scholarly journals Mixed messages: Racial science and local identity in Bali and Lombok, 1938–39

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 410-425
Author(s):  
Fenneke Sysling
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Racial Science ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Mixed Messages

This article explores how the islands of Bali and Lombok were racialised through the work of Dutch racial scientist J.P. Kleiweg de Zwaan in the 1930s. An examination of both Kleiweg's published works and his local practices draws attention to the fact that racialisation occurred at different moments of anthropological work, producing different outcomes. The article concludes that anthropologists communicated different versions of racial ideas to international academics and to local communities. The Bali-Aga and Sasak, who were measured, described and photographed by anthropologists, appropriated racial categories which they found meaningful.

Local Culture, the Environment, and Place-Making

2021 ◽  
pp. 197-215
Author(s):  
Kirk A. Denton
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
National Identity ◽  
Natural History ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Working Relationship ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
History Museum

This chapter looks at museums in the “ecomuseum” mode that serve to forge a “sense of place” for local communities. The Lanyang Museum (蘭陽博物館‎), opened in 2010, is a natural history museum focused on the “mountains, plains, and ocean” of Yilan county where it is located. The linchpin in a network of museums in the county, it both offers Yilan people cultural outlets and forms of cultural identification and stimulates tourism and economic development. Gold Museum Park (黃金博物園區‎), or Gold Ecological Park, struggled initially to live up to the ecomuseum ideal, but it eventually developed a close working relationship with the local community of Jinguashi, where it is located. The idea of the ecomuseum goes well beyond matters of local identity; it also sits well with a particular image of Taiwan and Taiwan national identity. With community-oriented ecomuseums dotting the national map, Taiwan becomes a nation of identifiable communities that are simultaneously unique and part of a diverse whole.

Rules of Engagement

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanna Bosse
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Consumption ◽  
Social Rejection ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Ballroom Dancing ◽  
International Scale ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
First Time

This chapter examines the “rules for engagement” in ballroom dancing by following the trajectory of individuals as they enter the dance hall for the very first time and eventually become good ballroom dancers. It begins with a discussion of local practices at the Regent Ballroom and Banquet Center and how members of this particular local context connect with the more global aspects of ballroom performance. It then considers the importance of safety in the ballroom, first by explaining the obligation to “take care” of one's partner and fellow dancers, along with the convention of sobriety and limiting alcohol consumption during a dance. It also shows how a sense of safety functions not only to generate participation and maintain local communities, but also to provide the necessary components codified to ensure performance on an international scale. It argues that feeling safe to dance without risk of physical harm or social rejection is a first requirement in realizing ballroom's promise of becoming beautiful.

Representing Decline: The Role of the Arts in Framing Discourses of Deindustrialisation

2001 ◽  
Vol 100 (1) ◽  
pp. 129-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Stevenson ◽  
Georgia Paton
Keyword(s):  
New South ◽  
Place Identity ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Expressive Arts ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Local Reactions

Deindustrialising cities worldwide are facing considerable social and economic difficulties, which challenge local identity and the bases of community solidarity. Historically, the expressive arts have provided incisive commentaries on such change; however, deindustrialisation strategies are now being developed that include cultural programs as a way of minimising negative local reactions. There has been little academic analysis of this emerging arts/industry nexus or its relationship to local communities and arts agendas. In 1999. BHP closed its steelworks in the New South Wales city of Newcastle. Central to the process of closure was the Ribbons of Steel festival, funded in part by the Australia Council and held on the BHP site. This paper examines Ribbons of Steel to explore the role it played in framing discourses of closure and city reimaging. The paper also illuminates the power relations underpinning the event, providing insights into the shifting relationship between industry, creative expression and place identity.

Microhistory and Cultural Geography: Ben Jonson's “To Sir Robert Wroth” and the Absorption of Local Community in the Commonwealth*

2000 ◽  
Vol 53 (2) ◽  
pp. 500-528 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Elsky
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Region ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Country House

The consolidation of England into a monarchical commonwealth in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries created the possibility of polyvalent geographic identity. Ben Jonsons country house poem, “To Sir Robert Wroth, “ was written from the vantage point of a shift in the politico-geographical borders that made local communities in the shires part of a centralizing monarchical commonwealth. Microhistorical examination of the Wroths and their village in the period preceding the composition of the poem reveals their insistent local identity and resistance to the monarchical commonwealth ruled from London. The immediate context of their resistance to the center was a Privy Council project to make the River Lea navigable in order to bringdown the price of grain in London. Economically threatened, the Wroths orchestrated sabotage against the project, but eventually acquiesced to the Privy Council and re-entered the centrally administered commonwealth fold. Jonsons poem is a testimony to this reaffiliation, a celebration of the Wroths as exemplars of commonwealth identity within local region. Only when they distanced themselves from local identity did the Wroths become suitable for Jonson as a poetic model of the country ideal. In Jonsons hands, the country house poem becomes the vehicle of multivalent identification with place.

scholarly journals The Use of the Socio-Cultural Potential of Local Societies through the Presentation of Cultural Specificities

2019 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 308-323
Author(s):  
Zdena Krišková
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
First Case ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
The Village

Abstract The study is based on the APVV project that focused on the socio-cultural capital of successful Slovak municipalities, bearers of the “Village of the Year” title, which can serve as a source of inspiration for other municipalities in improving the quality of life in the countryside. The aim of this study is to highlight the possibilities for the development of local communities in the context of geographical and economic determining factors and to observe the use of the socio-cultural capital as a source of sustainable growth also in the context of cultural and local identity. The study analyses two concrete examples aimed to increase the attractiveness of the sites through the presentation of their socio-cultural potential. The first case covers the municipality of Hrušov and its participation in the Hont Eco-Museum project, implemented within the wider micro-region. In the second case, we explore the municipality of Spišský Hrhov and its analogical example – the museum of music MuzikMuzeum. The study was based mainly on the results of the pilot research and subsequent ethno logical field research in both municipalities, conducted predominantly by means of direct interviews with the locals, newcomers as well as leaders of the municipalities in 2018. The synthesis of the conclusions is based on a comparison of some determining factors of the development of both sites (the proximity and accessibility of urban centres, economic or confessional aspects in relation to the local community).

Interracial Sex, Marriage, and the Nation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ting Yi Lui
Keyword(s):  
Family Formation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Marriage And Family ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
North American Continent ◽  
The North ◽  
Local Practices ◽  
Interracial Sex ◽  
And Gender

This article traces the long history of legal regulations around interracial sex and marriage as tied to important changes in the territorial consolidation and political formation of the American nation and its polity. These regulations stabilized ambiguous racial categories and gender roles as well as patriarchy and heteronormativity. The article begins in the colonial era to survey the range of local practices of interracial sex, marriage, and family formation that took place across different imperial contexts across the North American continent and moves into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as the United States spanned the continent and pursued its own imperial ambitions globally. In addition, the article chronicles histories of resistance and mixed-race family formation that both challenged and worked within the limits of the law.

scholarly journals Branding local heritage and popularising a remote past: The example of Haugesund in Western Norway

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Torgrim Sneve Guttormsen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage Management ◽  
Western Norway ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
Romantic Era ◽  
Late Modern ◽  
Remote Past

Since the national romantic era, the Haugesund region of Norway has been associated with patriotism and heroism as it is believed to be the homeland of the Viking hero Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway. In the arrival hall at the airport outside Haugesund the passengers are today faced with the following words: “Welcome to the Homeland of the Viking Kings”. The slogan refers to official regional attraction strategies based on a late modern Viking enthusiasm, used in efforts to increase local identity, to enchant a visitor market and to brand the region, in short, to create pride and glory. In this paper, dynamics of heritage production at Haugesund are examined by emphasising how a popular and commercial past (“the experience society”) mediates public debates and conflicts, thus questioning the function experts within the field of archaeology and the cultural heritage management have in local communities.

Implicit stereotyping and prejudice and the primed Stroop task

1999 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 241-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerry Kawakami ◽  
Kenneth L. Dion ◽  
John F. Dovidio
Keyword(s):  
Stroop Task ◽  
Color Naming ◽  
Stereotype Activation ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Automatic Activation ◽  
Black Stereotypes ◽  
Implicit Prejudice ◽  
Implicit Stereotyping ◽  
Naming Latencies

In the present study, automatic stereotype activation related to racial categories was examined utilizing a primed Stroop task. The speed of participants' ink-color naming of stereotypic and nonstereotypic target words following Black and White category primes were compared: slower naming times are presumed to reflect interference from automatic activation. The results provide support for automatic activation of implicit prejudice and stereotypes. With respect to prejudice, naming latencies tended to be slower for positive words following White than Black primes and slower for negative words following Black than White primes. With regard to stereotypes, participants demonstrated slower naming latencies for Black stereotypes, primarily those that were negatively valenced, following Black than White category primes. These findings provide further evidence of the automatic activation of stereotypes and prejudice that occurs without intention.

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