Approaching Social Practice through Access Analysis at Las Canoas, Honduras

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 385-407 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miranda K. Stockett
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Late Classic ◽  
Potential Significance ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Practice Group ◽  
Spatial Use ◽  
Surrounding Landscape

AbstractIdentifying patterns in the organization of spaces, and in the ways past peoples may have moved through those spaces, can provide insights into daily practice, group interaction, and social control in community life. To identify such patterns, a modified version of access analysis is applied to the densely settled Late Classic (A.D. 650–960) site of Las Canoas, northwest Honduras. The usefulness of this spatial diagramming technique to illuminate patterns of potential significance to the past architects and occupants of this site will be critically assessed. In particular, access analysis is applied to consider formal and informal control of movement and social interaction within two discrete household groups. Conclusions regarding spatial use and social practice at Las Canoas are drawn from combined consideration of access diagrams, architectural form, activity distribution, and connections with the surrounding landscape.

scholarly journals “On Holidays, I Forget Everything… Even My Ecological Footprint”: Sustainable Tourism through Daily Practices or Compartmentalisation as a Keyword?

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (17) ◽  
pp. 4731 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amélie Anciaux
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Ecological Footprint ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Sustainable Tourism ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Past ◽  
Empirical Material

In today’s struggle against climate change and for less dependence on fossil fuels, why do people who adopt practices with a lower impact on the environment forget them during their holidays? This contribution sheds new light on sustainable tourism by focusing on daily practices during holidays. Based on the concrete practices of holidaymakers, this contribution proposes to understand some factors and contexts favouring the persistence, the transformation or the abandonment of sustainable practice(s) during holidays. The theoretical framework of this research mainly draws on social practice theories. The empirical material is made of 38 biographical in-depth and crossed interviews: twenty on daily practices with young adults (25–35 years old) who have adopted at least one more sustainable daily practice and who went on holidays for the past year reinforced by 18 interviews with some of their parents.

The Pornographer and McGahern's Allusive Practice

2017 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 281-297
Author(s):  
Tom Walker
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Literary Tradition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Present Value ◽  
The Past

Allusions to other texts abound in John McGahern's fiction. His works repeatedly, though diffidently, refer to literary tradition. Yet the nature of such allusiveness is still unclear. This article focuses on how allusion in The Pornographer (1979) is depicted as an intellectual and social practice, embodying particular attitudes towards the function of texts and the knowledge they represent. Moreover, the critique of the practice of allusion that the novel undertakes is shown to have broader significance in terms of McGahern's whole oeuvre and its evolving attempts to salvage something of present value from the literature of the past.

scholarly journals THE PECULIARITIES OF REPRESENTATION OF TIME ANS SPACE MODEL IN THE COLLECTION OF STORIES «WESSEX TALES» BY T.HARDY

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (10(78)) ◽  
pp. 167-170
Author(s):  
Olena Rosstalna
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Moral Choice ◽  
Time And Space ◽  
Space Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
Space Organization ◽  
Characteristic Features ◽  
Local Image ◽  
Representation Of Time

The article analyzes the peculiarities of the representation of time and space model in the collection of short stories «Wessex Tales» by the English writer T.Hardy. Based on a contextual analysis of T. Hardy’s stories, time and space model was singled out as the dominant meaning for the creation of «Wessex Tales». It is proved that the category of time in «Wessex Tales» is a component of the composition of works (in some stories the principle of framing is used). Its functioning in the collection occurs in the form of a two-component model, the elements of which are past and present. It is determined that the specific presentation of the past is a combination of «collective» and «individual» time. While presenting individual facts in the lives of specific heroes in the form of «individual» time, the author introduces them into the context of events of community life in the form of «collective» time. Each individual character’s story thus becomes a part of panoramic depiction of Wessex world, while maintaining a connection with real historical events. «Quasi-historicity» is defined as one of the characteristic features of time. The interaction of temporal levels has also been investigated at the level of conflicts and problems in the writer’s stories and novels (the problem of responsibility for actions, the problem of moral choice, etc.). The peculiarity of space organization in the collection of stories is determined by multilevel (panoramic – local image; realistic – mythopoeticized sketches of the metaphorical plan; the existence of two subspaces in the mythologized model of the world) and multivariate. The article analyzes the closed and open, terrestrial and cosmic, real and imaginary spaces that are realized in the system of images (city, town, house, road, etc.).

scholarly journals Nostalgic transmediation: A not-so-final fantasy? Ichigo’s Sheet Music online platform as an object network of creative practice

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Ruth Barratt-Peacock ◽  
Sophia Staite
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Sheet Music ◽  
Online Platform ◽  
Creative Practice ◽  
Music Transcription ◽  
The Past ◽  
Social Nature

Using the music of the Final Fantasy game series as our case study, we follow the music through processes of transmediation in two very different contexts: the Netflix series Dad of Light and music transcription forum Ichigo’s Sheet Music. We argue that these examples reveal transmediation acting as a process of ‘emptying’, allowing the music to carry its nostalgic cargo of affect into new relationships and contexts. This study’s theoretical combination of transmediation with Bainbridge’s object networks of social practice frame challenges normative definitions of nostalgia. The phenomenon of ‘emptying’ we identify reveals a function of popular culture nostalgia that differs from the dominant understanding as a triggering of generalized emotional longing for (or the desire to return to) the past. Instead, this article uncovers a nostalgia that is defined by personal and communal creative engagement and highlights the active and social nature of transmediated popular culture nostalgia.

scholarly journals Shoulder Involvement in Daily Practice – Ultrasonographic Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-19
Author(s):  
Beatrice Andreea Chisălau ◽  
Andreea Lili Bărbulescu ◽  
Cristina Dorina Pârvanescu ◽  
Sineta Cristina Firulescu ◽  
Horaţiu Valeriu Popoviciu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shoulder Pain ◽  
Clinical Symptoms ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Daily Practice ◽  
Accurate Diagnosis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ultrasound Evaluation ◽  
Rotator Cuff Lesions ◽  
Associated Risk Factors ◽  
Concurrent Disease

Abstract Shoulder involvement is one of the most frequent findings in rheumatology and many of the rheumatic diseases can determine inflammatory lesions, as well as degenerative ones. Due to the non-specificity of clinical symptoms, imaging methods are emerging into the daily practice in order to establish an accurate diagnosis. Objectives. The aim of the study was to determine the presence of different pathologic changes in patients with shoulder pain, depending on the concurrent disease and associated risk factors. Material and methods. We included in our retrospective study 40 consecutive patients that presented with shoulder pain, during the past 6 months, in the Department of Rheumatology. All those patients underwent ultrasound evaluation according to EULAR Guidelines for musculoskeletal Ultrasound in Rheumatology. Results. Rotator cuff lesions, which most commonly underlie non traumatic pain in adults, were detected with frequencies similar to the ones described by the literature. It seems that comorbidities, as the presence of diabetes, may influence tendon degeneration or rupture. Conclusions. Although it included a relatively low number of subjects, our paper reveals data similar to the ones previously published and underlines the necessity of applying an algorithm for managing shoulder pathology, that should mandatory include ultrasonography examination, in order to obtain an accurate diagnosis and individualize each patient's therapeutic approach and improve their life quality.

Built Objects

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglass Bailey ◽  
Lesley McFadyen
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Architectural History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Architectural Form ◽  
The Past ◽  
Neolithic Europe ◽  
Two Bodies ◽  
European Architecture

This article presents two bodies of work, both of which take an interdisciplinary approach to the study of buildings from Neolithic Europe. The first connects archaeology to theories in architectural history, while the second creates links between archaeology and art. This article works through four ideas about architecture which the article offers as disconnected propositions. There is no easy narrative for this article, just as there is none for the living built environment of the past or the present. This article proposes that archaeologists step away from accepted and comfortable knowledge of architectural form and interpretation. The aim of this article is to work through four case studies from our work on prehistoric European architecture. The case studies illuminate four propositions, which are offered as provocations for further work on architecture by archaeologists but also by anthropologists and other social scientists and humanities scholars whose work engages architecture concludes this article.

Primates Socially Transmit Tool Practices, but Humans Share Meaning-Laden Customs

2020 ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Bart J. Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Tool Use ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Embodied Knowledge ◽  
The Past ◽  
Symbolic Thought ◽  
Moral Force ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future

The custom of property emerges out of the social practice of tool use in primates when symbolic thought is applied to it. Primates socially transmit tool practices, but humans share meaning-laden customs. The thingness of property as a custom comes from tools. Tool use is embodied knowledge, and property embodies the claim, “This is mine!” Humans socially transmit property with moral force. With symbolic thought, we can think about our actions, or others’, in the past and in the future, and we can evaluate them to be good or bad. We contemplate our conduct and our character in regards to the connections we make with things.

Certeau, Michel de (1925–86)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Conley
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
South America ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Philosophy ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
The Past ◽  
Michel De Certeau ◽  
History Of ◽  
Strategic Policies

Michel de Certeau, a French philosopher trained in history and ethnography, was a peripatetic teacher in Europe, South America and North America. His thought has inflected four areas of philosophy. He studied how mysticism informs late-medieval epistemology and social practice. With the advent of the Scientific Revolution, the affinities the mystic shares with nature and the cosmos become, like religion itself, repressed or concealed. An adjunct discipline, heterology, thus constitutes an anthropology of alterity, studying the ‘other’ and the destiny of religion since the sixteenth century. De Certeau opens the hidden agendas that make representations of the past a function of social pressures, so that sometime histories are rearticulated in mirrored or subversive forms. This subversion makes accessible a general philosophy of invention that works within and against the strategic policies of official institutions. De Certeau’s writings also belong to activism, the history of ideological structures, psychoanalysis, and post-1968 theories of writing (écriture) as defined by Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard.

scholarly journals Sociality and temporality in local experiences of distress and healing: Ethnographic research in northern Rwanda

2020 ◽  
pp. 136346152094967
Author(s):  
Yuko Otake ◽  
Teisi Tamming
Keyword(s):  
Community Involvement ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Idioms Of Distress ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
The Past ◽  
Post War ◽  
Social Reconnection ◽  
Depth Interviews

Prior studies have traced sociality and temporality as significant features of African healing. However, association between the two has not been explicitly investigated. This paper explores how sociality and temporality are associated in local experiences of distress and healing among northern Rwandans. The ethnographic research, including in-depth interviews, focus-group discussions and participant observation, was conducted in 2015–2016, with 43 participants from the Musanze district who have suffered from not only the genocide but also post-genocide massacres. Findings identified common local idioms of distress: ibikomere (wounded feelings), ihungabana (mental disturbances), ihahamuka (trauma), and kurwara mu mutwe (illness of the head, severe mental illness). One stage of distress was perceived to develop into another, slightly more serious than the previous. Social isolation played a significant role in the development as it activated ‘remembering’ and ‘thinking too much’ about the past and worsened symptoms. Subsequently, healing was experienced through social reconnection and a shift of time orientation from the past to the future; the healing experience traced a process of leaving the past behind, moving forwards and creating a future through community involvement. The experiences of distress and healing in this population were explained by two axes, i.e. sociality (isolation – reconnection) and temporality (past – future), which are associated with each other. Given the sociality–temporality association in African post-war healing, the study highlights that assistant programmes that facilitate social practice and future creation can be therapeutic and be an alternative for people who cannot benefit from talking-based and trauma-focused approaches.

Small trenches. Archaeology and the postcolonial gaze

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-30
Author(s):  
Audrey Horning
Keyword(s):  
Potential Significance ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The Past ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
The World ◽  
Colonial Legacies ◽  
European Colonialism ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

The comments of Nicholas Sarkozy provide a powerful and forceful opening to Dr Richard's article and remind us of the potential significance of academic considerations of colonial legacies in the contemporary world. Dr Richard argues strongly against static conceptualizations of pre-‘Atlantic-era’ Africa and seeks to recast Africans not as victims, but as active ‘producers of history and culture’ (p. 26). In so doing he aligns himself with current trends in critical scholarship on colonial encounters in the Atlantic worlds of the last four centuries, scholarship that overtly criticizes dichotomous understandings of such encounters in favour of approaches that emphasize ambiguity (e.g. Hall 2000; Silliman 2001; 2009; Stahl 2007). Dr Richard's introductory suggestion that we should formulate ‘new questions instead of supplying different answers to the quandaries of an earlier generation of historians’ (p. 3) is clearly applicable to studies of colonial arenas beyond West Africa. In all parts of the world touched by European colonialism (including, of course, Europe itself) the ways in which scholars approach their subjects are very much conditioned by more widely held cultural memories, whatever the relationship of those memories may be to whatever may have occurred in the past.

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