scholarly journals An Ethnographic Approach to Women’s Identity Celebrating in Folklore: ‘Ahwash Ntfrkhin’as a Case Study

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-38
Author(s):  
Sekkal Khadija
Keyword(s):  
Women's Identity ◽  
Ethnographic Approach

scholarly journals Pantangan Makanan pada Suku Muyu di Papua

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
Agung Dwi Laksono ◽  
Ratna Dwi Wulandari
Keyword(s):  
Ritual Practice ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Food Ingredients ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Food Taboo ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
Depth Interviews ◽  
Participatory Observation

ABSTRACT Background: Food for the Muyu tribe was an actualization of daily life over the belief in the religious dimension that is adopted and lived. This study aims to explore the food taboo among the Muyu tribe in Indonesia.Methods: The authors conducted the case study in Mindiptana, Boven Digoel, Papua. The study carried out data collection by participatory observation, in-depth interviews, and document searches. The authors carried out the report using an ethnographic approach an emically perspective.Results: Belief in the lord of wild animals, the lord of fruits and plants, and the lord of sago, was so thick that many spells appear to hunt and search for food in the forest, which was a form of recognition of the power of these. The Muyu tribe had restrictions on several types of food. Food can be taboo based on its physical form; meanwhile, because of Muyu people's belief that there was a bad quality inherent in these food ingredients. It was especially closely related to ritual practice for men as a process of undergoing initiation as a big man. The Muyu intended women taboo for mothers who are pregnant and breastfeeding. Abstinence for pregnant Muyu women was often related to the fetus in the womb. For children, especially for boys, it was almost the same as abstinence for adult Muyu men. This abstinence applies to boys who were prepared to be tómkót, especially when undergoing the initiation process.Conclusions: The food taboo applies to all Muyu people, both men, women, and children.

scholarly journals PAISAJES URBANOS, DIFERENCIA Y DESIGUALDAD. EL CASO DE LA BOCA EN BUENOS AIRES / Urban Landscapes, difference and inequality. A case study in La Boca, Buenos Aires

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Ana Clara Fabaron
Keyword(s):  
Buenos Aires ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Urban Landscapes ◽  
Spatial Transformations ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Visual Consumption ◽  
City Model ◽  
The City

<p>El propósito de este artículo es reflexionar críticamente en torno a la noción de paisaje y sus vinculaciones con modos -diferenciados y desiguales- de imaginar y habitar la ciudad. El análisis se sustenta en un estudio de caso en La Boca, un barrio de la zona sur de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, donde confluyen procesos de reconversión urbana y déficit habitacional. Desde un abordaje etnográfico junto al uso de fuentes secundarias, el trabajo explora las principales características y transformaciones socioespaciales del barrio en relación con el resto de la ciudad. El artículo focaliza en prácticas de habitantes y usuarios, en diálogo con distintas aproximaciones al concepto de paisaje, y con estudios que destacan la relación entre una estetización de las ciudades contemporáneas y un modelo exclusivo de ciudad. Desde una perspectiva del habitar -centrada en las prácticas urbanas- el enfoque propuesto procura tomar en cuenta las tensiones e imbricaciones entre los paisajes urbanos cotidianos de sus habitantes y los paisajes culturales orientados a un consumo visual, incorporando en el análisis las relaciones desiguales de poder.</p><p><br /><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p><br />This article aims to critically reflect upon the notion of landscape and its links with -differentiated and unequal- ways of imagining and inhabiting the city. The analysis is based on a case study in La Boca, a neighborhood in the southern area of the city of Buenos Aires, where urban reconversion processes coexists with housing insufficiency. Through an ethnographic approach supplemented with secondary sources, the paper explores the main characteristics and socio-spatial transformations of the neighborhood in relation with the rest of the city. The article focuses in dwellers and passersby practices, in dialogue with different approaches to the concept of landscape, and with studies that emphasize the relation between the aestheticisation of the contemporary cities and an exclusive city model. From a dwelling perspective -centered in urban practices- the proposed approach seeks take into account the tensions and interweaving between the daily urban landscapes of La Boca’ s dwellers and the cultural landscapes oriented toward visual consumption, incorporating in the analysis the unequal power relations.</p>

Gender Identity and Systems Development

2011 ◽  
pp. 603-608
Author(s):  
Linda Stepulevage
Keyword(s):  
Gender Identity ◽  
Identity Construction ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Systems Development ◽  
Office Work ◽  
Work Systems ◽  
Women's Identity ◽  
It Systems ◽  
The Relationship

This article draws on interviews and case study research on gender-IT relations to examine the relationship between gender identity and IT development activities. It explores the intertwining of gender and technological identity for women in office work contexts, a location where a boundary between the design and use of IT systems has long been recognised. It is important to explore identity construction within this framework of design and use as separate activities since women’s identity is constrained on both sides of this perceived boundary. The article first explores issues for women as IT professionals, then as users of IT-based work systems and lastly, it discusses the feasibility of constructing gender identities that encompass and recognise the technical work that both developers and users do.

scholarly journals Visiting Dark Murals: An Ethnographic Approach to the Sustainability of Heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 677
Author(s):  
María de-Miguel-Molina
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Economic Development ◽  
Local Development ◽  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Community Solidarity ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
History Of

Political, war-themed and controversial murals aim to show the history of a community, making the intangible tangible, and, because these events are still recent, they stir people’s emotions. Visitors to this type of heritage have a mixture of artistic and dark interests that lead to what we call ‘dark mural attractions’. These political murals need a public strategy to be preserved, become better known and attract local economic development funds to make them sustainable. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyse how communities could build a co-narrative around murals to generate a sustainable local development. To achieve this goal, an in depth study needs to be performed to establish what kind of narrative will enable political murals to attract dark visitors and examine how communities can build a sustainable co-narrative around a dark mural. As a case study, we analyse the Battle of Cable Street mural in London, located in the non-touristic borough of Tower Hamlets, by means of an ethnographic qualitative approach based on stakeholders’ opinions, among other sources. In this case, results show that dark murals have the potential to attract visitors, but they require a public strategy for the sustainability of heritage, based on a narrative of community solidarity for educational and discovery purposes.

scholarly journals A Retreat in a South Korean Buddhist Monastery. Becoming a Lay Devotee Through Monastic Life

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florence Galmiche
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Spatial Proximity ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Norms And Values ◽  
Monastic Life ◽  
Lay Buddhists ◽  
The Temple

AbstractIn South Korea, the distance between Buddhist monastics and lay devotees tends to reduce as monasteries and temples multiply in urban areas. Even the remote mountain monasteries have broadened their access to lay visitors. Nowadays monastic and lay Buddhists have more occasions to meet than before and the current intensification of their relationships brings important redefinitions of their respective identities. This paper explores how far this new spatial proximity signifies a rapprochement between monastic and lay Buddhists. Through an ethnographic approach and a participant observation methodology I focus on a one-week retreat for laity in a Buddhist monastery dedicated to meditation. This case study examines the ambiguous goal of this retreat programme that combined two aims: initiating lay practitioners to the monastic lifestyle and the practice of kanhwa son meditation; and establishing a group of lay supporters affiliated to the temple. This temporary monastic experience was directed towards an intense socialisation of the participants to the norms and values of an ascetic lifestyle, blurring some aspects of the border between lay and monastic practices of Buddhism. However, this paper suggests that this transitory rapprochement contributed to both challenge and strengthen the distinction between the renouncers (ch'ulga) and the householders (chaega).

scholarly journals Women's identity as farmers: A case study from ten households in Syria

2013 ◽  
Vol 64-65 ◽  
pp. 25-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Galiè ◽  
J. Jiggins ◽  
P.C. Struik
Keyword(s):  
Women's Identity

scholarly journals El papel de la movilidad estudiantil en el desarrollo de la competencia comunicativa intercultural: un estudio de caso

2021 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 33-43
Author(s):  
Marjana Šifrar Kalan
Keyword(s):  
Communicative Competence ◽  
Student Mobility ◽  
Intercultural Communicative Competence ◽  
Limited Sample ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Preliminary Study ◽  
The University ◽  
Interpretative Research

The objective of this case study is to investigate the role of student mobility in the development of intercultural communicative competence in university students. In order to indicate the changes in the participants, especially about their attitudes towards Spanish culture, Spaniards and their stereotypes, an interpretative research with an ethnographic approach has been carried out, namely, we have interviewed several students of Hispanic Philology from the University of Ljubljana (level C1 of Spanish), who had spent at least one semester with the Erasmus scholarship studying in Spain. The article does not pretend to achieve a statistical generalization due to its limited sample, however it can be useful as a preliminary study.

scholarly journals Community Development within Local Wisdom Frame (The Case of Ki Ageng Tarub Cultural Kitrab, Tarub Village, Tawangharjo, Grobogan)

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Ahmad Fauzi ◽  
Endang Sri Wahyuningsih ◽  
Miatun Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
Exploratory Case Study ◽  
Ethnographic Approach ◽  
Local Traditions

Local traditions and culture as a form of local wisdom serve as a medium to maintain and care for the harmony of the community environment. This includes harmony and unity between fellow communities when the community and nation environment is undermined by the dangers of intolerance, radicalism and terrorism. Local wisdom is one effective way to overcome it. One form of local wisdom that exists in the community is the tradition of the Ki Ageng Tarub Cultural Culture , the ancestor of the kings in Java. This research aims to reveal how the tradition of the Ki Ageng Tarub Cultural Culture can accommodate social relations between communities and even to the Surakarta palace. This research is a qualitative-exploratory, case study with an ethnographic approach and uses interactive analysis which includes data reduction, data presentation and conclusion drawing. It is hoped that in this research, it can be known about the intent, purpose and meaning of cultural culture as well as social cohesion in the frame of local wisdom in the tradition of Ki Ageng Tarub Cultural Culture.

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