Slovene and Chinese karstologists join studies from the chosen parts of diverse Yunnan karst, from topical cone karst on south and stone forest on center to mountain karst and high plateau karst of ...Tibet in the north. Presented are results of research in the karst on stone forests and other types of karst surfaces, soil erosion, the formation of tufa, vegetation, the development, age and sediment of karst caves, karst waters, epikarst fauna and the protection of the natural heritage.
What makes chatty objects chatty? There are probably many reasons. But in this book ('Chatty Objects. When Objects Talk About Us and Others') you will hear only one answer to this question: changed ...context! When objects find themselves in new, different, foreign contexts, they often, but not always, start chatting. Thus in this book we hear the chatting of the scarves of Muslim immigrant women and their descendants in Slovenia~bureks and pies baked in the kitchens of immigrants and given as gifts to Slovenes, the Tuareg 'veil' called a taglmust in the towns of north Africa~“white” dishes at Muslim wedding festivals in urban Burkina Faso~the bronze ritual vessel called a ding in China’s long history, and consumer goods purchased on holidays in a Tokyo shopping street.
The contributions thematise love to a homeland in groups and individuals who fail to conform to the dominant understanding of patriotism~this often renders them inapt patriots and they are, hence, ...symbolically deprived of loving their homeland. The authors thematise love for homeland(s) in im/migrants, members of ethnic and sexual minorities, mixed marriage children, anarchists and social critics and activists. The authors and the people depicted stand for understanding and practicing the so-called critical patriotism, a practice best subsumed in the phrase: “use your mind”.
This collective volume is the first monographic and interdisciplinary study of autobiography in Slovenia. Nineteen authors are discussing the issues of its development, combining the methods of ...literary scholarship with the philosophical, historiographical, ethnological, sociological and other perspectives. Theoretical insights are complemented by a series of case studies on the history of autobiographical discourse in Slovenian cultural space and beyond it from the end of the 18th century to the present.
This book ('I was wandering in circles the whole night long. The symbolism of circular movement in European traditional culture') researches the common symbolism of the circular movement in European ...tradition and culture through the ethnographical, historical and linguistic sources from different regions of Europe and from different historical periods. The circular movement is identifyed as the movement which is in traditional world view and understanding of the space caracteristic for the movements between this world and the other. At the same time it enables the communication between the worlds and transmition from one to the other.
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