scholarly journals Hudhud: A Living Oral Tradition of the Ifugao

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Bienvenido B. Constantino, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Death Rituals ◽  
Living Tradition ◽  
The Subject

This study focuses mainly on the oral tradition of Ifugao called Hudhud, its performances, cultural values, and means of pedagogical transmission. It is important to note that this oral tradition is sustaining through the school of living tradition in the place of its origin. Through this study, people will be aware of this unique oral tradition of Ifugao, which is situated in the northern Philippine highlands. This ethnographic study captures the holistic purpose of the study of Hudhud; and thus, immersion, interview, archiving, and observation of the subject were made. Performances of the Hudhud are still popular during the community gathering called Gotad ad Ifugao, death rituals, weddings, and other important gatherings—big or small—in the entire province of Ifugao.

scholarly journals BATIK EXTRACULICULAR AS A MEANS OF PLANTING VALUES OF CULTURE

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 25-34
Author(s):  
Pangestu Cahyo Gumelar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Extracurricular Activities ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Verification Test ◽  
Constant Practice ◽  
Data Analysis Methods

Abstract: Schools are part of the community, therefore schools must be able to strive for the preservation of the cultural richness of the community. Giriloyo Village, Imogiri, Bantul as an area that still preserves batik activities, and even batik becomes the main livelihood for several families. To continue to maintain this cultural heritage, MI Ma'arif Giriloyo I included batik extracurricular into local content that must be taken by students. This extracurricular batik aims to instill cultural values ​​so that students can foster a sense of love for their own culture. This type of research is qualitative research. Data collection techniques using the method of observation, documentation, and interviews. The object of this research is the implementation of batik extracurricular activities. With the subject of the Madrasah Head, Batik Extracurricular Teachers, students in grade V. Data analysis methods developed by Miles and Huberman are data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing/verification. Test the validity of the data using reference material. The results of this study indicate that: 1) The batik extracurricular implementation is carried out consistently and systematically according to the learning steps starting from the introduction, core and closing activities. 2) The teacher develops the creativity of students by giving them freedom of expression and constant practice. 3) The inhibiting factors in batik extracurricular implementation are the lack of class hours, the amount of equipment that is not balanced with students, there is no specific place for batik practice. Factors supporting the implementation of batik extracurricular include the community environment, high student interest.

scholarly journals The Fifty-Year Ethnographer: A Review of Harry Wolcott's Ethnography Lessons: A Primer

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denise Mifsud
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Years Of Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Components ◽  
Concise Description

“Harry Wolcott uses fifty years of experience to take the reader inside the process of constructing an ethnographic study, offering a wealth of lessons from one of the masters of the genre”. This is indeed a concise description by the publisher. The text is constructed around the author’s five major studies. Wolcott thus gives a unique contribution to the field of ethnography as he presents some critical components of ethnography in his desire to share with us readers the results of his career-long search for the essence of ethnography. The book is divided into eight chapters. I give a critical review of the book, attempting to present the subject matter to potential readers, while drawing on its strengths and weaknesses.

scholarly journals Jared Diamond and Peter Turchin: Two contemporary theories of social collapse

2014 ◽  
pp. 85-104
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Gajic
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
Theory Building ◽  
Complete Disappearance ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Ibn Khaldun ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Scientific Achievements

Theories of social collapse are not only the views that characterize ?societies deep in crisis?, but rather an expression of lack of belief in prosperity and central importance of the civilization in which we live. These theories follow processes of degradation of human societies, the decline of civilization`s powers and the loss of its cultural values resulting in their complete disappearance. This paper defines the subject of study and provides an overview of the history of these theories and their contemporary types by taking the main causes of collapse criteria as the basis for theory building. After the review of contemporary multi-factor analysis of collapse, mainly within the science of complex systems, full attention is focused on two atypical, yet very productive, contemporary theories of social collapse that are elaborated in detail: Jared Diamond`s theory, which studies social collapses by observing relations of other variables that can lead to collapse with environmental problems as central; and Peter Turchin`s theory which, revitalizing with modern scientific achievements Ibn Khaldun`s classical theory of ?asabia? (group feeling, spirit of community), sees social collapses as a consequence of the decline of cohesion provided by asabia. The final part of the work gives a critical review of these two theories and their relation with classical theories of social collapse (primarily those of Arnold Toynbee) and points to their mutual productive complementarity.

scholarly journals A Differential Construct Methodology for Modelling Predictive Cultural Values

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Béatrice Boufoy-Bastick
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Explanatory Model ◽  
Two Cultures ◽  
Fiji Islands ◽  
Target Construct ◽  
The Two Cultures ◽  
Natural Laboratory

This paper presents an explanatory model of cultural behaviours, which resulted from a four-year ethnographic study of the different academic attainments in English of indigenous Fijians and the Indo-Fijians in the Fiji Islands. Fiji is a natural laboratory for investigating differential cultural behaviours because of these two culturally distinct main ethnic groups. Their different cultural behaviours were found to serve different values within each culture. A three-construct grounded model of these different values emerged from observations and analyses of these behaviours. These constructs were then de-constructed to define and explain a fourth target construct of their Differential Teaching Behaviours, which were contributing to the different academic attainments of the two cultures. The validity of the resulting four-construct model was both empirically and quantitatively ascertained and it is argued that the model can be used to predict culturally determined behaviours and educational outcomes in similar multicultural contexts.

scholarly journals Dolanan bocah caruban nagari sebagai upaya pembinaan nilai antikorupsi siswa sekolah dasar

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Auliya Aenul Hayati ◽  
Dede Trie Kurniawan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Student Attitudes ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Descriptive Statistics ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Questionnaire Data ◽  
School Students ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
The Subject

Tingginya ketergantungan manusia akan tekhnologi turut menggeser popularitas permainan tradisonal. Sementara pemahaman terhadap kekayaan nilai budaya lokal pada setiap permainan berperan penting dalam upaya pembinaan nilai antikorupsi sejak usia dini. Peneliti meneliti bagaimana dolanan bocah Caruban Nagari mampu berperan sebagai upaya pembinaan antikorupsi pada siswa Sekolah Dasar. Yaitu bertujuan untuk menganalisis karakteristik permainan, mengkaji jenis-jenis permainan sebagai pendidikan antikorupsi, dan mengembangkan kecerdasan nilai-nilai kebajikan. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif dengan serangkaian metode deskriptif analisis. Pengumpulan data dengan cara observasi, wawancara, dan kuesioner. Teknik pengolahan dan analisis data menggunakan statistik deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan: (1). Karakteristik pendidikan antikorupsi melalui permainan tradisional beracuan pada materi pelajaran, guru, proses pembelajaran, dan nilai-nilai, yang berkesinambungan menanamkan perilaku antikorupsi. (2). Nilai antikorupsi Dolanan Bocah Caruban Nagari yaitu nilai jujur, disiplin, tanggung jawab, kerja keras, mandiri, sederhana, adil, berani, dan peduli dengan tingkat perubahan sikap siswa tertinggi pada nilai kejujuran dan terendah pada nilai kemandirian.-----The high human dependence on technology has helped to shift the popularity of traditional games. While understanding the richness of local cultural values in each game plays a vital role in efforts to foster anti-corruption values from an early age. Researchers examine how the child caruban Nagari can play a role as an effort to foster anti-corruption in elementary school students. It aims to analyze the characteristics of the game, examine the types of games as anti-corruption education, and develop the intelligence of virtue values. This research uses a qualitative approach with a descriptive analysis methods Data collection by observation, interview, and questionnaire. Data processing and analysis techniques use descriptive statistics. The results showed: (1). The characteristics of anti-corruption education through traditional games refer to the subject matter, the teacher, the learning process, and values, which continuously instill anti-corruption behavior. (2). The anti-corruption value of kid caruban nagari is honest, discipline, responsibility, hard work, independent, simple, fair, brave, and caring with the highest level of change in student attitudes on honesty values and the lowest on self-sustained values.

Kings versus Bandits: Anti-colonialism in a Bandit Narrative

2003 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shail Mayaram
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Early Writing ◽  
Weak State ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Specific Theme ◽  
Indirect Rule

AbstractDebate and controversy have bedevilled the subject of social banditry. The early writing on social banditry saw it as primitive rebellion, as prepolitical and antithetical to class consciousness. Another approach identified it with weak state formation. The literature on South Asia saw social banditry as absent having been eroded by the institutional structure of caste. This article examines and critiques some of these theses on banditry. It argues, firstly, that social banditry can be simultaneous with a phase of intensified state formation. The specific theme investigated here is the interaction of the king, peasant and bandit in an Indian kingdom under late colonialism. A window to this universe is opened up by a folk epic from the oral tradition of a community of Muslims called the Meos. Far from being prepolitical, banditry raises crucial questions with respect to authority and legitimacy. This narrative not only interrogates the legitimacy of kingship, it also challenges the authority of the colonial state. Secondly, the article challenges the argument of South Asian exceptionalism to banditry that is perhaps easier to refute. Thirdly, as this article demonstrates, banditry need not relate to a pre-industrial capitalist world. Our bandit narrative indicates the reverberations of industrialism and attendant exchange relations and institutions in the colony even though it belongs to an area of ‘indirect’ rule.

Medically Timed Death as an Enactment of Good Death: An Ethnographic Study of Three European Intensive Care Units

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-79
Author(s):  
Gitte H. Koksvik
Keyword(s):  
Intensive Care ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Good Death ◽  
Critical Conditions ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Ethnographic Observation

The article is based on ethnographic observation and semistructured interviews with personnel in three European adult intensive care units. Intensive care is a domain of contemporary biomedicine centered on invasive and intense efforts to save lives in acute, critical conditions. It echoes our culture’s values of longevity. Nevertheless, mortality rates are elevated. Many deaths follow from nontreatment decisions. Medicalized dying in technological medical settings are often presented as unnatural, impersonal, and undesirable ways of dying. How does this affect the way in which death is experienced by intensive care professionals? What might the enactment of dying in intensive care reveal about our cultural values of good and bad dying?

Language and the Subject

Joseph Conrad ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Yael Levin
Keyword(s):  
Oral Tradition ◽  
The Other ◽  
Philosophical Inquiry ◽  
Heart Of Darkness ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Narrative Techniques ◽  
Experimental Narrative

The chapter focuses on Conrad’s scenes of suspension as sites for an investigation of language and its role in the creation of the modernist subject. Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, and Victory are read as the serial restaging of an unsolicited encounter with the language of the other. These unwarranted interruptions contribute to an exploration of a particularly passive and fragmented subjectivity that relinquishes the agency and cohesion afforded the Cartesian cogito. The insistence on the oral tradition is thus read not as an attempt to resurrect speech within an essentially silent medium but as a dramatization of the role of language in the evolution of the modernist subject and the narrative that houses him. Those same experimental narrative techniques that are often associated with Conrad’s commitment to an inherently epistemological philosophical inquiry are attributed here to the author’s effort to chart the ontological coordinates of character and narration.

Acculturation of non-native English-speaking teachers in accounting: an ethnographic study

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Nadana Abayadeera ◽  
Dessalegn Getie Mihret ◽  
Jayasinghe Hewa Dulige
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Host Culture ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Acculturation Process ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking ◽  
Native English Speaking Teachers

Purpose This paper aims to examine ethnographic evidence on the acculturation of non-native English-speaking teachers in accounting (ANNESTs) in an Australian university to understand the process, strategies and outcomes of the acculturation process. Design/methodology/approach Ethnographies of five ANNESTs representing diverse cultural backgrounds were studied. Data were collected from publicly available sources and informal discussions supplemented by semi-structured interviews. Findings The findings show that integration – that is, learning and participating in the Australian host culture while maintaining original cultural values – is the most popular acculturation strategy, followed by assimilation, whereby ANNESTs interact primarily with the host culture and retain loose links with their original culture. ANNESTs covered in this study fall into different stages of the acculturation process depending on their English language competency, the extent of contact with native Australians, cultural proximity and length of residence in Australia. Practical implications This paper concludes that challenges of acculturation confronting ANNESTs concern broader cultural issues than language proficiency alone. Institutional support directed at enhancing teaching effectiveness of ANNESTs should be devised from this perspective. Originality/value Given the cultural relevance of accounting systems and the influence of culture on the learning and teaching styles of ANNEST, the study illuminates that ANNEST’s acculturation strategies could facilitate or hinder the ANNEST’s speed of cultural understanding necessary to productively engage in the learning and teaching.

Medicine and Aviation: A Review of the Comparison

2003 ◽  
Vol 42 (04) ◽  
pp. 433-436 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Randell
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Intensive Care ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Intensive Care Units ◽  
Medical Error ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Subject

Summary Objective: This paper aims to understand the nature of medical error in highly technological environments and argues that a comparison with aviation can blur its real understanding. Methods: This study is a comparative study between the notion of error in health care and aviation based on the author’s own ethnographic study in intensive care units and findings from the research literature on errors in aviation. Results and Conclusions: Failures in the use of medical technology are common. In attempts to understand the area of medical error, much attention has focused on how we can learn from aviation. This paper argues that such a comparison is not always useful, on the basis that (i) the type of work and technology is very different in the two domains; (ii) different issues are involved in training and procurement; and (iii) attitudes to error vary between the domains. Therefore, it is necessary to look closely at the subject of medical error and resolve those questions left unanswered by the lessons of aviation.

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