Cultural Forms Research Articles

Development-induced dispossession: Adivasi existence in the milieu of contemporary Indian texts in translation

The paradigms of development around the globe involves mechanisms associated with its social purpose, which is more often than not dubious in nature! Natural resources form the fundamental aspect of any developmental activity. But in the process of accumulating these resources, the beneficiaries often rely on malignant mechanisms. The capitalist discourse has always been successful in manifesting their agendas of development as constructive and profitable for the entire humanity. Periodically, when the utility of development is foregrounded by dominant cultural forms, often the ramifications of progress remain uncritiqued. The developmental projects earmarked for the rural population remain unnoticed, for it serves the interest of the elite and the urban middle class. Many a time, the indigenous population, who inhabit the resource rich area are swayed away by the false propaganda for development, ultimately aggravating their existing deprivation. In the case of India, too, amidst all the development activities, the marginalized populace or the so-called Adivasis are the worst sufferers, because they have been encountering displacement for ages. The current study attempts to unveil the displacement of the tribal population (Adivasi) of India due to development projects, thereby offering a critical analysis of the social policies. The study employs select translated literary narratives to examine the development-induced dispossession of tribal population in the colonial, postcolonial and neo-liberal phase of Indian history, adopting the theoretical framework of new historicism.

Innovation rate and population structure moderate the effect of population size on cumulative technological culture

Cumulative technological culture is defined as the increase in efficiency and complexity of tools and techniques over generations that allowed humans to conquer the whole Earth. While one part of the puzzling ability of humans to develop such a form of culture lies in their cognitive capacities giving rise to reliable transmission of information, another lies in the impact of demographic factors. Indeed, many studies have examined the impact of population size, innovation rate and population structure on cumulative technological culture. Here, we present a computational model based on a previous model of micro-society that we extended to study the impact of population size and the influence of innovations on cumulative technological culture. Our results showed that population size exhibits an influence on cumulative technological culture, principally in small-scale populations. Additionally, the model suggests that the innovation rate constrains cumulative technological culture and the importance of population size. Indeed, when innovations are frequent, the impact of population size is diminished. Furthermore, our results demonstrate that individuals rely more on themselves than on others to innovate in earlier generations as well as in small populations. However, when populations grow as well as in later stages of evolution, reliance on innovation from others increases. Overall, these results indicate that population size has a limited impact on cumulative technological culture and that other demographic factors such as innovation rate could offer a viable alternative explanation for archeological records.

Analysis of the Cultural Application of Ethnic Minority Motifs in South Yunnan Region

Southern Yunnan is a place with rich and diverse ethnic cultures, and traditional patterns are an important cultural form with great value of use in the local context. Taking the patterns of ethnic minorities in southern Yunnan as the research object, this topic adopts the method of combining literature review and field survey to analyze the status of their use in cultural inheritance, artistic creation, and life practice, and discuss their significance and value in modern society, with a view to providing important theoretical and practical support for the inheritance and transmission of ethnic minority cultures, and the promotion of the development of local cultures.

Photographic Frames in the Westgate Mall Terror Attack Coverage

Literary studies have evolved over the past few decades to include popular culture fields as text. Proponents of this inclusion argue that songs, memes, tweets, local dialects, and slogans say as much about people and cultures as traditional texts – perhaps even more. The opinion is that, by over-relying on traditional text for literary fodder, scholars shut themselves off from current and relevant information about the rapidly evolving literary and cultural landscape. The disregard for popular culture also turns away a younger audience that seems to prefer a more informal approach to art and literature. Thus, the reading of popular cultures as text is forcing the literary field to re-evaluate the fundamental principles that define its work. Literary scholars have to rethink their traditional ideals of writing, reading, and teaching texts. Yet, there remains a reluctance to accept such informal forms of communication as memes and tweets as legitimate literature. Popular culture is not well regarded in literary studies and some stakeholders fear its classification as text could dilute the impact of the field. This paper investigates this trepidation by analyzing how reading popular culture fields as text impacts the identity of text in literary studies. Based on selected tenets of Literary and Cultural Studies (LCS) Research, particularly cultural literacy, this paper examines the legitimacy of different popular culture formats to determine if they hold enough value to warrant literary analysis. The author argues that many forms of popular culture deserve a closer look, especially through a literary lens, because they reveal the cultures, beliefs, and practices of their audience. He suggests that the incorporation of popular culture into literary studies offers many opportunities for growth and discovery but only if implemented diligently. Finally, this paper investigates why the literary field is reluctant to read popular cultures as text and how scholars can navigate this inclusion to create a more cohesive definition of text.

An Assessment of Strategies Adopted in Translating Selected Chapters of Atwans's Memoir: “A Country of Words” into Arabic

This study explored the strategies adopted in translating selected chapters from Abdelbari Atwan's political memoir A Country of Words by Husam Al-Din Mohammad. Back translation was used as a method. That is, an Arab Palestinian refugee endeavors to interpret his thoughts and transfer his experience of the Arabic culture to English as a SLT, and then the translator transfers those thoughts back into the original Arabic language as a TLT. The translation is analyzed in terms of its cultural, religious and political orientations endorsed by the researcher who seeks to identify and analyze the main problematic outcomes of the translation by means of observing the contextual and cultural concordance of the two texts. The analysis attempts to figure out if the translation retains the pragmatic and semantic orientation of each expression, the problems that the translator comes across in the process of translation, and the strategic issues adopted by the translator to retain the functional-equivalence of each expression. The study concluded that the strategies enable both the writer and the translator to preserve the Arabic language, which is the essence and the distinguishing feature of the Arabic culture. Atwan, as a bilingual writer, captured the Arabic aesthetic taste in his original text by preserving the Arabic cultural content and form in the original text.

Funding Opera in the Changing Landscape: Should Opera Be Funded or Accepted as a Fading Culture in South Africa?

Opera is considered a significant part of cultural heritage in many societies. In the South African context, opera has a rich history and has contributed to the development of various art forms. Opera has continued to play a significant role in preserving and promoting cultural diversity in South Africa. Opera production contribute to the economy by creating jobs for artists, musicians, technicians, and other professionals. Additionally, opera events can attract tourism and boost local economies. Public funding for opera may be seen as an investment with economic returns. The purpose of this article is to examine the funding of opera in South Africa against the backdrop of a changing cultural landscape. It aims to investigate whether opera should continue to receive funding or if it should be accepted as a fading cultural form. Employing a qualitative approach, ten participants, including opera company managers and artists, share their perspectives through semi-structured interviews. Colaizzi's phenomenological data analysis method reveals key themes of financial viability, challenges, and opportunities. Findings were presented in themes and supported by quotes from research participants. Opera company managers and artists shared valuable insights into financial viability, challenges, and opportunities. Strategic collaborations, revenue diversification, and the pivotal role of public funding emerged as central themes. The findings shed light on the adaptive measures undertaken by stakeholders in response to the changing cultural and financial climate. The conclusion synthesises the key findings, emphasising the resilience of South African opera in the face of funding challenges. It underscores the importance of balancing financial support and cultural acceptance for sustained vitality. The study contributes to ongoing discussions on the intersection of funding, cultural relevance, and the future of opera in South Africa.

O paradoxical pioneer! repurposing steiner education in collage and scribble

ABSTRACT Steiner might be considered the prototypic pioneer from a previous century, whose alternative education vision continues to have huge international appeal and status. Yet Steiner’s ‘pioneering’ views of education are open to interpretation via the creation of an ironic visual collage work, ‘pioneer’ is examined as a paradox in itself, like a seemingly contradictory or absurd statement that is found on investigation, to be true. A paradoxical person therefore combines contradictory elements. Exploring examples of Steiner’s global reach, such as storytelling in Steiner schools in New Zealand and the embedding of indigenous narrative knowledge in education, the danger of superficially rendering ancient cultural forms of knowledge to fit with western ‘scientific’ understanding is critiqued. Disrupting both what is meant by pioneer-led, ‘literate’ forms of communication such as educational tracts and curricula, this piece resists with the artistically pioneering and disruptive practices of scribble.

A Case Study of Digital Natives Using English Buzzword cue in Vocabulary Capacity in Second Language Acquisition in China: Challenges and Opportunities

In an age marked by rapid advancements in information technology and the widespread use of the Internet, the popularity of Internet buzzwords has become widespread and serves as one of the important forms of popular culture. However, there seems to be scant research on the relationship between popular Internet buzzwords and vocabulary capacity, especially the relationship between the use of Internet buzzwords and the vocabulary of English as a second language. To explore the relationship between the use of Internet buzzwords and English vocabulary capacity, this research will use a case study with 12 different categories of digital natives conducted through focus group interviews and semi-structured interviews to explore the use of specific Internet buzzword cue. The possible outcome is that different types of digital natives will have different views on the use of online buzzwords. Research may need to integrate the use of oral buzzwords in the context of offline to further demonstrate the relationship between the use of Internet buzzwords and the vocabulary of a second language, such as English. The research may shed light on the oral buzzword use in communication. This research focuses on how the specific English buzzword "cue" has developed into an Internet buzzword. Further, it discusses how similar Internet buzzwords have influenced the vocabulary aspects of English as a second language learning by digital natives. The study delves into the challenges faced by these learners and the opportunities presented by the use of such buzzwords in the language learning process". It is expected that this will shed light on the research aspect of internet buzzwords on language proficiency and further research on the impact of internet buzzwords in oral communication.

METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE THEORY OF SOCIALIZATION AND PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT

Relevance. The report analyzes the methodological foundations of the study of personality socialization in the heuristic tradition of the Kyiv Philosophical and Psychological School. The laws of human development through socialization based on cultural forms are formulated. Methodology. A comprehensive approach (I. Sikorskyi, G. Chelpanov), which establishes the methods of metaphysics, theory of knowledge and logic in the theoretical arsenal of psychological science. Phenomenological approach (E. Husserl, G. Shpet), which considers the category of social existence in the trinity of individual, collective and corporate consciousness, and also uses the categories of form and content, phenomenon, meaning and sense, image and understanding as its interpretation based on one's own experience as central in the work of cognitive actions of human consciousness. Results. The use of a phenomenological approach allows us to assert that personality development appears as an active process that is carried out through the appropriation and transformation of cultural forms by a person as a subject of socialization and the formation of his own expanded identity based on them. The main mechanism of the conscious development of the personality in culture involves the following processes: 1) experiencing the significance of the new and its acceptance as a cultural form (emotional component); 2) reproduction as an interpretation of the new form in the categories of one's own experience (rational-creative component); 3) use of the understood content as a practical test of its ability (cognitive component); 4) the person's expansion of the borders of the Self or his identity through awareness of a new cultural form as part of his own experience (self-reflective meaningful component).

Curating Community behind Barbed Wire: Canadian Prisoner of War Art from the Second World War

Though often under-represented in the official and national narratives and in Canadian military historiography more broadly, the intimate and personal lived experiences of Canadian prisoners of war (POW) during the Second World War can be found in archives, photography collections, and collections of war art. In an attempt to see past the mythologised versions of POWs that appear in Hollywood films, best-selling monographs, and other forms of popular culture, it is through bits of ephemera—including wartime log books and the drawings carefully kept and sent home to loved ones along with handwritten letters—that the stories of non-combatant men and women who spent their war as POWs, can be told. Together, Canadian POWs created and curated community and fostered unconventional family ties, sometimes called “emotional communities”, through the collection and accumulation of drawings, illustrations, paintings, and other examples of war art on the pages of their wartime log books while living behind barbed wire. This article uncovers some of these stories, buried in the thousands of boxes in the George Metcalf Archival Collection—the textual archives—at the Canadian War Museum (CWM) in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Identitas Budaya Bugis Dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Sala Dewi Karya Emil Amir Serta Pemanfaatannya Sebagai Alternatif Pembelajaran Sastra Di Sma

This study aims to describe and explain the Bugis culture which exists in the collection of Sala Dewi's short stories by Emil Amir. It was chosen because it has contain values of viscous local culture, character building that can be used as a role model for students, and each short story has good reputation, so this collection can be told has good credibility. This study is uses a descriptive qualitative method with an ethnographic research design that uses the Spradley data analysis method. Words, phrases, sentences, or paragraphs are the source of the data which represent physical culture, social system, cultural system, and cultural values of Bugis culture. This research adapted from Koentjaraningrat's theory. The data were collected by documentation and interview, and analyzed by using the Spradley analysis method, including domain analysis, taxonomic analysis, componential analysis, and cultural theme analysis. The results of this study shows that the four forms of Bugis culture in the collection of Sala Dewi's short stories are mutually sustainable, spread over four short stories, and expressed through inter-character dialogue, character monologues, or character narratives. Hereinafter, the results of this study were used as teaching materials in the XI grade of senior high school students in Indonesian as a part of Language and Literature materials.

An assessment of future rewilding potential in the United Kingdom.

Restoring ecosystems is an imperative for addressing biodiversity loss and climate change, and achieving the targets of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework. One form of restoration, rewilding, may have particular promise but may also be precluded by requirements for other forms of land use now or in the future. This opportunity space is critical but challenging to assess. We explored the potential area available for rewilding in Great Britain until the year 2080 with a multisectoral land-use model with several distinct climatic and socioeconomic scenarios. By 2080, areas from 5000 to 7000km2 were either unmanaged or managed in ways that could be consistent with rewilding across scenarios without conflicting with the provision of ecosystem services. Beyond these areas, another 24,000-42,000km2 of extensive upland management could provide additional areas for rewilding if current patterns of implementation hold in the future. None of these areas, however, coincided reliably with ecosystems of priority for conservation: peatlands, ancient woodlands, or wetlands. Repeatedly, these ecosystems were found to be vulnerable to conversion. Our results are not based on an assumption of support for or benefits from rewilding and do not account for disadvantages, such as potential losses of cultural landscapes or traditional forms of management, that were beyond the modeled ecosystem services. Nevertheless, potential areas for rewilding emerge in a variety of ways, from intensification elsewhere having a substantial but inadvertent land-sparing effect, popular demand for environmental restoration, or a desire for exclusive recreation among the wealthy elite. Our findings therefore imply substantial opportunities for rewilding in the United Kingdom but also a need for interventions to shape the nature and extent of that rewilding to maintain priority conservation areas and societal objectives.

Linking ambidextrous forms of leadership, knowledge, organisational cultures and learning by higher education institutions: Insights from a survey of administrators

ABSTRACT This article aims to examine the relationship between ambidextrous organisational cultures and ambidextrous learning by higher education institutions, and to scrutinise how the ambidextrous leadership and knowledge of these institutions relate to their ambidextrous cultures. Survey data from 474 university administrators within the Gulf Cooperation Council region, serve as the basis for empirical insights based on structural equation modelling. Survey responses show significant and positive correlation between ambidextrous organisational culture and ambidextrous learning, and additionally reveal that ambidextrous knowledge and ambidextrous leadership significantly and positively relate to ambidextrous organisational cultures. By including ambidextrous forms of culture, leadership, and knowledge constructs to explain ambidextrous learning by organisations, this study makes contributions to organisational ambidexterity theory. Theoretically, this article adds to understanding on the determinants of ambidextrous learning by providing evidence of a culture-learning praxis, while managerially, the article urges for ambidextrous culture-oriented approaches to academic staff development.

The Afro-Paradox: Diasporic Chauvinism and Cultural Expertise in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira

Increasingly, Brazilian experts of capoeira—an Afro-Brazilian combat game—travel to African cities for an imagined return to the sites of capoeira's origins, as well as to train African students. Focusing on a cultural festival in Abidjan, I analyze capoeira cultural exchange events across West Africa through the anthropological lenses of expertise and racial analysis. These exchanges feature displays of Brazilian nationalism embodied by West African capoeira students, while they also reveal West Africans’ creative endeavors, such as constructing new capoeira songs in African languages. I demonstrate how the diasporic position to protect “Afro” cultural forms ironically gives way to policing creative work by continental Africans, capoeira's most recent recruits in the contemporary moment. I examine the racial hierarchies that proliferate within Black performance worlds through my concept of diasporic chauvinism to argue that diasporic returns can marginalize Africans and their innovations.

SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF USING MEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF NATURE AND SPACE KNOWLEDGE IN STUDENTS

In this article presents ideas on improving the knowledge and skills of humans related to nature and the universe through mediataeval resources, one of their intangible cultural forms.

Social relevance of Bhikhari Thakur's plays as a coordinated form of religion and culture

In the plays of Bhikhari Thakur, social purposefulness has been presented through a coordinated form of religion and culture. His plays are not only a means of entertainment, but also present a deep perspective on various issues of society. Thakur has prominently depicted social injustice, caste discrimination, women's rights, and the struggle of the poor in his plays. There is a wonderful combination of religious elements and cultural traditions in his plays, which attracts the audience and forces them to think. Bhikhari Thakur's literary contribution plays an important role in giving a new direction to the rural culture and society of Bihar. In this research paper, the efforts of social reform through his plays will be analyzed, so that their literary and social relevance can be clarified. Abstract in Hindi Language: भिखारी ठाकुर के नाटकों में धर्म और संस्कृति के समन्वित रूप के माध्यम से सामाजिक सोद्देश्यता को प्रस्तुत किया गया है। उनके नाटक न केवल मनोरंजन का साधन हैं, बल्कि समाज के विभिन्न मुद्दों पर गहन दृष्टिकोण प्रस्तुत करते हैं। ठाकुर ने अपने नाटकों में सामाजिक अन्याय, जातिगत भेदभाव, स्त्री अधिकार, और गरीबों के संघर्ष को प्रमुखता से दर्शाया है। उनके नाटकों में धार्मिक तत्व और सांस्कृतिक परंपराओं का अद्भुत मेल है, जो दर्शकों को अपनी ओर आकर्षित करता है और उन्हें सोचने पर मजबूर करता है। भिखारी ठाकुर का साहित्यिक योगदान बिहार की ग्रामीण संस्कृति और समाज को एक नई दिशा देने में महत्वपूर्ण भूमिका निभाता है। इस शोध पत्र में उनके नाटकों के माध्यम से समाज सुधार के प्रयासों का विश्लेषण किया जाएगा, जिससे उनकी साहित्यिक एवं सामाजिक प्रासंगिकता स्पष्ट हो सके। Keywords: भिखारी ठाकुर, धर्म, संस्कृति, सामाजिक सोद्देश्यता, नाटक, सामाजिक न्याय

팬덤의 시대, 대중문화에서 정치까지

This study examines the attitudes and strategies of the generation that internalized fandom culture and practices during their adolescence in the 2000s to engage with Korean society as a whole. This research was conducted by analyzing prior research on how fandom works and its significance, as well as attempts to change the discourse. Fandom, which had been dismissed as star-obsessed individuals began to be recognized as an organized consumption entity and subcultural groups that combined and created various cultural significances since the mid-1990s. This made academics take interested in fandom. Once defined as a form of adolescent peer culture or popular culture consumption, fandom gradually evolved into a life-course practice. Studies have revealed that the fandom experience of creating and maintaining communal relationships through subcultural practices, challenging, and conquering existing power and authority, plays an important role in members’ lives. For them, fandom is a long-term and important reference point for identity and value. When the generation that has become adult with internalized fandom culture demands changes in across political, social, cultural, and economic domains, taking fandom’s way is a natural strategy and outcome.

Bahasa Bali Dalam Tradisi Tamblang Waluh Desa Adat Bungaya, Kecamatan Bebandem, Kabupaten Karangasem: Kajian Fungsi dan Nilai

The Tamblang Waluh tradition is a rare form of culture and is rarely found in other areas. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out an in-depth study so that the sustainability of the traditions, functions, and values ​​contained therein are known. The research method used is qualitative research method so the type of research used in this research is a type of qualitative research using a naturalistic inquiry approach, field study or phenomenology. researchers used observation, interviews, documents, and literature to collect data, analyzed with triangulation techniques and presented with qualitative descriptive. Based on the research that has been done by researchers, it is concluded that the aspects contained in the Tamblang Waluh tradition, including settings, participants, end, act of sequence, keys, instrumentalities, norms, and genres are still maintained today. The sustainability of these aspects directly affects the sustainability of the function of the Balinese language within it, which functions as a sign, as a form of communication of intimacy and as a cultural identity. The Tamblang Waluh tradition is a cultural asset for the people of the Bungaya Traditional Village, as well as a medium for inheriting life values, including religious values, logical values, ethical values, and aesthetic values.

Why We Should See YouTube From Digital Ecology Perspective

This study is a critical perspective in exploring changes in social, cultural and political forms related to the development of contemporary communication technology. The main theme of this research is YouTube's digital space with the topic of utilizing the main features of geo-tagging, hashtags and live streaming. Researchers observed three content creators in utilizing the features of the digital platform to carry out social interactions and actions. The purpose of this study is to explain that the character of the users and the current use of digital platforms is a representation of the interaction and socio-cultural situation of contemporary society as a part of the digital ecosystem. This research is qualitative in nature with specific observations on micro phenomena, so the results are not generalizations, but in the form of data findings to support the hypothesis, namely the importance of a critical perspective of digital ecology to explain contemporary digital ecosystem phenomena. This article is supported by comparative descriptions and descriptions of the development of several theoretical models as well as social-technological changes that have occurred before. This research contributes to providing an important perspective that media and technology studies must move from discussions about human and technology interactions, to discussions about human interactions in technology. As a study of ongoing phenomena, the researcher places this research by opening up to the potential for the latest changes that can occur along with technological developments.

Exploration of ethnomathematics research in Indonesia 2010-2023

Ethnomathematics is the finding of mathematics in the cultural values of a place. Indonesia has many kinds of cultures, and ethnomathematics research has been done in some areas of Indonesia. This study aims to identify the cultural forms and mathematical materials found in ethnomathematical research in Indonesia. The research method used is a literature review. The stages of the research method included selecting a topic, developing tools of argumentation, searching the literature, surveying the literature, critiquing the literature, and writing the thesis. The instruments used were Google Scholar, the search engine, and the NVivo application. The number of articles analyzed was 88 articles. These articles represent the culture spread across 34 provinces of Indonesia. The research results obtained are cultural forms containing mathematical material, including ideas, activities, and artifacts. Mathematical materials explored in these cultures include statistics, trigonometry, vector, algebra, arithmetic, one-dimensional geometry, two-dimensional geometry, three-dimensional geometry, coordinate geometry, transformation geometry, calculus, logic, and opportunity. The complexity of the culture and material found in mathematics shows that ethnomathematical research can be developed in all forms of culture and applied in various mathematics learning materials.