Political Themes on Mesoamerican Monuments: A Case Study

1975 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 320-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles D. Cheek
Keyword(s):  
Historical Events ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
Facial Types ◽  
Political Groups

Many Mesoamericanists today accept the fact that much Mesoamerican art, in various media, depicts historical events and persons. Much of this evidence has come from hieroglyphic texts. This paper attempts to demonstrate the value of using non-glyphic attributes of depictions of personages and of interaction scenes to investigate the same problems. Non-glyphic attributes of scenes and individual dress and ornamentation are treated as coded cultural information that reflects patterned sociocultural phenomena. This approach is applied to Cotzumalhuapan sculpture from Coastal Guatemala. It is demonstrated that there are two distinctive facial types in interaction which seem to represent two different socio-political groups.

Guerra, élites locali e monarchia nella Lombardia del seicento. Per un'interpretazione in chiave di compromesso d'interessi

2009 ◽  
pp. 3-30
Author(s):  
Alessandro Buono
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Military History ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Power Elite ◽  
Institutional History ◽  
The Military ◽  
Political Groups ◽  
Xviith Century

- Through the case study of Spanish Lombardy during the Thirty years' war, the Author tries to link the latest results of military history with the politico-institutional framework, with a view to overcome the narrowness of an exclusive military approach. By focussing on the agenda of a commission for the control of the army composed of civil and military authorities from 1638 to 1679 and on the careers of some financiers and military entrepreneurs, the Author suggests the need to abandon the pattern of the militarization of society in order to describe the processes affecting the Milanesado. The military tool appears to be purposefully used to strengthen political and social ties between centre and periphery and also to integrate emerging social, economic and political groups into the Lombard power elite. The interpretation underlying the essay is therefore based on the idea of a «compromise of interests» between centre and periphery of the Spanish imperial system as a way to stabilize the situation of Lombardy.Keywords: Milan, Spanish Monarchy, XVIIth century, power élites, military history, institutional history, Thirty Years' WarParole chiave: Lombardia, Monarchia spagnola, secolo XVII, elites dominanti, storia militare, storia delle istituzioni, Guerra dei Trent'anni

scholarly journals IMPLICATION OF DEMOGRAPHIC DIMENSION IN SUSTAINABLE RURAL DEVELOPMENT. CASE STUDY: RÂŞCA VALLEY BASIN

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin Constantin MIHAI
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Development ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Demographic Indicators

This paper aims to capture the importance of demographic dimension in thesustainable development process of the rural space. From a series ofstatistics data we realized an analysis of demographic indicators, which ithelped us to trace the development trends characteristic for our area ofstudy. To understand the evolution in time and the implications of humanresource in the process of development it was necessary referencing themwith national or local historical events. Demographic dimension analysishighlights the development stage of rural space and help the formulation ofthe future local policies that regard the sustainable development.

Erecting a Gurdwara on Queen’s Road East

2021 ◽  
pp. 266-292
Author(s):  
Yin Cao
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
East Asia ◽  
British Empire ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Boxer Uprising

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, tens of thousands of Sikhs emigrated from Punjab to Southeast and East Asia to purse a better livelihood. At the same time, the Singh Sabha Movement was gradually gaining momentum in Punjab, strengthening the Sikh identity. Furthermore, Sikh soldiers and policemen were deployed widely in Asia to safeguard the interests of the British Empire. This chapter argues that the three seemingly irrelevant historical events (the modern Sikh diaspora, the Singh Sabha Movement, and the Indian expedition during the Boxer Uprising in China) were essentially interrelated. The convergent point of these moments was the erection of a Sikh temple (gurdwara) on Queen’s Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong Island, in 1902. Taking this event as a case study, this chapter seeks to explore the Singh Sabha Movement through the lens of the Sikh diasporic network and the imperial network. It also unveils the Indian face of the British Empire by the turn of the twentieth century, when Indians, rather than the British, were the protagonists and engineers.

scholarly journals Influence of Facebook on Educational, Political and Cultural life of Students: A Case Study of University of Swat

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 83-101
Author(s):  
Spogmai ◽  
Sajjad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
University Students ◽  
Political Information ◽  
Quantitative Methodology ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Survey Technique ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Information

This study was conducted to analyze the influence and exposure of university students on Facebook. The researcher conducted to examine the educational, political, cultural and fashion influence of Facebook on university students. A quantitative methodology was used by the researcher, and survey technique was used for the collection of data. A questionnaire was designed to contained close-ended questions to collect data randomly from the students of the University of Swat. The data was analyzed through the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS, version.19) to ensure impartiality in the results of the study. The results revealed that most of the students are using Facebook. The study also disclosed that students in the university of Swat are using Facebook for educational purposes. The researcher found that Most of the students also use Facebook for fashion and cultural information. The study proved that most of the students using Facebook for online educational information as compare to political information. It is also found that Students exposed to fashion information than cultural information through Facebook.

From Bali to America: Teachers and Transitions

2020 ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
Elizabeth A Clendinning
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
American Universities ◽  
Balinese Gamelan ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Central Case ◽  
The 1960S

The chapter examines how the earliest generation of Balinese American teachers (born from the 1940s to the 1960s) were educated and how their experiences eventually brought them to work long-term in North America. Its central case study is Balinese gamelan teacher I Made Lasmawan, whose formal and informal educational experiences are contextualized within broader institutional structures and historical events that brought foreign musician-scholars to teach in American universities. The chapter concludes that musical and pedagogical lineages created by such teachers both reflect and embody systematic developments in the building of transnational musical lineages and performing and academic ecosystems.

Cultural Trauma, Prophetic Discourse and the Sack of Rome in 1527

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 444-474
Author(s):  
Joost van den Oever
Keyword(s):  
Social Order ◽  
Cultural Trauma ◽  
Analytical Models ◽  
Traumatic Experience ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Traumatic Violence ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this article is to shed new light on the relationship between catastrophic historical events, cultural trauma and prophetic discourse, by making use of both historical and sociological analytical models. For this purpose, an exemplary case study has been found in the horrible and devastating sack of Rome in 1527. The destruction of Rome had been prophesied countless times, and in 1527 these prophecies seemed to have come true. How, then, did the prophetic discourse influence the ways in which the traumatic violence and breakdown of social order were perceived, experienced and remembered by various contemporaries? To answer this question, combining historical and sociological models in an original way, I will argue that trauma can—with great reward—be studied as a cultural construct, in which prophetic discourse can be interpreted as a template for framing the traumatic experience into a narrative.

scholarly journals Immersive and brand journalism in educational and cultural information. The case of RTVE Lab

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (0) ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Hada M. Sánchez Gonzales ◽  
◽  
Andrea Benítez Gutiérrez ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Case Study Method ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Cultural Information ◽  
Brand Journalism

The aim of this research is to analyze the use of immersive and brand journalism in the information published by RTVE Lab. The case study method has been used, which combines both qualitative and quantitative techniques. The results reveal that virtual reality (VR) is an attractive format for disseminating cultural news because it enhances the immersive experience of the user; yet approximately only 20% of VR is used to provide information about branded content.

scholarly journals Consideration on disseminating local cultural information using SNS - a case study in Kurokawa area，Noto-cho，Ishikawa prefecture -

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 344-347
Author(s):  
Shoko TERAO ◽  
Misato HORII ◽  
Hiroshi HORII ◽  
Manabu TERAGUTI
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Information ◽  
Ishikawa Prefecture
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