Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-52
Author(s):  
Brahma Prakash
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Uncanny ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
A Performance

The introduction foregrounds the field of study and introduces the concepts and specific contexts in which the study is undertaken. It problematizes the existing binaries that remain between culture and labour and uncovers the uncanny relationship between them. The chapter asks what happens to culture and labour in their affective and performative turn, especially in ‘folk’ performances in India when labour becomes a performance, performance becomes labour. The irreducibility of such practices to culture or labour demands the formulation of some other category, and I designate it as cultural labour. Cultural labour is the core of the folk performance in South Asia and therefore the chapter argues that it can also work as a framework to study the performance cultures of subaltern communities. The chapter also discusses research method and methodology and introduces the five performances which have been undertaken in this work.

scholarly journals Developing Entrepreneurial Spirit Based on Local Wisdom

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 44
Author(s):  
Muhamad Ahsan ◽  
Armanu Thoyib ◽  
Achmad Sudiro ◽  
Nur Khusniyah Indrawati
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Practical Implication ◽  
Group Discussion ◽  
Boarding School ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
The Core ◽  
Entrepreneurial Spirit ◽  
Local Setting ◽  
Autonomous Institution

<p>The purpose of this paper is to explore of entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> (Islamic Boarding School) Sunan Drajat which led by Kyai Abdul Ghofur in local setting one of Islamic propagator legends in Indonesia, Sunan Drajat. The research method used ethnography approach. The techniques of collecting data used were participant observation, interview and focus group discussion. Techniques of analyzing data used were content analysis of interview, domain analysis, taxonomy analysis, component analysis and finding culture themes. The findings are entrepreneurial spirit development at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat has been inspired by <em>catur</em><em> </em><em>piwulang</em> philosophy as the core in giving spirit to the students and local communities. The entrepreneurial spirit development has produced a distinctive model in preparing Islamic entrepreneur generations for the future. As practical implication, the findings can be used as reference to develop entrepreneurial development especially at <em>pesantren</em> in Indonesia. The model also can be used to motivate another <em>pesantren</em> to develop an institution through the local economic based activities to become autonomous institution and not depend on other parties. Originality of this research is to reveal the leadership role and local wisdom in developing entrepreneurial spirit at the <em>Pesantren</em> Sunan Drajat and the community surrounding.</p>

Introduction

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Ling ◽  
Lorraine Ling
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Education Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Related Field ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Research Paradigms ◽  
The Social ◽  
Pragmatic Research

The title of this book refers to both methods and paradigms in education research. Both are addressed, but this book is distinguished from others in that the research paradigm, rather than choice of research method, is placed front of stage. The related field of study is education. The study of education intertwines with a range of disciplines in the social sciences so the research issues arising have implications beyond the education context. The research paradigms addressed in this book include the traditional positivist and post-positivist—here labelled neo-positivist—paradigms. The interpretivist, transformative and pragmatic research paradigms, which have also been nominated in existing literature, are included. A novel supercomplexity paradigm has been added here in acknowledgement of the “supercomplex” environment (Barnett, 2000a) in which education research now operates. Following chapters explore issues relating to the design, implementation and critique of education research in the light of this understanding of research paradigms.

scholarly journals Adhiyajña: Towards a Performance Grammar of the Vedas

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Smith
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Religious Literature ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Performance Context ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Self Reference ◽  
A Performance

Recent scholarship has challenged the anachronistic projection of the modern category of the poem onto premodern texts. This article attempts to theorize how one might construct an alternative to modern conceptualizations of “the poem” that more closely appropriates the conceptualization of textuality in the Rigveda, an anthology of 1028 sūktas “well-spoken (texts)” that represents the oldest religious literature in South Asia. In order to understand what these texts are and what they were expected to do, this article examines the techniques by which the Rigveda refers to itself, to its performer, to its audience, and to the occasion of its performance. In so doing, this article theorizes a “performance grammar” comprising three axes of textual self-reference (spatial, temporal, and personal); these axes of reference constitute a scene of performance populated by rhetorically constructed speakers and listeners. This performance narrative, called here the adhiyajña level, frames the mythological narratives of the text. By examining the relationship between mythological narrative and performance narrative, we can better understand the purpose of performing a text and thus what kind of an entity Rigvedic “texts” really are. While this article proposes a rubric specifically for the Rigvedic context, its principles can be adapted to other premodern texts in order to better understand the performance context they presuppose.

scholarly journals The Design of Eman, an Experiment Manager

2013 ◽  
Vol 99 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ondřej Bojar ◽  
Aleš Tamchyna
Keyword(s):  
Machine Translation ◽  
Command Line ◽  
Tips And Tricks ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Core ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Experiment Management ◽  
Computational Research ◽  
The Many ◽  
High Level

Abstract We present eman, a tool for managing large numbers of computational experiments. Over the years of our research in machine translation (MT), we have collected a couple of ideas for efficient experimenting. We believe these ideas are generally applicable in (computational) research of any field. We incorporated them into eman in order to make them available in a command-line Unix environment. The aim of this article is to highlight the core of the many ideas. We hope the text can serve as a collection of experiment management tips and tricks for anyone, regardless their field of study or computer platform they use. The specific examples we provide in eman’s current syntax are less important but they allow us to use concrete terms. The article thus also fills the gap in eman documentation by providing some high-level overview.

NEWSPAPER PHOTOGRAPHS’ INFLUENCE ON MADE IN NIGERIA PRODUCTS PATRONAGE IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 171-184
Author(s):  
Owuamalam Emman-Owums ◽  
Chizoba P. Okonkwo ◽  
Stanley U. Ugboaja
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Anambra State ◽  
Mental Picture ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Core ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Made In

Pictures they say worth more than a thousand words. Photographs have gained a worldwide acceptance in terms of its usage in newspapers to stimulate the sales of goods and services based on its immense prowess to establish a mental picture in the mind of readers. This study examines newspaper photographs influence on made-in-Nigeria products patronage in Anambra State. The uses and gratifications theory was adopted as the core theoretical framework for this study. The study adopted survey research method with four hundred copies of questionnaire administered to respond-ents across five major cities in Anambra State. The study found that the regular usage of photographs on made-in-Nigeria product campaign by the newspapers have prompted many people to patronize locally made products. Therefore, this study rec-ommends that the use of photographs on made-in-Nigeria products’ campaign should be integrated or replicated on the various newspapers online platforms since majority of the respondents chose online, as their ideal source of accessing newspapers. Also, the study recommends that the federal government should ensure that the newspapers are constantly presenting pictures of quality made-in-Nigeria goods, so that readers’ will inadvertently get to associate these goods with quality and reliability.

Remapping Genre through Performance: From “American” to “Hemispheric” Studies

PMLA ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 122 (5) ◽  
pp. 1416-1430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Hemispheric Studies ◽  
Sports Events ◽  
Dance Theater ◽  
Theater Music ◽  
Disciplinary Field ◽  
A Performance

Performance as a genre allows for alternative mappings, providing a set of strategies and conventions that allow scholars to see practices that scripted genres might occlude. Like other genres, performance encompasses a broad range of rehearsed and codified behaviors, such as dance, theater, music recitals, sports events, and rituals. A performance lens allows scholars to look at acts, things, and ideas as performance. Looking at America as performance might explain why it is difficult to approach it as a disciplinary field of study. What might the shift in genres—from the scripted genres associated with the archive to the live, embodied behaviors that are the repertoire of cultural practices—enable? This essay proposes that an analysis of the performance of America might allow scholars to rethink not only their object of analysis but also their scholarly interactions.

scholarly journals Analisis Penerimaan Core Banking System Berbasis Technology Readiness an Acceptance Model pada BPRS Bangun Drajat Warga di DIY (Analysis of Acceptance of Banking System Based on Technology Readiness and Acceptance Model in BPRS Bangun Drajat Warga at DIY)

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Sindu Rifai ◽  
Salamatun Asakdiyah ◽  
Rai Rake Setyawan
Keyword(s):  
Significant Influence ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Banking System ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Technology Readiness ◽  
The Core ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Acceptance Model ◽  
Survey Approach ◽  
Special Region

The purpose of this study is to analyze the acceptance of the core banking system based on technology readiness and acceptance model on Bank Pembiayaan Rakyat Syariah Bangun Drajat Warga in the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Constructions used are optimism, innovativeness, discomfort, insecurity, easy of use and usefulness. This research method uses quantitative with a survey approach. The results of the study show that constructs of optimism and discomfort have a positive and significant effect on the perception of benefits and convenience in using the Core Banking System. The innovativeness construct has a positive and significant effect on the perception of the benefits of the core banking system, but for users, it has a negative effect and does not significantly influence the perception of ease of use of the Core Banking System. Insecurity, easy of use and usefulness constructs shows that there is no positive and significant influence on the perception of benefits and convenience in using the Core Banking System. 

scholarly journals Traditions of transgressive sacrality (against blasphemy) in Hinduism

1970 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 1-162
Author(s):  
Claus Peter Zoller
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Early History ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
North India ◽  
Historical Contingency ◽  
The Core ◽  
Linguistic History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
Abrahamic Religions

The following essay pursues the question whether a possible non-singular immigration-encounter-event between speakers of dialects of Indo-Aryan and (as maintained in this essay) speakers of dialects of Austro-Asiatic (mostly Munda) have not only left marks in the linguistic history of Indo-Aryan (analyzed in Zoller forthcoming), but also in the cultural and political history of North India. My argumentation will follow several lines of nested arguments, but the most general is this: Whereas in the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam a combination of proclivity for expansionism plus proclivity for religious violence have led to a virtual eradication or at least a subjugation of infidel traditions in the core areas of their religious/political powers (i.e. Europe and Middle East), this venture was less successful in case of South Asia. Thus the most salient aspect of this historical contingency is the fact that cultural historians – but also historical linguists – can see much deeper and much more unimpeded into the prehistory and early history both of the Indo-Aryan and the non-Indo-Aryan (= mainly Austro-Asiatic) North Indian world. The opposition between Abrahamic monotheists and Hindu ‘infidels’ manifests also in the contrast between the topics of blasphemy and transgressive sacrality. The former is typically associated with Abrahamic religions, whereas there is an abundance and great variety of examples of transgressive sacrality in Hinduism.

scholarly journals Emotional Engineering

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Chris Byrne
Keyword(s):  
Field Of Study ◽  
The Core ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
Intellectual Level ◽  
Emotional Landscape

I want to talk about emotions. Well, I don’t really want to. Frankly, not having to deal with emotions was one of the attributes of engineering that attracted me to this field of study.  I liked keeping interactions on an intellectual level. Answers to Math and Physics homework sets were cut and dried and the odd numbered ones could be found in the back of the book. There was security in knowing the right answer. However, despite the promise of clarity, even as an engineer, I found questions finding their way in, or their way out, questions that were rooted in my emotional landscape. Is this all there is? What do I want my life to be about? How am I making the world a better place by the work that I do? These weren’t academic questions for me; they were soul searching questions that challenged the core of my identity. Could I be an engineer and be whole, whatever that might mean? I’m proud of the work I have done to become an engineer, but there is something missing.

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