Acompanhar as flutuações e os percursos bandeirantes na cidade de São Paulo, objetivo desta tese, significa balizar os usos que pessoas e grupos fazem desse personagem para dar sentido a suas experiências em momentos e lugares específicos. Produzido no interior de uma teia de práticas e discursos, o bandeirante não é uma categoria fixa, tampouco tem seu significado dado de antemão. Para além de figura histórica do período colonial brasileiro, trata-se da invenção de uma metrópole que ele mesmo ajuda a produzir, numa operação na qual sobrepõe, cruza, destrói e reinventa falas, atitudes e miradas, muitas vezes contraditórias. Ao trazê-lo para o primeiro plano (com os diferentes sentidos e formas que sua figura vai assumindo, assim como as associações que ela estabelece e que a constituem), procuro mostrar como suas tão variadas encarnações não se substituem uma à outra, em linha diacrônica, mas convivem, muitas vezes de modo tenso e ambíguo, em distintos enredos simultâneos. Sensível às transformações da cidade, o bandeirante comenta as mudanças urbanas e lhes confere sentido, não apenas expressando essas transformações, mas engendrando-as e produzindo-as. Presença incontornável na capital paulista, ele se insere em frentes, espaços e ramos diversos, sendo cultivado e recriado em um movimento permanente. Atenta às reelaborações locais e às tantas historicidades nele impregnadas, sigo os itinerários acidentados de algumas figurações desse personagem que, ao se recriar no tempo e com o tempo, condensa e articula diferentes embates, temporalidades e sentidos. / Accompanying the moves and paths of the Bandeirantes in the city of São Paulo, the objective of this thesis, means surveying the uses that peoples and groups make of these characters in order to bestow meaning on their experiences at specific moments and in specific places. Produced within a web of practices and discourses, the Bandeirantes are not a set category, nor is their meaning pre-established. More than historical figures from the colonial period in Brazil, they are an invention of a metropolis that they themselves helped to produce in an operation in which sayings, attitudes and views, often times contradictory, are overlapped, intersected, destroyed and reinvented. By bringing them to the forefront (with the different meanings and forms that these figures assume, as well as the associations established, and which constitute them), I attempt to demonstrate how their varied incarnations do not substitute one another, in a diachronic line, but instead coexist, often in a tense and ambiguous manner, in distinct, simultaneous story-lines. Sensitive to the citys transformations, the Bandeirantes comment on urban changes and confers meaning upon them, not only expressing these transformations, but also engendering and producing them. An inescapable presence in the city of São Paulo, they are found in facades, spaces and sectors, cultivated and recreated in a permanent movement. Mindful of local redevelopments and the many historicities imbued in these characters, I follow the turbulent journeys of some of the manifestations of the Bandeirantes, which, through their self-reinvention in time and with time, embody and convey a series of conflicts, temporalities and meanings.

My thesis revives the term raciology to describe collectively the literature which emanated out of philological ethnology, that is, out of the studies of man inspired by the rapid advances in linguistic science in the early nineteeenth century. Raciological Thought in Victorian Culture is divided into two parts: it examines the development and dissemination of nineteenth-century raciological knowledge in the works of celebrated philologists and anthropologists; and then investigates typical features of raciological discourse in Victorian and Victorian Canadian culture. It views this regional British literature as a field for the political and educational deployment of British raciological conceptions, and comments on some of the implications of the circulation of raciological doctrine. My argument begins with discussion of the often overlooked celebrity and authority of philologists in Victorian culture, tracing the derivation from philology of raciological typologies which established the raciological associations of terms like "Britons," "Anglo-Saxons," and "Teutons" during the early and middle-Victorian periods. An important aspect of the thesis is a re-evaluation of the influence of Friedrich Max Muller, the most influential comparative philologist and mythologist in the Victorian world. I argue that his use of etymological study for archaeological data greatly contributed to the rapid dissemination of raciological thought among the educated and educating classes. The first part of the thesis concludes with discussion of issues which animated raciological discourse. The second part follows the dissemination of Victorian raciological thought to Canada, and illustrates its effects in an imperial context. It demonstrates the use of raciology in establishing Canada's legitimacy as a British nation, and documents the place of raciology in establishing the authenticity of Canadian continuity with a British culture running into deep antiquity. After discussing neglected raciological aspects of several important Victorian Canadian source works, it goes on to outline the importance of raciological mythology to the preservation of the Dominion from American annexation and Fenian incursion. My epilogue briefly documents the decline of raciological thought in Britain after the 1890s. By investigating numerous neglected Victorian sources, Raciological Thought in Victorian Culture establishes raciology as an important element in Victorian political-and, in particular, nationalist-thinking. / Arts, Faculty of / English, Department of / Graduate

Stefan SCHOLZ Methodical study to the bilateral research project about mutual relationship of sacral architecture of the 13. century in the bohemian and austrian lands Abstract: To begin with the basic conditions for the interdisciplinarity and internationality of the whole research, and the necessity of a parallel survey on the profane level, will be defined. Then the main subject of the project will be linked to a wider context of the Central European integration processes in the early and high middle ages - from there results the necessity of secondary studies on Central European long term basic structures and framework developments from the 10th to the mid 13th century, as well as of historiographic context-studies to the reign of King Otakar Přemysl II. (1252- 1278). In this way the core the project will be defined: the forms of expression of the Central European integration processes in sacral and profane architecture and the settlement, urban, social and legal patterns in the bohemian, moravian, silesian and austrian towns, above all in the 3rd quarter of the 13th century. The relative chronological system of the main stylistic streams and positions of the middle european sacral architecture in 13. century shows many contrasts between the impacts of french and burgundian gothic style, the...