published_or_final_version / Conservation / Master / Master of Science in Conservation

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It is the objective of this thesis firstly to establish the extent of Gaelic vernacular verse to have survived in Aberdeenshire and, secondly, to determine the nature of that verse and, where possible, its origins, age and authorship. It is also hoped that this study will enable us to investigate the cultural identity of Highland Aberdeenshire and to what extent, if any, it differed from the rest of the Gaidhealtachd. The thesis begins with a social and linguistic history of the area being studied to understand the environment in which the verse was being composed and also to establish the forces which led to the decline of the Gaelic language there. In the three chapters which follow, the verse is then divided according to parish, beginning with the easternmost parish which is the parish of Kildrummy, in the district of Strathdon, and ending with the westernmost parish, i.e. the parish of Crathie and Braemar. In each chapter an attempt is made to establish the origins of the verse which is studied in depth. The verse contained in each chapter is edited and translated. However, when editing, I have tried to remain as close to the original script as possible, to allow the reader to appreciate the type of language used by the bard, and to also give a taste of the original text. Where the verse is accompanied by a tale or tradition I have included this also, since originally all songs would have been accompanied by such tales, and since such tales usually serve some purpose by explaining the background of the song. With regard to sources, I have chosen to refer to Rev. Robert MacGregor's Collection as the Invercauld MS (since it is held at Invercauld House), while referring to the version of the MS formerly owned by his nephew, Joseph MacGregor (as featured in TGSI and the Northern Chronicle) as the MacGregor MS, in order to differentiate between the two. The final chapter examines the evidence contained in the verse of the Gaelic dialect of Aberdeenshire, including lexicon, phonology and morphophonology. Of particular interest here is the collection made by Francis Diack, who recorded much of the verse in his own phonetic spelling, in which he occasionally uses IPA. Also included are two appendices, one of which contains the story of the flight of the Earl of Mar after the battle of Inverlochy, transcribed from Mr. Ronald Campbell, the last native Gaelic speaker in Glen Roy. The other appendix contains information regarding the main sources for Aberdeenshire Gaelic verse.

Magister Artium - MA / Bab’aba - Ugly Short Stories is a collection of vignettes whose function is to colour and collage three portraits of Black women characters; namely, a rural woman (Nozikhali), a township teenager (Zola), and a child/baby (Loli). Each of these stories serve as details in each other’s portraits whilst remaining stories on their own. My intention with this collection was to restore some form of abstract equality and right to mystery by functioning within a lexicon of opacity. In the scholarship of decoloniality this is my argument for the legitimacy of vernacular/customised definitions for problems that preoccupy communities/individuals rather than having to always pin ourselves to already existing theory in order to be legible. In the scholarship of opacity, this is a contribution to the argument against the necessity for legibility/transparency (in the first place) in exchange for dignity. I chose ugliness as my thematic district of departure because of its connoted potential to provide richer explorations into notions of marginality and an emancipatory praxis that cannot afford to have in its makeup the potential to seek to eliminate. And though such a liberatory ambition is hard to fantasize about against the backdrop of popular chauvinism in the contemporary landscape of - particularly - South Africa, and the visceral effects thereof and the swift justice needed to attend thereto, I do think that there is merit in hallucinating some sort of doctrine of humanity that ends in dignity for all.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--University of Hong Kong, 2002. / One chapter in both English and Chinese. Includes special report study entitled: Comparison of vernacular houses between new and old in the Chinese countryside. Includes bibliographical references.

Research on domestic architecture using the space syntax method has suggested that while most vernacular traditions are characterised by 'genotypical' consistencies in the relation between spatial configuration and functional 'ends', such consistencies are usually lacking in experimental modernist architecture, where instead a consistency in spatial composition gives rise to 'genotype of means' rather than to 'genotypes of ends'. In Brazil, however, modernist housing became a established tradition and therefore there may be in them spatio-functional consistencies as found in vernacular tradition. The thesis examines how far this is the case, based on the fact that the dominant idea about the spatial organisation of the modernist dwelling was that it should be organised into spatially distinct 'sectors', within which similar activities could be clustered. This concept provided a pervasive underlying diagram, or paradigm, for housing organisation. No studies have been done however of how this paradigm worked out in practice. This thesis investigates this question with respect to a manifestation of this idea in the modernist architecture of Recife, between 1930 and 1980. The thesis first diagnoses the existence of a 'sectors' paradigm' in a pilot sample of modernist houses, then extends the investigation to a larger sample to see how prevalent it is and what different spatial forms it takes. The thesis then looks at historical houses and shows that a sectors' model can also be detected in them, but quite different spatially and functionally. It shows that both the internal form of the sectors and the way they are linked together are the key determinant for differentiating domestic activities and household members in both historical and modern dwellings. The thesis concludes that, through the methodological innovation of sectors' analysis, spatio-functional 'genotypes of ends' can be shown to be present in Recife's modernist dwellings, but that also they can be detected in vernacular houses, suggesting that a first layer should be added to the syntactic analysis of vernacular buildings.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Melbourne, Faculty of Architecture,Building and Planning, 2004. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 287-297).

Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-95).