Chosŏn Interpreters as Cultural Brokers: The Example of Kim Kyŏng-mun and the 1722 Mission to Beijing

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 279
Author(s):  
Law ◽  
羅樂然
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Brokers

Training of Village Teachers in Vilna Educational District in the 1860s and 1870s

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 181-192
Author(s):  
Anna A. Komzolova
Keyword(s):  
Educational Reform ◽  
Rural Teachers ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
The North ◽  
Central Russia ◽  
Russian Intelligentsia ◽  
Trained Teachers ◽  
The Village ◽  
North Western

One of the results of the educational reform of the 1860s was the formation of the regular personnel of village teachers. In Vilna educational district the goal was not to invite teachers from central Russia, but to train them on the spot by establishing special seminaries. Trained teachers were supposed to perform the role of «cultural brokers» – the intermediaries between local peasants and the outside world, between the culture of Russian intelligentsia and the culture of the Belarusian people. The article examines how officials and teachers of Vilna educational district saw the role of rural teachers as «cultural brokers» in the context of the linguistic and cultural diversity of the North-Western Provinces. According to them, the graduates of the pedagogical seminaries had to remain within the peasant estate and to keep in touch with their folk «roots». The special «mission» of the village teachers was in promoting the ideas of «Russian elements» and historical proximity to Russia among Belarusian peasants.

Cultural Brokers at Mediterranean Courts in the Middle Ages

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jürgen Sarnowsky ◽  
Claudia Märtl ◽  
Wolfram Drews ◽  
Nikolas Jaspert ◽  
Marc von der Höh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
The Middle Ages

Latina Physicians as “Essential” Workers

Contexts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-64
Author(s):  
Glenda M. Flores
Keyword(s):  
Social Interactions ◽  
Cultural Competency ◽  
Southern California ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Cultural Brokers

Sociologists use the term "cultural brokers" to describe how intermediaries can ease social interactions. Despite small numbers, Latina/o doctors may be particularly important for understanding the spread of COVID-19 in Southern California. While cultural competency is critical to working with marginalized communities, it is often undervalued.

The Quaker, the Primitivist, and the Progressive: Three Cultural Brokers in New Mexico's Quest for Multicultural Harmony

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne M. Getz
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
New Mexico ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Good Will

New Mexicans pride themselves on their ability to bridge multicultural divides. Part of what we are urged to understand as “enchanting” about the Land of Enchantment is its diverse cultural background. Native American, Hispano, and Anglo have existed side by side, at times with remarkable harmony and good will, for nearly two centuries. The Land of Enchantment is not altogether a fantasy. Many New Mexicans have shown an uncanny ability to bridge ethnic divides and find common ground in the interstices between cultures. The soil of New Mexico seems to be fertile ground indeed for producing cultural brokers. Margaret Connell Szasz admits that living in New Mexico makes her particularly attuned to the role of the cultural broker.

Cultural Clientelism and Brokerage Networks in Early Modern Florence and Rome: New Correspondence between the Barberini and Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger*

2007 ◽  
Vol 60 (3) ◽  
pp. 729-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janie Cole
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Music Theater ◽  
Michelangelo Buonarroti ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
Early Modern Italy ◽  
Significant Area ◽  
Archival Documentation ◽  
Cultural Brokerage ◽  
Significant Figures

AbstractThis study draws on the unpublished correspondence between Michelangelo Buonarroti the Younger, a Florentine poet and grandnephew of the artist, and the Barberini family, in an attempt to examine the wider concepts of cultural clientelism and brokerage networks in the early modern process of cultural dissemination (in the areas of literature, music, theater, painting, architecture, and science) in Florence and Rome. Reconsidering the definition and role of a Seicento cultural broker added to the traditional model of patron and client, it analyzes Michelangelo the Younger’s activity as broker, patron-broker, and broker-client in connection with such significant figures as Maffeo Barberini (the future Urban VIII), Galileo, and the painter Lodovico Cigoli, exploring the ways in which these roles supported his personal commitment to promote his family’s social status and revealing the fluidity of roles in the patronage system. By obtaining Barberini patronage for his theatrical works and public recognition of the mythology of his illustrious forebear, Buonarroti’s cultural brokerage supported these dynastic ambitions. Spanning nearly half a century, this archival documentation casts new light on a little-known, but significant, area of Italian social relations and suggests directions for further research on other Seicento cultural brokers and new definitions for a broader concept of cultural brokerage in early modern Italy.

Cultural Brokers in Interwar Orientalism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeehyun Lim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Asian American ◽  
Far East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Intellectual Tradition ◽  
Cultural Brokers ◽  
Racial Category ◽  
The Far East ◽  
The Face

Chapter one examines the formation of Asian American writers in the era of Asian exclusion through a comparative analysis of Younghill Kang’s and Carlos Bulosan’s responses to Orientalism in their works. As legal exclusion created the racial category of Asian in the United States, migrant Asian writers faced the challenge of creating modern Asian subjects in literary English. Cultural brokers between Orientalist images of their countries of origin and the modern experiences of Asian migrants in the United States, Kang and Bulosan tested the boundaries of English to represent migrant experiences lived in languages other than English. As a heterogeneous cultural epistemology, Orientalism placed different constraints on Kang, who contended with the Orientalist valorization of the Far East, and Bulosan, who resorted to the Filipino intellectual tradition of the ilustrado in the face of Orientalist primitivism.

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