Cultural Stories Research Articles

Pain Among Professional Orchestral Musicians: A Case Study in Body Culture and Health Psychology

Professional musicians experience high rates of musculoskeletal pain, but only few studies have investigated how this pain is accepted by musicians. To investigate the culture of pain and to explore how professional musicians experience and cope with pain. Ten semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted; 8 with musicians and 2 with professional elite athletes. In addition, a concert and two rehearsals were observed. The audiotaped interviews were transcribed verbatim. Configurational analysis was used to interpret the material as a whole. Musicians often experience pain as a consequence of prolonged repetitive work early in their career. Such pain is compounded by the lack of breaks during concerts and rehearsals. Orchestras seldom give opportunities for adjustments required for individual instruments, breaks, or action to prevent pain. Musicians' strong sense of coherence and the experience of pain as integral to their identity have encouraged musicians to develop flexible coping strategies. Ignoring pain and potential damage is an accepted concomitant to striving for perfection. A musician does not focus on pain but on the music. For the musician, pain has a significance beyond being something that can simply be removed by a practitioner. Pain tells both an individual story and a cultural story that is crying out to be heard.

Breakdown Is Built into It: A Politics of Resilience in a Disabling World

Resilience is an interdisciplinary concept that has been interrogated and investigated in a number of fields of research and practice including psychology, climate change, trauma studies, education and disaster planning. This paper considers its position within critical disability studies, popular understandings of disability and the emergence of a disability culture...

Citizen-Centered Governance: The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Evolution of CRM in Boston

Citizen-Centered Governance: The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics and the Evolution of CRM in Boston

Transcending the “Black Raven”: An Autoethnographic and Intergenerational Exploration of Stalinist Oppression

Many of Canada’s aging immigrants were displaced persons in Europe post-WWII and have internalized psychological effects of their traumatic past within a society that tends to marginalize or pathologize them. While early collective trauma literature focuses on individualized, psychotherapeutic approaches, more recent literature demonstrates the importance of externalizing and contextualizing trauma and fostering validating dialogue within families and community systems to facilitate transformation on many levels. My research is an autoethnographic exploration of lifespan and intergenerational effects of trauma perceived by Russian Mennonite women who fled Stalinist Russia to Germany during WWII and migrated to Winnipeg, Canada, and adult sons or daughters of this generation of women. Sixteen individual life narratives, including my own, generated a collective narrative for each generation. Most participants lost male family members during Stalin’s Great Terror, verschleppt, or disappeared in a vehicle dubbed the Black Raven. Survivors tended to privilege stories of resilience – marginalizing emotions and mental weakness. The signature story of many adult children involved their mother’s resilience, suppressed psychological issues, and emotional unavailability. Results underline the importance of narrative exchange that validates marginalized storylines and promotes individual, intergenerational, and cultural story reconstruction within safe social and/or professional environments, thus supporting healthy attachments.

DAPHNA ARBEL, J.R.C. COUSLAND AND DIETMAR NEUFELD, ...And So They Went Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story

DAPHNA ARBEL, J.R.C. COUSLAND AND DIETMAR NEUFELD, ...And So They Went Out: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story

Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture

Introduction: Specifying mothers/motherhoods

The place of mothers and motherhoods in commercial life represents one of the great under-told stories of consumer culture. At once revered and despised as leisure shoppers, women nevertheless have borne the brunt of the labor of consumption for the household and thus have garnered the attention of advertisers and marketers since at least the early decades of the 20th century. During these formative years, the ‘mother’, as conceptual persona, can be found informing the design and staffing of retail spaces of urban department stores in the USA (Benson, 1986; Cook, 2004), completing the ‘family circle’ in depictions of the ‘housewife’ in advertising promotions (Marchand 1985) and occupying center stage in consumer education efforts of the time (Frederick, 1929). A good deal of the story of the mother– consumer – in both historical and contemporary treatments – has until recently remained enfolded into, and perhaps lost in, the general figure of a ‘female’ consumer with all if of its attendant ideologically inflected foibles and presumptions. Indeed, relatively recent key works focusing on women and shopping, such as those by DeVault (1991), Miller (1998) and Zukin (2004), tend to elide the specificities of what women do as mothers and thus of how constructs and understandings of motherhood may inform those of womanhood as well as those regarding consumption. Motherhood remains caught in the tussle between seemingly disparate forms of value and valuation. Abiding cultural norms continue to set expectations for mothers to defer some measure of personal gratification to their children’s ‘needs’, or at least to their wants, both at home and in the marketplace. Yet, it is in the regular handling of children’s desires that the sorting of priorities and the fabricating of value take place on a fundamental, everyday basis. It also is in the handling of such desires that various motherhoods come to be constituted as social practice (cf. Warde, 2005). As Douglas and Isherwood remind us, consumption, in the broad sense, constitutes the way the materials of culture become organized. It is ‘the very arena in which culture is fought over and licked into shape’ (1979: 57). Consumption here includes the sorting of values – of good from bad, of appropriate from

Arbel, Daphna, Cousland, J. R. C., and Neufeld, Dietmar. “And So They Went Out”: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story. London: T & T Clark International, 2010. xvi+189 pp. $130.00 (cloth).

Arbel, Daphna, Cousland, J. R. C., and Neufeld, Dietmar. <i>“And So They Went Out”: The Lives of Adam and Eve as Cultural Transformative Story</i>. London: T &amp; T Clark International, 2010. xvi+189 pp. $130.00 (cloth).

Cultura y economía para la sobrevivencia: procesos y relatos desde el etnoterritorio nahua de tehuipango, en la sierra de zongolica, veracruz

The paper focus on territory and etnoterritory of sierra de Zongolica in Mexico where the nahuas from municipality of Tehuipango –at the “cold zone” of the sierra– have begun to link their experience on international migration to new experiences that cause social and cultural changes. For the moment, reflection on the changes caused by leaving for the big cities of central Mexico and the north is not a priority issue in nahua communities in the area, given the historic necessity to meet basic needs. The marginality has by generations obligated peasants from Tehuipango to leave temporally their villages even for finding suitable soils to sow corn for feeding their families.Nowadays etnoterritory of Tehuipango and others neighboring municipalities have several fundamentals that were originated in different cultures. This article provides a contextual overview enabling one to deal with various stories of regional and local culture, from traditional agriculture and cosmology to the present day economic facts, as well as a description of the context and perspectives on the basis of its inhabitants’ foreign work experience.

American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States by Michael Weingrad, and: Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature by Stephen Katz, and: Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz (review)

Reviewed by: American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States by Michael Weingrad, and: Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature by Stephen Katz, and: Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry by Alan Mintz Shachar Pinsker (bio) American Hebrew Literature: Writing Jewish National Identity in the United States. Michael Weingrad, Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2010. 280 pages. $34.95 cloth. Red, Black, and Jew: New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature. Stephen Katz. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. 363 pages. $30.00 cloth. Sanctuary in the Wilderness: A Critical Introduction to American Hebrew Poetry. Alan Mintz. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 544 pages. $65.00 cloth. In 2003, Alan Mintz wrote in The Cambridge Companion to Jewish American Literature that the "existence of a substantial body of Hebrew literature written on American shores is one of the best-kept secrets of Jewish American cultural history" (92). Almost a decade later, the secret of Hebrew in America has been revealed with three new books by Stephen Katz, Michael Weingard and Alan Mintz. But what exactly is the secret and why is it being uncovered now? Does it tell us something new about American-Jewish culture, something that historians and literary scholars did not know, or at least did not pay attention to until now? Part of the "secret" revealed in these three books is no doubt the very existence of a living and breathing literary and cultural Hebrew presence in America during most of the 20th century. The common story of American Jewish culture is one of the immigrants' Yiddish giving way to English as a language of everyday communication and Jewish cultural and literary activity. Hebrew, on the other hand, is identified today almost exclusively with the State of Israel or as a language of religious liturgy and ancient texts. But these three books make it amply clear that Hebrew has been a viable option for extraterritorial creativity and Jewish identity in America. In 1927 (around the most productive time for Hebrew letters in America), Daniel Persky counted no less than 110 active writers of poetry, prose, criticism, scholarship, essays and journalism, who published their work in Hebrew journals, newspapers and books, most of them edited and produced in America. Although they never reached the mass readership that the Yiddish press attracted and always were as an elitist (even aristocratic) minority group, their numbers and their literary and cultural activity were quite impressive. So who were these figures, sometimes referred to as "Hebraists"? Although there have been (and still are today) a handful of American-born [End Page 183] writers of Hebrew literature, the overwhelming majority came from Eastern Europe to the United States as part of the migration that took place between the 1880s and the 1920s. Hebrew was not their mother tongue, but a language they acquired as part of their traditional and modern Jewish education. They inherited the legacy of European Haskalah, with its emphasis on Hebrew as a core of Jewish spiritual wellspring, and were part of the great ferment that Benjamin Harshav called "the modern Jewish revolution" at the turn of the 20th century, which saw the simultaneous emergence of Jewish nationalism and socialism, the rise of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature which went hand in hand with a mass Jewish migration out of the Pale of Settlement. These Hebrew writers lived and worked in large American urban centers of Jewish immigration: New York City (which was certainly the center of Hebrew cultural activity), Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit, but some of them arrived in far-flung corners of America. If we think of them as a group, it existed mainly as a network or virtual community of writers scattered across the vast country. The majority of Hebrew writers were also educators, teaching in Jewish schools and teachers colleges, which some of them founded, led and nurtured for years. Indeed, as both Mintz and Weingrad make clear, the most far-reaching impact the Hebrew movement had on American Jewish life was in the area of education. They effectively transformed Jewish education in America into what is known until today as "Hebrew school," with its...

Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture by Sara E. Melzer

Bernardet of the one-act La voix humaine, is followed by Hélène Laplace-Claveries’s more readable and more illuminating examination of how in his Arguments chorégraphiques , Cocteau is less a librettist than a ‘choréconteur’ and how he privileges a choreographic present tense in these texts for dance. For her part, Bénédicte Gorrillot ploddingly and painstakingly traces the myth of Orpheus, specifically the influence in Cocteau’s works of “un fonds orphique de nature religieuse, associé à une parole mythique (d’ordre métaphysique), antérieur aux reformulations de l’Empire romain” (116). Roberto Zemignan points in his reading of Le testament d’Orphée to the inherent tension between the linearity of action and the disruption of deductive logic, as dramatized , indeed “parasitée” (6), by dream. In the last contribution of the first section, “Comment Cocteau raconte quand il parle,” Pierre-Marie Héron examines the interplay between the spirit of conversation and the appeal of narration in the writer-poet’s public talks, radio broadcasts, and newspaper contributions. Hardly revelatory, Héron’s conclusion, like many of the‘findings’by the authors before him, is surprisingly banal: “Cocteau parle et raconte en variant la manière et l’allure de son propos, avec un sens sûr de ‘l’exactitude’ du style selon le public et le genre” (182). The contributions in the second part of the volume do little to increase its usefulness. They include two articles on stage works, a study by Marianne Bouchardon of “les ficelles du théâtre” (187) in Cocteau’s ‘poésie au théâtre’ and his ‘poésie de théâtre’ and one by Ariane Martinez of the creator’s “arguments chorégraphiques” (207); a piece by Évanghélia Stead on the short-lived Schéhérazade, founded by Cocteau with François Bernouard in November 1909, and which was simultaneously a“revue de poésie,”“revue de belle typographie,”and“revue mondaine”(238); and Alex Callebaut’s more inspired reading of the paradoxical preface of the 1954 poetic collection Clair-obscur, in which he shows the genetic tension between the definitional and the metaphorical.All things considered and given the other unremarkable contributions preceding it—which hardly provide the “perspectives larges et variées” (7) that Linares promises in his foreword—it is probably the most interesting and original essay. California Polytechnic State University Brian G. Kennelly Melzer, Sara E. Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture. Philadelphia: UP of Pennsylvania, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8122-4363-5. Pp. 320. $75. Boileau and the discourse of colonialism? Early modern French letters and thought as a bridge to understanding France’s mindset and history as a colonial power? Sara Melzer makes that case. She does not treat as merely humorous Boileau’s denunciation of Perrault and the Modernes as a bunch of wild Indians—“Hurons” and “Topinamboux”—or Rouen’s celebration of the 1550 royal entry of Henri II and Catherine de Médicis with the tableau vivant of a Brazilian village that included fifty 230 FRENCH REVIEW 87.1 Reviews 231 natives of the country brought to France for the occasion, but she asks instead what these unconventional episodes and events reveal about how early modern France saw itself. In so doing, she calls into question a standard view of French Classicism as a moment when,by imitating the Ancients,French writers and thinkers sought to elevate their own country’s culture to the same level as that of their models in the pantheon of cultural greatness. René Girard, whose work is cited in the bibliography and seems always to hover at the edges of this study, would not be surprised to learn that imitation , even of so distant a model as the Ancients, brings with it troubling implications. All may well have started with the Gauls, as some late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century writers tried to establish, by way of liberating French culture from the Frankish-Trojan ancestry that so tightly and uncomfortably attached it to Ancient Rome. Although ultimately successful, these writers encountered two irksome facts: the Gauls had been colonized by the Romans, who considered them barbarians...

PLANTS AS A SIGN OF LATGALIAN IDENTITY IN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, WRITING AND STORIES

PLANTS AS A SIGN OF LATGALIAN IDENTITY IN CULTURAL LANDSCAPE, WRITING AND STORIES

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‘Read me to resilience’: Exploring the use of cultural stories to boost the positive adjustment of children orphaned by AIDS

The study explored whether and how culturally sensitive stories can encourage resilience in young children orphaned by AIDS. The purpose of the investigation was allied to the paradigm of positive psychology, which focuses on the promotion of potential strengths to buffer children against adversity, as well as on social ecological understandings of resilience, which emphasise that social ecologies have a duty to facilitate children's positive adjustment to adversity. A pre–post-intervention evaluation was used to gather qualitative data on orphaned children's resilience to AIDS-related adversity by employing participatory visual methods. The intervention, called Read-me-to-Resilience (Rm2R), consisted of telling 22 culturally sensitive stories to the children. We compared the pre- and post-intervention data for each participant before thematically analysing the total findings. Our analysis indicates that the children's resilience had been bolstered in the period between the pre-test and post-test. We conclude that culturally relevant stories could be used by South African caregivers, service providers, and educators as an accessible, inexpensive and ready-made tool to directly empower children who have been orphaned by AIDS.

Managing Integration: Clemente, Wills, “Harry the Hat,” and the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1967 Season of Discontent

Managing IntegrationClemente, Wills, “Harry the Hat,” and the Pittsburgh Pirates’ 1967 Season of Discontent John N. Ingham (bio) The Pirates had a powerful team in 1966. Winning ninety-two games, they were in the pennant race to the end, battling the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Francisco Giants. A doubleheader sweep of the Phillies on September 28 put the Pirates just a game and a half behind the Dodgers entering the final weekend. The Bucs then lost three straight to the Giants in Pittsburgh to finish in third place. The Pirates, nonetheless, had one of the most powerful offensive teams in the 1960s, with a .279 team batting average and 759 runs scored. Roberto Clemente won the National League Most Valuable Player Award, Matty Alou led the league in batting, and second baseman Bill Mazeroski set a record for double plays. The two weaknesses of the team were pitching and at third base. The Pirates general manager, Joe L. Brown, addressed both issues in the off-season by trading for pitchers Juan Pizarro and Dennis Ribant and pulling off a blockbuster trade with the Dodgers for baseball’s stolen-base king, Maury Wills.1 Brown was euphoric about the Pirates’ chances in 1967, saying: “This is the best Pirate team since I became general manager in 1956. We’ve added three men since the season ended, and any one of them could have won the pennant for us last season.”2 Most baseball pundits, Las Vegas bookmakers, and other observers tended to agree. Arthur Daley of the New York Times stated that the Pirates were “overwhelming pennant favorites, assuming they get any decent pitching.”3 Yet, the 1967 season turned out to be a profound disappointment, as the team was mired in dissension and discord while struggling to finish in sixth place. What happened? It is not unusual for teams that are favored to win the pennant to falter as the Pirates did, and certainly the under-performance of Pirate pitchers, as Arthur Daley feared, was part of the problem. The cause, however, apparently lies elsewhere. Clubhouse dissent was a major factor and was commented on frequently by local sportswriters, despite constant denials from team officials [End Page 69] and players. What is not clear is the source of this conflict. This article contends that the Pirates were ultimately brought down by varying currents of racism pulsing through the nation in the 1960, as well as by interethnic and intraracial hostilities among American and Latino blacks that played out in the clubhouse and on the field. The story of integration in baseball, until very recently, has been bimodal, with African Americans struggling for acceptance and recognition from Major League Baseball and from white society, finally achieving success in the 1940s. It is an uplifting and dramatic story with Jackie Robinson and Branch Rickey understandably at the center. Recently, however, scholars like Adrian Burgos Jr. have demonstrated that the story of the integration of baseball and, in fact, of American society, is more complex than previously believed.4 As he has demonstrated, complicating that earlier story is the nearly simultaneous entry of many Latinos and especially black Latinos into the national pastime. The 1967 Pirates provide an excellent place within which to view this complex story of race, culture, ethnicity, racism, and intraracial hostility. Of the twenty-seven players who spent the greatest amount of time on the team’s active roster in 1967, 48 percent were white, 29 percent were Latino, and 20 percent African American. The only major-league team with remotely similar percentages of these two minority groups on their roster was the San Francisco Giants, who were 75 percent white, 14 percent Latino, and 11 percent African American. The Dodgers, who had pioneered African American integration, had four American blacks on their roster, but no Latinos, and the team would not have a prominent Latin player until Fernando Valenzuela in the 1980s. In addition, the 1967 Pirates were managed by a white southerner with a reputation for racism against African Americans and a demonstrated affection for black Latinos. It was a potentially explosive combination. The city of Pittsburgh is also an interesting environment in which to...

Indian Resistance as Race War

Indian Resistance as Race War Lisa Blee (bio) Richard Kluger . The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011. xi + 330 pp. Maps, figures, bibliography, notes, and index. $30.00. When Richard Kluger conceptualized the topic for his new book, he hoped to write a fictional novel set in the rough-and-tumble Old West. What he found instead was a true story of clashing worldviews, charismatic heroes, failed diplomacy, war, and courtroom drama set in territorial Washington—the essential ingredients of an exciting narrative. Kluger thus adopted a biographical framework and delved deep into the archives to reconstruct a political, legal, and cultural story of how white Americans came to dominate Native American homelands. Kluger states that his goal is to provide an illustration of the "interaction between the white and red races" to better understand a "monumental tragedy" (p. xvi). To this end, Kluger relies on the small scale to tell what he sees as a representative story of Americans' land-hunger and Indians' victimization. Kluger nominates Washington Territorial Governor Isaac I. Stevens and Nisqually Indian headman Leschi as symbols for white and Native America, respectively. Readers familiar with Northwest history will recognize the events recounted here, as previous authors have covered aspects or the entirety of the story.1 Kluger does not offer a novel interpretation—although he contributes new material in the epilogue—but he does provide the most comprehensive account available. He has also endeavored to place what has been considered a regional story into a national framework with broader significance. Kluger is a gifted storyteller. His writing style is accessible and conversational, but his tone is not neutral. Kluger does not hold back criticism of Americans or hide his admiration for native people (p. xvi). Although based on sound archival research, this book is not appropriate for a scholarly audience. Rather than footnotes, at the end of the book Kluger offers a list of sources consulted for each chapter. At times his authorial voice blurs with nineteenth-century Americans' social attitudes toward Native Americans, resulting in language that will make scholars cringe and may not offer the best model for students: a description of natives as "children of nature" (p. [End Page 254] 19) and phrases like "on the warpath" (p. 52) perpetuate stereotypes of Native Americans. Furthermore, while Kluger explains that Euro-Americans were motivated by "manifest destiny" to greedily take Western land, he seems to adopt the premise of the ideology to tell his story. For example, after describing how pre-contact Nisqually people lived from the abundance of the land, Kluger offers a dramatic foreshadowing: "It was their misfortune that history was about to catch up with paradise" (p. 19). Kluger suggests that nineteenth-century American policies and practices were an irresistible force of modernity that would inevitably clash with unsophisticated native people; this framing, however, ultimately justifies the land grab that he set out to criticize. The book is divided into two parts plus an epilogue. The first part introduces the main actors (including a lengthy biography of Isaac Stevens), the founding and early years of Washington Territory, the 1854 Medicine Creek Treaty, and the increasingly violent interactions between demanding immigrants and natives of the region who followed Leschi's lead in criticizing the treaty. Kluger's research in reports, letters, and reminiscences helps him to create colorful individual biographies and bring treaty negotiations to life. Some of the most interesting parts of the book are those in which his investigative process is revealed: in the controversy over whether Leschi signed the treaty, Kluger drops his authoritative authorial voice, wades into the morass of differing accounts to weigh their reliability, and ultimately concedes that we cannot know with certainty what happened. The final chapters of the first part detail the Puget Sound Indian war of 1855-56, which contained more political intrigue within the territorial government than pitched battles. Kluger provides many fascinating details (even those drawn from highly questionable sources) to craft a cohesive narrative. The second part of the book reveals Governor Stevens' obsession with punishing Leschi for serving as a leader in the war. Against the...

Lo narrativo y visual de Voces en el parque: una propuesta didáctica interdisciplinar en el aula de secundaria

La siguiente propuesta estudia las relaciones entre texto e imagen como complementos recíprocos para la interpretación del mensaje literario en el libro álbum ilustrado. Si bien el lector modelo de los libros álbum son los niños pequeños, aquí se propone su utilidad para el trabajo interdisciplinario entre literatura y artes visuales en el aula de secundaria, visualizando en el libro Voces en el parque, de Anthony Browne, una posible lectura transgeneracional; es decir, dada la complejidad de los códigos ocultos tras alusiones intertextuales, es posible su aplicación didáctica para el desarrollo de la competencia literaria y visual a través de la comprensión y la labor creativa ficcional con jóvenes. Este enlace se planifica según criterios que justifican la ampliación de la enseñanza de la literatura hacia el trabajo interdisciplinar: los estudiantes como productores de cultura visual y de relatos narrativos para la construcción de una quinta voz en la obra mencionada.

Featuring Iconic Individuals on NTO Websites: A Catalyst for Cultural Tourism?

This article explores the promotion potential of culturally iconic individuals through the examination of four countries' national tourism organization (NTO) websites. The four individuals—Australian Don Bradman, New Zealander Edmund Hillary, Canadian Terry Fox, and South African Nelson Mandela—are arguably the preeminent cultural representative figures in their countries. The stories of their physical practice and personal traits have been legitimized through social distinction to symbolize the character, ideals, and everyday way of life their country's cultures aspire to. The analysis of each NTO website reveals the frequency and prominence of references to culture generally, formal cultural descriptions, and the stories of these and other culturally representative individuals. The discussion focuses on potential reasons for the variance in formal descriptions and individual stories of culture across the websites. It is suggested one NTO website has a promotional strategy in which the culturally iconic individual transcends issues of site specificity and sustainability. This strategy, expanding from the recognized iconic individual to multiple stories of individual cultural representation, also provides a complex, nonhegemonic framing of a country's cultural way of life. The central contention of this article is that culturally iconic individuals can provide a promotional portal and catalyst for NTOs. Their symbolic stories uniquely differentiate, yet authentically frame, the integrated tourism experience of people, culture, and country.

Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with NatureOsprey OrielleLake. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 2010.

Uprisings for the Earth: Reconnecting Culture with Nature Osprey Orielle Lake. Ashland, OR: White Cloud Press, 2010. Principally informed by her experiences living along Northern California's Mendocino County coast, her artist's perception of the world and numerous crosscultural journeys, Uprising for the Earth shares Osprey Orielle Lake's vision for a necessary greening of human cultures. In grounding her vision, Lake discerns models of creative equilibrium in nature, which are supported by diversity and gender-balance. She contends that the current ecological crisis is calling on all of us to personally integrate such participatory models, rediscover our indigenous senses and reconnect all our human cultures with nature. Lake argues that the required act is one of reconnection because all of us necessarily came from cultures that, like aboriginal cultures in the United States, at one time lived in harmony with the rhythm of nature. She holds that recovering this proper sense of our place within nature points the way forward for our cultures today. It is through such means that Lake hopes we will come to see the folly of the smooth, easy highway of over consumption that we have set ourselves upon, which is leading towards planetary ruin, so that diverse positive paths, though smaller and less defined, can come together to form an Earth-honoring global human culture. A key rejoinder for Lake is that this Earth-honoring global culture would not erase human or biological diversity as per the trends in consumer culture today. Indeed, according to her vision, local cultural stories are required to contribute to the grand story that would sustain the Earth-honoring global culture as a life-enhancing partnership. In the face of domination and destructive models of human organization, technology could help establish the communicative linkages that are necessary to share alternative and hopeinspiring stories. For instance, she cites the networking potential of the internet in this regard. However, Lake also emphasizes that it cannot be a TV documentary about nature or cultural diversity that brings about the required transformation. Beyond TV, there is urgent need for actual physical encounters with nature and the human other to foster the necessary cultural renewal to effectively respond to the grave sustainability problem at hand. Simply put, we need more stargazing time, story time, hiking time, tree time, wilderness time and less screen time in office cubicles so that we can learn from each other and from nature in order to re-awaken the creative imagination required to carry our cultures into a sustainable future. …

Westermarck Hypothesis Reconsidered

Previous articleNext article No AccessWestermarck Hypothesis Reconsidered A Comment on Kushnick and FesslerFadwa El Guindi and Dwight ReadFadwa El GuindiQatar University, P.O. Box 2713 Doha, Qatar ([email protected]) Search for more articles by this author and Dwight ReadDepartment of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095, U.S.A. 2 VIII 11 Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Current Anthropology Volume 53, Number 1February 2012 Sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/663576 Views: 57Total views on this site Citations: 5Citations are reported from Crossref HistorySubmitted July 23, 2011Accepted August 02, 2011 © 2012 by The Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Dwight Read, Claes Andersson Cultural complexity and complexity evolution, Adaptive Behavior 28, no.55 (Jan 2019): 329–358.https://doi.org/10.1177/1059712318822298Jeffrey Winking Exploring the Great Schism in the Social Sciences: Confirmation Bias and the Interpretation of Results Relating to Biological Influences on Human Behavior and Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology 16, no.11 (Jan 2018): 147470491775269.https://doi.org/10.1177/1474704917752691Eran Shor The Westermarck Hypothesis and the Israeli Kibbutzim: Reconciling Contrasting Evidence, Archives of Sexual Behavior 44, no.88 (May 2015): 2139–2150.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0558-5Dwight W. Read Incest Taboos and Kinship: A Biological or a Cultural Story?, Reviews in Anthropology 43, no.22 (Jun 2014): 150–175.https://doi.org/10.1080/00938157.2014.903151Fadwa El Guindi, Dwight W. Read Can There be Cognitive Science Without Anthropology?, Topics in Cognitive Science 6, no.11 (Nov 2013): 144–145.https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12051