Use Of Documentary Sources Research Articles

Brazilian nurses in air transport of wounded during World War II.

to analyze the preparation of nurses from the Brazilian Expeditionary Force to work in the air transport of wounded people during World War II. historical-social study, of a qualitative nature, based on the work entitled "Nurses with the FAB on the Italian front: 1944-1945", written by nurse Izaura Barbosa Lima. The data results from a bibliographic survey, the use of documentary sources and database consultations, with the material being treated using Thematic Content Analysis. the following categories emerged: Professional trajectory of Nurse Izaura; Commuting between the United States and Italy; and the Nursing Air Evacuation Course. the study highlights the pioneering role of nurses in the Brazilian troops sent to Italy, the necessary preparation and completion of the course to join the air transport service for the wounded. Its achievement assumes relevance for contributing new elements to the History of Brazilian Nursing, particularly regarding the establishment of the foundations of Brazilian female military nursing.

Archaeological Context and Archival Content: Historical Archaeology and Medieval Period Donative Practices on the Raichur Doab, Southern India

Definitions of ‘historical archaeology’ frequently imply the use of documentary sources to contextualise the archaeological record and aid interpretation of its content. In this article, I underscore the importance of a complementary process of using the archaeological record to enrich interpretations of epigraphical sources from the medieval Deccan. Going beyond others’ critical calls to evaluate how interpretations of these inscriptional sources are shaped by biases in research practices, I will suggest that the substantive content of politicised donative stelae on the Raichur Doab was related to shifting material contexts of agricultural land use and the dynamic assemblages of cultigens, soils and water that facilitated production during the period. By contextualising inscriptional records and donative practices within an archaeologically documented landscape of changing production activities, one has a stronger epistemological basis for evaluating the social and political significance of the inscriptional archive and the historiography that it affords. In this case, it allows for the re-evaluation of historiographical tropes of the Raichur Doab’s value as ‘fertile’ agricultural space and provides a richer interpretation of how newly emergent social relationships and distinctions evident in eleventh–sixteenth-century inscriptions articulated with landscape histories.

Mobile Telecommunications and Social Development in Bangladesh

Social development is the transformation of institutions to empower people. Since there is no comprehensive theory guiding on how this is achievable, World Bank, based on their experience, identified three operational principles to guide its approach to social development: inclusion, cohesion, and accountability. Social Inclusion encourages equal opportunities for men and women to contribute to society. Cohesive society allows individuals to work together to achieve common goals peacefully by overcoming hurdles. Accountable institutions ensure transparency and respond to public interests effectively and equitably. This paper employs an exploratory study and aims to address how Grameenphone Limited, a leading multinational telecommunication company in Bangladesh is contributing to the country's social development. To investigate the research questions a documentary research approach is pursued. Documentary research is the use of documentary sources in social research. It refers to the analysis of the documents that contains information about the phenomenon under investigation. The findings show that Grameenphone Ltd. played a crucial role in creating equal opportunities for men and women to contribute to society. Furthermore, it also contributed in creating a cohesive society which allowed individuals to work together to achieve common goals peacefully by overcoming hurdles. Lastly, though social compliance, CSR and environmental sustainability, GP ensured transparency and responded to public interests effectively and equitably. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of the first studies which strive to explore how mobile telecommunications can contribute to social development.

Os limites das fontes documentais: do samba enredo da Mangueira 2019 ao discurso oficial sobre o canto orfeônico

Este trabalho consiste em um ensaio científico elaborado a partir de pesquisas bibliográficas e documentais e que procura analisar questões envolvidas no uso de fontes documentais em pesquisas musicais e educacionais de caráter histórico. Partindo do questionamento ao status de fidedignidade absoluta frequentemente conferido aos documentos históricos, é discutido como mesmo fontes autênticas e legítimas estiveram expostas a toda sorte de influências externas – mais notadamente aquelas relacionadas aos aspectos políticos e ideológicos próprios do contexto de sua produção, divulgação e atualização. Tais influências afetam o teor dos dados constantes naqueles documentos, até mesmo determinando-os, de modo a sustentar e legitimar uma dada interpretação dos acontecimentos. Com base em uma série de exemplificações a partir de pesquisas diversas sobre temas da área de música, particularmente a experiência do canto orfeônico na Era Vargas, analisa-se como narrativas são elaboradas com base em fontes documentais, construindo um discurso oficial que não contempla a complexidade dos acontecimentos históricos e que exclui interpretações divergentes. A conclusão aponta para a necessidade de maturidade e esforço investigativo por parte do pesquisador, para que possa contextualizar as fontes com que trabalha, procurando sempre tanto questionar as condições de sua produção como compreender a lógica das diversas interpretações de seu conteúdo, assim como sua função na construção das narrativas históricas.

Was There Federalism in the Brazilian Empire? A Case of Contrast Between Federal State and Federalism in 19th Century

This article aims to demonstrate that there were federative relations during the Empire of Brazil, with some reform during the regency period. The methodology used to measure the results focuses on the use of bibliographic sources from the 19th century and from more recent studies on the scope of the article. In addition, the use of documentary sources is present, since legislation of nineteenth-century Brazil is used, in particular, the Additional Act of 1834, which gives name to the present work. Although expressly provided for in the 1824 Political Charter that Brazil would constitute a Unitary State, in practice the increased regional concentration of political power led to a functioning situation such as a decentralized federal State. To this end, it begins with a brief demonstration of the antecedents of the Constitution of 1824. It then proceeds to treat the provision of this Constitution about the political organization to finally discuss the effects caused by the Additional Act of 1834.

African Cultural Festivals and World Literature

Abstract In an era where cultural festivals multiply, so-called African festivals have spread in Africa, but also outside of the continent, in major cities as well as in little-known villages, for example in provincial France. What are some of their implications and effects in the case of francophone African literature? These events privilege a continental representation of literature, which often reveals itself as problematic when confronted with the complex geographies of the texts and authors represented at these festivals. Using cross-disciplinary methodology, this critical inquiry reads different reallocations of this persistent African matrix through a typology and contemporary examples (Kossi Efoui’s writings, the “Étonnants Voyageurs” and “Plein sud” festivals). As an object of study, festivals bear witness to the necessity of expanding the toolbox of the (world) literary scholar by making use of documentary sources and adopting ethnographic approaches. It reveals a structural tension between an African map and various concrete territories, where local issues matter often more than this continental category, and can affect the form and content of literature itself.

Consumo de tabaco en Santiago de Chile durante el periodo tardío colonial e inicios de la era republicana

This article assesses the consumption of tobacco in Santiago de Chile from the last third of the eighteenth century until the first decades of the republican era. Evidence indicates a rather favourable standard of living in Bourbon America, in contrast with the less optimistic view portrayed by Allen, Murphy and Schneider (2012). The methodology employed here consisted of compiling the trading values of the tobacconist profession, including prices and volumes of tobacco sales, in order to visualize the effective consumption of the population through the use of documentary sources from the Chilean general tobacco administration. The results show that tobacco consumption increased in Santiago during this extended period, in line with population growth and despite the rise in the average price of tobacco. In terms of volume, legal consumption of tobacco exceeded 3 pounds per capita per year at the end of the colonial period, while in the early republican decades it dropped to 2 pounds. This evolution can be explained due to the transformation of the consumption pattern in Santiago, where the colonial preference for less elaborated tobacco gave way to a greater assortment of refined products after the revolutionary period that began in 1810. More importantly, access to tobacco would have been universal, since on average it cost only 2.5% of the annual income of the least qualified workers.

In search of a lost village. Prospecting techniques at the site mariano miró (la pampa, argentina, early twentieth century)

Abstract Archeological research started in Mariano Miro (Chapaleufu, La Pampa, Argentina) site in 2011. In this site there are remains of a rural village, founded in 1901 by the railway station under the same name of the Ferrocarril Oeste, with its header in Buenos Aires city. This village was inhabited by nearly 500 people and there was a series of shops typical of an agricultural-livestock occupation (stores, a baker's shop, a smith house, etc.). Towards 1911 it had to be abandoned forcibly because its inhabitants could not renew their lease agreement over the lands they settled in. As from that moment, its owners destined that space to agricultural exploitation, and therefore no village structures were left standing. The Mariano Miro archaeological study is included in an investigation that aims at learning population dynamics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. During those times, lands were incorporated to the national territory after military campaigns against indigenous populations. This study presents results obtained through different prospecting techniques applied to delimit the old village common land. Although nowadays no surface structural remains are seen, the presence of a great number of vitreous, ceramic and metallic fragments was recorded, from which a 240 × 140 m study area was set. Over the whole surface of that area, covering 39,200 m2, transects were laid out; prospecting was conducted with a metal detector and a systematic collection of surface material was made. The diversity of data obtained was processed by Geographic Information System (GIS) which, together with ARCGIS10 software, enabled us to correlate multiple variables. The use of documentary sources (aerial photographs, cartography and village layout blueprints) helped identify site formation processes, old buried structures and areas associated with specific social practices. The prospecting design applied let us guide archaeological interventions in such a large area and, based on the distribution and density of these findings, it helped differentiate sectors that would respond to deliberate social practices during village occupation (e.g. dumps), from those that would be the result of post-depositional anthropic and natural processes.

ACTIVITY OF CIVIL MEDICAL INSTITUTIONS OF DAGESTAN IN DAYS OF THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR (1941-1945)

The article with the use of documentary sources and specialized monographic literature on the civil medical institutions in the Republic during the war is considered . Highlights the main activities carried out to improve the sanitary condition of cities and districts of the Republic. The big contribution of health workers not only in the work of the civil medical institutions, but also the treatment of wounded soldiers in evacuation hospitals Dagestan, which were formed here since July, 1941 is noted. Some attention is paid to the training of medical personnel, using various courses and do not set aside the issues on improvement of work in the sphere of protection of maternal and child health and quality health care in institutions.

Necesidades documentales del traductor médico en España

Medical translation is one of the most present - and least investigated – activities in the professional environment. The singularity of the field makes it necessary to create specific documentary resources appropriate for medical translators and writers. Thus, it is advisable to analyze the expectations that this professional community has with regard to the use of documentary sources. This article presents and discusses the results of a survey designed by the Gentt Research Group and administered to medical translators in Spain. Finally, several lines of research are proposed on the basis of such results

Certificación de la calidad ISO 9001: Clave del mejoramiento del desempeño empresarial

Este artículo tiene como objetivo general establecer los principales cambios ocurridos en el desempeño empresarial, en dos Pymes del municipio de Sincelejo (Colombia), luego de comparar su situación organizacional antes de la certificación del SGC ISO 9001:2008, con la situación actual. En lo metodológico, la investigación es cualitativa y de carácter descriptivo explicativo. Los investigadores emplearon una entrevista semiestructurada, y la utilización de fuentes documentales sobre el sistema de calidad. Las dimensiones organizacionales que se consideraron en el estudio son: quehacer gerencial, estructura, procesos y mercadeo. El marco teórico comprende la teoría situacional de la administración, teniendo en cuenta el ambiente turbulento del mercado en años recientes. Los resultados indican que la transformación de las organizaciones hacia el enfoque por procesos, es clave para mejorar el desempeño empresarial, dado que promueve la integración y coordinación entre los diferentes eslabones que comprenden el Sistema de Gestión de la Calidad y la cadena de abastecimiento.

Chipco’s House and the Role of the Individual in Shaping Seminole Indian Cultural Responses to the Modern World

The use of documentary sources resulting from late-19th-century interactions between Florida Seminole Indians and agents of the U.S. government reveals that individual Seminoles responded to the outside world favorably through the adoption of new technologies, housing styles, and other ways viewed as “progressive” by the government observers. Viewing these individuals as agents of cosmopolitanism allows archaeologists to consider the role of the individual as a source of cultural variation that can be expressed in the archaeological record. A theoretical perspective that sees the individual as a source of creative response provides for a nuanced and complex view of past human behavior; less abstract, and closer to the reality of the human experience. In the Seminole case, styles of house building labeled as desirably progressive are shown to have deeper historical roots and reappear in the late 1800s as a selective response to renewed contact with American society after a period of isolation.

Reconceptualising spaces of the air: performing the multiple spatialities of UK military airspaces

This paper seeks to unpack the complex spatialities of UK airspace, looking beyond traditional civil aviation classifications to focus specifically on the spaces used by military aviation in the UK context. It argues that UK national sovereign airspace should not be viewed as a single homogenous entity, but instead must be reconceptualised as a plethora of multiple, vertically and horizontally, overlapping airspaces that can be activated or deactivated according to need. The paper employs a performativity‐based framework that highlights specifically how these spaces are identified and named, to illustrate how these multiple military airspaces are actively performed. Within this it focuses on analysing the citational and iterative actions of professional airspace managers working within the UK Civil Aviation Authority and Royal Air Force. The paper makes extensive use of documentary sources and interviews with key personnel to illustrate how the airspaces above the UK are brought into being through the actions of these actors and how these operations can be seen as part of a wider enactment of militarism’s control over space.

Meaning not measurement

PurposeEvents research is witnessing a gradual increase in experience‐related studies, reflecting a challenge to the dominance of positivist, quantitative‐based studies. This purpose of this paper is to support a paradigm shift to effect a more balanced examination of events within the existing body of literature.Design/methodology/approachA search of events‐related publications in both events and non‐events journals is conducted in order to identify the level of use of the ethnographic approach by researchers in event studies. The literature on qualitative methods and on ethnography in particular is also examined, in a bid to show how ethnography can be used and how it is specifically suited to inquiry into the consumer experience of events and festivals.FindingsEthnography is advocated as an appropriate research approach to the events field, and this paper details the extensive potential that this approach offers. Drawing from the wider literature on ethnography, a rationale for an alternative methodology with the associated research methods of observation, interviewing and the use of documentary sources is explored and its applicability to events research is demonstrated.Practical implicationsThe academic researcher is introduced to the potential offered by ethnography and is pointed in the direction of the relevant research methods literature that would equip them with the practical tools of investigation.Originality/valueBy alerting the reader to the applicability and value of ethnography, this paper aims to encourage the adoption of the ethnographic approach by event researchers. This will thereby lead to a more diverse literature on events, and will rebalance the current dominance of quantitative‐based research papers, and it is for this reason that this paper makes an original contribution to knowledge in the study of events and festivals.

The Documentary Research Method – Using Documentary Sources in Social Research

Sociologists in particular and social scientists in general tend to quickly turn to social surveys to collect data for their research projects. This stems from mainstream social science research tradition that is dominated by positivist and empiricist tradition that emphasizes quantification. There is however another method of data collection, the documentary research method, or the use of documentary sources in social research, that is often overlooked. This paper argues that although the documentary research method is not very popular in social science research, it is nevertheless an acceptable and respectable research method that is also scientific and requires rigorous adherence to research ethics.

The use of documentary sources for reconstructing flood chronologies on the Amalfi rocky coast (southern Italy)

Abstract Documentary source materials are essential for retrospective reconstruction of flood events occurring in past centuries. This paper presents methods of research and archiving of historical data from the 16th century to the present. The quality and completeness of the various original sources were evaluated and carefully analysed in their historical context, to avoid serious mistakes. Systematic investigation of about 3000 documents, mainly found in national State Archives and libraries, allows us to identify and localize at least 106 flood events occurring along the Amalfi coast (southern Italy) for five centuries between the years 1500 and 2000. The collected data provide useful details on flood dynamics, size of flooded areas, flood duration, damage level, number of victims and induced geological effects. When available in sufficient quantity, the flood data allow determination of very useful parameters such as the severity class, to identify large floods and their recurrence interval.

Use of documentary sources on past flood events for flood risk management and land planning

The knowledge of past catastrophic events can improve flood risk mitigation policy, with a better awareness against risk. As such historical information is usually available in Europe for the past five centuries, historians are able to understand how past society dealt with flood risk, and hydrologists can include information on past floods into an adapted probabilistic framework. In France, Flood Risk Mitigation Maps are based either on the largest historical known flood event or on the 100-year flood event if it is greater. Two actions can be suggested in terms of promoting the use of historical information for flood risk management: (1) the development of a regional flood data base, with both historical and current data, in order to get a good feedback on recent events and to improve the flood risk education and awareness; (2) the commitment to keep a persistent/perennial management of a reference network of hydrometeorological observations for climate change studies.

Early Records of Icebergs in the South Atlantic Ocean from Spanish Documentary Sources

The use of documentary sources has proven useful to identify extremeclimatic events and their variability during the pre-instrumental period. Theaim of this paper is to describe iceberg sightings in the Western SouthAtlantic during the second half of the 18th century, as recorded from Spanishlogbooks. A total of five sightings have been found, two corresponding toisolated bergs and three to outbreaks. The relevance of these results istwofold: they are the first documented iceberg sightings to date and, aboveall, they correspond to very unusual episodes, characterized by a high numberof high-sized bergs and by the relatively low latitude of their location. Itis suggested that they could be associated to cold episodes in Antarctica.

Toyin Falola, ed. Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002. 800 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Illustrations. Appendixes. Bibliographies. Index. Notes. $99.95. Cloth. $39.95. Paper.

Toyin Falola, ed. Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen. Lawrenceville, N.J.: Africa World Press, 2002. 800 pp. Maps. Figures. Tables. Illustrations. Appendixes. Bibliographies. Index. Notes. 39.95. Paper. - Volume 47 Issue 2

Data on the doorstep: using documents for researching further education

The article is aimed at new researchers into post-compulsory education although it may also be of interest to those who have done research but have not made much use of documentary sources. The article will also be relevant to those who are interested in the links between universities and further education colleges. The purpose of the article is to explore the use of documentary sources in researching further education and to exemplify the process using a study of college and university links in Scotland.