Academic stress of Native American undergraduates: The role of ethnic identity, cultural congruity, and self-beliefs.

Ivan Ogienko (1882-1972), also known as Metropolitan Hilarion, devoted much attention to the role and place of religion in the national life of Ukrainians and their ethnic identity in their scholarly and theological works. Without exaggeration it can be argued that the problem of national unity of the Ukrainian people is one of the key principles of all historiosophical considerations of the famous scholar and theologian. If the purpose of the spiritual life of a Ukrainian, according to his views, is to serve God, then the purpose of state or terrestrial life is the dedicated service to his people. The purpose of heaven and the purpose of the earthly paths, intersecting in the life of a certain group of people through the lives of its individual representatives, give rise to a unique alliance of spiritual unity, the name of which is "people" or "nation." Religion (faith) in the process of transforming the anarchist crowd into a spiritually integrated and orderly national integrity serves as the transformer of the imperfect nature of the human soul into perfect.

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The Music Therapist: Creative Arts Therapist and Contemporary Shaman

International Journal of Psychotherapy, Counselling and Psychiatry: Theory Research & Clinical Practice ◽

10.35996/1234/2/arttherapyshaman ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 2 ◽

Author(s):

Joseph Moreno

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

Creative Arts ◽

Indian Culture ◽

Music Therapist ◽

Psychotherapy Practice ◽

The Arts ◽

Contemporary Psychotherapy ◽

The World ◽

Traditional Healing Practices

While much of contemporary psychotherapy practice often focuses primarily on verbal exchange between therapists and clients, it is important to recognize that verbal expression is just one mode of expression, and not necessarily the deepest or most profound. Many clients in therapy may be more comfortable in expressing themselves in other ways through the modes of music, art, dance and psychodrama. The sources of the arts in healing extend back for many thousands of years and their modern expression through the creative arts therapies are now widely utilized in the mainstream of modern psychotherapy. Traditional healing practices are still widely practiced in many indigenous cultures around the world today and an appreciation of these practices can deeply enrich our understanding of the essential role of the arts in human expression. The aim of this paper is to consider the roots of the arts therapies and really all of psychotherapy, going as far back as pre-historic evidence, followed by an overview of living indigenous healing practices in such settings as Bushman culture in Namibia, Native American Indian culture, as well as in Kenya, Bali, Malaysia, Mongolia and more.

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Segmental Volatility in Ethnically Divided Societies: (Re)assessing Party System Stability in Southeast Europe

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1017/nps.2021.9 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-19

Author(s):

Damir Kapidžić ◽

Olivera Komar

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Party System ◽

Ethnically Diverse ◽

Party Systems ◽

System Stability ◽

Southeast Europe ◽

East European ◽

Ethnic Parties ◽

Stabilizing Factors

Abstract This article examines the role of ethnicity and ethnic parties as stabilizing factors in Southeast European party systems. It compares two ethnically divided countries in Southeast Europe: Bosnia and Herzegovina, where ethnic identities that form the political cleavage are firm, and Montenegro, where they are malleable. Theoretically, it addresses the debate between scholars who either find stability or instability in East European post-communist party systems. The article traces the role of ethnicity in the formation and development of electoral contests and compares the two cases by utilizing measures of block volatility, based on analysis of official electoral data. We argue that party systems in ethnically diverse countries are stable at the subsystems level, but unstable within them. In BiH, firm ethnic identity stabilizes the party system by limiting competition between blocks, leading to closure. Malleable ethnic identity in Montenegro opens competition to non-ethnic parties seeking to bridge ethnic divisions, leading to more instability. We find that party system dynamics in ethnically divided new democracies depend on identity rigidity and cleavage salience, in addition to levels of heterogeneity.

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The Quaker, the Primitivist, and the Progressive: Three Cultural Brokers in New Mexico's Quest for Multicultural Harmony

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s1537781400003972 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 243-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Lynne M. Getz

Keyword(s):

Native American ◽

New Mexico ◽

Common Ground ◽

Cultural Background ◽

Cultural Brokers ◽

Fertile Ground ◽

Good Will

New Mexicans pride themselves on their ability to bridge multicultural divides. Part of what we are urged to understand as “enchanting” about the Land of Enchantment is its diverse cultural background. Native American, Hispano, and Anglo have existed side by side, at times with remarkable harmony and good will, for nearly two centuries. The Land of Enchantment is not altogether a fantasy. Many New Mexicans have shown an uncanny ability to bridge ethnic divides and find common ground in the interstices between cultures. The soil of New Mexico seems to be fertile ground indeed for producing cultural brokers. Margaret Connell Szasz admits that living in New Mexico makes her particularly attuned to the role of the cultural broker.

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Indigenous ethnic identity, in-group warmth, and psychological wellbeing: A longitudinal study of Māori

Current Psychology ◽

10.1007/s12144-021-01636-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Carla Houkamau ◽

Petar Milojev ◽

Lara Greaves ◽

Kiri Dell ◽

Chris G Sibley ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

New Zealand ◽

Ethnic Group ◽

Indigenous Peoples ◽

Large Scale ◽

Strong Relationship ◽

Cultural Knowledge ◽

Identity Centrality

AbstractLongitudinal studies into the relationship between affect (positive or negative feelings) towards one’s own ethnic group and wellbeing are rare, particularly for Indigenous peoples. In this paper, we test the longitudinal effects of in-group warmth (a measure of ethnic identity affect) and ethnic identity centrality on three wellbeing measures for New Zealand Māori: life satisfaction (LS), self-esteem (SE), and personal wellbeing (PW). Longitudinal panel data collected from Māori (N = 3803) aged 18 or over throughout seven annual assessments (2009–2015) in the New Zealand Attitudes and Values Study were analyzed using latent trajectory models with structured residuals to examine cross-lagged within-person effects. Higher in-group warmth towards Māori predicted increases in all three wellbeing measures, even more strongly than ethnic identity centrality. Bi-directionally, PW and SE predicted increased in-group warmth, and SE predicted ethnic identification. Further, in sample-level (between-person) trends, LS and PW rose, but ethnic identity centrality interestingly declined over time. This is the first large-scale longitudinal study showing a strong relationship between positive affect towards one’s Indigenous ethnic group and wellbeing. Efforts at cultural recovery and restoration have been a deliberate protective response to colonization, but among Māori, enculturation and access to traditional cultural knowledge varies widely. The data reported here underline the role of ethnic identity affect as an important dimension of wellbeing and call for continued research into the role of this dimension of ethnic identity for Indigenous peoples.

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ETHNIC IDENTITY TRANSFORMATION OF RUSSIAN GERMANS (BY THE EXAMPLE OF MATERIALS IN THE KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY)

Northern Archives and Expeditions ◽

10.31806/2542-1158-2021-5-2-65-79 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 5 (2) ◽

pp. 65-79

Author(s):

E.A. Grak ◽

Keyword(s):

Ethnic Identity ◽

Historical Memory ◽

Social Institutions ◽

Basic Research ◽

Identity Transformation ◽

Demographic Development ◽

80Th Anniversary ◽

Mixed Marriages ◽

Russian Germans

The article considers the nature of ethnic identity transformation of Russian Germans and their descendants currently residing in Krasnoyarsk Region. Ethnic and demographic development of Russian Germans is characterized by depopulation, migration loss and irreversibility of ethnic assimilation. This actualizes the problem of finding effective mechanisms for preservation and ethnical and cultural reproduction of the German ethnic group. Analyze of the ethnic identification model of the deported Germans and their descendants allows to determine key ethnic-forming factors. It is concluded that traditional markers, such as language and religion, have lost their meaning in the process of ethnic self-identification. Their reproduction was destroyed by alien ethnic environment with the spread of nationally mixed marriages. The article notes the increased role of historical memory in the post-deportation period, which is formed through interfamilial and intergenerational communication. Images of the past are represented and transmitted, first of all, through family and other social institutions. The otherness of the Russian Germans is manifested through their opposition to Germans of Germany. The study is based on biographical interviews of deported Germans and their descendants taken by a group of Krasnoyarsk historians during a field expedition to the south of the region in 2017 in termd of the project «Ethnic groups in Siberia: conditions for cultural memory preservation» with the support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. The article is dated to the 80th anniversary of the Russian Germans deportation.

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“Borderland” as a way of preserving and asserting identity. The historical experience of the Native American cultures of Latin America in a universal context

Latinskaia Amerika ◽

10.31857/s0044748x0016136-8 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 83

Author(s):

Yakov Shemyakin

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Native American ◽

Latin American ◽

Historical Experience ◽

Cultural System ◽

Relationship Of ◽

The Relationship ◽

Linguistic Reality

The article substantiates the thesis that modern Native American cultures of Latin America reveal all the main features of "borderland" as a special state of the socio-cultural system (the dominant of diversity while preserving the unity sui generis, embodied in the very process of interaction of heterogeneous traditions, structuring linguistic reality in accordance with this dominant, the predominance of localism in the framework of the relationship between the universal and local dimensions of the life of Latin American societies, the key role of archaism in the system of interaction with the heritage of the 1st "axial time», first of all, with Christianity, and with the realities of the "second axial time" - the era of modernization. The author concludes that modern Indian cultures are isomorphic in their structure to the "borderline" Latin American civilization, considered as a "coalition of cultures" (K. Levi-Strauss), which differ significantly from each other, but are united at the deepest level by an extremely contradictory relationship of its participants.

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