scholarly journals Television and Material Culture: Mediating the Temporal and Consumerist Practices in Pre-liberalised Kerala

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Benita Acca Benjamin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Television Viewing ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Advertising Strategies ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
Discursive Context

The introduction of television in Kerala was an event marked by the encounter between spatial practices, discursive structures and visual paradigms. As a result, it becomes important to contextualise television’s presence in Kerala in the socio-economic conditions that defined the region in and around the time when television was introduced. This would provide some seminal cues about the mutual imbrications between television and its politico-discursive context. The present paper tries to look into the ways in which television fashioned new spatio-temporal practices and embodied various consumerist tendencies in pre-liberalised Kerala to argue that television is an artifact grounded in the region’s cultural values and material aspirations. The first section looks at how television-viewing and the socialities formed around the act were ‘timed’ by television. In the second section, the paper studies the popular advertising strategies employed to market television as a ‘tamed’ object that is representative of the consumerist aspirations that defined the region.

scholarly journals The Nourishing Art

IDEA JOURNAL ◽  
1969 ◽  
pp. 35-45
Author(s):  
Jane Lawrence ◽  
Rachel Hurst
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
Domestic Architecture ◽  
First Year ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Pedagogical Approach ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Basic Characteristics ◽  
Detailed Application

Cooking is regarded as one of the most basic characteristics of civilised existence, almost as critical as shelter in defining and reading the human condition. Frascari (2002) used cooking as an analogy for design suggesting that ‘to build and cook are a necessity, but to build and cook intelligently is the chief obligation of architecture and cuisine’ (p. 3). What is it about this ordinary activity that invites comparison? Is it that the everyday acts of cooking are primary generators of spatial practices and material culture? Or is it that the production of food bears numerous parallels with the production of built space – each following a recipe or plan to manipulate elements into an entity definitively judged by the physical senses? This paper builds upon a companion work titled, ‘Eating Australian Architecture’ (Hurst & Lawrence, 2003), which investigated a pedagogical approach based on parallels between food and design for teaching first year architectural students. In this paper, the focus is on a detailed application of this method to typological analyses of contemporary domestic architecture. It uses three examples of influential Australian design practices, selecting from each a paradigm with which they are associated. Food metaphors of raw, medium and well- done are used to explore emergent characteristics and experiential qualities within the current architectural climate. The apparent extremes between raw and cooked, like those between excess and austerity, are re-evaluated not as simple oppositions or measures of success, but as equally rich modes of approach to design. The argument is made for gastronomy as a persuasive interrogatory tool for the sensory and holistic examination of the built environment.

Rethinking numismatics. The archaeology of coins

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fleur Kemmers ◽  
Nanouschka Myrberg
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Culture Studies ◽  
New Methods ◽  
Constructive Dialogue ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Organization ◽  
The 19Th Century

AbstractThis paper sets out to re-member coins into archaeological discourse. It is argued that coins, as part of material culture, need to be examined within the theoretical framework of historical archaeology and material-culture studies. Through several case studies we demonstrate how coins, through their integration of text, image and existence as material objects, offer profound insights not only into matters of economy and the ‘big history’ of issuers and state organization but also into ‘small histories’, cultural values and the agency of humans and objects. In the formative period of archaeology in the 19th century the study of coins played an important role in the development of new methods and concepts. Today, numismatics is viewed as a field apart. The mutual benefits of our approach to the fields of archaeology and numismatics highlight the need for a new and constructive dialogue between the disciplines.

The Role of Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age

2017 ◽  
pp. 1144-1162
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Modern Business

This chapter introduces the role of cultural dynamics in the digital age, thus explaining the theoretical and practical concepts of organizational culture, cultural values and belief systems, material culture and artifacts, language and communication systems, cultural interpenetration, deterritorialization, cultural pluralism, and hybridization; the categorization of cultural dimensions; and the application of cultural dynamics in the modern business world. Cultural influences are changing dramatically as cultures are no longer dependent on local resources to formulate their characteristic tastes, preferences, and behavior and are increasingly linked across vast geographic distances by modern communication media. Membership in a culture adapts to new cultural contexts while transporting elements of one culture to another. As membership in a culture becomes increasingly transitional, unique elements are less clearly demarcated or distinctive. Understanding the role of cultural dynamics in the digital age will significantly enhance organizational performance and achieve business goals in global business environments.

The Role of Cultural Dynamics in the Digital Age

2015 ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kijpokin Kasemsap
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Organizational Performance ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Cultural Influences ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Cultural Dynamics ◽  
Business Environments ◽  
Modern Business

This chapter introduces the role of cultural dynamics in the digital age, thus explaining the theoretical and practical concepts of organizational culture, cultural values and belief systems, material culture and artifacts, language and communication systems, cultural interpenetration, deterritorialization, cultural pluralism, and hybridization; the categorization of cultural dimensions; and the application of cultural dynamics in the modern business world. Cultural influences are changing dramatically as cultures are no longer dependent on local resources to formulate their characteristic tastes, preferences, and behavior and are increasingly linked across vast geographic distances by modern communication media. Membership in a culture adapts to new cultural contexts while transporting elements of one culture to another. As membership in a culture becomes increasingly transitional, unique elements are less clearly demarcated or distinctive. Understanding the role of cultural dynamics in the digital age will significantly enhance organizational performance and achieve business goals in global business environments.

scholarly journals Nepal, a multi-hazard risk country: Spatio-temporal analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Ganesh Kumar Jimee ◽  
Kimiro Meguro ◽  
Amod Mani Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Analysis ◽  
Significant Loss ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Tectonic Processes ◽  
Active Tectonic ◽  
Spatio Temporal ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Complex Geology

Nepal, though covers small area of the earth, exposes complex geology with active tectonic processes, high peaks, sloppy terrain and climatic variation. Combination of such geo-physical and climatic conditions with existing poor socio-economic conditions, unplanned settlements, rapidly increasing population and low level of awareness has put the country in highest risk to multi-hazard events. Fires, floods, landslides and epidemics are the most frequent hazard events, which have cumulatively caused a significant loss of lives and property every year. However, due to diversity in physiographic, climatic and socio-economic conditions within the country, the type, frequency and degree of the impact of such events differs in different places. During the period of 46 years (1971-2016), an average of 2 events have been occurred causing 3 deaths/missing every day. Disaster events occurred most frequently during the months of April, July and August, while relatively lesser number of events have been reported during January, November and December. However, earthquakes have been reported in different months, regardless with the season. This paper is an effort to analyse the spatial distribution and temporal variation of disaster events in Nepal. Further it has drawn a trend of disasters occurrence in Nepal, which will help the decision makers and other stakeholders for formulating Disaster Risk Management (DRM) plan and policies on one hand and heighten citizens’ awareness of against disasters on the other.

Eating ‘Modernity’: Changing dietary practices in colonial Bengal

2011 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 703-729 ◽  
Author(s):  
UTSA RAY
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
The Political ◽  
Dietary Practices

AbstractColonial transformation of the relations of production contextualized the cultural articulation of a new set of values, prejudices, and tastes for the Bengali Hindu middle class. These cultural values, together with the political and economic conditions of colonialism, formed the habitus of this class. This paper tries to understand this self-fashioning by the middle class through their construction of a ‘Bengali’ cuisine. A distinct enthusiasm for new gastronomic possibilities defined this cuisine, and yet, at the same time, it possessed important elements of continuity from pre-colonial times, evidenced especially in the reinstitution of caste-based norms of gastronomy. The resultant cuisine was cosmopolitan yet still Bengali.

‘Memory objects’: Material objects and memories of home in the context of intra-African mobility

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-269
Author(s):  
Sabine Marschall
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Home Culture ◽  
Mobility Studies ◽  
Specific Factors ◽  
Involuntary Memories ◽  
Depth Interviews

This article contributes to the intersection of material culture and mobility studies by exploring the role of objects in fostering nostalgia and emotionally linking migrants with their home world. ‘Memory objects’ are conceptualized as special personal belongings that elicit deliberate or involuntary memories of homeland, home culture, social relations and episodes in one’s pre-migration past. Focusing on intra-African migration, the study is based on in-depth interviews with a sample of 40 migrants from 13 African countries, temporarily or permanently based in South Africa. Contrary to the extant literature, initial findings indicate most participants did not value keepsakes or sentimental mementoes of home. However, it emerged that some had developed a special relationship with specific utilitarian objects, mostly received as gifts, which essentially turned into memory objects over time, precipitating memories and emotional attachment through routine usage and performative action. It is argued that more attention must be paid to socio-cultural values and other locally specific factors.

scholarly journals The Story of a Commercial Street: Growth, Decline, and Gentrification on Gottingen Street, Halifax

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Roth ◽  
Jill L. Grant
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Community Services ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Growth Decline ◽  
Regulatory Regimes ◽  
Infrastructure Investments ◽  
Commercial Street

Between the 1830s and 2010s Gottingen Street in Halifax, Canada, transitioned from a residential street, to a commercial corridor, to an area of community services, to a revitalizing “hip” area. Its story reflects the influence of changing regulatory regimes, transportation modes, commercial practices, and cultural values. The article follows uses in selected properties on the street to tell the story of an area shifting in use and character as a result of major infrastructure investments and changing economic conditions between 1910 and 2015.

Historical archaeologies of spatial practices and power

Antiquity ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 89 (346) ◽  
pp. 985-987
Author(s):  
Jonathan Walz
Keyword(s):  
Historical Archaeology ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Political Authority ◽  
Human Relations ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Counter Narratives ◽  
Community Perspectives ◽  
The World

Archaeologists who employ regional landscapes as an organising principle tend to be more concerned about how landscapes—natural, built and imagined—reflect cultural values than how landscapes shape human relations and community perspectives. As the authors of these two volumes skilfully demonstrate, communities deploy landscapes to materialise, and even to naturalise, claims to political authority and power. They reveal how the study of landscape at multiple scales spurs narratives and counter-narratives about how people experience the world and vie for control of it. Together, J. Cameron Monroe and James Delle advance the inherent possibilities of space and scale in historical archaeology.

scholarly journals Myten om den kinesiske entrepenørånd: etnicitet og kønsrelationer blandt kinesiske indvandrere i Danmark

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mette Thunø
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Chinese Immigrants ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Chinese Family ◽  
Economic Success ◽  
Chinese Families ◽  
Patriarchal Family ◽  
Confucian Values ◽  
Chinese Overseas

This article attempts to question the assumption that Confucian values are inherent to the Chinese family and that these values can explain economic success among Chinese overseas. An analysis of Chinese immigrants in Denmark unveils that cultural values are renegotiated in the Danish context as a product of socio-economic conditions. As a result a strong patriarchal family institution has merged and is sustained by the demands of the ethnis niche economy of catering. In contrast to explanations of Chinese overseas economic success as related to the Confucian family ideology of Chinese families in Denmark is one reason among others for the present economic crisis in the Chinese niche of catering.

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