scholarly journals Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (33) ◽  
pp. eabg4141
Author(s):  
Benjamin Pitt ◽  
Stephen Ferrigno ◽  
Jessica F. Cantlon ◽  
Daniel Casasanto ◽  
Edward Gibson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Directional Bias ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Spatial Axis

In industrialized groups, adults implicitly map numbers, time, and size onto space according to cultural practices like reading and counting (e.g., from left to right). Here, we tested the mental mappings of the Tsimane’, an indigenous population with few such cultural practices. Tsimane’ adults spatially arranged number, size, and time stimuli according to their relative magnitudes but showed no directional bias for any domain on any spatial axis; different mappings went in different directions, even in the same participant. These findings challenge claims that people have an innate left-to-right mapping of numbers and that these mappings arise from a domain-general magnitude system. Rather, the direction-specific mappings found in industrialized cultures may originate from direction-agnostic mappings that reflect the correlational structure of the natural world.

scholarly journals Spatial concepts of number, size, and time in an indigenous culture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Pitt ◽  
Stephen Ferrigno ◽  
Jessica Cantlon ◽  
Daniel Casasanto ◽  
Edward Gibson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Directional Bias ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Spatial Axis

In industrialized groups, adults implicitly map numbers, time, and size onto space according to cultural practices like reading and counting (e.g. from left to right). Here we tested the mental mappings of the Tsimane’, an indigenous population with few such cultural practices. Tsimane’ adults spatially arranged number, size, and time stimuli according to their relative magnitudes but showed no directional bias for any domain on any spatial axis; different mappings went in different directions, even in the same participant. These findings challenge claims that people have an innate left-to-right mapping of numbers and that such mappings arise from a domain-general magnitude system. Rather, the direction-specific mappings found in industrialized cultures may originate from direction-agnostic mappings that reflect the correlational structure of the natural world.

Culture-specific ideologies undermine collective action support: Examining the legitimizing effects of postcolonial belief systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 333-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danny Osborne ◽  
Kumar Yogeeswaran ◽  
Chris G. Sibley
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Lagged Effects ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Sociohistorical Context ◽  
Past Injustices

Ideologies can legitimate inequality and undermine collective action. Yet research overlooks the effects culture-specific ideologies—ideologies that develop within a specific sociohistorical context—have on collective action support. We address this oversight by arguing that two culture-specific ideologies that deny the contemporary relevance of past injustices (historical negation) and reject Indigenous culture from the nation’s identity (symbolic exclusion) undermine support for collective action on behalf of the disadvantaged (namely, Māori—New Zealand’s Indigenous population). As predicted, historical negation and symbolic exclusion had independent negative cross-lagged effects on collective action support amongst Māori ( N = 561) and New Zealand European ( N = 4,104) participants. The cross-lagged effects of collective action support on historical negation and symbolic exclusion, however, were nonsignificant. Thus, the relationships these culture-specific ideologies have with collective action support are unidirectional. Our results highlight the need to incorporate culture-specific ideologies into models of collective action.

scholarly journals TRANSFORMATION OF INDIGENOUS CULTURE: and its influence on health in the face of the COVID pandemic 19

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. a7en
Author(s):  
Eduardo Romprê Xerente ◽  
Klecius Eufrasio Xavier ◽  
Adriane Feitosa Valadares ◽  
Yusely Capote Sanches Sanches ◽  
Ana Kleiber Pessoa Borges
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Diseases ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Scientific Literature ◽  
White Men ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Inclusion Criteria ◽  
The Face

The objective of this study was to analyze in the scientific literature the influence of the cultural transformation of the indigenous population and its influence on health in the face of the COVID 19 pandemic. A bibliographic survey was carried out on the Virtual Health Library (VHL) website, using the descriptors: “culture in health ”AND“ indigenous population ”AND“ COVID 19 pandemic ”. 13 articles were selected that met the inclusion criteria. From the studies analyzed, it was noted that indigenous peoples suffer a lot of cultural and health influences from the surrounding society, due to the intense contact with white men. Thus, the emergence of diseases until then did not exist among them: parasitic, pulmonary infectious diseases (tuberculosis, pneumonia, flu), STI / AIDS and COVID 19.

Making the “Modern” Destination, 1900–1934

2018 ◽  
pp. 16-44
Author(s):  
Mark Rice
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Global Level ◽  
National State ◽  
Local Elites ◽  
Utopian Vision ◽  
Machu Picchu

The chapter begins with the famous Hiram Bingham-led expeditions to Machu Picchu. Although Bingham brought attention to Machu Picchu, his controversial actions and hasty departure from Peru in 1915 meant that Machu Picchu remained largely ignored on the national and global level. However, local elites contributed to the rehabilitation of Machu Picchu as part of their efforts to promote regional folkloric identity, better known as indigenismo. This emphasized Cusco’s modernity and embraced a utopian vision of the Inca past. However, tourism downplayed the contemporary demands of Cusco’s large exploited indigenous population. By the 1930s, these efforts had begun to sway the national state to embrace their interpretation of indigenous culture.

scholarly journals CULTURE AND THE MODERN INDIVIDUAL IN JUDE DIBIA’S A LIFE IN FULL AND MOLARA WOOD’S INDIGO

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Onwukah B. ORJI- MBA ◽  
Joy I. NWIYI
Keyword(s):  
Short Stories ◽  
Young People ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Foreign Culture ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Individual

The modern individual in Nigeria, a creation of western education and culture, is constantly in a struggle with the hegemonic indigenous culture, causing him/her to grapple with the prescriptions of the western lifestyle and the stringent demands of Nigerian culture. Jude Dibia‟s “A Life in Full” and Molara Wood‟s “Indigo” contain ancient and modern cultural practices and the challenges they present to the educated young people, whose exposure to foreign culture and education intensifies their struggle with the status quo. This paper uses the postmodernist argument to examine this conflict between the centre (indigenous culture) and the periphery (the modern individual), as the latter is on a mission to decentre Culture in order to establish itself as a centred subject in the two short stories. It analyses the psychological struggle by the educated Nigerians to challenge the grand narratives of culture. The paper reveals that, whereas in “A Life in Full” the individual topples the centre, in “Indigo” it is the hegemonic centre that overwhelms and suppresses the educated individual. The paper concludes that the educated Nigerian is constantly in a conflict between Self and Other from which s/he emerges redefined.

scholarly journals Arctic Indigenous Societal Security at COP21: The Divergence of Security Discourse and Instruments in Climate Negotiations

Politik ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Herrmann
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Policy Support ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Climate Mitigation ◽  
Indigenous Culture ◽  
Climate Negotiations ◽  
Mitigation And Adaptation ◽  
Security Discourse

In UN climate change conferences, there exists a disconnect between the space for and use of Arctic cultural heritage as a catalyst for action and parallel international legal and financial support for climate adaptation and mitigation in the North. This article aims to unpack this divergence of creating a space for societal security discourse and producing tangible climate commitments to Arctic Indigenous peoples in UN climate negotiations. The article surveys and explores visual and textual narratives pertaining to Arctic heritage at COP21 focusing on regional Indigenous political organizations and representatives. It contends both that societal security is to maintain Arctic indigenous culture in its traditional state from changes in the climate and that societal security is to protect indigenous culture from harm or destruction while allowing it to live, change and develop in its own accord to assist with climate mitigation and adaptation actions. The article then turns to the resulting Paris Agreement and Paris Road Map to survey specific legal, financial, and policy support mechanisms for Arctic Indigenous peoples. The article argues that the space for and use of Arctic Indigenous societal security discourses at COP21 are uneven with the resulting global policy initiatives, and do not adequately support the security of current cultural practices and heritage in the Arctic.

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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