Un florilège de mythes, de contes et de légendes permet de pénétrer dans l'imaginaire de Laponie
Au temps jadis, bien avant que les hommes aient appris à domestiquer les rennes, un jeune Lapon était parti à la chasse. Il avait déjà chassé toute la matinée dans la montagne, quand un épais brouillard se leva, l'empêchant de voir à un mètre devant lui. Mais il entendait des cris de berger appelant ses bêtes, et le son de clochettes qui semblait venir d'un nombreux troupeau. Et quand le brouillard se leva, il aperçut une jeune fille belle comme le jour, revêtue d'une tunique bleue, endormie auprès d'une souche. Un troupeau de rennes domestiques paissait dans l'herbe auprès d'elle. Le jeune homme devina que c'était la Fille du Soleil, dont ses parents lui avaient souvent parlé. A l'état de veille, elle est invisible, mais quand elle dort, on peut la voir et la faire prisonnière, avec tout son troupeau. Si l'on s'y prend adroitement, on peut même la transformer en être humain et la garder auprès de soi. Mais il faut l'embrasser avant qu'elle ne se réveille. Elle est d'une beauté surnaturelle, comme d'ailleurs tous les rennes de son troupeau.
À PROPOS DE LA COLLECTION
« Aux origines du monde » (à partir de 12 ans) permet de découvrir des contes et légendes variés qui permettent de comprendre comment chaque culture explique la création du monde et les phénomènes les plus quotidiens. L'objectif de cette collection est de faire découvrir au plus grand nombre des contes traditionnels du monde entier, inédits ou peu connus en France. Et par le biais du conte, s'amuser, frissonner, s'évader... mais aussi apprendre, approcher de nouvelles cultures, s'émerveiller de la sagesse (ou de la malice !) populaire.
DANS LA MÊME COLLECTION
o Contes et légendes de France
o Contes et légendes de la Chine
o Contes et légendes du Burkina-Faso
o Contes et légendes d'Allemagne, de Suisse et d'Autriche
o Contes et récits des Mayas
This book is the first major work that addresses a core question in biomedical research: the question of acceptable risk. The acceptable level of risks is regulated by the requirement of proportionality in biomedical research law, which state that the risk and burden to the participant must be in proportion to potential benefits to the participant, society or science. This investigation addresses research on healthy volunteers, children, vulnerable subjects, and includes placebo controlled clinical trials. It represents a major contribution towards clarifying the most central, but also the most controversial and complex issue in biomedical research law and bioethics. The EU Clinical Trial Directive, the Council of Europe's Oviedo Convention (and its Additional Protocol), and national regulation in member states are covered. It is a relevant work for lawyers and ethicists, and the practical approach makes a valuable tool for researchers and members of research ethics committees supervising biomedical research.
By looking at the later Wordsworth's ekphrastic writings about visual art and his increased awareness of the printed dimension of his work, Simonsen calls attention to what is uniquely exciting about this neglected body of work, and argues that it complicates traditional understandings of Wordsworth based on his so-called Great Decade.
In Stranded Encyclopedias, 1700-2000: Exploring Unfinished, Unpublished, Unsuccessful Encyclopedic Projects, fourteen scholars turn to the archives to challenge the way the history of modern encyclopedism has long been told. Rather than emphasizing successful publications and famous compilers, they explore encyclopedic enterprises that somehow failed. With a combined attention to script, print, and digital cultures, the volume highlights the many challenges facing those who have pursued complete knowledge in the past three hundred years. By introducing the concepts of stranded and strandedness, it also provides an analytical framework for approaching aspects often overlooked in histories of encyclopedias, books, and learning: the unpublished, the unfinished, the incomplete, the unsuccessfully disseminated, and the no-longer-updated. By examining these aspects in a new and original way, this book will be of value to anyone interested in the history of encyclopedism and lexicography, the history of knowledge, language, and ideas, and the history of books, writing, translating, and publishing.
Chapters 1 and 4 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
This open access book discusses the challenges and opportunities faced by companies in an age that increasingly values sustainability and demands corporate responsibility. Beginning with the historical development of corporate responsibility, this book moves from academic theory to practical application. It points to ways in which companies can successfully manage their transition to a more responsible, sustainable way of doing business, common mistakes to avoid and how the UN Sustainable Development Goals are integral to any sustainability transformation. Practical cases illustrate key points. Drawing on thirty years of sustainability research and extensive corporate experience, the author provides tools such as a Step-by-Step strategic guide on integrating sustainability in collaboration with stakeholders including employees, customers, suppliers and investors. The book is particularly relevant for SMEs and companies operating in emerging markets. From a broader perspective, the value of externalities, full cost pricing, alternative economic theories and circular economy are also addressed.
Geographies of Embodiment provides a critical discussion of the literatures on the body and embodiment, and humanism and post-humanism, and develops arguments about "otherness" and "encounter" which have become key ideas in urban studies, and studies of the city. It situates these arguments in a wider political context, looking at power-relations through case studies at urban, national and transnational scales.
These arguments are situated across disciplinary boundaries, at the borderline between between philosophy and social science that is associated to critical phenomenology, and reaches across Human Geography, Sociology, Philosophy, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Urban Studies.
This book examines the ethics, politics and aesthetics of veganism in contemporary culture and thought. Traditionally a lifestyle located on the margins of western culture, veganism has now been propelled into the mainstream, and as agribusiness grows animal issues are inextricably linked to environmental impact as well as to existing ethical concerns. This collection connects veganism to a range of topics including gender, sexuality, race, the law and popular culture. It explores how something as basic as one's food choices continue to impact on the cultural, political, and philosophical discourse of the modern day, and asks whether the normalization of veganism strengthens or detracts from the radical impetus of its politics. With a Foreword by Melanie Joy and Jens Tuidor, this book analyzes the mounting prevalence of veganism as it appears in different cultural shifts and asks how veganism might be rethought and re-practised in the twenty-first century.
