The Floor: A Reinterpretation of the Korean Home, Focusing on the Ondol

2021 ◽  
pp. 120633122097648
Author(s):  
Keunhye Lee
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Korean Peninsula ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Heating System ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
Korean Identity ◽  
Joseon Dynasty ◽  
Repetitive Activities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Floor Heating

This research explores the relationship between space and activity as a means of investigating a phenomenological understanding of Korean floor-based living. An understanding of the floor as space has been a fundamental element in Korean everyday life since the ondol (a traditional Korean floor heating system) became the prevalent heating resource throughout the Korean peninsula during the time of the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910). Thus, I will draw upon the spatial implications of these cultural practices by engaging with the spatial experience of the ondol, which is fundamentally different to the Western lifestyle that has been layered over this regional tradition. I argue that the spatial typology is informed by repetitive activities in terms of everyday life and that the floor is a substantial element for Korean identity that refers back to this rich cultural tradition. This distinguishes the Korean home as unique, in a similar way to the more well-known particularities and cultural heritage found in Japanese and Chinese houses.

scholarly journals Everyday cultural practices of the Ural Mari

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-78
Author(s):  
Anna V. Berezina
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Ethnic Culture ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship

Introduction. The study of everyday cultural practices of the Ural Mari living in rural areas can not only provide extra information, but also change our views on distinctive features of their culture, the prospects for its development, and resistance to ethnocultural transformations. Materials and Methods. The work used interdisciplinary research methods, the principles of comparative, system and structural analysis, as well as sociological methods: observation, in-depth survey, comparative analysis, interviewing. Results and Discussion. Distinctive features of the ethnic culture of the Ural Mari were influenced by the regional factor, and were recorded not only in the Mari dialect, national dresses, but also in everyday practices, namely household chores, the relationship between a man and a woman, and between generations. Their formation was influenced by folk religiosity, which is closely related to mythological thinking. Belief in the spirits that accompanies the everyday life of a person, has been transformed according to new everyday practices, and is still preserved in the everyday life of the ethnos. The author provides data from in-depth surveys and interviews of Mari living in the Sverdlovsk region and the Perm Territory, and also analyzes examples from literary sources. Conclusion. The transformation of the culture of the Ural Mari in rural areas is a response to scientific and technological progress, global changes, and is exteroceptive in nature with a persisting axiological basis. Further research of the everyday cultural practices of the Ural Mari living in rural areas will make it possible to predict the development of their ethnic culture and point out the critical aspects of transformation.

scholarly journals Geografía cotidiana y prácticas culturales: construcción simbólica de los patios del Cementerio General de Santiago

2018 ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Sebastián Rodríguez Leiva ◽  
Camila Salinas Silva
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Mental Maps ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Great Relevance ◽  
Symbolic Construction ◽  
The Relationship

En este trabajo se analiza la tradición del puesto de cuidador de sepulturasen el Cementerio General de Santiago, un oficio, en muchos casos, heredadofamiliarmente. Metodológicamente se fundamenta en entrevistas semiestructuradasy mapas mentales, lo cual permitió visualizar la relación existente entre el cuidador y su patio, cargada de simbolismo y vínculos asociados a la temporalidad que posee el puesto y a las prácticas culturales y cotidianas que este desarrolla en su interior. Asimismo, se plantea que el patio se configura como un paisaje de lo simbólico, el que ha representado y representa gran relevancia en la vida del cuidador, como producto del significado y sentido que él ha dotado en este espacio.Palabras clave: Relación simbólica, prácticas culturales, vida cotidiana, cuidador de sepulturasDaily geography and cultural practices: a symbolic construction of the general cemetery courtyards in Santiago, ChileAbstractThis work analyzes the tradition of the grave keeper work in the GeneralCemetery of Santiago, which has been in many cases a familiar inherited job.The methodology is based on semi-structured interviews and mental maps,which allowed visualize the relationship between the gravekeeper and his orher yard, full of symbolism and links associated with the period of time doingthat the job and the cultural and daily practices developed. It also considersthe yard as a symbolic landscape with great relevance for the life of gravekeepers, because all the meaning and sense he or she has given to the place.Keywords: Symbolic relationship, cultural practices, everyday life, gravekeeperGeografia cotidiana e práticas culturais: construção simbólica dospátios do cemitério geral de SantiagoResumoNeste trabalho se analisa a tradição do cargo de zelador de sepulturas noCemitério Geral de Santiago, um trabalho, em muitos casos, herdado familiarmente. Metodologicamente baseia-se em entrevistas semiestruturadas emapas mentais, que permitiu visualizar a relação existente entre o cuidador eseu quintal, carregado de simbolismo e vínculos associados a temporalidadeque possui o cargo e as práticas culturais e cotidianas que estes desenvolvemno seu interior. Assim também, se manifesta que o pátio, configura-se comouma paisagem do simbólico, que tem representado e representa grandeimportância na vida dos cuidadores, como produto do significado e sentidoque ele tem dado a este espaço.Palavras-chave: relação simbólica, práticas culturais, vida cotidiana, cuidadorde sepulturas.

scholarly journals The Transformation of Economic Imagery in Croatian Culture in the 1990s

2019 ◽  
pp. 281-310
Author(s):  
Maša Kolanović
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Consumer Culture ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Economic Systems ◽  
Cultural Patterns ◽  
Cultural Space ◽  
The Relationship

The Transformation of Economic Imagery in Croatian Culture in the 1990sThe article problematizes the relationship between culture and capitalism in creating a specific economic imagery of the 1990s in the Croatian cultural space as part of the post-Yugoslav context. One of the assumptions in analysing the connection between economics, culture and literature is that different political and economic systems (such as socialism or capitalism) always represent a certain type of culture. It is necessary to have a certain type of culture that will introduce and legitimize certain political and economic systems, which inevitably means that at the same time, certain types of cultural practices will also appear that will challenge and question them. The analysis detects processes of intellectual dismantling and transformation of socialism and creating the foundation for a new "moral and affective economy" (Ahmed, Bowles) of capitalism on post-socialist terrain. The author focuses on three "cultural patterns" (Williams) from the sphere of consumer culture, everyday life, scientific, artistic and cultural literature, through which she follows symptomatic traces of creating, negotiating and opposing the hegemonic culture in early 1990s Croatia. Transformacija ekonomskog imaginarija u hrvatskoj kulturi 90-ih godina 20. stoljeća Članak problematizira odnos kulture i kapitalizma u kreiranju specifičnog ekonomskog imaginarija devedesetih godina u hrvatskom kulturnom prostoru kao dijelu postjugoslavenskog prostora. Temeljno polazište rada jest da da različiti politički i ekonomski sustavi (kao što su socijalizam i kapitalizam) uvijek predstavljaju i određeni tip kulture. Nužno je da određen tip kulture uvede i legitimizira određene političke i ekonomske sisteme što znači da se isto tako javiti i one kulturne prakse koje će ih izazvati, propitivati i oponirati im. Analiza detektira procese intelektualne demontaže socijalizma i kreiranje nove ‘’moralne i afektivne ekonomije’’ (Ahmed, Bowles) kapitalizma na postsocijalističkom terenu. Autorica se fokusira na tri ‘’kulturna uzorka’’ (Williams) iz sfere konzumerističke kulture, svakodnevice, znanosti i umjetnosti koja prati simptomatične tragove u kreiranju, pregovaranju i oponiranju hegemonijskoj kulturi u nastajanju ranih devedesetih godina u Hrvatskoj. Transformacja imaginarium ekonomicznego w chorwackiej kulturze lat dziewięćdziesiątych XX wiekuArtykuł problematyzuje relacje między kulturą i kapitalizmem w procesie tworzenia specyficznego ekonomicznego imaginarium lat 90. w chorwackiej przestrzeni kulturowej jako części przestrzeni postjugosłowiańskiej. Głównym punktem wyjścia artykułu jest przekonanie, że różne systemy polityczne i ekonomiczne (jak np. socjalizm i kapitalizm) zawsze reprezentują określony typ kultury. Określony typ kultury jest niezbędny do wprowadzania i legitymizowania tych systemów politycznych i ekonomicznych, a jednocześnie powoduje on pojawienie się takich praktyk kulturowych, które kwestionują go i zaprzeczają mu. Analiza wykrywa procesy intelektualnego demontażu socjalizmu i tworzenia nowej „moralnej ekonomii” (Ahmed, Bowles) kapitalizmu na postsocjalistycznym terenie. Autorka skupia się na trzech „wzorcach kulturowych” (Williams) ze sfery kultury konsumpcyjnej, życia codziennego oraz nauki i sztuki, w których widać symptomatyczne ślady tworzenia, negocjowania i sprzeciwiania się wyłaniającej się hegemonicznej kulturze wczesnych lat 90. w Chorwacji.

Hopscotch Modernism: On Everyday Life and the Blurring of Art and Social Science

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Point Of Departure

From a remarkably innovative point of departure, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) suggests that modernist literature and art were not the only cultural practices concerned with reclaiming the everyday and imbuing it with significance. At the same time, Roger Caillois was studying the spontaneous interactions involved in games such as hopscotch, while other small scale institutions such as the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London attempted to reconcile systematic study and knowledge with the non-systematic exchanges in games and play. Highmore suggests that such experiments comprise a less-often recognised ‘modernist heritage’, and argues powerfully for their importance within early-twentieth century anthropology and the newly-emerged field of cultural studies.

The Germans and their Jewish Neighbors on the Ukrainian Areas at the Second Half of the 19th Century

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
D. Meshkov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Russian Empire ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Criminal Cases ◽  
South West ◽  
Multiethnic Population ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Relationship

The article presents some of the author’s research results that has got while elaboration of the theme “Everyday life in the mirror of conflicts: Germans and their neighbors on the Southern and South-West periphery of the Russian Empire 1861–1914”. The relationship between Germans and Jews is studied in the context of the growing confrontation in Southern cities that resulted in a wave of pogroms. Sources are information provided by the police and court archival funds. The German colonists Ludwig Koenig and Alexandra Kirchner (the resident of Odessa) were involved into Odessa pogrom (1871), in particular. While Koenig with other rioters was arrested by the police, Kirchner led a crowd of rioters to the shop of her Jewish neighbor, whom she had a conflict with. The second part of the article is devoted to the analyses of unty-Jewish violence causes and history in Ak-Kerman at the second half of the 19th and early years of 20th centuries. Akkerman was one of the southern Bessarabia cities, where multiethnic population, including the Jews, grew rapidly. It was one of the reasons of the pogroms in 1865 and 1905. The author uses criminal cases` papers to analyze the reasons of the Germans participation in the civilian squads that had been organized to protect the population and their property in Ackerman and Shabo in 1905.

Populäre Medienkulturen. Programmatische Positionen : Popular media cultures. Programmatic positions

SPIEL ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 147-185
Author(s):  
Marcus S. Kleiner
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Focus Of Attention ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Education ◽  
Cultural Formations ◽  
The Relationship

The article discusses the relationship between popular cultures, pop cultures and popular media cultures as transformative educational cultures. For this purpose, these three cultural formations are related to the themes of culture, everyday life, society, education, narration, experience and present. Apart from a few exceptions, such as in youth sociological works on cinema and education, in the context of media literacy discussions or in dealing with media education, educational dimensions of popular cultures and pop cultures have generally not been the focus of attention in media and cultural studies.

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