional discourses be sustained over time? How do states resist pressures to democratize? This volume will be of interest to students and scholars in Politics, Sociology, and Communication.

Author : Romuald J. Misiunas,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0520046250

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The Baltic States, Years of Dependence, 1940-1980 by Romuald J. Misiunas,Rein Taagepera Pdf

Geschiedenis van Estland, Letland en Litauen