In this paper an attempt will be made to offer a partial history of the three major languages of ancient Peru: Puquina, Aimara and Quechua, postulating their initial settlement from which they started spreading, until their encounter in the Central-Southern Andes during the Late Intermediate Period. It is proposed that the Incas passed through two stages of language substitution: the first from Puquina to Aimara and then from Aimara to Quechua. Linguistic, historical and archaeological evidence will be advanced to support the hypothesis. / En la presente contribución intentaremos bosquejar una parte de la historia de las tres lenguas mayores del antiguo Perú: el puquina, el aimara y el quechua, proponiendo los emplazamientos iniciales a partir de los cuales se expandieron hasta confluir en los Andes centro-sureños durante el Periodo Intermedio Tardío. Proponemos que los incas, a lo largo de su dominación, pasaron por dos etapas de mudanza idiomática: primeramente del puquina al aimara y, luego, del aimara al quechua. En apoyo de las hipótesis planteadas echamos mano de las evidencias de carácter lingüístico, histórico y arqueológico disponibles.

Adat Iban are Indigenous law of the Iban people of Sarawak, Malaysia. This dissertation explores the wisdom of Adat Iban and examines whether the Adat and the underlying wisdom are living Adat. Currently, the interpretation, application, and enforcement of the Adat are basically following the Iban ancestors’ practices and complying with spiritual obligations. This practice provides very little legal reasoning which obscures the rationales and wisdom of Adat. Under such situation, the flux of socio-economic and political developments and social changes that have been taking place in the Iban communities impinges the relevance and significance of Adat in the regulation of social relations of the communities. This study presents a reinterpretation and/or re-evaluation of Adat Iban to elucidate the rationales and wisdom of Adat Iban. This approach could provide legal reasonings which could rejuvenate the relevance of Adat and make Adat to become more comprehensible law of general application to the changing Iban communities. “Wisdom” encompasses Iban autochthonous knowledge, ideas, experiences, judgements, and spiritual principle that evolved into Adat. Wisdom is the quality that enables an Adat to be utilised to bring about beneficial or noble purpose, or justice. The study contends that there is wisdom in most Adat Iban. However, the social changes and modernisation that are taking place in most Iban communities raise the question of whether the Adat and the underlying wisdom are living Adat. A living Adat is one that is dynamic and flexible and constantly adjusting and adapting to the new or changing social situations. This study concludes that most Adat Iban have the potential to be living Adat and continue to be relevant for the regulation of Iban communities. However, the survival, development, and continuing relevance of Adat Iban depend on the Iban. / Graduate / 2021-11-18

The thesis is focused on the communication inclusion and exclusivity of Czech journalist on Twitter and how they use conventions of this platform to connect with other users. Through the description of current communication layers and functions of Twitter this thesis depicts how it became one of main sources of news and how it pushed journalists to reinterpret their traditional roles in the society. It also describe how digital humanities and digital trace data gathered from social media can be used as means of analysis of social interactions of its users. The practical part presents a cluster analysis based on Twitter data of 457 Czech journalists that shows how is Twitter used to communicate within and outside the Czech media system.

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Ce mémoire est une étude de cas sur une francophonie locale et sur la réinterprétation de l’imaginaire d’une communauté francophone. Nous nous sommes basés sur le cas de la Bulgarie et de sa communauté bulgare francophone. Nous avons alors questionné la réinterprétation de l’imaginaire communautaire bulgare francophone depuis 1989. Pour répondre à cette interrogation, nous avons analysé les programmes scolaires du Ministère de l’Éducation bulgare pour l’apprentissage du Français Langue Étrangère, les manuels scolaires utilisés dans les lycées bilingues bulgares francophones. Puis, nous nous sommes entretenus avec des personnalités politiques, diplomatiques et professeurs de français en Bulgarie. Nos résultats soutiennent que l’imaginaire communautaire bulgare francophone a été réinterprété selon deux logiques. D’abord, dans une volonté d’européaniser la langue française et le Bulgare francophone, c’est-à-dire, d’interpréter le français comme langue de l’Europe, et former ensuite un individu européen plurilingue. La seconde logique consiste à déployer l’imaginaire bulgare francophone et la langue française en Bulgarie vers d’autres francophonies locales à défaut d’une vision seulement francocentrée. Ces deux aspirations ont été soutenues par des francophonistes – des individus qui ont re-pensé les représentations de la langue française et la définition de la francophonie bulgare. Ces francophonistes ont été placés dans diverses institutions en Bulgarie, notamment au sein de l’Association des professeurs de et en français de Bulgarie. En parallèle des actions de ces individus, d’autres structures et individus en place ont soutenu ou modéré ces deux aspirations – maintenant alors parfois le francocentrisme au sein de l’imaginaire bulgare francophone. / This paper is a case study of a local francophonie and the reinterpretation of the imaginary of a Francophone community. We focused on the case of Bulgaria and its Bulgarian francophone community. Then we questioned the reinterpretation of the imaginary of the Bulgarian French-speaking community since 1989. To answer this question, we analysed the Bulgarian Ministry of Education's curricula for learning French as a foreign language and the textbooks used in bilingual French-speaking Bulgarian high schools. We also interviewed leading Bulgarian politicians, francophone diplomats and French teachers. Our results show that the Bulgarian francophone community imaginary has been reinterpreted according to two logics. On the one hand, into a desire to Europeanise the French language and French-speaking Bulgarian, meaning, to interpret French as the language of Europe, and then to form a plurilingual European individual. The second aim is to extend the French-speaking Bulgarian imaginary and the French language in Bulgaria to other local francophonies, rather than having only a francocentric vision. These two aspirations have been supported by francophonists - individuals who have rethought the representations of the French language and the definition of the Bulgarian francophonie. These francophonists were placed in various institutions in Bulgaria, notably within the Association des Professeurs de et en français de Bulgarie. Alongside the actions of these individuals, other structures and individuals in place have supported or moderated these two aspirations - sometimes maintaining Francocentrism within the Bulgarian Francophone imaginary.

The aim of this thesis is to identify what actions of change museums have taken to adjust to the ebb and flow of societal norms and values. The empirical evidence is based on three case studies of objects in three museums: the Birka warrior from grave Bj-581 in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, the G’psgolox totem pole in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, and the Benin bronzes in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm and the British Museum in London. Through observations of objects and exhibitions in combination with interviews with museum professionals and researchers, an overall picture is created that shows traces of regulation but also remaining attributes from older times. Through theories of structuration, authorized heritage discourse, norm critique and postcolonial ideas, we highlight the strong connections between social structures, social relations and authorized governing groups that exist in the process of disentangling. With this thesis, we intend to highlight how the phenomenon of change is portrayed and managed in museums. Museums in the west were foremost established during a time when nationalistic and colonial ideals characterized societal norms and the work that took place within museums. As a result of the preservation and presentation of the national identity, museums were often attributed with a character of identity making. Over time, the world has changed and so have the norms within society. Aspects of ethics and morals have become increasingly incorporated into discussions about power and governance. In line with these changes, museums have also had to change to stay relevant in their time. The museums hold to this day some of the old nationalistic and colonial ideals which they were built upon. The old ideals can be identified within the museums’ exhibitions, and because of this, clashes may occur between older and newer norms and values in the process of change, within which transparency becomes an important key element.  This is a two year master's thesis in Museum and Cultural Heritage Studies.