Conference Report: Historical Sources and their Use in Local Population Studies

2019 ◽  
pp. 6-14
Author(s):  
Paul Tomblin ◽  
Lyn Boothman
Keyword(s):  
Population Studies ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
Historical Sources

Reflections on Local Population Studies and Social Science History

2018 ◽  
pp. 43-51
Author(s):  
Osamu Saito
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Population Studies ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Local Source ◽  
Personal Reflection ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Science History ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Materials

This personal reflection of more than 40 years' work on the supply of labour in a household context discusses the relationship between social science history (the application to historical phenomena of the tools developed by social scientists) and local population studies. The paper concludes that historians working on local source materials can give something new back to social scientists and social science historians, urging them to remake their tools.

Beyond Hadrian’s Wall

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fraser Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Third Century ◽  
Archaeological Record ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Military Presence ◽  
Hadrian's Wall ◽  
The Relationship

Britannia’s northern frontier varied considerably over the Roman period, stabilizing only in the early third century. This variation leads to a fascinating archaeological record of the changing Roman military presence and its relation to the local population. This chapter examines the local Iron Age societies, considers military aspects of the invasion, and presents a wider view of life on the frontier. It then turns to the relationship between the indigenous population and Rome over four centuries. Historical sources for conflict indicate an uneasy relationship, but archaeological evidence uncovers other aspects: Roman material culture found varied uses in Iron Age societies, while the long and often difficult relationship had a series of unexpected consequences on both sides.

scholarly journals Christianization and Execution of Orthodox Rites on the Eastern Outskirts of the Empire (the Second Half of the XVIII Century)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 34-43
Author(s):  
Yurganova Inna I. ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
State Policy ◽  
Local Population ◽  
The State ◽  
Eastern Siberia ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
Administrative Development ◽  
Tax Benefits ◽  
The Government ◽  
Administrative Units

The article deals with the process of Christianization and the issues of performing Orthodox rites on the Eastern outskirts of the Empire in the second half of the XVIII century, reconstructed on the basis of historical sources that were first introduced into scientific circulation. The working hypothesis of the research includes the thesis about the Christianization of Eastern Siberia as one of the means of state policy for the purpose of economic and administrative development of the region and ethno-cultural transfer, when the government created conditions for attracting non-believers to the state religion and offered an administrative and exacting regulatory framework in case of non-fulfillment of their Christian duties. The study suggests that in the second half of the XVIII century there was an increase in the Christianization of the peoples of Eastern Siberia and the establishment of separate administrative and ecclesiastical administrative units on the Eastern borders of the Empire indicate the continued integration of these territories into the state. The Christianization of local ethnic groups took place in accordance with the decrees and orders of the civil authorities, which explains its slow pace in the national suburbs. The non-violent method of attracting people to Orthodoxy, which is linked to the fiscal interests of the Russian administration and ensures the loyalty of the local population, has become an element of state policy. In addition, a system of benefits and gifts for the non-Russian population was used, creating favorable conditions for joining Orthodoxy, when the formality of baptism suited both the secular and Church authorities. The introduction of historical sources into scientific circulation provided opportunities to identify new facts about the history of Eastern Siberia’s Orthodoxy, namely, to establish the number of churches and the number of clergy of the Yakut order, the location of the customer, and to confirm the thesis of multiple baptisms in order to obtain tax benefits. Keyword: Christianization, Eastern Siberia, Irkutsk diocese, Orthodox rites in Siberia, benefits for neophytes, yasak, Ilimsky uyezd, Yakut prikaznaya izba

scholarly journals The role of Jazzar Pasha in the destruction of the sacral monuments on Kosovo: An example of tradition entering historiography

2018 ◽  
pp. 849-872
Author(s):  
Uros Sesum
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Early 19Th Century ◽  
Inaccurate Information ◽  
Historical Fact ◽  
The 19Th Century

lore from Kosovo, regarding systematic destruction of Serbian medieval churches and monasteries, committed by the local and semi-independent Jashar pasha in the early 19th century, was introduced in Serbian historiography by way of Serbian travelogue literature during the second half of 19th and early 20th century. According to lore, Pasha destroyed monasteries Vojsilovica and Burinci, Samodreza church and several other village churches for the purpose of using building materials for his water mills. Allegedly, construction materials of destroyed church in Lipljan and several surrounding village churches were used for construction of the bridge on river Sitnica, while, also allegedly, he took the floor from Gracanica monastery for his hamam. Lead from the monastery roof was used to cover the mosque in Pristina. After a critical analysis of such lore, it can be stated that Pasha did not demolish a singe church or monastery, but in fact, for his projects, he used materials from the already destroyed temples. These writings of lore, combined with the local population?s perception of him as a cruel master, left a historic view of him as being the main destroyer of Serbian medieval churches and monasteries. Release of lore version of Serbian history, made by folklore writers, contributed to the rapid dissemination of inaccurate information. This had an encouraging affect which, as time went on, associated Pasha?s name with the large number of destroyed churches. In Serbian historiography such usage of travelogue literature from the 19th century and further developed oral tradition recorded by ethnologists as relevant historical sources, have led to the adoption of unverified data as historical fact.

scholarly journals The space of unfreedom: GULAG and its society

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 204-209
Author(s):  
Ilya V. Udovenko
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Soviet Society ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Social Constructs ◽  
History Museum ◽  
The Social ◽  
Mode Of Life

This paper analyzes the GULAG as a social phenomenon of the Soviet society and as a specific type of the Soviet unfree space. In particular, it considers social constructs and the relation between the camp administration, prisoners, hired workers and the local population. Paying close attention to the analysis of the social groups which a camp population was comprised of, their gender and social structure, this paper explores the living conditions, mode of life, customs and mores of the social environment in a camp. Based on the large database of various historical sources, such as governmental acts, statistical evidence, archival documents, publications in the camp press and memoirs, this paper also relies on the video interviews of former prisoners collected by the GULAG History Museum. Without denying the authoritarian nature of the corrective-labor camp system, the author came to the conclusion that the established organizational model of camp complexes determined the lack of distinct borders between the camp social space and the public space of the free world. Such blurred structure of corrective-labor camps leads to the fact that the camp culture with its archaic social principles dominated by the thieves culture extended its considerable influence over the whole society of the Soviet Union.

scholarly journals CSVS, a crowdsourcing database of the Spanish population genetic variability

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (D1) ◽  
pp. D1130-D1137 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Peña-Chilet ◽  
Gema Roldán ◽  
Javier Perez-Florido ◽  
Francisco M Ortuño ◽  
Rosario Carmona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Variability ◽  
Population Genetic ◽  
Population Studies ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Genomic Data ◽  
Critical Factor ◽  
Spanish Population ◽  
Web Interface ◽  
Sequencing Data ◽  
Local Variability

Abstract The knowledge of the genetic variability of the local population is of utmost importance in personalized medicine and has been revealed as a critical factor for the discovery of new disease variants. Here, we present the Collaborative Spanish Variability Server (CSVS), which currently contains more than 2000 genomes and exomes of unrelated Spanish individuals. This database has been generated in a collaborative crowdsourcing effort collecting sequencing data produced by local genomic projects and for other purposes. Sequences have been grouped by ICD10 upper categories. A web interface allows querying the database removing one or more ICD10 categories. In this way, aggregated counts of allele frequencies of the pseudo-control Spanish population can be obtained for diseases belonging to the category removed. Interestingly, in addition to pseudo-control studies, some population studies can be made, as, for example, prevalence of pharmacogenomic variants, etc. In addition, this genomic data has been used to define the first Spanish Genome Reference Panel (SGRP1.0) for imputation. This is the first local repository of variability entirely produced by a crowdsourcing effort and constitutes an example for future initiatives to characterize local variability worldwide. CSVS is also part of the GA4GH Beacon network. CSVS can be accessed at: http://csvs.babelomics.org/.

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