Project report (M.I.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 44-45). Also available via the Internet.

Following from its title, this diploma work discusses Gipsy culture and traditions, especially maps the level of knowledge comparing Gipsy and non-Gipsy inhabitants in the town of Tabor. The choice of the topic proceeds from a widely known fact involving the problematic common life of those too much different groups. Many members of the majority do not have any awareness of Gipsies being a specific group of inhabitants, having their own culture and traditions. On the other hand, the traditional life of the Gipsies has changed at all,rather has declined, especially in the field of language.Both these points of view may play an important role in one another understanding of the Gipsies and the majority. The target of my work was to map the knowledge of the Gipsy culture and traditions by the Gipsy commune and, as well, to map the knowledge of the majority. Within the framework of this, two main hypothesises were determined. The first main hypothesis assumed that the Gipsy commune in Tabor hadn´t known its tradition and culture any more. The second main hypothesis assumed that the majority hadn´t known the Gipsy tradition and culture. These two hypothesises weren´t proved because the decisive part of questioned people( both Gipsy and non-Gipsy) had known at least one element of Gipsy culture and tradition. Another important investigation was made in my work.They are specified in details in the part {\clqq}Discussion`` of my work. In consideration of the fact that nobody has ever occupied with this problem in the area of the town of Tabor, I suppose, that the points of my work may be useful for organizations that provide service for the Gipsy commune in Tabor.To make it possible, I am going to present my work on the web page of the town of Tabor.

Savo darbe man rūpėjo paneigti tam tikrus susiformavusius stereotipus, įrodyti, jog romai yra ir senos, garbingos kultūros skleidėjai. Darbo objektai: 1) romų katalikų liaudiškas pamaldumas; 2) ugdymo modeliavimo perspektyvos. Darbo tikslas: atskleisti Vilniaus katalikų romų bendruomenės liaudiškojo pamaldumo esminius bruožus, juos išanalizuoti, aprašyti. Darbo uždaviniai: 1) išnagrinėti Vilniaus romų bendruomenės istorinius faktus; 2) ištirti romų katalikų liaudiškojo pamaldumo tradicijas; 3) atskleisti istorinių įvykių momentus, gretinant juos su liaudiškojo pamaldumo tradicijomis; 4) išsiaiškinti šių dienų romų pamaldumo apraiškas; 5) ištirti romų katalikų apeiginius papročius; 6) išnagrinėti liaudiškojo pamaldumo katalikų romų bendruomenėje ugdymo perspektyvas. Klausimas ir hipotezė: Pagrindinė šio darbo hipotezė buvo pabandyti atskleisti romų katalikų liaudiškojo pamaldumo ugdymo perspektyvas (pagrindžiant hipotezę romų katalikų pamaldumo praktika). Išnagrinėjus Vilniaus romų bendruomenės istorinius faktus aiškėja, kad romai dėl išlikimo nuolat keldavosi iš vienos vietos į kitą. Įtakos turėjo ir tas faktas, kad daugumai gyventojų įgrįsdavo elgetaujantys ir plėšikaujantys čigonai. Todėl, ne vienos šalies valdžia, gindama savo piliečius, paskelbdavo romus už įstatymo ribų.Ištyrus romų katalikų liaudiškojo pamaldumo tradicijas, galima teigti, jog jų religinė praktika yra savita, tikėjimas didžiąja dalimi yra pagrįstas įtikėjimais ir papročiais. Nemaža dalis jų religijos... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Work title: Forms of folksy devotion and educational perspective in Vilnius catholic gipsy community. Work job: 1) folksy devotion of catholic gipsies; 2) educational methods. Main aim of this work was to disclose and analyse the essential points and attributes of Catholic gipsy community folksy devotion forms. I was trying to disclaim the stereotypes of gypsy’s ill – mannered image in Lithuania. Regarding this I have analysed gipsies of Vilnius town historical facts and actualities, investigated the traditions of gipsy folksy devotion. Also I have canvassed the main causal of stereotypes about gipsies coming. I have put out feelers of gipsies devotional manifestations. In context of main beliefs I have described the feasts celebration in gipsies’ families in Vilnius. Christmas, Easter, The Gates of Dawn, Crying Rock piety are very chiefs for the gipsies’ community. Also the analysis of the devotional forms helped me to establish the main cause’s connections between the persuasion and religion role for the gipsies’ mentality. In now days the pressure on the gipsies is going stronger. So it was important to me us a member of the gipsies’ community to unmask another well – grounded opinion. Regarding this it was done the research. I have decided to check out how deeply this problem is growing between Vilnius gipsies‘ community members. The main aim of research was to uncover main forms of educational perspectives for gipsies‘. The results were showy and impressive. Accomplished... [to full text]

Master of Information Systems

The CSPI mini-MAP array processor is supported for use with a RATFOR preprocessor in the software environment defined by the Generalized Image Processing System (GIPSY). A set of interface routines presents the mini-MAP as a tightly-coupled slave processor with well-defined rules for control from the host computer. The slave is programmed by adapting host-based software, using a proscribed set of guidelines for conversion. A software protocol has been defined to allow mini-MAP data memory to be allocated dynamically. Several examples of modified GIPSY commands are examined. / Master of Science

Scholars researching Britain from the 1880s to the First World War have often failed to portray a diverse range of British attitudes towards the period’s state-sanctioned efforts to assimilate the Romani people. In most academic works, British voices that called for the elimination of Romani culture drown out those that were opposed to their assimilation into sedentary industrial wage-labour and formal education. They also mostly engage in only a surface analysis of the relationships between perspectives on the Romani and the great shifts occurring in British society. This thesis reveals a greater complexity of viewpoints within British society over issues of Romani assimilation that were increasingly fueled by the age’s rapid social and technological change. Poets, journalists, evangelical reformers, romantic gypsiologists and progressive politicians were some of the groups in Britain whose projections of fears and desires upon the Romani created an unintended referendum on the quickening forces of modernity. / Graduate

The best educational and living conditions for the child is well functioned family, the family where the child holds the place of its own, where´s the chance to get the most valuable emocional and practical experiences innevitable for its entire harmonic evolution. This diploma work is concentrated for the Gipsy child and its chance to get a "new" family. In the theoretical part I´m concerned in the Gipsy minority and the problematics of the substitutional family care, practical part is concentrated to the tolerance of the claimants to accept child of the Gipsy minority, or half-Gipsy origin.

La réception et la représentation de la musique hongroise en France au XIXe siècle est un sujet méconnu et non traité dans la littérature musicologique. La thèse ici présentée a l’ambition de combler ce manque. Elle s’organise autour de deux axes principaux. Le premier est l’étude critique des textes qui présentent la musique hongroise et l’art des orchestres tziganes ayant propagé ce corpus sous divers aspects. Le deuxième est l’analyse musicale et stylistique proprement dite, où l’on se questionne sur le fonctionnement de la représentation d’une « magyarité », voire d’une « tziganité », en musique, majoritairement dans les oeuvres dramatiques. La réception littéraire reflète de quelle manière la perception du phénomène exotique hongrois s’inscrit dans un contexte romantique français plus large. Les réflexions sur « l’âme du peuple », sur l’orientalisme, sur différentes constructions culturelles exotiques, sur le caractère national que l’on croyait « populaire », mais aussi sur le culte romantique du génie ou sur l’esthétique des sentiments, influencent le discours sur l’identité musicale hongroise. Une identité que l’on cerne à travers les notions telles que l’héroïsme, le caractère martial, l’expression poétique, la tristesse profonde, la gaîté et la passion sauvages. La représentation musicale stylisée, qui propose différents niveaux de « réalités » grâce à des procédés de réinterprétation d’éléments hongrois pour évoquer la « magyarité » en musique (aussi en relation avec d’autres phénomènes exotiques), ne rend que partiellement la poésie de « l’âme du peuple ». Tournée plus vers l’esthétique du « pittoresque », elle manque son ultime réalité pour des apparences. / The reception and the representation of the Hungarian music in France in the 19th century is a little-known subject. There are no musicological writings dealing with this topic. The doctoral dissertation presented here aims to fill this gap. It is organized around two principal axes. The first one is the critical study of the texts which present the Hungarian music and the music making of Gypsy orchestras having spread this repertoire from different angles. The second one is the musical and stylistic analysis itself, in which we investigate how the representation of “Hungarianness” and “Gipsyness” in music, especially in dramatic genres, functions. The literary reception mirrors that the perception of the Hungarian exotic phenomenon is inseparable from a larger French and romantic context. The reflections on the “spirit of the folk”, on the orientalism, on different cultural exotic constructions, on the national character which was perceived at the same time as “popular”, but also on the romantic cult of the genius or on the aesthetics of the emotions influenced the discourse on the Hungarian musical identity. An identity defined by notions as heroism, martial character, poetic expression, profound sadness or savage gaiety and passion. The stylized musical representation, which proposes different levels of “reality” by the use of reinterpreted Hungarian elements to evoke “Hungarianness” in music (also linked to other exotic phenomena), reproduces only partially the poetic charm of the “spirit of the folk”. Serving more the aesthetics of “picturesqueness”, it misses an ultimate reality for the appearances.

The thesis deals with comparison of use of free-time activities offered by non-governmental non-for-profit organizations (NNO) in České Budějovice with activities offered by basic schools (ZŠ), as one of possibilities to support integration of Roma children in the educational process. The theoretical part presents the issue of integration in general and also in respect to the target group of Roma people and Roma children attending regular basic schools. The thesis also briefly summarizes the problems of the Roma minority and their impacts on life in the society. The last chapter of the theoretical part is dedicated to NNOs in České Budějovice in respect to Roma children and their integration at school and also the content free-time activities organized by those organizations and their impacts on integration of Roma children at basic schools. The practical part of the thesis used a research investigation with qualitative strategy, performed by means semi-structured interviews. The objective of the thesis was to determine the level of utilization of free-time activities offered to the target group of Roma children by NNOs as one of the opportunities to support their integration, while the activities are intermediated not only by the basic schools but also by NNOs that focus on the mentioned target group.

Opus Alchemicum explores the fabrication of “reality” upon imagination, and the affective relation between ideas and matter in the built environment. Like an alchemic experiment, through the manipulation of real facts and their transformation into myth, stories, rituals and objects, the project tries to demonstrate how myths are not just produced but also produce “real” by creating a collective understanding and a pattern of relations, roles and ideas. This project’s attempt is to reveal the mechanisms of reality in an act of analogy. The role of architecture, buildings and objects is investigated in its transfigured correspondent. Myths are both constructed and revealed as the language code of a discourse. The result is a work of alchemy, a product of imagination as a path of understanding. The project starts with traveling to Romania as a study case, in a journey where encounters and empathy win over maps and scheduled visits. What I bring back with me is a series of situations, assemblages, a pattern of history, places, culture and affections belonging to the very present of Romania.These situations are plunged in another larger assemblage, the European one, with Sweden as a partaker. In this country’s desires and metamorphoses we can discover those myths that belong and affect our culture and our spaces.  Opus Alchemicum is a tale about myths, behavior and built environment. About Romania, or somewhere else. About ruins and gold. About invisible values and material affects. About a vanished land, about desire and nostalgia. About displacement, diaspora and costumes. About migration. About a journey and the gas station at the mid of the road. About metamorphoses, gypsy palaces and dowries. About matter, produced, traded and extinguished. About Prussian Blue and honey. About a tower, a fountain and a secret garden. About the alchemic process of making reality out of ideas. / Opus Alchemicum utforskar fabricering av verklighet genom fantasi, den affektiva relationen mellan ide och materia i en bygg omgivning. Ett alkemiskt experiment, genom manipulation av verkliga fakta och deras transformation till myter, berättelser, ritualer och objekt, försöker detta projekt att påvisa hur myter inte bara är producerade utan hur de också producerar en ”verklighet” genom att skapa en kollektiv förståelse och ett mönster av relationer, roller och föreställningar. Projektet försöker att avslöja mekanismerna av verklighet i en handling av analogi. Rollen av arkitektur, byggnader och objekt undersöks i sin förvandlade korrespondens. Myter är både konstruerade och avslöjade genom språkkoden för en diskurs. Resultatet är ett verk av alkemi, en produkt av inbillningsförmåga längst en väg för förståelse. Projektet startar med en resa till Rumänien som studie fall, i en färd där möten och empati segrar över kartor och schemalagda möten. Det jag tog med mig tillbaka var en serie av situationer, samlingar och mönster av historien. Platser, kultur och känslor som representerar det nuvarande Rumänien. Situationer som störtar in till ett större sammanhang i form av det Europeiska med Sverige som deltagare. I detta lands önskningar och metamorfoser kan vi upptäcka de myter som tillhör och påverkar vår kultur och dess rum. Opus Alchemicum är en berättelse om myter, beteenden och byggd omgivning. Om Rumänien eller någon annanstans. Om ruiner och guld. Om osynliga värden och materiell inverkan. Om ett försvunnet land av begär och nostalgi. Om förskjutningar, förskingringar och kostymer. Om migration. Om färder och bensinstationen i mitten av resan. Om metamorfoser, romerska palats och hemgifter. Om materia, producerad, handlad och utsläckt. Om preussiskt blått och honung. Om ett torn en fontän och en hemlig trädgård. Om den alkemiska processen av att skapa verklighet genom idéer.