Symbolic structures, sensory experiences and nostalgia in cultural engagement: the case of the festa in Malta

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie Visanich
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Cultural Engagement ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
Sensory Experiences ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

This article refers to nostalgia and the way it is triggered by emotion-bearing symbolic structures and sensory experiences, to make sense of how these are played out in cultural engagement. It examines how the popular cultural event of the festa in Malta, an annual village feast of the patron saint, acts as a platform for nostalgic experiences. With reference to Jeffrey Alexander’s ‘iconic consciousness’, the arguments brought forward are positioned broadly within the notion of symbolic and sensory dynamics during the festa. Additionally, the collective shared experiences of festa enthusiasts, in a Durkheimian tradition, are explored to obtain knowledge on how they make sense of their past and present meanings as well as their feelings towards the village saint and the festa in general. Through the use of interviews conducted with persons who are actively engaged in this event, this article understands how their sense of belonging, both in terms of the material and non-material culture are central in the multimodal nostalgic meaning-making process.

The Story of Storyboards from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Martin Soukup ◽  
Dušan Lužný
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
The Village

This study analyzes and interprets East Sepik storyboards, which the authors regard as a form of cultural continuity and instrument of cultural memory in the post-colonial period. The study draws on field research conducted by the authors in the village of Kambot in East Sepik. The authors divide the storyboards into two groups based on content. The first includes storyboards describing daily life in the community, while the other links the daily life to pre-Christian religious beliefs and views. The aim of the study is to analyze one of the forms of contemporary material culture in East Sepik in the context of cultural changes triggered by Christianization, colonial administration in the former Territory of New Guinea and global tourism.

scholarly journals Apprenticeship in New Zealand : its development, present organization and administration

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Richard Vaughan Kriby
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Organization And Administration ◽  
Boer War ◽  
Machine Age ◽  
The Village ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Made In ◽  
The Ideal ◽  
The Way

"Lumen Accipe et Imperti ", says the motto of Wellington College; and, in becoming a teacher, after being a pupil of the College, I fully accepted the injunction to receive the light and impart it. But it took the preparation of this thesis on the apprenticeship system to bring home to me the<br>strength of the human impulse implied in those four<br>Latin words.<br>In the ideal, the impulse is personified in Oliver Goldsmith's description of the village schoolmaster who "...tried each art, reproved each dull delay; Allur'd to brighter worlds, and led the way."<br><div>It is this impulse to seek skills and to hand them on which helps to explain the enigma of a system apparently always on the point of being out-moded, and yet surviving time and change, depression and prosperity, wars and its greatest challenge, the machine age.</div><div>In 1898 - before the Boer War - a Member of the New Zealand Parliament announced that a pair of boots had been made in 25 minutes, passing through 53 different machines and 63 pairs of hands. The tone of the brief, ensuing discussion was one suited to the occasion of an imminent demise, and a Bill for improvement of the apprenticeship system then before the House quietly expired.<br><br></div>

scholarly journals Özgön’den Konya’ya Uzanan Göç: Tacigül Özgen Küntüz’un Kimlik ve Anavatana Dair Aidiyet Duygusunu İfade Etme Biçimi

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (13) ◽  
pp. 353-378
Author(s):  
Aikanysh ESHNAZAROVA ◽  
Beishenbek TOKTOGULOV
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Formation Process ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
First Generation ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Strong Sense ◽  
Region Of Origin ◽  
The Way

First generation diasporic immigrants, who have diasporic experience due to the trauma of forced migration, have a strong sense of belonging to the homeland. Even, they can transfer this sense of belonging to the next generations without losing its liveliness. In addition, the sense of belonging to the homeland is an important factor affecting the identity formation of the next generations. This study aims to investigate the second-generation member of the diasporic immigrant Özgen family, the painter Tacigül Özgen Küntüz's sense of belonging to the region of origin, her identity formation process and the way she expresses them. The study will deal with the works created by the painter in terms of identity and belonging.

scholarly journals Toddlers Watching TV - A study on the role of electronic media in the everyday-lives of one to three year old children

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (Kinderfernsehen) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Stine Liv Johansen
Keyword(s):  
Meaning Making ◽  
Electronic Media ◽  
Television Programs ◽  
Children's Media ◽  
Everyday Lives ◽  
Self Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Watching Tv ◽  
The Way

In recent studies on children and electronic media, children are acknowledged as active users, interpreting TV-texts in various meaningful ways, according to their previously constructed knowledge of narratives and relating the texts to their everyday lives. Still, there is a tendency that toddlers' (ages 1 to 3) viewing is neglected, and seen as mere fascinations of patterns, bright colours and movements without focusing on the social uses or uses in which television narratives come to play an important part in small children's experimenting with building identity and self-image. This article focuses on the meaning-making processes that take place when toddlers watch television and DVD, and the way in which they broaden the reception-situation to different arenas, for instance through play and different uses of merchandise connected to the television programs. Also, it studies the context of children's media use, the way both parents, media and market set up the frames of children's reception.

scholarly journals The Local Festival of Kampos: A Fictional Narrative of Place, Space and Interiority

Interiority ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-40
Author(s):  
Maria Vidali
Keyword(s):  
Paul Ricoeur ◽  
The Public ◽  
Patron Saint ◽  
Architectural Space ◽  
Holy Trinity ◽  
Fictional Narrative ◽  
Farming Village ◽  
Village Life ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Church

This article is created out of the architectural space and narratives of village life. The narratives concern the interiority of life in Kampos, a farming village on the Greek Cycladic island of Tinos, on the day when the village celebrates the Holy Trinity, its patron saint. The village area on this festive day is depicted in the movement of the families from their houses to the church, the procession from the patron saint’s church to a smaller church through the main village street, and, finally, in the movement of the villagers back to speci!c houses. Through a series of spatial and social layers, the meaning of the communal table on the day of the festival, where food is shared, is reached. A series of negotiations create a different space, where the public, private and communal blend and reveal different layers of “interiority” through which this community is bounded and connected. In this article, I follow the revelation and discovery of truth through fiction, story or myth, as argued by the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur.

scholarly journals Dewey and Political Communication in the Age of Mediation

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 94-102
Author(s):  
Lance E Mason
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Polarization ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Sociopolitical Environment ◽  
The Way

The present sociopolitical environment in the United States is perpetually mediated and beset with information from innumerable sources. This paper argues that Dewey’s conception of communication as a mutual act of meaning-making holds insights for explaining the connections between pervasive mediation and political polarization, in addition to understanding why political discourse has become more degrading in recent years. It also points the way toward viable solutions by arguing for the reorientation of schools toward valuable living experiences that are becoming less pronounced in the broader culture, such as sustained face to face engagement on matters of social import.

Toys

2020 ◽  
pp. 394-402
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Heath
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
French Empire ◽  
Cognitive Framework ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

This article examines colonially-themed toys as historical sources that provide insight into the way that metropolitan boys and girls learned embrace the French empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that colonially-themed toys such as drums, dolls, and games encouraged forms of play that instilled a colonial mindset and attitude among metropolitan French children. These actions provided the foundation for a cognitive framework and worldview that naturalized colonialism and racial and civilization hierarchies. The residues of these earlier practices and imaginations remain, marking toys as a particularly rich genre of material culture with which to understand the inculcation of colonialism and lingering colonial nostalgia.

Denys the Carthusian (1402/3–71)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kent Emery
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Aquinas ◽  
Nicholas Of Cusa ◽  
Albert The Great ◽  
Master Of Arts ◽  
The University ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

Denys de Leeuwis was born in the village of Rijkel, in modern Belgium. In 1421 he matriculated at the University of Cologne, where he received the Master of Arts degree in 1424. There he followed ‘the way of Thomas Aquinas’, whom he calls his ‘patron’ in his early works. Later Denys adopted ‘Albertist’ against ‘Thomist’ positions on a number of philosophical issues. After leaving the University, he entered the Carthusian monastery in Roermond, where, save for brief periods, he spent the rest of his life. He corresponded with Nicholas of Cusa and dedicated two or three works to him. Denys was a voracious reader of the ancient and medieval philosophers whose writings were available in Latin, and of scholastic theologians. Because of his extensive references to authorities, historians often call him ‘eclectic’. Yet from his sources he educes his own distinctive philosophy. Like Albert the Great, Denys practised philosophy and theology by paraphrasing and analysing their histories.

A "Lady Monk" in Bulgaria

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (11) ◽  
pp. 41-42
Author(s):  
Sharon E. Belden
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Soviet State ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Way

A woman traveling alone all the way from Holland to Bulgaria! And sleeping in a monastery! Villagers, visitors, and monks marveled, for although the small mountain cloister had held its doors open for decades, most lodgers were native families.The Orthodox monastery near the village of Bachkovo, Bulgaria, founded by Georgian monks in 1083, had been plundered in the name of Allah, liberated in the name of the czar and was now very much in order under the Soviet state, both as monastery and hostelry.Sacred and secular mingled within the same walls that had secluded seventeenth-century monks from worldly things. Four long, white stucco buildings with wooden galleries and grated windows enclosed the courtyard with chapel and fountains. Over the broken cobblestones chickens, geese, lambs, and pigs wandered about among the tourists, monks, and priests.

scholarly journals NILAI-NILAI DAN MAKNA SIMBOLIK TRADISI NGANGGUNG

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Edy Waluyo
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Symbolic Meaning ◽  
Indigenous Plants ◽  
Mutual Cooperation ◽  
Dominant Color ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
The Village ◽  
High Work

The tradition of Nganggung in Petaling Bangka, Province of Bangka Belitung Islands is a tradition that has been rooted in its community. This study reveals about values and symbolic meanings of the Nganggung tradition in the village of Petaling in which in the tradition have these values of 1) spiritual, 2) economical, 3) mutual cooperation and togetherness and 4) political. This tradition also has a symbolic meaning, we can see it at Nganggung attributes such as tudung saji that represents the preservation of the indigenous plants of pandanus forest, as well as means of preserving of lofty values of its ancestors; from its shape, tudung saji resembles a parabole that represents the tradition of Nganggung as a shelter for all; red, as a dominant color of tudung saji symbolizes courage and high work ethic; cord symbolizes the fastener with a diversity of community and a sense of belonging; while talam, a round pan, shape symbolizes the dynamic attitude and flexibility of its inhabitants.

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