Mary Crawford Fraser and Alice Mabel Bacon on the Japanese society of the late 19th/early 20th century
... transformations but rather to the everyday life of Japanese society. The author stresses the special interest of the travelers in the changes in European ladies that took place during the Meiji Revolution and their effect on women of Japanese aristocratic families. The article shows how the Japanese ladies adopted European traditions still maintaining Japanese manners and views.
1. A Collector’s Guide to Books on Japan in English: A Sel ect List of Over 2500 titles with subject index / ed. J. Rogala. L., 2001.
2. A Handbook for Travelers in Japan / B. H. Chamberlain,...
Königsberg’s urbal elites: Between the tradition and innovation (1815—1914)
The paper focuses on Königsberg’s elites faced with fast changes in the 19th century. The city’s old merchant families were up against increasing competition from new actors – industrialists and bankers – trying to take advantage of the former. The author examines changes in the elites in the course of major economic, social, and political changes
1. Albinus ...
Sociocultural function of the library in rural areas (the case of the Slavsk municipality of the Kaliningrad region)
... place of education, cultural and intellectual activities, adaptation of residents to rapidly changing political, socio-economic, and psychological conditions. The rural library should act as an institution of socialization through developing a system of traditional values and preserving local culture, positioning itself as an open platform and involving residents in an active social and business life. In the article, the author considers the socio-economic development of the Slavsk municipal district ...
The assessment of the antioxidant status of medicinal plants from the collection of the botanical garden of the Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University (Kaliningrad)
This article analyses the content of phenolic antioxidants and ascorbic acid in medicinal plants of 66 species from 31 families. The study identified palnt species with a maximum content of biologically active compounds (phenolic antioxidants and ... ... activity of some medicinal and aromatic plant extracts // Food Chem. 2004. Vol. 85,№ 2. P. 231—237.
2. Samuelsen A. B. The traditional uses, chemical constituents and biological activities of Plantago major L. A review // J. Ethnopharm. 2000. Vol. 1....
The language of muteness: examining the work of Gazdanov and Salkazanova in Paris
... analysis encompasses linguistic, historical, cultural aspects, and aims to determine its linguistic classification and overall significance. The discourse itself is interpreted as a revival of the archaic ritual of silence practiced in Ossetian patriarchal families, serving as a form of speech etiquette. This relic language practice, rooted in Indo-European archaic traditions, represents a manifestation of the rite of passage and allows individuals of Ossetian origin, who may have lost their native language due to external circumstances, to demonstrate their cultural identity. It is suggested that the occurrence ...
Non-translation and translation in Heidegger, Losev, and Ortega y Gasset
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Losev, A. F., 1999. Samoe samo [Selfish selfhood]. Moscow (in Russ.).
Maly, K., 2000. Translating Heidegger’s Works into English: The History and the Possibility. Heidegger Studies, 16. Being-historical Thinking and Fundamental Ontology: Greek Tradition in and beyond Modern Physics, pp. 115—138.
Moore, M. A., 2016. Heidegger’s Attentiveness to Language: A Question of Translation and «Original Contents». Annandale-on-Hudson.
Ortega Arjonilla, E., 1998. El legado de Ortega y Gasset a la ...
