Ethnohistorical Archaeology and the Mythscape of the Naga in the Chiang Saen Basin, Thailand

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Piyawit Moonkham
Keyword(s):  
Social Space ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Building Construction ◽  
Local People ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
The People ◽  
Divine Retribution ◽  
The Town

Abstract There is a northern Thai story that tells how the naga—a mythical serpent—came and destroyed the town known as Yonok (c. thirteenth century) after its ruler became immoral. Despite this divine retribution, the people of the town chose to rebuild it. Many archaeological sites indicate resettlement during this early historical period. Although many temple sites were constructed in accordance with the Buddhist cosmology, the building patterns vary from location to location and illustrate what this paper calls ‘nonconventional patterns,’ distinct from Theravada Buddhist concepts. These nonconventional patterns of temples seem to have been widely practiced in many early historical settlements, e.g., Yonok (what is now Wiang Nong Lom). Many local written documents and practices today reflect the influence of the naga myth on building construction. This paper will demonstrate that local communities in the Chiang Saen basin not only believe in the naga myth but have also applied the myth as a tool to interact with the surrounding landscapes. The myth is seen as a crucial, communicated element used by the local people to modify and construct physical landscapes, meaning Theravada Buddhist cosmology alone cannot explain the nonconventional patterns. As such, comprehending the role of the naga myth enables us to understand how local people, past and present, have perceived the myth as a source of knowledge to convey their communal spaces within larger cosmological concepts in order to maintain local customs and legitimise their social space.

scholarly journals Media Informasi Website pada Wisata Kuliner Panganan Khas Mandar

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 267
Author(s):  
Dian Megah Sari ◽  
Asmawati S.
Keyword(s):  
Complete Information ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local People ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Food Location ◽  
The Hours ◽  
Information Media

Limited information on typical Mandar culinary in Majene Regency, such as types of food, location of food, operating hours, and transportation are references to provide complete information to tourists. Information about typical Mandar food requires the role of technology in it, considering that it plays a very important role in helping tourists or local people to find information about Mandar specialties, it is requires a media capable of providing information about the address of the place to eat, the type of food served, the hours of operation, and transportation used. The purpose of this research is to design website information media on Mandar culinery touris in Majene regency that can help tourist or local communities.   Based on a series of research it can be conclude that the website information media on typical Mandar culinary tours in Majene Regency can make it easy for tourist or local people to get information about  the Mandar culinary tours and decide which restaurant wiil they choice.

Archaeological Footprints of the “Celtic Calendar”?

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marco V. García Quintela ◽  
A. César Gonzalez-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Iron Age ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Late Iron Age ◽  
The People ◽  
Shared Time ◽  
Key Aspects

Despite their elusiveness, the people referred to as “Celts” by ancient chroniclers left behind certain archaeological remains that may be interepreted from the perspective of archaeoastronomy in an attempt to discover a calendrical “root” for them. In recent years, a number of studies on Late Iron Age sites, Roman or romanised locations and Christian landscapes in Hispania and in Gaul raised the possibility of detecting physical evidence of the celestial concepts that some classical authors attributed to the Celtic mystics, the Druids. However, these studies dealt with certain key aspects of how the Celts organised time that are not generally known and which tend to be presented in a summary way. Here, we explore aspects such as the difficulty of referring to a "Celtic calendar" per se, the sources for our study, the difficulties of adjusting the cycles of the Sun and Moon, the role of the “horizon calendars” and how these aspects may have played a role in actions that left a physical footprint that can still be seen today at several archaeological sites. We show that, although there may be common aspects that connect all Celtic sites and areas, there was no common calendar as such, although there are solid indications of the usage of a shared time-reckoning system.

scholarly journals PERAN CSR DALAM MEREDUKSI KONFLIK KORPORASIKOMUNITAS LOKAL DI SEKTOR PERTAMBANGAN (SUATU STUDI DI PT RAYA, SUMATERA UTARA)

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mia Aulina Lubis ◽  
Fitriyah .
Keyword(s):  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Mining Industry ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Local People ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
The People ◽  
Interest Conflict ◽  
Corporate Social

This research deals with A Role of CSR Programs in Reducing Corporate Social Conflict in Mining Industry (A Study in PT. RAYA, Sumatera Utara). This research was conducted on qualitative approach. The data is obtained by literary studies, interviews and observation. Analysis started with describing motivations and conditions of CSR of PT. RAYA since the beginning until the conflicts appeared. Then, the research was trying to look for the CSR implementation strategy, especially as extractive company which undergo conflict with local people and the obstacles that were found by the company as long as they were implementing their CSR, as an interest conflict belong to miners without  permissions, negative stigma from the people also intervention and provocation   gotten by program receivers.

scholarly journals Peran Museum Tani Jawa Indonesia dalam Peningkatan Kinerja Desa Wisata Candran Bantul

Media Wisata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hardi Wahyuno
Keyword(s):  
Heritage Tourism ◽  
Local History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Local People ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Basic Point ◽  
The People ◽  
Tourist Village ◽  
The Village

Since the tourist arrives at the location as a rural marketplace, they will get soon their gaze, as they watch some products. These products include location, price, service, facilities, images, in the dynamic of the development of the local people. The local people are considered to be suppliers of the product, as seen in the tourism point of view. The basic point of view of the tourist is the romanticism and nostalgia is experienced at the location and it’s relation with the tourist capacity and capability to understand some associations of the products, as products are categorized and branded, underneath they are the controlled as well as the tourist understand the meaning of the symbols locally, in the form of cultural goods. This case raises up some tourism consideration which this will be studied in the field of comparative rural tourism, heritage tourism. The tourists have their own criteria in understanding people‘s way of life, development, condition, in their locality and in the other hand is the people, the way they understand the tourists’ needs and wants. The relation between local people and tourists attitude is in this contact, communicates the ongoing matter of tourism. The attitude of the local people in the tourist village in Chandran, they are the creator of their heritage. The heritage has a role for them, because its value, in several degrees, is correlatively connected with local history, culture, and nature. This is important to understand local heritage tourism. Diversity of the dynamic rtelation between the village and the city in the tourisme context is significant and it’s difference is understood. The village, it’s self, in the tourisme context, stengthens the destination of Jogjakarta by producing the tourist village in the setting of rural tourisme, heritage tourisme. Tourist needs and wants of the rural as product (tangible-intangible) to consume , the local people make some supplies as attraction, acces includes catergorical and brand, where the product : tourist village is typical and specific, valueable, increases the power of attraction , because of it’s content, where people respons to challenge in their locality at location. The location (historicval, cultural, natural aspect) can increase tourist’s motivation, inisiate the pulled factor, and forme the heritage tourisme, rural tourisme.The role of the people, in their every day life, is as induvidual or collective local actor, they do, they create heritage for them, they expresse visually, in their attitude toward tourist (performence), as well as their attitude is focused at the rural museum. The people acts as cultural model, authentic, fixing up the proses of consumption (economics). The product to consume is attached with it’s association and it’s symbolic meaning (cultural). The Museum Tani Jawa Indonesia in Candran increase the selling value of it’s locality and try to fit with the standard expectation toward the global standar as this is the matter of the field in the comparative rural, heritage tourisme.

scholarly journals Role of wild mammals in traditional medicine and mystic practices in the province of Oubritenga, Burkina Faso

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 1322-1340
Author(s):  
Daogo Ouoba ◽  
Ollo Théophile Dibloni ◽  
Komandan Mano ◽  
Yampoadiba Ouoba ◽  
Boureima Gustave Kabre
Keyword(s):  
Burkina Faso ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local People ◽  
Wild Mammal ◽  
Traditional Use ◽  
Wild Mammals ◽  
Obvious Consequence ◽  
Traditional Practitioners ◽  
Almost All

Local people use corpses and organs of wild animals for medical care and mystical practices. The study aims to inventory the mammal’s species which organs are used for the treatment of some diseases or the implementation of some mystical practices. It was an ethnozoological survey which took place from September to December 2018 in 11 markets with 18 traditional practitioners selling wild mammal products. In total, 24 species of wild mammals have been identified and 16 organs listed as medicine for cure 21 diseases. Some of these organs are also involved in 7 mystical practices of local people. Animal parts such as the skin (51.30%) and the bones / the horns (16.23%) are the most sought after on the markets. Traders sources are mainly from Burkina Faso (92.57%) and to a lesser extent from Niger (7.43%). Almost all the concerned species are protected (22 species) in Burkina Faso. Among these species, 4 are vulnerable according to the IUCN criteria. The obvious consequence of these traditional needs for corpses and parts of wild mammals collected by local communities is undoubtedly the depletion of biodiversity. Therefore, this requires the application of conservation rules which guarantee better exploitation of these biological resources.Keywords: Biodiversity, wildlife, traditional use, animal’s organ, ethnozoology

scholarly journals Japanese Rural Communities and Their festivals in Postmodern Conditions

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-164
Author(s):  
Maya Keliyan
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local People ◽  
Sociological Research ◽  
Cultural Resource ◽  
Municipal Administration ◽  
Active Life

The article analyzes the author's sociological research results in two villages in the municipality of Kumano, Mie Prefecture, Japan: the fishing village of Hobo and the mountain village of Maruyama. The text aims to clarify the place and role of traditions in the postmodern lifestyle, the mechanisms of their "modernization," and use to revitalize local communities and preserve the Japanese cultural identity by studying their festivals. Local festivals are an essential cultural resource for protecting the traditions of Hobo and Maruyama. The activities for their organization and implementation largely determine the lifestyle of the local community. Their preservation requires both will and perseverance, as well as an innovative approach and ingenuity shown by their inhabitants. Collective action is an important factor in preserving local culture and traditions in Japanese villages. In Hobo, the local community's active life is due to the initiative, efforts and perseverance of its informal leader, and the enterprising local people who help him. In Maruyama, in addition to the enterprising local people and their organizations, the organizational assistance and support of the municipal administration and volunteers from other parts of the country are extremely important. With their initiatives and activities, local communities use the resources of tradition to achieve socially meaningful goals in postmodern conditions.

scholarly journals PERAN MAJELIS ADAT ACEH DALAM PENYELESAIAN SENGKETA WARIS TERHADAP TANAH DI KECAMATAN TEMPUK TENGOH KOTA LHOKSEUMAWE

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Ucha Hadi Putri
Keyword(s):  
Legal System ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Administrative System ◽  
Kinship System ◽  
The People ◽  
Inheritance System ◽  
The Government ◽  
Conducting Research ◽  
Special Region

There are three inheritance legal systems in Indonesia, namely, Islamic inheritance legal system, Customary inheritance legal system and Civil inheritance legal system. The people of Aceh adhere to a parental kinship system, meaning the inheritance system in giving the position of sons and daughters, that is, equally have the opportunity to become heirs. Based on Law Number 40 of 1999 Concerning Aceh's Privileges in Article 3 paragraph 2, it is agreed that Aceh is a Special Region in the fields of adat, religion, and education. The government provides space for local communities to restore existing adat in the community, one of which is to approve the inheritance dispute that was approved by the Majelis Adat Aceh. The author is interested in conducting research on the role of the Majelis Adat Aceh in resolving inheritance disputes over land in the teungoh sub-district of Lhokseumawe, the author uses empirical juridical methods in the field at the research site with the source of the law or debate requested requested. The role of the Majelis Adat Aceh in completing the legalization has not been completed properly, from the administrative system also the application of the decision of the Majelis Adat Aceh.

The Constitutional Basis of Local Democracy

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 809-825
Author(s):  
Franc Grad ◽  
Igor Kaučič
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Elections ◽  
Local Democracy ◽  
The People ◽  
Town Meeting ◽  
Right To Vote ◽  
The Right ◽  
Popular Initiative ◽  
The Town

The Constitution of Slovenia guarantees local government, nevertheless it does not regulate forms of local democracy. Thus, the legislation envisages numerous different ways of citizens' participation, both direct and indirect, in decision-making in local communities. Still the local elections remain the most important way of citizens’ influencing decision making in local communities. The right of the people living in local communities to vote local authorities and to be elected for local offices is certainly the core of modern understanding of local democracy. In Slovenia, both members of municipal council and mayor are directly elected. Right to vote and to be elected have also EU citizens while other foreigners have only right to vote. Among forms of direct participation, the most important ones are the town meeting, referendum, popular initiative and right to petition. They enable the citizens to participate in the processes of deliberation, proposing and formulating decisions, stating preliminary positions with regard to decisions to be made as well as decision-making itself or confirming the solutions adopted.

scholarly journals Heritage for Sale! The Role of Museums in Promoting Metal Detecting and Looting in Romania

Heritage ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 437-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iulian Ganciu
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Damaging Effects

The phenomenon of metal detecting in Romania is growing rapidly, with more and more cases being registered every year. In a context where there is less money for archaeological research, museums are relying more and more on discoveries made by metal detectorists in order to enrich their collections. This situation encourages the practice, and in time could have damaging effects on the archaeological heritage of Romania. Metal detecting represents an activity that has raised lots of debate, but the authorities have not yet taken action. Thus, this study is necessary: in order to find a middle ground between metal detectorists, archaeology, and the institutions responsible for the protection of heritage. Such a middle ground could be a bridge that leads to the better preservation of archaeological heritage in Romania. This study focuses on creating a policy to protect the archaeological sites of Romania, creating awareness among local communities as well as a policy that could be applicable elsewhere in other places that are also involved in this sort of activity.

scholarly journals The Digital Exhibition and Keyimage Ontology

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-125
Author(s):  
Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh ◽  
Kalina Sotirova
Keyword(s):  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Formal Ontology ◽  
Application Domain ◽  
End User ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
The People ◽  
Explosive Expansion

The Age of Image predates and is currently contemporaneous with the Information Age. In our times the explosive expansion of Web 2.0 Social Space, typified by the phenomena of De.licio.us, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube…, and the concomitant emergence of folksonomy, present interesting challenges in the management of this information. One key process by which to accomplish this in Social Space, is the wedding of folksonomy (of the people) with ontology (of the machine). Such a wedding must necessarily be conducted in the shared physicality of the word, of language. In this respect, WordNet together with OWL, play the role of matchmaker. But the same Social Space also provides an opportunity for natural folksonomical tagging by digiFoto (key)image. The research harness for experimental keyimage tagging consists of Flickr as the main (digiFoto image) Social Space testbed and De.licio.us as the auxillary outreach secondary Social Space. Protégé Editor with OWL-DL provides the support for the bridge from keyimage to the formal ontology. The primary end user application domain is the keyimage tagging of paintings in an online art gallery.

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