scholarly journals Menus for the Soul Changing Food Landscapes in Contemporary Japan

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Scrolavezza
Keyword(s):  
Food Culture ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
Comfort Food ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
International Success

As Nancy K. Stalker (2018) points out, in recent years food in Japan has established itself as a fundamental feature of national and local identity and became one of Japan's most influential cultural brands. An intriguing example is the B-kyū gurume boom, the celebration of creative versions of typical comfort food, intertwined with the obsession for local traditions. Such processes are reflected in representations of food in media and arts: contemporary culture plays a fundamental role in shaping but also in connoting food culture with new meanings. The aim of this paper is to analyze the construction and narration of contemporary Japanese food culture in one of the most recent and successful franchises, Shin’ya Shokudō, the popular manga by Abe Yarō, which inspired the Netflix series that enjoyed unexpected international success in 2017.

scholarly journals Komiksy Marzeny Sowy. Marzi opowiada o dzieciństwie w PRL-u

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 99-111
Author(s):  
Anna Podemska-Kałuża
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Adult World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Difficult Times ◽  
International Success

Marzena Sowa’s Comics. Marzi Talks About Childhood in PRLPolish screenwriter Marzena Sowa is the author of the comics’ cycle about Marzi, which was published in the years 2005–2011 and was an international success (the drawings prepared by Sylvain Savoia). The storiesabout the red-haired girl, the daughter of the workman and the resident of industrial city are the forms autobiographical, that show the reality of life in Poland in the 1980s. The prospect of a child, who is a careful observer of the adult world, has allowed the presentation of history of country in Central Europe at the end of communism. The cycle of Marzi presents an evocative picture of experience “last generation of PRL”, is the witness to the contemporary culture and the record of the struggles of society with the problems of everyday life in “difficult times”. Since its debut in 2005, the critic compares this comic diary from the time of puberty to the famous Persepolisof Marjane Satrapi. For the modern reader the books of Marzena Sowa is a valuable source of knowledge about Poland in the days of “Solidarity” and Lech Wałęsa, as well as the iconic comics that has a big power of social and cultural impact.

scholarly journals The Food Culture of the Tamil Region

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101
Author(s):  
Arunan C
Keyword(s):  
Food Production ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Food Preparation ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
Local Traditions

Food production is a science; food preparation is a living art. We prepare food to share with our kith and kin for our earthly and spiritual sustenance. All the great religions teach that food is a Divine blessing and should be treated with respect and immense gratitude.  In Tamilnadu food is a spiritual science with precise prescriptions of how to cultivate, prepare and consume food for physical, emotional and spiritual well being. Our local traditions have several things in common with global traditions. In that light this article presents our food culture through ages with its uniqueness of thanks giving to nature and people.

POPULAR MUSIC OF THE GREEK WORLD: A NOTE FROM THE ORGANISERS

2020 ◽  
Vol 115 ◽  
pp. 401-402
Author(s):  
Roderick Beaton ◽  
John Bennet ◽  
Eleni Kallimopoulou ◽  
Panagiotis Poulos ◽  
Chris Williams
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Rich Variety ◽  
British School ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
International Success ◽  
Greek World

In May 2019 the British School at Athens hosted an international conference on popular music of the Greek world. The conference aimed to explore and evaluate the diversity of Greek music apparent in the rich variety of local traditions and in the richness of urban popular music both established and emerging, and to examine its causes from broader musical, sociological and artistic perspectives. Rather than focus on particular forms, such as traditional folk music, rebetika, or the ‘new wave’ of the 1960s exemplified by the international success of composers such as Hadjidakis and Theodorakis, the conference set out to situate these traditions in a broader Greek context and also an explicitly international one, in this way building upon a growing trend (Bucuvalas 2019; Tragaki 2019).

scholarly journals Learning to Drink Sorghum Liquor: Taste and Consumption in Military Front-Line Jinmen, Taiwan

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-191
Author(s):  
Chang-hui Chi
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Mass Production ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Front Line ◽  
Authoritarian Rule ◽  
Dominant Class ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Military

This article asks why sorghum liquor, once a drink choice representing the taste of a dominant class, became a token of Jinmen identity among the islands' dominated local population. Being a Cold War battlefield, war-stricken Jinmen became a symbol of the Kuomintang government's determination to recover mainland China. Military authoritarianism transformed Jinmen's society in countless ways, including consumer fashions. The mass production of sorghum liquor began in 1953, with the military promoting its taste and establishing consumption of the liquor as part of a masculine ethos. This inspired mimicry among local consumers. Sorghum liquor became a local “traditional drink,” and a signifier for an identity that revolved around its consumption. This development arose from local consumers seizing on their limited freedom by making this consumption choice and making it their own under military authoritarian rule. Consumption and taste thus gave new meanings to local identity and community subjectivity.

Dialogism as a category which reflects communicative interaction between the author of emotive prose and the reader

10.12737/810 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Федотова ◽  
Oksana Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Communicative Interaction ◽  
Great Role ◽  
Fundamental Feature ◽  
New Meanings

The article shows the importance of study of text categories. In this respect cognitive science plays a great role as it investigates the processes of acquisition, conceptualization and the use of information. The category of dialogism can be viewed as a fundamental feature of emotive prose. Indeed, the author of a story tries to speak his / her idea to the readers, who in their turn are supposed to decode it. As a result we deal with the process of communication between the reader and the writer which brings out new meanings to the discourse.

scholarly journals Uczenie się w środowisku i dla środowiska jako wymóg współczesności

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jolanta Kruk
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environment ◽  
Outdoor Education ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Pedagogical Discourse ◽  
Social Sensitivity ◽  
Ecological Changes ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Meanings

The article discusses the methods of defining and describing the processes of learning in what is generally acknowledged as the learning environment. In the contemporary pedagogical discourse the category of the “learning environment” (formerly associated with the surroundings of school and the classroom) is always expanding and acquiring new meanings, in the wake of ecological changes and the virtualisation of contemporary culture. The “learning environment” becomes a part of the ongoing descholarisation, which manifests itself, for example, in the “open space” movement, outdoor education or “Gesamtschule”, the trends related to the transfer of education outside of school. In the last part of the text, a postulate is formed to include a “learning for the environment” category to the pedagogical theory and practice. This stems from the need to deepen the social sensitivity of the threat of degradation of the entire ecosystem in which we live today.

scholarly journals On myths and fashion: Barthes and cultural studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-82
Author(s):  
Patrizia Calefato
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Classical Rhetoric ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Transcendental Reduction ◽  
Objects Of Knowledge ◽  
Intellectual Activism

Roland Barthes’s work has confronted contemporary culture with the question of what happens when an object turns into language. This question allowed Barthes to “construct” well known cultural objects — from novels to music, from images to classical rhetoric, from love to theatre — in an unthought way, and to create new, even more unknown ones — from contemporary myth to fashion, from Japan to food culture. In this paper, Barthes’s cultural criticism is considered alongside with the issues raised by Cultural Studies. More specifically, Barthes’s constant reflection on the myth undoubtedly entitles us to connect his cultural criticism to the work that, in those same years, was being produced by the English forge of Cultural Studies, namely the so-called “Birmingham school”. Even today, Barthes’s work makes it possible for semiotics to be, to use his expressions, both “the science of every imagined universe”, and a mathesis singularis, rather than universalis, that is to say a systematic way to approach the singularity of the objects of knowledge. On the basis of this “transcendental reduction”, we can therefore wish for a “second birth” and a transvaluation of linguistics and of semiotics, both to be applied through varied and disseminated forms of intellectual activism.

scholarly journals Fragmentasi Manusia dalam Kultur Makan Masa Kini

MELINTAS ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Ferdy Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Food Industry ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Interaction Model ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
System A ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Desire

<p>Food has been one of the most important foundations of human history. Food functions as a statement of the self, a classification system, a way of social interaction, and even a cultural identity that it can be interpreted holistically. Food has been one of the most important elements that shape life and the history of human civilization. It demonstrates a kind of culture that signifies the dynamic of humanity from one era to the other. The expansion of food industry has brought a great impact on the revolution of social interaction model. However, a reduction of the food value is happening nowadays throughout the food culture, seeing it as simply as nutrition and economical commodity. Hedonism triggers the view of food as a tool to conquer the human desire, which actually never ceased even after being satisfied. A sort of ‘McDonaldization’ system is considered as a grand system of living that might have significantly changed many aspects of human life in this globalisation era. The <em>Branded Life</em> propaganda of the food industry seems to mislead people to continue their luxurious life. The fragmentation of human’s views on food becomes one of its consequences and in turn changes human’s respect of food within its holistic picture. The discussion now covers the social and spiritual dimensions. Today, the fragmented views of food have turned into a threat to humanity, but also a great opportunity, notwithstanding uncomfortable, to highlight the missing aspects of food in the midst of contemporary culture.</p>

Sound Alignments

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cold War ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
Contemporary Culture ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Musical Styles

In Sound Alignments, a transnational group of scholars explores the myriad forms of popular music that circulated across Asia during the Cold War. Challenging the conventional alignments and periodizations of Western cultural histories of the Cold War, they trace the routes of popular music, examining how it took on new meanings and significance as it traveled across Asia, from India to Indonesia, Hong Kong to South Korea, China to Japan. From studies of how popular musical styles from the Americas and Europe were adapted to meet local exigencies to how socialist-bloc and nonaligned Cold War organizations facilitated the circulation of popular music throughout the region, the contributors outline how music forged and challenged alliances, revolutions, and countercultures. They also show how the Cold War's legacy shapes contemporary culture, particularly in the ways 1990s and 2000s J-pop and K-pop are rooted in American attempts to foster economic exchange in East Asia in the 1960s.Throughout, Sound Alignments demonstrates that the experiences of the Cold War in Asia were as diverse and dynamic as the music heard and performed in it. Contributors. Marié Abe, Michael K. Bourdaghs, Paola Iovene, Nisha Kommattam, Jennifer Lindsay, Kaley Mason, Anna Schultz, Hyunjoon Shin, C. J. W.-L. Wee, Hon-Lun (Helan) Yang, Christine R. Yano, Qian Zhang

Fort Walton Mississippian Beginnings in the Apalachicola–Lower Chattahoochee River Valley of Northwest Florida, Southwest Georgia, and Southeast Alabama

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey P. Du Vernay ◽  
Nancy Marie White
Keyword(s):  
River Valley ◽  
Local Identity ◽  
Platform Mounds ◽  
Fort Walton ◽  
Local Traditions ◽  
Weeden Island ◽  
Chattahoochee River ◽  
Northwest Florida

In the Apalachicola-lower Chattahoochee River valley, new data reaffirm a relatively seamless Fort Walton emergence from resident late Weeden Island groups circa A.D.900-1000 that was characterized by blending external Mississippian influences with local traditions. Check-stamped and other Woodland ceramics continued as Mississippian forms were adopted, but in non-shell-tempered wares. Maize was grown inland but agriculture may not have developed along the coast. Platform mounds were built and Woodland mound centers were reoccupied. Taken together, these data suggest that Fort Walton beginnings here involved negotiations between maintaining local identity and incorporating outside Mississippian practices.

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