'Ideal Scheme' or 'Passing over the Rainbow': Transmission of the Georgian Cultural Identity among the Fereydani Gorjīs

2008 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamta Khalvashi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Identity Maintenance ◽  
Sense Of Identity

AbstractConceptualising Fereydani Georgians, who have lived in Iran for almost 400 years, I have always found myself asking how such groups manage to survive as groups at all and why these kinds of people strive to maintain their sense of identity or retain their cultural memory? I place the concept of identity at the heart of the analysis. Therefore, this article explores the main aspects of identity maintenance and transmission through the presentation of a number of ethnographic materials based on my own research among Fereydani repatriates now living in Tbilisi. I try to show how certain traditions, rituals, customs, etc. are transmitted from generation to generation in the place where the environment is not native, and how such cultural artefacts express the elements of identity.

scholarly journals National Identity Construction in Cultural and Creative Tourism: The Double Mediators of Implicit Cultural Memory and Explicit Cultural Learning

SAGE Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 215824402110407
Author(s):  
Shu-Ning Zhang ◽  
Wen-Qi Ruan ◽  
Ting-Ting Yang
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Interactive Effect ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Factors Affecting ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Chinese Tourists

In light of the gap in the national identity research, this study proposes, constructs, and examines the path to national identity by using a mixed-method approach. Study 1 collected 502 questionnaires from Chinese tourists, and Study 2 conducted semi-structured interviews with 15 tourists. The findings confirm that cultural and creative tourism contributes to the construction of tourists’ national identity. Tourists’ long-term implicit cultural memory and short-term explicit cultural learning are the double guarantees for forming tourists’ cultural identity. Importantly, tourists’ cultural identity plays a critical mediating role in promoting national identity. Moreover, the interactive effect of cultural experience and creative performance accelerates the construction process of tourists’ national identity. This study consolidates the sociopolitical significance of cultural and creative tourism for national identity through a rare mixed method and identifies the specific role of the cultural factors affecting national identity, thereby providing great theoretical contributions and practical value.

(Re)visiting spaces of home: German heimat tourists 'returning' to Timisoara, Romania.

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-47
Author(s):  
Andrea Bieber ◽  
Werner Gilde ◽  
Desmond Wee
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Tourist Gaze ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Sense Of Identity ◽  
Tourist Flow

Abstract This chapter explores the diaspora of the Banat Swabian culture, their sense of identity in Germany, and their relation to 'Heimat tourism' through the perception of place in Timisoara in the region of the Banat, Romania. It enables understanding of the impacts of Heimat tourism and the implications for consumer behaviour in the visitor economy and also investigates place-making processes and the (re)creation of destination spaces through experience and narratives. This chapter aims to illustrate how cultural identity, tourist flow, and the perception of place contribute towards the making of heimat, to show how places that are both real and imagined at the same time reinforce a particular tourist gaze and examine how such tourist imaginaries create a 'Heimat tourism' that fosters a hermeneutic cycle perpetuating new meanings of self.

scholarly journals The Monumental Configuration of Athenian Temporality: Space, Identity and Mnemonic Trajectories of the Periklean Building Programme

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 20-45
Author(s):  
Ben Stanley Cassell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Persian Wars ◽  
Spatio Temporal

This paper intends to illustrate the monuments of the Periklean building programme as embodying acts of temporal configuration; organizing synoptic episodes into an ethno-cultural continuum. A required element to this process is the issue of space, both in its experienced and imagined aspects, as the framework by which temporality is fixed and recounted. By viewing the monuments and accompanying iconography as spatio-temporal configurations, we can see the generation of those elements necessary for the formation of cultural identity via memory. This includes the provision of axial points in time, set in space and wider temporal chronologies, and the election of totemic, and semioticized personages. Moreover, as the configurative action is both framed and informed by its enunciative context, the monuments indicate the promotion of biographical memory, as relating to the Persian Wars, into the register of Athenian cultural memory and temporality.

scholarly journals KONSTRUKSI INGATAN BUDAYA DAN IDENTITAS PAHLAWAN NASIONAL DALAM KARYA SASTRA SEBAGAI BUDAYA MATERIAL (The Construction of Cultural Memory and Identity of National Heroes in Literary Works as Material Culture)

Sirok Bastra ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Cut Novita Srikandi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Memory Representation ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
National Hero ◽  
Historical Photographs

AbstrakKajian tentang ingatan budaya menekankan bahwa ingatan kita ternyata sangat selektif. Ingatan budaya dapat dikomunikasikan melalui media tertentu. Media-media tersebut dapat berupa bentuk budaya material yang paling dasar misalnya pidato lisan, cerita kakek tentang masa lalu, dan dapat pula berupa budaya material yang biasanya memiliki wujud dan beroperasi melalui sistem simbolik seperti monumen, foto sejarah, lukisan, film dokumenter, novel historis, dan bangunan-bangunan sejarah. Dengan demikian, karya sastra dapat ditempatkan sebagai salah satu budaya material. Mengingat eratnya keterkaitan ingatan budaya dengan budaya material, tulisan ini berupaya mengungkap bagaimana budaya material dan pembentukan ingatan budaya dapat menjadi kajian yang menarik dalam penelitian sastra. Tulisan ini mengungkap bagaimana representasi ingatan budaya tokoh pahlawan nasional di dalam berbagai budaya material, termasuk karya sastra. Representasi ini terkait dengan identitas budaya tokoh pahlawan nasional tersebut yang menjadi bagian dari ingatan budaya masyarakat Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapatnya perbedaan yang cukup siginfikan dalam representasi tokoh pahlawan nasional dalam masing-masing budaya material, terkait identitas budaya yang dihadirkan. Dengan demikian, dapat disimpulkan bahwa ‘cara mengingat’ mempengaruhi pembentukan budaya material termasuk karya sastra dan identitas budaya terhadap tokoh pahlawan nasional yang pernah hidup di suatu masa.Kata kunci: budaya material, ingatan budaya, penelitian sastra sejarah, konstruksi identitas AbstractThe focus of cultural memory studies emphasizes on our selective memory. Cultural memory would be communicated by certain media. These media can These media can be the most basic forms of material culture such as oral speech, grandfather's story about the past, and can also be a material culture that usually has a form and operates through a symbolic system such as monuments, historical photographs, paintings, documentaries, historical novels, and historical buildings. Thus, literary works can be placed as one of material culture. Considering the close relationship between cultural memories and material culture, this paper seeks to reveal how material culture and the formation of cultural memories can be interesting studies in literary research. This paper will reveal how the cultural memory representation of national hero figures in various material cultures, including literary works. This representation is related to the cultural identity of the national hero who takes part of the cultural memories of the Indonesian people. The results showed that there were significant differences in the representation of national hero figures in each material culture, related to the cultural identity presented. Thus, it can be concluded that the 'way of remembering' influences the formation of material culture including literary works and cultural identity of national hero figures who have lived at a time.Keywords: material culture, cultural memory, the research of historical literature, identity construction

scholarly journals Representations of suppressed indigenous cultural memories: the communities of Sami of Finland and Kurdish of Turkey

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Adél Furu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Songs ◽  
State Interventions

In my paper I intend to examine how the historical marginalization of Sami and Kurdish history and culture affects the cultural identity of these ethnic groups. I discuss how recent political discourses and state interventions have influenced the images of the past and identity politics in the Sami communities living in Finland and in the Kurdish society living in Turkey. Furthermore, I describe how these assimilated minorities have alienated from their own identity due to a damage of their collective memory caused by devastating historical events. The paper also focuses on the ways these two minorities give meaning to the past and strengthen their cultural identities through different forms of art. Both Samis and Kurds express their identities in several creative ways. Their historical realities, individual histories, memories of assimilation and common values are reflected in joiks, folk music and cinema. These are strong ways of remembering and expressions of identity in both cultures. Traditional songs, films, documentaries reveal histories, reproduce cultures and shape the memories of both Sami and Kurdish people. Therefore, I will discuss how the patterns of their cultural memory have an impact on the representation of their identities in the above art forms.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Roman Religion ◽  
Memory Theory ◽  
Religious Ritual ◽  
The Past ◽  
Roman Historiography ◽  
Religious Material ◽  
Exact Repetition

The Introduction contextualizes the study in terms of existing scholarship on Tacitus, cultural memory theory, and the study of Roman religion. Roman paganism, with its emphasis on exact repetition of rituals as they have been performed for centuries, is particularly fruitful when analyzed using cultural memory theory as developed by scholars such as Jan Assmann, Maurice Halbwachs, and Pierre Nora: religious ritual is viewed as a key component in any society’s efforts to create a lived version of the past that helps define cultural identity in the present. Tacitus’ own background as a quindecimvir, one of the most important priestly colleges in the Roman state cult, as well as the conventions surrounding the treatment of religion in Roman historiography, are likely to have informed his interest in religious material.

scholarly journals Heart of Darkness – Heart of Redness: Heartache and Pain in two Commonwealth Novels

Linguaculture ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana-Maria Ştefan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Culture Shock ◽  
Postcolonial Literature ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Meanings ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
Anthropology Of The Body ◽  
Postmodern Novel

Abstract Our study is conceived as a comparative analysis of Zakes Mda’s postcolonial and postmodern novel The Heart of Redness and Joseph Conrad’s canonical and colonial novella Heart of Darkness, from the viewpoint of a literarily encoded anthropology of the body. In both texts, body marks and body pain are prominent and recurrent motives, carrying along important cultural meanings, related to several classic themes of colonial and postcolonial literature: the birth and becoming of cultural identity and awareness, culture shock, cultural contacts, enculturation versus deculturation, and cultural memory, as a vehicle and repository of myths, history and (body) image stereotypes.

scholarly journals PUBLIC TELEVISION AND THE RETURN TO SOCIALIST YUGOSLAVIA: MEDIATIZED CULTURAL MEMORY AMONG POST-SOCIALIST GENERATIONS

2021 ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Nataša Simeunović Bajić ◽  
Marija Vujović
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Sacred Space ◽  
Temporal Distance ◽  
One Dimension ◽  
Public Television ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Cult Television

This paper deals with four significant concepts and discourses in contemporary Serbian post-socialist culture: sacred space, cultural memory, mediatization and Yugoslavia. A cursory look at the contradictions of Yugoslav history and politics implies a broadening of the research perspectives and themes. Unfinished debates about positive and negative aspects of socialist Yugoslavia provide an opportunity to rethink television heritage and cultural memory from a temporal distance. Here, we will discuss one dimension of memorized sacred space: TV reruns on public television in Serbia. Particularly, the research focus is on TV series as authentic TV genre and cult television. The paper shows that a large number of reruns of Yugoslav TV series on public television contributes to the maintaining of cultural memory among post-socialist generations and construction of the distinctiveness of the local cultural identity.

scholarly journals IL CONFLITTO TRA INDIVIDUO E SISTEMA: VERSO LA COSTRUZIONE DELLA NUOVA IDENTITÀ CULTURALE NEL ROMANZO „I GRANDI OCCHI DEL MARE” DI LEONARD GUACI

2017 ◽  
pp. 177-193
Author(s):  
Karol Karp
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Hannah Arendt ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Homi Bhabha ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Sense Of Identity

The aim of the article is to analyse the theme of cultural identity in the novel „I grandi occhi del mare” by Leonard Guaci. Starting from Gioia di Cristofaro Longo’s theoretical assumptions concerning the connection between identity and culture, we stress the influence of Italian culture on the sense of identity felt by the characters who represent Albanians living in the period of Enver Hoxha’s communist dictatorship. The analysis also draws on the theories of scholars such us Hannah Arendt, Homi Bhabha, Dominique Chancé, Giovanni Marchetti, Nora Moll.  

scholarly journals Performing Arts and BarkaNaach of Dangaura Tharus as Folk Drama

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Megh Prasad Kharel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Musical Instruments ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Multiple Features ◽  
The Past ◽  
Rural Farmers ◽  
Folk Drama ◽  
Basic Features

This article examines different elements of folk drama in the BarkaNaach of Dangaura Tharus. It attempts to present the multiple features of the folk drama in the folk community. Based on the basic features of vernacular theatre, the study spotlights the key dramatic elements like ritual rule, context, narrative, stage and setting, characters and semiotic implication, song, dance and language as well as musical instruments and costumes in the presentation of BarkaNaach. The analysis of such drama in the light of elementary facet underlines the multiple sides of folklore as it embodies the cultural identity and value of Tharus. In doing so, I also argue that its theatrical aspects like plot and storyline are not unfamiliar to the rural farmers. Consequently, the study concludes that ritualistic performance of folk drama does not bring the unexpected happening, but it is repeated with their routinized act of cultural memory whatever performed in the past days of the ancestral force.

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