The Cultural Roles of Perforated Fish Vertebrae in Prehistoric and Historic Europe

The aim is to examine the economic and cultural roles of the favela souvenirs for Rio de Janeiro’s slums, with the focus on the work of a male artist from Santa Teresa (an old neighbourhood, on the top tod a hill in the central region of the city, with great tourist appeal and strong contrast between mansions and one of the poorest and most violent communities of Rio). The main argument indicates that favela souvenirs generate income and jobs not only for craft workers, but indirectly for tourist guides, food services and other creative sectors connected to the favela tourism. When these souvenirs are original and truth-telling, they may stimulate a better perception of the favelas in tourists and consolidate them as tourist destinations, despite the aggravation of violence in many slums in Rio de Janeiro. Favela souvenirs also carry the memories of the city’s periphery, which is sometimes seen as secondary in Rio de Janeiro’s long-established tourist images and “generic souvenirs”. They offer greater visibility to the cultural production of marginalized social groups, which fuels potentially transformative views about the favelas and bring about the discussion on the lives of those who live in these areas. In the case of the work of the considered artist, it is possible to say that his paintings have elements of the “objective authenticity” of souvenirs, which contrast with a preconceived idea of an “imaginary favela” in his treatment of Santa Teresa’s poorest communities. However, there are some aspects of standardization in his pictorial production and simulation in the process of elaboration of the artist’s work during tourists’ visits to his studio.

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Prosthetic Heroes

Disability Media Studies ◽

10.18574/nyu/9781479867820.003.0006 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

Ellen Samuels

Keyword(s):

Social Context ◽

Disability Studies ◽

Disabled Veterans ◽

Disability Narratives ◽

The Social ◽

Cultural Roles ◽

The U.S

Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled veterans were returning to the U.S., with their futures uncertain. Drawing on veterans’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing a disability studies reading to a Hollywood blockbuster, this chapter demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of disability narratives.

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Understanding Gender Identities and Food Preferences to Increase the Consumption of a Plant-Based Diet With Heuristics

Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership - Intergenerational Governance and Leadership in the Corporate World ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8003-4.ch002 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 30-38

Author(s):

Estela Seabra

Keyword(s):

Behavioral Economics ◽

Gender Norms ◽

Food Preferences ◽

American Government ◽

Men And Women ◽

Gender Biases ◽

Sustainable Diet ◽

Food Market ◽

And Gender ◽

Cultural Roles

This chapter discerns existent food preferences and their correlation with women and men, and gender biases, in America. It then proposes a strategy to test the most efficient heuristics to nudge those more averse to a plant-based, sustainable diet. By understanding how negative biases can be reversed through the application of behavioral economics, the plant-based industry and American government can most effectively build marketing procedures to be employed in campaigns, menus, packaging, and media to portray sustainable diets as appealing for men and women, and important for environmental wellbeing. The study recognizes and navigates the irrationality of human preferences as actors in the food market. By accounting for gender norms, cultural roles, and subconscious behavior, it will effectively produce insight on the best heuristical approaches to cognitively orchestrate a wider acceptance, and consequent consumption, of plant-based foods.

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Affiliation, Cultural Roles, and Women's Depression

The Nature of Melancholy ◽

10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195151657.003.0030 ◽

2002 ◽

pp. 325-334

Author(s):

Jennifer Radden

Keyword(s):

Cultural Roles

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Retroaktywność biografii i twórczości Antoniny Domańskiej

10.24917/9788380844193.1 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 7-19

Author(s):

Katarzyna Wądolny-Tatar ◽

Keyword(s):

Cultural Construction ◽

The Other ◽

Children And Young People ◽

Scientific Methods ◽

Her Family ◽

The Past ◽

Literary Research ◽

The World ◽

Family Connections ◽

Cultural Roles

Retroactivity of the Biography and Works of Antonina Domańska Retroactivity is the process of inscription, it is about updating the contextually interpreted past. Thus, retroactive reading is seen as a selective and affirmative attempt to internalise the world, imitating the personal system of existential and reading experiences. On the other hand, as a part of literary research, it counts as a description of the works and life of the creators from earlier eras, carried out with the use of modern ways to explore “signs of the past”, through the new scientific methods and concepts. For Szymon Wróbel, author of the monograph Lektury retroaktywne. Rodowody współczesnej myśli filozoficznej [Retroactive Reading. Origins of Contemporary Philosophical Thought], retroactive reading is “travelling in the vehicle of multiple narratives”. We invite you to such a journey in the collective monograph (Re)Construction of the Past in Antonina Domańska’s Prose, in which we propose a multilateral interpretation of the biography and works of Antonina Domańska, including her family connections, vision of literature for children and young people, ways of understanding history in the dynamics of memory and imagination, world of values (also spiritual) designed in her texts, biological and cultural construction of sexes (also from the perspective of socio-cultural roles of Domańska), finally – including the critical reception of the works of the author of Historia żółtej ciżemki in comparison with the works of other artists.

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The Social and Political Role of the Orthodox Church in Post-Communist Russia

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1080/00905999208408218 ◽

1992 ◽

Vol 20 (01) ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Paul Valliere

Keyword(s):

Soviet Union ◽

Orthodox Church ◽

Internal Security ◽

Political Role ◽

The Soviet Union ◽

The Social ◽

Security Network ◽

Cultural Roles ◽

The Church

The political role of the Orthodox Church in post-communist Russia is more difficult to assess than its social and cultural roles for several reasons. First, to offer any systematic observations on the matter one must attempt to construe the nature of the church-state relationship in Russia, a notoriously controversial subject. Second, one must make an educated guess concerning the part played by the huge internal security apparatus which only yesterday dominated the internal affairs of the Soviet Union, including religious affairs. The security establishment has been dislodged from its hegemonic role in the Soviet state as a result of the Gorbachev reforms, but there is little question that it continues to exist as a political force in the country. Reading the aims of this network is no easy matter, however, because by definition it operates in relative secrecy and by means of diversionary tactics. One also has to reckon with the possibility that the security network has been disrupted by the changes of recent years, and operates with less coordination than in the past.

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Ancient canids of the Aleutian Islands (new archaeological discoveries from the Islands of Four Mountains)

Quaternary Research ◽

10.1017/qua.2019.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 91 (03) ◽

pp. 1028-1044

Author(s):

Dmitry D. Vasyukov ◽

Olga A. Krylovich ◽

Dixie L. West ◽

Virginia Hatfield ◽

Arkady B. Savinetsky

Keyword(s):

Red Fox ◽

Archaeological Site ◽

Domestic Dog ◽

Food Sources ◽

History Of ◽

Human Use ◽

The Rich ◽

Cultural Roles ◽

Rich History ◽

Reserve Food

AbstractWe discuss the cultural roles of dog and red fox recovered from Carlisle Island, Islands of Four Mountains, Alaska, within the context of Aleutian ethnographic and zooarchaeological records. Three dog bones were recovered from the Ulyagan archaeological site, Unit 5, in levels that date to AD 1450–1645. Three red fox bones come from the Ulyagan site, Unit 4, in levels that date 460 BC–AD 95. Our analyses show that both red fox and domestic dog date earlier than the contact with Russians and that these canids do not extend west of the Islands of Four Mountains archipelago. Given the rich history of human intervention on the Aleutians ecosystems over the last 250 years, we argue that indigenous red fox inhabited the Islands of the Four Mountains region prior to western contact; however, foxes did not have a pronounced cultural role for prehistoric Aleuts. Domestic dogs accompanied humans in the Aleutians after AD 950, suggesting that these canids might be linked with the Neo-Aleut culture. In the light of Arctic and oceanic cases of human use of dogs considered in the paper, we suggest that dogs might have served as reserve food sources during long trips for people migrating west.

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Domestication of Telecentres by Malawian Rural Women

International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development ◽

10.4018/ijicthd.2018010104 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 51-64

Author(s):

Sellina Khumbo Kapondera ◽

Wallace Chigona

Keyword(s):

Digital Divide ◽

Rural Women ◽

Word Of Mouth ◽

Perceived Usefulness ◽

Financial Resources ◽

Domestication Theory ◽

Cultural Roles

The potential of telecentres to bridge the digital divide can only be realised when their services are appropriated by all groups in the community. Previous studies show that in Malawi only a few women use telecentres. This article used Domestication Theory to explain the processes through which women in rural Malawi encounter technologies, deal with them and integrate them into their lives. Data was obtained via interviews with women (both users and non-users) and a Telecentre Manager. The study shows that: i) commodification was influenced mainly by word of mouth; ii) the women who appropriated the Telecentre used it for instrumental and hedonic purposes; iii) the appropriation was influenced by convenience, compatibility with the needs of women and perceived usefulness of the Telecentre; and iv) non-use was due to lack of awareness, illiteracy, limited financial resources, cultural roles and perceptions about the telecentres. The findings could help policymakers in maximising use of telecentres among women.

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