This work analyses the history of significant social change in the Karawari area of Papua New Guinea, which is, under the influence of a Catholic charismatic movement, still taking place. While pre-Christian and Christian practices co-existed for more than forty years, it was in December 1994 that people suddenly began to abandon ‘traditional’ practices and to embrace trance, prophecy, and speaking in tongues. The results are drastic changes in hierarchy, social organization and relationship to the outside world.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29680941
Architectural orientations at El Mirador, the largest Preclassic site in the Maya Lowlands, represent the earliest evidence of the use of observational calendars in the Maya area, and exemplify the significance of astronomical factors in the concepts dictating architectural design and urban planning. Also relevant, in terms of cultural interaction, is our finding that the so-called 17° family of orientations, the most widespread Mesoamerican alignment group, did not originate in central Mexican Teotihuacan, as commonly held, but rather in the Maya area, most likely within the Mirador Basin.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30813741
The paper concentrates on the meaning of »rootedness« or locality in Dhërmi/Drimades, a southern Albanian village, and questions its relatedness to land and property. It focuses on the locals, returnees and emigrants who continue to regularly return to their natal village. It argues that when expressing their feelings of locality and belonging, the locals and returnees continuously reconstruct their past in order to reassure their present, reconstitute and corroborate their ties to the land, create order to control their own labour, products and income, and negotiate their sense of property.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30870829
The study is aimed at providing a clearer understanding of the technical and semantic aspects of the quality of historical maps, especially with respect to positional errors, through the georeferencing process. The quality of georeferenced maps is assessed with statistical and visual parameters. The First Military Survey maps of the Habsburg Monarchy (Josephine survey), produced between 1763 and 1787, were used as study data and the rugged Julian Alps of the Triglav National Park in Slovenia were employed as the study area.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29462061
The article focuses on local concepts of solidarity, help, blessing and mediation among young Muslims in urban areas of Burkina Faso.
COBISS.SI-ID: 30336557