The primary concern of this research project was carrying out a comparative study on folkloric constructions and expressions of ethnic and local identity among the southwestern Oromo (Macha) of Ethiopia. The focus was on identification, documentation, description and sub-group-oriented comparative analysis of folklore, specifically oral narratives – seen as local discourses of and expressive ba...

The subject of research and the purpose this paper is to determine effects globalization on identity change within one most popular sports today, football. In order avoid generalizations in analysis, English Premiership, famous football leagues, was chosen as a case study. theoretical framework related identification local changes under influence global process, predominantly social political. ...

In this note we prove under some general assumptions on elastic energy densities (namely, frame indifference, minimality at identity, non-degeneracy and existence of a quadratic expansion at identity) that homogenization and linearization commute at identity. This generalizes a recent result by S. Müller and the second author by dropping their assumption of periodicity. As a first application, ...