Cultural Roots

2006 ◽  
pp. 21-36
Author(s):  
Lloyd Geering
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Roots

“I Go Against the Grain of Your Memory”

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel B. Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Production ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Field Of Cultural Production

This chapter charts the artistic trajectory of northeastern Brazilian poet, singer, writer, playwright and actor José Paes de Lira, known as Lirinha, situating his experiments as a long-standing attempt to reject and revise the regional folklorism within which audiences and critics often received his performances. The chapter examines Lirinha’s work, both as the visionary behind the nationally acclaimed group Cordel do Fogo Encantado (1998–2010) and in his subsequent musical and theatrical efforts. It also traces Lirinha’s turn away from folklorism as a reaction against narratives of “cultural rescue” that pressured him to uphold static notions of cultural roots. Reinforcing an overarching argument within this volume, Sharp argues that Lirinha’s work is culturally transformative within its particular field of cultural production, even if it is not always audible as experimental.

Pierre Bourdieu, the ‘cultural turn’ and the practice of international history

2008 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 155-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER JACKSON
Keyword(s):  
Pierre Bourdieu ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
International History ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Cultural Orientations ◽  
Structural Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
Collective Actors ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Turn

AbstractThe rise of the ‘cultural turn’ has breathed new life into the practice of international history over the past few decades. Cultural approaches have both broadened and deepened interpretations of the history of international relations. This article focuses on the use of culture as an explanatory methodology in the study of international history. It outlines the two central criticisms often made of this approach. The first is that it suffers from a lack of analytical rigour in both defining what culture is and understanding how it shapes individual and collective policy decisions. The second is that it too often leads to a tendency to exaggerate the importance of the cultural predispositions of individual or collective actors at the expense of the wider structures within which policymaking takes place. The article provides a brief outline of the social theory of Pierre Bourdieu – which focuses on the interaction between the cultural orientations of social actors and the structural environment that conditions their strategies and decisions. It then argues that Bourdieu’s conceptual framework can provide the basis for a more systematic approach to understanding the cultural roots of policymaking and that international historians would benefit from engagement with his approach.

The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism by Timothy Marr

Leviathan ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
Brian Yothers
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Roots

A Body of Accents

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 44-51
Author(s):  
Ami Skånberg Dahlstedt
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Dance Education ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Foreign Accent ◽  
Contemporary Dance ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Professional Dance ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Exchange Programmes ◽  
Nihon Buyo

Abstract Dance practice is often hidden inside dance studios, where it is not available for dialogue or interdisciplinary critique. In this paper, I will look closer at one of the accents that my body has held since the year 2000. To Swedish dance academies, it is perhaps the most foreign accent I have in my dance practice. It has not been implemented as ‘professional dance’ in Western dance studios. This foreign accent is called Nihon Buyō, Japanese dance, also known as Kabuki dance. Nihon Buyō, Nō or Kabuki are local performing arts practices for professional performers in Japan. A few foreigners are familiar with these practices thanks to cultural exchange programmes, such as the yearly Traditional Theatre Training at Kyoto Art Centre. There is no religious spell cast over the technique or a contract written that it must be kept secret or that it must not leave the Japanese studio or the Japanese stage. I will compare how dance is being transmitted in the studio in Kyoto with my own vocational dance education of many years ago. Are there similarities to how the female dancer’s body is constructed? Might there be unmarked cultural roots and invisible originators of the movements we are doing today in contemporary dance?

scholarly journals PENERAPAN TARI KREATIF DENGAN EKSPLORASI IMAGERY LINGKUNGAN HIDUP ANAK USIA DINI

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 64-75
Author(s):  
Arni Apriani
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Creative Dance ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
The Social ◽  
Environmental Exploration

Abstract Early childhood is an individual figure who is always active, enthusiastic, and curious about what is seen, heard, felt. They never stop to explore, learn and easy to absorb information. They have feelings that are formed by the situation (happy, sad, angry, disappointed, appreciated, and so on). This is the time when they need friends to play with the socio-cultural environment where he is. In early childhood education must relate to the value of art, beauty and harmony that leads to happiness in the child's life according to the cultural roots in which they live (aesthetics) as well as the religious values ​​it embraces. The concept of learning: learning while playing, doing, through stimulation, with the core experience of exploring the social environment of culture, which produces knowledge and understanding by observing, imitating and experimenting. Environmental exploration for early childhood is important because they are excellent explorers. Creative dance with the exploration of environmental imagery can provide an aesthetic experience, learning experience, social experience, and can foster children's creativity to explore the elements of dance.

scholarly journals Encouragement and Contracting Factors for Implementation of Dynamic Village Institutional Program and Adaptive Culture in Minahasa Tenggara District

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Deysi L. N. Tampongangoy ◽  
Lusy K. R. R. Gerungan ◽  
Grace H. Tampongangoy
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Structure Factors ◽  
Standard Operating ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Bureaucratic Structure ◽  
Adaptive Culture ◽  
The Republic

One of the programs of the Ministry of Villages, Development of Disadvantaged Regions and Transmigration of the Republic of Indonesia based on sustainable development (Sustainable Development Goals) globally which consists of 17 goals which are then added one point as a foothold for the community, namely a dynamic village institutional program and adaptive culture that involves the local government as a working partner. The program of dynamic village institutions and adaptive culture aims at village development that is based on the cultural roots of the local community with the intention that everything built on a cultural basis will have extraordinary resilience and have good deterrence. This study uses Edwards III theory by considering four indicators as a factor in implementing public policies consisting of: Communication, Resources, Implementing Disposition, and Bureaucratic Structure. Factors that are considered as supporting factors in the implementation of the dynamic village institutional program and adaptive culture in Southeast Minahasa Regency are communication and the disposition of the implementer. Factors that are considered as inhibiting factors in the implementation of dynamic village institutional programs and adaptive culture in Southeast Minahasa Regency are resources and bureaucratic structure. Human and financial resources need to be improved. It is necessary to make standard operating procedures specifically for dynamic village institutional programs and an adaptive culture that has a clear position base in carrying out the program.

scholarly journals Archetypes in Batsa Gopal Vaidya's Paintings

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-73
Author(s):  
Yam Prasad Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Creative Process ◽  
Collective Unconscious ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Common Heritage Of Mankind ◽  
Aesthetic Pleasure ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Himalaya

Batsa Gopal Vaidya's paintings integrate primordial images, symbols, and figures from myths, cultures, and rituals. These images and symbols are the archetypes that appear recurrently in his artworks. The artist shares these primordial images from his collective unconscious, the common heritage of mankind, and the storehouse of archetypes that reappear in the creative process. They suggest the pattern of experiences of our ancestors. These recurring communicable images function as an aesthetic mode of communication in society. Swastika, shaligram, tilaka, the Himalaya, rivers, various deities, and their attributes are such images and symbols that do not only provide aesthetic pleasure but also take the viewers back to their cultural roots, rituals, and myths. This article attempts to trace the archetypes in Vaidya's works and explain their significances.

scholarly journals On the Indian tradition of mathematical names: A scientific analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ashish Karn ◽  
Brett Rosiejka ◽  
Pankaj Badoni ◽  
Raman Kumar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Cultural Roots ◽  
Indian Tradition ◽  
Scientific Analysis ◽  
Chance Events ◽  
The Rich ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Shed Light

The current paper explores the tenuous interlink between names of individuals in a society and its collective social consciousness, particularly with reference to the pervasive occurrence of the ‘mathematical names’ in the current Hindu society in the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Initially, an attempt is made to put things into mathematical perspective by drawing a quick sketch of the mathematical achievements of the Indian mathematicians. Then, under the six broad categories of geometry, trigonometry, numeration, arithmetic, algebra and mathematics in the Vedic tradition, a concise layman description of these subdivisions are presented, underlining the names of the concepts and terms, sometimes by producing the textual references. Next, upon identification of such mathematical terms, these names are juxtaposed with the names current in the Indian Hindu setting. By employing an extensive dataset of university student names in India and the databases of Facebook and LinkedIn, we produce both qualitative and quantitative evidence of the presence of such names in the Indian subcontinent. Evidently, these names reflect impressions of the rich mathematical heritage left by the Hindu stalwart mathematicians. This hypothesis has also been examined by taking surveys of people bearing these mathematical names, as well as by documenting the ‘conscious procedures’ that go behind the naming of a Hindu Indian child. In trying to investigate if such a phenomenon is unique to the Indian tradition, a stark contrast with the ‘names in mathematics’ as prevalent in the European mathematical traditions is presented, as cultural roots of mathematics are explored. Further, we ascribe the presence of these names as the extant remains of the colossal impact of multifarious mathematical traditions existing in India. In fact, the present research also brings to the fore, certain unseen facets of the Indian Hindu society as regards the education of mathematics to women – through an indirect exploration of their names. We then show that the pervasive occurrence of these names are not merely the result of semantic chance events, but denote the richness of the Indian mathematical legacy. We also present cross-cultural comparisons to show the uniqueness of Indian mathematical and scientific traditions that led to the pervasiveness of ‘mathematical names’ in India. Finally, an attempt is made to clarify some subtle points on the associations between mathematics and religion in India and other cultures of the world. It is a sincere hope that the present study may shed light on the cultural roots of mathematics and may provide a different dimension in the study of mathematics and society, across other civilizations.

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