As One With Nature: Sputheast Asian Aesthetic Expressions | เป็นหนึ่ง เดียวกับธรรมชาติ: การแสดงออกทางสุนทรียะของชาวเอเชียตะวันออก เฉียงใต้

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Savage
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
The Many

Given the many artistic manifestations in the region which range from architecture to wooden sculptures, one wonders whether there are some guiding aesthetic principles in Southeast Asia. Using food, tattoos, bas reliefs, paintings, textiles, pottery, and architecture, this article is concerned with the salient underpinnings of aesthetic displays in the region. Regional aesthetics manifests itself in many cultural practices ranging from royal traditions, spiritual rituals and practices and quotidian rites of passage. Aesthetic expressions drew their inspiration from nature, cosmic perceptions and religious beliefs. ภูมิภาคเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้เป็นภูมิภาคที่มีงานศิลปะที่หลากหลาย ไม่ว่าจะเป็นงานทางสถาปัตยกรรมไปจนถึง ประติมากรรมไม้ หลายคนอาจสงสัยว่าอะไรคือหลักสุนทรียภาพที่เป็นตัวก􀄬าหนดการมองความงามของธรรมชาติ หรืองานศิลปะของคนภายในภูมิภาค เพื่อตอบค􀄬าถามดังกล่าว บทความนี้จะใช้อาหาร รอยสัก ภาพนูนต􀄬่า ภาพวาด สิ่งทอ เครื่องปั้นดินเผา และสถาปัตยกรรม ในการแสดงถึงรากฐานส􀄬าคัญที่มีอิทธิพลต่อหลักสุนทรียภาพ นอกจากนี้ บทความต้องการแสดงให้เห็นว่า สุนทรียภาพของชาวเอเชียตะวันออกเฉียงใต้ยังรวมไปถึงข้อปฏิบัติทางวัฒนธรรม ต่าง ๆ เช่น ขนบธรรมเนียมประเพณีของชนชั้นกษัตริย์ พิธีกรรมทางจิตวิญญาณ และพิธีกรรมเปลี่ยนผ่าน ซึ่งการ ปฏิบัติเหล่านี้ได้รับแรงบันดาลใจมาจากธรรมชาติ การรับรู้เกี่ยวกับจักรวาล และความเชื่อทางศาสนา

scholarly journals The influence of cultural practices on the HIV and AIDS pandemic in Zambia

2011 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nolipher Moyo ◽  
Julian C. Müller
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Culturally Sensitive ◽  
Hiv And Aids ◽  
African Culture ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Aids Pandemic ◽  
Shed Light

Culture plays a significant role in people’s lives in Zambia and in Africa as a whole. Consequently, there is a need to take Zambian or African culture seriously in order to look at the salient elements of cultural practices in rites of passage that influence the spread of HIV and AIDS. This article analyses four rites of passage associated with birth, puberty, marriage and death. There are numerous rites of passage in Zambian culture. Some of these rites help to curb the spread of HIV and AIDS, whilst others exacerbate the spread of the virus. Using the Reformed Church in Zambia Bible Study Method of Subgroups, discussions were held that allowed victims of cultural practices to tell their stories using the narrative model. This article sought to shed light on cultural practices that exacerbate HIV and AIDS and more importantly, provide culturally sensitive alternatives to these harmful practices.

scholarly journals The Complex Diversity of Southeast Asian Postsecondary Education

2017 ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Philip G. Altbach
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Postsecondary Education ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Higher Education Development ◽  
The Many

Higher education in Southeast Asia constitutes a complex mosaic of cultures, languages, and academic traditions. This article argues that while there are some similarities, the many variations make it difficult to generalize about the region or to create a common approach to higher education development.

English-Language Periodicals and Reading Rooms in Nineteenth-Century Italy as Spaces of Intercultural Contact and Exchange

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 226-242
Author(s):  
Isabelle Richet
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
English Language ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
Reading Room ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cultural Exchanges ◽  
The Many ◽  
Cultural Dynamic

This paper discusses the symbiotic relationship that developed between English-language periodicals published in Italy and major reading rooms in Rome and Florence. This relationship took various configurations – from Luigi Piale in Rome, who opened a reading room and published the weekly The Roman Advertiser, to the Gabinetto Vieusseux in Florence that provided access to the many English-language periodicals published in Italy – and created important spaces of transnational cultural interaction. The paper looks at the cultural practices and the forms of sociability represented by the reading of periodicals and the patronizing of reading rooms as ‘imported traditions’ brought to Italy by the many British cultured travellers and residents in the nineteenth century. It identifies the actors who promoted these cultural practices (editors, librarians, cosmopolitan intellectuals) and analyses their role as mediating figures who created in-between spaces where cross-cultural exchanges unfolded. The paper also discusses the broader transnational cultural dynamic at work as those cultural practices imported from England favoured a greater engagement of British visitors and expatriates with the Italian political and cultural environment.

scholarly journals Globalisation and Difference: Cosmopolitanism Before the Nation-State

2008 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Akhil Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Historical Period ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Limited Perspective ◽  
The Indian Ocean

In this paper, I have tried to reflect on what cosmopolitanism might mean in a very different era of globalisation than the present. Although cosmopolitanism, as an expansive and sociable vision, is often contrasted with the geographically limited perspective and claustrophobic affinities of nationalism, the term originates in a historical period before the rise of nationalism in Europe. I argue that the residents of the civilisations around the Indian Ocean in the medieval and early modern world were cosmopolitan even by the standards of the high modernist meaning of the term. Not only did a range of people transact and translate across different languages, but they also knew how to conduct themselves in different cultural settings with people of different religious beliefs, while respecting the disparate religious, social, and cultural practices of their neighbours.

Depicting the Vhavenda Women Initiation Schools and Their Cultural Practices in Limpopo Province

2022 ◽  
pp. 341-364
Author(s):  
Rendani Tshifhumulo
Keyword(s):  
Human Physiology ◽  
Life Skills ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Limpopo Province ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Girl Child ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Knowledge Preservation

Growing up for many African people has been marked by rites of passage. Vhavenda girls attend various initiation schools that served as rites of passage from one stage to another. The purpose of this study was to explore the initiation schools attended by Vhavenda girls for knowledge preservation. The study is qualitative where data was collected from 15 traditional knowledge holders purposefully using interviews as a tool to collect data. The study revealed that girls attended different schools at various stages from Musevhetho, followed by Vhusha then Domba, which is divided into Tshikanda, Ludodo, and Tshilalandoima. All these schools served a critical purpose on the development of a girl child through to adulthood stage. Knowledge shared in the school covered mostly life skills and human physiology. With the introduction of formal schools, the former was discarded and labeled barbaric leaving a void and opening a door to many social challenges faced by girl children within the Vhavenda community members.

scholarly journals Syncretic Heritage of Bawakng Tradition for Salako Dayak (Bawakng as a Supreme Shrine)

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-49
Author(s):  
Albertus
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Ethnic Group ◽  
Religious Beliefs ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Belief System ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Nation States

Salako is the ethnonym denominating the ethnic group which straddles the border of two nation-states, Sarawak, Malaysia and West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The belief system of this community including to Bawakng traditions have been syncretized through inter-mingling with Hindu’s beliefs during the Indianization of Southeast Asia. Bawakng is a mountain which is mythologized as the homeland of supreme dieties of Dayak Salako. Meanwhile, in Hindu’s belief, Himalaya is a mountain as a supreme shrine. Both of these belief systems highly considered the big highest mountains as the homeland of supreme dieties. This syncretism can be seen in Salako religious beliefs, livelihood, customs and traditions. Local community believes that Bawakng Mountain is the shrine of the supreme deities. It also represents how Salakos construe themselves based on their Bawakng cosmogony. Salako and Hinduism have a belief in multiple deities, which are assembled into a pantheon, Bawakng for Salako and Himalaya for Hindu.

scholarly journals O Sucesso da Empreitada Maçônica no Brasil do Século XIX potencializado pelo Ethos do Rito Escocês Antigo e Aceito

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 255
Author(s):  
Anderson Claytron Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Rites Of Passage ◽  
High Load ◽  
Religious Capital ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Universe

 O presente artigo mostra que existiu uma sólida estrutura religiosa financiadora da empreitada maçônica nos diversos locais que a mesma teve acesso e que o êxito desse empreendimento só foi possível pela alta carga de capital religioso presente na estrutura da maçonaria; a constituição Maçônica de 1723, os ritos de passagem e as muitas cosmogonias presentes nas antigas obrigações maçônicas, ajudaram no desenvolvimento da ordem elevando a mesma a uma missão de caráter transcendental. Em 1865 quando se tentou laicizar a maçonaria retirando do ritual a invocação do Grande Arquiteto do Universo, verificou-se através da mudança do rito moderno francês que a base religiosa brasileira era muito mais forte e se impôs à Ordem.  O estatuto maçônico através de sua herança religiosa dialogou profundamente com os preceitos da estrutura social que lhe deu aporte no século XIX, fornecendo uma forte base que serviu de alicerce para fundamentação de suas convicções. The present article shows that there was a solid religious structure that financed the Masonic enterprise in the various places that it had access and that the success of this enterprise was only possible due to the high load of religious capital present in the structure of Freemasonry; the Masonic constitution of 1723, the rites of passage and the many cosmogonies present in the old Masonic obligations, helped in the development of the order, elevating it to a mission of transcendental character. In 1865, when it was tried to lay Freemasonry by removing from the ritual the invocation of the Great Architect of the Universe, it was verified through the change of the modern French rite that the Brazilian religious base was very strong imposing itself before the Order. The Masonic statute through its religious inheritance deeply dialogue with the precepts of the social structure that gave him support in the nineteenth century, providing a strong foundation that served as a foundation for the foundation of his convictions..

scholarly journals ICT in the changing landscape of higher education in Southeast Asia

2011 ◽  
Vol 27 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kian-Sam Hong ◽  
Peter Songan
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Education Systems ◽  
Higher Education Systems ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
Cost Of Education ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Many ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Developed Nations

<span>As in the developed nations, developing countries in the Southeast Asian region increasingly are recognising the important role higher education plays in enhancing the human resources of a nation for promoting its development in a world of depleting natural resources. Advances and pervasiveness of ICT in the society mean that higher education systems in the region are increasingly leveraging ICT in handling the many arising challenges faced by higher education systems in Southeast Asia. Some of the possible roles of ICT in higher education in the face of these challenges discussed in this paper are </span><em>what and how students learn, when and where students learn, who the new faces of students and lecturers are,</em><span> and </span><em>ways to reduce the cost of education.</em><span> However, research-based knowledge on how ICT has been and can be used to enhance the design, delivery and management of higher education programs in the Southeast Asia region is not readily available. Furthermore, countries in Southeast Asia are at different stages of development in the use of ICT in education. Thus, success stories, experiences and lessons learnt from the use of ICT in higher education will be of immense importance for educators and administrators who are at the forefront of integrating ICT for higher education in countries in the region.</span>

Hellenism and the Local Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Fourth Century ◽  
Asia Minor ◽  
Greek Language ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Individual Contributions ◽  
Local Engagement ◽  
The Many

This volume focuses on questions of Greek and non-Greek cultural interaction in the eastern Mediterranean and the ancient Near East during a broadly defined Hellenistic period from 400 BCE–250 CE. While recent historiographical emphasis on the non-Greek cultures of the eastern Mediterranean is a critical methodological advancement, this volume re-examines the presence of Greek cultural elements in these areas. The regions discussed—Asia Minor, Egypt, the Levant, and Mesopotamia—were quite different from one another; so, too, were the cross-cultural interactions we can observe in each case. Nevertheless, overarching questions that unite these local phenomena are addressed by leading scholars in their individual contributions. These questions are at the heart of this volume: Why did the non-Greek communities of the Eastern Mediterranean engage so closely with Greek cultural forms and political and cultural practices? How did this engagement translate into the daily lives of the non-Greek cultures of Asia Minor, the Levant, Mesopotamia, and Egypt? Local engagement differed from region to region, but some elements, such as local forms of the polis and writing in the Greek language, were attractive for many of the non-Greek communities from fourth-century Anatolia to second-century Babylon. The Greek empires and the Greek communities of the Eastern Mediterranean, too, were transformed by these local interpretations. The presence of adapted, changed, and locally interpreted Greek elements deeply entrenched in each community’s culture are for us the many forms of Hellenisms, but it is ultimately these categories, too, that this volume wishes to examine.

scholarly journals Social forestry in Southeast Asia: Evolving interests, discourses and the many notions of equity

Geoforum ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 117 ◽  
pp. 246-258
Author(s):  
Grace Y. Wong ◽  
Moira Moeliono ◽  
Indah W. Bong ◽  
Thuy Thu Pham ◽  
Muhammad A.K. Sahide ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Social Forestry ◽  
The Many
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