The chapter published in the edited volume examines the pilgrimage routes. It especially focusses on the Orthodox pilgrimage to Stavridi in Himarë/Himara area of southern Albania, which is undertaken every 14 August on the evening before the Feast of the Assumption, one of the most important Orthodox festivals. This particular pilgrimage is interesting from an ethnographic point of view because it brings together the local population with emigrants, who are originally from the Himara area but mainly live in Athens in Greece and seasonally return to their native land to attend this pilgrimage. I argue that the emigrants through their pilgrimage re-enact the routes of their on-going return movements. Through these movements they redefine their sense of home and belonging. The chapter focuses on the processes of home-making that generate new meanings through which emigrants seek to guarantee their attachment to ‘their’ place. In today’s fast-changing economic and political relations, the meanings of home and locality can be fruitfully related to a given group’s sense of rootedness in a particular locale as well as to the perpetual movements and migrations.
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This paper investigates whether the complexity within the image segment can be addressed using multiple random sampling of segment pixels and multiple calculations of similarity measures. In order to analyze the effect sampling has on classification results, statistics and probability value equations of non-parametric two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test and parametric Student’s t-test are selected as similarity measures in the classification process. The performance of both classifiers was assessed on a WorldView-2 image for four land cover classes (roads, buildings, grass and trees).
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The authors explore the relation between mobile phones, increasing fascination with phone numbers, and the way in which the Ambonwari perceive, interpret, and engage the world. Since Digicel services began to operate in remote areas of Papua New Guinea in mid-2007, enthusiasm over mobile telecommunication devices has become a pan New Guinean phenomenon. Although no mobile phone network exists among the Karawari people in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea, people’s expectations are high and some individuals have already purchased mobile phones. In Ambonwari village, people were convinced that Digicel would soon build its tower on their land and enable them to ring both the living and the dead. The dead had already interfered with calls and some people were suspected of possessing phone numbers of their deceased children. The authors argue that to understand how this new technology is being incorporated into the Ambonwari socio-cultural milieu, one has to go beyond mere functional issues of communication and information. The article received immediate international attention, especially after the interview with one of the authors in American journal The New Republic.
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