Food technologies/technologies of the body: The social context of wine and oil production and consumption in Bronze Age Crete

1999 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yannis Hamilakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
The Body ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals IS CONTEMPORARY LUXURY MORALLY ACCEPTABLE?

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Roberts
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Moral Standing ◽  
Classical Period ◽  
Negative Consequences ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
Human Endeavor ◽  
The Social

This article investigates the moral acceptability of contemporary luxury. The meaning of luxury and its manifestations in today’s economically developed countries are explored. The nature of morality is considered, and the evolving moral standing of luxury from the classical period to modern times is reviewed. Based on an elaboration of the significant positive and negative consequences of the production and consumption of luxuries, the moral standing of contemporary luxury and the questions it raises for the super-rich are discussed. The author argues that the moral standing of contemporary luxury is dependent on the social and economic context within which it is situated. This is because the meaning of both luxury and morality vary according to social context. Further, where luxury divides and stimulates degenerate, unethical, and criminal activities, it is morally indefensible; but where luxury unites community and advances human endeavor, it can be defended on moral grounds. However, in the contemporary period, growing economic inequality is increasingly overshadowing any positive moral impact of luxury.

The Impact of the Social Context on Aesthetic Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Mastandrea
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Social ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
The Family ◽  
Socio Demographic Factors ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Impact

Not only cognitive and affective processes determine an aesthetic experience; another important issue to consider has to do with the social context while experiencing the arts. Several studies have shown that the aesthetic impact of a work of art depends on, to an important extent, the different socio-demographic factors including age, class, social status, health, wealth, and so on. The concepts of cultural and social capital by Pierre Bourdieu and the production and consumption of artworks by Howard Becker are discussed. Another important aspect of the impact of the social context on aesthetic experience deals with early art experience in childhood within the family—considered as the first social group to which a person belongs.

Headbob displays signal sex, social context and species identity in a Liolaemus lizard

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-218 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalin S. Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Animal Communication ◽  
Anterior Part ◽  
Natural Habitat ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Body ◽  
Visual Signals ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Species Identity ◽  
The Social

Abstract Animal communication has a key role in animals and identifying the signals’ function is crucial. Most lizards communicate with each other through visual signals with headbob displays, which are up-and-down movements of the head or the anterior part of the body. In the present work, I described and analysed the headbob displays of Liolaemus pacha lizards in their natural habitat. Specifically, the objectives were to describe the form of headbobs, to analyse their structure and to compare between sexes and social contexts. Adult lizards were video-recorded, registering the sex and the social context, classified as broadcast, same-sex and female-male interactions. The form and structure of sequences and headbobs were obtained. To evaluate the effect of sex and social context on the structure of headbob sequences and on headbob bouts, generalized linear mixed models were made. Intersexual differences were found in headbob display frequency and in the structure of headbob sequences. Lizards in same-sex context made sequences with more bouts, shorter intervals, headbob bouts of longer duration and higher amplitude than broadcast and female-male context. Presence of concurring behaviour such as lateral compression, gular expansion, and back arching occurred simultaneously with headbobs in same-sex context. Liolaemus pacha made four different headbob bout forms, and males were characterised by using bouts A and B, whereas females used bouts D more frequent. Sex and social context influenced only the structure of bouts A and B. The results showed that bouts A and B might be multi-component signals and non-redundant.

scholarly journals The rise and fall of the Pentecostals: the role and significance of the body in Pentecostal spirituality

2011 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
pp. 381-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Singleton
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Spiritual Experiences ◽  
Outward Appearance ◽  
Bodily Appearance ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
The Social ◽  
Contemporary Christian ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Late Modern

This paper addresses the role and significance of the body in contempor­ary Pentecostalism. It begins with a description of the various body-centred spiritual experiences common in this tradition. Next, it considers the social context of the Pentecostal body, arguing that the premium and importance placed on outward bodily experiences is consistent with a broader societal focus on bodies and bodily appearance. Finally, it draws on in-depth interview data with Pentecostals to illustrate the processes involved in coming to have an experience in which one’s body becomes the highly visible locus of spirituality. No longer restrained and ordered, the contemporary Christian body is exuberant, released to worship and be overcome by God. Being slain in the Spirit is the most prominent example of this shift in contemporary spirituality. The Pentecostal emphasis on bodily experiences is consistent with the late modern interest in the outward appearance of the body.

scholarly journals Una mirada a las formas de subjetividad en mujeres víctimas de violencia sexual en el contexto de Buenaventura

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 55
Author(s):  
Eva María Lucumí Moreno
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Valle Del Cauca ◽  
Patriarchal Power ◽  
Gender Subjectivity

Resumen: Este artículo presenta resultados de unainvestigación acerca de las formas de subjetividad presentesen tres mujeres negras víctimas de violencia sexualen el contexto del municipio de Buenaventura, Valledel Cauca. El presente estudio feminista posiciona a lasmujeres como sujetos enunciantes de sentidos y reflexionasobre la violencia sexual. Los hallazgos apuntan aidentificar tendencias y singularidades que surgen enlos discursos de las mujeres a partir de la experienciade violencia sexual vivida. Los resultados y la discusiónemanan de algunos de los núcleos interpretativos, queemergen en la investigación como las manifestacionesdel poder patriarcal, los sentimientos, la reinterpretacióndel cuerpo a partir de la experiencia y la resistenciaal contexto, caracterizado por la presencia del conflictoarmado. A partir de estas vivencias las mujeres reinterpretanlas relaciones que establecen con los otros y consus cuerpos. En ellas prevalecen sentimientos de culpa,temor y resistencia.Palabras clave: género, subjetividad, narrativas, mujeres,violencia sexual.A Look at Forms of Subjectivity of Women Victimsof Violence in BuenaventuraAbstract: This paper presents results of research onthe forms of subjectivity present in three black womenvictims of sexual violence in the context of the municipalityof Buenaventura, Valle del Cauca. In this feministstudy women are presented as subjects of enunciationand there is a reflection on sexual violence. The findingspoint to identifying both trends and peculiarities that canbe seen in women’s discourse due to the experience ofsexual violence. Results and discussion arise from someinterpretive nuclei, stemming from research on certainmanifestations of patriarchal power, feelings, the reinterpretationof the body from experience, and resistanceto the social context, characterized by the presence ofarmed conflict. From these experiences, women reinterpretrelationships with others and with their bodies.Feelings of guilt, fear and resistance prevail.Keywords: gender, subjectivity, narratives, women,sexual violence.

The social context of seafaring in the Bronze Age revisited

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 452-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry Chapman ◽  
Benjamin Gearey
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Bronze Age

scholarly journals Points of Resistance to Lectio Divina: An Anthropological Perspective

CounterText ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-52
Author(s):  
Richard D. G. Irvine
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
Lectio Divina ◽  
Anthropological Perspective ◽  
Slowing Down ◽  
The Social ◽  
Points Of Resistance ◽  
Auditory Process

What is distinctive about lectio divina as a practice? What does it require of us, and for what purpose? This ethnographic response considers the relational character of lectio divina and examines the social context of reading as listening. As a way of bringing its characteristics into relief, I describe two ways in which we might find ourselves resisting this slow, prayerful reading. Firstly, the resistance of the body, as it struggles with the physiological challenge of slowing down the pace and recasting reading as an auditory process. Secondly, the resistance of the self, uncomfortable with having to cede control. Lectio divina sits in awkward tension with a world dependent on speed and grounded in individualism.

scholarly journals Political action in machiavellian republicanism

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 182-193
Author(s):  
Marcone Costa Cerqueira
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Political Action ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Body ◽  
Central Focus ◽  
The Social

Our objective in this brief article is guided by the demonstration of the existence of a theory of political action in Machiavelli's republican thought, with such a theory having its own character that directs it to highlight the action of individuals in the social context. In addition to this objective, we hope to support the thesis that such a theory of political action has a republican scope, not just “republicanist”, in keeping with the Machiavellian preference for institutions that impress on individuals a civic sense based above all on the materiality of political action in the body social. From this assertion, we indicate that our itinerary will be guided by the demonstration of the search for the valorization of political action in Machiavelli's theory, the materiality of such action, to the detriment of its pure intention, the central focus of Florentine's work. This disposition of the centrality of political action in Machiavelli republicanism will underscore its appreciation for outlining the political functions of the search for recognition, glory and especially the benefit of the political body as a whole.

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