Researching indigenous and marginal peoples – Introduction

Those promoting tourism often seek to highlight that which is unique about their destinations in order to attract tourists. Many countries have beautiful landscapes, rich histories and heritage, and the tourist may come to see linkages of landscape and history across different countries and indeed possibly across continents. However, in the search for the unique, those countries with ethnic minority or other minority groups demarcated by factors other than ethnicity but characterised by special belief systems or ways of life living within their borders (e.g. the Amish) are truly able to offer the tourist a glimpse of something that will not be found in other parts of the world. Accordingly, and being aware that holiday makers are not lay anthropologists and may be seeking little more than an entertainment, minorities and their culture have become in many places a staged show based primarily on song and dance. Indeed, such has been the process that Xie (2011, p. 196) provides an example from the island of Hainan, China, where tourism promoters have created ‘the authentic Chiyou tribe’ to entertain tourists – a tribe developed purely for entertainment based on concepts of the exotic and primitive and only loosely based on the culture of the native Li people. One partial result described by Xie (2011) has been that the Li themselves have become confused as to their own culture

An Evening of Song, November 7, 1995

This is the concert program of the An Evening of Song performance on Tuesday, November 7, 1995 at 6:00 p.m., at the Boston University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were Vado, ma dove?, K. 583 and Voi averte un cor fedele, K. 217 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; "Nichts" from Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10, No. 2, "Ich trage meine Minne" from Fünf Lieder, Op. 32, No. 1, "Traum durch die Dämmerung" from Drei Lieder, Op. 29, No. 1, and "Zueignung" from Acht Lieder aus Letzte Blätter, Op. 10, No. 1" by Richard Strauss; Simple Gifts by Aaron Copland; "The Crucifixtion" from The Hermit Songs, Op. 29, No. 5 by Samuel Barber; In the mornin' by Charles Ives; Mai, Op. 1, No. 1 by Gabriel Fauré; Selve Amiche by Antonio Caldara; and Già il sole dal Gange by Allessandro Scarlatti. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund

The Effect of Popular English Song and English Movie on Students\u27 Pronunciation at MTsN 3 Jakarta

This research aims to discover whether the English popular songs and movies are an effective media in enhancing and improving students\u27 pronunciation. The subjects in the study were involving 62 students from grade 8 in MTsN 3 Jakarta and were divided into 2 groups. 31 students from class 8-2 involved in movie class while 31 students in class 8-3 have English songs popular class.The data are taken from the study of the accuracy of the student in pronouncing the words in a simple text at the beginning and end of the test in each experimental class. During the students read the text, the researcher recorded their voice to be analyzed for the pronunciation.In this research, it was found that students who have popular English songs and English movie in their class show progress in pronunciation. It was proved by the scores that they got when the post test after training, higher than pre tests before training. This suggests that both media are "effective" in improving students\u27 pronunciation. But, students in Popular English songs show better results than students in English movie

Balanced Sparsest Generator Matrices for MDS Codes

We show that given $n$ and $k$, for $q$ sufficiently large, there always exists an $[n, k]_q$ MDS code that has a generator matrix $G$ satisfying the following two conditions: (C1) Sparsest: each row of $G$ has Hamming weight $n - k + 1$; (C2) Balanced: Hamming weights of the columns of $G$ differ from each other by at most one.Comment: 5 page

An Evening of Song, November 28, 1995

This is the concert program of the An Evening of Song performance on Tuesday, November 28, 1995 at 6:00 p.m., at the Bosotn University Concert Hall, 855 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. Works performed were from Four Ariettas and a Duet, Op. 82 by Ludwig van Beethoven, En Prière by Gabriel Fauré, Go Lovely Rose, Op. 24, No. 3 by Roger Quilter, An Chloë, K. 524 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, L'Attente, Clair de Lune, and Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns, "Die Liebende schreibt" from Six Songs, Op. 86, No. 3 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Lieder aus Wilhelm Meister, Op. 98 by Robert Schumann, Romance, Nuit d'etoiles, and Beau Soir by Claude Debussy, "Feldeinsamkeit" from Sechs Lieder, Op. 86, No. 2, "Die Mainacht" from Vier Lieder, Op. 43, No. 2, and "Meine Liebe ist grün" from Neun Lieder, Op. 63, No. 5 by Johannes Brahms, "V'adoro pupille" from Giulio Cesare, HHA ii/14, "Affanni del pensier" from Ottone, HHA ii/12, and "Và godendo" from Serse, HHA ii/31 by George Friedrich Handel, Dichterliebe, Op. 48 by Robert Schumann, Notre amour, Op. 23, No. 2 by Gabriel Fauré, and "Pierrot" from Quatre Chansons de Jeunesse by Claude Debussy. Digitization for Boston University Concert Programs was supported by the Boston University Humanities Library Endowed Fund