1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996524968103316

Autore

Holdermann Simon

Titolo

Guides of the atlas : an ethnography of publicness, transnational cooperation and mountain tourism in Morocco / / Simon Holdermann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , [2023]

©2023

ISBN

3-8394-6138-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Media in Action

Disciplina

302.231

Soggetti

Digital media - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- ethnographic parenthesis A } Mutualities of Arriving -- Chapter 2. A Computer Club for the High Atlas -- ethnographic parenthesis B } Relativity of “Too Much” -- Chapter 3. The Scalability of a High Atlas Valley -- ethnographic parenthesis C } Baking or Learning? -- Chapter 4. Saints & Segments -- ethnographic parenthesis D } Infrastructural Breakdown -- Chapter 5. (Un)Making Connections -- ethnographic parenthesis E } Personal Everyday Water -- Chapter 6. Guides of the Atlas -- Chapter 7. Digital Hospitality -- Concluding Remarks: Creating Connectivity -- References

Sommario/riassunto

How do digital media technologies shape or restructure social practice? And which transitions and demarcations of different forms of publicness arise in this context? Simon Holdermann examines this question in his ethnography of everyday life in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco. In order to approach the ongoing, historically situated social transformations of the region, he analyses a variety of media practices concerning the organizational work and transnational cooperation that take place there - in particular at the intersection of mountain tourism, NGO work, and local self-government.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782513803321

Autore

Cablitz Gabriele H. <1966->

Titolo

Marquesan [[electronic resource] ] : a grammar of space / / by Gabriele H. Cablitz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Mouton de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

1-282-19411-9

9786612194115

3-11-019775-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (704 p.)

Collana

Trends in linguistics. Studies and monographs ; ; 169

Disciplina

499/.42

Soggetti

Marquesan language - Grammar

Space and time in language

Marquesan language - Locative constructions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [652]-671) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Motivations for a study of space -- Chapter 2 Ethnographic and linguistic background and methodology -- Chapter 3 Grammatical Sketch -- Chapter 4 Theoretical background of language and space research -- Chapter 5 Semantic and morphosyntactic analysis of locative constructions in North Marquesan -- Chapter 6 Modifiers in locative constructions -- Chapter 7 Usage of locative constructions in large-scale and small-scale reference -- Chapter 8 Summary and conclusion -- Backmatter

Sommario/riassunto

This volume investigates the linguistic and semantic encodings and conceptions of space in the East-Polynesian language Marquesan by focusing on the great variety of language- and culture-specific ways of referring to space, thus documenting an essential part of human behaviour and everyday communication in a South Pacific island population. On the basis of a large corpus of both natural and elicited spoken language data the morphosyntactic and semantic properties of all relevant lexical and grammatical units and constructions used for spatial reference are analysed in detail. Remarkable for this language is the fact that a particular kind of spatial orientation system based on local landmarks of the environment - a so-called 'absolute system' - is



used for spatial description even on a micro-level or so-called 'table-top' space. Marquesan - A Grammar of Space is the first comprehensive description and in-depth study of spatial language to be found in an Austronesian language. Apart from examining the complex sociolinguistic situation, the degree of language endangerment in the bilingual speech community and the resulting rapid linguistic change in spatial language use, the book also offers a detailed description of the theoretical background of 'language and space' research and the linguistic variability to be found across languages. Moreover, the volume contains an extensive grammatical sketch of Marquesan which complements the language description of the specific domain space in a useful way providing the reader with general insights into one of the not well documented Oceanic languages. The volume addresses linguists, psycholinguists, anthropologists, fieldworking linguists, and especially Oceanists and Austronesianists. Moreover, it provides important insights for researchers from other disciplines that are interested in the study of space.