Lost Culture Research Articles

Diaspora, music, and identity: Indians in the Caribbean and the Indo-Caribbean diaspora

ABSTRACT To maintain a unified identity within a local community, people express their association with specific rituals and practices. As a testament to the evolution of cultural ideas and journeys, these rituals and practices serve as an important platform for validating their ethnic identity as well as providing a sense of authenticity to the community. Migration and dislocation are associated with a sense of ruptured identity and an unfulfilled desire to reconnect with lost culture, with a focus on traditional practices as a way of reconnecting with their roots. While the old indentured migrants glorified ‘Indianism’ through music, their successors used music to strengthen ethnic ties and to preserve their diasporic identities. Examining the contemporary development in music practices and genres, this article focuses on the creation and recreation of Indian identities in the diaspora through music with the example of Indo-Caribbeans.

(Re)Constructing the Nation in Sunlight on a Broken Column: Hossain's Perspective on the Partition of the Subcontinent

Gellner (1983) defines a nation as a myth whereas nationalism is an ideology through which people (re)invent traditions and culture to construct a nation. Nationalism revives extinct languages and reimagines extinct customs. To strengthen their nation's discourse, South Asian female writers have contributed significantly to the invention of traditions and the reconstruction of their lost culture. By addressing her nation's history and culture in her work, Hosain has also bolstered her national discourse. It is commonly known that history is typically presented through the eyes of men. Even though women have contributed substantially to the national process, their opinions are not included in history books. Since men write history, history favors men by making them the main heroes. This study aims to provide a female viewpoint on the history of the partition of the subcontinent. Thus, the researcher has selected Attia Hossain's novel, Sunlight on a Broken Column, to view her perspective on the nation and the partition of India. The concept of a nation is complex to comprehend. Different theorists have different definitions of the nation. Renan (1883), Hobsbawm and Ranger (1983), and Anderson's (1991) theories related to the nation have been used to construct a theoretical framework for this research. This study investigates factors contributing to the construction of a nation and nation-state by referencing the partition of the sub-continent and the formation of two nation-states, Pakistan and India.

The Ijaw Proverbs/Idioms and Their Significant Roles in Ebi Yeibo's The Forbidden Tongue

Ebi Yeibo’s poem The Forbidden Tongue is a powerful example of how Ijaw proverbs and idioms can be used to explore the cultural and historical experiences of the Ijaw people. The poem makes use of Ijaw proverbs and idioms to convey a strong sense of nostalgia for a lost culture and tradition. By analyzing the parables/ idioms of the poem, we can gain a deeper understanding of the poem’s meaning and significance. The poem also raises important questions about the preservation of the heritage. The title of the work is “The Significance of Ijaw Proverbs and Idioms”. The aim of the work is to explore the cultural and linguistic significance of Ijaw proverbs and idioms. The methodology used is literary analysis of Ijaw poems and texts. The theoretical framework is based on the concept of linguistic relativity, which suggests that language influences thought and culture. The contribution to knowledge is a deeper understanding of the role of proverbs and idioms in Ijaw.

A Bibliophile in Shandong Province in the Republic of China Zhuang Enze and His Handwritten Copy of Shang Han Lun Xuan Zhu(Annotation of Treatise on Febrile Diseases)

Shang Han Lun Xuan Zhu(«»,Annotation of Treatise on Febrile Diseases) is a representative work of Zang Yingzhan, a famous physician in Zhucheng of Shandong who was as famous as Huang Yuanyu during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.The book was not published, but has been preserved only in manuscripts, of which 5 copies are now preserved.By comparing the five manuscripts seen, it is found that the Zhuang Enze version is unique in the existing version of this book, exquisite and generous, beautifully copied, with important documentary value. Zhuang Enze adopts the theories of various schools, supplements prescriptions, analyze medical theory with his unique insights.The reason may be related to his family's practice of medicine for generations, its philosophy of loving reading, copying books, and collecting books, and also related to its protection of local and state documents and the dissemination of lost culture.

Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

Salvage Poetics: Post-Holocaust American Jewish Folk Ethnographies

The Utopian concept of free state in Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus: An anarchist study

The present research aims to explore the struggle of the marginalized community for a free nation, where individuals try to regain their culture. Gerald Vizenor’s The Heirs of Columbus has depicted their longing for survival and cultural liberty. Vizenor has tried to regain the voices of the Native people through trickster stories because these stories have a healing power. The analysis shows that Red-Indians in the late fifteen century were never uncivilized as portrayed by the Western historians and the protagonist resisted for the survival of their unique civilizations. The present research has highlighted that how anarchist spirit stimulated a nation to reclaim their lost culture and identity. Their resistance through anarchist principles leads them towards getting a free state, where every individual try to preserve their culture through trickster stories and moccasin games. The tribal people wanted to represent this state as an anarchist Communist state, where there will be no property and land theft. The people will be free from the burden of taxes and prisons. The study concludes with the suggestion to resist power with anarchist spirit of survivance. Future researches are suggested to focus on the theme of marginalization and its strategies in the present novel.

Revitalization of the Urban Space from Grey to Green in Lahore, Pakistan

Lahore is a metropolitan city renowned for its historical background. It is also known as the ‘City of Gardens’. In today’s world, the progression towards the construction of concrete structures and junk spaces is occurring at a rapid pace. The persona of the city is changing in order to accommodate the booming population. Ecological imbalance is resulting into the disappearance of the fauna from the city. The current study was carried out to provide the inhabitants with various opportunities in the form of lively public spaces that are being lost with the passage of time. The site selected for the project was diligently marked by considering some important aspects including an easy approach and a place that provides a rich amalgam of history, culture, traditional cuisine and education to maximize the interaction of people belonging to different professions. It was designed in a fashion that kept intact the Mughal roots of the city by adding a water feature interwoven with the modern world by carefully planning the vegetation, thus making the selection vibrant and colorful in order to make a concoction of the Mughal and contemporary art. The purpose of the fusion was to attract the inhabitants by building a characteristically distinct place that remains non-identical to the already existing public spaces, as well as to revive the lost culture which is fading away due to excessive construction and environmental pollution.

Revitalization of the Urban Space from Grey to Green in Lahore, Pakistan

Lahore is a metropolitan city renowned for its historical background. It is also known as the ‘City of Gardens’. In today’s world, the progression towards the construction of concrete structures and junk spaces is occurring at a rapid pace. The persona of the city is changing in order to accommodate the booming population. Ecological imbalance is resulting into the disappearance of the fauna from the city. The current study was carried out to provide the inhabitants with various opportunities in the form of lively public spaces that are being lost with the passage of time. The site selected for the project was diligently marked by considering some important aspects including an easy approach and a place that provides a rich amalgam of history, culture, traditional cuisine and education to maximize the interaction of people belonging to different professions. It was designed in a fashion that kept intact the Mughal roots of the city by adding a water feature interwoven with the modern world by carefully planning the vegetation, thus making the selection vibrant and colorful in order to make a concoction of the Mughal and contemporary art. The purpose of the fusion was to attract the inhabitants by building a characteristically distinct place that remains non-identical to the already existing public spaces, as well as to revive the lost culture which is fading away due to excessive construction and environmental pollution.

Revitalization of the Urban Space from Grey to Green in Lahore, Pakistan

Lahore is a metropolitan city renowned for its historical background. It is also known as the ‘City of Gardens’. In today’s world, the progression towards the construction of concrete structures and junk spaces is occurring at a rapid pace. The persona of the city is changing in order to accommodate the booming population. Ecological imbalance is resulting into the disappearance of the fauna from the city. The current study was carried out to provide the inhabitants with various opportunities in the form of lively public spaces that are being lost with the passage of time. The site selected for the project was diligently marked by considering some important aspects including an easy approach and a place that provides a rich amalgam of history, culture, traditional cuisine and education to maximize the interaction of people belonging to different professions. It was designed in a fashion that kept intact the Mughal roots of the city by adding a water feature interwoven with the modern world by carefully planning the vegetation, thus making the selection vibrant and colorful in order to make a concoction of the Mughal and contemporary art. The purpose of the fusion was to attract the inhabitants by building a characteristically distinct place that remains non-identical to the already existing public spaces, as well as to revive the lost culture which is fading away due to excessive construction and environmental pollution.

A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919–2019): English Publication and Reception

A Century of Chinese Literature in Translation (1919–2019): English Publication and Reception

MEMBUMIKAN PENDIDIKAN NILAI MENGHASILKAN AKHLAKUL KARIMAH

The world of adolescents faces various problems as a result of advances in science and technology which also have a negative impact on various problems, for example the value of mutual assistance, the value of politeness. affection, mutual respect and others that have been lost in adolescents and even in public life in general, the consequences of this current are very influential on the psychology of the development of adolescents today, actually if we observe together a necessity that must be developed by the government, parents, schools and communities must jointly embrace this lost culture so that they realize that the values ​​of politeness, morals, behavior and others are so important in this case, value education plays an important role. Value education is education that considers objects from a moral and non-moral point of view, which includes aesthetics of assessing objects from the point of view of personal beauty and taste, and ethics that assesses right or wrong in interpersonal relationships, education plays a very important value in the endeavor. to reach a whole human. The value of guidance as an integral part of education can be a powerful tool in warding off negative influences, influences both from within the country and abroad.

"In unserem Kreise": Czech-Jewish Activism and Diaspora in the USA, 1933–1994

"In unserem Kreise":Czech-Jewish Activism and Diaspora in the USA, 1933–1994 Jacob Ari Labendz1 (bio) Well over ten thousand Jews from Czechoslovakia immigrated to the United States between 1933 and 1950, first fleeing Nazism, then Stalinism. A minority within this minority, predominantly from Bohemia and Moravia and numbering no more than a few hundred, distinguished themselves by founding and joining a series of Czechoslovak-Jewish organizations. These individuals wrestled with nostalgia until the century's end, fighting to implant and preserve their lost culture in a new American home. They clung to each other, to identities rooted in a shattered world, and to a fading tradition of bourgeois, Jewish, associational life. The following investigation into their activities and motivations (distinct from others in their immigrant cohort), offers a window into processes of homemaking and memory construction that echoed through the lives of a broader community of mid-century Jewish immigrants to the United States. With the war's end, these Czech-Jewish activists (as I will refer to them) adapted the European-Jewish political strategies that they had imported to the United States to cultural practices for constructing a diasporic community rooted in a nostalgic attachment to the interwar Czechoslovakia of their memories. The first years of Czech-Jewish activism in the US, therefore, also offered a final glimpse of European-Jewish diaspora-nationalism, displaced across an ocean by genocide. Diaspora nationalists held that Jews around the world composed a single nation, and that this entitled them to enjoy rights to political and cultural self-determination as a national minority wherever they resided—alongside other national minorities. In Czechoslovakia, this ideology was meant to have offered Jews, as a collectivity, an opportunity to profess loyalty to their state as citizens and to find there unambiguous welcome as the Jews of Czechoslovakia.2 During the [End Page 371] war, Czech-Jewish activists advocated for the Jewish national minority of Czechoslovakia from the safety of American and British exile.3 The elimination of national minority rights in postwar Czechoslovakia, the reemergence there of Jewish communities that could represent themselves, and an appreciation of wartime losses engendered a shift in the orientation of America's Czech-Jewish activists towards memory work.4 As they grew more comfortable in the United States and abandoned national-minority politics, they developed an idiosyncratic diasporic subjectivity. Theirs was a diaspora of both space and time, bound to a nostalgic rendering of Czechoslovakia's First Republic (1918–1938), conceived as the nation's highest point of development and self-realization. To borrow from Svetlana Boym, Czech-Jewish activists began mourning the lost potential future that they had imagined for themselves in the past.5 Building upon Boym's work, Vanessa May has shown that a "temporal displacement [italics in the original]" can manifest in "place nostalgia," when "a sense of belonging to place is not anchored in the place as it is now, but in memories of the place as it was in the past."6 Boym divides nationalist nostalgia into "restorative" and "reflective" modes, neither of which captures fully the Czech-Jewish-activist experience. She explains: Restorative nostalgia puts emphasis on nostos [return home] and proposes to rebuild the lost home and patch up the memory gaps. Reflective nostalgia dwells in algia, in longing and loss, the imperfect process of remembrance. The first category of nostalgics … believe that their project is about truth [End Page 372] … [reflective nostalgia] lingers on ruins, the patina of time and history, in the dreams of another place and another time.7 Czech-Jewish activists, like many non-Jewish exiles, defended a mythologized past and insisted that communism contravened the democratic character of the Czechoslovak nation. Unlike non-Jews, however, Czech-Jewish activists could not dream of restoration. Their Janus-faced preservative nostalgia (a term I hesitantly introduce) thrived in a community of past experience marked also by the playfulness of reflective nostalgia and its use in processes of reorientation and homemaking in New York.8 If Czech-Jewish activists dismissed Czechoslovakia's postwar present as illegitimate, they did so only to be free of it. Czech-Jewish activists in New York City founded successor organizations to...

Objects of Embodiment: A “Post-Material Turn” in Exhibiting Lost Material Culture

Exhibiting lost material culture goes beyond documenting, preserving, reconstructing, and staging material traces of the past. Museums, possessing modest collections of original historical objects, have to search for new ways of exhibiting material culture thereby replacing facts (original objects, documents, documentary media) by bodily experience similar to that evoked by mystical religious art addressing different human senses beyond the vision. Bodily sensations can be evoked by ambiences, following expressionist or constructivist architecture, by sculptural displays in tradition of the avant-garde, by soundscapes and large scale image projections evoking illusion and immersion. The “post-material turn” comprises thus not only virtual culture, but also new material approaches to the memory of the past, shifting from original historical artifacts to reproductions and substitutes, evoking an intense bodily experience. Although history gets space for embodiment, such ambiences evoke a strong sense of loss, because they avoid immediate contact with traces of the past by virtual and material “doubles”. The “post-material turn” will be discussed with the example of The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center in Moscow, relating it to other contemporary “postdocumentary” and “post-factual” phenomena in memorial culture.

Discussion of Dr. Gita Zarnegar’s and Dr. Gabriel Trop’s Panel Presentations: A Dynamic View of Selfhood, Affect and Political Context, 2019 IAPSP Conference

ABSTRACT This article discusses two papers presented at a panel at the 2019 IAPSP conference, “A Dynamic View of Selfhood, Affect and Political Context,” one by Dr. Gita Zarnegar and one by Dr. Gabriel Trop. The papers address the application of dynamic systems theory to political context in psychoanalytic treatment. Dr. Phillip Cushman’s hermeneutic approach to the political in psychoanalytic theory and practice is also discussed. His emphasis describes how the stance of the psychoanalyst can have profound implications for the emergence of political thematizing in the therapeutic setting. Dr. Zarnegar uses her own personal history as an immigrant to the United States to introduce two concepts, phantom selfhood and phantomization. Phantom selfhood is an adaptive process where old connections emerge in the presence of integrating the positive novelty of a new culture. Phantomization describes a maladaptive pattern of persistent longing for remnants of the lost culture. Dr. G. Trop describes the ethos and values held by a therapist from a non-linear dynamic systems vantage point, which are changeability, disruption, experimentation, particularization and exposure. Both authors caution about the potential dangers of the inherent asymmetry of the psychoanalytic situation in influencing and advancing specific political vantage points in the therapeutic setting. This discussion will compare and contrast some elements of their perspectives with those of Dr. Cushman’s.

The lost countryside: Spatial production of rural culture in Tangwan village in Shanghai

Rapid urbanization, especially in many developing countries, is accompanied by the decline of rural populations and rural culture. Tangwan village in Shanghai in China is a typical case. Based on the theory of production of space, this article presents spatial production of rural culture from three dimensions: ideological space, superficial space and everyday life space, and analyzes the reasons for the gradual decline of rural culture. The development of rural culture in China is seriously affected by the national and local policies. The formal power of a place which is mainly represented by the administrative level, dominates many cultural changes. With the decline of Tangwan's position to a village in an urbanized Shanghai, its local rural culture is declining. Under the pattern of production of space dominated by power and capital the village is challenged to maintain its rural culture and to develop a new culture. The traditional rural culture cannot be protected, however, the new rural culture has not matured. The lack of everyday life space for village residents to express and develop culture is partly to blame. The culture is the root of the rural development. The lost culture leads to the lost village. Adequate everyday life space is important for rural culture to flourish and though those spaces need careful planning to accommodate and grow local cultural needs.

Confronting the Immigrant's Truth in Chang Rae Lee's Native Speaker

Chang Rae Lee’s debut novel Native Speaker talks about a confused second generation immigrant and the continuous trial for understanding his own culture in foreign land. In this paper, the researcher will be discussing about the search of one’s long forgotten native culture by the Korean American, the second generation immigrant in America. Henry, the protagonist finds his identity and the lost culture through the events which happens to him as an immigrant. Being a second generation immigrant, he was lost in the foreign land and slowly he tries to uphold his culture and identity by recognising the importance of both in his life. The confession mode in the spy genre of the novel makes it more amusing for the minority immigrant in America. Although the protagonist is an American born, he too goes through the taunts and never ending questions pertaining to his ethnic origin even from his American wife. To get back his love and to understand his roots, he takes up a search for his self, self identity and cultural identity. This transformation and the hybrid identity will be discussed in the paper.

A New Copyright Bargain? Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid

A New Copyright Bargain? Reclaiming Lost Culture and Getting Authors Paid

Auf der Suche nach der verlorenen Kultur: Vom Neuroimaging über Critical Neuroscience zu Cultural Neuroscience – und zurück zur Kritik

AbstractIn Search of Lost Culture: From Neuroimaging via Critical Neuroscience to Cultural Neuroscience – and back to Critique. The availability of new technologies for visualizing brain activity generated great expectations to identify the centers responsible for human action and behavior and to “reduce” all mental processes to neuronal states. Some scientists even called society to adapt to the new insights from brain research by giving up outdated concepts of autonomy and free will. This project spurred harsh critiques from philosophy, sociology, and cultural studies, diagnosing the rise of a new phrenology. A critical neuroscience group took up these criticisms and pledged for a more nuanced reflection about the political, historical and ethical contexts and implications of current neuroscience and argued for an integration of societal concerns into the research agenda – rather similar to the agenda for responsible research of the EU. With the development of more sophisticated visualization strategies, new sub‐disciplines emerged, integrating sociocultural aspects into neuroimaging. Social and cultural neuroscience replaced overstated reductionist claims without leaving the overarching naturalist epistemology, but extending the ontological realm. New research objects such as empathy, religion or ‘Western’ vs. ‘East‐Asian’ attitudes of thinking started to populate the research domain. Especially cultural neuroscience was widely celebrated as new scientific bridge across the nature‐culture gulf. A closer look, however, reveals that this claim and the popular success of cultural neuroscience are based on a decisive lack of conceptual clarity. ‘Culture’ functions as fuzzy denominator for a broad range of social phenomena with unknown links to neurophysiological processes but visualized as brain states. Instead of implementing more reflexive forms of research, cultural neuroscience stabilizes problematic stereotypes and racist attitudes by an expansion of neuro‐culture. In light of this deflation of interdisciplinary cooperation a more radical critique of this ideology seems in place.

Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature by Gloria Fisk

Reviewed by: Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature by Gloria Fisk Audrey J. Golden Fisk, Gloria. 2018. Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature. Literature Now. New York: Columbia University Press. $60.00 hc. xiii + 265 pp. Gloria Fisk's Orhan Pamuk and the Good of World Literature is a provocative and necessary contribution to the field of contemporary world literature developed by Western critics like David Damrosch, Emily Apter, Pascale Casanova, Eric Hayot, Gayatri Spivak, and Franco Moretti. When the study of world literature is one almost wholly shaped by Western thinkers, can it ever do any "good," Fisk asks, or is such a question necessarily a product of the hegemonic thinking that presupposes the power and privilege of the reader doing the asking? This inquiry underlies Fisk's work and opens up new opportunities for reconsidering the very definitions of "world literature" and the "global novel" in the twenty-first century. Although Fisk's title might suggest otherwise, this is not a monograph on a single author's work but instead is an interrogation of the state of the field that relies on Orhan Pamuk—both his fiction and the global persona of the author—as a case study "in the uneven processes of translation, circulation, and judgment that carry a non-Western writer to his publics in the West" (2). Fisk questions the historicized definition of world literature and its problematic origins in the Western university system while, at the same time, indicting the reading practices of those shaped by this system. Fisk's methodology requires more than engagement with Pamuk's texts and their readings by literary critics; it necessitates analysis of the performative literary celebrity [End Page 873] of Pamuk in order to conceive of world literature as a system that needs reimagining. Fisk argues that world literature is a Western construct designed to make Western readers feel good about themselves and their worldliness: "Pamuk demonstrates to his Western publics the good world literature can do at the turn of the twenty-first century, when a novel gains its value from the view it gives its readers on worlds they would find hard to see without a local and literary guide" (3). Accordingly, Western readers who approach writers like Pamuk "come to him to learn the truth about distant people and places, notwithstanding the obvious fact that he traffics in fiction" (17). Such reading practices perpetuate the flawed notion that a reader can develop empathy with the Other through a fictional encounter while, at the same time, acquiring knowledge of that Other's culture and national history. There is an assumption that Pamuk's fiction has the "ability to teach his readers what is really happening in the minds of people whose faces are visible only from afar" (33). Fisk demonstrates through nuanced readings of the novels Snow and The Museum of Innocence how Pamuk becomes complicit in producing such assumptions for his privileged, Western audience. By merging fact and fiction in both novels, Pamuk tempts his Western reader to accept the fictional elements as "historical knowledge" while he also provides that reader with objective artifacts from Turkey's past (73). In Snow, "{a} reader who lacks familiarity with Turks and Turkey will be tempted to take Orhan's narration as fact, and the novel nurtures that temptation by piling up evidence in documentary forms—quoting from a fictional newspaper that is represented as a clipping on the page, for example—but it also compiles volumes of realistic details over more than four hundred pages" (51). Similarly, The Museum of Innocence depicts actual and invented museum objects, or what Fisk describes as "totems of a lost culture" placed seamlessly alongside "fabricated artifacts of the characters' fictional lives" (73). Through this interweaving of fictional and historical pasts, Pamuk both "asserts and denies the novel's historiographical utility" (73). Pamuk's public persona plays a key role in advancing Fisk's argument. She observes how the novelist's performance of his literary celebrity intertwines with the postmodern formal qualities of his fiction to eradicate the line between truth and fiction, further muddying the waters for the Western reader who turns to these novels for...

패션문화상품으로서 가방 디자인 개발- 백제 역사∙문화 콘텐츠를 중심으로 -

As the number of foreigners who visit South Korea due to the influence of the Korean Wave, the need for research on fashion culture products has risen as well. It is necessary to produce cultural products suitable for the global design sense and trend. This study aims to develop bag design as fashion cultural product by utilizing the excellence of Baekje culture. Though Baekje’s culture is considered to have the most refined culture out of the Three Kingdoms in ancient Korea, it has been marginalized by people as a ‘lost culture.’ This study chose bags as its subject as its cultural item because it recognized that there are unvaried contents of the existing cultural products and lack of fashionability. The research method is summarized as follows: First, this study used literature research to examine the concept and types of fashion cultural products, and to investigate the status of domestic and foreign fashion cultural products with a focus on bags. Second, this study investigated the history and types of bags. Third, the study performed literature study and status survey to develop a bag design that can be utilized in the future Korean market. The results of the study are as follows. The types of bags used in the study were clutch and tote bags, and the material types were leather and neoprene. For the textile expression techniques, a Digital Textile Printer (DTP) and a transcription printer were used. The goal of this study is to present an opportunity for designers to visualize the historical and cultural images of the Baekje period, and utilize them as fashion cultural products.