Beyond the Surface: Where Cultural Contexts and Scientific Analyses Meet in Museum Conservation of West African Power Association Helmet Masks

2016 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Robin O'Hern ◽  
Ellen Pearlstein ◽  
Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi
Keyword(s):  
West African ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Museum Conservation

Identifying the Evaluative Impulse in Local Culture

2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 515-531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter B. Easton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Competence ◽  
Human Services ◽  
Stakeholder Participation ◽  
West African ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Local Cultures

Attention to cultural competence has significantly increased in the human services over the last two decades. Evaluators have long had similar concerns and have made a more concentrated effort in recent years to adapt evaluation methodology to varying cultural contexts. Little of this literature, however, has focused on the extent to which local cultures themselves already contain habits and patterns of evaluative thought that may serve as a basis for such work and for fuller stakeholder participation. This article explores the evaluative instincts expressed in West African proverbs against a background of related research. Consideration of the explicit message and latent meanings of a set of chosen proverbs suggests that the cultures in question are rich in evaluative perspectives. Directions for further research are proposed.

Nature of ergastic substances in some West African Compositae

1988 ◽  
Vol 99 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 143-145
Author(s):  
L. S. Gill ◽  
I. D. Omoigui
Keyword(s):  
West African

Risky Choice in Cultural Contexts

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
X. T. Wang ◽  
Elena A. Savina
Keyword(s):  
Risky Choice ◽  
Cultural Contexts

School readiness and cultural contexts: Evaluating an effective short-term program

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Chuang ◽  
Gena Robertson ◽  
Edith Lai ◽  
Maria Cabral
Keyword(s):  
School Readiness ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Cultural Contexts
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