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The present work maps a specific set of the traditional subsistence techniques by way of example of the abandoned village named Nová Ves u Klikova (1792-1953). In the 18th century occure changes in methods of forest exploitation in Central Europe in general. The increased demand for fuelwood and building wood gave rise to the "rationalization" of the forest management. Another source of energy for the developing industry was peat at that time. Nová Ves u Klikova was an example of the so called peat colonization. Small farmsteads were founded on the infertile peaty soil that was not able to ensure sufficient means of subsistence. As a consequence it was developed an important centre of production of straw baskets and chip baskets in the second half of the 19th century. The existing ethnological literature pursued the local production of baskets, whereas the topic of the cutting of peat and its further treating in relation to folk culture is still untreated. In view of that fact this text lays stress on the "cultural history of peat".

Denna uppsats ämnar till att skapa insikt och kunskap kring turistiska diskurser rörande natur, genom att undersöka vilka bilder och representationer kring natur i de svenska nationalparkerna som framhävs i turistbroschyrer, hur människa-natur-relationer framställs men även vilka implikationer det kan framkalla. Med ett avgränsat fokus på nio nationalparker som uppfyller kriterierna av fjällkaraktär eller inbegriper renskötande samebyar. Genom en visuell diskursanalys som metod har turistbroschyrernas bilder, texter och kartor analyserats med applicering av Foucaults diskursperspektiv där makt, kunskap och sanning är centrala begrepp. Resultatet denna studie påvisar är att de diskursiva formationerna består av tre huvuddrag gällande naturen. Den framställs som något exotisk, externt, sublimt, orörd och förhistorisk, men även som en tillgänglig och romantiserad plats för just turisten ifråga samtidigt som naturen porträtteras som något speciellt för Sverige vilket då också symboliserar dess identitet. Turisten porträtteras även som tillfällig besökare, vars relation till naturen särskiljs från samers, vilka istället framställs som ”naturliga” sevärdheter för turisten. Allt som allt resulterar denna studie i ett igenfyllande av en kunskapslucka gällande olika praktikers framställande av representationer kring svenska nationalparker, samtidigt som den påvisar liknande representationer som tidigare studier resulterat i. / This essay aims to create insight and knowledge about tourist discourses regarding nature, by examining which images and representations about nature in the Swedish national parks that are highlighted in tourist brochures, how human-nature relations are produced, but also what implications it can induce. With a delimited focus on nine national parks that meet the criteria of mountain nature or include reindeer herding Sami villages. Through a visual discourse analysis as a method, the pictures, texts, and maps of the tourist brochures have been analyzed with the application of Foucault's discourse perspective where power, knowledge, and truth are central concepts. The result of this study is that the discursive formations consist of three main features of nature. It is presented as something exotic, externally, sublime, untouched, and prehistoric, but also as an accessible and romanticized place for the tourist, and at the same time as something special for Sweden, which symbolizes its identity. The tourist is portrayed as a temporary visitor, whose relation to nature is distinguished from Sami people, who instead are presented as "natural" attractions for the tourist. All in all, this study results in a refilling of a knowledge gap regarding the presentation of representations by various practitioners about Swedish national parks, while at the same time demonstrating similar representations that previous studies have resulted in.

1 ABSTRACT The work deals with the infiltration process and the emphyteutic law evidence in the Čáslav province in the Middle ages. This area can be delimitated with the range of the Iron Mountains from the north, and then with the river Sázava from the south. Several significant territorial suzerains (authorities) acted here such as Vilémov monastery, Sedlec monastery and Želivka monastery, especially significant was the colonization activity of the Lichtenberk family which was developing in the area from the half of the 13th century. The Lichtenberks came to the area from north-western Bohemia, from the contact area of the Czech state, where their relatively early-ripening emphyteutic contracts are documented, and infiltration of early forms of the German law is presumed in general. This medieval law, sometimes designated as "stable and firm" in written sources, was brought from the area of present western Europe (also form the Netherlands) by new settlers, colonists who were bringing with them excluding new knowledge of landscape cultivation (drainage, forest transformation into fields) also juridical habits, which were used to adjust legislative relations while establishing villages. They were not only farmers, but they were also other specialists, mainly miners who brought with them technologies of...

<p>Osnovni zadatak ove doktorske disertacije jeste da sagleda dru&scaron;tveno&ndash;ekonomski, prosvetni, kulturni i demografski razvoj Užičkog okruga od 1947. god 1963. godine. U disertaciji je prikazan razvoj najznačajnijih privrednih organiazcija Užičkog orkuga (kasnije Sreza Titovo Užice) koje su podstakle promene u svim sverama dru&scaron;tvenog života ovog kraja. Industrijalizacije je inicirala preseljenje stanovnižtva sa sela u industrijske centre. Da bi se obezbedio život novih stanovnika gradova gradili su se infrastrukturni objekti, stanovi, &scaron;kole, vrtide, domovi zdravlja, bolnice, ustanove za sovijalno staranje i kulturne ustavnove. I pored svih dru&scaron;tveno &ndash; političkih protivurečnosti koje su obeležile ovo doba, može se konstatovati da je užički kraj ostvario vidan ekonomski i kulturni razvoj.</p> / <p>The main task of this doctoral dissertation is to<br />examine the socio-economic, educational, cultural<br />and demographic development of the District of<br />Uzice from 1947 to 1963. The dissertation presents<br />the development of the most important business<br />organizations of District of Uzice ( later the County<br />of Titovo Uzice) that have encouraged changes in all<br />spheres of social life in this region. Industrialization<br />has initiated migration of population from rural to<br />industrial centers. In order to maintain a certain<br />quality of life for the new city inhabitants the new<br />infrastructure objects, housing, schools,<br />kindergartens, healthcare centres and hospitals,<br />social welfare and cultural institutions were built.<br />Despite all the socio - political controversies that<br />have marked this period, it can be concluded that<br />the region of Uzice made a significant economic and<br />cultural development in that period.</p>

Cette thèse a pour objet la grande énigme scolaire de la Révolution française : l’échec de l’école publique et le succès des écoles privées (cette dichotomie publique-privée ayant été créée par la Révolution). Loin de s’expliquer d’abord par le conservatisme politique et religieux des classes populaires, ainsi que les historiens l’ont affirmé depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, la déroute du projet scolaire républicain, n’est en réalité ni évidente de partout (en ville, l’école publique n’est pas en échec), ni linéaire (elle ne survient pas avant le printemps 1795 dans les campagnes). Pour la comprendre, il importe surtout de l’inscrire dans une histoire au long cours : depuis les années 1760, l’école élémentaire (celle où l’on apprend à lire, écrire et compter) a été appropriée par les communautés villageoises, au point de devenir une véritable « institution de proximité », contrôlée dans les faits par le groupe des co-résidents, malgré toutes les règles édictées par la monarchie et l’Église catholique afin d’en confier la direction aux évêques et aux curés. « Institution de proximité », l’école l’est d’autant plus aisément devenue que les enseignants de la fin de l’Ancien Régime (presque tous laïcs) accomplissaient au village (mais pas en ville) un ensemble de services extra-scolaires essentiels à l’affirmation de cet « esprit de localité » que l’on sait être si prononcé dans les communautés rurales du XVIIIe siècle : ce sont eux qui sonnaient les cloches paroissiales, entretenaient l’horloge communale, arpentaient les terres de la communauté et en dressaient la carte, chantaient la messe lors du culte, assuraient l’entretien de l’église et assuraient les fonctions de secrétaire-greffier de la collectivité locale. Au sein du village, l’enseignement dispensé par le maître d’école était du reste lui même perçu comme un lieu de perpétuation de la « personnalité collective locale » : au cours du second XVIIIe siècle, les pratiques pédagogiques des régents d’école ont en effet fini par intégrer le vaste complexe des « coutumes » locales. À ce titre, les communautés rurales imposaient aux enseignants qu’elles recrutaient (et qu’elles regardaient comme leur « serviteur ») qu’ils se conforment en tous points aux pratiques scolaires traditionnelles du village, freinant ainsi l’introduction dans les campagnes des innovations pédagogiques pensées par la Réforme catholique (La Salle, Démia, etc.) et par les Lumières. Bien avant 1789, les collectivités locales ont donc appris à éviter les prescriptions scolaires extérieures au village pour administrer l’école en fonction de leurs propres attentes.La Révolution, bien plus qu’elle ne contrarie cette emprise du local sur l’école, contribue au contraire à accentuer ce processus au long cours, malgré ses ambitions, tôt affirmées et maintes fois rappelées, d’imposer un « État instructeur » – comme l’avaient réclamé les Lumières depuis l’expulsion des Jésuites. À partir de 1789 et jusqu’en l’an II, alors que disparaissent rapidement les autorités de tutelle traditionnelle des petites écoles (évêques, intendants) et que les communautés rurales sortent parallèlement renforcées par la création des municipalités communales, les villages parviennent enfin pleinement à exercer une autorité souveraine sur l’école et ses enseignants. Tout change à partir du printemps 1795, lorsque deux nouvelles lois scolaires tentent d’arracher l’école publique de la sphère des compétences communales. Les villages se détournent aussitôt de cette dernière, pourtant massivement investie l’année précédente, et ouvrent dans le même temps de nombreuses écoles privées (autorisées par les deux mêmes lois). Au fond, il faut d’abord voir dans ce mouvement un moyen pour les collectivités locales de ne pas être dépossédées de leurs usages coutumiers de l’école. [...] / [No summary]

The purpose of this study was to examine how SOS Children's Villages as an organization in Swaziland is affected by, and takes into account, the cultural, organizational and societal context in which it acts. Material was gathered through a field study during one month in one of the three SOS Children's Villages in Swaziland. The study has a qualitative approach and is based on the result from 12 semi-structured interviews with village mothers and other representatives from the organization. The other representatives were: social worker, program director, child and youth development coordinator, board member and educational manager. Since this study is both characterized by a specific historical, cultural and organizational context, we decided to connect the postcolonial perspective with an organization theory with focus on the concepts of culture, power and a children’s right perspective. The result from the study showed that SOS Children's village is affected by and takes into account the cultural and societal context in Swaziland in several ways. They do so, mainly by inlvolving the children in cultural values and activites. The result also showed that the village is influenced by the organizational field, because the SOS-Children´s village is in need of creating legitimacy. However, it becomes thus a dilemma how much the social work should be built upon, adapted, or should take into account the cultural, organizational and societal contexts to not maintain colonial worldviews.

Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2002. / Title from opening screen (viewed on July 5, 2006). Available in: Gutenberg-e (Columbia University Press). "Gutenberg-e is a series of award-winning digital monographs in history, selected by the American Historical Association and published by Columbia University Press." Includes bibliographical references.

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The study is a floristic survey of 131 villages in southern part of South Bohemia. In total 27.773 floristic records were collected with occurence of 585 taxa of wild vascular plants recorded, 548 taxa were further used in statistical analyses. Environmental factors with potencial effect on village flora composition and diversity were recorded along or extracted from various sources. Relations of diversity (number of species) and environmental factors were studied. Species composition was compared with these variables using multivariate statistical methods.