scholarly journals Reconceptualizing Idol Making in the Context of Bangladesh

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-75
Author(s):  
Mohammad Ainul Haque
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Context

While bringing into attention the creative skills of a local Idol maker, this paper aims at exploring Idol making in the light of the maker’s perception and simultaneously placing it within the broader social and cultural context of Bangladesh. It seeks to understand the meaning that idol-making carries to its creator, and the meaning of idol-making that is felt within the larger social context of Bangladesh. While doing so, this paper investigates the concept of art prevailing in contemporary Bangladeshi society and therefore, examines the creative dimensions of idol making from folkloristic and material culture perspectives. Along with bringing forth the unheard stories of a local Bangladeshi idol maker, this paper aims at dismantling the grand narratives of art that existed within Bengali society and therefore, provides an opportunity to reconceptualize the artistic dimension of local idol making in Bangladesh.

Verbal Restrictions on the Communication of Turko-Mongols of Inner Asia

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-142
Author(s):  
M. M. Sodnompilova
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Communication ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Spoken Language ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Information Storage ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
The Rich

Verbal restrictions common among the Turko-Mongol peoples of Inner Asia and Siberia are analyzed on the basis of folkloric and ethnographic sources. Their principal forms are silence, circumlocution, and whisper. The socio-cultural context of these restrictions is reconstructed. They are seen in various domains of culture, in particular relating to social norms, and are believed to refl ect fear of human life and the well-being of man and society in the communication with nature represented by deities and spirits. This is a natural reaction that has evolved under the harsh environmental and climatic conditions of Inner Asia. The sa me concerns, extending to social communication, have regulated interpersonal interactions. In a nomadic culture, verbal restrictions stem from the importance of the ritual function of language and a specifi c attitude toward spoken language, which, over the centuries, was the principal means of information storage and transfer, cognition and adaptation. This concept of speech affected the emergence of the principal behavioral stereotypes. The rigid norms of behavior account for the importance of the nonverbal context of the nomadic culture— the high informative potential of the entire space inhabited by the nomads, and the rich symbolism of their material culture, traditional outfi t, and dwelling.

scholarly journals Penerapan Metode Pembelajaran Talking Stick dalam Upaya Peningkatan Hasil Belajar Pokok Bahasan Iklan, Sarana Komunikasi Pada Kelas VIII SMPN 1 Singosari.

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arif Nurcahyo
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Linguistic Rules ◽  
Word Classes ◽  
Critical Responses ◽  
Range Of Values

Scope of the Indonesian Language Subject to the basic education level (VII-IX) is as follows. The text-forming language units: language sounds, phonemes, morphemes, words, word classes, phrases, clauses. The language marker in the text. Paralinguistik (pronunciation, abbreviation, intonation, tempo, gesture, and mimic). The text structure of the story genre (text eksemplum), factual genre (text recording experiment) and response genres (challenge text, critical responses). The cultural context, norms, and social context behind the birth of the text type.The results of this study indicate that the learning outcomes in the second test meeting cycle I showed an increase. The first increase is the grade value of the previous grade is 67.63. At the second meeting the first cycle increased to 76.94. Furthermore, in the range of values 76 - 100 has a percentage of 31.25% increased to 62.5%. that the learning outcomes in the first meeting test in the second cycle showed a significant increase. In the second cycle as a whole mastery of students on the material review patterns, structure and linguistic rules of advertising reached 84.38%.

Using the Cultural Formulation Interview in Denmark: Acceptability and clinical utility for medical doctors and migrant patients

2020 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 556-566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Signe Skammeritz ◽  
Laura Glahder Lindberg ◽  
Erik Lykke Mortensen ◽  
Marie Norredam ◽  
Jessica Carlsson
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Clinical Utility ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
Clinical Encounter ◽  
Health Clinic ◽  
Diagnostic Process ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Cultural Formulation ◽  
Cultural Formulation Interview

Previous studies have shown the importance of focusing on the cultural background of migrant patients in the psychiatric assessment. The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) offers a patient-focused approach to foreground the cultural context of the patient in the clinical encounter. Our objective was to explore the acceptability and clinical utility of the CFI for physicians and its acceptability for migrant patients seen at a transcultural mental health clinic in Denmark. In this study, the CFI was used in a second session following the standard clinical assessment to explore what additional information was gained from the CFI. Data on the use of the CFI data were collected immediately after the interview with questionnaires for medical doctors (MDs) ( N = 12) and patients ( N = 71). The findings showed that the CFI, in addition to standard assessment, was useful to the MDs for planning the treatment (60.0%) and for exploring the patients’ view on their cultural and social context (74.7%), but less so for the diagnostic process (9.9%). Patients reported high overall satisfaction with the CFI (93.0%) and viewed it as a welcome opportunity to tell their story. The findings add to existing knowledge on the CFI in terms of acceptability for patients of a primarily Middle Eastern origin and patients using an interpreter during the CFI session. Based on the findings of this study, the CFI is recommended to clinicians for treatment planning purposes and for exploring the cultural and social context of the patient.

scholarly journals The Meaning of the Snake in the Ancient Greek World

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2
Author(s):  
Diana Rodríguez Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Source Of Information ◽  
Greek World ◽  
Archaic And Classical Greece ◽  
Previous Scholarship

Despite playing no meaningful practical role in the lives of the ancient Greeks, snakes are ubiquitous in their material culture and literary accounts, in particular in narratives which emphasise their role of guardian animals. This paper will mainly utilise vase paintings as a source of information, with literary references for further elucidation, to explain why the snake had such a prominent role and thus clarify its meaning within the cultural context of Archaic and Classical Greece, with a particular focus on Athens. Previous scholarship has tended to focus on dualistic opposites, such as life/death, nature/culture, and creation/destruction. This paper argues instead that ancient Greeks perceived the existence of a special primordial force living within, emanating from, or symbolised by the snake; a force which is not more—and not less—than pure life, with all its paradoxes and complexities. Thus, the snake reveals itself as an excellent medium for accessing Greek ideas about the divine, anthropomorphism, and ancestry, the relationship between humans, nature and the supernatural, and the negotiation of the inevitable dichotomy of old and new.

scholarly journals Oral Tradition in Pantun of Langkat Malay Traditional Wedding Ceremony

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Natsir ◽  
Bakhrul Khair Amal ◽  
Supsiloani Supsiloani ◽  
Rita Suswati
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Wedding Ceremony ◽  
Context Of Situation ◽  
Interview Analysis

The purpose of this study was to conduct the oral tradition in Pantun of Langkat Malay traditional wedding ceremony by using Sibarani’s theory. Oral Tradition itself is text, co-text, and context tradition. The method used in this paper was descriptive and qualitative. For collecting the data the researcher became an instrument by doing observation and unstructured interview. Analysis technique used which were transcribing, reading, comprehending, investigating, describing, and explaining. The findings of text showed theme in Pantun that uttered by telangkai contained gratitude, honor, tradition, persuasion, joke, hoping a kindness, signifying a peace, welcoming guest, enthusiastic, teasing which briefly supported by co-text and context. Co-text described paralinguistic, kinetic, proxemic, and material elements. Some context applied as follow; cultural context, social context, context of situation, and culturalcontext.

scholarly journals “OMO HADA” Arsitektur Tradisional Nias Selatan Diambang Kepunahan

KALPATARU ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fadhlan Syuaib Intan ◽  
Nasruddin Nasruddin
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cultural Work ◽  
Traditional Architecture ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
Aesthetic Values

AbstractThe South Nias cultural heritage presented through the artifacts, in the form of traditional architectural buildings, as well as various megalithic stone buildings with all their forms, is an ancestral cultural work that not only contains aesthetic values, uniqueness and art, but also local wisdom as a source of knowledge which is very valuable to be studied and studied. This important and very valuable heritage must be preserved and preserved. But the attitudes and views of the people towards their cultural heritage are changing, as if they no longer have sacred values, even the value of local wisdom begins to fade over time. The existence of South Nias traditional houses is relatively more sustainable compared to other traditional houses. To maintain its existence, changes are needed to accommodate the current residential needs of the community. On the other hand, these changes have the potential to eliminate the character or authenticity of traditional Nias Selatan architecture. This study aims to find out about traditional technologies and architectural changes that occur and their impact on the existence of traditional South Nias houses. From the various problems of the South Nias cultural heritage that are being faced, this study tries to highlight aspects of traditional architecture and local wisdom, including the accompanying megalithic elements. The subjects that will be studied use an ethno-archaeological approach with emphasis on the observation method through direct observation of objects of material culture and social aspects at the research site. In this way it makes it easier for us to observe directly and in detail the architectural forms and components, both exterior and interior as well as the decorative types in the past cultural context of South Nias.Keywords: Traditional Architecture, Megalithic, Cultural HeritageAbstrak Warisan budaya Nias Selatan yang dipresentasikan lewat  peninggalan artefak, berupa  bangunan berarsitektur tradisional, maupun beragam bangunan batu megalit dengan segala rupa bentuknya, merupakan karya budaya leluhur  yang tidak hanya mengandung nilai estetika, keunikan dan seni semata, tetapi juga merupakan kearifan lokal sebagai sumber ilmu pengetahuan yang sangat berharga untuk dikaji dan dipelajari.  Warisan yang penting dan sangat berharga  ini wajib dipelihara dan dilestarikan. Namun sikap dan pandangan masyarakatnya  terhadap warisan budayanya, sedang berubah, seakan tidak lagi memiliki nilai-nilai sakral, bahkan  nilai kearifan lokal pun mulai luntur seiring perjalanan waktu. Keberadaan rumah tradisional Nias Selatan relatif lebih bertahan eksistensinya dibandingkan rumah tradisional lainnya. Untuk mempertahankan eksistensinya, diperlukan perubahan untuk mengakomodasi kebutuhan hunian masyarakat saat ini. Di sisi lain, perubahan tersebut berpotensi menghilangkan karakter atau keaslian  arsitektur tradisional Nias Selatan. Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui teknologi tradisional dan perubahan arsitektur yang terjadi dan dampaknya terhadap eksistensi dari rumah tradisional Nias Selatan. Dari berbagai masalah warisan budaya Nias Selatan yang sedang dihadapi itu,  maka penelitian ini mencoba menyoroti aspek  arsitektur tradisional maupun kearifan lokalnya, termasuk unsur megalitik yang menyertainya. Subyek yang akan  dikaji ini memakai pendekatan etnoarkeologi dengan  penekanan  pada metode  observasi melalui pengamatan langsung terhadap obyek-obyek budaya material dan aspek sosial di lokasi penelitian. Dengan cara ini memudahkan kita mengamati secara langsung dan detil bentuk-bentuk arsitektur dan komponennya, baik eksterior dan interior maupun ragam hias dalam konteks budaya masa lalu Nias Selatan.Kata Kunci: Arsitektur Tradisional, Megalitik, Warisan Budaya

scholarly journals Reaktualisasi Ajaran Islam: Studi atas Pemikiran Hukum Munawir Sjadzali

2006 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yunahar Ilyas
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Legal Rule ◽  
Legal Issues ◽  
Legal Decision ◽  
Land Owners ◽  
Rational Thought

<p>Referring to Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya and Abū Yūsuf, Munawir Sjadzali says that it is necessary to make use of rational thought based on social context in reasoning and applying a legal rule. It is historical that Caliph ‘Umar has practiced this principle in connection with the case of land loot. Instead of taking the land of Syrians as loot, the Caliph ‘Umar took tax from the land owners and distributed the money for military. In another chance, Caliph ‘Umar stopped giving zakāh to mu’allaf group because there is no longer need to give them zakāh in the current situation, different from what Prophet Muhammad and Caliph Abū Bakr have practiced. According to Sjadzali, there are a lot of Islamic legal issues to which an intensive attention and contextualization should be drawn, such as the law of inheritance, zakāh for mu’allaf, bank interest, woman leadership, woman testimony, inter-religious marriage, non Muslim status, slavery, et cetera. The main idea of Sjadzali’s thought is the necessity to take social and cultural context of the society into account at comprehending, and then concluding a legal decision from, Quranic verses concerning with social life, though this will led to not apply the extrinsic meaning of those verses.</p>

scholarly journals Masjid dan Musala dalam Sorotan: Kajian Sosiopragmatik Kesalahan Nama Masjid/ Musala di Padang

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-138
Author(s):  
Syofyan Hadi ◽  
Yufni Faisol ◽  
Wartiman Wartiman
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Methods ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Research Finding ◽  
Field Research ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
The Social

This study is an extension research of previous research finding conducted by researcher and team, which resulted in more than 50 names of mosques and musalas in Padang were considered error. These forms of error exist in terms of morphological, semantic, morphology and semantic contexts and imla’ rules. However, to explain these errors more compre­hensively, a sociopragmatic viewpoint is required. In this context, it can be assumed that in understanding a word or language, the socio­logical context of the speaker and its use in determining and choosing certain symbols in their language are necessary to be considered. The phe­nomenon of naming a house of worship such as a mosque and musala cannot be separated from social context of the owners of the place of worship. This frequently causes pragmalinguistic failure in under­standing the phenomenon of language which only relies on how to express language structurally, following the rules exclusively without giving attention to the social and cultural context of the speaker itself. This research is a field research which applies qualitative methods. The main data is obtained through interviews with mosques and musalas administrator and also the surrounding community to find out the historical and socio-cultural background of naming the mosques or musalas. The data of this study are all the names of mosques and musalas in Padang, especially those 50 names that are considered error from the perspective of Arabic grammar.Keywords: Sociopragmatics, mosque, musala, Padang Kajian ini adalah kelanjutan dari temuan peneliti dan tim yang dalam penelitian sebelumnya mendapatkan kesalahan pada lebih dari 50 nama masjid dan musala yang ada di kota Padang. Bentuk-bentuk kesalahan tersebut ada dalam konteks morfologis, semantic, morfologis dan semantic serta kaidah imlai’. Akan tetapi, untuk menjelaskan kesalahan tersebut secara lebih komprehensif diperlukan sudut pandang sosiopragmatik. Dalam konteks ini bisa dipahami bahwa pemahaman sebuah kata atau bahasa haruslah memperhatikan konteks sosiologis penutur dan pengguna­nya dalam menentukan dan memilih simbol tertentu dalam bahasa mereka. Tidak terkecuali tentunya penamaan sebuah rumah ibadah seperti masjid dan musala yang juga tidak bisa dilepaskan dari konteks sosial masyarakat yang menjadi pemilik rumah ibadah tersebut. Hal ini yang seringkali menjadi penyebab kegagalan pragmalinguistik dalam memahami feno­mena bahasa yang hanya bertumpu pada bagaimana mengungkapkan bahasa sesuai aturan tanpa memberikan perhatian kepada koteks sosial dan cultural penutur itu sendiri. Penelitian ini adalah penelitian lapangan (field research) dengan menggunakan metode kualitatif, di mana data utama diperoleh melalui wawancara dengan pengurus masjid dan musala dan juga masyarakat sekitar untuk mengetahui latar belakang historis dan sosio-budaya penamaan masjid atau musala mereka. Adapun data pene­litian ini adalah semua nama masjid dan musala yang ada di kota Padang, khususnya yang dianggap keliru dalam sudut pandang tata bahasa Arab yaitu kurang lebih 50 masjid dan musala.Kata Kunci: Sosiopragmatik, Masjid, Musala, Padang

Why do the British still remember Scott of the Antarctic?

2012 ◽  
pp. 47-58
Author(s):  
Max Jones
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
South Pole ◽  
The South ◽  
Geographical Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Polar Research Institute ◽  
Visual Record ◽  
The Antarctic ◽  
Widespread Interest

The announcement of the death of the British polar explorer Captain Robert Scott on his return from the South Pole, which he had reached on 17 January 1912, caused a sensation in Britain and around the world. Although he lost the race to the South Pole to a Norwegian party led by Roald Amundsen, the recent centenary of Scott’s last expedition aroused widespread interest not only in Britain but around the world. This paper examines why the British public continues to consume Scott’s story, with particular reference to the period since 1945. Part one examines how Scott’s story has been adapted to the cultural context of post-imperial Britain, in part by emphasising the scientific aims of his last expedition. Part two moves on to emphasise how this new emphasis was supported by the Royal Geographical Society and the Scott Polar Research Institute, and drew on the extensive material culture and striking visual record left by the Terra Nova expedition.

Beyond the Word: Ink in the Islamic Manuscripts of Northern Nigeria

2011 ◽  
Vol 1319 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaelle L Biddle
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Dominant Role ◽  
Field Testing ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Northern Nigeria ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Arabic Script ◽  
Production Knowledge

ABSTRACTThis paper is focused on results of a survey and study in Northern Nigeria of the inks used in Islamic manuscripts and on related information on the extant traditional technologies of ink production. Knowledge of the specific inks used in the surviving, largely undated Northern Nigerian manuscripts written in Arabic script, often referred to as Islamic manuscripts, informs us about the society that created them and embeds their production within a specific cultural context. In a place such as Africa, where the historical record and archaeological heritage are so vulnerable, we look to all vestiges of material culture in order to expand out understanding of its people, its history and their culture. These manuscripts belong to the West African tradition of Islamic culture and scholarship, of which Timbuktu was a key center. Whilst another goal of the study was to establish a watermark chronology to provide information as to the papers‘ source, when particular papers were made, when manuscripts might have been copied, and their creators‘ paper preferences, the focus of this paper is on identifying and field-testing the inks used in these manuscripts. This study of over twelve thousand folios at fourteen manuscript Northern Nigerian repositories involved 4500 km of road travel and suggested a local, interrelated tradition of dye, ink and pigment fabrication. Preliminary data led to the hypothesis that the local technology provided the basis of the indigenous manuscript production, rather than one derived from the Mediterranean and the Islamic heartlands. Finally, the diversity of these manuscripts in Arabic script reflects a culture in which not everyone was Muslim but in which Islam played a dominant role.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document