@article{Ogone2015,
  author    = {Ogone, James Odhiambo},
  title     = {Remediating orality: the cultural domestication of video technology in Kenya},
  series = {Critical arts : a journal for cultural studies},
  volume    = {29},
  journal   = {Critical arts : a journal for cultural studies},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {0256-0046},
  doi       = {10.1080/02560046.2015.1078541},
  pages     = {479 -- 495},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {The influence of globalisation and its attendant modern technologies has reconfigured the manner in which orality functions in the contemporary African context. Confronted with the powerful presence of media technologies that threaten to supplant its central role in many African societies, orality has been compelled to reinvent itself by means of appropriating the same media for its survival. The result has been a process that seeks to recontextualise imported technologies in locally relevant ways. This article focuses on how video technology adapts to local Kenyan cultural contexts. Arguing that vernacular video films form part of contemporary cultural productions in Kenya, the article demonstrates how strategies of remediation, such as subtitling, re-oralisation, repurposing and immediacy, contribute to the reactivation of orality. It emerges from the analyses that local knowledge cultures actively engage modern technologies in a way that debunks any simple linear perceptions of the impact of mediatisation on African epistemologies. Through local agency, communities actualise their aspirations for a domesticated modernity that is simultaneously fresh and familiar, and therefore less culturally alienating.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{LudwigReissmannBeneckeetal.2015,
  author    = {Ludwig, Arne and Reissmann, Monika and Benecke, Norbert and Bellone, Rebecca and Sandoval-Castellanos, Edson and Cieslak, Michael and Gonz{\´a}lez-Fortes, Gloria M. and Morales-Muniz, Arturo and Hofreiter, Michael and Pruvost, Melanie},
  title     = {Twenty-five thousand years of fluctuating selection on leopard complex spotting and congenital night blindness in horses},
  series = {Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences},
  volume    = {370},
  journal   = {Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London : B, Biological sciences},
  number    = {1660},
  publisher = {Royal Society},
  address   = {London},
  issn      = {0962-8436},
  doi       = {10.1098/rstb.2013.0386},
  pages     = {7},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {Leopard complex spotting is inherited by the incompletely dominant locus, LP, which also causes congenital stationary night blindness in homozygous horses. We investigated an associated single nucleotide polymorphism in the TRPM1 gene in 96 archaeological bones from 31 localities from Late Pleistocene (approx. 17 000 YBP) to medieval times. The first genetic evidence of LP spotting in Europe dates back to the Pleistocene. We tested for temporal changes in the LP associated allele frequency and estimated coefficients of selection by means of approximate Bayesian computation analyses. Our results show that at least some of the observed frequency changes are congruent with shifts in artificial selection pressure for the leopard complex spotting phenotype. In early domestic horses from Kirklareli-Kanligecit (Turkey) dating to 2700-2200 BC, a remarkably high number of leopard spotted horses (six of 10 individuals) was detected including one adult homozygote. However, LP seems to have largely disappeared during the late Bronze Age, suggesting selection against this phenotype in early domestic horses. During the Iron Age, LP reappeared, probably by reintroduction into the domestic gene pool from wild animals. This picture of alternating selective regimes might explain how genetic diversity was maintained in domestic animals despite selection for specific traits at different times.},
  language  = {en}
}