Processes Of Cultural Interaction Research Articles

Breaking Borders, Bridging Fields: Unveiling the Transculturality of Anti‐Asian Racism in a Global Context

Despite the recent surge in scholarly attention to anti‐Asian racism, what is largely missing in this growing body of literature is a bridge connecting studies on this subject to the broader field of race and ethnicity studies. In this special issue, we propose to use the concept of transculturality, which is defined as the process of cultural interaction, interpenetration, and hybridization that transcends the traditional borders of individual cultures, to establish this connection. In this introductory article, we first critically review the concepts of culture, interculturality, and multiculturality in the studies of race and ethnicity. Upon this review, we explain how transculturality advances the knowledge of racial and ethnic identity, ideas, and practices. This introduction concludes with an overview of each contribution, setting the stage for a comprehensive exploration of this complex and multifaceted issue. Collectively, this special issue aims to not only provide theoretical and empirical insights into the transculturality of anti‐Asian racism but also build a bridge between the studies of the Asian diaspora and the general research on race and ethnicity.

Drevnerusskoe dvoeverie kak kul'turnyj dialog: opyt semioticheskogo analiza

The article is devoted to the study of the process of cultural interaction between paganism and Christianity as semiotic systems in the first centuries after the Baptism of Rus. The authors studied the originality of ancient Russian paganism, the problem of adapting Christian discourse to the situation of the significant presence of a pagan worldview in the semantic space of Ancient Russia, the dialogue and mutual influence of these two religious systems. The article traces the internal inconsistency of the process of adopting Christianity and its variability in social and territorial dimensions.

Etruscan Orientalization

Abstract The terms ‘orientalizing’ and ‘orientalization’ have been employed to describe an art historical style, historical period, and process of cultural interaction between East and West within the early first-millennium BCE Mediterranean. With particular focus on Etruria and Italy, this historiography explores the Orientalist framework at the heart of ‘orientalizing’ terms while outlining how modern political movements and ideologies of nationalism and colonialism have influenced interpretations of ‘orientalizing.’ By showing the political viewpoints underlying the origins of the term and the ways in which these positions have continued to shape modern interpretations of the effects of eastern imported objects, ideas, and practices in Etruria, this work argues that the term ‘orientalizing’ should no longer be used. Instead, the period should be fit into existing chronological periodizations, and the process of cultural change should be interrogated outside of an Orientalist discourse.

On the Influence of Native Language Cultural Aphasia on the Intercultural Communication Competence of Foreign Language Majors

Intercultural communication is a process of cultural interaction, in which the culture of the target language and the culture of the native language are equally important. In the learning process of foreign language majors, the lack of native culture often becomes a key factor that hinders the improvement of their intercultural communication competence. To effectively solve the problem of cultural aphasia of native language in the process of intercultural communication competence cultivation is not only related to the establishment of cultural consciousness and cultural confidence, but also related to the inheritance, dissemination and development of excellent native culture.

Результаты технико-технологического анализа керамики могильника Талдинский-1 (Центральный Казахстан)

Introduction. The article presents results of a study of ceramics production technologies from Taldinsky-1 burial site (Central Kazakhstan). A total of four structures were excavated on the site, and three of them belong to the early Alakul culture, one — to the latest Bronze Age. Materials and Methods. A total of 16 vessels have been studied through the use of the MBS-10 binocular microscope according to the A. Bobrinsky method. Results. The research obtained data on characteristics of the raw material, compositions of molding compounds, methods for constructing seed and hollow forms, and surface treatment. The paper reveals the main cultural traditions of Alakul ceramics, namely: the raw material is medium ferruginous and medium plastic clay; the composition of the molding compound — medium-sized grus + manure in low concentration; the seed form — bottom-to-wall and patch-lumpy; the hollow form — single-layer and patch-lumpy. The discovered differences in manufacturing technologies make it possible to presume some of the vessels had actually been imported. Moreover, two of the discovered vessels proved to belong to the Fedorovo culture, one of them having been located in the same burial as the Alakul ones. This attests to the coexistence and mutual contacts of the Fedorovo and Alakul populations already at some early stage of development of the Andronovo cultural and historical community. All the three vessels found in the same latest Bronze Age burial were made by potters to have followed different cultural ceramic traditions. Conclusions. Thus, the data of the technical and technological analysis of the ceramics from Taldinsky-1 burial site reflect the processes of cultural interaction in the Bronze Age which took place both at the level of direct contacts between representatives of different cultures (Andronovo burials) and at the level of product exchanges (Bronze Age burial).

Sello alimentario romano relacionado con Juno Sospita procedente del SE Hispano

Roman alimentary stamps have an iconography that sometimes is difficult to interpret. In this paper, some valuations on the images displayed on both sides of one of these objects, namely an example belonging to a private collection in Murcia, are offered. In its original publication a relation to agrarian cults through motifs that would refer to the goddess Ceres was proposed. However, it is a composition having its closest parallels in a series of Roman Republican coins issued in 64 bc by Lucio Roscio Fabato. These denarii are mainly linked to Juno Sospita and secondarily also to the Egyptian cults of Mediterranean expansion. Therefore we evaluate the possibility that such religious interaction is found also reflected on the mentioned alimentary stamp is evaluated, offering new information on the processes of cultural interaction between the Iberian and the Italian Peninsulas.

Biblical translations and cross-cultural communication: a focus on the animal imagery

In this contribution I will focus on bestiaries as privileged subject-matter to analyze semantic variations deriving from the translations of the Bible as a space of cultural encounter. Through specific examples-such as formicaleon, deer-goat, behemoth, sirens and so on-the semiotic value of monstrous creatures in the Hebrew Bible, in the Greek Septuaginta and eventually in Jerome’s Vulgata, will be investigated. I will explain the reasons why processes of cultural interaction become more evident in the case of monstrous or “aporetic” animals (i.e. animals that cannot be included in ordinary taxonomies). Finally, with reference to Christian commentaries ad loca, I will show the cultural proceedings underpinning the translation and the interpretation of the biblical bestiary.

Pinturas, land and lawsuits: Maps in colonial Mexican legal documents

The local land surveys and land‐use drawings included in colonial judicial documents held in the national and regional archives of Mexico provide a largely under‐exploited medium for investigating post‐conquest cultural, economic and environmental change. If these maps are to be useful historical sources, their limitations as well as their potential need to be assessed in order to shed light on the processes of cultural interaction and on ways information was exchanged between colonist and colonized during a time of upheaval and transformation. The focus in this paper is on one particular group of maps, the land‐use maps and drawings (pinturas) produced for negotiations (diligencias) over land awards (mercedes) and lawsuits (pleitos).

On Culture and Mathematics Teacher Education.

Many countries are multicultural. Mathematics teacher education classes often are composed of students with varied cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and mathematics teachers may be employed in regions from which they do not come. Formal (mathematics) education is a process of cultural interaction, and every child and teacher may experience some degree of social and cultural conflict in that process. This paper describes and reflects on some of these tensions, as they exist in mathematics teacher education in Mozambique. The process of developing among future mathematics teachers an awareness of the social and cultural bases of mathematics is object of reflection.

The Madras Corporation Band: A Story of Social Change and Indigenization

Wind bands in South Asia are a ubiquitous and sometimes perplexing phenomenon. Their continued presence as musical symbols of status and prestige in public and private settings demonstrates an ongoing relationship with the region's colonial past, but simultaneously expresses the ability of South Asian cultures to refashion external cultural influences in ways that fit their own patterns of social organization and suit regional cultural needs. As the political and social realities of the subcontinent have changed, so naturally, have cultural needs and behaviors. This study presents a brief history of a particular wind band and considers that history in relation to changes in the band's surrounding cultural context. It raises questions regarding the processes of cultural interaction and the nature of attempts at adaptation or indigenization of foreign cultural elements in a specific South Asian culture area. In early 19th-century India, the long-term presence and might of British interests were impinging with increasing force on South Asian consciousness. Many dependent and independent South Asian rulers sought to imitate the military and cultural attributes of the new power in the land. Military bands, and sometimes household wind bands as well, began to appear in the musical establishments of Indian royal courts. To be sure, these groups were often quite small, sometimes no more than a few bugles, fifes, and drums; such groups, nevertheless, form one important strand in the historical development of modem South Asian wind bands.

English loanwords in Japanese: Some cultural implications

The various loanward dictionaries published in Japan over the past two decades have been growing in size, from some 20,000 entries in the mid-60s to well over 30,000 by the 80s. The sociolinguistic interest in the growth is focused on the cultural implications of such a wholesale borrowing, among other features. The categories of loanword use, the functions of loanwords, their proscriptions in some situations, and so on are of interest, as is the similarity of the sophistication of their use to the usage of Chinese loans of over a millenium ago. This presentation will address the following areas: (1) a specification of the ever more complicated categories of borrowings and their intricate uses in Japanese; (2) an analysis of the developing functions of the loans; (3) a discussion of the cultural attitudes which permit much borrowing in some semantic areas, less in others, to the point of rejection in some ; (4) a brief discussion of how the present process of wholesale borrowing of English words has certain similarities to the wholesale borrowing of Chinese language and culture some 1400 years ago. The latter point emphasizes how language borrowing is but part of an overall process of cultural interaction.

Distinctive Features of the Ethnocultural Development of the Population in Voronezh Oblast

Voronezh Oblast is situated in the broader zone of Russian-Ukrainian ethno-contact and is of considerable interest for the study of the laws and tendencies of development of ethnic traditions and processes of cultural interaction between different ethnic groups. The Russian and Ukrainian population groups formed in this area were not ethnoculturally homogeneous, since migrants of various social estates from different parts of Russia and the Ukraine became intermingled with them in the period of prolonged migrational movements. These complex historico-social processes gave rise to a diversity of local variants of domestic culture formed at different times under the influence of a series of interacting factors. We shall be examining the trends of ethnic development and the development of domestic culture of the Russian and Ukrainian population on the territory what is today Voronezh Oblast from the second half of the 19th century down to the present, and processes of cultural interaction among different ethnic groups of the population.