EVOLUTION OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST FOR ANONYMOUS LANGUAGE PHENOMENON

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-93
Author(s):  
Evgeniya A. REPINA ◽  
Dariya N. ROMANOVA
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Professional Practice ◽  
Mutual Influence ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
Professional Interest ◽  
Professional Field

The relevance of modern Russian anonymous architecture is studied. The evolution of the concept «anonymous» and the variety of its connotations in different contexts are viewed. A brief overview of researches influenced on new values formation is presented. Philosophical and cultural background of inclusion of anonymous language in professional field are analyzed as well as mutual influence of artistic and architectural practices. The question of research typological boundaries is raised. The examples of anonymous language legitimation in Russian and world professional architectural practice are presented. Potential values of Russian vernacular architecture are revealed and classified for professional practice. Objects created by non-professionals demonstrate respect for the place, cultural continuity, careful attitude to things, to manual labor and love of folk material culture.

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.

Musical Classicisms in Italy Before the Madrigal

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Shephard
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Capital ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Multiple Copy ◽  
Professional Interest

Abstract Modern evaluations of the relation between music and the fashion for the antique in Italy in the period before the madrigal have tended to proceed from the perspective of intellectual history. This article aims to offer an alternative—although certainly related—perspective, by exploring the circulation of musical classicisms in Italian visual and material culture, roughly from 1450 to 1520. This period saw the rise to prominence in Italy of both commercial text printing and other multiple-copy formats such as the art print, the medal, the bronze plaquette, and a little later historiated maiolica. These technologies offer a particularly compelling lens through which to examine musical encounters with classical antiquity that were not motivated by an expert professional interest in either music or classical texts, but rather characterized by an investment in antiquity as a fashionable source of cultural capital.

Lifeblood of the Parish

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Neighborhood Change ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Body ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Material Religion

Each year the Shrine Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, celebrates its annual Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and San Paolino di Nola. The crowning event is the Dance of the Giglio, a devotional spectacle of strength and struggle in which men lift a four-ton, seventy-foot tower through the streets. This ethnographic study delves into this masculine world of devotion and the religious lives of lay Catholic men. It explores contemporary men’s devotion to the saints and the Catholic parish as an enduring venue for the pursuit of manhood and masculinity amid gentrification and neighborhood change in New York City. It explores the way laymen imagine themselves and their labor as high stakes, the very work of keeping their parish alive. In this Brooklyn church men, money, and devotion are intertwined. In the backstage spaces of the parish men enact their devotion through craft, manual labor, and fundraising. A rich exploration of embodiment and material religion, this book examines how men come to be part of religious community through material culture: costumes, clothing, objects, and tattoos. It argues that devotion is as much about skills, the body, and relationships between men as it is about belief.

“Seven Fallacies in Architectural Culture”

2006 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Douglas Kelbaugh
Keyword(s):  
Professional Practice ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Social Equity ◽  
Media Technology ◽  
Architectural Practice ◽  
The World ◽  
The Media ◽  
Progressive Force

As an architect and educator I worry about the intellectual and pragmatic challenges that currently bedevil architectural practice and pedagogy. There are at least seven design fallacies that in various combinations permeate professional practice and studio culture at most schools of architecture. Some are self-imposed and tractable; others are less easily addressed because they are externally driven by the media, technology, globalization and capital. Some are about form-making; others are about social equity and environmental sustainability. All seven are deeply embedded in our architectural psyches. Changing them will not be easy, but change them we must if we want to recuperate architecture and urbanism, as well as invigorate them as a more positive and progressive force in the world.

Vernacular architecture in eastern Senegal: Chaînes opératoires and technical choices

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 348-378
Author(s):  
Thomas Pelmoine ◽  
Anne Mayor
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Sub Saharan Africa ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Construction Techniques ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Environmental Adaptations ◽  
Sub Saharan ◽  
Linguistic Groups

Architecture is an important component of cultural identity, but knowledge regarding construction techniques using local materials is gradually disappearing, and this subject has rarely been studied in sub-Saharan Africa. This ethno-archaeological study of current vernacular architecture and its evolution during the past three centuries in eastern Senegal therefore brings innovative results that are interesting on different levels. In relation to West Africa, the authors aim to provide new knowledge useful for archaeologists lacking references for interpreting past remains, as well as an archive for historical and heritage studies. More widely, the study constitutes a reference for the description of various mud-building techniques and an attempt to understand the mechanisms explaining their transformations, which should concern all scientists interested in vernacular architecture, in Africa and beyond. More precisely, this article accounts for the variability of techniques used for constructing walls and roofs of dwellings in the Faleme valley among different ethno-linguistic groups, while considering the environmental, cultural and socio-economic factors at play. The authors’ methodology is based on a description of the chaînes opératoires of construction, interviews, mapping and statistical analysis. The patterns observed facilitate a discussion on the evolution of techniques, environmental adaptations, the transfer of knowledge and the role of history in material culture dynamics.

scholarly journals AN INTERVIEW ABOUT SADDLE-MAKING, ONE OF THE TRADITIONAL HANDICRAFTS, IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-70
Author(s):  
Yusuf Ziya Sümbüllü ◽  
◽  
Melinda Botalić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
The Past

Handicraft products are of great value as material culture products since they have been used during definite times of a society. These products are significant because they will ensure cultural continuity between the past and future. Saaddle-making, a conventional handicraft, is one of these aforesaid culture transmitters of which realm of existence is getting narrow because of developing technology

scholarly journals COMPARATIVE STUDY OF FOOD VOCABULARY (DAIRY) IN TURKIC LANGUAGES OF SIBERIA

2021 ◽  
pp. 9-20
Author(s):  
Федор Николаевич Дьячковский ◽  
Наталья Иннокентьевна Попова ◽  
Алена Робертовна Тазранова ◽  
Светлана Менкеновна Трофимова ◽  
Наталья Николаевна Широбокова
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Contrastive Analysis ◽  
Crucial Element ◽  
Traditional Diet ◽  
Turkic Languages ◽  
Professional Field ◽  
The Given

Общеизвестно, что среди специальных лексических номинаций ведущее место принадлежит так называемым народным терминам, которые рассматриваются как слова или словосочетания, служащие средством номинации понятий той или иной сферы профессиональной деятельности. В статье на основе традиционной системы питания тюркских народов Сибири проводится сравнительно-исторический, этимологический, сопоставительный анализ наименований молочных продуктов питания, являющихся неизменным и важным элементом материальной культуры народов, издавна населяющих обширные пространства Сибири. Выявлено, что диалектная лексика все ещё оказывает заметное влияние на литературные языки алтайцев, тувинцев, хакасов, якутов, о чём свидетельствует пополнение их лексики народными терминами традиционной материальной культуры из различных источников, особенно из текстов фольклорных, эпических произведений, изданных местными носителями говоров тюркских языков Сибири. Названия молочных продуктов в тюркских языках Сибири не едины по своему происхождению. В них, наряду с тюркскими корнями, наличествует значительное количество монгольских, тунгусо-маньчжурских элементов. В названиях молочной пищи наблюдается лексика, возникшая в результате формирования и развития диалектов. Данная группа слов в рассматриваемых языках отражает их исторические контакты как с родственными, так и неродственными народами. It is well known that among special lexical nominations dominate so called folk terms referred to as words or word combinations instrumental for nominating ideas of a certain professional field. Based on the traditional diet of Turkic peoples of Siberia, we conduct a comparative-historical, etymological, contrastive analysis of dairy names which are a crucial element of the material culture of peoples inhabiting vast taiga areas of Siberia and Russian Far East. It has been found that dialect vocabulary still has a notable impact on literary languages of the Altai, the Tuva, the Khakass, and the Yakut as evidenced by the fact that folk terms of traditional material culture enter their vocabulary, especially those from folklore, epic texts published by speakers of local dialects of Siberian languages. Diary names are not uniform in terms of their origin. They show a significant number of Mongolic, Tungusic, and Chinese elements along with Turkic roots. Dairy names include vocabulary resulting from formation and development of dialects. The given group of words in Turkic languages of Siberia reflects historical contacts with both related and non-related peoples.

scholarly journals The Real Tools of Magic: Pamphile’s Macabre Paraphernalia (Apuleius, Met. 3,17,4-5)

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
Leonardo Costantini
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Background ◽  
Doctoral Dissertation ◽  
Second Sophistic ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Real ◽  
Research Fellow ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
Postdoctoral Research ◽  
The Witch

This study aims to shed new light on the references to the materiality of magic in the description of the witch Pamphile’s laboratory at Apul. Met. 3,17,4-5. Through comparing this passage with earlier descriptions of magical paraphernalia in Horace, Lucan, and Petronius and by drawing parallels with non-literary evidence – especially the Papyri Graecae Magicae and the Defixionum Tabellae – it will be shown how Apuleius borrows from the material culture of magic to provide his readership with an exceptionally realistic and gruesome account. Leonardo Costantini is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, where he is working on a new commentary on Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 3 to complete the GCA series. His research focuses on the literary and textual aspects of Apuleius’ literary works, the ancient novels, writings of the Second Sophistic, taking into account their socio-cultural background with particular attention to Greco-Roman magic. A reworked version of his doctoral dissertation, devoted to Apuleius’ Apologia and magic, is forthcoming at De Gruyter, series: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde.

American Folk Buildings, Constructions, and Landscapes

2018 ◽  
pp. 366-395
Author(s):  
Simon J. Bronner
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cognitive Process ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Primary Concern ◽  
Continuous Development ◽  
Architectural Styles ◽  
Behavioral Evidence

The study of traditional buildings, constructions, and cultural landscapes is part of what folklorists refer to as “material culture.” In addition to recording the folklore of various structures, folklorists analyze buildings inside and outside as complex expressive texts examined for their form, construction, use, and decoration. Analysis of form has usually been a primary concern for comparative study of region, ethnicity, and space, and behavioral aspects in and around buildings have gained attention for studies of everyday life and cognition that generate the enclosures people build—including dwellings for animals, vegetation, and the deceased as part of cultural landscapes. Using different terms such as “folk housing” and “vernacular architecture” for constructed dwellings, folklorists examine buildings and constructions, and their surroundings, such as lawns, fences, and planted trees, in continuous development and change. This view is apparent in the different research goals using structural and behavioral evidence of buildings, constructions, and cultural landscapes to determine (1) regional boundaries and ideas of space, (2) community and individual affiliation with architectural styles and building techniques, and (3) identification of cognitive process and symbolism of American building forms.

Manual Labor and the Artistry of Devotion in the Basement

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-104
Author(s):  
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Manual Labor ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Religious Transmission ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Church

This chapter explores masculinity and material culture in the backstage space of the church basement, where devotional and ritual objects are under construction. It argues that manual labor is devotional labor and examines the relationship between masculinity, embodiment, and religious transmission. In the basement men learn to embody masculine values and skills, like craft, creativity, and dedication. Through painting saints and building the giglio men enact their devotion and commitment to the parish and achieve belonging and status in the feast community. In this homosocial space, men demonstrate proficiency in Catholic iconography and negotiate questions of materiality and sacred presence as they repair the broken bodies of saints. This chapter explores the relationship between homosociality, Catholic practice, joking, and camaraderie among lay men. As embodied ethnography, this chapter centers reflexivity by examining the positionality of the female ethnographer in the male space and gender in fieldwork.

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