The Resilience of the Captive Girl Child in 2 Kings 5

2021 ◽  
pp. 030908922096342
Author(s):  
Paba Nidhani De Andrado
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
Trauma Victim ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Contrasting View ◽  
Single Statement

2 Kings 5 contains a brief reference to an unnamed Israelite girl, a war captive in the household of leprosy-afflicted Naaman, the commander of the Syrian army. She instigates her master’s healing by recommending that he seek out the prophet (Elisha). Although the girl utters only a single statement (2 Kgs 5.3), her words have been subject to divergent critical interpretations. Some scholars valorize her utterance as evidence of her faith, compassion, and courage. A contrasting view maintains that as a trauma victim whose sufferings have been glossed over, the girl’s words express her adaptation to an abusive environment. This study posits an alternative interpretation, by drawing upon research on the concept of resilience with regard to war-affected children. While acknowledging the girl’s trauma, this article argues that her words reflect a resilience-building process by affirming her cultural identity, values, and beliefs.

The Controversial Cultural Identity of Japanese Philosophy

2017 ◽  
pp. 754-780
Author(s):  
Yoko Arisaka
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
New World ◽  
World Order ◽  
Cultural Nationalism ◽  
Alternative Interpretation ◽  
First Person ◽  
New World Order ◽  
Japanese Imperialism ◽  
Contemporary Context

This chapter discusses controversies surrounding the cultural identity of Japanese philosophy. Often presented as offering the first “non-Western universalism” over against Eurocentrism, authors have struggled to establish its distinctness, and this endeavor has been mired in questions of essentialism, Japanese imperialism, and cultural nationalism. The exemplary case of Nishida Kitarō’s New World Order essay is examined, and issues surrounding the identity of Japanese philosophy are analyzed historically as well as in the contemporary context of global neo-colonialism. The last section offers an alternative interpretation of Nishida, by way of a first-person approach, in order to produce an existential critical theory aiming at a “decolonized world order.”

scholarly journals Brincadeira do reisado na modernidade – identidade cultural que navega entre resistência e transformação * The revel of ‘reisado’ in modernity – cultural identity that navigates between resistance and transformation

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
LUCIANO DE MELO SOUSA
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Building Process

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> O artigo analisa o reisado da comunidade Cipó de Baixo a partir do dinamismo cultural que movimenta as construções de identidades na modernidade. Individualidade, planejamento, mercantilização e a transformação de tradições culturais em folclore são elementos tomados para analisar as mediações entre a brincadeira do reisado e a modernidade. Entende-se que as práticas culturais tracionais, necessariamente, dialogam com as possibilidades colocadas pela sociedade moderna num processo construtor de novas identidades culturais.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Reisado – Dinamismo cultural – Modernidade.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> The article analyzes the Cipó do Baixo community ‘reisado’ from cultural dynamism that drives the construction of identities in modernity. Individuality, planning, commodification and transformation of cultural traditions in folklore are elements taken to analyze the mediations between the revel of ‘Reisado’ and modernity. It is understood that traditional cultural practices necessarily dialogue with the possibilities posed by modern society in a building process of new cultural identities.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Reisado – Cultural dynamism – Modernity.</p>

scholarly journals CONSTRUCTION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY OF VAQUEIRO IN ‘O SERTANEJO’ [THE BACKLANDS] OF JOSÉ DE ALENCAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-147
Author(s):  
Lucas Andrade de Morais
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Jose De Alencar

The representation of sertanejo man in literature is presented through traditions, values and beliefs constructed in that space, in this process we have vaqueiro as a genuine "sertanejo", because it allows interiorization of northeast, appearing the sertão. Therefore, this article aims to identify how cultural identity of vaqueiro is constructed in regionalist project of Alencariano. In the discussion it used as theoretical contributions about socio-historical context of vaqueiro and the vaquejada in Cascudo (2008) and Magalhães (1970), identity culture in Hall (2006), culture and popular culture in Ayala & Ayala (1987), Santos (1992), Bosi (1992) and Bauman (2001) and sertanist literature in Sodré (1964) and Bosi (1994). The corpus of research is literary work 'O sertanejo' [The Backlands] (1875) by José de Alencar. The results showed construction of cultural identity of vaqueiro in Alencarian literature has physical, socio-affective and symbolic elements are marks of identity of vaqueiro and can be resignified, adapting to new social relations and cultural contexts.

scholarly journals Collective memory and cultural identity

Ethnologies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giorgia Foscarini
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Fourth Generation ◽  
National Narrative ◽  
The Third ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Preliminary Account ◽  
Integrated Or ◽  
Historical Past ◽  
Over Time

The main aim of this article is to provide a preliminary account of the results of my fieldwork research on the identities and memories of the third and fourth generation of Israelis of Ashkenazi and Mizrahi descent, in particular of Polish and Tunisian origin. The issues I will focus on are: “how have third- and fourth-generation Israeli identities been built over time and space?”, and: “how does the current generation of young Israelis relate to their Polish and Tunisian cultural heritage, if at all, in the attempt at understanding and building their present identity?”. The influence of Israel’s historical past and of its migrant memories will be analyzed in relation to the identity-building process of both groups, and to how these memories were integrated, or not, in the Israeli national narrative.

Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugenio M. Rothe ◽  
Andres J. Pumariega
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Identity Formation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
Case Examples ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Immigrant Narrative ◽  
American Children ◽  
Immigrant And Refugee

Immigration, Cultural Identity, and Mental Health is a unique book because it explains culture and identity from a developmental perspective, exploring the psychological, social, and biological aspects of the immigrant and refugee experience in the United States and how they help to shape the person’s cultural identity. It also covers the sociological, anthropological, political, and economic aspects of the immigrant experience and how these variables impact mental health, thus presenting the experience of migration and acculturation from a very broad and humanistic perspective, illustrated with multiple real-life case examples. The book explains how a broader access to travel and new communication technologies are responsible for the rapid global dissemination of cultural norms, values, and beliefs across national borders, facilitating a process of inter-culturation, in which both the new arrivals and members of the host culture are influenced and transformed by their interactions with one another and how American children, adolescents and young adults are at the forefront of such new multicultural identity formation. It describes the emergence of transnational identities, the meaning of pilgrimages, the experiences of return migrations and the importance of the American narrative, which is at its core, an immigrant narrative. This is a book about the American identity and how immigrants have been absorbed into American society and how they continue to enlarge and transform America and the cultural identities of its inhabitants.

scholarly journals Mia Couto: viajante e afinador de identidades

Navegações ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Orquidea Maria Moreira Ribeiro ◽  
Fernando Alberto Torres Moreira
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
New Work ◽  
Ancestral Knowledge ◽  
Building Process ◽  
Time Traveler ◽  
Identity Elements

A identidade cultural moçambicana forja-se pela força do diálogo e da articulação funcional de diferentes identidades. Neste particular, a obra de Mia Couto destaca-se pelo modo único como congrega a riqueza desse mecanismo, afirmando-se como um interlocutor original no processo de construção da identidade nacional para o qual concorrem diversos elementos identitários que formam a especificidade moçambicana no conjunto da africanidade. Viajante do tempo, Mia Couto faz a história (e a identidade) moçambicana pela soma de um enorme conjunto de estórias, marca de um conhecimento ancestral que se revela necessário para a construção de um novo paradigma identitário – uma identidade que se constrói no compromisso entre o passado e o presente – que o autor vai afinando em cada nova obra porque se reconhece como “mulato de existências” que anseia pela esperança do futuro.********************************************************************Mia Couto: traveler and tuner of identitiesAbstract: Mozambique's cultural identity is forged by the force of dialogue and functional articulation of different identities. In this regard, Mia Couto’s work is distinguished by the unique way he brings together the wealth of this mechanism, asserting itself as an original party in the national identity building process to which many identity elements contribute to form the Mozambican specificity in set of Africanness. Time traveler, Mia Couto makes Mozambican history (and identity) summing up a huge set of stories, marks of an ancestral knowledge that proves necessary for the construction of a new identity paradigm – an identity that is built on a compromise between past and present – that the author tunes in each new work because he is recognized as "mulatto of existences" that yearns for future hope.Keywords: Mozambique; Mia Couto; Identity; Tradition; Hybridity 

From Policy to Practice: Reflections on working across cultural borders in tertiary education

2004 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Fran Richardson ◽  
Linda Jones
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Cultural Safety ◽  
Institutional Policies ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Multiple Realities ◽  
Values And Beliefs ◽  
Care Relationships

AbstractThis paper describes the processes and challenges presented when Pākehā lecturers supervised a research project undertaken by Māori and Pacific nursing students in a New Zealand Bachelor of Nursing programme. It reflects on the reality of translating institutional policies from paper to practice and is situated in the framework of the Treaty of Waitangi and cultural safety. Cultural safety is a nursing concept that focuses on power in health-care relationships. People involved in the project experienced degrees of vulnerability in different cultural contexts, in terms of cultural identity, personal, professional and cultural values and beliefs, nursing and psychology knowledge and academic and institutional policies and practices. Culture is used in a broad sense and not confined to ethnicity. Various issues encountered during the project are identified, and examples of difficult experiences discussed. The paper concludes that working across broad cultural borders requires working with the complexities of multiple realities and discourses.

Fostering the Literacy of indigenous Elementary School-Age Children

2008 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diane Frome Loeb ◽  
Kathy Redbird
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
School Age Children ◽  
School Age ◽  
Reading Curriculum ◽  
Authentic Materials ◽  
Elementary School Age ◽  
Values And Beliefs

Abstract Purpose: In this article, we describe the existing literacy research with school-age children who are indigenous. The lack of data for this group of children requires speech-language pathologists (SLPs) to use expert opinion from indigenous and non-indigenous people to develop culturally sensitive methods for fostering literacy skills. Method: We describe two available curricula developed by indigenous people that are available, which use authentic materials and embed indigenous stories into the learning environment: The Indian Reading Series and the Northwest Native American Reading Curriculum. We also discuss the importance of using cooperative learning, multisensory instruction, and increased holistic emphasis to create a more culturally sensitive implementation of services. We provide an example of a literacy-based language facilitation that was developed for an indigenous tribe in Kansas. Conclusion: SLPs can provide services to indigenous children that foster literacy skills through storytelling using authentic materials as well as activities and methods that are consistent with the client's values and beliefs.

Marital Stability Among Jewish and Mixed Couples Following Immigration to Israel From the Former Soviet Union

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoav Lavee ◽  
Ludmila Krivosh
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Adjustment ◽  
Former Soviet Union ◽  
Marital Stability ◽  
Marital Instability ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Mixed Marriages ◽  
Marital Outcomes ◽  
Jewish Immigrants

This research aims to identify factors associated with marital instability among Jewish and mixed (Jewish and non-Jewish) couples following immigration from the former Soviet Union. Based on the Strangeness Theory and the Model of Acculturation, we predicted that non-Jewish immigrants would be less well adjusted personally and socially to Israeli society than Jewish immigrants and that endogamous Jewish couples would have better interpersonal congruence than mixed couples in terms of personal and social adjustment. The sample included 92 Jewish couples and 92 ethnically-mixed couples, of which 82 couples (40 Jewish, 42 mixed) divorced or separated after immigration and 102 couples (52 Jewish, 50 ethnically mixed) remained married. Significant differences were found between Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants in personal adjustment, and between endogamous and ethnically-mixed couples in the congruence between spouses in their personal and social adjustment. Marital instability was best explained by interpersonal disparity in cultural identity and in adjustment to life in Israel. The findings expand the knowledge on marital outcomes of immigration, in general, and immigration of mixed marriages, in particular.

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