Symbolic Objects Research Articles

Religious Figures and Characters in the Poetry of Yousef Al-Azem

In essence, the research is aimed at detecting, identifying and dismantling religious figures and characters , and its significance to the poet Yousef Al-Azem. The poet used to employ this rich source - whose characters and symbols are insatiable in his ten poetry collections - to enrich his poems, This is evidence of the qualities and characteristics of these religious figures and symbols that their users can employ, in addition to tracking their influence on the psyche of the poet, and the disclosure of this religious phenomenon, which has been and continues to be present in literary works dealing with human, social, political and intellectual issues, And to show their relevance to the nature of the event that required them to be summoned, so that they are benign and enriching. The study showed that the poet Yousef Al-Azem has the hiring power associated with the symbolic symbolic ability of various religious and historical figures, The poet was able to single out each character, linking it to a particular event, There is no doubt that each personality has its privacy and symbolism, which it relays from others, even if they are all under Islamic cover. And to be able to know the language mechanism used to recruit these characters and their symbolic objects text, as it relates to existential and human aspects, has a deeper influence on the psyche of its recipients, deepening its poetic experience and the way it treats religious figures and symbols to serve its ideas and directions.

Discrepancia del yo y actitudes hacia la compra compulsiva en estudiantes universitarios chilenos

Consumption has been established in postmodern societies as a means of regulating social relations. In this context, compulsive buying could be established as pathological, creating significant psychological discomfort in people, to the point of impairing social and professional functioning, coupled with serious economic problems resulting from indebtedness. Along the same lines, in the construction of a social identity and a socially shared reality, consumption patterns arise that are linked to what the public should be and what they want to be. Therefore, while compulsive buying has been conceptualized for decades, it is a substantial threat to psychological and financial well-being. Few studies have explored the link between self-discrepancy and compulsive buying within an identity construction context. In this scenario, it is young people who become particularly sensitive, since with consumption they access symbolic objects that are part of their identity construction and a dimension related to compulsive buying. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that access to the consumption of symbolic elements is self-discrepancy. That is why this research aims at determining the effect of the self-discrepancy on attitudes towards compulsive buying in Chilean university students. The study uses a quantitative, correlational, and non-experimental cross-sectional design. Study sample was comprised of 1 229 Chilean university students, who responded to the scale of attitudes towards consumption, the self-discrepancy scale, and answered questions for sociodemographic characterization including: gender (male/female), age, geographical area of residence (rural/urban), people with whom they live, and whether they have any bank credit cards. Prior to data collection, a letter was sent to Faculty Deans and Program Directors of all the universities associated with the Council of Rectors of Chile; these letters described the aims of the study, and requested information and authorization for the distribution of the instrument previously described. It is important to indicate that, after this, a random sampling process was initiated, after which each participant was contacted, so that they could sign an informed consent form, thus ensuring the anonymity ethical guidelines of the study. The data was processed through SPSS version 22 software, looking for the presence of univariate and multivariate outliers through Z-scores and Mahalanobis distance. A descriptive analysis of the variables was then carried out based on the dispersion, central trend and shape measurements. Subsequently, the data was analysed through bivariate statistics through Pearson correlations, to indicate into empirical relationships between compulsive purchase as a dependent variable and sociodemographic variables (sex and bank credit card holding) and the dimensions associated with the self-discrepancy (intellectual, physical, physical beauty, personal, social, emotional and economic) as independent variables. Once the behaviour of the variables was observed, a hierarchical multiple linear regression was performed. Regarding the results of this research, multiple linear regression shows that physical self-discrepancy (beauty), economic self-discrepancy and gender are significant predictors of compulsive buying. Similarly, it is noted that women are a group with higher scores in terms of compulsive purchases than men, which may be mostly affected by the context, where marketing campaigns can influence a greater gap between the real self and the ideal self. These results generate an alert that shows the relationship between women and attitudes towards compulsive buying. The study concludes that the pressures, either within the peer group or in the media construction of women are influencing the consolidation of behaviour patterns at an early age, which are projected as constant actions in adulthood. In the same way, they could be promoting high levels of anxiety and depression due to the stress generated by the search for a socially accepted image. https://doi.org/10.16888/interd.2023.40.1.20

An analysis of the interpersonal meaning of lyric and video “zombie” by day6

Song is a learning media that often use to learn English by the students but sometimes they do not understand the meaning of the song used. This study focuses on analyze the intended meaning from some figurative expressions through the song lyric and the symbolic signs and gestures on the video clip of Day6 “Zombie”. The data of this study were the lyrics of Day6 “Zombie (English Version)” and the official video that uploaded on 11th May 2021 by JYP Entertainment. The lyrics and the video were analyzed by Fairclough’s critical discourse analysis by categorizing the figurative expressions that showed the intended meaning and explain the symbolic expressions through semiotic study. The result shows if there are six figurative expressions such as metaphor, personification, paradox, repetition, metonymy, and symbolism. The images are delivered through colour schemes, symbolic objects, and gestures. This study concluded that the intended meaning from lyrics and the music video of Day6 “Zombie” tells about the hopeless feeling of someone who always does the same thing every day.

Binyat ar-Ramz al-Lugawiyyah fī at-Tafsīr aṣ-Ṣūfī

This research aimed to demonstrate the distinctive and comprehensive scholarship of the Sufi knowledge structure. The descriptive method and comparative analysis were used in this literature study. Meanwhile, the data were obtained through a review of the literature, which included books, journals, and academic writings with both primary and secondary references. Through in-depth readings, the researchers found that Sufi thought tends to be symbolic and unconventional. They exist in a sort of semantic intensity that is organized by open spiritual experience, which by nature is in alignment with various symbolic objects and their various manifestations by a strong spiritual sense, equipped with imagination and intuition that emanates from the depths of their being. There are numerous sign systems used in the Sufi language that, in terms of functionality, go beyond those used in conventional language. The study's findings suggest that symbols have the following qualities in the intuitive dimension: First, mystical knowledge produces symbols (Gnosticism). The foundation of sufi symbols is the integration of mental, emotional, and spiritual intelligence. Second, the symbolism that Sufis understand is very extensive. The Sufi is endowed with the power to reveal different secrets and inner truths when he reaches the state of mukafah and muhadah. He is capable of understanding sign language's symbolic expressions. Third, symbols offer a wide range of possible interpretations. Symbolism is based on an approach to interpretation that, by accurately reproducing meaning, broadens thought. This talent shows how the Sufi's spiritual level evolved from the sensory level to the level of infinite totality.

Representing the pain of others

This article describes some of the techniques museums use to represent the suffering body in exhibitions. Some display human remains, but much more common, especially in Western museums, are stand-ins for the body. Manikins take many forms, including the wax museum’s hyperrealistic representations, the history museum’s neutral grey figures and the expressionistic figures that represent enslaved people in many recent exhibits. Symbolic objects or artefacts from the lives of victims can serve as counterweights to telling the story of their deaths. Photographs can show horror and the machinery of death, focus attention on individual lives or recreate communities. The absence of the body can call attention to its suffering. All of these techniques can be useful for museums trying to display and teach traumatic histories, but must be used with care and caution.

The Relationship Between Language and Speech: Formal Understanding of Natural Symbology

This paper aims to realize the natural language formal understanding through the mathematical logic principle of indirect formalization for Chinese and its characters, and its essence is to understand the relationship between language and speech. The method is: First, it is clear that monosyllabic Chinese characters have two basic attributes of language and text, English letters and morphemes, words, phrases and sentences, which belong to another type of text and language; It is found that in the past Chinese was regarded as a monosyllabic language and English was regarded as a polysyllabic language which is a complete misjudgment; Finally, it is further clarified that monosyllabic and mixed syllables not only have unique interpersonal communication in Chinese, but also have human-computer interaction and even automated batch processing with uniqueness, its fundamental feature is that the monosyllabic Chinese characters meet a certain arithmetic base that is indirectly formalized, that is, the typical P base. Its result is that, it was unexpectedly discovered that arithmetic and language have rigid constraints on the underlying sequence-position logic and surface linkage functions, but there are flexible rules for broad interpretation or translation for the symbolic objects of their division and combination. Its significance lies in: sequence-position logic, linkage function, generalized bilingual or translation or language, in essence, from the macroscopic global to the microscopic local, to systematically and formally understand natural language, especially to thoroughly understand the relationship between language and speech, namely: Global Chinese Sequencing and Positioning System.

Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European accipitrid birds of prey

AbstractClaws of avian raptors have been used to make symbolic objects and decorations in many geographic regions and cultures; thus, their species identification increases our ability to draw more in‐depth conclusions from zooarcheological materials. It is the first ever manual for identification of ungual phalanges of European Accipitridae. It can be used in conjunction with a previously published manual for owls and falcons as well as independently.

Reconstructing the Biography of Children's Stone Bracers in the Iberian Peninsula

Perforated stone plaques, known as bracers, are found across late prehistoric Europe and many of them have been recovered in Bell Beaker funerary contexts, usually associated with adult individuals. Experimental, technological, and use-wear studies have determined that the bracers were both utilitarian and symbolic objects. Very few are found in children's graves, but examples are known in the Iberian Peninsula, two of which are presented here. The analyses conducted on the two bracers, including archaeological contextualization, raw material identification, and technological and use-wear studies, allow the authors to reconstruct their respective biographies. Although these pieces were associated with young children, they had long lives before their final deposition in the graves. Use-wear marks on one of the bracers suggest that it was used in archery, despite its small size.

The k-nearest Neighbor Classification of Histogram- and Trapezoid-Valued Data

‎A histogram-valued observation is a specific type of symbolic objects that represents its value by a list of bins (intervals) along with their corresponding relative frequencies or probabilities‎.
 ‎In the literature‎, ‎the raw data in bins of all histogram-valued data have been assumed to be uniformly distributed‎. ‎A new representation of such observations is proposed in this paper by assuming that the raw data in each bin are linearly distributed‎, ‎which are called trapezoid-valued data‎.
 ‎Moreover‎, ‎new definitions of union and intersection between trapezoid-valued observations are made‎.
 This study proposes the k-nearest neighbor technique for classifying histogram-valued data using various dissimilarity measures‎.
 ‎Further‎, ‎the limiting behavior of the computational complexities based on the performed dissimilarity measures are compared‎.
 ‎Some simulations are done to study the performance of the proposed procedures‎. ‎Also‎, ‎the results are applied to three various real data sets‎.
 ‎Eventually‎, ‎some conclusions are stated‎.

Stories of Resurrection in the Qin Manuscripts and the Transformation of Burial Customs in the Qin Dynasty

Abstract The stories *Dan 丹 from the Fangmatan 放馬灘 Qin manuscripts, and Taiyuan you sizhe 泰原有死者 from the Peking University Qin manuscript collection, tell of the afterlife and the proper burial and sacrificial practices for the dead through the words of two men who died and returned to life. The proper burial and sacrificial practices proposed in the texts include the replacement of money and silk with symbolic objects, the abandonment of burying a body in the bent position and the breaking of burial goods, the restriction on joint burial of husband and wife, and advocating moderation and cleanliness in sacrificial rituals at the grave. The two texts reflect how the literate class endeavored to make the old burial and sacrificial customs in Qin culture closer to the collective customs of the six eastern states.

Whose talon is this? A manual for the identification of ungual phalanges of European birds of prey: Falcons and owls

AbstractThis paper is the first of two scheduled publications for this project. It contains a dichotomous key to the identification of the ungual phalanges of European owls and falcons; the second part will contain accipitrids. The manual(s) will facilitate the work of zooarchaeologists and palaeontologists, especially since comparative specimens in osteological collections are often difficult to access and/or incomplete. This, in turn, will indirectly contribute to a more in‐depth interpretation of zooarcheological materials, because bird talons were used to produce symbolic objects and decorations in different archeological periods and in various geographical areas.

Reconstructing Mesolithic social networks on the Iberian Peninsula using ornaments

Archaeologists have been reconstructing interactions amongst hunter-gatherer populations for a long time. These exchanges are materialised in the movements of raw materials and symbolic objects which are found far from their original sources. Social network, i.e. the structure constituted by these interactions, is a well-established concept in archaeology that is used to address the connectivity of hunter-gatherer populations. The heuristic potential of formal network analysis, however, has been scarcely exploited in prehistoric hunter-gatherer archaeology. Here, social network analysis is used to analyse the interactions amongst hunter-gatherers on the Iberian Peninsula in the Early and Late Mesolithic (10,200 to 7600 cal BP). We used ornaments to explore social interaction and constructed one network per phase of the Iberian Mesolithic. We applied a three-steps analysis: First, we characterised the overall structure of the networks. Second, we performed centrality analysis to uncover the most relevant nodes. Finally, we conducted an exploratory analysis of the networks’ spatial characteristics. No significant differences were found between the overall network topology of the Early and Late Mesolithic. This suggests that the interaction patterns amongst human groups did not change significantly at a peninsular scale. Moreover, the spatial analysis showed that most interactions between human groups took place over distances under 300 km, but that specific ornament types like Columbella rustica were distributed over more extensive distances. Our findings suggest that Iberian Mesolithic social networks were maintained through a period of environmental, demographic and cultural transformation and that interactions took place at different scales of social integration.

Gussied up tighty-whities: On decoration, stains and exchange

Due to the homoerotic undertones of male underwear ad campaigns and their representations of sexualized bodies, male underwear and their packaging are formative objects in the realization of one’s same-sex desire. Underwear often projects a gay male gaze and becomes a symbolic object charged with ethos, desire and shame. In this article, I expand on my own relationship and encounters with this formative object, informed by this broader landscape of representations. I present projects from my fibre-based art practice that consists of the transformation and embellishment of male underwear. I contextualize the act of hand-embellishing a mass-produced object as a powerful agent for adaptation and appropriation, and I explore the potential to formally queer this normative object. Finally, I mention a project in which I receive worn and stained male underwear that I embroider on before sending them back to their owner. Accompanied by conversations with their owners, I trace individuals’ unique and similar relationship with this object. I argue that these different creative practices, which hand-alter, adapt or re-create the underwear, interrupt normative consumption cycles and misuse of undergarment functionality and can create a space ‘for us’.

An essay on culture

Despite much uncertainty about what culture is, where it comes from, and where it goes once it is gone, two core understandings are of culture as meaning and value. Both value and meaning are not well known, let alone understood. We probe some common and conventional understandings of culture, and trace their intellectual history. In the modern history of the West, Kant’s philosophy bestows the highest value on Platonic or Platonist ideas and ideals. But they are already demoted into merely regulative fictions and necessary illusions. After Kant, the history of culture as value and ideal amounts to the ending of their meta-physical and trans-cendental status. Values and ideals first turn into variable and historical a prioris in NeoKantianism and Max Weber, and eventually become facts themselves – the empirical facts of beliefs about values. Nietzsche observes this history of value as an arriving, the advent of nihilism. A sign of this arrival is values being suspected as ideological rationalizations and inflations in which class or status interests and the will-to-power present themselves as Truth. In the light of this truth, culture and values eventually appear as nothing but symbolic objects and cultural capital. The nihilistic erosion of the substance of values means that culture is exhausted and finished, giving rise to, and enabling, its very flourishing as political economics, symbolic industry, and cultural administration.

Dragonfly Eyes by Cao Wenxuan

Reviewed by: Dragonfly Eyes by Cao Wenxuan Kara Forde Wenxuan, Cao Dragonfly Eyes; tr. from the Chinese by Helen Wang. Candlewick, 2022 [384p] Trade ed. ISBN 9781536200188 $19.99 E-book ed. ISBN 9781536209990 $19.99 Reviewed from digital galleys Ad Gr. 6-9 Growing up, Ah Mei heard countless romantic stories of her Nainai's life with Yeye, Ah Mei's Chinese grandfather who fell in love with Nainai in the port city of Marseilles before they returned to China to assume responsibility for his family's [End Page 368] silk company. Ah Mei, as the favorite grandchild, has lived with Nainai and Yeye for her whole childhood in Shanghai, where her subtle Western resemblance to her beautiful French grandmother has often garnered stares. Over the years, Ah Mei witnesses the family's fortune turn as the political tides of the city begin to drastically change, and eventually Nainai is falsely suspected of operating as a foreign spy. This Chinese import is a melancholic, multigenerational novel spanning 1920s France to the 1960s Cultural Revolution in China, employing a distant third-person narration characterized by figurative language and detailed descriptions of the setting and the family's quotidian life. Lacking a focused plot, the story is primarily guided by a series of symbolic objects that distinguish the episodic chapters, and the symbol of the dragonfly eyes, two multilayered colorful glass beads gifted to Nainai for her wedding, nods to Ah Mei's and Nainai's exotic appearance as well as their hope for protection against evil. No real context for the historical setting is given, so young readers may need some assistance with interpreting the political forces behind the family's persecution, but the underrepresented subject makes this story a worthwhile addition to historical fiction shelves. Copyright © 2022 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Bibliometric study on creative and cultural industries (2010-2020)

The creative and cultural industries represent a brand-new topic when studying the local development as well as the economic and industrial growth, focused on attracting qualified personnel to generate knowledge. Its application has been extended to many industries, like the artistic and cultural ones, where goods and services are produced from sensory and symbolic objectives. Thus, it is important to know if the scientific community’s contributions are enough for the study of the subject and which opportunity areas exist for further and complementary studies. This paper aims to collect, review, and analyze the scientific production of articles on creative and cultural industries from 2010 to 2020, and to obtain the main bibliometric indicators such as co-authorship, quality and secondary dissemination indexes.

The application of sacredness in temple architecture – Buddhist museum

Buddhism is one of the oldest religions in the world, and the development has led to a great change in the typology of Buddhist architecture, and caused a complex scope of the concept. This complexity is due to the absence of architectural literature that regulates the addition of supporting functions, such as profane and sacred value, in improving Buddhists' education. However, the addition of a profane function reduces sacred value and act of worship, opposes architectural design, and defiles ritual activities. Furthermore, one of the functions that provide education as well as a personal approach to Buddhism is the museum. This research aims to examine the contextual relationship between main and supporting functions, namely the sacred (worship building) and the profane (museum), respectively. And also, to display the sacred value through architectural characteristics. The analytical method used the theory of sacredness and contextuality. This was further elaborated in various architectural scopes to produce a relationship between temples and museums, that apply sacred values according to Buddhist philosophy. The research leads to differences in principles application, such as orientation, hierarchy, boundary scope, geometric shapes, symmetry, repetition, material appearance, shape synergy, zoning, processions, atmospheric ambiguity, symbolic objects, boundary guards, and gathering areas.

The Emoji Spatial Stroop Task: Exploring the impact of vertical positioning of emoji on emotional processing

Despite emoji often being assumed to be a form of emotional communication, the emotional affordances of these are not yet fully established. The current study employed the Emoji Spatial Stroop Task to explore whether spatial iconicity affects semantic-relatedness judgments relating to emoji stimuli. Namely, emoji stimuli were displayed in various vertical positions and valence perceptions were measured. A 3 (emoji valence; positive, negative, neutral) x 3 (vertical position; upper, lower, central) within-participants design was used to determine the impacts on valence perceptions. Valence perceptions were obtained from ratings on how positive/negative participants perceived stimuli to be on an 11-point Likert scale (−5 negative, 0 neutral and +5 positive). Findings from 157 participants revealed that, after controlling for current mood, both emoji valence and their vertical positioning impacted significantly on valence ratings. The valence × positioning interaction effect was also significant, highlighting a congruence effect whereby positive emoji in higher vertical space were rated significantly more positively than when in central or lower space, and negative emoji were rated significantly more negatively when displayed in lower vertical space compared to central or upper space. These congruence effects suggest we may embody emoji as symbolic objects to represent abstract emotional concepts.

A Study on the Psycho-pathological Sign of Trauma in the Text of Jamaica Kincaid’s Novel, Lucy

Jamaica Kincaid was the writer who tried hard to embrace the unique and unavoidable traumatic aspects of people who have lived their life in helpless and passive. When it is looked in the category of social and political senses, these negative tendencies are clearly appeared in the third world people or black people, who had a very unstable and immigrant life under colonization or slavery. Both of them show some traumatic symptoms which are the psychological occurrence appearing on the people who had suffered from social, cultural and political oppression of society. Once trauma is formed, it recurs repetitively and intermittently. Its unexpected intervention of life prevents them keeping their life normal and their identity. In 『Lucy』, Kincaid embodied these pathological symptoms through Lucy’s life journey based on her diverse experiences in a new land. This study will examine the fundamental reason of trauma dominating the social and political scheme based on Jamaica Kincaid’s novel, Lucy in the viewpoint of Herman Judith’s theory. For this research, it will analyze the symbolic objects stimulating Lucy’s trauma in the structure of society.

EKONOMI KREATIF DI ERA PANDEMI COVID 19 DENGAN MENINGKATKAN KERAJINAN PAYUNG KERTAS KALIBAGOR SEBAGAI HASIL BUDAYA KERAJINAN BANYUMAS

: Umbrellas as a medium for meeting human needs are certainly very familiar. In this condition, it can be seen that umbrellas are adaptive living equipment, so that even umbrellas need to be seen as 'symbolic objects' that have various meanings for their users. Umbrellas in Java have long historical roots dating back to the 1950s. The initial function of the umbrella was as body protection from hot or rainy weather, but then the umbrella transformed into other functions such as in art, death and became symbols of nobility. Kalibagor is one of the sub-districts located in Banyumas district. Many home industries for paper umbrellas are made directly by the community. The raw materials for this paper umbrella are paper and wood. Even the umbrellas are painted, there is no machine intervention. As the years change, the times change, technology exposure is unavoidable for umbrella craftsmen. The existence of modern umbrellas made from synthetics and manufactured iron handles, makes consumers abandon hand-assembled umbrellas. This paper will discuss how this Kalibagor paper umbrella craft can survive and continue to live in the modern era, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to support the family and surrounding community.