Cultural appropriation, appreciation, and adaption: A rejoinder to “Effects of a Rite of Passage Ceremony on Veteran's Behavior”

Understanding why Islam has contributed little to contemporary religious and spiritual innovations allows us to see the principles underlying cultural borrowing. With its creator God, authoritative text, religious dogmas, and defined ways of life, Islam is too much like Christianity for cultural appropriation, and there is a considerable Muslim presence in the West that constrains borrowing. Such appropriation is easiest when ideas are not embedded in a large faith community (feng shui is an example), when they are retrieved from an ancient and undocumented past (as with Celtic Christianity), or when they are entirely fictional (as with the supposed characteristics of Atlantis).

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Decolonial Information Practices: Repatriating and Stewarding the Popol Vuh Online

Preservation Digital Technology & Culture ◽

10.1515/pdtc-2019-0009 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 48 (3-4) ◽

pp. 107-119

Author(s):

Pamela Espinosa de los Monteros

Keyword(s):

Best Practices ◽

Indigenous Knowledge ◽

Digital Library ◽

Knowledge Society ◽

Knowledge Work ◽

Vantage Point ◽

Cultural Appropriation ◽

Digital Environment ◽

Popol Vuh

AbstractThe digitization and online dissemination of the Popol Vuh, a historical indigenous knowledge work, poses distinct ethical, legal, intellectual, and technological concerns for humanities researchers and information practitioners seeking to study and digitally curate works through a decolonized consciousness. Ongoing debates on data sovereignty, the repatriation of cultural artifacts, and cultural appropriation question the ability of researchers and information practitioners to effectively steward indigenous knowledge works in a digital environment. While consensus on best practices for the postcolonial digital library or archive remain to be established, information inequity continues to persist, effacing indigenous knowledge, languages, and content from the knowledge society. The following case study will discuss the results of a 10-year multi-institutional initiative to curate, repatriate, and steward the reproduction of an indigenous knowledge work online. From the vantage point of the library, the case study will explore the project’s successes, failures, and the work left to be done.

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“Ain’t Got Enough Money to Pay Me Respect”: Blackfishing, Cultural Appropriation, and the Commodification of Blackness

Culture Studies &#x2194 Critical Methodologies ◽

10.1177/15327086211029357 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 153270862110293

Author(s):

Maha Ikram Cherid

Keyword(s):

Black Women ◽

North America ◽

White Women ◽

Black Culture ◽

Cultural Appropriation ◽

Financial Benefits

The term blackfishing, which takes a twist on the concept of catfishing, that is, tricking people online into thinking you are someone else, refers to the practice of (mostly) White women pretending to be Black by using makeup, hairstyles, and fashion that originate in Black Culture to gain financial benefits. This article aims to contextualize the concept of blackfishing through a critical literary review that will cover the following elements: cultural appropriation, the commodification of Black culture, the representation of Black women in North America, and the operationalization of blackfishing.

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A Rite of Passage: The IMO Consideration of the Indonesian Archipelagic Sea-Lanes Submission

The International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law ◽

10.1163/157180800x00145 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 317-332 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Constance Johnson

Keyword(s):

Law Of The Sea ◽

Rite Of Passage ◽

International Maritime Organisation ◽

Safety Committee ◽

The Republic ◽

Marine Safety

AbstractThe introduction of a specialised passage regime for archipelagic sea-lanes was one of the most innovative features to the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. Article 53(9) of the Convention requires an archipelagic state to refer any proposals for the designation or substitution of sea-lanes or the prescription of traffic separation schemes to the "competent international organisation" with a view to their adoption. In May 1996 at the 67th session of the Marine Safety Committee of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), the Republic of Indonesia submitted a proposal for the adoption of various sea-lanes and air routes through and over its archipelagic waters. This was the first proposal of its kind. This article traces the progress of this proposal through the IMO procedures and draws some conclusions about the wider significance of this new role for the IMO.

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Familism and Ancestor Veneration: A Look at Chinese Funeral Rites

Missiology An International Review ◽

10.1177/009182969602400404 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 24 (4) ◽

pp. 503-517 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Mary Yeo Carpenter

Keyword(s):

First Generation ◽

Living Organism ◽

Psychological Trauma ◽

Major Obstacle ◽

Rite Of Passage ◽

Ancestor Veneration ◽

Funeral Rites ◽

The Family ◽

The World ◽

The Universe

Ancestor veneration remains a major obstacle to conversion among the Chinese the world over. While the issue often comes to a head over funeral rites, ancestor veneration cannot be understood in isolation. Rather one must look at the broader issues of the cult of the family, a tenet propagated by Confucius, putting loyalty to the family above every other claim including that of the gods or the state. There was also the influence of Taoism which sees the universe as a living organism co-existing in interdependence. The family then is not just a sociological unit, but also a metaphysical unit with ancestral spirits helping to keep the fragile balance which their descendants have with the rest of the universe and with other spirits. Finally, we must not forget that death is a psychological trauma and that living relatives often need a rite of passage to remember and to grieve for the dead. Ancestor veneration then is not a simple act that can be abolished by deciding which rituals in a funeral are biblical and which are not. Rather it is part of a complex web that needs to be understood in its totality. This paper, written by a Chinese and first-generation Christian, attempts to do that.

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