Abstract Gregor Mendel is generally presented as the ‘ignored and solitary founder of genetics’. This Moravian friar would have worked in strict isolation on the heredity of peas in the garden of his ...monastery, and his experiments would have been ignored by his contemporaries, before being ‘rediscovered’ independently by three botanists in 1900, 34 years after their publication. Historians have contributed to replace the genesis of Mendel’s work in the context of his time, questioning the mythical image that prevailed in academic circles and the public perception. This paper recalls that Mendel benefitted from a very favourable context for the development of his experiments at St Thomas Monastery in Brno and was not isolated from the scientific community of his time. Although the notions on which his work was based were already present in scientific publications, this does not diminish the importance of Mendel’s contribution to the development of modern biology. We provide a detailed analysis of the results of his experiments on the development of hybrid plants that he presented in two lectures at the Brno Society of Natural History in 1865, demonstrating that beyond his major contribution to the foundation of genetics, Mendel was one of the pioneers of systems biology.
This study aims to describe the meaning shift of mujêlisên in Gayo society. The meaning given to the mujêlisên tradition has not been constant at all times. In the Gayo lens traditional, mujêlisên ...means something Islamic or "to be Islamic". So the activities carried out are directed at actions that are nuanced with spirituality. The study was qualitative research. This study found that over time, the meaning of the mujêlisên tradition was shifted. In praxis, the spirituality aspect not dominates the discourse but has been covered by profane culture festivity practices. It is supported by the various easily accessible facilities to fulfil the consumptive desires of festivity actors.
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Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mendeskripsikan pergeseran makna mujêlisên pada masyarakat Gayo. Makna yang diberikan terhadap tradisi mujêlisên pada masyarakat Gayo tidak selalu ajeg dari masa ke masa. Dalam lensa adat Gayo, sunatan atau mujêlisên bermakna diislamkan, sehingga aktivitas yang dilakukan diwarnai tindakan-tindakan yang mengarah pada aspek spiritualitas. Peneliti menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif guna mengungkap dan merefleksikan pergeseran makna pada tradisi mujêlisên. Penelitian ini menemukan bahwa seiring perkembangan zaman, pemaknaan tradisi mujêlisên mulai ikut bergeser. Pada level praksis, gagasan spiritualitas tidak lagi mendominasi wacana, namun sudah ditutupi oleh praktik budaya pesta yang profan. Hal ini didukung oleh berbagai sarana yang tersedia dan mudah diakses untuk memenuhi hasrat konsumtif pelaku pesta.
Writing in an anniversary issue journal is an honor and therefore an endless courage. We know where honor comes from, we build it; the courage is ours in front of readers of this issue, but also of ...similar issues - many decades to come. The chosen theme doesn’t represent such an advatage for us because it is also the fruit of a courageous act, with clear evidence that its thinking doesn’t hold the same fully viable arguments now
The celebration of “Grebeg Suro” is an annual agenda organized by the Ponorogo Regency Government and is always present the attention and long-awaited of Ponorogo people (domiciled in the city of ...Ponorogo as well as in other cities) as well as various communities from other cities, including tourists from overseas. Ponorogo regency government has responded well by compiling various agenda of activities that can coloring the celebration of “Grebeg Suro”. Various events or competitions held in “Grebeg Suro”, starting various events or lombase not the opening ceremony of “Grebeg Suro of Grebeg Suro, Reyog Festival National Center of Peace in “Aloon-Aloon Ponorogo”, Kirap Pusaka, Closing of “Grebeg Suro”, “Larung Risalah”, and various other events, it was able to attract a large audience or visitors. The celebration of “Grebeg Suro” is actually derived from the customs of the community taken over by the Regional Government as the Annual Agenda by involving the community as a whole with a decision on the Head of Regent of Ponorogo Second Level Region No. 63 Juncto 130 Year 1987 about the Tourism Team of Ponorogo Level II Region.
En 2019 en Colombia se conmemoró el bicentenario de la Batalla de Boyacá, hecho decisivo en el proceso de Independencia del país, mientras que, en México, en 2021, tuvo lugar una triple ...conmemoración: la de los 200 años de la Consumación de Independencia, los 500 años de la toma de Tenochtitlán por parte de los conquistadores españoles, y los 700 años de fundación de dicha ciudad, capital del imperio mexica. En el presente artículo se describen y analizan desde una mirada crítica los principales discursos y acciones conmemorativas que los gobiernos colombiano y mexicano desplegaron en la esfera pública con ocasión de los mencionados aniversarios. Específicamente, se pretende dar cuenta de cómo (y para qué) se representaron en el dispositivo conmemorativo oficial a grupos históricamente invisibilizados o marginados de los relatos nacionales, como las comunidades indígenas y afrodescendientes, las mujeres y otros grupos subalternos; así como las formas en que estos grupos y otros actores sociales participaron (o no) de los debates por el sentido del pasado durante las conmemoraciones. Se estudian ambos casos desde una óptica comparada y global, que toma en cuenta las particularidades de cada país, pero las trasciende para poder aprehender las dimensiones geopolíticas de los festejos y algunas tendencias generales.
In 2019, Colombia commemorated the bicentennial of the Battle of Boyacá, a decisive event in the country's Independence .process, while in Mexico, in 2021, a triple commemoration took place: the ...200th anniversary of the Consummation of Independence, the 500th anniversary of the capture of Tenochtitlán by the Spanish conquistadors, and the 700th anniversary of the founding of that city, capital of the Mexica empire. This paper describes and analyzes the main discourses and commemorative actions that the Colombian and Mexican governments deployed in the public sphere on the occasion of the aforementioned anniversaries. Specifically, the aim is to explain how (and for what purpose) groups historically invisible or marginalized from national narratives, such as indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, women and other subaltern groups, were represented in the official commemorative device, as well as the ways in which these groups and other social actors participated (or not) in the debates on the meaning of the past during the commemorations. Both cases are studied from a comparative and global perspective, which takes into account the particularities of each country, but transcends them in order to apprehend the geopolitical dimensions of the celebrations and some general trends.
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