The Singing Charro in the Comedia Ranchera

Cinesonidos ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 150-192
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Avila
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Rural Life ◽  
Musical Genre

Chapter 4 explores the cultural construction of Mexico’s most visual and aural national signifier, the charro the horseman dressed in a short jacket and a wide-brimmed sombrero—in the popular musical genre, the comedia ranchera. While the figure of the charro became an important archetype in nationalist rhetoric, it was his musical repertoire that solidified his importance in film. The chapter examines the traditionalist depiction of the charro in the comedia ranchera in its discussion of his visual and aural constructions as an example of “cultural hybridity.” Beginning with Allá en el Rancho Grande (1936), the genre reimagined rural life in the hacienda system with the aid of specific musics performed by the charro protagonist. The comedia ranchera and its intricate depiction of the singing charro not only consolidated several cultural practices into one medium,but also revealed changing perceptions of Mexican masculinity.

scholarly journals An Obscure Perception of Transgender in Islam: A Case of Hijra in Bangladesh

2019 ◽  
pp. 29-36
Author(s):  
Rezwana Karim Snigdha
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Transgender Identity ◽  
Inherent Property ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Muslim Countries ◽  
Religious Law ◽  
Related Stigma ◽  
British Colonial ◽  
Asymmetrical Power

Religion-related stigma and discrimination towards transgender are common phenomena in the current world. Despite the legal recognition of hijra, those people were denied basic civil and human rights such as marriage or inherent property rights. Like many colonized countries, Bangladesh legal system has its roots in British colonial legacy. But, in case of marriage or inherent property law, Bangladesh follows the religious law of Islam. The Quran or Hadith do not have a specific guideline concerning transgender, and the Muslim countries do not follow any homogenous law due to the contextual cultural construction. This paper argues, without addressing the cultural practices of Islam, the proper conceptualization of transgender identity is not possible. Although it is also the case, only the Islamic perspective, will give us a narrow understanding of hijras who are one of the transgender communities in Bangladesh. To do so, this paper will analyze the dynamic relation between Islam and transgenderism in Bangladesh with a special reference to sharia law and explore the asymmetrical power relations to construct the reality of the ‘Trans’ as well as the cultural perception of the hijra in Bangladesh.

City of felt and concrete: Negotiating cultural hybridity in Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar

2013 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 622-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander C. Diener ◽  
Joshua Hagen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
National Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Secondary Source ◽  
National Narratives ◽  
Capital Cities ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
Mobile Pastoralism

Capital cities play an integral role in the construction of national identity. This is particularly true when the capital is the country's only major urban center. Over the course of its history, Mongolia's capital of Ulaanbaatar has been periodically reshaped to reflect competing trajectories of national culture. This article examines the evolving symbolism of architecture, urban design, and public space in Ulaanbaatar as a means of exploring Mongolia's complex negotiation between its traditional culture (mobile pastoralism and Shamanism/Buddhism), its socialist legacy, and globalization. Amidst the rampant social change of the last two decades, rather ambiguous national narratives have emerged in Mongolia. Like the capital's cityscape, these narratives reflect aspects of both recent and distant pasts, as well as contemporary economic, political, and social realities. This article reveals how increasingly palpable global economic and cultural practices are fomenting material change in the current phase of Ulaanbaatar's evolution. A combination of secondary source research and observations drawn from several months of fieldwork provide the basis for a discussion of the city's role as a forum for cultural contestation and national reform.

Media and Cultural Hybridity in the Digital Humanities

PMLA ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 135 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-164
Author(s):  
Élika Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
Cultural Implications ◽  
Everyday Work ◽  
The World ◽  
The Many

In this Essay, I Propose Taking Media-Cultural Hybridity as a Framework for Theorizing the Many Praxes of the Digital Humanities. Media-cultural hybridity, characterized by systemic media changes that have fostered cross-cultural exchanges, can usefully frame the varieties of DH and their concomitant global-cultural implications. Most DH practitioners will agree that media changes have already altered aspects of our reflections about, and everyday work in, the humanities; the field has examined the effects of these changes frequently and in depth in the last decade. But if, as I suggest in the following paragraphs, systemic media changes are accompanied by parallel systemic cultural changes, then DH could surpass the rhetoric of collaboration and make way not just for trans- or interdisciplinarity but also, crucially, for cross-cultural practices. In these pages I can only begin to sketch this framework, which itself is just one part of a larger investigation, but the questions I raise here will, I hope, be intriguing enough to spark further discussion. Now that DH has carved some niches, big and small, in academies around the world, highlighted the importance of local academic and cultural specificities, and established a praxis that negotiates the print and digital cultural records, is it possible to work toward topological understandings of the various emergences of the field? That is, can we develop understandings not just of the many local and disciplinary DH praxes but also of the encounters between them as indicators of the continuities and ruptures in the field? And, ultimately, can those understandings force us to rethink our epistemology so that it incorporates the cross-cultural exchanges at play?

scholarly journals The cultural construction of subject discipline knowledge: comparing ‘abstraction’ in two international contexts

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 434-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Pratt ◽  
Peter Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Mathematical Abstraction ◽  
Comparative Methodology ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Discipline Knowledge ◽  
Classroom Level

This paper uses a comparative methodology to examine the teaching of abstraction in two mathematics lessons, in Denmark and England. In doing so it aims to extend previous work by the authors, examining the effect of local, cultural issues on the form of teaching in order to understand how these also affect the subject content too. The analysis draws on two theoretical frameworks: the work of Hazzan and Zazkis to make sense of mathematical abstraction; and of Bernstein to provide a framework for examining pedagogic discourses at classroom level. The work compares two lessons, one each in England and Denmark, drawing out the ways in which teachers’ situated activities help to construct different versions of the subject matter – mathematical abstraction in this case. We assert that as well as abstraction being a practice which is constructed socially, cultural practices also mean that this is done differentially for, and by, groups of pupils and their teachers in ways which are likely to exacerbate the former’s differences, not reduce them. Some implications of this insight are discussed at the close.

scholarly journals Traditional and Modern Forms of the Cossack Culture in the Late 20th – Early 21st Centuries. Revival, Transformation, and Cultural Construction

2020 ◽  
pp. 197-212
Author(s):  
Olga Rvacheva ◽  
Pierre Labrunie
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Late 20Th Century ◽  
Cultural System ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Creation

Introduction. The paper deals with studying the formation of culture elements during the Cossacks revival process in the late 20th – early 21st centuries. The cultural pattern of a community is always changing. Cultural practices and traditions of the past get integrated into the modern social conditions, while new values and rituals assume the character of traditional ones. The topicality of the subject derives from the fact that the Cossack culture was subject to a dramatic transformation in the 20th century, while many elements of the culture were wiped out. The transmission of the cultural tradition was interrupted. The Cossacks revival in the late 20th century supposed a return to traditional historical forms. However, this task proved difficult because of the break in the transmission of the ethnic culture. The formation of the present-day Cossack cultural system supposed the selection of some elements of culture from the past and their integration into the new conditions as well as the creation of new forms of culture that would contribute to the cultural identification of the Cossacks. Methods and materials. Historiography has predominantly described the traditional forms of the Cossack culture. The issues of cultural construction were touched upon only occasionally. This paper applies the historical and chronological, historicalgenetic methods as well as the conception of socio-cultural construction. Analysis. During the Cossacks revival process its participants demonstrated a sharp increase of interest in the traditional forms of culture. The attempts at their integration into the present-day conditions led to the deformation of cultural forms. They lost their authenticity and transformed themselves into secondary forms of culture, thus cultural patterns of the modern Cossacks got changed. At the same time, new cultural traditions and norms were “invented”. Their function was to fix Cossacks identity and to show that the Cossacks do exist in the social life of the country. The adaptation of the traditions and historical elements of the Cossack socio-cultural system had its peculiarities. The traditions and elements were taken from different epochs and formed an arbitrary composition of different cultural phenomena. Traditions played an important role in the Cossacks revival process because they acted as cultural identification markers for the Cossack community. For that reason even new cultural practices were given the appearance of traditions. Results. In the late 20th – early 21st centuries the restoration of the Cossack culture was actually its construction. A number of trends can be traced in the process. They developed concurrently and contributed to the creation of new cultural milieu.

scholarly journals Masculinity in Numafung, a Film Directed by Nabin Subba

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-70
Author(s):  
Asmita Bista
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Hegemonic Masculinity ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Feature Film ◽  
Male Characters ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Asymmetrical Power ◽  
Gender Practices

The prevailing gender practices in the Limbu culture promote asymmetrical power relations not only between males and females but also between dominant males and subordinated males. This practice is portrayed in the feature film Numafung by Nabin Subba. Thus, the paper aims to investigate how the practice of hegemonic masculinity has affected the life of individuals, both males and females in Limbu community in the film. It scrutinizes what sort of problems do the conventional masculine roles bring in the characters’ lives. This paper also intends to assess the reasons that force the males to perform the conventional gender roles. To analyze the text, R.W. Connell’s and Michael Kimmel’s idea of masculinity theory has been used as an approach. These theorists propose that masculinity is a constructed entity that is achieved through constant performance: a series of cues observed, internalized and repeated over time. Illuminating the gender practices in the Limbu culture, Numafung unfolds the cultural dynamics of the Limbu society in the light of hegemonic masculinities. The paper concludes that cultural practices such as ‘sunauli- rupauli,’ ‘mangena’ and ‘jari’ keep their hegemonic masculinity intact. The paper further concludes that the male characters of Numafung embrace hegemonic masculinity because gender is a socio-cultural construction; being part of that society, one hardly can escape from the socially enforced gender roles.

scholarly journals THE HIPPIES IDENTITY IN THE 1960S AND ITS AFTERMATH

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Nafisatul Lutfi
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Cultural Hybridity ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Transnational American Studies ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The 1960S

The study on the hippies is abundant in numbers but not many of them study the disposition and identification of the hippies during the 1960s and its aftermath. Pierre Bourdieu’s theory on cultural practice, theory of hybridity, and globalization are used in this research to investigate the disposition and trans-nationality of the hippies in order to search for their universal identity. A Transnational American Studies approach is implemented to cover the following issue: (1) the socio-cultural disposition of the hippies in the 1960s, (2) the influence of European movement to the American Hippies, (3) the cultural hybridity of the hippies in relation with India, and (4) the similarities of the hippies and the reasons behind it. This research used library research and document analysis method in gathering the data whereas descriptive analysis approach is also used to analyze the data. The United States of America, India and Germany are the three countries being studied in relation to the hippies in the 1960s. The finding shows similar dispositions or background among the hippies in some countries being studied as well as some similarities and differences in the cultural practices of the hippies in the countries being studied. This shows the transnationality of the hippie’s identity and the influence of hybridity and globalization which causes the shifting of ideology and cultural practices of the hippies in its developments.Keywords: hippies, identity, Pierre Bourdieu, habitus, hybridity, globalization, TransnationalAmerican Studies

scholarly journals DOKSA, KEKERASAN SIMBOLIK DAN HABITUS YANG DITUMPANGI DALAM KONSTRUKSI KEBUDAYAAN DI DEWAN KESENIAN JAKARTA

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Zurmailis Zurmailis ◽  
Faruk Faruk
Keyword(s):  
Basic Concept ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Art Programs ◽  
Agency And Structure

This research aims to reveal the doxa generated by the Jakarta Arts Council (DKJ)  and its role as the institution with the legitimacy to build cultural construction, especially in the field of literature. This study uses the theory of genetic structuralism or also known as constructivist structuralism by Pierre Felix Bourdieu. This theory departs from the basic concept of the habitus and the arena, agency and structure as the principles that gave birth and developed the habits, producing habitus as well as perspectives. The results shows that the habitus and the perspective place the Jakarta Arts Council as doxa and as a guidelines for cultural practices in art programs, which is rooted on the structure of culture that is constructed through symbolic violence toward the involved agents and is socialized in the field of culture through similarly of symbolic violence.

scholarly journals Stage as a universe of human communicative activity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmyla Tanska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Spatial Dimension ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
Synthetic Image ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Action Event ◽  
Cultural Integrity ◽  
Human Image ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Interdisciplinary Study

The purpose of the article. The research is connected with the definition of culturological bases of synthetic image formation in the system of modern communication and opening of stage space as a communicative phenomenon in the context of the transformation of spectacular cultural practices of the XX century. The research methodology consists of theoretical and interpretive models of comparative and systematic approaches to the definition of stage space as cultural integrity. The scientific novelty of the work is to reveal the peculiarities of cultural creation of stage space in the twentieth century, when artists turned to previous systems of artistic reflection, figurative distinctions of the stage in culture. Emphasis is placed on the relevance of the study of the communicative properties of the stage in cultural construction. The stage can be remote, virtual, chamber, monumental. However, the scene from the category of subject-spatial dimension passes into another dimension - time. On the stage you can not break the unity of time and space, the stage is the unity of action and event, and also presents a certain space-time - chronotope, human image, an image of the day. Conclusions. The revival of the pre-cultural, pre-civilization in the broad progressive sense of the word world of the stage becomes the basis for a polymorphic definition of the communicative dimension of the stage as such. Stage space in the modern dimension requires a comprehensive interdisciplinary study, which focuses on discursive analysis, phenomenological and aesthetic studies of the categories "stage", "act", "action", "event", "creativity", etc. The article only raises the issue of interdisciplinary research tools. Further elaboration of the problem field requires separate investigations. Keywords: culture, universe, scene, action, event, chronotope, scenics.

Social epistemic actions

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovanni Pezzulo ◽  
Laura Barca ◽  
Domenico Maisto ◽  
Francesco Donnarumma
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Joint Action ◽  
Niche Construction ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Learning Processes ◽  
Epistemic Actions ◽  
Target Article ◽  
Online Social Interaction

Abstract We consider the ways humans engage in social epistemic actions, to guide each other's attention, prediction, and learning processes towards salient information, at the timescale of online social interaction and joint action. This parallels the active guidance of other's attention, prediction, and learning processes at the longer timescale of niche construction and cultural practices, as discussed in the target article.

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