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The article presents a response from the author of "German Orientalism in the Age of Empire: Religion, Race and Scholarship" to a review by Margaret Olin. The errors committed by the author concerning orientalism in art are outlined. The author highlights various issues about the visual and non-visual components of German orientalism.

El artículo analiza las consecuencias del proceso por lo cual millones de hallazgos arqueológicos se mandaron de los países del sur y este a los países del norte y oeste. Se esbozan las reacciones nacionalistas a dicho proceso, así como las perspectivas de figuras como Edward W. Said y Michel Foucault.

The article presents the author's views on her career with German Studies Association (GSA) where she started as a scholar and now became its executive president. Various topics she discussed include brief description of the process of receiving education in GSA, quasi-Rousseauian educational instructions followed in GSA and leadership in the association.

Diversity Array Technology (DArT) markers were used to investigate the genetic diversity, population structure, and extent of linkage disequilibrium (LD) on a genome-wide level in Canadian barley ( Hordeum vulgare L.). Approximately 1,000 DArT markers were polymorphic and scored with high confidence among a collection of 170 barley lines composed mostly of Canadian cultivars and breeding lines. The reproducibility of DArT markers proved very high, as 99.9% of allele calls were identical among seven replicated samples. The polymorphism information content (PIC) of DArT markers ranged between 0.04 and 0.50 with an average of 0.38. Using principal coordinate analysis (PCoA), most lines fell into one of two major groups reflecting inflorescence type (two-row versus six-row). Within these two large groups, evidence of geographic clustering of genotypes was also observed. A cluster analysis Unweighted Pair Group Method with Algorithmic Mean suggested the existence of three subgroups within the two-row group and four subgroups within the six-row group. An analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) revealed highly significant ( P < 0.001) genetic variance within subgroups, among subgroups, and among groups. Values of LD, expressed as r2, declined with increasing genetic distance, and mean values of r2 fell below 0.2 for markers located 2.6 cM apart. Approximately 8% of marker pairs located on the same chromosome and 3.4% of pairs located on different chromosomes were in LD ( r 2 > 0.2). Within both the subsets of two-row and six-row lines, LD extended slightly further (3.5 cM) than for the entire set, while 7.5% of intra-chromosomal locus pairs and <2% of inter-chromosomal pairs were in LD. We discuss the implications of these findings with regard to the prospects of association mapping of complex traits in barley. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the depiction of orientalism in the German literature. According to the author, German orientalism was distributed by a set of hegemonic producers and consumed by the population as a whole. The author adds that the younger generation of Germany is emancipating from the intellectual ascendancy of science and from the universities.

The article discusses the prevalence and diversity of Fusarium species from barley fields in Quebec. A study is conducted about Fusarium head blight (FHB) that causes reduced quality and yields in barley (Hordeum vulgare) to devise future management strategies. The study involved identification of 20 species of Fusarium. The morphological characteristics and infection levels of fungal isolates were examined. Findings revealed that geography affects the species of Fusarium that predominated.

Focuses on the problems encountered by German intellectual historians in the light of the specialization of scholarship. Irrelevance of the debate on external referentiality of texts; Problem created by the proliferation of sources; Importance of the fascination with ancient Greece in German cultural history.

Discusses the assault on the autonomy, unity, and tenacity of the classical world underway in Europe after 1880. Importance of historiographical reorientation; Description of the revolution in humanistic scholarship; Views about educated elite in Europe; Views of historian Josef Strzygowski on the dependence of Europe on the Oriental forms of classical materials.

Discusses the important contributions of Leo Frobenius as a cultural anthropologist in tracing the origin of African culture. Importance of culture over race; Attack on Western historiography; Discovery of the highly developed culture of Yoruba; Role of colonialism in the study of primitive cultures; Process of negrification; Neo-romantic search for unspoiled Black Atlantis.