Traditional Revitalization Research Articles

Revitalization of Coastal Java Society's Traditional Art in Multimedia Form

This study examined the revitalization of the traditional art of Ngesti Pandowo as a product of the creative industry that responds to the demands of the era of globalization as an Indonesian cultural strategy model for reaching at an international level. Literature and field researches were conducted, and a comprehensive overview of the historical journey of Ngesti Pandowo was performed. The results revealed that Ngesti Pandowo emerged within the rural society but disappeared in the environment of the coastal society. Ngesti Pandowo, rooted in the agrarian society, became an entertainer and an integral part of the maritime society; however, they have disappeared within this society. Therefore, a strategy to promote the revitalization of Ngesti Pandowo in a multimedia form is required. The traditional revitalization of Ngesti Pandowo is not limited to inventory and identification but includes reconstruction, renovation, and refunctionalization, with dedicated production design, production packing, and marketing.

Middle Class, Tradition and the Desi-Realm—Discourses of Alternative Food Networks in Bengaluru, India

It has repeatedly been claimed that persistent traditional agriculture and marketing in countries of the Global South, such as India, are a fruitful basis for the foundation of alternative food networks (AFNs). However, literature on AFNs in the Global South is scarce and it thus remains uncertain how the appropriation of traditional agri-food practices plays out. We conducted semi-structured expert interviews with representatives of 14 AFNs in Bengaluru, India, in order to explore their aims and approaches. We found that there is a high variety of different AFNs in the city. One salient discourse among the representatives was that the agri-food system can be improved by a revitalization of tradition. In this paper, we discuss the implications of this conviction on representatives of AFNs. Traditionalism, we argue, does rather represent a deflection from achieving the stated goals of the AFN, namely the improvement of the livelihood of Indian farmers.

Revitalization of Tradition through Social Media: A Case of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand

Revitalization of Tradition through Social Media: A Case of the Vegetarian Festival in Phuket, Thailand

Intentionality, Numerical Growth and the Rural Church

ABSTRACTA recent report on church growth argued that there are no strong connections between numerical growth and worship style or theological tradition. Instead, what seems crucial is that congregations engage in reflection: choices should be made intentionally, rather than by default. This article summarises the evidence for that claim and considers the implications for rural churches. To the extent that congregations are inward-looking, follow inherited practice and are resistant to change, it may be difficult to avoid stagnation and decline. The revitalisation of tradition is a challenge for rural clergy and congregations.

Cross-Cultural Articulations of War Magic and Warrior Religion

Previous anthropology emphasized symbolic incantations at the expense of the embodied practice of magic. Foregrounding embodi- ment and performance in war magic and warrior religion collapses the mind-body dualism of magic versus rationality, instead highlighting social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition, as tempered historically by colonial and post-colonial trajectories in societies under- going rapid social transformation. Religion and magic are re-evaluated from the perspective of the practitioner's and the victim's embodiment in their experiential life-worlds via articles discussing Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, Sumatran black magic, Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans. Central themes include violence and healing, accomplished through ritual and performance, to unleash and/or control the power of gods, demons, ghosts and the dead.

Lahiri's Hawthornian Roots: Art and Tradition in “Hema and Kaushik”

Hawthorne explores—in The House of Seven Gables and particularly The Marble Faun—how some artistic methods attempt to fix the past and escape tradition's grip while others participate in the reformation and revitalization of tradition. Lahiri draws on Hawthorne's ideas and characters as she probes—in “Hema and Kaushik” and especially its final story, “Going Ashore”—how one's relation to the past affects and even determines one's ability to live out a hybrid, postnational identity.

Building civil society on rubble: Citizenship and the politics of culture in Taiwan

This article explores a path to organizing politics that differs from the Western model of civil society. I want to argue, first, through analysis of a case in Taiwan, that the state’s technologies of governance have radically restructured notions of the social and in turn the way people practice politics; second, as culture has itself become a crucial contest site, the contest has in turn given rise to new forms of political action; and third, that, ironically, the rise of civil society has occurred alongside the revitalization of tradition. In other words, presumably shared “tradition” inspires individuals’ political actions, which in practice operate quite separately from the premise of liberal individualism. I conclude that we should look very carefully at the political and social context in which the civil society emerges, and then we can determine in what ways it is connected to people.

Myths and stereotypes about adat law: A reassessment of Van Vollenhoven in the light of current struggles over adat law in Indonesia

Recent analyses of the ‘revitalisation of tradition’ have rekindled earlier discussions of the ‘creation of customary law’ in colonial states. For Indonesia, critics have deconstructed a ‘myth of adat’, arguing that adat law was an invention of the adat law scholar Van Vollenhoven and his followers. The assessment of that period also shapes interpretations of developments in Indonesia after 1998. The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that in some respects the critique of colonial scholarship was misconceived, and that these misconceptions hamper a proper understanding of the current revitalisation of adat in Indonesia. Many interpretations of colonial legal science and practice have become anachronistic and stereotypical. We argue that most interpretations were and are largely based on a legalistic conception of ‘law’ and ‘customary law’, that authors selectively generalise interpretations from specific contexts, and that they do not take into account what such interpretations say over legal realities beyond these contexts. Lastly we think that the target of the critique is somewhat misconceived as it is directed at those scholars who were aware of the danger of legal ethnocentrism and criticised it, while not looking at those colonial scholars and courts, who grossly misinterpreted local normative systems in terms of Dutch legal categories. We argue that some assumptions and propositions of these earlier and contemporary critical deconstructions are in need of re-evaluation. Given its presence in current analyses, reconsidering Van Vollenhoven and his followers is more than a return to a history long gone by. We substantiate our propositions with a discussion of the history of the village commons, ulayat, in West Sumatra, which has always been a central illustration in all discussions of adat law.

STRATEGI PENINGKATAN DAYA SAING BIDANG KEBUDAYAAN DI PROPINSI DIY

This research aims to explore cultural development indicators in Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta (DIY), which seen having competitive advantage. Then, formulating its policy, strategy and implementation programs based on cultural development. Data were obtained from survey to inhabitants in four regencies and one city. We processed data statistically by factor and cluster analysis. In addition, we did SPACE (Strategic Position and Action Evaluation), internal-external analysis and using choice experiment to look for and chose priorities among them. The results indicate that imperative parameters of cultural shape are organic solidarity, spiritualism, social institution, introduction of Javanese culture and language on early education, appreciation of arts, using formal and non-formal institution simultaneous and doing well communication in society. Therefore, the critical factors of cultural physic are arts value, arts performance, supporting infrastructure of culture, heritage conservation, batik and lurik pattern, handicrafts, traditional fashion, discipline and caring Kraton as centre of Javanese culture. Consequently, government of DIY should push cognitive, affective and conative education and doing revitalization of tradition, custom and rituals that reflecting of identity, integrity and togetherness of Javanese ethnics. Keywords: DIY, strategy, culture, competitive advantage

Competing Global Players in Rural Morocco: Upgrading Legal Arenas

This paper analyses the socio-legal consequences of the competition between different transnational actors for the opportunity to implement their respective legal standards in a plural legal constellation in rural Morocco. The empirical data presented here refer to a rural community located in the centre of the Souss region in South West Morocco. The thesis in this paper is that focussing on the competition between global players for local control reveals that competition accelerates the dynamics of transnational-state-local interaction. Moreover, it seems that transnational-local interaction in a four-way constellation composed of two opposing types of competing global players, the state, and local actors, is much more complex than in a constellation with just one isolated transnational actor. It is argued that the rising degree of legal cross-referencing serves to boost the legal agency of local actors. Neither a revitalisation of tradition nor a strict rejection of interaction with external interveners has evolved, but rather, this interaction has had far reaching consequences for local power constellations and the way in which social conditions are reflected by the law. Thus, the socio-legal consequences of transnational intervention in the rural legal arena are examined along the different comparative axes reflected in these discourses: the potential for conflict and violent action; the impact on local identity; and the intention to link the local legal arena with transnational standardisation. Subsequently, the paper goes on to develop a concept of ‘empowered legal agency’ achieved by an emphasis on socio-legal identity and local culture.

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life.

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life.

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life.

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life.

From paddy field to ski slope: the revitalisation of tradition in Japanese village life

From paddy field to ski slope: the revitalisation of tradition in Japanese village life

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life

From Paddy Field to Ski Slope: The Revitalisation of Tradition in Japanese Village Life