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Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains is a key site for investigation the ancient history of North and Central Asia and the processes of interaction between groups of hominins that have inhabited this territory over the past 300,000 years. This article presents the new results of the Early Upper Paleolithic archaeological materials investigation from Denisova Cave. In 2017–2019 in the South Chamber of the cave, Pleistocene deposits of layer 11 were excavated, which accumulated in the first half of MIS 3. The general paleogeographic estimation of natural complexes in the vicinity of the cave during the formation of layer 11 is based on the results of investigation a representative collection of large mammals and small vertebrates bone remains. These data evidence to the mosaic nature of landscapes characterized of the mountainous country, with steppe and rocky biotopes predominating. In the lithic industry from layer 11, primary flacking is characterized by parallel technology, aimed at obtaining elongated flakes, large blades and small bladelets. A radial technique was used to obtain short and shortened blanks. The toolkit contains expressive specimens of end-scrapers, burins, and retouched blades with a well-defined Upper Paleolithic morphology. At the same time, a significant share in this industry is made by the Middle Paleolithic component, represented by various types of sidescrapers, as well as denticulate, notched and spur-like tools. Along with the lithic industry, formal bone tools such as eyed needles, awls, points, and polishers were discovered. A representative series of various personal ornaments made of animal teeth and bones, mammoth ivory, gemstone, and other materials includes beads, pendants, tubular beads, rings and tiaras. The continuity of the technical and typological sequence in the development of the industries of the Denisova Cave suggests the formation of the Upper Paleolithic traditions on a local Middle Paleolithic basis. These materials are associated with the Ust-Karakol industrial variant identified in the Early Upper Paleolithic of Altai Mountains.

'Politikbegriffe und Methodenbegriffe bedingen einander: Wo sich politologische Forschung auf die Suche nach 'dem Wirksamwerden von Politik' außerhalb der Institutionen und Foren klassischer enger Politikdefinitionen begibt (ins Feld des Populären/ Populären und Alltäglichen), muss sie zu neuen methodischen Herangehensweisen finden. In den Cultural Studies hat sich in dieser Hinsicht, wenn auch aus anderen Gründen, das Postulat ethnographischer Forschung durchgesetzt. Die Implikationen wie auch Schwierigkeiten dieser Forderung für unser Fach gilt es in diesem Beitrag zu beleuchten. Zunächst werden in dieser Hinsicht einige politikrelevante Traditionslinien ethnographischer Theorien in den Sozialwissenschaften rekapituliert. Daran anschließend versucht der Aufsatz die Umsetzung der theoretischen Prämissen an Hand eines konkreten Untersuchungsfelds, dem Bereich der Jugendkulturen, exemplarisch aufzeigen. Darüber hinaus wird die Verbindung einer Rekonzeptualisierung 'des Politischen' und ihre Auswirkungen auf ethnographische Praxis am Beispiel einer möglichen Forschungsagenda zu 'jugendlichen' regierungs- und globalisierungskritischen Protestformen in Österreich dargelegt.' (Autorenreferat)

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In The Wooster Group's Cry Trojans!, the Trojan characters are depicted as Red Indians. The theatre company's play with white, American appropriations of Native American culture is the latest in a long line of controversial engagements with race in the company's history, dating back to Route 1 & 9 and The Emperor Jones. It also forms part of their more recent engagement with classical theatre, in particular Shakespeare, as Cry Trojans! has it origins in a much-reviled collaboration between the Wooster Group and The Royal Shakespeare Company in 2012. By their own admission, the Group chose to "Play Indian" to be "as American as possible," and also because (to quote Kate Valk, who played Cressida), they felt they "'. should say it like Indians,' because I was thinking of English as a second language." The choice then comments on the Group's own play with authenticity, another constant enagement throughout its thrity-plus years history. By mimicking and appropriating Native American and First Nations cultural production (Smoke Signals and Atanarjuat in particular), the Group performs its own uneasy engagement with authenticity. However, in contrast to their staging of The Emperor Jones, which employed blackface to unpack Eugene O'Neill's "idea of a Negro," Cry Trojans! reduces native culture and history to a white, elite history of appropriation and genocide without positing alternative histories of resistance and/or re-appropriation. It does so most expicitly in the final scene, where a blanket, a property associated with Euro-American germ warfare and Native American genocide, is applied first to Troilus and then to Pandarus, the bequeather of poxy diseases, to suggest the imminent demise of the Trojan-Injuns. The Wooster Group seems to be aware of part of their appropriative formulations, and put on display both the work (their adoption of an Indian manner) and the work of art (the acts of appropriation that lead to their adoption of Indian manner): but for a Company so invested in the ironies of post-modernity, they do not in this production seem so aware of the depth of their own unironic complicities in the erasure of indigenous cultures and cultural forms. The production's employment of Native American/First Nations cultural production undermines their own claims of native cultural loss.

This case spells out the design paradigm of studying individuals in one of the most stigmatized and sensitive groups in modern society--individuals who sell and buy sex in cyberspace in the form of compensated dating. The case elaborates the research processes from collecting data through cyber-ethnography to off-line participant observations, and in-depth interviews. It sheds light on the ways of accessing socially marginalized groups and the practical challenges that a researcher may face during the process. It also addresses how the problems of ethical issues, stigmatization, reciprocity, safety, and emotional burdens on the part of the researcher, which arise at different stages of the research process, inevitably shape the research methodology.

Ce travail tente de définir une sociolinguistique ethnnographique interactionnelle. À partir de terrains investis pendant ces quinze dernières années, il s'agit de présenter une démarche de recherche inductive, réflexive, interprétative et impliquée.Le travail de terrain est une composante préalable et incontournable de cette sociolinguistique. Les expériences, les observations et le recueil des données permettent de construire des interprétations de la réalité sociale, et les phénomènes langagiers, discursifs et interactionnels, servent à comprendre les changements sociaux. Le premier terrain investi a été le nord de l'Ontario au Canada, au sein de la communauté francophone. Au fil des ans, les questions de recherche sur ce terrain ont évolué, de la construction de l'identité en discours à l'identification des discours en circulation sur la francophonie canadienne et à la redéfinition des minorités culturelles et linguistiques francophones face à la mondialisation. Dans le même temps, que ce soit par l'expérience des pratiques minoritaires, linguistiques et artistiques, des banlieues en France, par l'étude du choix des prénoms des enfants dans les couples mixtes franco-arabes ou par l'analyse de la violence verbale dans l'espace public, l'appréhension multimodale et transnationale des terrains a permis d'affiner une pratique sociolinguistique interactionnnelle qui cherche à saisir les identités du sujet dans un univers mondialisé.Mais cette sociolinguistique ne peut se défaire d'une approche épistémologique quand elle s'inscrit aussi dans l'histoire de sa propre discipline, la linguistique, science à géométrie variable, façonnée par les contraintes idéologiques et politiques de temps situés, entre l'Europe et l'Amérique du Nord. Elle trouve aujourd'hui l'accomplissement de son expression à travers une démarche réflexive, des croisements disciplinaires, un travail d'équipe et des méthodes d'analyse linguistique. Si l'on considère que le chercheur n'est pas seulement observateur mais acteur de sa recherche, elle ...