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Jan Magne Gjerde, project manager at the Tromsø University Museum, has been working on northern Scandinavia rock art as part of his doctoral work. His thesis - titled Rock art and landscapes : studies of Stone Age rock art from northern Fennoscandia - focuses on five particular areas between about 10000BC until 2000BC: Ofoten and Alta in northern Norway, Kanozero on Kola Peninsula and Vyg by the White Sea in northwestern Russia and Nämforsen in northern Sweden.
The thesis investigates how rock art interacts with the landscape at different levels, showing how natural features are intertwined with the rock art, telling the stories in the rocks. The studies suggest that the cracking landscapes of rock art included natural elements from the tiniest crack to the wider landscape. Several places, the rock art are deliberately placed in relation to the miniature landscape of the rock surface and an argument is put forward that the rock art act as geographical references to the hunter-fisher-gatherer landscape from the deliberate choice of the rock art site to the placing of the rock art on the actual rock surface.
In the specific case of Kanozero - Russia - "when he and his colleagues had completed their work, the number of known petroglyphs had risen from 200 to over 1,000."
“Petroglyphs are found at four sites in the area − on three islands and on a stone block on the lakeshore. The oldest ones date to between 5,000 and 6,000 years old,” explains Gjerde.
“This is the oldest example of a cartoon petroglyph we know of, at least in Northern Europe, so it was utterly thrilling to get the chance to be part of this discovery.”
The figures depicted in the Lake Kanozero rock carvings include moose, boats, whales, humans, harpoon lines, beavers and all kinds of other ordinary and extraordinary images and scenes from the distant past.
But Jan Magne Gjerde observed more than the images. He also looked at the cracks, the erosion, the edge of the rock and the water pool. His point was to revive the 5000 year-old landscape.
Landscape is characterised by an interaction between nature and culture, which includes our experiences from living within it; hence, the landscape is changing and dynamic. This dynamic quality is partly due to natural and manmade changes in the environment. However, we also alter the landscape through our experiences and interpretations; thus, referring to Hirsch (1995), the landscape can be a cultural process (Hirsch 1995:5). In other words, one landscape is many landscapes through different experiences and preconceptions.
Knowledge of the landscape would have been extremely important for people during the Stone Age. Ethnographic examples from the Inuit world, suggest that it is the male hunters that through cynegetic activities are holders of the “wisdom of land”. By journeys, individual and communal hunting they had the geographical knowledge that must have been vital to them, living as hunter-fisher-gatherers. The rock would work as a membrane between the worlds communicating their activities with the spirits. The rock art would work as memoryscapes that stored information for others to see and communicate. Stories were told and retold over and over since they were manifested in the rocks. New stories were constantly added.
Source: pasthorizonspr.com and forskning.no
Illustrations belong to Jan Magne Gjerde (found via pasthorizonspr.com)
On en apprend de bonnes tous les jours. Aujourd'hui par exemple, les premières Pom-pom girls étaient des hommes. C'est le thème d'un article de Lisa Wade sur Sociological Images.
A ses débuts au milieu du 19e siècle, le cheerleading était considéré aussi gratifiant que le football (américain) lui-même. L'homme cheerleader jouissait du même type de statut (ou presque) que celui du quaterback. Trois présidents américains ont même été Pom-pom Boy: Dwight D. Eisenhower, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ronald Reagan.
Les premières femmes ont été intégrées aux équipes de cheerleading sur la fin de la première Guerre Mondiale, lorsque bon nombre d'hommes ont été déployés.
De retour de guerre, les hommes ont repris leur place au sein des équipes et la question d'y inclure des femmes a longtemps fait débat.
Les femmes cheerleaders sont fréquemment devenues trop masculine... nous retrouvons le développement des voix fortes et rauques... et le développement conséquent de l'argot et des injures dans leur association avec les membres masculins de l'équipe.
En 1938, le cheerleading était considéré comme trop masculin pour les femmes !
C'est lors de la seconde Guerre Mondiale que les femmes ont à nouveau intégré des équipes, et changé la réputation et la perception des cheerleaders.
Parce que les femmes étaient cantonnées au stéréotype de la beauté au lieu de celui du 'courage', la réputation des cheerleaders a changé. Au lieu d'être considéré de rang presque égal au quaterback, l'association des femmes au cheerleading a conduit à sa trivialisation. Dans les années 50, le cheerleader idéal n'était plus considéré comme un athlète solide avec des talents de leader, mais comme quelqu'un avec des manières, avenant et de bon tempérament.
Lisa Wade précise enfin que les cheerleaders actuelles font encore évoluer la perception de leur activité, puisqu'elles représentent aujourd'hui un idéal féminin athlétique.
Source: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/
Photos: http://www.retronaut.co/
Today, from the ever awesome Royal Digital Soundscape dept, here is a reblog from:
Boing Boing: Aibo, Japan's Beatboxing Princess, with and without cats (video):
Aibo is a skilled beatboxer from Japan.
Here's her YouTube channel, and you can follow her on Twitter. Above, a little video featuring her work from MyISH.
The MyISH folks tell us she's "a friend/protege" of fellow Japanese beatboxer Hikakin, who was recently featured here on Boing Boing.
I approve, and most of all I approve of her collaboration with a cat named Nao (below).
(thanks, Jeff Kunken!)
