Cultural Circles Research Articles

Poeta pojednania. O twórczości Ernsta Josefa Krzywona

This article presents key motifs in the lyrical works of Ernst Josef Krzywon, a German poet, literary historian. and translator of Polish literature. Krzywon was an intellectual of Upper Silesian origin, who struggled with the conditions of a double biography, enhanced by the socalled great history of belonging to two cultural circles. Both in his poetry and in his scientific works and essays, the author born in Rokitnica (a historical part of Zabrze), tries to face the challenge of presenting the cultural heritage of Upper Silesians as the product of meetings between representatives of several nations - as a common work of the German and Slavic peoples. Our article analyzes the main topic of his poems: the multiracial character of the region and its consequences for the individual – especially the necessity to look for national identity in the area between two cultures and two (or even three) languages.

Anthropos Metron versus Bous Metron? The Significance and Suffering of Animals in Regard to Sacrificial Rituals

Humanity has practised animal sacrifice for the greater part of its history, from the time of the Neolithic Revolution. The ritual forms have varied, depending on the culture. They have also been subject to change, in connection with the development of human understanding and knowledge of animals, which is reflected in the ontological, cultural and moral status assigned to animals in the human world. Sacrificing animals involved not only killing them in a particular way – their treatment was sometimes sophisticated or ‘ritualistic’; often it was simply cruel. Human attitudes towards non-human living beings have also evolved in the context of animal killing and sacrifice. The treatment of animals reveals a great deal about human beings – in terms of their culture, beliefs, and morals. The article outlines this issue in a historical manner, referring to the practices adopted in selected cultural circles (in the Mediterranean Basin): ancient Mesopotamia and Greece, as well as in Judaism and Islam. The key findings of researchers are presented, along with the evaluations of philosophers, ethicists and anthropologists.

Anthropological Composition of the Yamna Culture Population of the North Pontic Region: Intragroup Analysis of the Male Sample

The goals of this article are systematization of craniological database, craniometric characteristics and intragroup analysis of the Yamna culture male sample from the North Pontic region. General North Pontic specimens and samples of three local groups (North-West Pontic, Southern Buh and Lower Dnipro regions) were characterized. Intragroup analysis was held in two steps: 1) using principal component method and 2) using two indexes (cranial and upperfacial). According to the results of intragroup analysis the Yamna population of this territory was heterogeneous. Two craniocomplexes can be seen: 1) relatively broad-faced dolichomesocranial and 2) leptene hyperdolichocranial. The second craniocomplex is most visible in the North-West Pontic region. Both are equally represented in materials from Southern Buh and Lower Dnipro regions. There is also a connection between physical characteristics of the individual and the posture, in which he was buried. In majority of the cases, which form relatively broad-faced dolichomesocranial group, supine position was used for burial. While for those, which form leptene hyperdolichocranial group, the position on the side is more typical. These results support and illustrate well the ideas developed by Ukrainian anthropologist S. I. Kruts about the Yamna population of the region. While the broad-faced dolichomesocranial craniocomplex has broad analogies among the populations of the Yamna cultural circle in the Lower Don and Volga-Ural regions, the narrow-faced hyperdolichocranials are not typical for the eastern Yamna territories. Apparently, the second complex determines the uniqueness of the North Pontic steppe population compared to other groups of the Yamna cultural circle. Its origins will be discussed in the next article, which will cover the issue of intergroup analysis.

Reporting to God. The religious background of corporate social responsibility in Islamic enterprises – airlines

Purpose: The aim of the article is to present the role played by ethics and religion in shaping the concept of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the example of Islam. Therefore, this paper focuses on CSR in Islamic companies and attempts to discover whether Islamic countries are a cultural circle where culture and religion are advantageous when developing CSR. Methodology/approach: A case study was used to determine CSR disclosure in airlines. Findings: The results showed that ethics and philanthropy were important to CSR disclosure in Islamic companies. Religion in Islamic countries has a huge impact on companies disclosing their philanthropical and ethical activities. Practical implications: This paper will better enable academics and practitioners to understand CSR problems in Islamic countries. Our research underlines the role of ethics and religion in the context of CSR. Originality/value: This paper makes an important contribution by highlighting the importance of ethics to CSR in Islam countries and raises the possibility of CSR reporting being adopted in Islamic companies.

Преемственность и новации в металлокомплексах конца средней – начала поздней бронзы юга Восточной Европы

The paper represents an analysis of metal complexes of the Late Middle – Early Late Bronze Age of the steppe and forest-steppe zones of Eastern Europe within the framework of the three-stage periodization. In the system of radiocarbon dating, this period covers 2300/2200 –1800/1700 cal BC and a number of the Post-Catacomb, the Post-Corded ware, the Chariot and the Srubnaya cultures. The source base of the study is the metal objects of the burial complexes. The most variable widespread numerous and chronologically significant categories of objects in the alterability of which new trends in shaping (fashion) are clearly traced (bladed tools, temple rings, string of beads, bracelets) were subjected to a detailed comparative morphological analysis. The analysis is carried out at the levels “territory – chronology – culture” in the context of data for metal production standards of the previous and subsequent periods. The author comes to conclusion that the metal complex of Post-Catacomb cultures is based on the traditions of the Middle Bronze Age with innovations of the Central European origin, mainly in the west, in the Babino cultural circle, and of the Caucasian origin, mainly in the southeast, in the Lola cultural circle. Metal inventory appearance in the chariot cultures was determined by innovations that spread from the north and east, while maintaining a number of archaic stereotypes of the Caucasian-steppe. At the early stage of the Srubnaya culture, metalworking continues this path of development taking into account actual trends of forming.

Crisis of Family Realities in Taiwan: Chiara Lubich’s Concept of „Unity“ as the Possible Core Path of Reconciliation

From the Past to the Present, Taiwan, as part of Chinese culture circle, has experienced distinct changes of family reality. Politics, economy, migration, and globalization have been or are the crucial factors to influence on the families. Polygamy, extended family, nuclear family, transnational family, same-sex marriage and diversified family construct the contexts of families in Taiwan. These multi-family forms seem to ingratiate themselves with the popular concept „diversity” which is articulated since 21th century. Many people think that “diversity” could eliminate conflicts, because not any part will be ignored; “diversity” shows tolerance, progress of society. In fact, there are at the same time more and more conflicts and problems occurred because of diversity. How would be the potential causes of problems? And how could these problems and conflicts in the families be dealt with? The core solutions seem not easy to find. Since 1960s, Chiara Lubich’s concepts: “unity,” “mutual love” and “the model of new family” were spread into Taiwan. Her concepts influence on many families to live in a new way. In this paper, some historical and current family models in Taiwan as well as the relation between the Chiara Lubich’s concept of “unity” and families will be explored to see whether her concepts could be the possible path to reconcile the conflicts of families, and how it could be possibly put into practice.

Research on the Current new Characteristics, Operation Problems and Innovation Strategies of the Official WeChat official account of Chinese Universities Driven by "Generation Z"

Today, the official WeChat official account of Chinese universities has entered a new era with "Generation Z" (1995-2009) college students as the main audience and content producers. While opening up a broader communication space and more diversified communication possibilities for Chinese universities, it also provides a campus media platform for "Generation Z" college students with distinctive personality, rationality, independence and tolerance to create, share, express and talk. However, the current official WeChat official account of Chinese universities shows many new features and problems in accuracy, innovation, cohesion, empathy and integration. Based on this situation, this study proposes innovative and optimized strategies for the operation, construction and development of the official WeChat official account of Chinese colleges and universities from the aspects of deep cultivation of content, distribution interaction, team building, brand communication, management mode, etc., in combination with the cultural circle characteristics and subcultural needs of Chinese "Generation Z" young college students, in order to diversify, multi circle Find the balance and fit point between "official publicity" and "Gen Z demand" in a multi field space, and build an influential official WeChat official account brand of Chinese universities.

“There’s always racism”: Puerto Rican Mothers Naming Linguistic Inequities and Sharing Community Cultural Wealth Post-Displacement

In the following study, displaced Puerto Rican mothers and I created and explored a learning space – culture circles – that engaged participants in a critical cycle of problem posing, dialogue, and problem solving in relation to their experiences in the receiving Pennsylvania community. Using a qualitative, ethnographic approach, the study drew from Critical Pedagogy (CP), raciolinguistics, and a Community Cultural Wealth (CCW) framework to inform data collection and analysis. Individual interviews, culture circle meeting recordings, field notes, and digital artefacts created by four focal participants help illustrate how these mothers navigate the US school system and the wider receiving community in southern Pennsylvania. Moreover, the data reflect how racism in this context is based predominantly on families’ language practices. Despite mothers facing significant challenges due to race/ethnicity, language, class, and gender, this study highlights the conversations that displaced Puerto Rican mothers engaged in regarding the impact racism had in their everyday lives. Furthermore, the space we created allowed participants to share and model their accumulated linguistic, social, and resistant capital for their children’s academic success.

A magyar megszólítások és köszönési formák tanítása (nem csak) finneknek

Choosing the appropriate forms of address and greetings is not easy even for the native Hungarian speakers, especially as a result of the changes in the Hungarian language in the last 30 years. In order to achieve successful communication, the acquiring the use of T and V forms(by pronouns maga or ön)and nominal address forms (including first or last names, nicknames, titles, job titles and endearments) occupies an important role in the teaching of Hungarian as a foreign language. Mastering the tools of the address forms and the rules of their use develops the pragmatic competence of the students. Because of the relatively quick changes in the address system in Hungarian, the language books can not be always up to date, therefore it usually depends on the teacher to pass on the changes in the present language use or at least providing information on them. Particular emphasis should be placed on the teaching of Hungarian address system to native speakers of Finnish (a language belonging to the Scandinavian cultural circle).Although V forms exist also in the Finnish language, their use is quite infrequent. Consequently, the use of them can cause difficulties for the younger generations. In Finnish, as several studies have shown, the use of last names, nicknames and endearments are relatively rare and has completely different rules than their equivalents in Hungarian. Teaching addressing by titles in Hungarian is challenging, because in Finnish titlesare used quite rarely and they can even get an ironic tone. Therefore, special attention should be paid to addressing teachers and those working in the (university) bureaucracy, as some students continue their language studies in Hungary. Although greetings are not an integral part of address system, they may indicate the subject of using T or V forms; and certain official address forms, especially in writing and addressing unknown persons (e. g. Tisztelt Elnök Asszony! ’Dear Madam President!’), usually involve V forms. As a language teacher, it is not enough to emphasize that some of the Hungarian greetings –even without a specific formal or informal element –are informal and indicate T forms (e.g. a szia, szervusz), and some of them are formal indicating almost always V forms (e.g. Jó napot kívánok!, Viszontlátásra!).If the students do not use formal greetings regularly in their native language, the teachers of Hungarian have to pay close attention to those forms of Hungarian in teaching and have to give enough time to practicing the correct address forms during the whole period of Hungarian language studies. In this paper we present our best practices and ideas for teaching address forms and rules of their use, based on the research on Hungarian language changes in the last 30 years. In addition to the traditional methods (e. g. translation, interpreting tasks), we have developed modern, often playful tasks during our many years’ teaching carreer. We present practical examples for teaching of important features of the Hungarian address system, based partly on the earlier published language teaching books and partly on our own materials. Based on these examples and practices, teachers of Hungarian as a foreign language may get inspiration to develop their own materials, within the limits of the possibilities

Nobody listens, nobody wants to hear you: Access to healthcare/social services for women in Canada

In Canada, an unacceptable number of women live below the poverty threshold. Some subgroups of women, such as Indigenous, visible minorities, immigrants and refugees, older adults, and single mothers are more likely to live in poverty, as they face multiple systemic barriers preventing their financial stability. Further, socioeconomic status, employment, gender, and access to healthcare and social services negatively impact women’s well-being and health. Yet little is known about how these factors affect healthcare behaviours and experiences for women living on a low income. Our goal is to describe and understand how gender and income influence access to healthcare and social services for women living on a low income. Methods: Partnered with a not-for-profit organization, we explored the experiences of women living on a low income in Kingston, Canada. Using participatory, art-based research and hermeneutic phenomenological approaches, our data collection methods included photovoice, semi-structured interviews and culture circles. A purposive sample was recruited. Analysis was conducted following the social determinants of health framework by Loppie-Reading and Wien. Results: Participants perceived the healthcare and social services systems as unnecessarily complex, disrespectful, and dismissive–one where they are mere spectators without voice. They do not feel heard. They also identified problematic issues regarding living conditions, housing, and fresh food. Despite these experiences, participants are resilient and optimistic. Implications: Learning from participants has indicated priority issues and potential, pragmatic solutions to begin incremental improvements. Changing system design to enable self-selection of food items is one example. Conclusion: For an individual to feel others view them as unworthy of care, especially if those ‘others’ are the care providers, is ethically and morally distressing–and it certainly does not invite system-use. While our early findings reveal considerable system improvements are required, we are inspired by and can learn from the strength of the participants.

Bone tools for leather processing (blunt knives and curriers knives) in the funeral rite of the Post-Catacomb period as cultural and chronological indicators

In the paper, the burials of the Post-Catacomb period (2200–1800 cal BC), whose inventory included large bone tools for leather processing, are analysed. Most of them are represented in the Lola Culture circle (Ciscau-casia and the Volga-Urals), and only in few instances they have been found in the burials of the Babino Culture circle (the Lower Volga and the Lower Don regions). The mapping indicates that in the latter case we are dealing with the evidence of intercultural contacts between the representatives of the Lola and Babino traditions. The analysis of the materials shows that the tradition of using large tools for skin processing in the funeral rite deve-loped at the end of the Middle Bronze Age in Ciscaucasia within the Lola Culture circle. The Lola Culture was the main generator here. Its materials contain the largest number of such tools and their greatest variety. To such an extent, it is not represented within the materials of any other cultural formation of the Post-Catacomb period and in any of the cultures of the Late Bronze Age, where this tradition was inherited and rooted itself. It is noteworthy that in the Post-Catacomb burials, large leather-processing tools in most cases were present in the toolsets alongside other production implements, most often with stone tools. Besides, the functional relation between the bone and stone components of such toolsets is either not obvious or completely absent. It is possible that the interred with the attributes of different crafts might have been associated with the variants of the well-known Cult of Demiurge, well represented in archaic societies. The analysis of some features of the rite and combinations with other categories of the inventory in the burials of the Lola Culture circle shows that there is a correlation be-tween the types of the large leather-processing tools and particular specific features of the ritual practice. Thus, the tools made from the lower jaws and pelvic bones of large ungulate animals clearly correlate with the south-ward orientation of the skeletons in the burials. The leather-processing tools made from the ribs of the large ungu-late animals were seen predominantly in the burials with northward orientations. It is still difficult to say what lies behind such steady correlations, but it should be noted that in a reduced form they recur in the subsequent Late Bronze Age. The answer to the last question requires further expansion of the source base.

An Exploration of the Relationship between Confucianism and Economic Modernization in East Asia

The rapid rise of East Asian economy has aroused the reflection on Confucianism in the academic community and the reassessment of the value of the “East Asian Confucian Cultural Circle”. Throughout the economic modernization process of developed countries, it can be found that the construction of any social system must be based on its traditional culture, and the choices made by organizations should also be regulated by cultural values. Without the ethical order, economic modernization would be short of the support and participation of spiritual power, and thus would be difficult to achieve the economic modernization goal of continuing social progress. Starting from the cultural reflection on the motivation of the development of economic modernization in East Asia, this paper summarizes the concept of East Asian Confucian Cultural Circle, and dialectically analyzes the profound and complex relationship between Confucianism and economic modernization in East Asia.

Consumer culture in traditional food market: The influence of Chinese consumers to the cultural construction of Chinese barbecue

The rapid expansion of the traditional food market has led to more and more attention to cultural research focusing on consumers' attitudes towards traditional food. The topic of the development of Chinese barbecue into a corresponding food culture has been controversial and simultaneously, restricts the further development of the industry. Focusing on online reviews of Chinese barbecue from 2018 to 2021 as the research object, macro big data analysis combined with spatial economic analysis (kriging interpolation, spatial correlation analysis, center of gravity transfer, and spatiotemporal evolution prediction) were used to explore the results and regularities of its cultural construction. Taking 8002 online questionnaires and 40 interviews, the research paradigm of the micro questionnaire and interview combined with social network analysis (SNA) was adopted to explore consumers' attitudes toward the traditional food culture of Chinese barbecue. The study's findings indicated that from 2018 to 2021, Beijing, Shanghai, and Zhejiang, as well as the northeastern region represented by Heilongjiang and Liaoning, were the hotspots for Chinese barbecue. As Chinese barbecue centers spread, so did their influence on other regions and food culture circles. There are many regions that share a high degree of similarity with Liaoning's comments, and the ideological similarity of consumers in these regions is growing. The migration routes of Chinese barbecue centers were Heilongjiang, Liaoning, Tianjin and Beijing, Shanghai and Zhejiang. According to the heat prediction, it was found that the heat centers in 2022 and 2023 were Beijing, Shanghai and Zhejiang respectively. Through the verification of questionnaires and interviews, it was found that the Chinese barbecue culture has been developed and this influences people's food-related behaviors.

Related Factors of Teacher Job Satisfaction in Elementary Schools of East Asian Countries: Evidence from the TALIS dataset

<p>本研究以2018年OECD的教與學國際調查資料探討臺灣、日本、韓國的國小教師工作滿意度因素，各以3,441、3,062、3,058名教師，透過迴歸分析獲得結論如下：學校教師團隊愈創新，愈認為教職可以影響學生，工作滿意度愈高；然而教師教育程度、教職是安定工作、教職可以幫助弱勢與工作滿意度沒有關聯。這三國的差異包括：1.日本的女教師工作滿意度明顯低於男性，而臺韓則沒有差異。2.臺日的教師年資愈長，工作滿意度愈低，韓國沒有關聯。3.臺日的教師把教職作為首選，工作滿意度較高，而韓國沒有關聯。4.日本的教師工作時間愈長，工作滿意度愈低，而臺韓則沒有關聯。5.日本教師愈認為教職是可靠收入，工作滿意度愈低，而臺韓在此項沒有關聯。6.臺灣的教師愈認為教職容易安排生活時間，工作滿意度較高；日本的教師與工作滿意度為負向關聯。7.臺日的教師愈認為教職可對社會貢獻，工作滿意度愈高，然而韓國的教師沒有關聯。本研究貢獻在於儒家文化圈的學校團隊創新和教職，與學生和工作滿意度是重要的關聯因素，並針對結論提出具體建議。</p> <p> </p><p>Based on the 2018 OECD’s Teaching and Learning International Survey, this research explored factors related to the job satisfaction of elementary school teachers in Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea from 3,441, 3,062, and 3,058 teachers, respectively, and performed regression analyses. The following conclusions were obtained. The more innovative the school teacher team of school teachers in the three countries was, the more the school teachers believed that teaching positions can affect students, and the higher is their job satisfaction. However, the teacher’s educational level, teaching positions being stable jobs, and teaching positions can all help the disadvantaged, nd there was no significant correlation with job satisfaction. The differences in the three countries included the following. 1) The job satisfaction of female teachers in Japan was significantly lower than that of male teachers, while there was no significant difference between male and female teachers in Taiwan and South Korea. 2) The more senior the teachers in Taiwan and Japan were, the lower was their job satisfaction, while in South Korea, there existed no significant correlations. 3) Teachers in Taiwan and Japan prioritized teaching positions and had higher job satisfaction, whereas, in South Korea, there existed no significant correlations. 4) The longer the working week of Japanese teachers was, the lower was their job satisfaction. However, there was no significant correlation between working hours and job satisfaction of teachers in Taiwan and South Korea. 5) The more Japanese teachers thought that teaching was a reliable income, the lower was their job satisfaction, while this relationship was not significant for teachers in Taiwan and South Korea. 6) Teachers in Taiwan thought that teaching posts made it easier to arrange their lifestyle and had higher job satisfaction. Japanese teachers had a negative correlation with job satisfaction and teaching posts made it easier to arrange their lifestyle. 7) The more teachers in Taiwan and Japan believed that they can contribute to society, the higher was their job satisfaction. However, this variable was not obvious on teachers in South Korea. The contributions of this research lay in the Confucian cultural circle, school team innovation and teaching positions can affect students, and job satisfaction was an important factor. An in-depth discussion of the results and specific suggestions were offered herein.</p> <p> </p>

Proces cyfrowego scalania zbioru prasy polskiej (1801–1939) Zakładu Narodowego im. Ossolińskich rozdzielonego po II wojnie światowej

The aim of the study is to present digitalization as a method of virtual consolidation and sharing of scattered collections or those remaining outside the country, which due to their nature are closely related to the circle of Polish culture. The analysis was based on the conclusions resulting from the project of digital consolidation of the collection of the Polish press (1801– 1939) of the National Ossoliński Institute during the Lviv period of activity, numbering in September 1939 no fewer than 5000 titles, which, as a result of territorial changes (1945), ended up outside the country. As a result of the efforts undertaken in the years 1946–1947, nearly 1,300 press titles were donated to Wrocław in the form of a “gift”, more than half of which were distributed as a result of the transfer of some annuals or only a supplement, when the main journal was kept. As a result, a total of about 3000 titles remained in Lviv, including over 700 completely or partially unavailable in Poland, currently stored in the Vasyl Stefanyk National Scientific Library of Ukraine in Lviv. The study attempts to search for a method to increase the efficiency of creating digital collections of collections scattered or unavailable in Poland, the comprehensive disclosure of which is often possible only through digital archiving.

HAIR MOTIF GRAVESTONES IN SOUTH WEST TAURUS: THE CASE OF MUĞLA AND DENİZLİ

Kültür insanların yaratıcılığının kaynağıdır. İnsanoğlu kendisinden önceki nesillerin tarihini ve geleneklerini miras olarak almıştır. Buna bağlı olarak da eski ile yeniyi sentezleyerek yeni yaratmalar ortaya koymuştur. Türk kültür coğrafyasının her bir noktasında oluşan bu yaratmalar farklılıklar gösterse de temelde aynı noktada buluşurlar. Böylece aynı kültür dairesindeki insanları da ortak bir zeminde bir araya getirir. Bu yaratmalar hayatın her alanında olabilmektedir. Ancak ölüm ve sonrası ile ilgili inançlarda bu durum daha açık bir şekilde kendisini göstermektedir. Yaşanılan hayattan öte dünya alemine geçiş olarak düşünülebilecek ölüm olgusu ile beraber insan ölüyü ve onun ruhunu artık doğaüstü bir varlık olarak görmeye ve tanımlamaya başlar. Ölümün gerçekleşmesinden itibaren ortada kalan bir beden ve bu bedende yaşadığına inanılan, ölümsüz olan ruhun bedenden ayrılması süreci, karmaşık inanç sistemlerinin oluşmasına, dolayısıyla ruhu bedenden ve bu dünyadan ayırmak için farklı ritüellerin ortaya çıkmasına sebep olmuştur Türkler arasında ölümle ve ölenin ruhuyla ilgili; ölüm öncesinde, ölüm sırasında ve ölümden sonra yapılan bazı uygulama ve pratikler görülmektedir. İnsanlar arasında kültürel bilgi akışı farklı şekillerde olabilmektedir. Kültürel bilgi akışının unsurlarından bir tanesi de mezarlardır. Mezarlar sadece ölüleri gömmek için değil aynı zamanda kendini ifade etme aracı olarak kullanılmaktadır. Bu sayede insanlar kendi kimliğini ve kişiliğini çevreye ifade edebilmektedir. Bununla birlikte mezarlar, bu dünya ve öte dünya arasındaki ilişkiyi somutlaştırmakta da bir ifade biçimidir. Mezarlar ve mezar taşları da yapılışları ve üzerlerindeki çeşitli sembollerle vb. soyut bir şekilde var olan düşünceleri somut bir şekle dönüştürmektedirler. Bu sayede ölen kişinin varlığı tekrar ortaya koyulmakta, böylece onun hayatını tekrar yaratma metaforuyla, ruhun yeni duruma kolaylıkla alışabilmesine imkân sağlanmaktadır. Bu sayede bir bakıma yaşam ve ölüm arasındaki uyum da ifade edilmeye çalışılmaktadır. Eski çağlardan beri sembolik birer kod olan mezar taşları üzerine yapılan semboller, şekiller, tasvirler vb. ona kutsallık sağladığı gibi aynı zamanda bu kutsallık sayesinde dokunulmazlık da sağlamaktadır. Böylece bir kaybediş, bir yok oluş karşında ölüm acısı içerisinde olan insanoğlu ölüme değil ölümsüzlüğe yönelik yaptığı bu uygulamalarla, yaşamdan sonra var olan hayatın sonsuzluğuna değer katmaktadır. Mezar taşları Türkler için bir geçmiş olduğu gibi aynı zamanda o geçmişin ruhunu taşımaları bakımında da önemlidir. Türk kültüründe saç ile ilgili inanışlar ve uygulamalar en eski dönemlerden günümüze, Sibirya’dan Anadolu’ya kadar tüm Türk coğrafyalarında görülmektedir. Bu kadar geniş bir zaman ve coğrafyada, saçın kültürel sürekliliğini sağlaması onun Türk kültüründeki önemini göstermesi bakımından dikkat çekicidir. Bu makalede genel anlamda Türk coğrafyasında saç ile ilgili inanışlar ele alınmıştır. Özeldeyse Muğla ve Denizli illerinde bulunan bazı mezar taşlarında görülen saç motifleri ve bunların Türk kültürü içerisindeki yeri hakkında değerlendirmelerde bulunulmuştur.

Motherwork Post-Displacement: Love, Trust, and Kinship through Freirean Culture Circles

This study, guided by Woman of Color feminist epistemologies, implements culture circles to highlight the agency of displaced Puerto Rican mothers. Participants expanded their social/kin networks and shared resources from which they drew to meet their family’s needs. Our space provided support for each participants’ reality based on their positionalities while centering love and trust. This work can inform how schools envision engaging with families for their own and children’s success in schools.

Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Story by Andrew Lapin

Reviewed by: Radioactive: The Father Coughlin Storyby Andrew Lapin David Weinstein (bio) Radioactive: The Father Coughlin StoryAndrew Lapin, host Eight episodes (10 12, 2021 to 11 23, 2021) Produced by Tablet Studios, with support from Maimonides Fund, in association with The WNET Group's reporting initiative Exploring Hate: Antisemitism, Racism, and Extremismhttps://www.tabletmag.com/podcasts/radioactive Radioactive, a terrific eight-part podcast series from Tablet, examines the life and legacy of Father Charles Coughlin. Tablet is well-established in Jewish news and culture circles for its daily Tabletonline magazine and weekly Unorthodoxpodcast. Radioactiverepresents a significant step forward for Tablet as a podcast producer. Unorthodoxfollows a standard format for culture podcasts: smart, charismatic hosts share their thoughts on the news and interview one or two guests, who usually have a book or other product to promote. Radioactivetakes elements of this format: An insightful host, Andrew Lapin, presents Coughlin's story assuming that the listener is well-educated and curious about history and culture, especially Jewish people and ideas. But Radioactivealso expands on the familiar podcast style by ambitiously incorporating elements that are more typical in historical documentary films. Radioactiveis driven by a rich narrative, meticulous research, surprising archival material, and apt clips of interviews with scholars who are experts in their respective fields. The series will engage historians and general listeners, including those who already know a little about Coughlin. Radioactiveis the first podcast series for the Detroit-based Lapin, an experienced print journalist, and occasional commentator on other radio shows and podcasts, who has published widely about film, popular culture, and American Jewish life. Lapin contextualizes Coughlin's biography within the histories of radio, American Catholicism, American Nazism, 1930s political movements, and political communication. The host peppers his fast-moving narrative history with surprising anecdotes about people who came into Coughlin's orbit, from Babe Ruth to J. Edgar Hoover. Lapin also interviews appropriate archivists and scholars who succinctly analyze Coughlin and his times. For example, American Jewish Historyreaders will hear the familiar voices of Gary Zola, Richard Breitman, and Thomas Doherty. Throughout the series, Lapin incorporates rare archival audio of Coughlin's radio speeches, including many that have not circulated among radio collectors and will be new to most Radioactivelisteners. The audio quality of these archival programs is excellent. Radioactive's engineers have removed the crackles, pops, and broadcast interference typical of radio disks from this era. Links to [End Page 334]additional audio clips, primary articles, scholarly books, and full program transcripts are available through co-producer WNET's Exploring Hate website: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/exploring-hate/series/radioactive/. These resources will be useful to teachers, though there is, at this time, only one link to additional Coughlin programs: a poorly organized online Coughlin archive at the University of Detroit-Mercy. The producers may have been unable to secure rights to stream Coughlin's broadcasts on the Exploring Hate site. In fact, neither the website nor the individual episode credits are as clear as they should be about the provenance of the best Radioactiveclips of Coughlin. A popular Catholic priest with a weekly radio program, Coughlin stands today as a prominent symbol of, and catalyst for, American antisemitism during the 1930s. Radioactivepresents a nuanced account of Coughlin's career and politics. Born in Hamilton, Ontario in 1891, Coughlin was ordained in 1916. His career took off in 1926, when Reverend Michael Gallagher, Bishop of Detroit, offered Coughlin an opportunity to start a new parish, the Shrine of the Little Flower, in Royal Oak, north of Detroit. Coughlin used the emerging medium of radio to expand his influence through weekly sermons: a fiery mix of anti-communism, isolationism, populism, and commentary on Scripture. During the late 1920s, radio became a powerful force in American life, reaching listeners across the country with the same programing simultaneously. "Radio could sell cereal," Lapin asserts, "But was it big enough to sell God? In 1927, just a few months into his radio career, Father Coughlin took a big bet that the answer was going to be yes." By 1930, Coughlin was airing nationally on the...

The meaning and possibility of applying elements of Buddhist ethical accounting education in the Christian cultural circle

Purpose: The aim of the article is to present the principles of Buddhist ethical educa-tion in the context of their usefulness for the study of ethics in accounting in Poland. Methodology/approach: a critical and comparative literature analysis was used. Findings: Buddhist ethics offers a significant development of Mele’s model, which is largely based on Catholic ethics and has great potential for application in the Polish cultural circle. The model expanded in this way illustrates the impact and importance of developing the right view on developing practical knowledge and virtues, meditating practice on cultivating the right view, and the conditioning between effective (right) meditation and the ability to concentrate properly. Finally, this model emphasizes the continuity and repetition of the processes leading to “moral behavior”. Research limitations/implications: The model presented in the article can be used to develop new educational techniques in teaching accounting ethics. Originality/value: The article fills the cognitive gap regarding the Buddhist model of teaching the ethics of accounting, which is a potential supplement to educational theo-ries and techniques in this field, and indicates the directions of research that may con-firm the possible usefulness of its application in combination with Mele’s model.

Elitocid: Sistematsko ubijanje imama u Srebrenici i okolini od 1992. do 1995. godine

The attack of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) and other Serb forces on Podrinje in the spring of 1992 was followed with mass detention, persecution, and mass killings of Bosniaks in towns and villages in the Drina River Valley. The beginning of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina found the Islamic Community in new circumstances and faced with new issues. Mosques and other facilities of the Islamic Community were the target of destruction by Serb forces. The imams were purposely sought by the perpetrators in order to be killed. In addition to the biological threat itself, the Islamic Community and imams were faced with other issues arising in the midst of the war - burial of victims of mass crimes, moral support for victims and their families, and religious activities including religious instruction and support for defenders. The Srebrenica Islamic Community Committee's May 1995 report states that there are 51 imams in their area, most of whom have been involved in the work of the Islamic Community. This paper deals with elitocide on the example of the murders of imams in Srebrenica and its surroundings from 1992 to 1995. Elitocide is one of the key segments of the genocide against Bosniaks in Podrinje, which has not been the subject of significant research so far. This paper specifically deals with the murder of imams as an important aspect of elitocide in the context of Podrinje and Bosnia and Herzegovina. The work is based on information gathered from war reports, as well as the testimonies of surviving imams and witnesses to their killings or disappearances. The aim of this paper is to present a rather unexplored segment of our recent history based on case studies of Srebrenica - the United Nations enclave. One of the most brutal executions of the imam took place at the very beginning of the genocide, in May 1992 in the Bratunac camp when Mustafa-ef. Mujkanovic was publicly tortured and killed. The aim of this harassment and public murder was to send a message to the Bosniak population in Bratunac - that this awaits them as well. In the Bosnian context, especially in traditional Bosniak communities such as eastern Bosnia, imams have represented and continue to represent not only religious authorities but also socially active actors in their micro-communities. Given the specifics of the communist organization of the Islamic Community of Yugoslavia, and the specifics of their status in the then socio-political paradigm, imams cannot be considered elites in the narrow sense, which mainly means influence, power and wider influence and education. Their status is far from any wider and more important influence, but in Bosnian cultural circles, especially in micro-regions, the role and importance of imams is very important despite their unenviable socio-economic status. During the genocide in Srebrenica in July 1995, 26 imams were killed, or half as many as there were in the enclave. This destroyed not only families and settlements, but also complete spiritual communities, which existed for decades on these sites. The planned killing of imams as religious authorities in local communities was aimed at leaving the Bosniak population of the region completely without important local authorities. The genocide of Bosniaks in Podrinje, perpetrated by Serb forces - the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA), the Republika Srpska Army and Police and other special units and paramilitary formations from the Republic of Serbia - began in 1992 and ended in July 1995 - left local Bosniak communities almost completely destroyed and survivors with little chance of complete recovery.