Bridging Places, Media, and Traditions: Lasse Hallström’s Chronotopes

2019 ◽  
pp. 360-369
Author(s):  
Lynn R. Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
American Films ◽  
Points Of View

This chapter investigates the career of Swedish-born director Lasse Hallström, whose international breakthrough came with his 1985 adaptation of Reidar Jönsson’s novel Mitt liv som hund/My Life as a Dog. Not surprisingly, many of his American films have also been adaptations, including his remarkable The Cider House Rules and The Shipping News. This study considers several of Hallström’s adaptations from the points of view of the films’ common ground (the focus on the plight of the unwanted child) and the cultural differences or even clashes they represent. In contrast, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen and The Hundred-Foot Journey seem at first to be fairy tales of cultural reconciliation, although they also raise questions about leadership, the culture of everyday life, and adaptation in every sense of the word. Hallström’s adaptations provide us with insights into our own cultures, as well as those of others, while also highlighting the limits of adaptation.

Gender, Representation, Experience: The Case of Village Performers in Java

2008 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
FELICIA HUGHES-FREELAND
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender Representation ◽  
New Order ◽  
Gender Ideologies ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Women’S Experiences ◽  
Performance Culture ◽  
Women's Experiences ◽  
Points Of View

This article explores how gender representations are deployed in anthropological analysis with reference to female performers (ledhek) in rural Java during the last decades of Suharto's New Order Indonesia (1966–1998). 1 It shows how the negative ascriptions given to ledheks were consistent with state promulgated gender ideologies in Indonesia, and explores the women's experiences in performances and everyday life. This different standpoint allows us to understand their dancing from the performers’ points of view, rather than from that of official state endorsed ideas of acceptable performance culture.

scholarly journals Speak with one voice! Towards an ecumenical ethics applicable to the church-state dialogue in South Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Koos Vorster
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Ethical Concern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
The Government ◽  
Moral Discourses ◽  
The Church

This research deals with the question of whether an ecumenical ethics can be developed in South Africa that at least will be applicable in the field of political ethics and that can assist the various ecclesiastical traditions to ‘speak with one voice’ when they address the government on matters of Christian ethical concern. The research rests on the recognition of the variety of ethical persuasions and points of view that flow from the variety of hermeneutical approaches to Scripture. However, within this plethora of ethical discourses, an ‘overlapping’ ethics based on a proposed set of minimum theological ideas can be pursued in order to reach at least an outline of an applicable ecumenical political ethics conducive to the church–state dialogue in South Africa today. The article concludes that a ‘minimum consensus’ on the role of revelation in the moral discourses is possible and is enriched by traditional ideas such as creation and natural law, the reign of God and Christology, and it can provide a suitable common ground for an ecumenical ethics applicable to the moral difficulties in the political domain in South Africa today.

scholarly journals Translational competency

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Yates-Doerr
Keyword(s):  
Body Size ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Differences ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Healthy Eating ◽  
Medical Settings ◽  
Obesity Interventions ◽  
Refusal To Treat ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Relational Contexts

This article introduces the notion of ‘translational competency’, a skill of attending to different understandings of health and how these are negotiated between medical settings and everyday life. This skill is especially important for the design of obesity-prevention policies and programs, given the diverse values surrounding both healthy eating and desirable weight. Through its focus on communicative interactions, translational competency entails a refusal to treat cultural differences regarding diet or body size as a problem. Rather, it encourages engagement with the relational contexts out of which health problems develop and transform, taking culture to be a process of negotiation and adaptation. In this article I present an example of the utility of the skill of translational competency taken from research on obesity in Guatemala. I then illustrate how translational competency might be used in the design of obesity interventions.

scholarly journals Looking for national and genre identity in the modern Russian and Hungarian author fairy tale (on the example of the texts by A. Kabakov, A. Stepanov and A. Mosonyi)

2020 ◽  
pp. 383-398
Author(s):  
Polina V. Korolkova
Keyword(s):  
Children's Literature ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Children’S Literature ◽  
Adult Reader ◽  
Modern Russian

The essay deals with the interaction between the genre transformations of the author fairy tale and the national problematics, as well as the question of the modern strategies of genre renewal on the example of the texts by modern Russian and Hungarian writers (“The Moscow fairy tales” by A. Kabakov, “The fairy tales not about people” by A. Stepa-nov, “The Budapest fairy tales” and “The supermarket fairy tales” by A. Mosonyi). Among other questions, I address the so-called “genre me-mory” (M. Lipovetsky’s term), which in the texts by Kabakov, Stepanov, and Mosonyi functions at the level of entire cycles but rarely at the level of separate texts. With regard to the fi eld of children’s literature, the na-tional locus makes the texts appear more modern-looking and therefore appealing to an adult reader who rediscovers the details of everyday life. The opposite strategy is often applied in the philosophical, parable or political fairy tales, when the authors give priority to the nation-specifi c, nuanced and recognizable locus, which at the same time receives the features of the fairy tale or mythological space.

scholarly journals UN COLLÈGE FRANÇAIS À L’ÉPREUVE DE L’INCLUSION : UNE SITUATION D’ENTRE-DEUX SOURCE DE DILEMMES

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 305-325
Author(s):  
Matthieu Laville ◽  
Éric Saillot
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Education Project ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Inclusive Schooling

Inclusive schooling requires that education be adapted to the di- versity of youth in order to reduce the processes of excluding certain students by promoting the continuity of education in mainstream schools. This article looks at a French college which developed inclusive schooling modalities. It is based on a qualitative methodology that is both comprehensive and centered on the confrontation of the actors’ points of view. The concepts of liminality and dilemma allow for the analysis of contradictions in the everyday life of the school staff. We raised three kinds of dilemmas that were experienced as trials and which revealed obstacles but were also source of reflections on inclusion. Finally, this research highlights the need of moving forward locally by “small steps” to enable all stakeholders to mobilize around an inclusive education project.

Tieck, Ludwig (1773–1853)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iain Macdonald
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
German Romanticism ◽  
Ludwig Tieck ◽  
Relationship Of

Ludwig Tieck was perhaps not the most historically influential figure of early German Romanticism, but he was one of its most important proponents; moreover, he was also among the most eminent German men of letters during the first half of the nineteenth century. Though not philosophically inclined, his stories, fairy-tales, novellas and novels explore the inter-relationship of language, art and nature in an attempt to convey and redeem the mystery and wonder of nature and everyday life.

Do Easterners and Westerners Treat Contradiction Differently?

2015 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 45-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hugo Mercier ◽  
Jiehai Zhang ◽  
Yuping Qu ◽  
Peng Lu ◽  
Jean-Baptiste Van der Henst
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Differences ◽  
External Validity ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cross Cultural Differences ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Law Of Excluded Middle ◽  
Excluded Middle ◽  
Influential Theory

Peng and Nisbett (1999) put forward an influential theory of the influence of culture on the resolution of contradiction. They suggested that Easterners deal with contradiction in a dialectical manner, trying to reconcile opposite points of view and seeking a middle-way. Westerners, by contrast, would follow the law of excluded middle, judging one side of the contradiction to be right and the other to be wrong. However, their work has already been questioned, both in terms of replicability and external validity. Here we test alternative interpretations of two of Peng and Nisbett’s experiments and conduct a new test of their theory in a third experiment. Overall, the Eastern (Chinese) and Western (French) participants behaved similarly, failing to exhibit the cross-cultural differences observed by Peng and Nisbett. Several interpretations of these failed replications and this failed new test are suggested. Together with previous failed replications, the present results raise questions about the breadth of Peng and Nisbett’s interpretation of cross-cultural differences in dealing with contradiction.

scholarly journals Using you to get to me: Addressee perspective and speaker stance in Duna evidential marking

2015 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lila San Roque
Keyword(s):  
Papua New Guinea ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Role ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Multiple Perspective ◽  
Points Of View

AbstractLanguages have complex and varied means for representing points of view, including constructions that can express multiple perspectives on the same event. This paper presents data on two evidential constructions in the language Duna (Papua New Guinea) that imply features of both speaker and addressee knowledge simultaneously. I discuss how talking about an addressee’s knowledge can occur in contexts of both coercion and co-operation, and, while apparently empathetic, can provide a covert way to both manipulate the addressee’s attention and express speaker stance. I speculate that ultimately, however, these multiple perspective constructions may play a pro-social role in building or repairing the interlocutors’ common ground.

scholarly journals Promoting common ground building in L2 cross-cultural conversations

2021 ◽  
pp. 220-225
Author(s):  
Maryam Sadat Mirzaei ◽  
Kourosh Meshgi ◽  
Toyoaki Nishida
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Awareness ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Teaching Culture ◽  
Points Of View ◽  
Immersive Environment ◽  
Optimal Approach ◽  
Different Cultures

Teaching culture out of context may not be the optimal approach, yet it could be achieved by immersive technologies. This study uses an immersive theme-based environment and focuses on cross-cultural interactions between learners of different cultures in goal-oriented scenarios. We collected interactions among learners with different cultural backgrounds and annotated common ground formation and conversation breakdowns in those interactions. Next, we recreated the scenarios in a 3D immersive environment using an in-house situation creation toolkit to enable experiencing the situation by using choices to navigate the conversation and observing the consequences. In case the conversation derails, we provide timely scaffolding by offering appropriate communication strategies to rebuild common ground. Learners can be the actors of the scenarios but can also be the observers by switching between roles and points of view. Preliminary experiments with 20 L2 learners of English from different cultures showed that practicing with immersive conversational game-play is effective for raising cultural awareness and learning to choose appropriate strategies for smooth interactions.

scholarly journals Transformation of the Image of Japan in Murzilka Magazine in the 20th century

2021 ◽  
Vol 49 (5) ◽  
pp. 18-24
Author(s):  
Mariya Gromova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Fairy Tales ◽  
Spiritual Culture ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Tea Ceremony ◽  
Class Nature

The image of Japan in the children’s magazine “Murzilka” has been changing depending on the relations between the USSR and Japan and the development of interliterary ties during the 20th century. During the period of the Japanese invasion to Manchuria and the Lake Khasan Battle, abstract “Japanese” are presented as aggressors, fascists, encroaching on the Soviet borders. The class nature of the Japanese-Chinese conflicts is emphasized. During the period of the Khrushchev Thaw Japan turns out to be a country with an interesting and unique culture. There are published poems and songs of Japanese poets, fairy tales, descriptions of folk holidays and everyday life, “paper theater” kamishibai there. In the first decade after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Japan mesmerizes “Murzilka”’s readers with the unity of material and spiritual culture, presented in ikebana, origami and tea ceremony. It is a country that exists beyond time, and the basis of Japanese life is formed by ancient traditions and exquisite holidays.

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