In an increasingly globalised and globalising world, „culture‟ appears as „an important determinant of subjectivity‟ and, consequently, of creative expression (Beautell 2000). With this in mind, Tötösy de Zepetnek (1999) prompted researchers to merge the comparative study of literature with that of cultural studies, embracing what he designated the new „comparative cultural studies‟ approach. I...

The title of this book is deceptive. It not primarily about Roma but the Banū Sāsān, “the Sons Sāsān,” a term used in medieval Islamic world to denote constellation people often associated with irreputable activities, such as begging, robbery, and charlatanry, mythologized descendants pre-Islamic Sasanian emperors Iran. received view on largely indebted Clifford Bosworth, that they included ind...

Globally, migratory ungulates are affected by fences. While field observational studies reveal the amount of animal–fence interactions across taxa, GPS tracking-based uncover fence effects on movement patterns and habitat selection. However, direct fences gaps behavior, especially based high-frequency tracking data, scarce. We used three common African antelopes ( Tragelaphus strepsiceros , Ant...

The purpose of the article is to consider causes crisis authenticity Ukrainian folk art culture in postmodernism and reveal features soft-traditionalism as a strategy actualization tradition postmodern parameters chronotope. methodology consists using analytical (establishing postmodernism), culturological (revealing axiological, systemic (determining basic principles axiosphere approaches. sci...

R eading the French version of Journey to the Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (1996) during the course of my graduate studies, I remember being amazed by the description of circular mills formed by an isolated group of army ants. This phenomenon occurs when a group of foragers is separated from the main column of the raiding swarm by a perturbation of their pheromonal communication...