scholarly journals Ethical and Political Implications of “Performance” in a Rural Cultural Practice: Afro-Colombian Women Singers from the Town of Pogue

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (32) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Paola Marín ◽  
Gaston Alzate
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
Colombian Women ◽  
The Town

An Appraisal of the Night Masquerade Festival and Discrimination against Women in Nigeria from an International Human Rights Law Perspective

2013 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-121
Author(s):  
Demola Okeowo
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Adult Male ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
International Human Rights Law ◽  
Human Rights Law ◽  
International Human Rights ◽  
Natural Justice ◽  
International Human ◽  
The Town

Abstract The Night Masquerade is one of several cultural practices that are well rooted within the Yoruba people in the south-western part of Nigeria. The masquerade is believed to be an adult male member of the society. This person traditionally walks about the town nakedly in the company of numerous other adult male members of the society, performing rituals and appeasing the gods. Generally, women are forbidden from viewing this masquerade and any woman who violates this rule shall be put to death to appease the gods. Over the years, this cultural practice has generated heated arguments and concern, especially from human rights activists and feminists. The paper will argue that any cultural practice that promotes discrimination on the basis of sex and that in fact leads to unnecessary restriction of movement and wanton loss of lives is repugnant to natural justice, equity and good conscience.

REINVENTINGIMBALUAND FORCIBLE CIRCUMCISION: GISU POLITICAL IDENTITY AND THE FIGHT FOR MBALE IN LATE COLONIAL UGANDA

2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 357-379
Author(s):  
PAMELA KHANAKWA
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Separate Entity ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Ethnic Tensions ◽  
District Council ◽  
Ethnic Competition ◽  
The Town

ABSTRACTUgandan colonial authorities carved Bugisu and Bukedi districts out of Mbale district in 1954, isolating Mbale town as a separate entity. With ethnic tensions escalating as independence approached, Gisu and Gwere fought for Mbale's ownership. Empowered by decentralisation, Bugisu District Council pressed the colonial state to declare Mbale part of Bugisu, viewing the town as key to the region's wealth, and providing a symbolic status similar to that enjoyed by Uganda's leading ethnic groups. Gisu activists reinvented tradition as a tool of political advocacy, exerting hyper-masculine power over Mbale's non-circumcising Gwere residents through forcible circumcision. Gisu reformulation of a cultural practice within an urban struggle challenges previous categorisations of the Mbale case as merely another local obstacle to Uganda's peaceful decolonisation. Evidence analysed in this article contributes to a new understanding of East Africa's uneasy transition to self-government, and to the role of ethnic competition within late-colonial mobilisations more broadly.

Model of the Town Hall at the Hague

1878 ◽  
Vol 6 (142supp) ◽  
pp. 2255-2255
Keyword(s):  
Town Hall ◽  
The Hague ◽  
The Town

Infant Head Molding: A Cultural Practice

1998 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. FitzSimmons
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practice

Work and Inequality Revisited: A Global Socio-Historical Perspective and its Political Implications

2016 ◽  
pp. 85-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Laruffa ◽  
Hannah Schilling
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Political Implications

Stanislaw Sreniowski, From a Book of Madness And Atrocity

2008 ◽  
pp. 312-316
Author(s):  
Jacek Leociak
Keyword(s):  
Common Fate ◽  
Normal Life ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Town

The title of this text, From the Book of Madness and Atrocity, published here for the first time, indicates its generic and stylistic specificity, its fragmentary, incomplete character. It suggests that this text is part of a greater whole, still incomplete, or one that cannot be grasped. In this sense Śreniowski refers to the topos of inexpressibility of the Holocaust experience. The text is reflective in character, full of metaphor, and its modernist style does not shun pathos. Thus we have here meditations emanating a poetic aura, not a report or an account of events. The author emphasises the desperate loneliness of the dying, their solitude, the incommensurability of the ghetto experience and that of the occupation, and the lack of a common fate of the Jews and the Poles (“A Deserted Town in a Living Capital”; “A Town within a Town”; “And the Capital? A Capital, in which the town of a death is dying . . . ? Well, the Capital is living a normal life. Under the occupation, indeed . . . .”).

Interactive acculturation of Turkish-Belgian parents and children in Flanders: A case study of Beringen

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-428
Author(s):  
Özgün Ünver ◽  
Ides Nicaise
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Maternal Employment ◽  
Domain Specificity ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Childhood Education ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

This article tackles the relationship between Turkish-Belgian families with the Flemish society, within the specific context of their experiences with early childhood education and care (ECEC) system in Flanders. Our findings are based on a focus group with mothers in the town of Beringen. The intercultural dimension of the relationships between these families and ECEC services is discussed using the Interactive Acculturation Model (IAM). The acculturation patterns are discussed under three main headlines: language acquisition, social interaction and maternal employment. Within the context of IAM, our findings point to some degree of separationism of Turkish-Belgian families, while they perceive the Flemish majority to have an assimilationist attitude. This combination suggests a conflictual type of interaction. However, both parties also display some traits of integrationism, which points to the domain-specificity of interactive acculturation.

292. Occupational and Environmental Exposure to PAH and Other Genotoxic Substances in the Town of Dabrowa Gornicza

1999 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Sokal ◽  
D. Mielzynska ◽  
E. Siwinska ◽  
A. Bubak ◽  
E. Smolik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Exposure ◽  
Occupational And Environmental Exposure ◽  
The Town
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