scholarly journals Dziedzictwo kulturowe wspólnot lokalnych w tradycji ustnej

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-78
Author(s):  
Tadeusz Paleczny
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
The Social

Cultural Heritage of Local Communities in Oral History. The Base of Constructing the Social Memory  Local communities construct their own cultural heritage on the base of speaking traditions means as oral history. Each small community protects its own set of symbols and elements of tradition, including belief, dialect and private stories and anecdotes. The oral history performs a function of a part of social memory and sustains close social bonds among members of small communities. The article concerns the oral history’s role in preserving the cultural identity of small local communities.

scholarly journals Nilai-Nilai Sosial dan Religi dalam Tradisi Megalitik di Sulawesi Selatan

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 191
Author(s):  
Nfn Hasanuddin
Keyword(s):  
Small Community ◽  
Settlement System ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
South Sulawesi ◽  
The Social ◽  
Ritual Practices

South Sulawesi is a region which has a several culture and megalith tradition that spread in various locations. Of those various forms and kinds of that megalith monument, there are important values that can be reinvented for the society. The purpose is to determine the social dan religious value of megalithic culture in South Sulawesi. In order to recognize those values, a research with an ethnoarchaeological approach has been done through direct observations and surveys in the society which still have megalith tradition, and focused to identify its values and functions in society. This research found that this tradition was developed since the 2nd AD until the 10th to 13th AD. During that period, the settlement system was composed of small communities that occupying highland and lowland. That small community was called wanua which spread across South Sulawesi peninsula. At the present time, that megalith tradition is still found in Torajan community, and in several ritual practices among communities in Enrekang and Soppeng regency, South Sulawesi. Generally, that megalith tradition is endorsing several values such like cooperation and spiritual.Sulawesi Selatan merupakan suatu daerah yang memiliki beberapa bentuk budaya dan tradisi megalitik (kebudayaan batu besar) yang tersebar di berbagai wilayah. Dari berbagai bentuk dan jenis megalitik itu tentunya memiliki nilai-nilai  yang dapat diterapkan dalam masyarakat. Tujuannya adalah untuk mengetahui nilai sosial dan religi dari kebudayaan megalitik di Sulawesi selatan. Dalam pencapaiannya digunakan pendekatan etnoarkeologi dengan cara melakukan survei di beberapa daerah di Sulawesi Selatan yang memiliki peninggalan megalitik. Selanjutnya dilakukan wawancara dan pengamatan langsung di masyarakat yang masih menggunakan kebudayaan megalitik untuk mengetahui fungsi dalam masyarakat. Penelitian selama ini menunjukkan bahwa kebudayaan ini berawal sekitar abad ke-2 Masehi dan terus berlanjut pada abad ke-10 hingga abad ke-13 Masehi. Sistem permukiman pada masa itu merupakan kelompok-kelompok komunitas yang menempati wilayah ketinggian dan dataran rendah. Pada awal terbentuknya populasi disebabkan adanya berbagai daerah otonom kecil yang disebut wanuwa yang terdapat di beberapa daerah di seluruh semenanjung Sulawesi Selatan. Budaya ini masih berkesinambungan hingga sekarang pada masyarakat Toraja, atau dalam praktek ritual seperti di Enrekang dan Soppeng, Sulawesi Selatan. Pada umumnya kebudayaan megalitik mengandung nilai-nilai kerjasama dan gotong royong serta religi yang menonjol.

scholarly journals Hybrid neighborhoods: From sandlots to social media

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
Dimitris Karras ◽  
Maria Koletsi ◽  
Georgios Vagias
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Theoretical Background ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Social Medium ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Empirical Level ◽  
The Social

The rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) along with the mass urbanization phenomenon have led to dramatic changes in the ways people create social bonds, form and understand communities and act collectively towards common goals. One important change is that locality and distance is no longer perceived as a key prerequisite for the development of social bonds. Local communities, traditionally based on social grouping by physical proximity, have been seriously affected by technological media (social media and applications). Socio-psychological research shows that the major impact of technology-based communication is the transformation of social bonds between members of local communities and the social capital they accumulate. Within this framework, the research project “GEITONIA” has a dual scope. On a theoretical level, to shed more light on the different ways and degrees local communities use social media and applications in everyday life. On an empirical level, to examine if and in what ways a local social medium mobile application, developed for neighborhoods, can help the understanding of the sense of community and re-strengthen the social cohesion among its members. The article is an attempt to provide a quick glance on the key concepts and theoretical background on which the research project is based.

scholarly journals Who is a Refugee? Understanding the Figure of the Refugee against the Backdrop of the Bengal Partition (1947-1970)

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sumallya Mukhopadhyay ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
West Bengal ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Nation State ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Narratives

The paper intends to study the figure of the refugee in post-Partition West Bengal by critically examining the oral history narratives of individuals who migrated from East Pakistan in the wake of the 1947 Partition. It underscores the value and relevance of narrativity in the representation of factual history, the motivation and manifestation of which make history subjective, interpretive and contingent on the refugee’s narrative. The narrative act presents the refugees’ transition from, what may be called, figurative to socio-material subjects who interrupt and derange the nationalising exercise of the nation-state. The multivalent understanding of refugees makes the nation-state suffer from an anxiety of incompleteness (Appadurai 2006). The paper extends the idea of incompleteness by showing that however much the nation-state attempts to frame a particular brand of nationalism, variants of ethnocultural nationalism do exist, demonstrating the diverse subjectivities embodied by the refugees/narrators. Such ethnocultural nationalism can be read as alternative forms of self-assertion deeply etched in the social memory of the refugees.

Weaving and Cultural Identity of Batak Toba Women

2020 ◽  
pp. 002190962095803
Author(s):  
Catur Nugroho ◽  
Iis Kurnia Nurhayati ◽  
Kharisma Nasionalita ◽  
Ruth Mei Ulina Malau
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Cultural Inheritance ◽  
Cultural Characteristics ◽  
Artistic Value ◽  
The Social ◽  
Area North ◽  
North Sumatra

Women weavers in the Toba area, North Sumatera, Indonesia, are the main key to the continuation of the Toba’s Ulos cultural weaving and the preservation of artefacts through the process of the cultural inheritance. The women are spread in various regions around Lake Toba with a variety of their unique cultural characteristics reflected in their woven cloths. However, the existence of the women weavers has not been optimally empowered as a cultural heritage with high economic and artistic value. This study aims to uncover the social and cultural mapping of the current condition of Ulos Toba weavers by identifying female weavers in the Lake Toba region related to the inheritance of traditional weaving as the cultural identity of the Batak Toba. This research is expected to be the basis for designing strategies to utilize Ulos woven artefacts as one of the cultural heritages and identities in the Lake Toba region to provide sustainable benefits for the weavers, so that they can provide solutions to the problem of extinction threats to this Batak cultural inheritance. In detail, this study provides an overview of the social and economic conditions of women weavers in inheriting and maintaining Ulos weaving as a cultural identity of the Batak Toba community, North Sumatra, Indonesia.

scholarly journals Research on the Application of Emotional Design in Cultural Creative Product Design

2020 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 02119
Author(s):  
Yajing Hou
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Creative Industries ◽  
Emotional Design ◽  
The Social ◽  
Design Activities ◽  
Important Means ◽  
Creative Products ◽  
Important Branch

In recent years, cultural creative products as an important branch of cultural creative industries, have been widespread concern and promotion. It is not only a cultural heritage, but also the crystallization of the wisdom of designers, and it is one of the important means of cultural heritage and spread. The creative design is the interpretation of cultural heritage and the refinement of cultural spirit, and it needs to combine the characteristics of the present era and the series of cultural re-design activities carried out by the social aesthetic. The product design needs not only to embody the functionality of the product, but also to the inheritance of cultural spirit, and to pay more attention to people’s sense of identity and belonging to the culture. Based on the three-level theory of emotional design proposed by Professor Donald Arthur Norman, this paper analyzes its specific application in the design of cultural and creative products, in order to establish the emotional design criteria of cultural and creative products centered on user experience. It aims to help consumers establish a sense of design identity and cultural identity for cultural and creative products, and put cultural confidence into practice.

SOCIAL MEMORY AND SACRED SITES IN THE WESTERN MAYA HIGHLANDS: EXAMPLES FROM JACALTENANGO, GUATEMALA

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 385-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Borgstede
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Memory ◽  
Sacred Sites ◽  
Indigenous Activism ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Social ◽  
Sociological Approaches

AbstractThis paper utilizes anthropological and sociological approaches to social memory to analyze the position and relevance of sacred sites among the Jakaltek Maya of the western highlands of Guatemala. Based on archaeological investigations and oral history, the connection between the past and present is analyzed in terms of collective memory, underscoring the importance of specific places and landscape in remembering as well as in reinforcing Jakaltek identity and history. Three distinct sacred sites are discussed, including their archaeological evidence; position (or lack of) in histories; disposition/creation as sacred site; and ties to the community's social memory. Sacred sites and social memory are viewed as a key component of indigenous activism and identity politics as well as an integral aspect to understanding the social context of archaeology in the Guatemalan Maya Highlands.

scholarly journals Literary Application for the Cultural Heritage

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (S-1) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Vivanantharasa Thampirasa
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Community Or ◽  
Cultural Legacy ◽  
Multicultural Environment ◽  
Majority Culture

This article explores the mechanism by which the literary endeavours of the numerically small communities in Eastern Sri Lanka operate as the cultural heritage of those communities. Cultural heritage refers to the behaviours, activities, materials, and traditions maintained to identify the identity and continuity of a community or race. In an environment where cultural oppression is being shaped as a political practice, it is felt necessary for a society to retain its lifestyle and identity rights. It is both essential and at the same time challenging for a small community to learn its cultural traditions in a multicultural environment. The majority culture is being generalized and the cultures of minority communities are being transformed and disappeared. In this situation, a community has to keep its heritage domains in practice to sustain its existence. Language and its art - literature, are paramount in these domains. This is because the identity and organization of a community are primarily based on the language of that community. The numerically small communities of Eastern Sri Lanka, such as the Vedar, Kuravar, Burgher and Kaffir communities, have distinctive language practices and literary works. However, in the context of the majority of Sinhala and Tamil communities of Sri Lanka, the learning of a small community remains in crisis. In this case, the article outlines how the literature of these communities is used as part of maintaining these identities. This article also highlights the use of cultural legacy for the existence of such communities.

scholarly journals Organização coletiva e sementes crioulas: uma forma de luta e resistência pela identidade sociocultural quilombola na comunidade Sítio Veiga em Quixadá-CE

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Fernanda Ielpo da Cunha ◽  
Luis Tomas Domingos ◽  
Ana Maria Eugenio da Silva ◽  
Jose Gerardo Vasconcelos
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Life Itself ◽  
Qualitative Nature ◽  
The City ◽  
Traditional Communities

The cultivation of Creole seeds is part of the wisdom of the ancestral legacy, which can be told since the beginning of the agriculture history, being the traditional communities the great guardians of this cultural heritage, whose teachings transpose the preservation of their memories, since they call attention to the preservation of life itself on the planet and of the next generations, where the preservation of the genetic heritage of these seeds will guarantee the biodiversity existing on Earth. Faced with this reality, this study aims to analyze how the ways of collective organization based on the cultivation of Creole seeds contribute to the preservation of the Quilombola socio-cultural identity in the quilombo community Sítio Veiga in the city of Quixadá, in Ceará state. This research has a qualitative nature, carried out in loco, whose guiding mode was ethnographic, with participant observation, methods that are fundamental for a greater approximation and interaction with the social subjects of the research and the actions inherent to the cultivation of Creole seeds.

Cultural humility: Pilot study testing the social bonds hypothesis in interethnic couples.

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-537 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stacey E. McElroy-Heltzel ◽  
Don E. Davis ◽  
Cirleen DeBlaere ◽  
Josh N. Hook ◽  
Michael Massengale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Social Bonds ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
The Social
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