The identity of the Kyrgyz: a historical and social study (Part 2)

2021 ◽  
pp. 390-395
Author(s):  
ŞENGÜL ÇEBİ İSRA
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The Future

Identity is determined not by the norms that characterize the culture of a particular period, but by the existence of a community of people who share a common heritage, such as language and history: “… our identities reflect common historical experiences and common cultural codes that provide us as «a people» with stable, unchanging and permanent frames of reference and meaning under the changing distinctions and changes of our true history». Accordingly, we can define the Kyrgyz identity through «a common culture, a common history and a kind of collective real identity shared by all members of the clan». However, the Kyrgyz identity accepts cultural identity as a reality belonging to both the future and the past. In this direction, the Kyrgyz identity is a positioning formed within the framework of historical and cultural discourses. In the light of this information, in this study, we will reveal the historical roots of the Kyrgyz identity.

The identity of the Kyrgyz: a historical and social study (Part 1)

2021 ◽  
pp. 380-389
Author(s):  
ŞENGÜL ÇEBİ İSRA
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Study ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
Common Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Common Heritage ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Individual

Identity is the expression of an individual's self-definition and self-positioning. It gives the answer to who a person is and what his worldview is. It is the definition of being and belonging. It is the explanation of what the individual is, both socially and psychologically. It is clear that identity, which is the focus of our research, is a concept related to belonging, what we have in common with some people and what differentiates a person from others. Based on this definition, it can be stated that identity is characterized by sharing certain things and, on the basis of these common points, a person is differentiated from other groups of people and approaches a group to which he feels belonging. In this understanding, identity is determined not by the norms that characterize the culture of a particular period, but by the existence of a community of people who share a common heritage, such as language and history: “… our identities reflect common historical experiences and common cultural codes that provide us as «a people» with stable, unchanging and permanent frames of reference and meaning under the changing distinctions and changes of our true history.» Accordingly, we can define the Kyrgyz identity through «a common culture, a common history and a kind of collective real identity shared by all members of the clan». However, the Kyrgyz identity accepts cultural identity as a reality belonging to both the future and the past. In this direction, the Kyrgyz identity is a positioning formed within the framework of historical and cultural discourses. In the light of this information, in this study, we will reveal the historical roots of the Kyrgyz identity.

scholarly journals CHARACTERISTICS OF MADURA JAMU HERBALIST AND TRADITIONAL VALUE PRESERVATION

2020 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sri Ratnawati
Keyword(s):  
Herbal Medicine ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Cultural Preservation ◽  
Traditional Values ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
Transmission Of Values ◽  
Value Preservation

Compounding herbal medicine that lives in modern times does not automatically release the traditional cultural values ??that have become a hereditary convention, which includes the value of folklore as a spirit of life. They continue to make new innovations to adjust to their times. Innovation does not mean eliminating traditional values, but through traditional change begins. This is done not by setting aside traditional systems that have taken root for decades, but instead by using cultural thinking and traditional values ??tools to direct the vision, mission of Madura herbal medicine from the past to the future. The herbalist of Madura herbal medicine as an agent who sees the importance of putting Madurese cultural values ??on every practice of making Madura herbal medicine. Local cultural values, such as genealogy, oral transmissions and folklore values ??have long given a color to Madura herbal medicine. This means, that the practice of making Madura herbal medicine, is one of the potential local wisdom traditions for the preservation of regional cultural identity in Indonesia.  Keywords: herbal medicine, herbalist, local wisdom, transmission of values, cultural preservation

Facing Time and the Absurd

2019 ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Inka Stock
Keyword(s):  
External World ◽  
Frames Of Reference ◽  
The Past ◽  
Informed Decisions ◽  
The Future ◽  
In Transit

This chapter changes the perspective and focuses on migrants’ image of themselves when stuck in Morocco. It describes the experience of being stuck in transit as an existential dilemma and analyses migrants’ efforts to resynchronize their temporal frames of reference with those of the external world. Through the stories of migrants I interviewed, I show how people become disconnected from the past and the future and struggle with a meaningless life in the present. This places them in a situation which they themselves conceive as absurd or senseless. This existence “out of time” can affect their capacity to take informed decisions about their life, to plan for the future and to care for their relations with families back home.

scholarly journals THROUGH THE PAST INTO THE FUTURE: JEAN-FRANÇOIS BILL – PASTOR, ACTIVIST, THEOLOGIAN 8 JULY 1934 – 12 MARCH 2005

2016 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-123
Author(s):  
Graham Duncan ◽  
Tinyiko Sam Maluleke
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Academic Ability ◽  
Church Leader ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Constructive Engagement

Jean- François Bill was a significant church leader of the second half of the twentieth century. He was born, raised and educated in South Africa, and he lived, worked and died in South Africa. He possessed a multi-cultural identity. He had a rare academic ability but was no academic recluse. His varied and intensive ministry was marked by committed, responsible, constructive engagement. He was a convinced yet reasonable ecumenist with a powerful social conscience who offered a great deal to the field of theological education. He had a vision of a responsible church which was responsible in a practical way by working through the live issues of the day.This would be a church which would strive for authentic unity and be the leaven in the lump of the world.

scholarly journals ‘Where I’m Coming from’: Modes of Returning to the Past in Glenn Patterson’s The Rest Just Follows

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-60
Author(s):  
Marianna Gula
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Cultural Discourses ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future

Glenn Patterson’s The Rest Just Follows (2014) participates in the work of memory to enable the future both for individuals and communities by staging three different modes of returning to the past, which enter into a dialogue not only with each other, but also with current political and cultural discourses in Northern Ireland, most notably, with the ongoing practice of truth recovery and the widespread assumption that it can aid healing and reconciliation.

MODERN ANGLICISMS AS INDICATORS OF THE GLOBALIZATION OF SOCIETY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Dmitrievna Yermakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Dynamic Process ◽  
English Language ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
The Past ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
The World ◽  
National Images

Globalization is a dynamic process that makes major changes in various areas of modern human activity. The emergence of a large number of anglicisms over the past 20-30 years, understood almost anywhere in the world, clearly demonstrates the penetration of English-language culture into national images, stereotypical representations, and even cultural codes of many countries. This article discusses the use of new language forms in everyday life, along with the new realities that they represent, which certainly changes own cultural identity

La costruzione europea e la questione tedesca nell'opera di Norbert Elias

2012 ◽  
pp. 139-154
Author(s):  
Adele Bianco
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
The European Union ◽  
European Continent ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Differences ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cultural Entity

In reviewing the work of Norbert Elias, this essay on one hand examines the way he represented building Europe as a geo-political and cultural entity, and on the other extracts elements that may help understand the present evolution of the European structure. According to Elias, building Europe was a social phenomenon that, psychologically, conformed and minimized national differences creating a European cultural identity; sociologically, the territorial matters and political-institutional conformations of the European continent became particularly relevant. In this context, Germany's position appears to be continuously defined: in the past, as a historic and political entity. Today and for the future of Europe, is it in terms of an economic, financial and productive center, as attested by the debate regarding the future of the Euro and the European Union, that has been ongoing since the economic crisis started in 2007.

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