The thesis being hereby presented is concerned with the problematics of family strategies´ aplications in peasants´ families in the village of Vítkov, dated 1700-1850. The work itself is based upon analysis of evidence- and insurance resources, that means mostly registry and cadastral books, urbars and census of subjects. Methodologically, this work proceeds from historical demography and its connection with micro-history and genealogy. Transfers of peasants´s grounds and application of their rights of hertitage become the main subject of research. Secondly, this thesis focuses on peasants life partners choices, families´ maritial strategies and migration. In addition, there are ways of employment drafted for those rural families´ members who had no claim to taking over a paternal ground, thusly achieving to give evidence of how different the family strategies in two contiguous parts of South Bohemia would once have been. The substantial asset of this thesis supposed is to confirm the benefits of joining both historical demography and genealogy whist studying Czech rural areas including possible use of specialised genealogical software.

The purpose of this thesis is to elaborate the inventory of Jewish possessions in the town district of Sedlcany which would provide an answer to the economic and social status of this persecuted minority. The primary sources are the record-keeping cards from the Jewish card files, the registration of the Jewish landed estate in the town district of Sedlcany, the police entries, as well as, the population census from 1930. The acquired information about the Jewish possessions relates to the year 1940 too, therefore, this thesis is also focused on the period of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The first chapter briefly engages the reader with the history of the Jews in Bohemia with a specific focus of the town district of Sedlcany. The key part of this work is the detailed outline of the encoroachment on the economic life of the Jews not only in the Third Reich, but also on which ?the Aryan race? received their possessions. The key part of this thesis is a list of the Jewish population living in the town district of Sedlcany and nearby villages before deportations, an overview of family ties, and also an overview of movable and inmovable assets of individuals. Another essential charter of this work is the restituion of thirteen survivers that emphasises the response of the country and individuals to the return of the Jews after the Second World Ward and the progress of the administrative process. At last, this thesis offers charts, tables, maps with highlighted municipalities where the Jews had lived, and also three maps illustrating the Jewish settlement in the town district of Sedlcany, and the municipalities of Kosova Hora and Petrovice. It further illustrates a family tree of the Lurie family from Petrovice, an inventory list of goods from Lurie?s shop in Petrovice and, last but no least, photos of some Jews living in the district of Sedlcany in 1940.

Basotho family odes (diboko) form part of oral literature, and refer to names of families, clans or totems. They constitute poetic compositions conveying information about clans' historical origin, philosophy and ancestors. The performance of this oral art form makes use of formulaic techniques such as linking, parallelism, alliteration, etc., which are commonly used in praise poetry. As basis to the content of these oral art forms, the genealogies of the various Basotho clans are discussed to show the reflection of the progenitor names in the clan praises. The functions of family odes are of educational, social and religious nature. Other functions include their use in compositions of other genres, such as, praise poems, mine workers' chants, traditional doctors' falls (mawa) and songs. The recitation of this oral art form is characterised by the instability of the texts, which takes the form of extensions, additions, truncations, improvisations and genre transitions. / African Languages / M.A. (African Languages)

[pt] Pretende-se, neste estudo, demonstrar a coerência interna do percurso filosófico de Michel Foucault, quando considerado desde o ponto de vista utilizado pelo filósofo, ao definir toda a sua obra como uma problematização da questão do sujeito. A fim de demonstrar essa coerência interna do percurso foucaultiano, dividiu-se, este estudo, em duas partes. Na primeira parte, estuda-se a objetivação do sujeito pelo que se chama aqui de “práticas epistêmicas”, isto é, pelas práticas objetivantes das ciências humanas. Analisa-se, então, a objetivação do sujeito por práticas epistêmicas em História da loucura, em O nascimento da clínica e em As palavras e as coisas. Nesta primeira parte da tese, estuda-se também o modo como Foucault critica a a-historicidade do sujeito constituinte, analisando-se duas obras, onde essa crítica se faz presente: As palavras e as coisas e A arqueologia do saber. Na segunda parte da tese, estuda-se a objetivação do sujeito por práticas disciplinares, confessionais e normalizadoras, analisando-se Vigiar e punir e o primeiro volume da História da sexualidade, A vontade de saber. Ainda nessa segunda parte, em que se trata de estudar a questão do sujeito na genealogia do presente de Michel Foucault, estuda-se, por fim, concluindo a demonstração da hipótese acerca da coerência interna do percurso filosófico de Foucault, a subjetivação do sujeito por práticas de si e a dimensão ética conferida por Foucault às suas pesquisas, analisando-se os dois últimos volumes da História da sexualidade, O uso dos prazeres e O cuidado de si e o curso de 1982, no Collège de France, A hermenêutica do sujeito. / [fr] Cette étude a pour objet la démonstration de la cohérence interne du parcours philosophique de Michel Foucault, ici considéré, dans son ensemble, comme une problématisation de la notion de sujet. Pour ce faire, la recherche est divisée en deux parties: dans la prémière est etudiée l`objectivation du sujet par les “pratiques épistémiques”, c`est à dire, par les pratiques objectivantes des sciences humaines, analisées dans L`histoire de la folie, La naissance de la clinique et Les mots et les choses. Il suit, encore dans cette prémière partie, l`analise de la manière par laquelle l`auteur critique l`anhistoricité du sujet dans Les mots et les choses et L`archéologie du savoir. Dans la deuxième est étudiée l`objectivation du sujet par les pratiques disciplinaires, confessionelles et normalisatrices, mises en évidence dans Surveiller et punir et La volonté de savoir. Encore dans cette partie est analisée la subjectivation du sujet dans les pratiques de soi, bien comme la dimension éthique des recherches de l`auteur, presentes dans L`usage des plaisirs, Le souci de soi, et dans son cours du Collège de France, L`herméneutique du sujet.

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The study analyzes genealogy and coevolutionary relationships between the bloodsucking louse Polyplax serrata (Anoplura) and its host of the genus Apodemus (Rodentia). It uses the tools of molecular biology and phylogenetics for interpretation of the parasite distribution in respect to the georaphy and host specificity

Cette thèse propose une exploration qualitative et quantitative des conditions dans lesquelles l’ethnie des Makina du Gabon se transforme au contact d’autres ethnies et au contact du monde urbain qui se construit à différentes échelles à travers le pays. La conclusion est que l’ethnie doit être déconstruite en diverses composantes qui connaissent des rythmes d’évolution qui sont objectivables dans leurs formes historiques et géographiques. Ce résultat est atteint par l’analyse contextualisée de 747 données individuelles qui – sur une durée globale d’un siècle – sont tour à tour référées au changement d’ethnonyme, au déplacement des villages, au changement de la langue pratiquée, à la modification des règles de mariage, à la transformation lente des noms de lignages et celle plus rapide des noms de personnes. La différence de vitesse de transformation de chacune des composantes structurantes de l’ethnie donne ainsi une configuration polyrythmique qui remet en cause les conceptions holistes de l’ethnie en leur préférant une dynamique de l’hétérogénéité. / The main proposal of this doctoral dissertation is an insightful study of the historical, linguistic and anthropological transformations of the Makina, an ethnic group of Northern and Eastern Gabon. These transformations are referred to the change, during the last century, of the original ethnonym as well as that of the language, of matrimonial rules, and finally of clan and person naming. On the whole, the author’s demonstration leads to the evidence of a rhythmical pattern in change, even a polyrhythmical one, as the differences in speed between different components of an ethnic group may be interpreted as a multi rhythmical transformation system. 81 genealogical diagrams and over 747 individual data collected on fieldwork give strong support to the different aspects of the author’s thesis.

Im Zentrum der Dissertation steht die Untersuchung der 1518 fertig gestellten 'Fürstlichen Chronik' des Freiburger Juristen und Historiographen Jakob Mennel. Sein monumentales, fünfbändiges Werk berichtet auf mehr als 2600 Text- und Bildseiten von der Genese des Hauses Habsburg und verfolgt diese detailliert durch einen Zeitraum von 2700 Jahren. Die interdisziplinär angelegte Grundlagenarbeit an der Schnittstelle von Kunstgeschichte, Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft erfasst sämtliche Kodizes der Chronik erstmals vollständig in Form einer Inhalts- und Funktionsanalyse. Genealogie wird als Denk- und Argumentationsmuster erläutert, der politisch-gesellschaftliche Hintergrund verschiedener Habsburger-Genealogien ab dem 10. Jh. skizziert und in das gedechtnus-Werk Kaiser Maximilians I. (1459-1519) eingeführt, um darauf basierend den Aufbau, die Zielsetzung und Funktion der 'Fürstlichen Chronik' Jakob Mennels herauszuarbeiten. Gezeigt wird, dass Mennels Genealogie dem Kaiser nicht nur zur Legitimierung seiner Herrschaft, sondern auch zur Stabilisierung der stets prekären Macht diente: Dies funktioniert einerseits über Mennels genealogischen Entwurf, insbesondere dessen ungebrochene Linienführung und die Rückbindung an die Idoneität, Tugend und Potenz zahlreicher weiterer Adelsgeschlechter. Verbreitet wird das in der Chronik entworfene Wissen durch bedeutende Bildwerke maximilianischer gedechtnus, die als Ergebnisse einer medialen Transformation der genealogischen Formel beschrieben werden. Dieser Konnex bildet neben dem Einbezug der weiteren Verarbeitung und Rezeption der 'Fürstlichen Chronik' den zweiten großen Untersuchungsschwerpunkt der Dissertation. Zentrale Aussagen der Chronik nehmen als implizite politisch-territoriale Ansprüche, in Text und Bild der einzelnen Medien jeweils divers organisiert, konkrete Gestalt an. Sie trugen, so die These, mit der Verbreitung des genealogischen Wissens der 'Fürstlichen Chronik' entscheidend zur Legitimierung und Stabilisierung habsburgischer Herrschaft bei - die bis 1918 bestand.

The central aim of this dissertation is to introduce tools for studying a form of political violence in Michel Foucault's genealogical methodology. This is accomplished by reformulating theories from Hannah Arendt on violence to sync with Foucault's understanding of power, knowledge and experience. Violence is shown to be a relationship where one subject is prevented from fulfilling a strategy by another, which over time accumulates into widespread power relations, or nexuses of violence, within a society. This is contrasted with power, which is when one subject attempts to control the outcome of a situation, and as such it is productive. This method of genealogy is then employed in the case of national identity (i.e., nationalism) in Turkey. Tracing its historical emergence, the late Ottoman Empire becomes the focal point. A network of allegiances, referred to as sultanic power, constituted the relationships that were exercised prior to the nineteenth century. While one pledged their loyalty and subservience to their ruler, this required their ruler to offer them security and prosperity in return. Over the Long Nineteenth Century, a new network of power relations emerged based on representation through the practices and discourses that developed. I come to outline what I term representative power....

This thesis contains detailed study of given problems related to genealogy science and genealogical records. There are analyzed roles and relationships that occurs in genealogical records and problems of their representation are described too. The goal is to design and implement system, which will validate relationships in genealogical records and enable processing this data.