scholarly journals Symbols and semantics of the epithet in the Xingjiang Oirat version of the epic “Jangar”

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tsagan Seleeva
Keyword(s):  
Deep Level ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Typical Feature ◽  
Semantic Structure ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
The Ideal

The epic style is characterized by an abundance of constant epithets, which give the narration a peculiar decorating flavor and typifying-idealizing character, without which it is impossible to build an expressive artistic image. The specificity of the folklore-epic epithet lies in the operation of the fund of canonized and traditional definitions that fix the ideal and typical feature of an image or object. In this regard, one of the urgent problems is the symbolism and semantics of the epithet, embedded in the semantic structure of the word and revealed in the epic formulaic combinations of the epithet with the defined words. The methodological basis of the research is the methods and approaches in the study of epic poetics and stylistics, developed by A.N. Veselovsky and V.M. Zhirmunsky. The study examines the symbolic meanings of the epithets of the Xinjiang Oirat version of the epic «Jangar», which characterize the main objects and concepts of the epic world: space and time, heroes and antipodes, objects, things and attributes, in the context of ethnocultural and mytho-epic traditions. Epic eventual time (initial, distant, precious) correlates with the mythological time of the first creation, and the sacred image of the epic mountain (Sizo-White Mountain) is transmitted through the epithet (white), and is associated with the cult of mountains and ancestors. Ethnocultural symbolism of the epithet reflects traditional general Mongolian views. The concept of «rich nomadic» means countless herds of cattle and herds of horses grazing in the vast vast expanses, and the «snow-white headquarters-yurt» of the ruler symbolizes the well-being and happiness of the owner. The semantics of color epithets is specific in the epic «Jangar». So, white is sacral, yellow has solar origins, black is inherent in the enemy world and epic antipodes, red is the color of blood and confrontation, «the hero’s fighting frenzy», and is also a symbol of life and beauty. The symbolism of gold means the highest value and is associated with an epic ruler. The epic country of Bumba (North Bumbai country) appears as a Buddhist mythical Shambhala, localized in the north, also identified with the mainland Zambutib (Golden Zambutib). As a result of the study, the author comes to the conclusion that understanding the deep level of the epic text of the Xinjiang Oirat tradition and understanding the epic picture of the world is based on comprehending the universally significant symbols of the ethnocultural tradition. The sacred symbolism of the epithet reflects ancient archaic-mythological ideas and pre-Buddhist beliefs. The semantics of the epithet also expresses Buddhist cosmological concepts. The principles and approaches, as well as the results, can be applied to solve research problems of a comparative typological plan.

Eating NAFTA

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyshia Gálvez
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Chronic Disease ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food System ◽  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Trade Agreement ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

In the two decades since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect, Mexico has seen an epidemic of diet-related illness. While globalization has been associated with an increase in chronic disease around the world, in Mexico, the speed and scope of the rise has been called a public health emergency. The shift in Mexican foodways is happening at a moment when the country’s ancestral cuisine is now more popular and appreciated around the world than ever. What does it mean for their health and well-being when many Mexicans eat fewer tortillas and more instant noodles, while global elites demand tacos made with handmade corn tortillas? This book examines the transformation of the Mexican food system since NAFTA and how it has made it harder for people to eat as they once did. The book contextualizes NAFTA within Mexico’s approach to economic development since the Revolution, noticing the role envisioned for rural and low-income people in the path to modernization. Examination of anti-poverty and public health policies in Mexico reveal how it has become easier for people to consume processed foods and beverages, even when to do so can be harmful to health. The book critiques Mexico’s strategy for addressing the public health crisis generated by rising rates of chronic disease for blaming the dietary habits of those whose lives have been upended by the economic and political shifts of NAFTA.

scholarly journals Fulfilling the self through food in wellness blogs: Governing the healthy subject

2021 ◽  
pp. 136754942110557
Author(s):  
Kaisa Tiusanen
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Subject ◽  
Food Consumption ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Personal Journey ◽  
Technologies Of The Self ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Ideal

In the world of wellness, food and eating are fundamentally important to one’s subjectivity: the self in this sphere is created and maintained through food consumption along a plant-based, ‘wholesome’ and healthy personal journey to well-being. This article focuses on the analysis of wellness food blogs run by women, aiming to map out the technologies of the self through which the ‘ideal wellness subject’ is created. The analysis examines technologies of subjectivity as they aspire towards (1) balance, (2) healing and (3) narrativization of the self. The article suggests that the subjectivities related to wellness culture draw from postfeminist and healthist ideologies and are based on a neoliberal discourse of individuality and self-control. The sociocultural indifference of wellness culture and its prerogative to police the self through culturally hegemonic pursuits based on (the right kind of) consumption makes the language of wellness a prominent neoliberal discourse.

scholarly journals Development of students' communicative culture in the context of artistic practices

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (S4) ◽  
pp. 1070-1084
Author(s):  
Svitlana Derkach ◽  
Myroslava Melnyk ◽  
Volodymyr Fisher ◽  
Mykola Krypchuk ◽  
Oleh Chystiakov
Keyword(s):  
Practical Importance ◽  
Well Being ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Artistic Image ◽  
Emotional Level ◽  
Development Of Students

The relevance of the research is conditioned upon the problem of developing a communicative culture among students, considering the influence of the artistic component, both its professional part and the social one, explained by the introduction of the presented artistic image into the life of the younger generation. The purpose of the article is to develop a model for the development of communicative culture among students. The leading method to investigate this problem is the B.I. Dodonov method, studying the emotional, motivational component of the personality, considering the emerging emotional background as a value on which the health and quality of life of a person depend. Depending on being in a certain artistic component, an individual has various experiences at the psycho-emotional level, which form a motivational environment for perceiving the world and the course of personal actions based on getting into various life situations. This model, based on artistic practices, creates conditions for the holistic development of the individual, aimed at preserving psychological and physical health, both personal and others, which is of practical importance for the education and well-being of society.

scholarly journals Pedagogical system of the north caucasian peoples and methods of socialization of the growing generation.

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Ruslan A. Khachidogov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Public Education ◽  
Aesthetic Development ◽  
The North ◽  
Folk Wisdom ◽  
Mental Maturity ◽  
The World ◽  
Educational Paradigm ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Ideal

The article is devoted to the methods of socialization of the younger generations, which have been practiced in the North Caucasian pedagogical system for many centuries. At-tention is focused on the uniqueness of the system of public education, built on the symbiosis of family and social patronage, which includes the upbringing of the ideal of a perfect personality, which was presented as a harmonious combination of mental maturity, moral purity, aesthetic development, physical activity, work hardening. It is concluded that thanks to the folk wisdom of upbringing, based on traditions and customs, the North Caucasian peoples had a peculiar system of preparing young people for life, called "ethnopedagogy", which for many millennia has been developing methods of understanding the world around, therefore, to this day it is immortal means and methods in the socialization of the individual. This resource must be taken into account in the modern educational paradigm.

Linguistic Representation of the Concept of Sun in the Linguoculture of the Peoples of the North (Based on the Yakut and Yukaghir Languages)

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-110
Author(s):  
Margarita P. Lukina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Summer Solstice ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Cognitive Approach ◽  
Heavenly Body ◽  
Linguistic Representation ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Ancient Times

The object of the research is the concept of the sun: in the Yakut language - kyn, in the tundra Yukagir language - yerpeye and in the forest Yukaghir language - yeloodye. The article deals with lexical representatives and stable phrases; the motivating, conceptual, figurative features and derivational paradigms of the studied concept are established; applied etymological analysis of words, cognitive approach and conceptual methods of concept research. The concept of the sun is presented in different ways in the linguistic picture of the world of peoples. The description and explanation of the peculiarities of the concept of the sun in the national linguistic picture of the world of the Sakha and Yukaghir people in a comparative-comparative plan seems relevant for conceptual linguistics. As a result of the study, only positive signs of the concept of the sun were noted in both linguocultures. The scope of the linguistic representation of the concept of kyn in the Yakut language is diverse, while the content level is characterized by different options. A large number of derivative words with the lexeme kyn in the Yakut language indicate the cultural significance of this concept. Since ancient times, the Sakha people and the Yukaghirs had a cult of the main heavenly body of the sun, which continues to the present day. The Sakha and Yukaghir people celebrate the Ysyakh and Shahadyibe holidays on the summer solstice, marking the beginning of a new annual cycle. During the holiday, abundance, peace, harmony and love are demonstrated to the main deity, the sun, thereby asking the sun for well-being for the coming year. Thus, the sun is a key concept for these northern peoples. Keywords: linguoculture, concept sun, concept kyn, concept yerpeye/yeloodye, Yakut language, Yukaghir language, concept-forming lexeme

Stoic Wisdom

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy Sherman
Keyword(s):  
First Responders ◽  
Ancient Philosophy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
First Century ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Marcus Aurelius ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The World ◽  
Uncertain Future ◽  
The Ideal

Stoicism has made a comeback as the ideal ancient philosophy for those seeking calm in times of stress and uncertainty. For many, it has become the new Zen, with meditation techniques that help individuals face whatever life throws their way. The Stoics address a key question of the time: how can one be master of one’s fate when the outside world threatens to unmoor one’s well-being? Making Stoic wisdom relevant and accessible, Sherman distills time-honored techniques for building modern resilience. Drawing on the thought of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca, and others, Sherman argues that Stoic resilience is miscast as rugged self-reliance. One is at home in the world, the Stoics taught, when one is connected to others in cooperative efforts. While self-mastery is essential, one draws on one’s deepest relationships for true strength and resilience. Bringing ancient wisdom to bear on twenty-first-century settings—from Silicon Valley leaders in search of lifehacks, to first responders in a pandemic, to soldiers on the battlefield—Sherman shows how Stoicism can both prepare individuals for an uncertain future and help them reduce the stress and anxiety of modern life. Stoic Wisdom will appeal to anyone feeling helpless or looking for deeper, meaningful strength and goodness in addressing life’s biggest and smallest challenges.

scholarly journals Towards a Grammar of the Idea of North: Nordicity, Winterity

Nordlit ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Chartier
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Western World ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Relationship

The imaginary of North, in the Western world of the imagination, refers to a series of figures, colours, elements and characteristics conveyed by narratives, novels, poems, films, paintings and advertising which-from the myth of Thule to contemporary representations in popular culture-have forged a rich, complex network of symbolic meanings. The "North" poses the problem of the relationship between geographic realities and the world of the imagination, since those who have written and read about it in Europe and America, have, for the most part, never been there. Representations of "North" are discovered like layers of discourse, laid down by different cultures, and picked up on and shaped by different aesthetic movements.

Russian Citizens' Representations of the Country's Position in the Geopolitical Space of the Commonwealth of Independent States, Europe, and the World

2003 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 238-251
Author(s):  
Victor F. Petrenko ◽  
Olga V. Mitina ◽  
Kirill A. Bertnikov
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Commonwealth Of Independent States ◽  
Repertory Grids ◽  
Implicit Model ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Consciousness ◽  
Independent States ◽  
Invariant Factors

The aim of this research was the reconstruction of the system of categories through which Russians perceive the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Europe, and the world as a whole; to study the implicit model of the geopolitical space; to analyze the stereotypes in the perception of different countries and the superposition of mental geopolitical representations onto the geographic map. The techniques of psychosemantics by Petrenko, originating in the semantic differential of Osgood and Kelly's “repertory grids,” were used as working tools. Multidimensional semantic spaces act as operational models of the structures of consciousness, and the positions of countries in multidimensional space reflect the geopolitical stereotypes of respondents about these countries. Because of the transformation of geopolitical reality representations in mass consciousness, the commonly used classification of countries as socialist, capitalist, and developing is being replaced by other structures. Four invariant factors of the countries' descriptions were identified. They are connected with Economic and Political Well-being, Military Might, Friendliness toward Russia, and Spirituality and the Level of Culture. It seems that the structure has not been explained in adequate detail and is not clearly realized by the individuals. There is an interrelationship between the democratic political structure of a country and its prosperity in the political mentality of Russian respondents. Russian public consciousness painfully strives for a new geopolitical identity and place in the commonwealth of states. It also signifies the country's interest and orientation toward the East in the search for geopolitical partners. The construct system of geopolitical perception also depends on the region of perception.

Development of the Jewish religious movement "Khabad" in Ukraine in the 20's of the twentieth century

2001 ◽  
pp. 85-90
Author(s):  
O. V. Kozerod
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Important Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Research Problems

The development of the Jewish religious movement "Khabad" and its organizations in the first quarter of the twentieth century - one of the important research problems, which is still practically not considered in the domestic Judaica. At the same time, this problem is relevant in connection with the fact that the religious movement "Khabad" during the twentieth century became the most widespread and influential area of Judaism in Ukraine and throughout the world.

The essence and causes of the spiritual and moral decline of mankind in the XX century

1998 ◽  
pp. 124-127
Author(s):  
V. Tolkachenko
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
Religious Institutions ◽  
Social Force ◽  
The World ◽  
Role Of Religion

One of the most important reasons for such a clearly distressed state of society was the decline of religion as a social force, the external manifestation of which is the weakening of religious institutions. "Religion," Baha'u'llah writes, "is the greatest of all means of establishing order in the world to the universal satisfaction of those who live in it." The weakening of the foundations of religion strengthened the ranks of ignoramuses, gave them impudence and arrogance. "I truly say that everything that belittles the supreme role of religion opens way for the revelry of maliciousness, inevitably leading to anarchy. " In another Tablet, He says: "Religion is a radiant light and an impregnable fortress that ensures the safety and well-being of the peoples of the world, for God-fearing induces man to adhere to the good and to reject all evil." Blink the light of religion, and chaos and distemper will set in, the radiance of justice, justice, tranquility and peace. "

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