scholarly journals VITALITY OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE IN MALAYSIAN WEDDING CARDS: A MULTIETHNIC PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 48-66
Author(s):  
Siti Rohana Mohd Thani ◽  
Kuang Ching Hei
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Extensive Study ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Year 2000 ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
The Way

The way language is used within a certain community reflects the culture of its users but is it possible to accommodate the culture of others when different communities live within one country as citizens? This paper examined thirty Malaysian wedding cards gathered from the three dominant ethnic groups of Malay, Chinese and Indian. It focussed on the vitality of language and culture presented in current day wedding cards issued by modern day couples, that is, from the year 2000 onwards. Data extracted for analysis comprised the language printed on the cards followed by the symbolic and cultural features noted on and within the cards. Leech’s (1981) framework of making meanings from printed language was applied. Findings suggest that current day wedding cards of the three ethnic communities have adapted to modernisation in terms of design, colour and information. However, symbolic language and traditional and cultural features reflecting each of the respective community were still prevalent. The findings imply that despite the advancement of technology and globalisation, Malaysia’s diverse ethnic groups remained faithful to their cultures with each group retaining and promoting its respective symbolic features and cultural identity. This indicates that one’s ethnic identity and culture are important particularly when expressed through wedding cards. Our claim is confined to the analysis of a small portion of wedding cards, hence, a more extensive study may be necessary to verify this claim. 

scholarly journals Mordva-Murza from Bashkiria: The History of Formation and Ethno-cultural Features of Ethnic-Class Community

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-248
Author(s):  
Ranus R. Sadikov
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Republic Of Bashkortostan ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Village ◽  
History Of Formation ◽  
Cultural Features ◽  
Class Community

Introduction. One of the regions of compact settlement of the Mordovian people is the Republic of Bashkortostan. The Mordovian population of the region was formed during the resettlement migration process of the ethnic groups to the Bashkir lands in the 17th and early 20th centuries. There is a small stand-out group of Mordva-Erzya in Bashkiria. They call themselves Murza and they have their own identity. They live in the village of Kozhay-Andreevo in the Tuimazinskiy district and in the village of Kozhay-Maximovo in the Ermekeevskiy district. Materials and Methods. This work attempts to reconstruct the history of formation of the class community of Mordva-Murza and to identify its ethno-cultural features. The study is based on the principle of historicism; the main methods are historical-genetic, comparative-historical, and problematic-chronological. Results. Based on the study of published sources and literature, it is shown the chronology and the main stages of the formation of the Mordva-Murza community in Bashkiria. It was revealed, this community was formed on the basis of a resettlement group of the Mordovian sluzhilye-served people in the 18th century. Field ethnographic materials testify to their ethno-cultural identity. Discussion and Conclusion. Mordva living in the villages under consideration can be defined as a separate ethnic-class community, which has its own identity, self-name, specific linguistic and ethno-cultural characteristics. In their language and culture, it is interweaved both Erzya and Moksha traits. Almost disintegrated in the 1980s the community of the “Kazhay Murzas” began to revive in the year of 2000. The observations show the desire of the inhabitants and natives from these villages to preserve and develop their “Murza language” and traditions.

Culture, Ethnicity, and Inculturation

2001 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 154-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan H. Pranger
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Conflict ◽  
Ethnic Identities ◽  
Theoretical Understanding ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Local Construction ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis article discusses the concept "inculturation" from both a critical and constructive perspective. It is concerned with the ideas about "culture" and cultural or ethnic identity that underlie the discourse and practice of inculturation. While inculturation is an important hermeneutical and theological principle it is necessary to be critical of the way in which theologians sometimes employ these notions, in particular in situations of ethnic conflict. The article juxtaposes essentialist and static assumptions about ethnic identity and culture underlying projects of inculturation in Sri Lanka with theoretical, postcolonial perspectives on such identities as "negotiated" or "constructed" in an ongoing cultural process. It considers the possible implications of such a perspective for the practices of inculturation in Sri Lanka, as well as the consequences for the theoretical understanding of the concept inculturation itself. The article criticizes the understanding of cultural or ethnic identity as the foundation of theological inculturation, and raises the question what does constitute such a basis. It argues, first, for an emphasis on the theological basis of inculturation in God's incarnation and saving presence in human cultures. Second, difference of culture rather than cultural identity should constitute the basis for the local construction of theology. Third, it argues that claims for theological difference are always voiced within, and therefore already presuppose, ecumenical or catholic relationships and structures of communication. The article concludes by arguing, on the basis of a "globalized" and postcolonial concept of culture, for an understanding of inculturation that includes other than cultural or ethnic identities as part of its concern with culture, as well as socioeconomic and political processes. It is hoped that a revision of the concept of inculturation along these lines may be more helpful in situations of ethnic conflict, and may also help to bring a convergence between the understanding of inculturation and contextualization.

scholarly journals Ethnocultural Identity of Migrants from the Eastern Regions of the former USSR in the Light of “Clash of Cultures” Theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38
Author(s):  
Erzhen V. Khilkhanova ◽  
Dorzhi L. Khilkhanov
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Clash Of Cultures ◽  
Former Ussr ◽  
Ethnocultural Identity

The article presents some results of the project, the purpose of which was to study the processes of definition and (re)construction of ethnic identity and its relationship with the language and culture of Asian migrants from the former USSR. The results are analyzed in terms of differences in cultures and values as the most important part of culture. This once again tests the universality of the theories of “clash of civilizations” and “clash of cultures” by S. Huntington and R. Lewis. The author comes to the conclusion that, first, cultural identity, unlike ethnic identity, is subject to transformation and at the same time it is stable. Secondly, the difference of cultures (“Eastern” and “Western”) exists and is perceived at the level of cultural values and norms, but it is not of a conflict, antagonistic nature. The conclusion explains the reasons for this in the light of the above-mentioned theories.

The Pedagogy of the Sakha Heroic Epic Olonkho within the Educational Process

Sibirica ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 44-59
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Chekhorduna ◽  
Nina Filippova ◽  
Diana Efimova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Native Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Heroic Epic ◽  
Legal Foundations ◽  
Ethnic And Cultural Identity ◽  
Historical Heritage

This article discusses the normative and legal foundations, laws, principles, approaches, means and methods of organizing the educational process and analyzing the content of the authors’ ethnopedagogical program—Olonkho pedagogy. The article relies on the aspiration of ethnic groups to preserve their own distinctiveness and maintain their ethnic and cultural identity despite the current circumstances of globalization. By basing its approach on the Sakha heroic epic tradition—the Olonkho—the article describes how this tradition can introduce children to ethnocultural traditions, customs, and ceremonial rituals. The article examines manifestations of civic and ethnic identity among students, as well as their values and attitudes toward their native language and the cultural and historical heritage of their ethnic group.

From Parnassus to Bayreuth: Staging a Music which is Not One

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-221
Author(s):  
Sarah Hickmott
Keyword(s):  
A Priori ◽  
Symbolic Language ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Music And Gender ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way

The final chapter brings together all three thinkers and demonstrates the way in which they all – albeit in different ways – inherit and deploy aspects of a Romantic and idealist conception of music. It considers their writings on Wagner in order to ascertain more clearly how their different positions play out over a shared question: to what extent is Wagner’s music fascist or anti-Semitic? Rather than seek to solve this problem, the chapter argues that their positions on this question relate to their a priori understanding of the relationship between music and philosophy, their broader political-philosophical commitments, and their characterization of what is ‘essentially’ musical. The chapter also draws on Irigaray’s work in order to show how both Nancy and Lacoue-Labarthe reinstate a gendered foundationalism (specifically the musical maternal-feminine which logically and chronologically precedes the symbolic, language, and culture) that is so at odds with their broader projects; by contrast, though Badiou never identifies music ‘itself’ with the feminine, the way in which he constructs ‘truth’ nonetheless rehabilitates a certain feminine exceptionalism alongside a pervasive misogyny in his work. The concluding analytic argues for multiply intersecting planes of mediation and a non-reductive approach to both music and gender that refuses to attribute a single essence to either.

scholarly journals The Politics of Ethnic Identity: The Case of Balinese Migrants in Lampung Province, Indonesia

2020 ◽  
pp. 349-356
Author(s):  
Zainal Arifin ◽  
Maskota Delfi ◽  
Sidarta Pujiraharjo
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Environmental Conditions ◽  
The Other ◽  
Migrant Communities

Lampung is a multicultural region where various ethnic groups in Indonesia can be found and settle in this region, and among them is The Balinese. The Balinese community migrated to Lampung through the transmigration process in 1963 due to the eruption of Mount Agung. One of the Bali migrant communities lives in Bali Sadhar village in Way Kanan Regency of Lampung Province. This Balinese (Bali Sadhar) Community in Lampung lives side by side with other communities that have very different cultural values, such as Lampung, Semende, Ogan, Javanese, and Sundanese. Balinese communities have a strong Hindu cultural identity which can cause them to often conflict with other ethnic groups around, but the Balinese community (Bali Sadhar) in Way Kanan can actually live in harmony with the surrounding communities. This article explains how identity politics is carried out by the Bali Sadhar community in Lampung. The success of identity politics of the Bali Sadhar community is done by redefining the cultural values (Hinduism) they have in accordance with their environmental conditions. As the result, these people are still able to realize their cultural identity and also able to coexist in harmony with the other communities.

Copper and Bronze, 3000 BC–1500 BC

The Great Sea ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Abulafia
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Social Change ◽  
Bronze Age ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early Bronze Age ◽  
Burial Practices ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Cultural Traits ◽  
New Settlements

The development of prehistoric societies has always been viewed from one of two perspectives: a diffusionist approach, now largely out of fashion, which attributes the arrival of new styles and techniques to migration and trade; or an emphasis on the factors within a society that fostered change and growth. Alongside the tendency to look for internal explanations of change, interest in the ethnic identity of settlers has faded. Partly this reflects an awareness that easy identification of ‘race’ with language and culture bears no relation to circumstances on the ground: ethnic groups merge, languages are borrowed, important cultural traits such as burial practices mutate without the arrival of newcomers. Equally, it would be an error to see all social change as the result of internal developments merely enhanced by the effects of growing trade: the lightly populated shores and islands of the prehistoric Mediterranean provided broad spaces within which those in search of food, exiled warlords or pilgrims to pagan shrines could create new settlements far from home. If there were earlier settlers, the newcomers intermarried with them as often as they chased them away or exterminated them, and the language of one or the other group became dominant for reasons that are now beyond explanation. The Cyclades became the home of a rich and lively culture, beginning in the early Bronze Age (roughly 3000 BC onwards). The main islands were by now all populated; villages such as Phylakopi on Melos were thriving; on several islands small villages developed out of an original core of a couple of small homesteads. The obsidian quarries were still visited, and copper was available in the western Cyclades, whence it reached Crete; Cycladic products continued to flow outwards, though in quite precise directions: to the southern Aegean, but not, for some reason, northwards, suggesting that the opening of the seas was still partial and dependent on what other regions could offer the Cycladic islanders. The islanders appear to have imported little into their villages; very few eastern products have been found on excavated sites on the Cyclades.

Social Integration amongst Communities of Balinese Ethnic and Sasak Ethnic Based on Competence of Traditional Cultural at Bayan District, North Lombok Regency

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
I Wayan Ardhi Wirawan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Cultural Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Times ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
Mutual Communication

This study aims to analyze the social integration based on cultural traditional competence amongst communities of Hindu Balinese ethnic and Islam Sasak ethnic in the District Bayan, North Lombok Regency, Indonesia. Based on the results of the research found that differences ethnic and religious can be built a mutual communication which the accumulations can form a social consciousness, which is incorporated in the form of associational ties of culture art group. The symptoms can not be separated from the growth of multiculturalism attitudes since historical times. Amongst community of Hindu Balinese ethnic encounter with the community of Islam Sasak ethnic since the historical have a cultural identity which has been endowed by their ancestor. Cultural identity in each ethnic community has potentially forming acculturation. Traditional cultural competency displayed through cultural arts festival amongst the two ethnic communities as the medium to juxtapose each emotion so the opportunity to melt the barriers differences that exist between the two ethnic groups. That phenomenon has awakened mutualistic communication which was able to construct social solidarity. Art Cultural festival that encapsulates the two ethnic communities was used in social activities carried out by each ethnic communities. The case implies that the social bond amongst people who have different ethnic groups living in the region over the bridge cultural competence.

scholarly journals ETHNIC IDENTITY: VIEWS OF RESIDENTS OF A LARGE CITY ON RUSSIAN ETHNOS

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-25
Author(s):  
A.V. Merenkov ◽  
K.Yu. Scriabina ◽  
N.L. Antonova
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Large City ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
National Education ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Language Environment

On the basis of a sociological study, the article considers the views of the population of a large industrial city on ethnic identity. The survey was conducted in 2019 in the city of Yekaterinburg. The methods of collecting information were online survey (n = 259) and in-depth interviews (n = 16). The results of the study indicate that the concept of Russians (as an ethnic group), both among foreign ethnic groups and among citizens who attribute themselves to Russians, is determined on the basis of cultural and historical facts. According to the respondents, the main characteristics defining the “Russian character” are openness, friendliness, hospitality, kindness, simplicity, and straightforwardness. Interviewees who identify themselves as belonging to the Russian people form a positive image of the Russian person, and representatives of other ethnic groups note ethnic traits such as sullenness, severity, unfriendliness, selfishness. Ethnic identity is actualized in a foreign language environment and contributes to the affirmation of belonging to Russian culture, primarily through the preservation of the Russian language, as well as the reproduction of everyday practices and event actions that demonstrate differences from other ethnic communities and involvement in Russians as an ethno-national education.

scholarly journals Cultural Landscape and Migration

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 99-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gunnar Haaland
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Identity ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
Present Material ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Way

This paper focus on the way Nepalese migrants in Myanmar use features of the natural environment in their homeland in metaphoric constructions of a cultural landscape expressing ethnic identity. It is through such "symbolic work" that perceptions of "ethnoscapes" are shaped and indoctrinated. Although the appeal is to symbols that can serve to foster the importance of Nepaliness as a basis for belonging to an imagined community, this does not mean that the caste/ethnicity interaction boundaries are broken down. It does mean however that sectors of activities where such boundaries are made relevant have been changed and so has the cultural content organized through such interaction boundaries. Ethnoscapes do not exist by themselves from a 'primordial' past; they require ongoing expression and confirmation. Features of a natural environment most migrants have never seen is used as sources for spinning compelling webs of significance extolling the values of belonging to a group that shares a common past in that environment. I shall here present material of an ethnoscape very different from what is experienced in Nepal, namely Nepalese multi-caste/ethnic communities among Kachins, Shans, Burmese, Indian and Chinese traders in the Kachin state of Northern Myanmar. Keywords: Nepali migrants; Myanmar; ethnic identity; cultural landscape DOI: 10.3126/dsaj.v4i0.4515 Dhaulagiri Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol.4 2010 pp.99-110

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