Relationships among the Aesthetic, culture, and music are problematic- Frequently considered as epiphenomenal to culture, music and the arts are typically seen as adjuncts to ceremonial activity- This dissertation examines the nature of the Aesthetic, music and performance in the context of the Lolo, Araigilpua Village, West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea, in an attempt to develop a definition of the Aesthetic applicable for cross-cultural research and to discover the ways in which the Aesthetic and culture articulate. For the purposes of this dissertation, the Aesthetic is defined as that facet of religion focused on responses to extraordinary powers thought to maintain what are considered to be proper relationships between human members of a community and extraordinary powers. Three forms of aesthetics, social, performance, and musical, are taken as the means and methods of directing interactions between man and extraordinary powers. At present, the Lolo are engaged in a process of secularisation resulting primarily from the introduction of Christianity, Western medicine and money. This dissertation examines the relationship between the Aesthetic and social life, and addresses the impact of changes to the Aesthetic. / Arts, Faculty of / Anthropology, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (doctoral)--Stockholm University, 2002. / Extra t.p. with thesis statement and English abstract inserted. Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-273).

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This study describes the resource management practices of a rural community located in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Lababia, a community of 500 people, is located in a coastal rainforest environment and is dependant for its livelihood on swidden agriculture and fishing. Lababia is also the site of an integrated conservation and development project facilitated by a non-governmental organisation based in a nearby urban centre. / The key resources on which Lababia depends are managed as the common property of either the village-as-a-whole or the various kin groups resident in the village, and for that reason common property theory has been used to inform the design of the research project and the analysis and interpretation of research results. However, the social foundations of resource management systems and the influence of external factors, commodity markets in particular, are not adequately represented in some of the more widely used analytical frameworks developed by common property theorists. These factors are of fundamental importance to the Lababia commons because of the many social, political and economic changes that have occurred there over the last century. For that reason the Lababia commons is referred to as a commons-in-transition . / Ethnographic and historical analysis, informed by common property theory, is used to develop a description of the property rights system existing at Lababia and resource management practices in the key sectors of fishing and agriculture. The management of forest resources is described on the basis of a comparison with Kui, a nearby village that, unlike Lababia, has allowed industrial logging activities on their lands. The impact of the conservation and development project on village life is also assessed and the study concludes by developing an analytical framework suitable to the Lababia commons and one that facilitates the development of policy appropriate to the planning of sustainable development projects generally and conservation and development projects in particular.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1949 G61 / Master of Science

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1961 D43

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1962 T73

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Thesis (MSc)--Stellenbosch University, 2012. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study presents results of a detailed geological mapping and structural analysis of auriferous quartz-vein sets of the nine current open-pit operations, of the Siguiri Mining Complex in the northeastern parts of Guinea. The Siguiri Mining Complex is hosted by a low-grade metamorphic, turbiditic succession within the larger Siguiri Basin, which forms part of the Palaeoproterozoic Birimian Supergroup of the Boualé-Mossi domain on the West African Craton. The Siguiri Mining Complex is located in a deeply weathered saprolite profile developed over the monotonous succession of interlayered metapelites and -psammites. In fresh bedrock and core samples, the host succession is mainly made up of quartz-muscovite schists, muscovite-chlorite schists and metagreywackes, with isolated occurrences of intraformational breccias. The main deformation to have affected the metasedimentary succession of the Siguiri Mining Complex can be assigned to a D2 deformational event. D2 structures comprise of north-south trending strike-slip and reverse faults anastomosing around and enveloping open- to tightly folded domains exposed over an area of 12 by 3 km. The geometry, orientation and kinematics of faults and folds suggest that D2 structures formed during progressive deformation in an overall dextral transpressive brittle-ductile shear zone. Structures within the D2 corridor record east-northeast subhorizontal shortening and north-northwest subhorizontal extension. An omnipresent carbonate alteration in form of carbonate-alteration spots testifies to the pervasive, syn-D2 hydrothermal fluid-flow within the sediments. A structurally- and fracture-controlled fluid-flow is evidenced by the abundance of auriferous quartz veins throughout the Siguiri Mining Complex. These quartz veins host the bulk of the gold mineralization. One main and, at least, three minor sets of auriferous quartz veins can be distinguished. The main quartz-vein set shows very consistent easterly to northeasterly trends and steep southerly dips throughout the Siguiri Mining Complex. This orientation is consistent with the dextral transpressive kinematics and strain within the D2 host structure and illustrates the significance of D2 strains for the mineralization. The volumetrically minor vein sets can be shown to be related to different stages of F2 folding and fold amplification. Zones of economic-grade mineralization occur in areas where competent, psammitic units are developed in structural sites of increased dilatancy. Areas of dilatancy are represented by either dilational jog geometries within the overall transpressive structure or zones of pronounced shear-zone subparallel stretch. Jog geometries could be identified in the larger Bidini-Toubani-Sanu Tinti Complex having formed as a result of the anastomosing geometry of the bounding D2 shear zones. In the large Kami Complex, F2 axial culminations and depressions correspond to zones of increased stretch within the D2 transpression zone, delineated by closer vein spacing and the formation of D2 normal faults parallel to the main vein set and normal to F2 fold hinges. The size and extent of the Siguiri Mining Complex suggests that the host D2 transpressive corridor must be assumed to have a significantly larger along-strike continuation, being part of a larger shear zone system related to the accretionary history of Palaeoproterozoic basins and arcs onto the Archaean Man Shield in West Africa. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie lewer die resultate voor van 'n gedetailleerde geologiese kartering en strukturele analise van die gouddraende kwarts-aar stelle in die huidige nege oop-groef operasies van die Siguiri Myn Kompleks, in die noordoostelike deel van Guinea. Die Siguiri Myn Kompleks is geherberg deur 'n lae metamorfiese graad turbidiet suksessie in die groter Siguiri Kom, wat deel form van die Paleo-Proterosoïkum Birimian Supergroep van die Boualé-Mossi streek op die Wes Afrika Kraton. Die Siguiri Myn Kompleks is geleë in die diep veweerde saproliet profiel, wat onwikkel het oor die eentonige suksessie van metapeliete en -psammiete. In vars bodemrots en kern monsters is die herberg-gesteente opgemaak uit kwarts-muskoviet skiste, muskoviet-chloriet skiste en metagrouwakte, as ook afgesonderde voorvalle van intraformasie breksies. Die hoof deformasie fase wat die metasedimentêre suksessie van die Siguiri Myn Kompleks geaffekteer het, kan toegeken word aan 'n D2 deformasie gebeurtenis. D2 strukture bestaan uit noord-suid neigende strekkingwaartse verskuiwings en opskuiwings, wat anastomoserend oop- en steil geplooide gebiede omsluit en is oor 'n area van 12 by 3 km ontbloot. Die geometrie, oriëntasie en kinematika van verskuiwings en plooie stel voor dat D2 strukture gevorm het tydens progressiewe deformasie in 'n algemene regse transpressie skuifskeursone, onder brosheid-duktiliteit toestande. Strukture in die D2 gang wys 'n oos-noordoos subhorisontale verkorting en 'n noord-noordwes subhorisontale verlenging. Die alomteenwoordigheid van karbonaat alterasie, in die vorm van karbonaat-alterasie spikkels, getuig van die deurdringende, sin-D2 hidrotermiese vloeistof vloei in die sedimente. Die strukturele- en breuk-beheerde vloeistof vloei is ook duidelik, as gevolg van die oorvloed van gouddraende kwarts-are reg deur die Siguiri Myn Kompleks. Die kwarts-are bevat die grootmaat van die goud mineralisasie. Een hoof, en te minste drie minder belangrike stele van gouddraende kwarts-aar stelle kan uitgeken word. Die hoof kwarts-aar stel wys konstante oostelike to noordoostelike neigings en steil suidelike hellings, reg deur die Siguiri Myn Kompleks. Die oriëntasie is konstant met regse transpressie kinematika en vervorming in die D2 strukture en illustreer die belangrikheid van D2 vervorming vir mineralisasie. Die minder-belangrike aar stelle is verwant aan die verskillende staduims van F2 plooiing en plooi amplifikasie. Sones van ekonomiese graad mineralisasie kom voor in areas waar bevoegde eenhede van psammiete ontwikkel het in strukturele terreine van verhoogde dilatasie. Areas van dilatasie word verteenwoordig deur dilatasie uitwykings in die transpressie strukture of sones van skuifskeur subparalelle verlenging. Uitwykings geometrië kan geidentifiseer word in die groter Bidini-Toubani-Sanu Tinti Kompleks, waar dit gevorm het asgevolg van die anastomoserende geometrie van die D2 skuifskeur sones. In die groter Kami Kompleks kom F2 aksiale kulminerings en depressies voor in sones van verhoogde strekking binne-in die D2 transpressie sone en word uitgebeeld deur nader aar-spasiëring en die formasie van D2 afskuiwings, parallel aan die hoof kwarts-aar stel en normaal met betrekking tot die F2 plooi-skarniere. Die groote en omvang van die Siguiri Myn Kompleks stel voor dat die D2 transpressiewe gang nog n groter voorsetting het, en vorm deel van 'n groter skuifskeur sisteem en is verwant aan die anngroeings geskiedenis van die Paleo-Proterosoïese komme en boë aan die Argeïese Man Skild in Wes Afrika.

The specificity of guinea pig liver transglutamlnase was Investigated by the determination of modification sites within polypeptides and proteins of known sequence and (In some cases) folded structure. It was shown that some globular proteins have substrate properties for transglutamlnase In conformations which resemble their native states. Novel substrate sites for transglutamlnase were determined within the following proteins: 1) bovine B-Iactoglobulln. 2) the Hls3~ Gln388 mutant form of yeast phosphoglycerate kinase. 3) bovine B-caseln. 4) porcine pepsin. Despite the high exposure of many glutamlnyl residues within these proteins only a small fraction of these residues were observed to be reactive towards transglutamlnase. This Is taken to Indicate that features such as the chemical nature of the amino acid side chains In the local vicinity of unreactive glutamlnyl residues strongly determine the specificity of transglutamlnase. When structural models were available for substrates of transglutamlnase, the local secondary structure associated with substrate sites could be assessed. When no such models were available computer based methods were used to predict the local secondary structures associated with these sites. This approach allows substrate sites to be classified according to their local conformational preference Into conformationally flexl ble (type A substrates) and more conformationally restricted (type B substrates). Since diverse amino acid sequences are observed to surround the reactive glutamlnyl residues of many of the non-physiological substrates of transglutamlnase, It was assumed that the glutamlnyl residues within these sequences were probably reactive due to having; 1) a favourable stereochemistry during modification by transglutaminase 2) a lack of Inhibitory features. In order to determine why some exposed glutamlnyl residues were reactive and others not, It was necessary to find features which were present In unreactive sequences but absent In reactive ones. Through the use of this approach an "anti-consensus sequence" motif was Identified. This was based on the observation that exposed glutamlnyl residues which were unreactive towards transglutamlnase often have charged residues within their surrounding sequences. The distribution of allowed/disallowed residues within substrate sequences, together with what Is known concerning the conformational preference of transglutamlnase for its substrates was built Into a preliminary set of "rules'·. These rules may provide a basis for understanding the observed specificity of transglutamlnase. The application of these rules to a number of model systems has resulted In the correct prediction of both reactive and unreactive glutamlnyl side chains within a number of proteins. The demonstration of the substrate properties of the Hls3~ln388 mutant of phosphoglycerate kinase Illustrates the feasibility of Introducing a novel substrate site for transglutamlnase Into a protein using recombinant DNA technology.