scholarly journals Shifting Trend of Mithila Painting: Tradition to Contemporary

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (12) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Raj Kishor Singh
Keyword(s):  
Folk Art ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Cultural Artifacts ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

This article communicates the changing pattern of Mithila folk painting to fine art due to the professionals’ intervention in this realm. Besides, technological use has further altered it and the people who were unable to perform their ritual on the works of art are able to do so now. Consequently, the painting has been enhanced from its limited geography to all over the world where even the diaspora Maithils enjoy their culture with full enthusiasm. This phenomenon has led people both connected to their culture as well as uplifted to high spirituality, aware about their identity and commercializing their cultural artifacts. Thus, this fluctuating tendency of this folk art has empowered the community morally, artistically and economically.

scholarly journals The problems of determining the canon in the plastic folklore of the Sakha (Yakuts)

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 ◽  
pp. 04010
Author(s):  
Sargylana Nikiforova ◽  
Galina Popova ◽  
Ekaterina Dyachkovskaya
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Culture ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Ethnic Community ◽  
Spiritual Experience ◽  
The People ◽  
Applied Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Basic Characteristics

In the conditions of erosion of specificity and weakening of ethnic cultures identity, massive imitation of authenticity undertaken by the cultural bearers themselves with the aim of commercializing becomes an additional threat to its preservation. The authors believe that these threats can be minimized if “structuring elements” of this culture are determined. In particular, the popularization of canonical national forms of culture can contribute to this. The undividedness of oral folk art and decorative applied art is the basic characteristics of folklore. In addition to it, the structural and content components of the artistic canon in the folk art of Sakha (Yakuts) are named in the paper. In traditional culture, the thing made according to the canon, determines the behavior of its owner and makes him correspond to the expected visions of the ethnic community; moreover, it models the scenario of his fate. The problems of interaction between the evolution of style and the author’s deviations from the canon are partially touched upon in the article. With regard to the plastic folklore, these are the best, typical, and familiar features that are not presented as a sum of skills and techniques of craft, but as a creative interpretation of the national master. In the outstanding works of folk art, these ornamental forms are deliberately chosen, taking into account the chromatic code of culture, the composition of which refers to the national picture of the world. The pictorial canon in the plastic folklore captures and transmits the rules for visualizing the spiritual experience of the people from generation to generation. In fact, it forms the framework of culture, and it is the canon that provides for “not a common expression of faces” of each culture.

scholarly journals “Fox Stories” in the Folklore of the Khakass

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 156-166
Author(s):  
Venariy A. Burnakov
Keyword(s):  
Life Experience ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Ethical Norm ◽  
External Data ◽  
Direct Observations ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Main Plot ◽  
Group 5

Purpose. The article explores the characteristics of the fox in the oral folk art of the Khakass. The study is based on folklore, ethnographic and linguistic sources. The paper analyzes folklore materials published in Russian and Khakass languages. Results. The author explores various genres of narrative Khakass tradition, which feature the fox: myths, epics, tales and sayings. During the process of analysis, it was concluded that the representation of this animal can be commonly found in folk art of the Khakass. Moreover, it has a complex and ambiguous characterization. The perception of this beast in the traditional consciousness was, to a large extent, determined by a long study of its biological nature, external data and habits. Russian culture also had a certain influence on the formation of the folklore image of the fox among the Khakass. Five main plot groups in which the designated beast appears are identified. The works assigned to Groups 1–4 were formed based on their own mythological views and within the framework of their ethnic tradition. They arose as a result of direct observations of the life and habits of the fox and reflected the life experience of the people, their observations, ideas of the surrounding nature and the desire for knowledge of the world. In many ways, they have an etiological character and are associated with a belief in magic and sorcery. What is also important is that in these works, the direct life of the animals themselves is depicted, as it was presented in the traditional consciousness of the people. The narratives assigned to Group 5 were mostly developed in the context of intercultural contacts between the Khakass and Russians. Conclusion. As a result of this process, there was a borrowing and processing of images and plots within the framework of their own ethnic tradition. There is a tendency under the guise of animals to depict people and their psychological properties, as well as display the social and everyday life of society. The interpretation of the form of the trickster-fox is subject to a certain moral and ethical norm. At the heart of all the stories studied is the motive for obtaining food, which is carried out in various ways and as a result forms the corresponding stereotype of perception of this beast.

ETHNOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF KAPRANOV BROTHERS NOVELS «KOBZAR 2000. SOFT» AND «KOBZAR 2000. HARD»

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (86) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olesya Bartashuk ◽  
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Svitlana Makhovska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Positive Feedback ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
World Culture ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Original Concept

The article analyzes the ethnographic component of the novels of famous modern Ukrainian writers-postmodernists Kapranov brothers «Kobzar 2000. Soft» and «Kobzar 2000. Hard». It is emphasized that «Kobzar 2000» of the Kapranov brothers as one of the three Ukrainian «Kobzars» represents in own way time, modern national and spiritual existence of the people, formulates the original concept of the world, culture and human. The work has absorbed the achievements of Ukrainian culture and, at the same time, introduced something specifically own and modern, because in it the modern Ukrainian world is represented as the authors see it – mystical, full of incomprehensible, and therefore unknowable. In particular, the reader is convinced that life in the cities and villages of Ukraine at the beginning of the XXI century based on traditional Ukrainian mythology and worldview. Is proved the connection of ethnography as one of the features of modern literature with postmodern writing; positive feedback from researchers on the use of ethnographic material in modern works of art. Separated and systematized information contains a rich ethnographic material about domestic, mythological, demonological, customary and ritual culture of modern Ukrainians, their views on the norms of etiquette, the originality of world perception and folk ideas. Highlighted by the authors of the article ethnographic information, which is a kind of modern interpretation by writers Kapran folklore texts and allusions to Shevchenko «Kobzar», based on the classification of O. Yatyshchuk systematized into a generalized table on three approaches: 1) information about the ethnographic properties of heroes; 2) detailed descriptions of subjects, phenomena, customs, rituals of Ukrainians; 3) some mentions of the peculiarities of material and spiritual culture of Ukrainians. It is revealed that the most in the novels of the novel «Kobzar 2000» works, which provide information about the ethnographic properties of heroes (in 15 of the 28 novels). In 7 novels, the authors submitted detailed descriptions of subjects, phenomena, customs, rituals of Ukrainians, and in 6 works there are some mentions of the peculiarities of material and spiritual culture of Ukrainians.

scholarly journals Arka pamięci? Kilka uwag na marginesie filmów Aleksandra Sokurowa Rosyjska arka i Frankofonia

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Beata Pawletko
Keyword(s):  
Museum Collections ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
The City

Alexander Sokurov is considered to be a creator who often attempts to settle with the uncomfortable past, at the same time revealing the mechanisms of the functioning of power and politics, including the policy of remembrance. The Russian Ark (2002) and Francofonia (2015), which divides over a dozen years and which seemingly concern two different countries and situations, are no different in this respect. And yet, using the same motif in them, i.e. the motif of the museum, Sokurov in Francofonia returns to events that he could not, for various reasons, deal with in a prior movie. We mean here the role of museums, “silent” witnesses of history. The evacuation of works of art from the Hermitage and the Louvre during the war is a source of pride and an element of the victorious narrative, but in the case of Hermitage it is impossible not to think about the price that the city and its inhabitants paid during their siege. They could not be evacuated as efficiently as the museum collections. And thus the idea of saving valuable works of the Hermitage will be invariably associated with the inept evacuation of the people of Leningrad. And it must be admitted that this is not the first opportunity when it comes to Sokurov to remind the world of the painful wound inflicted on the city of Neva and its inhabitants, not only by the Germans, but also to ask about the price of survival.

scholarly journals Echoes of the Turkic World and Folklore in the Holy Book Avesta

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aktoty Nusipalikyzy ◽  
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Maulenov Almasbek ◽  
Baigunakov Dosbol ◽  
Toty I. Koshenova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Literature Culture ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Conceptual Overview ◽  
Holy Book

The holy book “Avesta” is one of the magnificent creations of the world, which contains valuable information about religion, literature, culture, geography, history and mythology of the ancient peoples of Central Asia. For several centuries, many scholars of various specialties have been interested in “Avesta”. In numerous comments they discussed the history of the appearance of the book and its hymns, the personality of Zarathustra, his homeland, geographical objects, historical characters and mythological images, the ideological basis of the collection of holy books, etc. Many of the above mentioned questions are still being discussed among specialists, causing and over-colouring certain problems. In their work, the authors tried to find something in common between the “Avesta” and the Kazakh literature, exploring the spiritual relationship of the “Avesta” with the mythology of the people. As practice shows, various phenomena in the folklore of the peoples of the world are experiencing their birth, formation, flourishing, decay and death. Forms are modified, disappear, replaced by others. But sometimes the most ancient layer of folk art is preserved as a relic. Sometimes it is very difficult to see the traces of the most ancient representations in national folklore. Therefore, the authors of the article analyzed the works of Kazakhstani authors who studied some points in the “Avesta” and they made only an attempt to investigate the remains of the Kazakh archetype in this ancient literary monument. This article, without claiming to completely cover the available material, sees the main task in providing a holistic conceptual overview of the Kazakh literature on the above mentioned problem.

scholarly journals The Renewal of Perception in Religious Faith and Biblical Narrative

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith Wolfe
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Cognitive Engagement ◽  
Psychological Theory ◽  
Predictive Processing ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Biblical Narratives ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The World ◽  
Do So

 Religious faith may manifest itself, among other things, as a mode of seeing the ordinary world, which invests that world imaginatively (or inspiredly) with an unseen depth of divine intention and spiritual significance. While such seeing may well be truthful, it is also unavoidably constructive, involving the imagination in its philosophical sense of the capacity to organize underdetermined or ambiguous sense date into a whole or gestalt. One of the characteristic ways in which biblical narratives inspire and teach is by renewing their characters’ and readers’ imagination. The texts do so not inexorably but in a similar way as (other) works of art. This paper therefore investigates the ways in which works of art engage and develop the imagination, and thereby enable renewed perceptual and cognitive engagement with the world. The paper introduces predictive processing as a helpful psychological theory for analyzing this dynamic, and outlines questions for further research.

scholarly journals Epic Heritage - The Gold Treasure

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (06) ◽  
pp. 131-140
Author(s):  
Oltinoy Kosimovna Tadjibaeva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Folk Art ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Common Pattern ◽  
The People ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
National Theater ◽  
The World ◽  
Theatrical Culture

The article discusses the role and importance of folk art heritage in the development of national theater art in Central Asia. To date, the theatrical art of the region has a great experience and it has the opportunity to compare its culture with others. Epic direction is one of the points of support, one of the heights from which you can look at the experience and trends of the world of theatrical art. (72) In folk epics, various elements of culture and spirituality are traced, and the peculiarities of a particular nationality are revealed. The entry of the European style of theater into the framework of the culture of Central Asia certainly influenced the development of traditional theater of the people. Creative figures faced the problem of showing their performances on closed stages, in rooms. In the pieces, folk customs are presented following a common pattern, whereas national theatres offer their own interpretation, reflecting the culture, customs, and the nation’s past. Not only essentially different pieces of the same title and subject, created by different nations, differ in style, methods, means of artistic representation and character interpretation, and never a hero of one nation is a repetition of the image created by the neighboring nation. This is how the nation’s mentality, culture, spiritual character, and traditional values are exposed. This, in turn, is a dominant feature in the evolution of theatres. Thus, the epic heritage serves as the golden treasure of the theatrical culture of Central Asia.

Universal Values and Muslim Democracy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Anwar Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
World Today ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Universal Values ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Dignified Life

This study deals with Universal Values and Muslim Democracy. This essay draws upon speeches that he gave at the New York Democ- racy Forum in December 2005 and the Assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Istanbul in April 2006. The emergence of Muslim democracies is something significant and worthy of our attention. Yet with the clear exceptions of Indonesia and Turkey, the Muslim world today is a place where autocracies and dictatorships of various shades and degrees continue their parasitic hold on the people, gnawing away at their newfound freedoms. It concludes that the human desire to be free and to lead a dignified life is universal. So is the abhorrence of despotism and oppression. These are passions that motivate not only Muslims but people from all civilizations.

Peacebuilding requirements in post-conflict societies

2020 ◽  
pp. 249
Author(s):  
Zyad Samir Al-Dabagh
Keyword(s):  
Major Obstacle ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
The World

The process of building peace and laying its foundations within the societies of the world, especially those newly emerging from the stage of conflict, are among the important and indispensable matters. Without peace, opportunities diminish in obtaining the essentials of a safe and normal life, and without peace, societies cannot It works and advances towards a better future. However, peacebuilding operations in many societies emerging from conflict or those in which they live may face a set of challenges and obstacles that constitute a major obstacle to them, which necessitates searching for the best ways and means by which these obstacles can be addressed in order to build a real and effective peace that is reflected Positively on the people of those societies.

Delicate Years: Children and Identity in Zimbabwean Literature

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Josephine Muganiwa
Keyword(s):  
Growing Up ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
Child Characters ◽  
The People ◽  
Do So

The paper argues that children face challenges in growing up and fitting into their societies and that these challenges need to be addressed with care. These challenges, which are complicated by the effects of colonialism, war and economic crises in the context of Zimbabwe, are portrayed in the novels Nervous Conditions (Dangarembga 1989), The Book of Not (Dangarembga 2006), The Uncertainty of Hope (Tagwira 2006) and Running with Mother (Mlalazi 2012). In analysing the characters of the children portrayed in these four novels, the vulnerability of children, regardless of their age, is demonstrated. The child characters strive to help their parents and be useful citizens and yet at times this contrasts with their desire to be sheltered and treated as children. This contradiction is best exhibited in teenagers who try to fashion their own identity that is separate from the people around them but who still require guidance to do so.

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