scholarly journals An Architecture of Closeness: The Ross Family Double Farmhouse in St. Mary’s, Nova Scotia

2021 ◽  
Vol 90-91 ◽  
pp. 59-89
Author(s):  
Meghann E. Jack
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Family Farm ◽  
Economic Underdevelopment ◽  
The Stability

This paper analyzes an early 20th-century double or duplex farmhouse in the St. Mary’s River valley of northeastern Nova Scotia built by brothers Thomas and George Ross. Although double houses are common in urban and industrial contexts where an economy of space is required, such forms are atypical across the agricultural built landscape. In exploring the shared architecture of the Ross family farm, this paper seeks to understand the Ross family and their idiosyncratic architectural choice in the context of a rapidly changing rural landscape where economic underdevelopment and outmigration threatened the stability of established social structures. While partition may seemingly create a division between those living in double or duplex houses, in the case of the Ross family, the farmhouse reproduced and strengthened kinship.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Boaz Huss
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Research Field ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Jewish Mysticism ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
Academic Study ◽  
The Revolution

The introduction presents Martin Buber’s early 20th century attempt to expose the existence of “Jewish mysticism,” and the later establishment of the academic study of Jewish mysticism by Geshom Scholem, and the revolution that occurred in the study of Jewish mysticsm in the 1980’s. The introduction outlines the genealogical study and critical examination of the concept and research field of Jewish mysticism that will be presented in the book, and explains that it seeks to expose the deep-rooted factors that have guided (and continue to guide) the identification of Kabbalah and Hasidism as mysticism, and how these influence the ways in which these movements are interpreted and studied. It discussed that two central claims that guide the discussion in this book. The first is that mysticism, in general, and Jewish mysticism, in particular, are not natural and universal phenomena that were discovered by researchers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rather, these are discursive constructs which served to catalogue, compare, and explain a broad range of cultural products and social structures not necessarily related to one another. The second claim that guides the discussion of the study of Jewish mysticism involves the theological assumptions that underpin the category of mysticism.

scholarly journals Evidence for the Historical Occurrence of Wolves (Canis spp.) in Nova Scotia, Canada

2017 ◽  
Vol 131 (1) ◽  
pp. 32-36
Author(s):  
Andrei N. Whitaker ◽  
Karen F. Beazley
Keyword(s):  
Nova Scotia ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Historical Documents ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Wolf Population ◽  
American Continent ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
European Contact ◽  
Early Settler

Although once common across the entire North American continent, wolves (Canis spp.) have been extirpated from most of their former territory. The historical occurrence and persistence of wolves in Nova Scotia has been a subject of debate because of comments on the wolf’s rarity in early settler accounts and the absence of physical specimens. By consulting historical documents of European settlers, the Mi’kmaw lexicon, and fur trade records, we found evidence for the presence of a wolf population in Nova Scotia (which included the territory of New Brunswick before 1784) at European contact and persisting until the early 20th century.

scholarly journals La Barranquilla de Voces: ejercicios de una re-cartografía espacial. ¿Cómo circuló la revista Voces vista como una materialidad?

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 73-102
Author(s):  
Luis Alfonso Barragán
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Early 20Th Century ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Literary Materials ◽  
Literary System ◽  
The Way

To socialize the study made to the Voces Magazine - Barranquillera magazine of the early 20th century that promoted literary materials - from a space and material reading in which maps will be used - GPS type, Google maps - both for the reconstruction of Barranquilla Of that time as to unveil the way the magazine circulated in and out of space. What is sought in this research work is to make the geography visible - to bring geography back to the debate of the social sciences - seen as a definitive and conclusive element in literary invention re-locating the concept of map as much as a category of study And analysis as an instrument of observation and research for the development of a historical and literary corpus, and in this case, a literary "system" in Barranquilla. This new turn that I propose with the use of digital platforms aims to reveal the discursive relationship that exists between the way the characters are situated - the genesis of producers and acting institutions that operated in and from the urban as well as the practices involved in The elaboration, edition, manufacture and circulation of the magazine in Barranquilla space, as well as of the spatial correspondences between the social structures of the Barranquilla of that time-economic, cultural, political, and especially urban-fields with the structures and motivations "Internal to the Voices literary" system ". 

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