Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

This thesis is an ethnography of a community of professional thieves called the Kanjar-a 'caste of thieves' by practice, public perception and self-designation-in the northern Indian province of Rajasthan. It is also an argument that spells out the broader logic of rank in local society. Insofar as it offers the first ethnography of the Kanjar community- and of caste-based, professional, hereditary theft-this study is new. My analytical concern with hierarchy and rank, however, is old, engaging in the once central, and now largely out-fashioned, discussion in the sociology of South Asia. My project began with a narrow set of concerns with the place of thieving and thieves in local society. In the course of my fieldwork, however, it became apparent that the received wisdom of South Asian sociology regarding the principles of rank did not offer useful explanatory tools and that a different conception of rank was necessary to make sense of what I observed, both about the social position of Kanjars and the hierarchical social formation at large. As is so often the case, what began as a study of historically and sociologically particular circumstances became an inquiry into the pervasive regnant aspects of the local order of things.

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

Thèse numérisée par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

The diploma thesis presents a view of church administration in deanery of Rakovnicko principally in period of 2nd half of 14th century and beggining of 15th century, via analysis of sources, especially registers of central church administration. Focuses primarily on parish network, constitution of priests to parish office, patrons of parishes, benlongings of churches. Compares results with facts discovered during research of another, analogous compiled deaneries.

Il y aujourd'hui a un intérêt croissant pour la relation entre les matériaux textiles et les êtres humains, et le confort est devenu beaucoup plus important pour les consommateurs au cours des dernières années.Pour cette raison notre travail est basé sur l’optimisation de la caractérisation du confort (confort au porter) pour des étoffes utilisées principalement pour fabriquer des chemises d’homme.A cet effet, plusieurs méthodes ont été utilisées :- Analyse instrumentale : nous avons utilisé des méthodes instrumentales habituelles afin de mesurer les propriétés : - mécaniques en (cisaillement, flexion, compression, frottement et état de surface) ainsi - thermique (sensation chaud-froid)Physique (perméabilité à l'air, absorption capillaire...etc.).- Analyse sensorielle: nous avons utilisé à cet effet, le panel sensoriel développé au sein du LPMT depuis 2001. Elle a permis de réaliser l'évaluation quantitative descriptive des produits sélectionnés et fournis par notre partenaire industriel. - Analyse hédonique: Evaluation du confort ressenti de la chemise confectionnée grâce à une enquête « consommateurs ».- Etude marketing Evaluation de l’influence de la notion de « marque » ou une mention « traitement innovant » sur l’évaluation du confort des étoffes utilisée en comparaison avec l’évaluation du confort par le toucher et le touche-vue. - Etude patronage : Optimisation du processus de « développement produit » en prenant en compte la satisfaction attendue du consommateur en particulier en termes de confort. Elle consiste en l’étude des relations entre les paramètres physique du patron et les caractéristiques mécaniques des tissus utilisés obtenues dans la première partie de cette recherche.Cette combinaison d’analyse nous a permet de proposer une nouvelle procédure de conception de produit confectionné prenant en compte le confort et les attentes du consommateur et en particulier dans le cas du développement de « chemise d’homme ». / Nowadays there is a growing interest in the relation between the textile materials and human being, and the comfort has become much more important to consumers. For this reason our work is based on optimization of the characterization of the comfort (wearing comfort) in relation with the fabrics used to produce men’s shirts. To achieve this study, several methods of analysis have been used:- Instrumental analysis: To measure mechanical properties, classical characterization tools have been used to measure:Mechanical properties (shear, bending, compression, friction and surface) Thermal comfort (warm-cool sensation)Physical properties (air permeability, capillary absorption ... etc. . .). - Sensory analysis: Thanks to the trained panel that has been developed and used since 2001 at LPMT, the quantitative descriptive evaluation of the selected product using has been carried out.- Hedonic Analysis: Evaluation of comfort by consumer surveys.- Marketing study: To investigate the influence of the brand or some innovative mention like “anti-sweat ring” on the comfort evaluation of fabrics, in comparison with the evaluation realized by touching or by touching-seeing.- Blocks analysis: it aims to optimize the processes of product development, taking in consideration the requested consumer’s satisfactions especially in term of comfort. It consists of studying the relation between the block parameters and the mechanical properties of the fabric used to produce the product.This combination of analysis allows us to have a new conception procedure for the development of clothing product taking in account the comfort and the consumer’s expectation particularly in the men shirt development.

This bachelor thesis evolves around the topic of art collectors as a phenomenon throughout different centuries. Ernest Thiel was a Swedish art collector at the turn of- and early 20th- century. Tom Böttiger is a contemporary art collector who acquired his first artwork during the 80’s. Both collectors are more like than alike, which points to and enforces certain common stereotypes as to whom could be a collector and what kinds of collectors exist. This thesis compares those two collectors from different times, from an art collectors perspective. The thesis concluded that collectors often bring upon themselves to act as patrons for the artists, both by promoting and purchasing their works, but also by aiding them financially.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T18:15:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Leandro Lemos de Jesus.pdf: 3494773 bytes, checksum: 341aec889c691f43662523519eeaf01e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-24 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The present study addresses the phenomenon of patron saint festivals with tropeadas in countryside communities of Imbituva-PR. It has as main focus of investigation events carried out in four rural communities of the municipality. The context of these localities is marked by the neighborhood groupings formed from the occupation of family groups. The relations of kinship, neighborhood and activities around the chapels of the Roman Catholic Church contribute in a significant way in the spatial delimitation of these rural communities. The objective of this work is to clarify the linkages between the composition of these festivals and the countryside regionality, which is understood as symbolic elements related to a geographic space of reference, stated by the subjects of the research as ―the countryside‖. The methodology is grounded mainly in field studies in rural communities, thus, investigations and the interpretations are built from observation and active observation in festivals with tropeadas combined with a semi-structured interview with people from the different categories of festival participants. Patron saint festivals with tropeadas are taken as a composition constituted by multiple moments and circumstances, in just one day, the celebration assembles the expression of faith in the saints, fund raising for church maintenance, the gathering, entertainment and expenditure, the tradition and the ritual. It was also found that the celebration is an important moment of social entanglement of rural communities and that some of the elements which constitutes them also comprehends symbolic markers that express and reproduce countryside regionality. The presence of horses, the highlight of the community, the agricultural products and the symbol of the horse riders enhance the purposes of a countryside festival, recreating symbolically elements that represents a spatial differentiation anchored to the concept of a communitarian countryside space. / Este estudo aborda fenômenos de festas de padroeiros com tropeadas em comunidades rurais de Imbituva - PR. Tem-se como principal foco de investigação eventos realizados em quatro comunidades rurais do município. O contexto destas localidades é marcado pelos agrupamentos de vizinhança formados a partir da ocupação de grupos familiares. As relações de parentesco, vizinhança e as atividades em torno das capelas da Igreja Católica Apostólica Romana contribuem de maneira significativa na delimitação espacial destas comunidades rurais. O objetivo deste trabalho é explicitar os entrelaçamentos entre a composição das festas de padroeiro e uma regionalidade interiorana, a qual é compreendida como elementos simbólicos relativos a um espaço geográfico de referência, mencionado pelos sujeitos da pesquisa como ―o interior‖. A metodologia fundamenta-se principalmente em trabalhos de campos nas comunidades rurais, desta forma, as investigações e as interpretações são construídas a partir da observação e observação participante em festas com tropeadas, aliadas as entrevistas semiestruturadas com pessoas representantes de diferentes categorias de festeiros. A festa de padroeiro com tropeadas é compreendida como uma composição constituída por múltiplos momentos e situações, em apenas um dia a festa congrega a expressão da crença aos santos, arrecadação financeira para a manutenção das capelas, o encontro, a diversão e dispêndio, a tradição e o ritual. Constatou-se ainda que a festa é um importante momento de enredamento social das comunidades rurais e que alguns dos elementos que a constituem conformam também marcadores simbólicos que expressam e reproduzem uma regionalidade interiorana. A presença dos cavalos, os enunciados de comunidade, os produtos da agricultura e a figura dos cavaleiros reforçam sentidos de uma festa no/do interior, reproduzindo simbolicamente elementos que representam uma diferenciação espacial ancorada na noção de um espaço comunitário interiorano.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-07-29T16:26:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 dissertacao maria idelma 1.pdf: 2686885 bytes, checksum: ccdd1606ee82d47c748f75b6e1a6a7c4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-17 / The religious feasts, in a general set, are related to the celebrations and tributes done to the worshiped deities in any other religious follow-up. The present study emphasizes the religious feasts as a social cultural practice that spatializes in Goiás State. The feasts space materializes itself in the scenery, in the territory and in the territorialities construction. The chosen places to the research development are the villages of Muquém and Posse D Abadia, respectively set in the goiano boroughs of Niquelândia and Abadiânia and the town of Trindade. The catholic religious feasts are manifestations that boost these boroughs spaces, revealing, in their organization, a religious identity expressed in the studied places territory. The work main goal is the comprehension of how it occurs the patron feasts spatialization and its reflexes in the formation and structuration of the goiano territorial and cultural space. With this study it is searched to present a theoretical-methodological reflection about the patron feasts traditions that sustain a territorial identity in the State. For this identity, the patron is the faith, territory and the feast centrality. The territory is built and donated to the patron, which domain is effective with the possession and the power as protector of the mentioned places. The territorial identity is placed as a religious identity assigned to this patron. The formed identity, in first place, is the religious icon represented in the image of N. S. da Abadia and in the medallion of Divino Pai Eterno. The historical foundations that explain the process of emergence and formation of the three places enable to discuss that the miracle in Muquém, the meeting of the image in Trindade and the spontaneous institution of the prayers in Posse are elements responsible for the emergence of the patrons connected to the territory. The scientific contribution to the methodological development of the research is guided by the cultural approach of geography, formed, nowadays, by studies that postulate a methodological path mixed by the intersection among several elements that compose a culture, in which the interpretation, comprehension and intentionality of the lived space are essential. In this way, this approach establishes the recognition possibility of the daily acts that involve life, frequently neglected, by an apprehension pathway that unveils such as this momentary as the own symbolic lived world. The cultural geography contributes for the patron feast study by allowing the conceptual (re) elaboration of its particularities, from the symbolic representation systems, methodological way of communication that allows to chain the feeling and the stories of life of the human groups to the resignificance and organization of the space process and of its cultural practices. By this way, in what concerns the territorial identitary dimension that permeates the popular feasts and devotionals to the Goiás State, the patron feast posses the primordial element of identitary territory articulation, being on the rural zone or the country and metropolitan towns, in the evocation and respect to the patron saints, keeping the tradition alive. / As festas religiosas, em um conjunto geral, estão relacionadas às celebrações e homenagens feitas às divindades cultuadas em diversos seguimentos religiosos. O presente estudo enfatiza as festas religiosas como uma prática sociocultural que se espacializa no Estado de Goiás. O espaço das festas materializa-se na paisagem, no território e na construção de territorialidades. Os locais escolhidos para o desenvolvimento da pesquisa são os povoados de Muquém e Posse D Abadia, respectivamente situados nos municípios goianos de Niquelândia e Abadiânia, e a cidade de Trindade. As festas religiosas católicas são manifestações que dinamizam o espaço desses municípios, revelando, em sua organização, uma identidade religiosa expressa no território dos locais estudados. O principal objetivo do trabalho é a compreensão de como ocorre a espacialização das festas de padroeiros e de seus reflexos na formação e estruturação territorial e cultural do espaço goiano. Com este estudo, busca-se apresentar uma reflexão teórico-metodológica sobre as tradições das festas de padroeiros que sustentam uma identidade territorial no Estado. Para essa identidade, o padroeiro é a centralidade da fé, do território e da festa. O território é construído e doado para o padroeiro, cujo domínio é efetivo com a posse e com o poder como protetor das localidades citadas. A identidade territorial é colocada como uma identidade religiosa atribuída a esse padroeiro. A identidade formada em primeiro lugar dá-se com o ícone religioso representado na imagem de N. S. da Abadia e no medalhão do Divino Pai Eterno. Os fundamentos históricos que explicam os processos de surgimento e formação das três localidades possibilitam argumentar que o milagre em Muquém, o encontro da imagem em Trindade e a instituição espontânea das rezas em Posse são elementos responsáveis pelo surgimento dos padroeiros ligados ao território. A contribuição científica para o desenvolvimento metodológico da pesquisa pauta-se na abordagem cultural da geografia, constituída, na atualidade, por estudos que postulam uma via metodológica amalgamada pela intersecção entre elementos diversos que compõem uma cultura, da qual a interpretação, a compreensão, a intencionalidade do espaço vivido são essenciais. Desse modo, essa abordagem estabelece a possibilidade do reconhecimento dos atos diários que envolvem a vida, frequentemente negligenciados, por um caminho de apreensão que desvela tanto esse momentâneo quanto o próprio mundo simbólico vivido. A geografia cultural contribui para o estudo da festa de padroeiro ao permitir a (re)elaboração conceitual de suas particularidades, a partir dos sistemas de representação simbólica, caminho metodológico de comunicação que permite encadear os sentimentos e as histórias de vidas dos grupos humanos ao processo de ressignificação e organização do espaço e de suas práticas culturais. Dessa maneira, no que concerne à dimensão identitária territorial que perpassa as festas populares e devocionais do Estado de Goiás, a festa dos padroeiros possui o elemento primordial de articulação do território identitário, seja na zona rural ou nas cidades interioranas e metropolitanas, na evocação e respeito aos santos padroeiros, mantendo viva a tradição.

La recherche d’image est une thématique de recherche très active. Plusieurs approches permettant d'établir un lien entre les descripteurs de bas niveau et la sémantique ont été proposées. Parmi celles-là, nous citons la reconnaissance d'objets, les ontologies et le bouclage de pertinence. Cependant, leur limitation majeure est la haute dépendance d’une ressource externe et l'incapacité à combiner efficacement l'information visuelle et sémantique. Cette thèse propose un système basé sur un graphe de patrons, la sélection ciblée des descripteurs pour la phase en ligne et l'amélioration de la visualisation des résultats. L'idée est de (1) construire un graphe de patrons composé d'une ontologie modulaire et d'un modèle basé graphe pour l'organisation de l'information sémantique, (2) de construire un ensemble de collections de descripteurs pour guider la sélection des descripteurs à appliquer durant la recherche et (3) améliorer la visualisation des résultats en intégrant les relations sémantiques déduite du graphe de patrons.Durant la construction de graphe de patrons, les modules ontologiques associés à chaque domaine sont automatiquement construits. Le graphe de régions résume l'information visuelle en un format plus condensé et la classifie selon son domaine. Le graphe de patrons est déduit par composition de modules ontologiques. Notre système a été testé sur trois bases d’images. Les résultats obtenus montrent une amélioration au niveau du processus de recherche, une meilleure adaptation des descripteurs visuels utilisés aux domaines couverts et une meilleure visualisation des résultats qui diminue le niveau d’abstraction par rapport à leur logique de génération. / Image retrieval is a very active search area. Several image retrieval approaches that allow mapping between low-level features and high-level semantics have been proposed. Among these, one can cite object recognition, ontologies, and relevance feedback. However, their main limitation concern their high dependence on reliable external resources and lack of capacity to combine semantic and visual information.This thesis proposes a system based on a pattern graph combining semantic and visual features, relevant visual feature selection for image retrieval and improvement of results visualization. The idea is (1) build a pattern graph composed of a modular ontology and a graph-based model, (2) to build visual feature collections to guide feature selection during online retrieval phase and (3) improve the retrieval results visualization with the integration of semantic relations.During the pattern graph building, ontology modules associated to each domain are automatically built using textual corpuses and external resources. The region's graphs summarize the visual information in a condensed form and classify it given its semantics. The pattern graph is obtained using modules composition. In visual features collections building, association rules are used to deduce the best practices on visual features use for image retrieval. Finally, results visualization uses the rich information on images to improve the results presentation.Our system has been tested on three image databases. The results show an improvement in the research process, a better adaptation of the visual features to the domains and a richer visualization of the results.