Catalogue Search | MBRL
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
{{itemTitle}}
1,319
result(s) for
"Lithuanians"
Sort by:
The land of weddings and rain : nation and modernity in post-socialist Lithuania
In The Land of Weddings and Rain, Gediminas Lankauskas examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding -- religious and civil ceremonies, \"traditional\" imagery and practices, and the conspicuous consumption of domestic and imported goods -- in the context of the Western-style modernization of post-socialist Lithuania. Studying the tensions between \"tradition\" and \"modernity\" that surround this important ritual event, Lankauskas highlights the ways in which nationalism serves to negotiate the impact of modernity in the aftermath of state socialism's collapse. His analysis also shows the importance of consumption and commodification to Lithuania's ongoing \"Westernization.\" Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain is a fascinating account of the tensions -- between national and transnational, East and West, and old and new -- that shape life in post-socialist Eastern Europe. -- Provided by publisher.
Book
The Expression of Predicative Possession
This book discusses the constructions used in Belarusian and Lithuanian to express predicative Possession. The work is written within a typological frame: the Belarusian and Lithuanian constructions are analyzed in the light of the typology of the possessive predicative constructions proposed by Heine (1997).
eBook
Lithuanians in Michigan
InLithuanians in MichiganMarius Grazulis recounts the history of an immigrant group that has struggled to maintain its identity. Grazulis estimates that about 20 percent of the 1.6 million Lithuanians who immigrated to the United States arrived on American shores between 1860 and 1918.While first-wave immigrants stayed mostly on the east coast, by 1920 about one-third of newly immigrated Lithuanians lived in Michigan, working in heavy industry and mining.With remarkable detail, Grazulis traces the ways these groups have maintained their ethnic identity in Michigan in the face of changing demographics in their neighborhoods and changing interests among their children, along with the challenges posed by newly arriving \"modern\" Lithuanian immigrants, who did not read the same books, sing the same songs, celebrate the same holidays, or even speak the same language that previous waves of Lithuanian immigrants had preserved in America. Anyone interested in immigrant history will findLithuanians in Michigansimultaneously familiar, fascinating, and moving.
eBook
The structure of ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in Lithuanian mental health services
Background: The updated 11
th
edition of International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11) is expected to be released by the WHO in 2018. Disorders specifically associated with stress will be included in a separate chapter in ICD-11, and will include a revision of ICD-10 PTSD as well as a new diagnosis of complex posttraumatic stress disorder (CPTSD). The proposed symptom structures of ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD have been validated in several studies previously, however few studies have used the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ), a specific measure for ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD. Given that ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD diagnoses are intended to be applicable across different cultures and nations, it is important that the constructs be evaluated across diverse populations and languages.
Objective: Study of the psychological impact of trauma is relatively new in Lithuania, coinciding with its independence from the Soviet Union in the 1990s. Studies thus far reveal a population suffering from the effects of long-term and systematic political oppression and violence. The aim of this study was to assess the validity of the symptoms and structure of PTSD and CPTSD in a Lithuanian treatment-seeking sample as measured by the ITQ.
Method: A total of 280 patients from outpatient mental health centres participated in this study. PTSD and CPTSD symptoms were measured with the ITQ. We applied confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and latent class analysis (LCA) for analysis of data.
Results and conclusions: Our study supported the ICD-11 factor structure of CPTSD, and a three-class model was supported in LCA analysis with a PTSD class, a CPTSD class, and a low symptom class. Findings support the factorial and discriminant validity of the ICD-11 proposals for PTSD and CPTSD in a unique clinical population.
Journal Article
Traces of a Jewish Artist
Graphic artist, illustrator, painter, and cartoonist Rahel
Szalit (1888-1942) was among the best-known Jewish women artists in
Weimar Berlin. But after she was arrested by the French police and
then murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz, she was all but lost to
history, and most of her paintings have been destroyed or gone
missing. Drawing on a range of primary and secondary sources, this
biography recovers Szalit's life and presents a stunning collection
of her art.
Szalit was a sought-after artist. Highly regarded by art
historians and critics of her day, she made a name for herself with
soulful, sometimes humorous illustrations of Jewish and world
literature by Sholem Aleichem, Heinrich Heine, Leo Tolstoy, Charles
Dickens, and others. She published her work in the mainstream
German and Jewish press, and she ran in artists' and queer circles
in Weimar Berlin and in 1930s Paris. Szalit's fascinating life
demonstrates how women artists gained access to Jewish and
avant-garde movements by experimenting with different media and
genres.
This engaging and deeply moving biography explores the life,
work, and cultural contexts of an exceptional Jewish woman artist.
Complementing studies such as Michael Brenner's The Renaissance
of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany , this book brings Rahel
Szalit into the larger conversation about Jewish artists,
Expressionism, and modern art.
eBook
Population Displacement in Lithuania in the Twentieth Century
Population Displacement in Lithuania in the 20th Century: Experiences, Identities and Legacies offers an account on how two world wars produced a series of population displacements in Lithuania in the course of the 20th century.
eBook
Maintenance of Lexical Pitch Accent in Heritage Lithuanian: A Study of Perception and Production
This study investigates how the unique circumstances of heritage language acquisition impact prosody, an understudied aspect of heritage speech. I examine the perception and production of lexical pitch accent by two generations of heritage Lithuanian speakers in Chicago (n = 13), with a qualitative comparison to one normative native speaker also living in Chicago. The speakers participated in the following: (1) a perception task requiring them to identify meaning distinctions between pairs of words that differ only by accent; and (2) a production task in which they produced sentences containing nine nominal declensions, where pitch accent plays a morphological role. In task (1), speakers across the board were not able to identify meaning distinctions in accent-based minimal pairs, irrespective of their frequency, and were more accurate at perceiving pairs that differed on the basis of segmental phonological features. However, HSs with more education perceived more accent-based distinctions, as did HSs who were more engaged in the Chicago community. Older HSs maintained more distinctions than either the NS or the younger HSs, which suggests a change in progress in the language or the Chicago Lithuanian community. In task (2), none of the speakers consistently used pitch to signal word-level prominence. Instead, all speakers relied on changes in duration and vowel quality to signal word-level prominence, suggesting that, for these speakers, there has been a shift to a stress-accent system. The older HSs also patterned more like the NS in their retention of the expected stress in the nominal declensions. Dialect was also determined to play a role in the retention of standard accent patterns in both perception and production.
Journal Article
Contributions to Morphology and Syntax
Long description:
These conference proceedings present fourteen contributions to the Baltic languages, i.e. Latvian and Lithuanian. Their temporal horizon is both modern and historical: the present-day matters of word formation as well as mistaking agreements are complemented by synchronic investigations of the syntactic usage of cases, conjunctions and verb categories; nevertheless, word origins, the development of inflections, and the processes of depalatalisation have been researched by a diachronic approach.
eBook