scholarly journals A Reconsideration of the Pythia’s Use of Lots

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-133
Author(s):  
Lisa Maurizio
Keyword(s):  
Visual Material ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Written Descriptions ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter interrogates the visual, material, and literary evidence used to support the argument that the Pythia used lots (stones, pebbles, beans, or other) at Delphi. In particular, it considers recent ethnographic descriptions of divinatory practices to challenge two scholarly assumptions that drive interpretation of this material. The first is that aleatory forms of divination at Delphi affirmed or denied a client’s question, and thus constrained or limited oracular responses. The second assumption is that ancient written records of Delphic divination are adequate guides to divinatory exchanges at Delphi. Recent ethnographic studies demonstrate that divinatory sessions, including those that incorporate the use of aleatory devices, are lengthy and even combative, and that most written descriptions of such sessions in earlier ethnographic literature omit details and are best understood as brief summaries. This review of the ancient evidence for the use of lots at Delphi, alongside such recent ethnographic studies, suggest the need for a renewed scrutiny of the relationship between ancient written accounts and divinatory sessions at Delphi and the notion that the goal of divinatory dialogues is to obtain as quickly as possible a simple, brief answer (such as an aleatory device is imagined to provide) to the complex and troubling problems that motivate divination.

Remediation of practices: How new media change the ways we see and do things in practical domains

First Monday ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Giovan Francesco Lanzara
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Music Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Apparent Distance ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Judicial Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Media Change ◽  
The Relationship

Based on two ethnographic studies of technology-driven innovation in music education and judicial practice, in this paper I investigate the nature and meaning of mediation as a primary aspect of our way of experiencing and understanding reality. I explore what happens in an established domain of practice when the introduction of new technologies, such as the computer and video recording, requires practitioners to work with a new medium for carrying out their practices. In spite of the apparent distance of the two practical domains, music and the judicial, the two cases point to surprisingly similar phenomena affecting the nature of objects, the relationship between objects and their representations, and the perceptual and practical skills of the practitioners. The paper shows to what extent a practice is embedded in the medium and discusses the coping strategies that musicians and judges enact in order to make sense of and master the new media, and to reweave the ripped fabric of their practice.

Drawing to mirror, destabilize and enact

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-239
Author(s):  
Daksha Patel
Keyword(s):  
Parkinson’S Disease ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Life Sciences ◽  
Genetic Mutations ◽  
Scientific Practices ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Scientific Images ◽  
Disease Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Original Drawings

This article reflects upon an artist residency at the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, hosted by Parkinson’s disease research. It examines three distinct ways in which drawing methods and the prints they generate respond to the medical research. First, drawing methods mirror practices of looking and visualizing in the research laboratories. The relationship between datasets, algorithms and the images they generate is explored to propose the unstable nature of visualizations. Second, the artist’s original drawings are destabilized and transformed into ‘mutants’ to mirror the genetic mutations that are at the heart of the research. By substituting artworks for scientific images in a public-facing event, scientists enact the uncertainties and ambiguities of interpreting visual material. Finally, visitors interact with a print installation to mirror and enact scientific practices of selecting, categorizing and searching for patterns to emerge in visualizations.

scholarly journals Parent’s Preferences in the Future Orientation of Girl’s Education (Ethnographic Studies Among Fisherman Families in Muncar Banyuwangi)

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-85
Author(s):  
Zombieta Bening Tatas Kamantyan ◽  
Vina Salviana Darvina Soedarwo ◽  
Rachmad K. Dwi Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Participant Observation ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Community Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Family Economy ◽  
Parental Preferences ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

Future orientation is a design, plan, and view of an individual in the context of his education in the future which aims to direct himself to behave in accordance with the expected future. The future orientation of girls' education is shaped by parents through a preference. Preference is a choice or decision that must be prioritized, prioritized, and prioritized. Parents' preferences in the future orientation of girls' education, do not want their daughters to go to college. The cultural system of society influences the construction of a person's thinking so that it forms a preference within the scope of the family which is the smallest institution in society. Among fishermen's families, the level of education can be said to be lower because the struggle to meet the daily needs of a fisherman is at sea facing big waves, uncertain weather, and income which is determined by the number of fish caught makes a problem that is hampering the fulfillment of educational needs. child. This study aims to describe and explain the forms and factors that influence parental preferences in the future orientation of girls' education among fishing families in Muncar District, Banyuwangi Regency. This research chooses a qualitative approach with an ethnographic research type that aims to understand the indigenous people's point of view regarding the relationship with life, namely studying society and learning from society. Data collection techniques used participant observation, interviews, and document studies. The results of the research data obtained that preferences are divided into several forms, while the influencing factors are the family economy, community culture, and the mindset of parents. These forms and factors are collaborated with the concept of patriarchal culture.

scholarly journals PLANEJAMENTO URBANO EM GOIÂNIA: A câmera participante e um estudo pelas margens

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pedro Henrique Baima Paiva
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

ResumoEsse artigo procura apresentar o trabalho etnográfico realizado na Ocupação Jardim Botânico em Goiânia, conjunto de casas que surgiu há mais de 60 anos para abrigar famílias atraídas pela construção da cidade, a primeira capital do Brasil planejada no século XX, após o anúncio da realização de uma Operação Urbana Consorciada para a região. Por meio do olhar antropológico e da câmera participante, o material áudio visual produzido revelou memórias da construção da ocupação e a relação que as pessoas têm com os lugares.Palavras-chave: Antropologia do lugar. Políticas públicas. Memória. Planejamento urbano.URBAN PLANNING IN GOIÂNIA: The camera participat and a study by the marginsAbstractThis article tries to present the ethnography carried out in the Botanical Garden Occupation in Goiânia, set of houses that arose more than 60 years ago to house families attracted by the construction of the city, the first capital of the Brazil planned in the twentieth century, after the announcement of the accomplishment of a Consortium Urban Operation for the region. Through the anthropological look and participat camera, the audio visual material produced revealed memories of the construction of the occupation and the relationship that people have with places. Keywords: Anthropology of the place. Public policies. Memory. Urban planning.

Inka Pottery as Culinary Equipment: Food, Feasting, and Gender in Imperial State Design

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamara L. Bray
Keyword(s):  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Class Difference ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Politics And Gender ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Inka Empire ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Imperial State

AbstractIn this paper, the imperial Inka ceramic assemblage is examined in terms of its functional and culinary significance. Information culled from ethnohistoric sources, archaeological reports, and ethnographic studies is used to draw functional inferences about Inka vessel forms and to outline the features of an imperial “haute cuisine.” In the Inka empire, the relationship between rulers and subjects was largely mediated through the prestation of food and drink. The elaboration of a distinctive state vessel assemblage suggests a conscious strategy aimed at creating material symbols of class difference in the context of state-sponsored feasting events. An empire-wide analysis of the distribution of Inka vessels indicates the particular importance of the tallnecked jar form (aríbalo) to state strategies in the provinces. Analyzing Inka pottery as culinary equipment highlights the links among food, politics, and gender in the processes of state formation. Such an approach also illuminates the important role of women in the negotiation and consolidation of Inka state power.

Correlation of the summary method with learning styles

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 290-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Levent Sarikcioglu ◽  
Yesim Senol ◽  
Fatos B. Yildirim ◽  
Arzu Hizay
Keyword(s):  
Learning Styles ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Visual Material ◽  
Method Selection ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Video Demonstration

The summary is the last part of the lesson but one of the most important. We aimed to study the relationship between the preference of the summary method (video demonstration, question-answer, or brief review of slides) and learning styles. A total of 131 students were included in the present study. An inventory was prepared to understand the students' learning styles, and a satisfaction questionnaire was provided to determine the summary method selection. The questionnaire and inventory were collected and analyzed. A comparison of the data revealed that the summary method with video demonstration received the highest score among all the methods tested. Additionally, there were no significant differences between learning styles and summary method with video demonstration. We suggest that such a summary method should be incorporated into neuroanatomy lessons. Since anatomy has a large amount of visual material, we think that it is ideally suited for this summary method.

scholarly journals Available in Selected Metros Only: Rural Melancholy and the Promise of Online Connectivity

1970 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Gregg
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
New Media ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Social And Cultural Capital ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Civic Institutions

This article considers the benefits a cultural studies perspective can offer debates around rural and regional telecommunications provision. It begins with a critique of the metrocentrism dominant in recent scholarship of new media, arguing that academic, business and government discourses share progressivist assumptions in equating online connectivity with freedom. It highlights how the gap between the promotion of connectivity and actually existing infrastructure leads to an ontological resilience among rural residents who 'make do' with deferred promises of community and participation. The relationship this bears to the political subjectivities described in recent queer theory is briefly explored. The article develops to suggest that a parachute model of policy consultation privileges those in rural communities with the social and cultural capital to advance established interests – leaving the everyday lives of the majority of residents unrecognised. In encouraging ethnographic studies of technology use that spend time in rural locations, the paper concludes that the different priorities that drive country life – the prominence of environmental concerns, the importance of civic institutions, and above all, distance from the temporalities that dictate the terms for assessing political participation – offer important correctives to the ideologies of individualism and innovation that drive new media consumption.

Indexicalidad, gentrificación lingüística y desigualdad social en el proceso de estandarización del gallego

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (271) ◽  
pp. 167-194
Author(s):  
Montserrat Recalde
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Symbolic Violence ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Cultural Field ◽  
A Minor ◽  
Intellectual Elites ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Standardization Policy ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The aim of this paper is to show the relationship between indexicality, standardization policy and socioeconomic inequalities in the Galician linguistic field (as a minor language of Spain). I will examine the discursive role of Galician elites in the building of indexical orders from the Renaissance movement (19th century) onwards, and its links to the current negative representations of rural Galician. Also, I will explore the relationship between anti-rural prejudices, ideologies of class and standard ideologies, showing how common speakers share the stigmatizing indexical values of the elites, and rural speakers consent to the symbolic violence of which they are victims. Finally, I adapt the concept of gentrification from contemporary urbanism to the linguistic field in order to explain the impact of elitist academic lingualizing discourse on traditional speakers of Galician and also on the value of their varieties in the linguistic market. I support my analysis on the metalinguistic discourse of members of the intellectual elites authorized in the Galician linguistic and cultural field from Renaissance to contemporaneity, attitudinal matched-guise research, and ethnographic studies of the second millennium.

scholarly journals The Relation of Human Being and Environment in the Cultural Event of Laesan Performance

2021 ◽  
Vol 317 ◽  
pp. 01032
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Hasisah ◽  
Oktiva Herry Chandra
Keyword(s):  
Performing Arts ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Environmental Preservation ◽  
Traditional Art ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Song Lyrics ◽  
Communicative Actions ◽  
The Relationship

Laesan is a traditional art that comes from the word “laesun” which means “suwung” or empty. In the show, it tells the story of a human being from the womb to return to the grave which is told through a dance accompanied by songs according to the session. This study aims to describe the relationship between humans and elements of communication and communicative actions in the cultural event of laesan performance. This research applied a qualitative descriptive approach with ethnographic studies of communication. The research data were in the form of fragments of speech and actions involved in laesan performing arts. The research method was ethnographic and participatory. The results show that laesan art communication has a communication system related to the sequence of GASKENPI components. The forms of messages in laesan art are mantras and song lyrics. The act of communication in laesan art is divided into two: (1) the act of communication between laesan players and the empty atmosphere of the universe, (2) the act of communication between laesan players and the audience. These two forms of communication have functions related to environmental preservation which include the songs entitled Ella Ello, Bandhan, Luruo Sintren, and Santrine Dodol Gambir.

scholarly journals Negara dan Ilegalitas: Studi Kasus Perdagangan Burung di Wilayah Jakarta

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Indraini Hapsari ◽  
Semiarto Aji Purwanto
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Gold Mining ◽  
The State ◽  
Illegal Trade ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Illegal Activities ◽  
The Relationship

This article aims to analyze the relationship between state and illegality which taking place at the center, namely in Jakarta. The study becomes significant for examining how mechanisms and relations of non-state and state actors occur. Many ethnographic studies of illegal activities, such as gold mining, logging, and fishing show that such businesses take place on the periphery or border where the state has weak control over such places. Data is conducted by literature study and short field observations.Our case studies of illegal trade in the bird market in Jakarta will question the Weberian perspective which defines the state as a legal and rational institution that will always enforce control in its territory. In this article, we consider the state as a relational arena where it is possible for various actors, both non-state and state actors, to participate in illegal activities through contestations or collaboration to achieve their respective interests or goals. 

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