The Power of the Fujiwara Clan and the Formation of the Social Custom in Ancient Japan-focused on Ōkagami (大鏡)

2019 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 435-458
Author(s):  
Yi-soon Park ◽  
Keyword(s):  
The Social ◽  
Social Custom

Expanding Coverage in the History Course by Toasting Significant but often Overlooked Contributors

1993 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 112-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Randall D. Wight
Keyword(s):  
History Of Psychology ◽  
Teaching Activity ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
Psychology Course

This teaching activity attempts to expand the range of contributions usually covered in a history of psychology course by incorporating the social custom of toasting.

Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Lombardi Barber ◽  
Stephen Greenblatt
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Social History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Twelfth Night ◽  
Social Form ◽  
Dramatic Form ◽  
The Social ◽  
May Day ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
The Way

This book argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, the book traces the inward journey—psychological, bodily, spiritual—of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. “I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture.” This new edition includes a foreword that discusses the author's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that the author has inspired, showing that this book is as vital today as when it was originally published.

scholarly journals COMMONWEALTH: THE SOCIAL, CULTURAL, AND CONCEPTUAL CONTEXTS OF AN EARLY MODERN KEYWORD

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 659-687 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Linguistic Change ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
Textual Approach ◽  
Anglophone World

ABSTRACTThe article explores ‘commonwealth’ both as a term and a conceptual field across the early modern period, with a particular focus on the Anglophone world. The shifts of usage of ‘commonwealth’ are explored, from a term used to describe the polity, to one used to describe a particular, republican form of polity, through to its eclipse in the eighteenth century by other terms such as ‘nation’ and ‘state’. But the article also investigates the variety of usages during any one time, especially at moments of crisis, and the network of related terms that constituted ‘commonwealth’. That investigation requires, it is argued, not just a textual approach but one that embraces social custom and practice, as well as the study of literary and visual forms through which the keyword ‘commonwealth’ was constructed. The article emphasizes the importance of social context to language; the forms, metaphors and images used to describe and depict the polity; and to show how linguistic change could occur through the transmutation of elements of the conceptual field that endowed the keyword with its meaning.

scholarly journals The Quest for Teachers of the ‘Right Stamp’ as Prerequisite to Progress of Female Education in Eastern Bengal: The Partition Interlude

2012 ◽  
pp. 53-74
Author(s):  
Asha Islam Nayeem
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Female Education ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Instruction ◽  
Out Of School

When the nineteenth century came to its glorious end, in Bengal, the storm surrounding the question of women’s education had settled in favor of progress. Conditions for the spread of female education, however, were still precarious, to say the very least. The three chief deterrents to the spread of female education, as recorded in official documents, were: (a) the custom of early marriage, after which girls dropped out of school and more often than not lapsed into ignorance; (b) the system of purdah, the social custom which prevented grown up girls from venturing out of the house to attend school; and, (c) the lack of female teachers (Report on Public Instruction, 1899-1900).DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3329/afj.v4i0.12932 The Arts Faculty Journal Vol.4 July 2010-June 2011 pp.53-74

The Propitiatory Meal

2003 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 82-89
Author(s):  
Chitrita Banerji
Keyword(s):  
Caste System ◽  
Funerary Practices ◽  
Large Section ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
Ancient Times ◽  
Lower Castes

This article is an analysis of the varied ways in which the meal has been used as a tool for appeasement and propitiation in Bengali Hindu society from ancient times. Bengal is a region that is naturally fertile and yet is often subjected to the fearsome destruction of floods and cyclones. The uncertainty of life has always been palpable here. The numerous rivers that make the region a delta also made Bengal the last hinterland of Aryan exploration and settlement in ancient times. Pre-Aryan inhabitants, whom historians describe as proto-Australoid, subscribed to animistic beliefs, which blurred the line between this world and the next. Their funerary practices involved serving food to supernatural creatures who inhabited the earth. In such a region, the imposition of the Hindu caste system, which attributed preeminence to the Brahmins and the males, further increased the sense of vulnerability on the part of a large section of the population'women and members of the lower castes. Mythic notions of food as something with which to appease a dangerous creature eventually translated into the social custom of serving carefully prepared meals to gods, Brahmins, males and other beings with power and superiority. The article presents examples from mythology, religious texts, literature and even film, to illustrate this custom. Widows were particularly vulnerable in Bengali Hindu society. They were not allowed to remarry and also blamed for the death of their husbands. The rituals and deprivations of a widow's life provide the most poignant instances of appeasement through food. One of the best-known rituals of propitiation is the Bengali feast of Jamaishashthi, when the son-in-law is invited by his wife's family and served an elaborate multi-course meal. He is also given expensive gifts. The purpose of the ritual was to ensure that he treats his wife well and protects her from being treated too abusively by his mother and sisters. The practice has survived in modern times even though it has lost much of its potent significance.

scholarly journals A Study on Bone Mass in Elderly Chinese Foot-Binding Women

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi Pan ◽  
Ling Qin ◽  
Mian Xu ◽  
Yin He ◽  
Juan Bao ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Femoral Neck ◽  
Bone Mass ◽  
Statistical Difference ◽  
Lumbar Vertebrae ◽  
Lumbar Vertebra ◽  
Mineral Density ◽  
The Social ◽  
Elderly Chinese ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
Foot Binding

The aim of this study is to understand the influences of the social custom of foot binding on female osteoporosis by means of comparing and analyzing the lumbar vertebrae and hip bone mass differences between the foot-binding aged women and unbound women of the same age at Qujing District of Yunnan Province. Of the examined people, 81.37% suffer from osteoporosis on the basis of lumbar vertebra (L1–L4) and femoral neck BMD, of which 82.14% for the foot-binding group and 80.44% for the unbound group. There is no statistical difference for the osteoporosis morbidity of the two groups. Compare the BMD value for various vertebrae, femoral neck, and rehabilitation of the two groups and find the BMD value for the other parts have no statistical difference except the BMD value of L1 centrum, which shows that foot binding does not significantly influence the overall bone mineral density of foot-binding women.

Mapping Dowry Exchanges: Snapshots of Nineteenth Century Palm Leaves

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Ignatius Payyappilly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Crucial Point ◽  
Family Problems ◽  
Christian Communities ◽  
Cultural Impacts ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Custom ◽  
Christian Families ◽  
Palm Leave

The Palm leave records of the Syrian Christian communities in Kerala, belonging to eighteenth and nineteenth century, remain as evidences of the practice of dowry (Stridhanam) among the Syrian Christians and donations such as passaram, nadavazhakkam, kurippanam, kudappanam etc made to the churches and priests in relation to the marriage. Records say that this social custom, also known as Stridhanam was a crucial point of marriage and it was very often a matter of dispute and family problems. In spite of all disputes and difficulties existed in the Syrian Christian families and in the society at large because of this custom, no church record could be traced against this system. This paper is an attempt to explore and analyse the nature and practice of this social custom among Syrian Christians in the nineteenth century, who are Christian in faith and religion but are not different from the Hindus in their social customs and practices. Likewise, this paper is an attempt to analyse the social and cultural impacts of dowry (stridhanam) and the attitude of the society as well as that of Church authorities towards this custom and how did they tax the people in connection with the marriage. Keywords: Dowry; stridhanam; syrian christians; passaram; nadavazhakkam; palm leave records; christian marriage

The Brief Study on the Inscription-Brocade and Weaving Technology of the Han Dynasty

2012 ◽  
Vol 627 ◽  
pp. 252-257
Author(s):  
An Ding Liu ◽  
Bin Li ◽  
Yi Ping Qiu
Keyword(s):  
Great Influence ◽  
Han Dynasty ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Technical Application ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
The Social ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Weaving Technology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Custom

Inscription-brocade played an important role in the history of textile technology and exerted great influence upon social production of the Han Dynasty in China. Through analyzing the features of the inscription on the brocade and the social reasons for their emergence, we believe there is a close relationship among the inscription and the social custom, psychology and artistic style of the time. In addition, the perfect combination of inscription and patterns on the brocade stood witness to the mighty advance in the silk technology, the weaving machine such as multi-heald and multi-pedal loom, and the technical application for weaving warp-faced patterns.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document