The article is dedicated to the history of the Przecław branch of the Koniecpolski family, Pobóg coat of arms in the 16th and 17th centuries. Its progenitor was the Rozprza castellan, Mikołaj Przedbór (d. 1586). One of his sons was Andrzej, the castellan of Połaniec. Thanks to his marriage to Anna, the daughter of Stefan Ligęza, he came into the po...
Published in Genetics
Members of genetically admixed populations possess ancestry from multiple source groups, and studies of human genetic admixture frequently estimate ancestry components corresponding to fractions of individual genomes that trace to specific ancestral populations. However, the same numerical ancestry fraction can represent a wide array of admixture s...
Published in Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
The Book of Origins (hnewo tepyy) is a major ritual text of the Nuosu, a subgroup of the official Yi (Yizu) ethnic group of southwest China. The narrative, existing in both written and oral variants, is part of a living tradition, especially among priests (bimo) and folk singers, in the Liangshan Yi autonomous region in Sichuan province and nearby ...
Using open-access primary sources available online, this activity teaches abortion as an unstable category through a specific case study, early twentieth-century Brazil. The one-week module, although specific to one geographic region and chronological period, can serve as a lesson plan for undergraduate history courses, for disciplines that use gen...
Published in Frontiers in Political Science
This article traces the idea of (“immigrant”) “integration” from its roots in classical political philosophy and the birth of the modern nation-state, to its current relevance in the European political agenda and, relatedly, its centrality in the newly consolidated field of Migration Studies. I examine the ontological (i.e., philosophical and socio...
The article is devoted to the history of the Jordan family Trąby coat of arms from the 14th to the 16th century. Particular attention was paid to the achievements of the castellan of Wojnicz Mikołaj (1467–1521) and his son, the castellan of Kraków Spytek Wawrzyniec (1518–1568). Mikołaj was a close associate of kings Alexander and Sigismund I. Under...
This article proposes a reading of Derek Walcott’s Omeros (1990) which destabilises the notion of cultural transmission. It argues that the book-long poem questions the relevance of genealogy in the context of a Caribbean history placed under the sign of colonial erasure. In Omeros, Derek Walcott dismisses the patriarchal, linear transmission of an...
Swedish public service journalism constitutes a comparatively well-researched subject in Swedish media and journalism studies. Previous studies have, for example, contributed with valuable knowledge about the actors, conflicts, structures and political economy of Swedish public service journalism. It has also presented the scholarly community of me...
The most recent work by Jürgen Habermas tries to revalue religion in today’s society. For this he tries to find genealogical connections between secular content and the worldviews that emerged in the Axial Age, including Jewish monotheism. In this article we try to propose that a genealogical approach to monotheism from the perspective of those inv...
The general objective of this article is to expose the historical connections that occurred in the field of managerial and economic knowledge for market concentration to be assumed as an ethical end in the current business world. To account for this, using a critical historical sociological method, it is proposed to genealogically review the links ...
