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The principle of communality is denoted as the ability of the originally and essentially communal worldview, consciousness, behavioral pattern, socio-political norms and relations to spread on all the levels of societal complexity including, though in modified or sometimes even corrupted form, sociologically supra- and non-communal. As a pivotal socio-cultural foundation, the principle of communality has a direct impact on all subsystems of the African society at all the levels of its being throughout its whole history. Precisely this is what can explain to a large extent the originality of African culture. In the embodiment of the principle of communality it can also make sense to seek the roots of specificity of the historical process in sub-Saharan Africa.
A chronological survey of developments in the eastern Slovak Presov region during the 1920s and 1930s, resulting in the elimination of cultural and linguistic plurality in favour of monolithic Slovakization.
African Studies in the countries that were under communist rule and that today are known as post-communist, have originally developed an interest in Africa based on ideological, political and economic interests of the state. There has been a gradual shift from ideology to economy while the study of African politics seems to follow the vagaries of the influence that Africa exerts on the world scene. Characteristically, until recently AEGIS did not include a single centre or association based in post-communist Europe even though in countries such as Poland, Czech Republic and Hungary African studies currently experience considerable growth. This reflects both the hegemony of Western Europe with its strong colonial and neo-colonial emphases and weak official interest that post-communist Europe shows for Africa. The article describes changing emphases of eastern European Africanist scholarship and discusses the question of legitimacy of the marginal but non-colonial approach to African studies. In contradistinction to the Western European African studies and with Eastern European approaches it shows that the latter perspective is useful for a critical look at the hitherto dominant paternalistic style of African studies in Europe.
This monograph is devoted to scientific legacy of the Czech anthropologist Jan Jelínek (1926–2004), whose research in the field of exhibitions of prehistoric and non-European cultures strongly influenced the activities of the Moravian Museum and the Anthropos Pavilion in Brno. The book comprises four relatively independent sections in which the authors interpret various thematic fields of Jelínek’s lifelong interest in the evolution of man and culture from different points of view. The first part of the book presents history of the Anthropos Pavilion, which became – thanks to its founders and subsequent Jelínek’s activities – a significant educative and exhibition centre specialising in human prehistory. The second part of the book focuses on the central theme of Jelínek’s research interests, i.e. anthropologic issues and the effort to present on the premises of the Anthropos Institute human evolution by exhibiting prehistoric artefacts, prehistoric hominid fossils and artistic reconstructions of our ancestors’ appearance and way of life. Part of the monograph analyses and interprets the evolution of man and culture in the context of modern paleoanthropologic findings and presents a collection of fossil remains gathered by Jelínek, which became a source of inspiration for artistic reconstructions of the prehistoric world. The third part of the book focuses on chronology and changes of specific artistic styles of Australian rock art. In this context, it also presents a set of bark paintings acquired during Jelínek’s expedition. The fourth part of the book analyses from the archaeological perspective Aboriginal chipped stone industries Jelínek acquired during scientific expeditions of the Anthropos Institute in 1969 and 1973 in Arnhem Land in Northern Australia, which are now part of the collection of the Moravian Museum.
Gender and Research
Editorial of Gender and Research Journal /Contested Borders: Transnational Migration and Gender2019 •