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Historical Significance (historical + significance)
Selected AbstractsRe-Forging the ,Age of Iron' Part II: The Tenth Century in a New Age?HISTORY COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 9 2010John Howe The tenth century, once dismissed as an unpleasant ,Age of Iron', now receives increased attention as an important age of transition. Historians are attempting to understand how it fits into the broader narrative of Western Civilization. Although some scholars have identified it as the last act of the post-Roman world, others see it as a new age. Perhaps the High Middle Ages with its agricultural and demographic revolution, its new villages and parishes, its revived cities, its reformed churches and schools, and its medieval monarchs began in the tenth century? Or were those changes not novelties of the tenth century but rather manifestations of a ,take off' that had already begun back in the Carolingian Empire, and which, despite the problems posed by late Carolingian wars and invasions, was able to continue, spread, and blossom into the growth and prosperity of the High Middle Ages? New scholarly interest in the tenth century has made it much less of a ,dark age', but scholars still are not quite certain how to conceptualize its historical significance. [source] The 2005 Remote-Sensing Survey of the South-Eastern Bozburun Peninsula, Turkey: Shipwreck Discoveries and their AnalysesINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 2 2006Jeffrey G. Royal During a month-long survey of the coastline along the south-eastern Bozburun peninsula, Turkey, nine shipwreck sites were discovered. Of these, five have historical significance and represent a chronological range from the Roman Imperial to Renaissance periods. This article provides a description of the sites and associated artefacts, and attempts a provisional analysis for each wreck's operational date as well as the nature of the finds in their historical context. © 2006 The Author [source] George Herbert Mead and the Allen controversy at the University of WisconsinJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 1 2007Gary A. CookArticle first published online: 4 JAN 200 This essay uses previously unpublished correspondence of George Herbert Mead to tell the story of his involvement in the aftermath of a political dispute that took place at the University of Wisconsin during the years 1914,1915. It seeks thereby to clarify the historical significance of an article he published on this controversy in late 1915. Taken together with relevant information about the educational activities of William H. Allen of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, Mead's correspondence and article throw helpful light upon his understanding of how an educational survey of a university should proceed; they also show how he went about the task of evaluating a failed attempt at such a survey. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Riding natural scientists' coattails onto the endless frontier: The SSRC and the quest for scientific legitimacyJOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES, Issue 4 2004Mark Solovey This article proposes that the postwar National Science Foundation (NSF) debate constituted a critical, transitional episode in American social science and partisan politics. I show that by responding to powerful conservative critics in the scientific and political communities, the Social Science Research Council's (SSRC's) leading scholars (re)asserted a contested scientistic strategy,to advance the social sciences by following the natural sciences. Further, I reconstruct a wider and longer framework of analysis in order to recover central challenges to the scientistic strategy raised by prominent liberal scholars who rejected the associated commitments to value neutrality and disinterested professionalism. In developing this framework for understanding the contrasting fortunes of each strategy, this article argues that the NSF debate has a deep historical significance,for the social sciences, for American liberalism, and for the nation. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. [source] Romantic c/China: The Literature of ChinoiserieLITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 3 2009Joanne Tong As the popularity of Chinese-style textiles, lacquers, and especially porcelain increased in Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, chinoiserie objects inevitably found their way into literature. Porcelain, or ,china' begins to be troped as the reified sign of its geographical and cultural referent, ,China'. In Romantic writings about porcelain, writers render porcelain as a legible object with a story to be told, or even make the object itself speak, so that c/China teapots and dishes seemed less and less like mass-produced things and more and more like auratic works of art that had the power of mediating relations between British consumers and Chinese producers. In the chinoiserie poems of Joanna Baillie and Thomas Hood, we can witness the literary development of a unique version of commodity fetishism that invests great cultural and historical significance in the imagined lives of objects. [source] Elision and the Embellished Final Cadence in J. S. Bach's PreludesMUSIC ANALYSIS, Issue 3 2007Mark Anson-cartwright ABSTRACT In a number of Bach's keyboard preludes, the final cadence is richly decorated by interpolated harmonies and melodic figuration, so that it superficially resembles an interrupted cadence. The present study explores Bach's techniques of embellishing such final cadences. Sometimes, the tonic note is elided and the leading note ,resolves' to the lowered seventh degree of the scale, as in the Prelude in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I. Another technique of embellishment is the interpolation of submediant and/or subdominant harmonies between dominant and tonic. A survey of Bach's oeuvre indicates that he wrote embellished final cadences exclusively in keyboard preludes and chorale-based genres (including chorale preludes). A brief concluding discussion of embellished final cadences in works by later composers provides a broad context in which to appreciate the generic and historical significance of this phenomenon. [source] European Settlement and the Making and Unmaking of Aboriginal IdentitiesTHE AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGY, Issue 2 2006Francesca Merlan This paper explores variation and change in Aboriginal people's connections to places, and place-related identity, as a function of their differential historical relationship to a town. Among Aboriginal people who have lived for some decades in camps around Katherine, Northern Territory, descendants of those who appear to have the most clearly discernable long-term relationship with the area in the vicinity of the town do not relate to places, nor conceptualise them, in stereotypically ,traditional' terms. Their relationships to town and nearby places tend to be of an ideologically unelaborated, homely sort. Kinds of territorial relationships their antecedents can be shown to have had to the area have undergone dissolution. The paper seeks to develop discussion of such variation and the historical and sociological processes involved. The Katherine case brings the social and historical significance of ,towns' as sites of Aboriginal/non-Aboriginal interrelationship into focus, and also requires a critical view of notions of ,group' that have tended to dominate recent public process and understanding in Australia. [source] The alchemy of trainingTHE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 2 2007Deborah Egger-Biniores Abstract:, Training in Zurich has its own special character but also is marked by the very fact that it is in Zurich. Zurich radiates its own distinct energy and carries a specific historical significance in the world of analytical psychology. This, like all things with psychic energy, has a spectrum of meaning. This spectrum, as well as the ,spirit' of the place, will be critically examined, taking into account the ,blessings' and ,curses' of such genius loci. Training in Zurich is experientially based and is first and foremost an initiation: an initiation into symbolic life, or rather life where symbol plays an important role. Training is understood to involve a transformation of one's self, much like the 8th century alchemist Morienus Romanus understood the opus as a ,human transformation system'. It is not merely an education. The requirement of ,immersion' is core to the experience of becoming an analyst in Zurich and this sets up a valuable discomfort between rational intellectual learning and intuitive experience, between knowing and not-knowing. How does this dis -serve the making of an analyst? What is implicit in this immersion and its discomfort? Does it have a role in today's emphasis on clinical and empirical training? Does Zurich still offer something unique and valuable in the world of training, or is it passé? From these questions, the dichotomy of what is ,urgent' and ,essential' in training will be examined. Translations of Abstract La formation à Zürich a sa particularité, du fait même qu'il s'agisse de Zürich. Dans le monde de la psychologie analytique, Zürich rayonne d'une énergie particulière et véhicule une signification historique spécifique. Comme tout ce qui a trait à l'énergie psychique, ce phénomène possède au moins deux versants et offre un large spectre de significations. Ce spectre ainsi que , l'esprit , du lieu seront examinés d'un point de vue critique, en tenant compte des , bénédictions , et des , malédictions , propres à ce genius loci. L'expérience est le socle de la formation à Zürich. Elle constitue avant tout une initiation, initiation à la vie symbolique ou plutôt à une vie qui accorde au symbole une place de choix. Elle est supposée engager une transformation de soi, à l'image de l'opus alchimique, envisagé par l'alchimiste du 8è siècle Morienus Romanus, comme un , système de transformation humaine ,. Il ne s'agit donc pas d'une simple formation. L'exigence première d'une , immersion , constitue à Zürich le noyau de l'expérience du devenir-analyste. Ceci génère un malaise précieux, entre apprentissage intellectuel et expérience intuitive, entre savoir et non-savoir. Comment ceci ,uvre-t-il à faire un analyste ? Quels sont les présupposés d'une telle immersion et d'un tel malaise ? Quelles en sont les répercussions sur l'importance accordée de nos jours à l'apprentissage empirique et clinique ? Y a-t-il encore à Zürich quelque chose d'unique et de précieux à transmettre ou tout ceci appartient-il au passé? Die Ausbildung in Zürich hat ihren eigenen Charakter und ist durch die Tatsache bestimmt, dass sie in Zürich stattfindet. Zürich strahlt seine eigene besondere Energie aus und trägt eine spezifische historische Bedeutsamkeit in die Welt der Analytischen Psychologie. Diese Tatsachen haben mindestens zwei Seiten und ein großes Bedeutungsspektrum, wie alle Dinge, die mit psychischer Energie zu tun haben. Dieses Spektrum, ebenso wie der,Geist' des Ortes, werden kritisch untersucht, wobei auf den,Segen' und den,Fluch' eines solchen genius loci eingegangen wird. Ausbildung in Zürich ist erfahrungsbezogen und in erster Linie und vor allem eine Initiation: eine Initiation in das symbolische Leben, oder eher in ein Leben, in dem das Symbol eine wichtige Rolle spielt. Es soll eine Transformation des eigenen Selbst bewirken, ähnlich wie der Alchemist Morienus Romanus im 8. Jh. das Opus als,menschliches Transformationssystem' verstanden hat. Es ist nicht bloß eine Ausbildung. Die notwendige Grundvoraussetzung des Eintauchens ist der Kern der Erfahrung, in Zürich Analytiker oder Analytikerin zu werden, und dies bewirkt ein wertvolles Unbehagen zwischen rationalem intellektuellem Lernen und intuitiver Erfahrung, zwischen Wissen und Nichtwissen. Wie dient dies dem Werden eines Analytikers oder einer Analytikerin? Was beinhaltet dieses Eintauchen und dieses Unbehagen? Spielt es eine Rolle in den gegenwärtigen Bemühungen nach klinischer und empirischer Ausbildung? Bietet Zürich immer noch etwas Einzigartiges und Wertvolles in der Welt der Ausbildung, oder ist es passé? Il training a Zurigo ha il suo carattere ed è contraddistinto dal fatto specifico di essere a Zurigo. Zurigo emana una sua propria distinta energia e porta una specifica significanza storica nel mondo della psicologia analitica. Ciò.come tutte le cose con un'energia psichica specifica, ha almeno due aspetti e uno spettro di significato. Tale spettro, tanto quanto lo ,spirito' del luogo, verrà esaminato criticamente, tenendo conto delle ,benedizioni' e delle ,maledizioni' di tale genius loci. Il Training a Zurigo è basato sull'esperienza ed è anzitutto una iniziazione: una iniziazione alla vita simbolica o piuttosto a una vita dove il simbolo gioca una parte importante. Viene intesa come implicante una trasformazione del sé, similmente a come nell'8° secolo l'alchimista Morienus Romanus intendeva l'opus cioè nel senso di ,un sistema di trasformazione dell'umano'. Non è semplicemente un'educazione. A Zurigo la richiesta di base di una ,immersione'è al centro dell'esperienza di diventare un'analista e ciò provoca un notevole disagio tra l'apprendimento intellettuale razionale e l'esperienza intuitiva, tra il sapere e il non-sapere. In che modo ciò serve alla formazione di un'analista? Cos'è implicito in tale immersione e nel suo disagio? Ha un ruolo nell'attuale enfasi su un training empirico e clinico? Zurigo offre ancora qualcosa di unico e di valore nel mondo del training o èpassè? Entrenarse en Zürich tiene su personalidad y esta marcada por el simple hecho de que es Zürich. Zürich irradia su energía propia y distintiva y carga con una historia específica en el mundo de la Psicología Analítica. Esto, como todas las cosas con energía psíquica, tiene al menos dos partes y un espectro de significados. Este espectro, así como el ,espíritu' del lugar, será examinado críticamente, tomando en cuenta sus ,bediciones' y ,maldiciones de tal genius loci. El entrenamiento en Zürich esta basado en la experiencia y es primaria y esencialmente una iniciación; una iniciación dentro de la vida simbólica, o mas bien dentro de una vida en la cual el símbolo juega un papel importante. Se entiende que involucra una transformación de uno mismo, tal como la comprende al Opus el alquimista de siglo 8 Morienus Romanus como un ,sistema humano de transformación'. La requisito básico de ,inmersión' es nuclear para la experiencia en Zürich para ser analista y esto establece un valioso malestar entre el aprendizaje intelectual racional y la experiencia intuitiva, entre saber y no saber. Cómo sirve esto en la formación de un analista? Tiene esto un papel en el énfasis actual en la formación clínica y el entrenamiento Empírico? Tiene Zürich aún algo único y valioso que ofrecer al mundo del entrenamiento o estápassé? [source] | |||||||||||||