scholarly journals Kerala´s Ancient Mizhavu Drum: Transformations and Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
K. Sajith Vijayan ◽  
Karin Bindu
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Percussion Instrument ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Performing Art ◽  
Artistic Heritage

The Kerala state in India offers a huge assemblage of various percussion eccentricities. Each percussion instrument sustains and preserves its own attributes: some drums accompany visual arts, others create a vibrant world of percussion music, and a few maintain both attributes. Almost all instruments are related to ceremonial pursuance and worship customs. Mizhavu is a single-headed drum from Kerala that employs these kinds of ceremonial pursuance. The purpose of the instrument, which had also been used in temples in Tamil Nadu, is to accompany the Kūṭiyāṭṭam and Kuttu performances in the great temples (mahakshetras) for the pleasure of God’s souls and the invocation of their powers. Kūṭiyāṭṭam and Kuttu – Kerala’s Sanskrit drama performing art forms – have been recognized as Intangible Cultural Heritage due to 2000 years of tradition. As ‘visual sacrifice’ staging scenes from the Ramayana and Mahabharata, they combine dance with theatre performance, Sanskrit verses (slokas), and percussive music in a ritualistic context. The main supporting percussion instrument (mizhavu) serves as deva vādyam – an instrument for the deities. Its classification as a one-headed drum covered with skin (avanaddha vadya of the dardura type) goes back to the Natya Shastra of Bharatamuni – some 2000 years ago. Definitions as kettledrum (bhanda vadya) trace it back to Kautilya’s Arthasastra. The Buddhist Pali Tripitaka refers to pot drums (kumba toonak). Tamil epics mention a muzha or kuta muzha drum. Publications in recent decades nearly mention that drum. Production methods, forms, and material of the drum have changed over the ages. Attached to the artistic heritage of a certain Brahmin caste – the Nampyar – the drum has spent a long period in the environment of temple theatres. Since 1966, it has been taught to pupils of all castes at the Kerala Kalamandalam, Thrissur District. P.K.K. Nambiar worked as the first mizhavu teacher in the later added Kūṭiyāṭṭam department. He was followed by his pupil K. Eswaranunni, the first mizhavu guru from another caste, fighting for acceptance among members of Chakyar and Nampyar families. As a passionate master with numerous awards and performance experience all over the world, K. Eswaranunni has trained most of the contemporary mizhavu percussionists, who are still performing all over India as well as abroad. This paper gives an overview of the instrument and shows how the mizhavu is described by both gurus in their books written in Malayalam and by both authors including their personal relations to the drum.

Key Factors for Green IS Acceptance in Banking Segment

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-67
Author(s):  
Monika Singh ◽  
Ganesh P. Sahu
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Structural Equation ◽  
Harmful Effect ◽  
Uttar Pradesh ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Green Is ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Green Information Systems ◽  
Almost All

Almost all service organizations are now well aware about global warming and advantages of green information systems (Green IS) in order to gain social and economic profit at the cost of no harmful effect on environment. Recurrent annotations in the literature have explored that for successful Green IS adoption certain keys factors are required to be considered and followed in various organizations. This paper reviews, analyzes, and corroborates 11 key factors empirically that are accountable for successful adoption of Green IS and performance improvement achievement of banking segments with special reference to the banks positioned at Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. Eleven key factors are identified via in-depth literature review and examined using UTAUT2 and T-O-E models. Analysis of Moment Structure 21.0-Structural Equation Modeling tool is used in the study for data analysis and corroboration. The study will enrich the literature review in this field; also, it will be helpful to the decision makers and practitioners in different segments for successful adoption of Green IS in organizations.

scholarly journals Covid 19 Pandemic: Assessment of Knowledge and Attitudes in Biomedical Waste Management among Health Care Professionals in Tamil Nadu

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-164
Author(s):  
Ms Krithiga ◽  
Sudharsana V ◽  
Sribalaji R ◽  
Snega C
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
Healthcare Providers ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Biomedical Waste ◽  
Safe Handling ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Waste Handling ◽  
Plastic Containers

Coronavirus, which was started provincially at Wuhan of China, has become a worldwide pandemic by affecting individuals of almost all the world. The developing pandemic of COVID-19 disease requires social distancing and individual cleanliness measures to secure general wellbeing. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the knowledge, attitude, practice and awareness of biomedical waste management in this pandemic situation among healthcare workers and medical students across Tamil Nadu. A cross sectional questionnaire survey was prepared to evaluate the knowledge regarding waste management and waste handling techniques. The survey found that most of the hospitals (50%) are using plastic containers for waste collection. Almost 79.7% of the respondents said they follow colour coding while disposing waste. When asked about exact category only few gave correct answers. Nearly 72.8% answered that they collect the Covid patient’s wastes separately. As coronavirus is a contagious disease, each healthcare worker should be trained in safe handling of wastes. From this survey, it is clear that training about safe handling of waste is needed among workers. This survey will help government and healthcare providers to handle this Covid pandemic successfully and more effectively.

Contribuția etnologului Sergiu Moraru la dezvoltarea folcloristicii din Basarabia – itinerar biografic și științific

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mariana Cocieru ◽  
◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Language And Literature ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

In the present study, the author traces the biographical landmarks and the preoccupations of the ethnologist Sergiu Moraru for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage by conducting field researches and scientific use of registered materials. He worked for almost 23 years in the academic field (at Department of Ethnography and Arts Study of the Academy of Sciences of Moldova, then at the Folklore Sector of the Institute of Language and Literature of the ASM, at the Department of Ethnography and Arts of the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore of ASM), holding the positions: lower scientific researcher, scientific researcher. A prominent personality of Romanian folkloristics from Bessarabia, Sergiu Moraru has established himself as a prolific researcher of ethnocultural phenomena, being passionate about the species of non-occasional folklore: lyrical songs, proverbs, sayings, riddles, shouts, memories and verse letters. The scientific activity focused on several research directions: the theoretical, methodological and philosophical aspects of folklore; the genesis, evolution, typology and poetics of the lyrical song and riddles; capitalization of the folklore heritage and classical folkloristics; promotion and performance of the folk treasure in folk festivals; the permanence of popular creation in contemporaneity, etc.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shawn VanCour
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Production Methods ◽  
Surface Level ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Sound Culture

This chapter asserts the need to reinscribe radio’s prenetwork period within broader histories of modern sound culture and advances a production-based approach that explores the practices of sonic labor behind broadcasting’s surface-level textual forms. Recognizing this period’s importance for defining radio’s own identity, it also stresses the need to place emerging forms of radiomaking within the context of broader shifts in early twentieth-century sound entertainment. To this end, the chapter elaborates radio workers’ contributions not only to the rapidly expanding field of broadcasting, but also to much larger shifts in dominant production methods and performance styles that would ultimately span combined regimes of modern radio, film, and phonography.

Comparison of feeding behaviour and performance of weaned pigs given food in two types of dry feeders with integrated drinkers

1999 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Laitat ◽  
M. Vandenheede ◽  
A. Désiron ◽  
B. Canart ◽  
B. Nicks
Keyword(s):  
Feeding Behaviour ◽  
Feeding Activity ◽  
Weaned Pigs ◽  
Multifactor Analysis ◽  
Daily Water ◽  
The Mean ◽  
The Difference ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Type V

AbstractPerformance of 80 (tests 1 and 2) or 60 (tests 3 and 4) weaned pigs were compared when using ‘Tubetype’ feeder (T), allowing the animals to mix meal and drinking water, or another type (V) where drinking and eating places are separated. The difference in growth rate was not significant but the mean daily water consumption (1 per pig per day) was higher with T than with V in each test but significantly only in tests 1 and 3 (1·84 v. 1·40, and 2·11 v. 1·26, P < 0·01).Feeding behaviour was assessed during tests 2 and 4. Multifactor analysis of variance revealed effects (P < 0·01) of feeder, group size and period of the day on the occupation time and the average number of animals using the feeders simultaneously. These two variables were higher for V than for T (test 2: 23·4 per 24 h v. 21·5 per 24 h and 4·5 v. 3·7, P < 0·05; test 4: 20·0 per 24 h v. 18·2 per 24 h, P< 0·01). In each test, both feeders were used for a longer time and by more piglets during the ‘day’ than during the ‘night’ (P < 0·01). When grouping 40 pigs, animals used both feeders during almost all the day period (V: 15·9 per 16 h and T: 15·8 per 16 h). During the night period, this was only true with V (V: 7·4 per 8 h; T: 5·8 per 8 h). The use of feeder V in crowded conditions thus prevented preferential diurnal feeding activity, commonly described in pigs. In conclusion, even if productivity is not affected, feeding behaviour and thus eventually welfare are influenced by the type of feeder, especially with high numbers of animals.

Rausch

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Moral Duty ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Drug Induced ◽  
German Word ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Chemically Induced ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The University

From the earliest periods of history human beings have used mind-altering substances. In addition, in almost all religions we find techniques for meditation which may induce states of trance or ecstasy which serve to facilitate experiencing the divine. Yet in many societies, trance, ecstasy and even intoxication are taboo unless they are practiced in social spaces authorized for their use, like nightclubs, or where they are seen as culturally productive, as in the visual arts, music, or literature. Further complicating matters, the legitimacy of drug-induced mind-altering states is controversial among jurists, educators, and physicians. Those arguing in favour often point to the alleged religious basis of Rausch, while those opposing this right often cite a moral duty to sobriety. Whether religious, reckless, chemically induced or all of these, the whole constellation of phenomena is encompassed by the single German word Rausch. In 2019, a series of lectures delivered at the University of Bonn focused on the societal ambivalences surrounding Rausch from an interdisciplinary perspective – as a religious, psychological, social, legal, and cultural phenomenon. The results of this extraordinary series are documented in this volume. With contributions by Clemens Albrecht, Christoph Antweiler, Andreas Bell, Walter Bruchhausen, Robert Feustel, Dorothee Gall, Albert Gerhards, Tobias Janz, Jörg Kinzig, Wolfram Kinzig, Alexandra Philipsen, Irmgard Rüsenberg, Markus Saur, Jochen Sautermeister, Detlef Siegfried, Christoph Schreier, Birgitta Sträter, Nathalie Thies.

Assessment of variability and performance of new landraces of small cardamom (Elettaria cardamomum Maton)

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
P.R. Akhila V.V. Radhakrishnan ◽  
K. Pradipkumar K.V. Mohanan
Keyword(s):  
Growth Yield ◽  
Genotypic Difference ◽  
Preliminary Evaluation ◽  
Performance Indices ◽  
Planting Material ◽  
Yield And Quality ◽  
Overall Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Kerala State ◽  
Growth Characters

<p>Even though fourteen improved varieties of small cardamom have been released in India so far, many of the farmers in the<br />traditional cardamom tracts still use farmer selected landraces as planting material and hence the importance of landraces is not<br />questionable. Four new landraces of small cardamom identified from Idukki district of Kerala State of India namely Pulari,<br />Pappalu, Kalarikkal Bold and Arjun were evaluated along with Njallani Green Gold (popular landrace) and ICRI-2 (improved<br />variety released by Indian Cardamom Research Institute) for growth, yield and quality characters. Eight growth characters, eight<br />yield characters and eleven quality characters were analyzed for the purpose and all of them except two yield characters showed<br />statistically significant variation indicating the occurrence of significant genotypic difference between these landraces. A comparative<br />analysis of overall performance of the four landraces was also carried out and the results showed that Pappalu, Kalarikkal Bold<br />and Pulari performed significantly superior to Njallani Green Gold and ICRI-2, the controls. Pappalu showed 132.22 per cent<br />increase in yield over Njallani Green Gold and 158.02 per cent over ICRI-2. The cumulative performance indices of all the new<br />landraces were worked out and the landrace Pappalu had the highest performance index of 30.06 followed by Kalarikkal Bold<br />(27.45), Arjun (25.57) and Pulari (24.14). All the four new landraces have been found to be superior to ICRI-2 while Pappalu,<br />Kalarikkal Bold and Pulari showed superiority over Njallani Green Gold, under preliminary evaluation.</p>

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