Theater as a cross‐cultural encounter

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengzhou He
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Encounter

Evaluating the Aboriginal child’s mind: assimilation and cross-cultural psychology in Australia

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-349
Author(s):  
David Robertson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Psychology ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Psychological Interventions ◽  
Intellectual Performance ◽  
Australian Aboriginal ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Cultural Deprivation ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Psychological Instruments ◽  
Aboriginal Children

This article examines two psychological interventions with Australian Aboriginal children in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The first involved evaluating the cognitive maturation of Aboriginal adolescents using a series of Piagetian interviews. The second, a more extensive educational intervention, used a variety of quantitative tests to measure and intervene in the intellectual performance of Aboriginal preschoolers. In both of these interventions the viability of the psychological instruments in the cross-cultural encounter created ongoing ambiguity as to the value of the research outcomes. Ultimately, the resolution of this ambiguity in favour of notions of Aboriginal ‘cultural deprivation’ reflected the broader political context of debates over Aboriginal self-governance during this period.

Hybrid Selves

2019 ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Banu Özkazanç-Pan
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Management ◽  
Business People ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Cross Cultural Management ◽  
The Moment

This chapter focuses on hybrid selves, a new kind of self that arises as a result of the distinct context, experiences and set of social and material practices that a person engages in to understand themselves and those around them. While there are many different ways to define hybrid, its use here examines those novel socio-cultural transformations, combinations and “mixings” that take shape at the moment of cultural encounter. Hybrid selves form differently even if facing the same set of circumstances and conditions such studying the everyday lives of business people can elucidate the repertoires of actions that they embody and eschew. By outlining the main tenets of hybrid selves, this chapter challenges conceptualizations of ‘self’ that are based on static notions of identity which limit how we can understand people. It provides examples and comparative illustrations of hybrid selves and contrasts them with research that aims to study similar people in diversity and cross-cultural management. The chapter points out main differences between hybrid selves and bi-cultural or multicultural notions of identity that generally offer hyphenation as a solution to the complex ways people may understand themselves.

From Personal Threat to Cross-Cultural Learning: an Eidetic Investigation

2020 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Eugene M. DeRobertis ◽  
Andrew M. Bland
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Genetic Phenomenology ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Personal Threat

Abstract This study was an eidetic, phenomenological investigation of cross-cultural learning that involves overcoming an experience of personal threat. The study and its findings were placed within the context of Husserl’s genetic phenomenology and the extant humanistic literature on cross-cultural encounter. This appeared especially appropriate given phenomenology’s history “within the movement of the so-called ‘Third Force’ psychology” (Giorgi, 1970, p. xi). The eidetic reduction revealed the phenomenon to be rooted in an essential unfamiliarity with the other compounded by presumptions of the other as representing a substandard foreignness harboring danger. For the phenomenon to unfold required the learner to witness spontaneous emotional expression and empathically discover that the other struggles and suffers “like any other human being.” Openness to the other progressively builds and new meanings emerge from the interpersonal exchange as compartmentalized, intellectualized understandings of the other are outmoded.

Medicine as a Lens to Examine Cross-Cultural Encounters: A Study of Medical Missionary Samuel Hayward Ford’s Writings in Nineteenth-Century New Zealand

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Tilson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Close Study ◽  
Medical Reports ◽  
Medical Missionary ◽  
Nature Of Medicine ◽  
The Church

Summary Medical missionary Samuel Hayward Ford arrived in New Zealand’s Bay of Islands in the late 1830s, a few years before the formal colonisation of the country. His letters and medical reports to the Committee of the Church Missionary Society revealed the complicated and malleable nature of medicine in the cross-cultural encounter. Through close study of Ford’s writings, this article argues that medicine worked to transform and interweave Māori and missionary worlds in precolonial New Zealand. Experiencing the spread of disease in the Bay of Islands, Ford practised and was influenced by evangelical humanitarianism, and he was also entangled in the politics of empire. More than this, his medicine exposed the missionary objective to transform Māori society, and it showcased not just cultural differences regarding medical knowledge but also the exchange of ideas and treatments between Māori and the missionaries.

scholarly journals The Cultural Limits of Legal Tolerance

2008 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 245-277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin L. Berger
Keyword(s):  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Philosophical Literature ◽  
Cultural Form ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Cultural Encounter ◽  
Liberal Societies ◽  
Dialogic Theory ◽  
The Relationship

This article presents the argument that our understanding of the nature of the relationship between modern constitutionalism and religious difference has suffered with the success of the story of legal tolerance and multiculturalism. Taking up the Canadian case, in which the conventional narrative of legal multiculturalism has such purchase, this piece asks how the interaction of law and religion - and, in particular, the practices of legal tolerance - would look if we sought in earnest to understand law as a component, rather than a curator, of cultural diversity in modern liberal societies. Understanding the law as itself a cultural form forces us to think about the interaction of law and religion as an instance of cross-cultural encounter. Drawing from theoretical accounts of cross-cultural encounter and philosophical literature about the nature of toleration, and paying close attention to the shape of Canadian constitutional doctrine on religious freedom (law’s rules of cross-cultural engagement), this paper suggests that legal toleration is far less accommodative and far more assimilative than the conventional narrative lets on. Influential alternative theoretical accounts ultimately reproduce this dynamic because they similarly obscure the role of culture on both sides of the encounter of law and religion. Indeed, owing to the particular features of the culture of law’s rule, even the more thickly cultural "solutions" proposed in dialogic theory ultimately fail. In the end, this article exposes the very real cultural limits of legal tolerance.

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