Review: <i>Bear with Me: A Cultural History of Famous Bears in America</i> , by Daniel Horowitz

How can residents’ cognitions enrich village tourism planning? Field research in three atypical traditional villages of southern Anhui, China

Studies on the application of the Market Place Activity (MPA) model in teaching Islamic Cultural History (SKI) at the Madrasah Aliyah level remain limited, as does in-depth exploration of students’ responses to this model in the context of Islamic history. This study aims to analyze the process of implementing the MPA model at MAN 2 Kebumen and its impact on the cognitive, affective, and conative dimensions of students’ responses. This study employed a descriptive qualitative approach involving the SKI teacher, the vice principal for curriculum, and students selected through purposive sampling. Data were collected through participant observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The results showed that the implementation of the MPA model was carried out systematically through the stages of planning, implementation, and evaluation. This model helped students master the material in the cognitive dimension, increased enthusiasm and communication skills in the affective dimension, and demonstrated the effectiveness of process evaluation through non-test techniques in monitoring student engagement and oral mastery of the material, although the aspect of written assessment still requires optimization. These findings indicate that the MPA model is a strategic alternative for modernizing SKI instruction, which has thus far been dominated by the lecture method, while also providing a theoretical contribution to the development of Islamic pedagogy literature and practical implications for educational institutions in strengthening more active history learning.

The Slow Death of Slavery in Dutch New York: a Cultural, Economic, and Demographic History, 1700–1827, written by Michael J. Douma

ABSTRACT Museums housing cultural artifacts have long faced restitution claims while these are only beginning to affect natural history museums. Conversely, the law on cultural property restitution does not reflect a such distinction. This article examines the puzzling disconnect between cultural museums and natural history museums regarding restitution, and the comprehensive legal framework that governs it. By developing a genealogy of today’s museum landscape that builds on Foucault’s The Order of Things and Discipline and Punish, the article understands museums as institutions that constitute and enforce a given structure of knowledge and permit exercising control over the material world. Either function is contingent on a historical period’s epistemic configuration, and changes therein are key to understanding why eclectic Renaissance collections, the famous Wunderkammern or cabinets of curiosities, disintegrated into disciplinary museums. Understanding the genealogy of museum diversification is essential for critically approaching and eventually overcoming the false dichotomy between natural history and cultural museums regarding restitution.

Data for cultural history of malaria in Hungary

This article aims, through new historiographical research within the new paradigm of Cultural History, to address the short story as a literary textual genre, but within a new model of the historiography of making and writing history: the stories of the people of the Amazon. This approach aligns with Popular Culture and Oral History. The folk tales of the people of the Amazon are told through their experiences and journeys along the rivers, lands, and riverbanks of the remote corners of the great Amazon River and the immensity of the forest. They carry with them particularities that characterize very well what Amazonian oral culture is, and the result of the relationship between these people and their cultural exuberance, which is born and flows into representations and practices such as: historical, economic, political, cultural, social, and religious, which nourish and are nourished by the phenomenon of life built in this unique context. This process of construction of the Amazonian people manifests itself in their diverse forms of coexistence with nature through the rich imagination that flourishes, giving rise to the famous... Tales, stories, popular tall tales or fishermen's stories, laden with unique symbolism, contribute directly and indirectly to the enrichment of the local and regional popular culture of the Amazon, through tradition and oral storytelling, transmitted from generation to generation over time and space in that place.

The integration of artificial intelligence into clinical practice demands fundamental reconsideration of how we conceptualize diagnosis. Clinical and popular discourse often frames diagnosis as a "virtuoso model" emphasizing individual physician expertise, which inadequately addresses the complexities of human-AI collaboration and overlooks work on its distributed and social dimensions. We propose a pluralistic framework moving beyond this paradigm toward a model better suited for AI integration. Drawing from medical and cultural history, sociological analysis, and cognitive science, we identify four key shifts necessary to reconceptualize diagnosis for the AI context: recognizing diagnosis as distributed cognition rather than simply individual virtuosity; embracing metacognitive awareness for human-AI collaboration; acknowledging patients as diagnostic co-creators rather than passive subjects; and understanding diagnosis as contextual and culturally situated. Successful AI integration requires moving beyond viewing AI as threat or efficiency tool toward reconceptualizing diagnosis as a collaborative, technologically-mediated activity where clinicians function as interpreters, patients as co-creators, and AI as specialized partners with transparent limitations. This framework demands new approaches to medical education and human-computer interaction research to realize AI's potential while preserving essential human judgment.

Reframing traditional Irish music through an interdisciplinary lens, this study investigates its function within the cultural and identity transformations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland. The research aims to elucidate how musical traditions contributed to the formation of cultural nationalism and the reconstruction of collective memory during a period marked by colonization, modernization, and globalization. The scope of the study extends beyond Ireland’s borders to examine the role of diaspora communities and international festivals in transmitting and redefining Irish traditional music within global cultural networks. Methodologically, it employs qualitative, comparative, and content-based approaches, supported by institutional case studies such as Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, archival resources, and statistical migration data. The theoretical framework draws upon the ethnomusicological insights of John Blacking and Frank Harrison, emphasizing the socio-cultural construction of musical meaning. The findings reveal that Irish traditional music—far from being a static heritage—has functioned as a dynamic medium of resistance, identity expression, and cultural continuity. Moreover, its international dissemination demonstrates how vernacular musical traditions can adapt to global contexts while maintaining their indigenous roots. By integrating perspectives from musicology, anthropology, and cultural history, this article underscores the necessity of recognizing traditional Irish music as a vital site of cultural negotiation and interdisciplinary inquiry, urging broader engagement with non-Anglophone perspectives within ethnomusicological scholarship.

ABSTRACT This article proposes a tri-scalar theoretical—methodological model for the comparative study of rock music history in South America, focusing on Argentina and Chile between 1954 and 1983. Drawing on Peter Taylor’s scalar approach and Philip McMichael’s incorporated comparison, the study seeks to overcome nationalist and essentialist narratives that have dominated Latin American rock historiography. Rock is analyzed as a situated cultural practice within a world-system, where global, national, and local scales interact dynamically. The article integrates concepts from world-systems theory, cultural studies, and cultural history to examine processes of translation, hybridity, and resistance in peripheral and authoritarian contexts. Through the cases of Buenos Aires, Santiago, Santa Fe, and San Miguel, it demonstrates divergent trajectories of institutionalization, memory, and canon formation. While Argentina consolidated a discourse of “national rock,” Chilean rock was fragmented by dictatorship and displaced into underground circuits. The article contributes to a transnational and peripheral history of Latin American rock, emphasizing scale, circulation, and relational comparison.

ABSTRACT This article examines the tensions between Peruvian rock musicians and the celebrity industry at the end of the 1960s. Examining celebrity magazines and supplements, it argues that Peruvian rock musicians physically sustained their art through live concerts to avoid being commodified as noncontroversial aspirational figures. Through a cultural history approach, it explores the relation between Peruvian cultural industries and the Nueva Ola, a label used to define young music artists as celebrities; the impact of live performances in the rock culture of the late sixties; and the challenges of print editors to present rock musicians as aspirational figures.

Abstract Overhearing is a ubiquitous phenomenon in the experience of illness, but it has only recently been recognized as a robust mode of communication in the medical encounter. In this article, I link two early English accounts of overhearing one’s own prognosis to modern-day discussions of eavesdropping, both literary-theoretical and clinical. An anecdote in Henry Daniel’s uroscopy Liber uricrisiarum suggests that overhearing can serve as narrative motivation for a patient’s reclamation of their own future, a possibility likewise explored by the protagonist of Thomas Hoccleve’s Complaint and Dialogue as he overhears and seeks to undo the communal prognosis attached to his body. I argue that overhearing highlights the epistemic inequalities inherent in prognosis communication, but also usefully complicates the divide between public and private selves and provides room for imagining alternative futures. This article contributes both to a better understanding of overhearing as a narrative device and to building a longer cultural history of illness-related communication.

The professionalism of teachers is essential for enhancing student learning results, especially in Islamic Cultural History (SKI) subjects in elementary schools. This study intends to analyze the development of SKI teacher professionalism through the implementation of the Merdeka Curriculum, which focuses on varied or different learning methods. Varied learning requires teachers to identify and cater to students’ different needs, including variations in skills, interests, backgrounds, and learning styles, so that every student can reach their best learning results.This research uses a qualitative method with a literature review approach, examining various relevant theories, earlier studies, and policy documents concerning teacher professionalism, the Merdeka Curriculum, and varied learning. The results show that teacher professionalism is shown not only in knowledge of the subject but also in teaching skills, flexibility, and ongoing self-improvement. SKI teachers need to be responsive to curriculum changes, especially the shift from the K13 curriculum to the Merdeka Curriculum, by creating adaptable, student-focused learning experiences.Moreover, effective strategies to improve teacher professionalism include using creative teaching approaches, contextual learning, and integrating technology-based resources to support interactive and meaningful learning. These strategies help teachers to better meet student diversity and encourage participation in SKI subjects. In the end, enhancing teacher professionalism greatly impacts the quality of learning and the achievement of educational objectives.

When researching the experiences of African minorities as immigrants, using authentic or indigenous methodologies requires a deep understanding of both the socio-cultural dimensions of migration and the exclusionary structures within the marketplace. We highlight how indigenous methodologies can be used to examine four themes: (1) market exclusion and structural barriers ( including economic, social, cultural); (2) the use of diverse epistemologies to ensure research on African immigrants incorporates Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) principles and recognizes the legitimacy of multiple ways of knowing; (3) how African immigrants navigate identity through cultural continuity, adaptation, and resistance; and (4) the validation of African immigrants’ voices and knowledge by positioning them as central actors in the research. Using the Two-Eyed Seeing approach and the Ubuntu African philosophy, we extend our understanding of decolonizing by demonstrating how qualitative consumer research can empower ethnic minority populations with distinct cultural identities and colonial histories, fostering inclusivity and relationality in the field of marketing.

The authors have withdrawn this manuscript because follow-up molecular authentication and validation studies of cryopreserved early and later parasite passages identified discordant species-specific PCR signals, including evidence of both Babesia microti and Babesia duncani markers in some archived cultures, indicating that the culture history and the timing of contamination or species overgrowth remain unresolved and may materially affect the conclusions of the study. Therefore, the authors do not wish this work to be cited as reference for the project. If you have any questions, please contact the corresponding author.

ABSTRACT Drawing on the personal documents of the author's great–grandparents, Annemarie (1884–1968) and Heinrich Brenzinger (1879–1960), this article makes the case for a history of the Holocaust that accounts for the complexity of everyday life in the Nazi dictatorship. It approaches the Brenzingers' family archive as an open-ended repository of meanings to investigate the social and political fabric of the Third Reich. Introducing cultural family history as a productive methodology for elucidating the subjective and relational dimensions of individual responses to the Nazi regime, the article argues that persecution and participation in the Third Reich were culturally contingent, socially inseparable dynamics.

Ahmed Yerima has convincingly argued in his plays that drama constitutes a reliable alternative to historical narratives that enables a focus on Nigerian political discourses. Close readings of Yerima’s plays probe into the country’s socio-political problematics. Arguably, while memory has remained significant and relevant in the crafting of the dramaturgies in Yerima’s plays, politics has continued to be used broadly as a device of thematic deconstruction. Recurringly, Nigeria often features as an over-arching (political) setting in most of Yerima’s plays. Based on the playwright’s demonstrated understanding of the specific problems associated with each geopolitical region, expressed in a different dimension, the country’s political and cultural history are usually interrogated from the multi-ethnics’ perspectives and grievances as can be seen from the inclusions of characters and scenes from the Niger Delta’s political agitations in Hard Ground and the Fulani characters, and their idea of power relations with other Nigeria’s ethnic groups in Hendu. A scrutiny of Yerima’s plays reveals that tension in post-colonial Nigeria is explained not only by the peculiarity of the geopolitical area or people affected, but also by a reaction to the perceived marginality or neglect in terms of government’s (non)distributions of economic and political privileges.

Review of Christian Conversion and Mission: A Brief Cultural History. By Andrew F. Walls.

An overview of the main provisions of the book by the famous Russian scholar, one of the founders of the Vladimir Linguistic School, Professor V.I. Furashov, is given. It is dedicated to the chronicle pages of the history of Russian linguistics of the XIX–XXI centuries. It is noted that the author has a rare philological intonation to feel the personality of a scientist in the context of scientific achievements of the turning points of time. Among V.I. Furashov’s heroes are outstanding linguists A.A. Potebnya, A.M. Peshkovsky, L.V. Shcherba, and B.N. Golovin. The book also contains essays on the life and work of Vladimir linguists – A.M. Iordansky, P.B. Gurvich, V.F. Kiprianov, A.B. Penkovsky, A.B. Kopeliovich, V.V. Noskova. The “Appendix” contains the “List of scientific papers of Doctor of Philology, Professor V.I. Furashov” and “Candidate dissertations conducted under the supervision of V.I. Furashov”. The cycle of biographical essays “I come to Usachevka with my heart ...”, documenting the atmosphere of student and postgraduate life at the V.I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical University in the late 1950s – 1960s and drawing portraits of original scientists and famous creative personalities of those years, is of particular memoir value. This book was V.I. Furashov’s last major work. It will be used in the courses “Introduction to Linguistics”, “History of linguistic studies”, “General Linguistics”, in works on grammar, lexicology, history of scientific culture, in vocabulary and biographical practice.

Taxonomic Graecism: the historical hegemony of Ancient Greek and cultural bias in molluscan family nomenclature