Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2007. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 290-329.

Considering all the developments and dynamics spanning the Andean cultural history, contact between Andeans and Europeans in the sixteenth century was unprecedented in terms of scope, impact and violence. Paradoxically, it is a time period that has received little archaeological attention. Historic Peru has almost always been studied through the ethnohistorical sources, revealing incomplete and often distorted by layers of European ethnocentrism and behavioral misperception of Andean cultures. Often, the very lives of people and the nuanced experiences of native cultures have remained unknown, obscured by a lack of data and wide range of assumptions about the colonial society that emerged in the wake of the conquest. This article applies bioarchaeological perspectives in the study of colonial Central Andes. The excavations in the village of Mórrope, Lambayeque Valley (northern Peru) allows us to integrate multiple independent lines of ethnohistoric, archaeological, and biological data to examine two central issues: (1) How did conquest impact patterns of pre-Hispanic health, diet, and physical activity? (2) What do burial patterns reveal about parallel processes of native cultural change and identity in colonial Peru? / Considerando la totalidad de los desarrollos y dinamicas culturales que abarca la historia andina, el contacto entre los andinos y los europeos a partir del siglo XVI no tiene precedentes en terminos de su alcance, impacto y violencia. Paradojicamente, es la epoca que ha recibido poca atencion arqueologica. El Peru historico, casi siempre, ha sido estudiado a traves de las fuentes etnohistoricas que son reveladoras e incompletas, a menudo distorsionadas por capas de etnocentrismo europeo y percepcion erronea del comportamiento de las culturas andinas. A menudo, la vida misma y los matices de las experiencias vividas por las culturas nativas son desconocidos, y estan cubiertos de misterio y de una amplia gama de supuestos acerca de la sociedad colonial que surgio de la estela de la conquista. En este articulo, se aplican las perspectivas bioarqueologicas en el estudio de los Andes Centrales coloniales. Las excavaciones en el pueblo de Morrope, valle de Lambayeque (Costa Norte del Peru), nos permiten integrar multiples lineas de datos independientes etnohistoricos, arqueologicos y biologicos para examinar dos cuestiones centrales: 1) .Como impacto la conquista en los patrones de salud, actividad fisica y dieta prehispanicos? 2) .Que revelan los patrones de enterramiento como experiencias paralelas de cambio cultural e identidad nativa en el Peru colonial?

The subject of this dissertation is a theoretical and empirical analysis of the transformations of cultural identity in the context of intercultural communication. In the course of processing the chosen topic the author used the theoretical knowledge acquired by studying professional books and other relevant sources as well as the empirical data which were gathered by the author during her anthropological field research over her two-year stay in Berlin. The main objective of the dissertation was to describe, analyse and interpret the phenomenon of cultural identity in the context of migration processes, globalization and the European refugee crisis. Special attention was, therefore, paid to the situation of foreigners who find themselves in a new different culture and are going through a difficult process of adaptation to a new environment. Transformations of the foreigners identity and their relationship to the majority culture are also being studied in terms of different types of immigration policies in host countries. In the focus of the research interest were the questions of the efficiency of assimilation, integration and multicultural policy. Among the sub-objectives of the work are included the description and analysis of the processes of formation, reproduction and transformation of...

Was geschieht mit der Muttersprache nach der Emigration? Der migrationsbedingte Erwerb einer Zweitsprache kann langfristig zu einem Sprachwechsel bzw. zu einem Verlust der Erstsprache führen. Der Sprachverlust wird zugleich häufig als Identitätsverlust empfunden. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Prozesse, die mit dem Sprachwechsel einhergehen, anhand der sprachlichen Situation der deutschsprachigen Minderheit in Nordgriechenland (Thessaloniki und Umgebung). Die vorliegende Studie stellt die sprachliche Situation, die Sprachwechsel-, Sprachverlust- und Spracherhaltprozesse der Deutschstämmigen aus mikrosoziolinguistischer Perspektive dar. Die sprachlichen Prozesse werden von sprachlichen und außersprachlichen Faktoren, wie zum Beispiel Spracheinstellungen innerhalb der Minderheitengruppe, subjektive Vitalität und ethnische Identitätsprägungen beeinflusst. Sprachliche Identität ist ein zentraler Bestandteil des ethnischen Identitätskonzepts. Sie spielt eine gewichtige Rolle in der Identitätsprägung eines Menschen, einer Minderheit. Die Sprache ist ein Identitätsträger. Die veränderte sprachliche Situation führt zu einem Identitätswechsel oder Identitätsverlust eines Individuums, einer Minderheitengruppe. Anhand der empirischen Untersuchung wird in dieser Arbeit dargestellt, wie die veränderte sprachliche Situation und der Sprachwechsel, der in der ersten, zweiten und dritten Generation der Deutschsprachigen stattfand, zum ethnischen Identitätswechsel dieser Generationen geführt hat. / What happens to the mother tongue after emigrating? The migration-related acquisition of a second language can eventually lead to a language shift or a complete loss of the first language. The loss of language is often also perceived as a loss of identity. This thesis examines the linguistic and non-linguistic processes that are associated with the language shift, based on the linguistic situation of the German-speaking minority in northern Greece (Thessaloniki and surroundings). This study illustrates the linguistic situation of the German diaspora in northern Greece from a micro-sociolinguistic perspective. The linguistic and non-linguistic factors, such as language attitudes of the minority group, individual vitality and ethnic identity affect the above mentioned linguistic processes. Linguistic identity is a central component of the ethnic identity concept. Language plays an important role in the identity of individuals and of ethnic minorities. The language is a carrier of identity. The changing linguistic situation leads to a loss of identity of an individual. Based on the empirical study, the thesis shows how far the language shift, which took place in the first, second and third generation of the Germans, led to an ethnic identity shift of these generations