Los Comanches and other cultural manifestations of the genízaro (mixed Spanish-Indian) culture of New Mexico is widely recognized and belittled as a mere hybrid of the „authentic" Spanish, Puebloan and Plains Indian cultures. The politicization of identity in contemporary America promotes traditionalist revitalization movements and the genízaros seem to be caught between a rock and a hard plače, not accepted by either of the politically well established ethnicities of New Mexico. They are denied authenticity and consequently are also denied access to funds which have become available for groups that have made successful ethnic claims and achieved state recognition. In spite of this difficult situation, the genízaro culture continues to live, representing a very unique cultural complex. The case of the genízaros of New Mexico may help us better understand the politics of (self-)identification and the process of ethnogenesis as a response to material and political opportunities created by a state reluctant to endorse a common national culture.
In his last book about Locke’s philosophy, E. J. Lowe claims that Frege’s arguments against the Lockean conception of number are not compelling, while at the same time he painstakingly defines the Lockean conception Lowe himself espouses. The aim of this paper is to show that the textual evidence considered by Lowe may be interpreted in another direction. This alternative reading of Frege’s arguments throws light on Frege’s and Lowe’s different agendas. Moreover, in this paper, the problem of singular sentences of number is presented, and Frege’s and Lowe’s views are confronted with it., Ve své poslední knize o Lockeově filosofii EJ Lowe tvrdí, že Fregeho argumenty proti Lockeanově pojetí čísla nejsou přesvědčivé, zatímco zároveň pečlivě definuje Lockeanovu koncepci Lowe sám. Cílem tohoto příspěvku je ukázat, že textové důkazy, které Lowe zvažuje, mohou být interpretovány jiným směrem. Toto alternativní čtení Fregeových argumentů vrhá světlo na různé agendy Fregeho a Loweho. V tomto příspěvku je navíc prezentován problém jednotlivých číselných vět a Fregeovy a Loweho názory jsou s ním konfrontovány., and Agustin Arrieta-Urtizberea
The Indian society is ''in-between'' tradition and modernity. Religious archetypes and subsequent social and gender stereotypes prevail in many respects but they are in a process of dynamic changes. Conceptualizing identity still faces the shadow of the colonial heritage. An independent national discourse may not, however, always overcome marginalization inside the society, both the gender and ethnic ones. Some Indian feminists do not see Hinduism as a religion principally subjecting women; they stress the tradition of a strong female element in mythology and its appeal on community solidarity and sharing. Others rather strive for secularism, often connecting feminism with a political left (namely in Bengal). The law in the Indian Republic forbids any form of discrimination. Each group has a legitimate right for a political representation. But who will represent and be listened to is mostly a matter of the power decision (see G. C. Spivak and C. T. Mohanty). As Spivak maintains, a basic prerequisite for removing discriminations of the marginalized is the cooperation on creating a space, where the subaltern can themselves articulate their voice.
The topic of the presented paper is the discussion of possible approaches to the homogenization of synaptic information functions from the system-engineering point of view. Homogenization is a significant step to the construction of effective models that should enable understanding synaptic information functions. An attempt of a pragrnatic language translation within the niultilingual environrnent is proposed and briefly discussed.
Sdělení představuje první zkušenosti s českou adaptací metody GIDS, Groningen Identity Development Scale, H. Bosmy (1985) aplikované v rámci výzkumu sedmnáctiletých respondentů longitudinální studie ELSPAC (European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood). Jedním z cílů je stanovení závazků, které si mladý člověk formuje ve čtyřech oblastech – škola / volný čas / budoucí profese, přátelské / partnerské vztahy, život / svět / společnost a rodiče. Pro každou oblast je GIDS administrována ve třech krocích – rozhovor, formulace závazku, dotazník. Prostřednictvím dotazníku (11 položek) se zjišťuje síla závazku a míra explorace. V rámci našeho výzkumu byly výroky kategorizované z hlediska důvěryhodnosti (sugesce tazatelkou, dodržení pravidel, konzistentnost) a typu (subjektivní důležitost, osobní zaangažovanost, stabilita, zodpovědnost). Velikost souboru se lišila pro psychometrické analýzy dotazníku (N = 1200) a pro kategorizace výroků (N = 124). Výsledky potvrzují existenci dvou relativně na sobě nezávislých škál – síly závazku, která v sobě zahrnuje také jeho stabilitu, a množství explorace, představující prozkoumávání oblasti, které se výrok týká. Reliabilita obou škál i dotazníku jako celku, se pohybuje na střední úrovni.
The study examines religious motivation in the believers’ attitudes. It seeks to identify contexts in which religious motivation is present or accentuated by the influence of believers’ other social characteristics (religion, locality, age, gender). Social aspect of religion determines, to some extent, social relations, ethical norms, and life goals (intentional strategies, unconscious actions). Study seeks to answer the question to what extent a person’s life is determined by his or her religious preferences and to what extent the faith is involved in the of everyday life. The issue has been studied in traditional and new Christian groups present in the Czech Republic and in South Moravian localities with different historical, cultural, and social development. The research shows that several influences play a role in shaping the views and choices of believers.
Various properties of classical Dedekind sums $S(h, q)$ have been investigated by many authors. For example, Wenpeng Zhang, On the mean values of Dedekind sums, J. Théor. Nombres Bordx, 8 (1996), 429–442, studied the asymptotic behavior of the mean value of Dedekind sums, and H. Rademacher and E. Grosswald, Dedekind Sums, The Carus Mathematical Monographs No. 16, The Mathematical Association of America, Washington, D.C., 1972, studied the related properties. In this paper, we use the algebraic method to study the computational problem of one kind of mean value involving the classical Dedekind sum and the quadratic Gauss sum, and give several exact computational formulae for it.
Ve svém příspěvku autorka vychází z dlouholeté praxe psychologa působícího
v republikových bezpečnostních sborech. Věnuje se tématům individuální a skupinové identity v prostředí totalitní a posttotalitní společnosti a bezpečnostních institucí. and In her contribution the author builds upon her longstanding experience as a psychologist in Czech security forces. She discusses the themes of individual and group identity in an environment of totalitarian and post-totalitarian society and security institutions.
Penyamun is a central figure of rumors of public construction sacriface rumors and head-hunting rumors that have been recorded in Southeastern Asia since beginning of the 20th century. The aim of the present article is to analyze the present-day form of such rumors on the island of Sumba in eastern Indonesia. All rumors discussed herein focus on the figure of penyamun, a foreigner yearning for body parts or blood of the inhabitants of Sumba.
The paper presents an analysis of Deepa Mehta’s film trilogy (Water, Fire, Earth) through the concept of a border identity. The Protagonists of Deepa Mehta’s Film Trilogy may serve as examples of border identities or identities “in-between” (cf. Homi Bhabha). The “in -betweeness” is illustrated through the lens of various categories and their intersections – especially those of gender, sexuality, social status, religion (religious community) and tradition/individual freedom in general. For all the films, overstepping traditional taboos is typical, be it the mythological taboos, those of collective communal identities, traditional gender roles and stereotypes or compulsory heteronormativity. Within these frameworks, the dominance of the power discourses and the (in)visibility of the marginalized ones is thematized. While the main characters of the three film stories are female, they (in some cases) only seemingly play a leading role and the real acting heroes are the men. The most obvious example is the story of the Earth where the moral conflict takes place between the two male heroes. The author also notices the figuring of the females as mostly victims of the social order and male violence. However, this critical remark is not articulated to question the real aspect of the discrimination, but rather to point to the risks of a simplified picture of victimization of women which have been, in the context of Asian studies, analyzed by Chandra Talpade Mohanty and other postcolonial theorists., Blanka Knotková-Čapková., and Obsahuje bibliografii