Inter-Cultural Limbo: The Dilemma of Western Education in Traditional Societies: Egypt as a Case-Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Mansour ◽  
Sebastian Ille ◽  
Mervat Madkour
Keyword(s):  
Western Education ◽  
Traditional Societies

scholarly journals Juxtaposing adherence to COVID-19 regulations and practising proper burial rites: a case study of Zulu Traditional Religion

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evangeline Bonisiwe Zungu
Keyword(s):  
Family Members ◽  
Traditional Religion ◽  
High Likelihood ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Living Dead ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Burial Rites ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

The recent COVID-19 pandemic took the world by storm. The rate of infection and prevalence of death struck fear in the hearts of many across the globe. The high likelihood of infection required continual testing whilst the trauma of bereavement left many distraught. For traditionalists, a principal concern was whether they would be permitted to exhaustively practise their burial rites in the course of mourning their loved ones. The importance of the custom, as it is believed, is to prevent unsettled feelings in family members. This article is aimed at stimulating consideration, reflection and understanding of the concerns experienced by traditional societies surrounding COVID-19 regulations and the non-performance of important burial rites. Surviving family members experience troubled thoughts as a result of the fear of repercussions, which may include the living-dead withholding their protection of the family which consequently will cause ailments and accidents. This article will utilise inductive thematic analysis to interpret the data collected .

Nuptiality to regulate the commons? The case of the Don Cossacks (South Russia), 1867–1916

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noël Bonneuil ◽  
Elena Fursa
Keyword(s):  
Population Growth ◽  
Net Present Value ◽  
Early Marriage ◽  
Age At Marriage ◽  
Agrarian Economy ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Commons ◽  
Age Of Marriage ◽  
Important Marker

Abstract Sustainability in the commons has been associated with the optimal net present value controlled by the harvest rate under stationary population. Population growth however disrupts this scheme. In traditional societies, fertility was regulated by age at marriage. In times of population growth and limited resources, economic sustainability then requires that age of marriage should be raised. In the case study of the Don Cossacks, 1867–1916, early marriage, which was an important marker of social cohesion, was too slow to increase when mortality declined, fuelling a population growth that threatened the agrarian economy: age at marriage then appears to be essential to the theory of the commons in traditional societies.

Joseph Booth, Charles Domingo, and the Seventh Day Baptists in Northern Nyasaland, 1910–1912

1971 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 461-480 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth P. Lohrentz
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
External Factors ◽  
Labour Migration ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Western Education

This article attempts to assess more precisely the role of the Seventh Day Baptist movement in nothern Nyasaland as a case study in African reactions to missions and to colonial rule. Internal factors contributing to the establishment of the movement included an intense desire among Africans to acquire a western education apart from European missionary control, and the competent leadership provided by Charles Domingo. External factors included the influence of Joseph Booth and the pattern of labour migration from Nyasaland to southern Africa.

Hot Literacy in Cold Societies: A Comparative Study of the Sacred Value of Writing

1991 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 225-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. Niezen
Keyword(s):  
West Africa ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Islamic Reform ◽  
Medieval Europe ◽  
Growth Of Knowledge ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Village Society

The argument that the presence or absence of widespread literacy constitutes the central criterion to distinguish “savage” from “domesticated” society, presented by Goody in a number of works (1968, 1977, 1986, 1987), makes close associations between alphabetic literacy and the growth of knowledge and between restricted literacy and traditional societies. In this essay, I will challenge these associations by presenting material from medieval Europe, in which the milieu of restricted literacy is creative, and from Muslim Africa, in which widespread literacy does not lead to criticism or the revision of basic religious tenets. Second, I will deal with some of the reasons for the vitality of Islamic reform in West Africa, concerning myself principally with the impact of Western education on village society and the response of reformers through the promotion of Arabic literacy. A consideration of Western education and acculturation is vital for an understanding of scriptural reformed Islam's appeal. The latter issue will emerge from the material to be presented, but I will deal exclusively with the literacy debate for the moment.

scholarly journals Incantation as a Means of Communication in Yorùbá Land: ‘Eégún Aláré’ as a Case Study

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Opoola BolanleTajudeen
Keyword(s):  
Oral Literature ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Western Education ◽  
The Past ◽  
Negative Form

Yorùbá oral literature is of three categories namely chant, song and recitation. This paper, therefore, focused on incantation as a means of communication among the masquerades in Yorùbá land with its data drawn from “Eégún Aláré”, a Yorùbá novel. Incantation is a combination of carefully arranged speeches or words in a poetic form and its use makes things work miraculously as the users wish or words that make human wishes come to reality with immediate effect. Before Christianity and Islam gained prominence in the Yorùbá society, Alárìnjó masquerades were among the well known traditional public entertainers and that during performances, incantation was often used to know who is who among the masquerades. However, Christianity and Islam have made the use of incantation, as a means of communication during masquerade performances, a thing of the past and what used to be a family profession in the past is no longer so because members of the Ọ̀jẹ̀ families who were in charge of this cultural profession in the past have now been converted to either Christianity or Islam or have been negatively influenced by Western education. This study nullifies the communication chain as the person to whom incantation is directed does not need to understand the language of the person that uses the incantation as the feed back would be the effect of the incantation in positive or negative form. The essence of this paper is to promote Yoruba oral literature through formal documentation of incantation as a Yoruba linguistic verbal art.

Chinese students' great expectations: Prospective pre-school teachers on the move

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stig Thøgersen
Keyword(s):  
Study Abroad ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Transformative Experience ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
Education Abroad ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Innovative Economy ◽  
Prior Experiences

The article focuses on Chinese students' hopes and expectations before leaving to study abroad. The national political environment for their decision to go abroad is shaped by an official narrative of China's transition to a more creative and innovative economy. Students draw on this narrative to interpret their own educational histories and prior experiences, while at the same time making use of imaginaries of 'Western' education to redefine themselves as independent individuals in an increasingly globalised and individualised world. Through a case study of prospective pre-school teachers preparing to study abroad, the article shows how personal, professional and even national goals are closely interwoven. Students expect education abroad to be a personally transformative experience, but rather than defining their goals of individual freedom and creativity in opposition to the authoritarian political system, they think of themselves as having a role in the transformation of Chinese attitudes to education and parent-child relations.

Barriers to Economic Development in Traditional Societies: Malabar, A Case Study

1959 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 504-522 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Shea
Keyword(s):  
Social Relationships ◽  
World Market ◽  
Agricultural Products ◽  
Economic Organization ◽  
Agricultural Producers ◽  
Southwest Coast Of India ◽  
The Social ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
Cultivation Techniques

The district of Malabar on the Southwest coast of India has been a major exporter of a wide variety of agricultural products to Europe for more than two thousand years. Despite the two millenia of sustained contact between agricultural producers and merchants, however, social relationships in land are, even today, of a predominantly feudal character; cultivation techniques are generally primitive, and the rural portion of the district, notwithstanding the great commercial importance of its produce, appears to be surprisingly impoverished. How could the social and economic organization of a people so long exposed to the influence of world market activity remain so little affected by the currents of economic change and development in the outside world? The purpose of this article is to explore, by the study of this extreme example, the reasons for the apparent failure of a pattern of sustained economic growth to become established in a rural area exposed to continuing commercial influences.

scholarly journals Ownership of Education Reforms in the Kyrgyz Republic: Kto V Dome Hozyain?

2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan J. Deyoung
Keyword(s):  
School Reform ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Education Reforms ◽  
Kyrgyz Republic ◽  
Soviet Republic ◽  
Western Education ◽  
Independent Country ◽  
World Bank Project

An important subset of issues involved in describing the process of educational globalization emerges when considering the reception, response and/or rejection of international proposals, ideologies and agents by indigenous national and regional educators. This case study describes and discusses how foreign/Western education proposals and policies were solicited and then responded to by educators in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan, now an independent country, between 2001 and 2004. It also discusses the pivotal role of one key figure in the process, the former minister of education in Kyrgyzstan, now responsible for a large World Bank project to improve rural education in that country. A powerful figure both in her own nation and in the eyes of foreign sponsors, both American and European, her biography continues to illustrate both possibilities and tensions between the former education system and international hopes and designs for school reform in the Kyrgyz Republic.

scholarly journals TOBA BATAK HOUSE OF HUTA BAGASAN IN JANGGA DOLOG VILLAGE

Arsitektura ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Margareta Maria Sudarwani ◽  
Iwan Priyoga
Keyword(s):  
Physical Structure ◽  
Major Influence ◽  
Traditional Society ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
The People ◽  
Traditional Societies ◽  
North Sumatra ◽  
Special Meaning ◽  
Building Elements

<p class="Abstract"><em>Each region basically has a traditional house that has characteristics in accordance with the local wisdom of each region. Each traditional house will reflect the identity </em><em>that grows </em><em>in the area. The physical structure of the building of traditional houses in anthropology in different traditional societies will bring up building elements that are depicted in the form of ornaments as a symbol of meaning that has special meaning in the area. Symbolizing the building of a traditional society, the building elements have a special meaning that is recognized by the builders as an important element for building strength and stability. Research into the homes of a traditional society gives us some valuable views for the conception of housing. Likewise in the case study of a traditional house in Jangga Dolok</em><em> Village</em><em>, Lumbun Julu </em><em>District</em><em>, Toba Samosir Regency, North Sumatra Province.</em><em> M</em><em>ajority of the people are Batak people. Batak Traditional Houses have a major influence in the spatial planning of the area. Besides that, the symbolization of houses living in Batak people cannot be separated from the influence of socio-cultural life and all aspects manifested in the symbolization of Batak Traditional Houses which have special meaning</em><em>.</em><em></em></p>

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