Jan Jansen

Alf Brodal

Ragnar Fänge

The Biology of Myxine, Edited by Alf Brodal [and] Ragnar Fänge

Lucas Bonekamp

Tonko Dop

Jan Jansen is published to mark his 45th anniversary as a shoe designer. Although his creativity is still in full swing, the fact that he recently turned sixty-five is a good opportunity to take stock of his impressive career to date. Jan Jansen shows his best known designs and Jansen himself talks at length about his inspiration, motivation, as well as describing both the low and high points of his career. This book contains a comprehensive biography as well as many photographs of Jansen's most notable creations.

Hendrik M. J. Maier

The many adventures of the "epic" in modern times are fascinating topics in themselves. The Romantics claimed that every self-respecting nation should, at some time, have had one and they set out to reconstruct these epics for political as well as cultural reasons. Such epics represented earlier stages in the development of nation-states and in this modern world they were, for a long time, hard to appreciate. The introduction of tape recorders, however, brought the epic back in the limelight. It became fashionable for scholars to record long oral narratives, and to present them as long written poems that reflected deeply ingrained ideas. Because of this technology, the idea of the epic was revitalized. This volume presents critical analyses of epics in Sub-Saharan Africa, the former Soviet Union, South-East Asia, Medieval Europe, and America and discusses the process of revitalization, sometimes even invention, of epics in particular historical, political, and academic contexts. Jan Jansen is a member of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. Henk M.J. Maier is professor in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia and Oceania of the University of Leiden, Netherlands.

Heroic Narrative in the Oral Performance Traditions of Four Continents

Epic Adventures

Mountaga Diarra

Esger Duintjer

Ce volume présente un récit oral par le griot célébré Djèmory Kouyaté de Nyagassola (actuelle Guinée) (décédé en 2019). Il traite de la façon dont on se souvient de l'époque qui relie la fondation de la société mandingue par Soundiata jusqu’à aujourd’hui. This volume features an oral account by the acclaimed griot Djèmory Kouyaté from Nyagassola (present-day Guinée) (d. 2019). It deals with the way the era that bridges the foundation of their society by Sunjata to their present-day society, called Manding, is remembered.

L’Histoire des Bandjougousi d’après Djèmory Kouyaté de Nyagassola (Guinée)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 1997 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Neuzeit, Absolutismus, Industrialisierung, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (Institut fur Geschichtswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Die Aufklarung in Deutschland, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Hausarbeit befasst sich mit dem Illuminatenorden - einem radikal-aufklarerischem Geheimbund, welcher nur knapp ein Jahrzehnt Bestand hatte, jedoch insbesondere durch die anschliessende Verfolgungsgeschichte breite Spuren hinterlassen hat. Hierbei focusiert sie den Blick auf den Grunder Adam Weishaupt und die von ihm konzipierte Ordensstruktur. Freiherr von Knigge, welcher Weishaupt kennengelernt hatte wie kaum ein anderer (durch intensive Ordenstatigkeit in hoher Position)und das von diesem erarbeitete System reformierte, charakterisierte ihn als vortrefflichen Kopf" und tiefen Denker," der mit gluhendem Eifer daran arbeitete, etwas Grosses und der Menschheit wichtiges zu unternehmen." In der verwendeten Sekundarliteratur zu dem Geheimorden wird Weishaupt beschrieben als ein ehrgeiziger Gelehrter von seltsamer Weltfremdheit," seine empfindliche, hochmutige und intrigante Wesensart" und seine Kampfnatur" wird hervorgehoben, wobei sich ein ausgepragter nuchtern-konstruktiver Rationalismus mit kleinlicher Pedanterie und bisweilen grotesk anmutender Selbstuberschatzung" verband. Gerade der Aspekt der Selbstuberschatzung wird immer wieder hervorgehoben, und insgesamt fallt die Beurteilung seiner Personlichkeit deutlich negativ a

Der Gründer und die Anfänge der "Illuminaten": Adam Weishaupt und sein Ordenskonzept

Simone Lässig

This timely study explores how societies have responded to mass inflows of refugees between 1945 and 2000.

Refugee Crises, 1945-2000

Kamal Naït-Zerrad

Daniela Merolla

This book approaches a central concern of oral literature studies worldwide, with a special focus on Africa: how to deal with oral genres in a world where new technologies have become available to more and more people? As the book asserts, what is new is that the spotlight is directed towards (old and new) "interlocutors" who cooperate in the making of technologized oral genres in an increasingly technologized world. Their interactions affect the performance, as well as research - their roles and positions raise methodological and ethical questions particularly when local/national identities and commercial interests are at stake. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 45)

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