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The study ventures into a topic that has been so far largely neglected in film studies: the ¿gypsy¿ phantasm on the big screen. It reconstructs the history of ¿gypsy¿ representations in film since the birth of the medium providing a systematic film-theoretical analysis of their aesthetic and social functions. Based on a corpus of over 150 works from European and US cinema, it is shown that ¿gypsy¿-themed feature films share the pattern of an ¿ethno-racial¿ masquerade, irrespective of the place and time of their origin. The author thus expands the research, concentrated until now in the field of literature, with another art form, film, opening up new dimensions of (popular) cultural antigypsyism.

Artist collectives emerge as driving forces in the art field. They activate new spaces as locales of artistic practice and display. They shape emerging formats, from neighborhood arts projects to largescale biennials. In their practice, the artists challenge established notions of art as well as hegemonic circumscriptions of locality. This book results from a long-term engagement with artists in Nepal and Bangladesh and follows an actor-centered approach to unravel notions of contemporaneity and collectivity. Its focus on collaborative art practices together with its multi-scalar and translocal perspective urges us to rethink the use of terms such as the city, the region or the global that often transport hierarchies.

Das heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung ist die fächer- und institutionenübergreifende wissenschaftliche Online-Zeitschrift der Heidelberg School of Education. In mindestens zwei Ausgaben pro Jahr bringt sie Beiträge zu aktuellen und relevanten Themen der Lehrerbildung aus unterschiedlichen Domänen und Disziplinen. Das Journal richtet sich an alle Akteure der Lehrerbildung: an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Studierende, berufstätige Lehrerinnen und Lehrer, Verantwortliche für die Fort- und Weiterbildung sowie an Bildungspolitikerinnen und Bildungspolitiker. DE

This book contributes to the study of oceans, seas, coastal waters, and rivers within blue humanities by broadening, circulating, and interweaving knowledge about such waters, ocean epistemologies, and sea narratives from pluriversal epistemological, geographical, cultural, and disciplinary perspectives. The contributors from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Europe, North America and the Pacific explore the interconnections between oceans, coastal areas, rivers, humans, animals, plants, organisms, and landscapes in the fields of cultural history and cultural studies, critical race and postcolonial studies, marine and environmental studies, linguistics, literature, film and media studies.

This groundbreaking publication offers a unique resource of information about one of the most glorious and diverse musical cultures of the Himalayas. The numerous drum traditions of Bhaktapur in the Kathmandu Valley are a vibrant aspect of traditional Newar culture that saw its heyday between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries. The three Malla kingdoms of Bhaktapur, Lalitpur and Kathmandu competed in art, architecture, music, dance and opulent town rituals celebrating the presence of the gods. Music served as a portal between the human world and the realm of the gods. This study documents the role and repertoires of the different percussion genres in a transcribed and commented form for practical use and as a teaching aid. It also includes a dictionary of Newari terms related to music. As it focuses on the musical life of Bhaktapur during the decade starting from 1983, it could serve as a point of reference for comparison with the present situation. This publication is an outstanding contribution to the preservation of Newar culture. DE

With the expansion of trading routes, pilgrimage, and missionary endeavours in the 13th century, Latin travel literature emerged as a distinctive genre like never before. To highlight the importance of this genre, this volume outlines and explores current and future research trajectories with a focus on Latin travel literature from c. 1200¿1500. Combining digital, codicological, literary, philological, and anthropological approaches the volume analyses the ways in which these texts were produced, distributed, received, read, and how they can be interpreted. It argues for the importance of re-evaluating these texts and revisiting their contents in light of new methodological and theoretical approaches.

Das heiEDUCATION Journal. Transdisziplinäre Studien zur Lehrerbildung ist die fächer- und institutionenübergreifende wissenschaftliche Online-Zeitschrift der Heidelberg School of Education. In mindestens zwei Ausgaben pro Jahr bringt sie Beiträge zu aktuellen und relevanten Themen der Lehrerbildung aus unterschiedlichen Domänen und Disziplinen. Das Journal richtet sich an alle Akteure der Lehrerbildung: an Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Studierende, berufstätige Lehrerinnen und Lehrer, Verantwortliche für die Fort- und Weiterbildung sowie an Bildungspolitikerinnen und Bildungspolitiker. DE

Die lange Geschichte der Kosmologie mündete nicht einfach in der Spezialdisziplin der physikalischen Lehre vom Universum. Vielmehr ist die Gegenwart von einer ¿kosmologischen Unruhe¿ gekennzeichnet, welche anzeigt, dass heute zentrale Fragen nach der Welt und unserer Stellung in der Welt neue Antworten verlangen. Ein Blick in die Geschichte und Vielfalt der Kosmologie zeigt eine ¿Ausdrucksform¿, die sich nicht auf die Funktion des Weltbildes beschränkt, sondern viele andere Zwecke verfolgen kann und sich auf komplizierte Weise in die intellektuellen, theoretischen, aber auch politischen, ethischen und praktischen Kontexte ihrer Zeit einschreibt. Der vorliegende Band zeichnet dies in vielen Fallstudien nach, die von der Vorgeschichte bis zur heutigen Erdsystemwissenschaft reichen. DE

As a cultural technique, drawing was ¿rmly anchored in the realities of European society from early modern to modern times. Based on this fact, the present volume asks for the ¿rst time about the signi¿cance of drawing and drawing education in other cultural areas. Indigenous methods of drawing and sign-learning in Arabic, Asian, Latin American, North American and European countries are addressed as well as historical transfer processes of didactic methods, aesthetic norms and educational institutions of drawing instruction.

This volume is the outcome of the conference "Studying Documents in Pre-Modern South Asia and Beyond: Problems and Perspective", held in October 2014 in Heidelberg. In bringing together experts from different fields-including Indology, Tibetology, History, Anthropology, Religious Studies, and Digital Humanties-it aims at exploring and rethinking issues of diplomatics and typology, the place of documents in relation to other texts and literary genres, methods of archiving and editing documents, as well as their "social life", i.e. the role they play in social, religious and political constellations, the agents and practices of their use, and the norms and institutions they embody and constitute.

Characterised by the multiplicity and diversity of research and methodology, the European tradition of Semitic linguistics has always supported fieldwork and highly valued the data obtained in this way as it allows to create an interesting dynamic for linguistic studies itself. In the spirit of this tradition and to uphold it, the present book is a collection of articles based on data gathered primarily during field research expeditions. The volume is divided into two parts¿Studies on various specific linguistic issues and Texts containing previously unpublished transcriptions of audio recordings in Arabic dialects, Maltese and Jibbali/Shehret.

In der Islamkunde wird seit einigen Jahren sehr lebhaft diskutiert, inwieweit ¿Horizonte des Individuellen¿ in literarischen und dokumentarischen Quellen wahrnehmbar sind. Der Band ist bewusst nicht als kumulativ strukturierte Festgabe konzipiert, sondern soll vielmehr an fachwissenschaftlich relevante Diskussionen anknüpfen. Mit Beiträgen von Lale Behzadi, Michael Ursinus, Henning Sievert, Paula Schrode, Johannes Zimmermann, Ines Weinrich u.v.a. DE

As linguistic systems comprising a large variety of written and oral registers including derivate ¿languages¿ and ¿dialects,¿ Latin and Arabic have been of paramount importance for the history of the Euromediterranean since Antiquity. Moreover, due to their long-term function as languages of administration, intellectual activity, and religion, they are often regarded as cultural markers of Europe and the (Arabic-)Islamic sphere respectively. This volume explores the many dimensions and ramifications of Latin-Arabic entanglement both from macro-historical as well as from micro-historical perspectives. Visions of history marked by the binary opposition of ¿Islam¿ and ¿the West¿ tend to ignore these important facets of Euromediterranean entanglement, as do historical studies that explain complex transcultural processes without giving attention to their linguistic dimension.

The ¿Psychology of Human Thought¿ is an ¿open access¿ collection of peer-reviewed chapters from all areas of higher cognitive processes. The book is intended to be used as a textbook in courses on higher process, complex cognition, human thought, and related courses. Chapters include concept acquisition, knowledge representation, inductive and deductive reasoning, problem solving, metacognition, language, expertise, intelligence, creativity, wisdom, development of thought, affect and thought, and sections about history and about methods. The chapters are written by distinguished scholarly experts in their respective fields, coming from such diverse regions as North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Norway, Israel, and Australia. The level of the chapters is addressed to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students.

Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht aus einer neuen Perspektive P¿¿inis A¿¿¿dhy¿y¿. Es versucht, P¿¿inis Regelwerk der Sanskrit-Grammatik aus formaler Sicht zu erforschen und die Möglichkeiten zu untersuchen, es logisch, explizit und konsistent darzustellen. Dazu wird ein geeignetes Framework für eine solche Repräsentation vorgeschlagen. Im Unterschied zur A¿¿¿dhy¿y¿, die in einer künstlichen, aber natürlichen Sprache verfasst ist und für Personen konzipiert war, die sowohl mit der Sanskrit-Sprache als auch mit grammatischen Techniken vertraut sind, zielt die vorliegende Darstellung auf eine nonverbale Repräsentation in Form von mathematischen Kategorien und logischen Beziehungen ab, die algorithmisch umgesetzt werden können.

Religious aesthetics have gained increasing importance over the past few years in the fields of Religious studies and Islamic studies. This volume highlights the transcultural dimensions of the theoretical foundations of religious aesthetics. It explores aesthetic experience in the religious field through a series of case studies. These include Islamic sermons from the Middle East and South Asia, Islamic religious chanting, a chapter of the Qur¿an, a German performance artist, Indian rasa theory, and Arabic and Bengali literature. Together, the authors demonstrate that the analysis of the aesthetic forms of religious mediation across regions and genres is a fruitful approach to transcultural studies.

The Circum-Caribbean and its Diasporas constitute a space of relations and disconnections. Historically, the Caribbean served as a bridgehead for the European conquest of the Americas and a point of exchange of human beings, ideas, and commodities. It also became a laboratory of modern forms of social, political, and economic production. Today, the region represents a multilingual space of conviviality for many different cultures, but also the focus of the dissonances, ruptures and insularities produced by its distinct histories of colonialism and resistance. This interdisciplinary volume seeks to explore how (non)circulation of ideas occurred historically in the glocal production of knowledge in and about the Caribbean and to formulate a clearer picture of who is creating which vision of the Caribbean, and how. The 33 contributions in this volume shed light on the transversal fields of (1) Academic and Artistic Approaches, (2) Arts and Visual Studies, (3) Environment and Sustainability, (4) Migration and Knowledge Circulation, (5) Entangled Histories and Memories.

In academic research, princely summer residences are regarded as places of longing, where rulers sought to realize their dream of an earthly paradise and escape the constraints of courtly ceremonial. Traditionally, this research has been based in history of art. What music was made in the summer residences, and how it might have differed from that of the main residence, has not yet been systematically studied. The conference made a contribution to this by examining the musical life at selected European summer residences of the eighteenth century and relating it to one another. The individual contributions present the respective situations of the cultivation of music at selected summer residences in the German-speaking countries as well as in Italy, Spain, England, Sweden and Russia.