Landscapes, Gender, and Ritual Space

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Guettel Cole
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Space

Ritual Spaces, Governmentality and Cultural Governance in Urban Development: The Case of Shenzhen

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122098324
Author(s):  
Man Guo ◽  
Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Field Studies ◽  
Urban Architecture ◽  
Chinese Values ◽  
Ritual Space ◽  
Cultural Governance ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Ritual Spaces ◽  
The Village ◽  
International Status

Recently, the concept of “cultural governance” has gained analytical traction in research on Chinese urban development. This is mostly diagnosed as a top-down process of defining and imposing cultural forms in government-led projects, such as in tourism. We argue that the case of Shenzhen manifests important differences, and is highly significant, considering the national and international status of this mega-city. Based on detailed field studies, supplemented with information about other cases, we show that in Shenzhen local cultural forms show resilience and increasing public presence, while also being shaped by inclusive cultural policies that are informed by the national drive towards reinstating traditional Chinese values as part and parcel of national identity. One manifestation is the enactment of the traditional ritual space of the village in urban architecture, such as the duality of ancestral hall and village temple, often at so-called “cultural squares,” and the expression of territorial ambitions of lineages in competitive projects of redevelopment. We suggest enhancing the concept of cultural governance by the concept of governmentality to grasp these phenomena analytically.

Judaism in the Kitchen: Ritual Space of the Mountain Jewish Women of Dagestan

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-393
Author(s):  
Varvara Redmond
Keyword(s):  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Central Component ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Ritual Space ◽  
Ritual Process

The article investigates the gender and ritual roles of the Mountain Jewish women of Dagestan. The research is based on fieldwork conducted by the "Sefer" Center in 2018. The author suggests that in the Mountain Jewish communities the central component of ritual life is a collective feast, but not the synagogue as it is in many other Jewish communities. Since traditionally women are responsible for preparing food, they shape and pass on the traditions of the Mountain Jews. They organize community celebrations and rites of passage. During Soviet times, the power over the ritual process transferred from the centralized male system, the synagogue, to the female sphere.

Ritual Space

Liturgy ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Stephanie Perdew VanSlyke
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Space

Emblems of Cultural Identity in Early Andean Art

2018 ◽  
pp. 131-155
Author(s):  
Yumi Park Huntington
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Formal Analysis ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Ritual Space ◽  
Private Context ◽  
Cultural Networks ◽  
Historical Methods ◽  
Trade Partners

This chapter employs the traditional art historical methods of formal analysis and iconography to understand head motifs engraved on Cupisnique ceramics that were made between 1200 and 200 BCE. Rather than characterizing a small social group operating in isolation, these motifs and objects serve as indicators of cultural identity, affiliation, and transmission, expressing complex interactions between neighboring cultures. In other words, the head motifs on Cupisnique ceramics display the cultural networks inside of which the Cupisnique people saw themselves. Through conscious combination of various techniques and symbols appropriated from other cultures, Cupisnique artists created innovative objects unique to their own society. In particular, the Cupisnique people combined the post-firing engraving techniques of the Chorrera and Machalilla cultures of Ecuador with head motifs appropriated from the architectural friezes of Huaca de los Reyes, a public ritual space, to create small, personal items. These objects with imagery and techniques appropriated into a new, private context become a key distinction of the Cupisnique culture against its neighbors, antecedents, and trade partners.

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