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They bewitched the generator: state power and religious authority at the New Year’s festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar
The New Year’s festival in Makunduchi, Zanzibar, has been one of the central sites for the interaction between state power and religious authority. It has changed considerably since colonial times, as political rituals were grafted onto religious ones, and a commercial fair developed. In this article, it is argued that these changes can be explained in part by the renegotiation, both in conflict and co-operation, of the relationship between local religious experts and state officials. First the New Year’s rituals as central practices for the production of local religious authority is analysed. Then the colonial history of the festival is discussed, before finally turning to the interactions between state power and local authority at the festival in post-colonial times
Bounded cohomology is not a profinite invariant
We construct pairs of residually finite groups with isomorphic profinite
completions such that one has non-vanishing and the other has vanishing real
second bounded cohomology. The examples are lattices in different higher rank
simple Lie groups. Using Galois cohomology, we actually show that
for and the exceptional groups
and constitute the complete list of higher rank Lie
groups admitting such examples.Comment: 14 page
LensLeech: On-Lens Interaction for Arbitrary Camera Devices
Cameras provide a vast amount of information at high rates and are part of many specialized or general-purpose devices. This versatility makes them suitable for many interaction scenarios, yet they are constrained by geometry and require objects to keep a minimum distance for focusing. We present the LensLeech, a soft silicone cylinder that can be placed directly on or above lenses. The clear body itself acts as a lens to focus a marker pattern from its surface into the camera it sits on. This allows us to detect rotation, translation, and deformation-based gestures such as pressing or squeezing the soft silicone. We discuss design requirements, describe fabrication processes, and report on the limitations of such on-lens widgets. To demonstrate the versatility of LensLeeches, we built prototypes to show application examples for wearable cameras, smartphones, and interchangeable-lens cameras, extending existing devices by providing both optical input and output for new functionality
Artefact: A UML-Based Framework for Model-Driven Development of Interactive Surface Prototypes
Einfluss einer auf Cyclosporin A basierenden immunsuppressiven Therapie auf den Knochenmineralstoffwechsel nach orthotoper Herztransplantation
Die Bedeutung von Idealbild und Selbstbild der Mutterrolle und der Zusammenhang zur Entwicklung einer postpartalen Depression
Die Bedeutung von Idealbild und Selbstbild der Mutterrolle und der Zusammenhang zur Entwicklung einer postpartalen Depressio
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