“ALL THAT IS SOLID…”:SACBES, SETTLEMENT, AND SEMIOTICS AT TZACAUIL, YUCATAN

2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
Scott R. Hutson ◽  
Aline Magnoni ◽  
Travis W. Stanton
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Clout ◽  
Preclassic Period ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Pedestrian Survey ◽  
Total Coverage

AbstractThis paper applies structuration theory and semiotics to interpret the results of a recently completed total coverage pedestrian survey to the east of Yaxuna, Yucatan. Data from this survey suggest that a social group centered at the site of Tzacauil vied for political clout in the Late Preclassic period through the construction of a triadic acropolis 3 km from Yaxuna. This group also initiated but did not complete a new experimental construction: a long-distance causeway between the two sites. A central facet of structuration is the instability of social practice. Rules can be altered when transposed to new contexts, while durable resources, such as causeways and acropolis groups, do not ensure the solidity of the coalitions they are meant to represent. Despite an outlay of labor never again seen to the east of Yaxuna, Tzacauil had a rather short occupation. Though they never completed the causeway, the people of Tzacauil did succeed in transforming the conventional understanding of causeways. These events support a semiotic approach since they show that materiality is contingent: it has a potential that people may or may not work to realize.

Mitos Dalam Film Si Kabayan Berjudul "TARUHAN" Karya Didi Petet

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (02) ◽  
pp. 43-53
Author(s):  
Iwan Muhammad Ridwan
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
The People ◽  
Semiotic Approach

The research entitled "Myths in the Si Kabayan Film Titled Didi Petet's Betting" aims to uncover a number of myths that actually occur in Sundanese society and analyze them about Roland Barthes's semiotic approach to the meaning of denotation and connotation. In the film Si Kabayan: Bet there are a number of myths which are a blend of myths that have lived in society and myths that were created by Si Kabayan's ingenuity. Si Kabayan's figure is always identified with the character of silly, lazy, but a lot of sense that can often defeat the antagonist he faces. Likewise, this film was produced in 1991. The Kabayan can fool the characters who become antagonists for himself with a number of myths he made. Even so, interpreting the myths that are found in the film Si Kabayan: Bets are needed interpretations from the people who live in Si Kabayan's living environment, because a number of these myths are mostly special myths that are rarely heard in real life. Some myths can also be broken by Si Kabayan himself.

scholarly journals Factors for the formation of Ukrainian religiosity

1999 ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
T. Dlinna
Keyword(s):  
Social Group ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The People ◽  
Level Of Consciousness ◽  
Religious Dimensions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group A

The key concept of our study is "religiosity". In scientific literature, it is most often correlated with an individual or a social group, a community and understands a set of certain attributes that are inherent to them and which find expression in faith and worship of supernatural both at the level of consciousness and at the level of behavior. The object of our study is the Ukrainian people (ethnos). It should be noted that religious studies in Soviet times did not take into account the fact that human existence is possible only in the conditions of a certain ethnic community, an individual is, above all, a certain ethnotype, and, moreover, it does not study the religious dimensions of the ethno-national being of that another people. Religion itself, if considered as a special, long-standing state of consciousness, as a certain system, which is a set of elements (ideas, representations) that interact with each other and with the environment, form a stable integrity, can be considered an integral part of ethno-national mentality. According to M.Kostomarov, folk religiosity is a special view that the people have in their religion and that it does not constitute any kind of whole religion, nor a certain sect. Today it is universally accepted that the national type of religiosity exists on the ordinary level of consciousness, is a complex syncretic entity. The history of its formation does not coincide with the history of the doctrine of a certain denomination. However, it is clear that the religiosity of Ukrainians, posing an integral part of the mentality and spirituality of the people, has a history of its formation. It is a consequence of the influence of a complex of factors that predetermined the way of life of the Ukrainian people in a certain natural geographic and cultural-historical space.

scholarly journals EKSISTENSI DAN KONTRIBUSI ULAMA PEREMPUAN DI KABUPATEN ACEH BARAT (SUATU ANALISIS PRAKTIK SOSIAL DARI BOURDIEU)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
IRMA JURAIDA
Keyword(s):  
Women Religious ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
The Public ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Women Scholars

This study discusses about the existence and extent of the contribution of women religious leaders accepted in society in West Aceh district by using sociological analysis (social practice). This study was conducted in Aceh Barat district using a qualitative approach, notably through in-depth interview techniques by way of to-face and observation. According to the thinking of Bourdieu (1990), habitus and domains provide an easy way to see how the process of constructing of the realm of Islamic boarding school and the community and penginternalisasi habitus and religious values, socio-cultural and customs in society that formed the existence of women religious leaders in the community. . the results showed that the existence and contribution of women religious leaders in society, to understand the people of Aceh are still in the capacity of women. Women have not been possible to contribute to the public realm, just in taklim, special lectures for or fellow women and local preachers. Keywords: Existence, contributions, women scholars, Aceh Barat

Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion, and Exile, 1550-1850

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Long Distance ◽  
Empire Building ◽  
International Group ◽  
Original Essays ◽  
The People ◽  
Imperial Expansion

Keeping Family in an Age of Long Distance Trade, Imperial Expansion and Exile, 1550-1850 brings together eleven original essays by an international group of scholars, each investigating how family, or the idea of family, was maintained or reinvented when husbands, wives, children, apprentices, servants or slaves separated, or faced separation, from their household. The result is a fresh and geographically wide-ranging discussion about the nature of family and its intersection with travel over a three hundred year period during which roles and relationships, within and between households, were increasingly affected by trade, settlement, and empire building. The imperial project may have influenced different regions in different ways at different times yet, as this collection reveals, families, especially those transcending national ties and traditional boundaries were central to its progress. Together, these essays bring new understandings of the foundations of our interconnected world and of the people who contributed to it.

Archaeological Operations

2018 ◽  
pp. 126-193
Author(s):  
Jonathan Kaplan ◽  
Federico Paredes Umaña
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Field Data ◽  
The South ◽  
Water Control ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
The North ◽  
Ancient Society ◽  
Preclassic Period

Chapter 4 abstracts and summarizes the very copious field data from the three lengthy field seasons at Chocolá, including the specific evidence obtained about the very extensive water control system that was discovered. Intensive grid excavations were undertaken in five operations: Mound 15, the northernmost part of the elite north sector, Mounds 6 and 7, in the southern part of the north sector, Mound 2, in the central administrative sector, and Mound 5, in the south sector. Accordingly, our three field seasons provide the specific evidence and artifacts we have been able to use to understand the clearly hierarchical structure of the ancient society and city. Of particular importance for a better understanding of the material underpinnings of Chocolá is our research at Mound 5, in the south, where we believe cacao arboriculture was developed for long-distance trade in the Preclassic period.

scholarly journals Exploring the perceived value of social practice theories for business-to-business marketing managers

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (5) ◽  
pp. 751-768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sid Lowe ◽  
Michel Rod ◽  
Astrid Kainzbauer ◽  
Ki-Soon Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Structuration Theory ◽  
Business Networks ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Practical Usefulness ◽  
Social Theories ◽  
Theories Of Practice ◽  
Practical Experiences ◽  
Business To Business

Purpose Drawing on sociological theories of Giddens, Bourdieu and Goffman, the purpose of this paper is to explore how different relationships are characterized between actors in interaction and determine whether social theories of practice resonate as being practical to managers. Design/methodology/approach In the empirical investigations, the authors employ the Delphi method whereby the authors “elevate” six highly experienced marketing practitioners in Dubai and Bangkok, each in different industries and from different cultural backgrounds, to designated “expert” positions in exploring the practical relevance of the practice-based theories of Bourdieu, the dramaturgy of Goffman and the structuration theory of Giddens in understanding practical experiences of managing in business-to-business networks. Findings The results show that aspects of these theories are consistent with practitioners’ experiences in many ways but the theories themselves do not appear to resonate with the modernist practical consciousness of the participants as being particularly pragmatic or practically useful except as resources they could selectively borrow from as bricoleurs of changing action. Originality/value Social practice theories appear rather too abstract and complex to practical actors. It is therefore paradoxical that social practice theories do not appear as sufficiently “handy” or “ready to hand” in Heidegger’s (1962) terms; being in need of translation into practical usefulness. It would appear that social practice theories can be a useful analytical vehicle for the academic analyst but cannot resonate with the modernist consciousness of the practical actor.

Society and Justice in Colonial Brazil in the 17th and 18th Centuries

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabele de Matos Pereira de Mello
Keyword(s):  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Access To Justice ◽  
Long Distance ◽  
Great Capacity ◽  
Royal Power ◽  
Application Of Law ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Universe

In early modern societies, the duty of enforcing justice was one of the principal tasks of the monarch. Judicial power could be exercised both directly by the monarch—the supreme magistrate—or by those he delegated it to—judges or his courts. In the vast territory of Portuguese America, different institutions were created to ensure access to justice, to help govern the people, to assist in long-distance administration, and to maintain control over the crown’s dominions. Ouvidorias-gerais, judges, and courts were established with their own institutional officials, intermixing lower- and higher-level jurisdictions and exercising justice over distinct territorial spaces. To understand the functioning of judicial institutions in colonial society, it is important to analyze the universe of magistrates, their careers, judicial practices, and complex relations in the social environment. Magistrates, as an important professional group recruited by the Portuguese monarchy, had multiple overseas possibilities. They could serve at the same time as representatives of royal power and allies of local groups. These men faced a colonial reality that allowed them a wide sphere of action, the exercise of a differentiated authority, and a privileged position as intermediaries between local elites and the king. Even though all magistrates were subject to the same rules of selection, recruitment, appointment, and promotion, the exercise of justice in the slaveholding society of Portuguese America demanded a great capacity for adaptation and negotiation, for the application of law in the mosaic of local judicial situations. Magistrates circulated in different spaces, creating and working in different judicial institutions in the difficult balance between theory and practice, between written law and customary law.

scholarly journals Interaction of Universal and Ethnocultural Codes in Structure of Advertisement Communication

2018 ◽  
Vol 50 ◽  
pp. 01206
Author(s):  
Elena N. Ezhova ◽  
Oksana A. Dvoenko
Keyword(s):  
Functional Analysis ◽  
Institutional Discourse ◽  
Multicultural Society ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The People ◽  
Semiotic Approach ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Advertising Information

This work presents the systematized Russian and foreign scientific knowledge about the specific functioning of advertisement discourse in multiethnic society. The methodology of this research is based on the structural semiotic approach, functional analysis, an institutional-discourse method, an activity approach. The analysis of a big number of advertisement texts served the basis for typological classification of ethno cultural codes in the structure of media advertisement communication. The idea of this typology is heterogeneity advertisement texts, which are organized on the basis of the three semiotic systems: visual, verbal and acoustic. The understanding and realization of the idea of hybrid text modeling in the advertisement design allows one to improve its effectiveness, which results from the increase of the level of advertising information perception and the degree of its impact to the people. This demonstrates the importance of such professional qualities for advertisement specialists as the readiness and ability to work in multicultural society.

The Significance of Earth-Eating: Social and Cultural Aspects of Geophagy Among Luo Children

Africa ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 70 (4) ◽  
pp. 653-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Wenzel Geissler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Reproductive Age ◽  
Primary School Children ◽  
Social Significance ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
The People ◽  
Cultural Themes

ABSTRACTEarth‐eating is common among primary school children in Luoland, western Kenya. This article describes the social significance and meanings attributed to it. Earth‐eating is practised among children before puberty, irrespective of their sex, and among women of reproductive age, but not usually among adult men or old women. To eat earth signifies belonging to the female sphere within the household, which includes children up to adolescence. Through eating earth, or abandoning it, the children express their emerging gender identity. Discourses about earth‐eating, describing the practice as unhealthy and bad, draw on ‘modern’ notions of hygiene, which are imparted, for example, in school. They form part of the discursive strategies with which men especially maintain a dominant position in the community. Beyond the significance of earth‐eating in relation to age, gender and power, it relates to several larger cultural themes, namely fertility, belonging to a place, and the continuity of the lineage. Earth symbolises female, life‐bringing forces. Termite hills, earth from which is eaten by most of the children and women, can symbolise fertility, and represent the house and the home, and the graves of ancestors. Earth‐eating is a form of ‘communion’ with life‐giving forces and with the people with whom one shares land and origin. Earth‐eating is a social practice produced in complex interactions of body, mind and other people, through which children incorporate and embody social relations and cultural values.

Angnginrang

Emik ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-211
Author(s):  
Jumalia Jumalia
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Female College Student ◽  
The People ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Human Need ◽  
The Common ◽  
Spiritual Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

Human need is human desires to own and enjoy the usefulness of goods or services that can provide physical and spiritual satisfaction for survival. This study deals with the common social practice of debting at Kodingateng Island, Makassar. It examine the people’s perspective about debt, the debt mechanism, and the impact of debt in their social life. This study was carried out at Kodingareng Island, Makassar, an island where debting is a common social practice. There were 11 participants involved in this study, consisting of a female college student, seven fishermen's wives, and a stall seller (pagadde-gadde), a diver (paselang), and a fisherman (papekang). They are aged between 24 and 47 years. Data was collected using in-depth interview (to explore people's perspectives on debt, debting mechanism, and the impact of debting behavior towards their life; and observation (to observe indebted transactions, who owes, what is owed, billing and payment moments). The study shows that people at Kodingareng Island perceive debt (inrang) as a “habit” that has become a local tradition and debt as a “bond” between the lender (to appa'nginrang) and the borrower (to nginrang). The debt mechanism depends on debted needs, which are varied from primary needs, secondary needs, and tertiary needs; and on the importance of such need. The more important an item becomes, the more often the type of item is debted. The mechanism is simple, one just mention what s/he need and goods can be directly taken or delivered. Despite the fact there is a informal agreement between the lender and the borrower, in many cases the payment methods depends on the borrower. The impact of debt for the people of Kodingareng Island is categorized into three: people are trapped in an endless debt since debt is carried out continuously; generating generation debtors since they are accustomed to see and to practice debt; and affecting community social relations since payments are faltered, despite debting is not a shamefull behaviour.

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