A Story

Cyclops ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Mercedes Aguirre ◽  
Richard Buxton
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
The Impact

This chapter sets the scene for the rest of the book. After a brief summary of the Polyphemus episode from the Odyssey, Aguirre and Buxton go on to classify Odysseus’ monstrous opponent as an ‘ogre’. They stress that their argument will go well beyond the scope of the Odyssey narrative, since it will also dwell at length on the Polyphemus and Galatea relationship, as well as on the role of the Cyclopes as metalworkers and builders. The authors then highlight three aspects of their own approach to the topic. First, context: they will situate each literary or artistic representation within its cultural context, since only in that way can the meanings of any cultural item be appropriately decoded. Second, themes. The whole of Part I of the book, dealing with antiquity, is organized by theme, so that with each successive chapter a reader will be able to build up an increasingly complex picture of the impact of any given text or image. Third, representativeness. The authors do not aim at exhaustiveness in their treatment, above all in relation to the postclassical reception of Cyclopean myths. Rather, they aim to include what we consider to be the most significant later reworkings of this constellation of myths.

Chilean Culture

2019 ◽  
pp. 72-106
Author(s):  
Dan Bendrups
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Music Culture ◽  
Rapa Nui ◽  
Performance Style ◽  
Musical Practices ◽  
Pan American ◽  
The Impact

This chapter provides a discussion of Chile’s interactions with Rapa Nui before, during, and after the island’s annexation, and the impact of these interactions in Rapanui music culture. It considers both the effect of Chilean cultural imports on Rapanui musical practices and the ways in which Chile has acted as a conduit to influences from a broader pan-American cultural context. The chapter explains the role of Chilean folklore in inspiring a local ensemble (or conjunto) performance style that centers on the guitar. It also describes the emergence of Tapati Rapa Nui, the island’s annual cultural festival, which was originally inspired by Chilean “spring queen” festivals.

scholarly journals Law and Islam in the Middle East

1992 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 268-272
Author(s):  
Khaled Abou El Fadl
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Symbol ◽  
The Impact

This is a collection of anthropological studies on the dynamics of the implementationoflaw in the Middle East. The basic arguments of the book raisethe issue of the context of law and the role of Islamic law in the Middle East.The editor, Daisy Dwyer, contends that context rather than the letter of the lawis the core phenomenon determining the handling and outcome of legal cases.The form and impact of Islamic law varies according to the specific regionaland cultural context . Dwyer also argues that Islamic law is often invoked notso much for its specific content but as a political symbol relating the past tothe present and, ultimately, the future.These points are significant for understanding the impact of Islamic lawin the Middle East. The cultural context will consistently influence which proBookvisions of the law are emphasized and which provisions are deemphasized orconveniently forgotten. Furthermore, social outlooks and cultural habits willin turn impact upon huw the specific provisions are interpreted and implemented.As Safia Mohsen demonstmtes in an insightful article on mmen and the criminaljustice system in Egypt, the implementation of law responds to the specific situationof women in Egypt. The way criminal law is implemented sometimesdiscriminates, depending on the context, in favor of or against women ...

Fashion, Chinoiserie and Modernism

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Cheang
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
British Modernism ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Complex Picture ◽  
The Impact

Fashion, chinoiserie and Modernism do not necessarily make easy bedfellows. Fashion’s dynamic of continuous experimentation and renewal can be aligned with Modernism’s agenda of artistic reinvention, self-conscious newness and cultural improvement. Dress and interior design were certainly of interest to Modernist designers, and Chinese culture had a significant influence on British avant-garde literature, theatre and the arts. Yet, fashion’s strong conceptual associations with the feminine, with irrational desire and with Western modernity create a complex picture for expressions of Chineseness, and Chinese design often connoted flights of fancy, locations of private pleasure and an intense nostalgia that is antithetical to the progressive and disruptive anti-traditional stance of interwar Modernism. This chapter examines the impact of fashionable chinoiseries in Britain as a culturally important but as yet under-theorised phenomenon of twentieth-century modernity, an equivalent trend to the negrophilia craze of the 1920s and the Primitivist art movement, a hybrid cosmopolitanism and an imperialist Orientalism. The wearing of Mandarin robes as evening coats, the collecting of jades, the lacquering of dressing tables, and the nurturing of Pekingese lapdogs offer new and stimulating ways to reappraise and shed light on the role of the Orient within British Modernism.

The Epigraphy of Ptolemaic Egypt

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Greek Text ◽  
Alexander The Great ◽  
Rosetta Stone ◽  
The Social ◽  
Antiquities Trade ◽  
The Military ◽  
Different Cultures ◽  
The Impact

The book contains twelve chapters, by various authors, discussing aspects of the Greek and Egyptian bilingual and trilingual inscriptions from Egypt during the Ptolemaic period, from the conquest by Alexander the Great (332 BC) to the death of Kleopatra VII (30 BC). It is intended as a complement to the publication of the full texts, with up-to-date commentaries and images, of about 650 inscriptions on stone. These include major decrees of priestly colleges, such as the Rosetta Stone, and a great variety of religious and secular monuments from the whole of Egypt, from Alexandria to Philae. The subjects covered include the latest technologies for digital imaging of stone inscriptions, the character of Egyptian monuments with Greek text, the survival and collection of bilingual monuments in the nineteenth century through excavation and the antiquities trade, religious dedications from Alexandria and elsewhere, the civic government of Greek foundations and public associations, the role of the military in public epigraphy, verse epigrams, onomastics, and palaeography. Overall, the collection offers a comprehensive review of the social, religious, and cultural context of the great inscribed monuments of the Ptolemaic dynasty which are key sources for understanding the coexistence of two different cultures and the impact of Ptolemaic rule and Greek immigration in Egypt.

scholarly journals Service quality of Islamic banks: satisfaction, loyalty and the mediating role of trust

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-23
Author(s):  
Razali Haron ◽  
Noradilah Abdul Subar ◽  
Khairunisah Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Service Quality ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Islamic Banks ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Impact

PurposeThe objective of this study is to examine the impact of PAKSERV model on customers' satisfaction, loyalty and trust in Malaysian Islamic banks. These comprehensive measures concern on the cultural dimension of service quality by focusing on the mediating role of trust in the Malaysian context.Design/methodology/approachA survey was conducted involving 401 customers of Islamic banks in the states of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor, Malaysia. The data were analyzed through exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model employing AMOS 23 and SPSS 23.FindingsThe study found positive relationship of PAKSERV dimensions of service quality, customers' satisfaction, customers' loyalty and the mediating role of trust in enhancing customers' loyalty. This study provides new evidence on how trust can act as a partial mediation on the relationship between customers' satisfaction and customers' loyalty in the cultural context of Islamic banking in Malaysia.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study can be used as a framework for other Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) in improving services to its customers.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the body of knowledge in enhancing the understanding on customers' satisfaction, loyalty and trust in Islamic banks in Malaysia. This study also covers a broad range of respondents, hence representing a good diversity of Islamic banks' customers.

Reactions of Chilean and US children to marital discord

2003 ◽  
Vol 27 (5) ◽  
pp. 437-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mark Cummings ◽  
Joel Wilson ◽  
Haya Shamir
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Marital Discord ◽  
Cross Cultural Study ◽  
Latin American Culture ◽  
Us Children ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Time Culture

Understanding of the universality of relations between marital discord and children is limited by gaps in cross-cultural study. In an extension of study of this question to a Latin American culture, the impact of marital discord was examined in 7–9 and 11–13-year-olds from Chilean ( N = 36) and US ( N = 36) families. Parents completed marital discord and child adjustment measures and children responded to analogue presentations of marital discord. For both groups, marital discord was related to children’s adjustment and children’s reactions to marital discord varied significantly as a function of conflict resolution. At the same time, culture moderated the amplitude of some relations, with the pattern of findings suggesting that Chilean children were more sensitive to marital discord than US children. Discussion considers the role of cultural context as a factor in the effects of marital discord on children.

scholarly journals MUSICAL COGNITIVISM IN A NEW ASPECT: TURNING TO SUBJECTIVITY (BOOKS BY I. BOSTRIDGE AND J. E. GARDINER)

2020 ◽  
Vol 116 (5) ◽  
pp. 234-242
Author(s):  
Ekaterina N. Shapinskaya ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Musical Piece ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Reflection

The article examines the problems of understanding music from the point of view of interaction of emotional perceiving and theoretical reflection. Basing on the case of two works on Schubert and J. S. Bach, written by outstanding musicians of our time, I. Bostridge and J. E. Gardiner, the role of author’s subject position is examined as well as reconstruction of historical and cultural context of the works as the prerequisite for deeper understanding. The author of the article points out changes in the attitude to music pieces after reading these books, which shows relevance of music cognitivism, not diminishing the impact of music, but, on the contrary, showing its new aspects if the author combines personal experience and research capabilities. Since both books are about music containing verbal element (vocal cycle and cantatas and Passions) the problem of interrelation of music and word has been regarded. In analyzing I. Bostridge’s book the accent is placed on recreation of historical and cultural factors connected with different songs of the cycle. In examining Gardiner’s work attention is given to elements of biographical method which are used to get more versatile notion about the composer’s music through which different traits of his character, often ambivalent, are disclosed. Interaction between sensual perception and intellectual reflection is an important process not only in gaining knowledge about a musical piece, but in extending social and cultural experience of the listener and the performer. Special accent is placed on regarding subjective approach to the works performed and analysed used by the authors as the result of merging of performing experience and research work. Such approach is relevant for contemporary art studies in which the subject/object duality is deconstructed and multidisciplinary research prevails.

Teaching in the Age of Diversity: Culture and Language Sources of Conflict and Strength in the Classroom

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexia Georgakopoulos ◽  
Tina Jaeckle
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Teacher Competence ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Theoretical Foundations ◽  
Enhance Student Learning ◽  
Culture And Language

Teachers today are frequently faced with the challenge of effective instructional approaches in the age of multiculturalism, as well as the management and resolution of potential conflicts during their interactions with students who speak English as another language. This article examines the role of variant learning styles and the potential lack of understanding between teacher and student that can lead to conflict. Conflict and social construction theories serve as theoretical foundations in this discussion and emphasize the importance of meaning, symbolism, and interpretation. The impact and differentiation between low context, high context, individualistic, and collectivistic cultures are identified as influential variables in this process. Recommendations are offered from a critical pedagogical perspective to enhance student learning. Ethnocognitivism is also explored to demonstrate that different cognitive styles exist within language use and cultural context. Implications for teacher competence, future instructional and conflict management practices are presented.

Rethinking American Music

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Country Music ◽  
American Music ◽  
Concert Music ◽  
Community Values ◽  
Tin Pan Alley ◽  
The Impact

Only since the 1970s have the variety of American musical styles and sounds have been allowed to stand on their own two feet in the academic world. Recent efforts to place American music-making within new or heretofore neglected contexts are diverse and inevitably shift our consciousness about music’s meaning and impact in culture. This volume contains a series of commentaries or glosses, chapters about American music broadly understood that seek especially to explore four critical factors beyond the the familiar categories defined by repertory or biography alone: the impact of performance; the role of patronage in the creation of musical objects and events; personal identity; and how larger cultural/ethnographic contexts (community values, ethnic markers, and social relations) determine certain musical results. A related concern in many of the chapters is the way music is disseminated within listening communities—how it was made “popular”—and how it continues to exert a lasting influence across the rest of the globe. The topics to be found here are wide ranging and include many genres and perspectives (hymnody, concert music, jazz, country music, hip-hop, Tin Pan Alley, and Broadway song and dance, among other types), but each chapter is focused on specific performers, patrons, works, conditions, or institutions within its cultural context.

scholarly journals Investigating the role of customers’ perceptions of employee effort and justice in service recovery

2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 708-732 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirella Yani-de-Soriano ◽  
Paul H.P. Hanel ◽  
Rosario Vazquez-Carrasco ◽  
Jesús Cambra-Fierro ◽  
Alan Wilson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Service Recovery ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Perceived Justice ◽  
Employee Effort ◽  
Recovery Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

Purpose The purpose of this paper is, first, to identify the relationship, if any, between customers’ perceptions of justice (functional element) and employee effort (symbolic element) and their effects on satisfaction and loyalty in the context of service recovery and, second, to determine the impact of cross-cultural differences on these relationships. Design/methodology/approach Survey data from actual customers were gathered in three countries ( n = 414) and analyzed using structural equation modeling to test the proposed hypotheses. Findings The results demonstrate the role of the constructs of perceived employee effort and perceived justice in influencing post-recovery satisfaction and loyalty across cultures. While perceived justice is valued across cultures, customers from feminine (masculine) cultures require more (less) employee effort to influence post-recovery satisfaction positively. Customers from low (high) uncertainty cultures are more (less) willing to give the provider another chance after a service recovery. Research limitations/implications The study shows that both functional and symbolic elements of service recovery are important determinants of customer satisfaction and loyalty and that their influence can be significant in a cross-cultural context. Practical implications International service managers must consider the nature of cultural differences in their markets to develop and implement tailored recovery strategies that can result in satisfied customers. Originality/value This study is the first to integrate the functional and symbolic elements of service recovery, their impact on customers’ behavioral responses and the influence of cultural variations.

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