scholarly journals THE VOICE OF CONSERVATION-RESTORATION ON MULTI-DISCIPLINARY RESTORATION PROJECTS

2019 ◽  
pp. 281-290
Author(s):  
Tanja Røskar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
The Other ◽  
Conservation Ethics ◽  
Built Heritage ◽  
Funding Body ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Structural Engineers ◽  
The Voice

As conservator-restorers we should be „a voice of reason”, an advocate that speaks for the cultural heritage values of our built heritage. However, we are often only one voice in a large group consisting of everything from structural engineers, geologists and carpenters to economic advisors and bureaucrats. Being a conservator-restorer in such settings often turns out to be a great balancing act. On the one hand, we are supposed to protect the buildings against any intervention that will compromise its authenticity and cultural values. On the other hand, we must allow as much protective work as possible to ensure the buildings’ future. Questions that can arise for a conservator-restorer during and after discussions in multi-disciplinary groups are many. Questions that needs answering before work starts. Are the conservator-restorer and the master craftsperson really on each end of the scale in a project, or is it just that we use different words? Is it conservation ethics versus the practical view of the engineer, or can both sides be pragmatic and find a new and possibly better solution? Is it possible that the conservator-restorer and the funding body can meet in the middle, or can that jeopardize the project?

scholarly journals The Voice of the Ulema and Dilemma of the Indonesian Ulema Council’s Fatwa among Low Literate Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-51
Author(s):  
Fariz Alnizar ◽  
Achmad Munjid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Islamic Movements ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
National Movement ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice ◽  
Literate Society ◽  
Research Show

Some Islamic movements in Indonesia make the fatwas issued by the MUI as a reference for their actions. They recently found their momentum after the defence movements called 411 and 212. The proponents of the movements called themselves as Gerakan Nasional Pengawal Fatwa Majelis Ulama Indonesia (GNPF-MUI/The National Movement of Guardian of Fatwa of the Indonesian Ulema Council). Employing a qualitative approach coupled with historical-causal paradigm this article examines the main question: Do the proponents of these movements substantially understand the fatwas they defend? The results of the research show that the fatwas have a dilemmatic position. On the one hand, there have been movements which insist on making the fatwas as “sacred opinion” that must be protected and guarded. On the other hand, people do not substantially comprehend the fatwas they defend. This problem has been caused, among others, by the cultural basis of the Indonesian society which put more preference on orality than literality or, explicitly, written tradition.

Body Resonance and the Voice

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-157
Author(s):  
Vita Heinrich-Clauer
Keyword(s):  
Self Efficacy ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Other ◽  
Therapeutic Approaches ◽  
Important Distinction ◽  
Vocal Expression ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Process ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

This article focuses on bioenergetic principles and the link between emotions and the voice, discussing various approaches to vocal expression in the psychotherapeutic process. There is an examination of the idiosyncrasies of bioenergetic work with the voice in contrast to therapeutic approaches that work solely with the body. There is an important distinction for practical bioenergetic work between liberating vocal discharge on the one hand and the build-up of tone, boundaries and self-efficacy on the other hand (cf. Shapiro, 2006, 2008, 2009).

scholarly journals Vaimse pärandi säilitamine: infoökoloogiline vaade [Preservation of intangible heritage from the perspective of information ecology]

2016 ◽  
pp. 265
Author(s):  
Kurmo Konsa
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Cultural Construction ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Approach ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
Information Ecology ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One

Heritage in its very diverse forms has become a significant force in contemporary society. This is manifested by the importance of heritage in shaping identities, the use of heritage by political forces, and the increasing interconnectedness of heritage, the entertainment business and tourism. Heritage is a part of tangible reality while at the same time being an intangible phenomenon. Heritage connects people to each other and to the environment, both its material and natural aspects, therefore forming part of our world. By relying on heritage, recreating it and attributing important meanings to it, people shape the way societies function. The aim of this article is to create a conceptual framework for treating the preservation of intangible cultural heritage. In order to do that, I will use the concept of heritage on the one hand and the information ecological approach on the other hand. The article proposes to create a clearer conceptual framework for treating intangible cultural heritage, with the main emphasis on the preservation aspect. Heritage can be considered from very different aspects, from its philosophical meaning to highly technical conservation proceedings. In this article, I proceed from the idea that heritage is a phenomenon currently being created by people, i.e. from the principle of socio-cultural construction. Of course, this is just one possible way to interpret and utilise the past. It is clear that the treatment of heritage in this way poses a serious challenge to preservation – how should the heritage process be preserved? In my discussion of the heritage process, I use the information ecology framework, mainly drawing on ideas of Bonnie Nardi and Vicky O’Day. Information ecology is a system of people, activities, and technologies in a specific local environment. The information ecologic system is an intertwined network of a specific group of people and their tools and activities. The information ecological approach is characterised by systematicity, diversity, co-evolution and locality. All these aspects are also very important when it comes to intangible heritage. It is evident from the information ecological perspective that preservation of heritage is not a neutral technical activity but rather a social process, in the course of which values and meanings are created, changed and preserved. In preserving heritage, it is important to consider both the heritage itself and the level of society in the framework of which the management takes place. With intangible heritage, it is important to differentiate between individuals and families, groups and communities who practice it. At the national and international levels, specific heritage practices can be recognised and supported, but determining these practices and their actual preservation takes place at the community and individual levels. In order to preserve intangible heritage, we need to support the people, groups and communities who use and develop the given tradition. This means supporting a social and cultural process, in the event that such support is needed in the first place. Communities use intangible heritage to fix their current problems. These aims might not overlap with the national and international goals of preservation. To sum up information ecological principles from the aspect of preserving intangible heritage, what has to be emphasised is the importance of systemic treatment. People practicing heritage skills, their clients, researchers, preservers of heritage and community activists, to name just a few stakeholders, should form an integral system. Different parties are bound to see the system from different perspectives; on the one hand, this cannot be avoided, on the other hand, it is a barrier that needs to be overcome. What is extremely important is the reflection of the so-called grass-roots level perspective, expressed in the subjective view of the person with heritage skills, when determining and preserving heritage. When treating the functions of heritage skills, in addition to their economic significance, which often prevails, what needs to be observed is also the role of these skills in shaping community identities and in creating and preserving social cohesion, but also as parts of education and the wider social communication system. Via heritage skills, meanings are created and values are presented to the community and to society as a whole. I think the fact that heritage participates in the creation of value environments is what guarantees heritage a place in contemporary information society.

scholarly journals Technokracja i demagogia

2010 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
Stanisław Gałkowski
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The State ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Liberal Approach ◽  
The One ◽  
The Masses ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Voice

A modern society cannot function without experts in every field and without high level specialists. Before any undertaking is initiated, an issue of effectiveness emerges, one which only they may ensure. At the same time, however, it tends to be forgotten that there is no such thing as ‘just effectiveness’; there is only effectiveness in meeting the targets adopted. Technocracy, in itself, does not issue any social objectives. On the one hand, this is in  accordance with the liberal approach, which demands the neutrality of the state; on the other hand, however, it may lead, at the very least, to dangers to democracy, to the possible collaboration of technocrats with a totalitarian government, with this group possibly resorting to populism (that is, to an unthinking subordination to the demands of the masses) and, third, to an attempt to govern on their own by demagogy, making the voice of public opinion subject to its rule.

scholarly journals NILAI BUDAYA MAPPANO’ DALAM PELAKSANAAN AQIQAH PADA MASYARAKAT BULISU KECAMATAN BATULAPPA

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Marhani Marhani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
The Other ◽  
Descriptive Data ◽  
Islamic Theology ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The One ◽  
The Guardian

This paper discusses the understanding of mappano culture values in the implementation of aqiqah in the Bulisu community of Kassa Village, Batulappa District in terms of Islamic theology. The aim of obtaining empirical data on the implementation of the mappano tradition and the cultural values contained in the implementation of the tradition by the Bulisu community. Using qualitative descriptive data in this paper concluded that the mappano tradition was implemented after the aqiqah event was finished. In practice, the mappano tradition 'on the one hand is in line with religious teachings that is to aim and return everything to Allah SWT. However, on the other hand some of which are carried out in the mappano' tradition are contrary to the teachings of religion by having the belief that the guardian of water is a temporary crocodile religious teachings that all that is in heaven and on earth is absolutely the property of Allah SWT.

scholarly journals La poesía de Luis Álvarez Piñer: una voz recuperada del silencio

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Ewa Śmiłek
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Luis Alvarez ◽  
The Voice

The voice recovered from silence: the poetry of Luis Álvarez PiñerThe main objective of this article is, on the one hand, the presentation of Luis Ávarez Piñer as one of the representatives of the interior exile and, on the other hand, the analysis of his work created in hiding over the period of fifty years. The analysis of some of his poems created between 1937 and 1988 leads us to the conclusion that although the poet distanced himself from social poetry, in his lyrical verses he could not get away from the circumstances of his time — the main cause of his status as an exile.

Is There an “Islamic” Practice for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage?

2020 ◽  
pp. 689-705
Author(s):  
Trinidad Rico
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heritage Preservation ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Heritage Studies ◽  
Critical Heritage ◽  
The One ◽  
Cultural Heritage Preservation ◽  
The Way

This discussion features an ongoing conversation that seeks to reveal the way that preservation practices arise from or react to uniquely “Islamic” articulations of material and immaterial cultural traditions. Although the aim of this debate is to further ethical cultural heritage preservation practices, it reveals a tension between two intellectual debates within critical heritage studies: on the one hand, a concern for the study, articulation, and stewardship of alternative heritage preservation approaches and, on the other hand, a concern with a tendency in heritage preservation to Orientalize “non-Western” heritage preservation practices as forcefully distinct from long-established “Western” practices.

scholarly journals Aplicación de la fotogrametría automatizada y de técnicas de iluminación con herramientas SIG para la visualización y el análisis de una piedra con relieves antropomorfos

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (19) ◽  
pp. 114
Author(s):  
David Torregrosa-Fuentes ◽  
Yolanda Spairani Berrio ◽  
José Antonio Huesca Tortosa ◽  
Jaime Cuevas González ◽  
Adrián José Torregrosa Fuentes
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Point Cloud ◽  
Digital Photography ◽  
The Other ◽  
View Factor ◽  
Gis Techniques ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Mandatory Requirement ◽  
Stone Slab ◽  
The One

<p><strong>Extended Abstract:</strong></p><p>We present a methodological approach for the representation, visualisation and analysis of three-dimensional (3D) models of meaningful details in stone reliefs provided by digital documentation tools and subsequent processing. For this aim, anthropomorphous shapes engraved on a flat stone slab found in Sierra de Fontcalent (Alicante) are studied. The object under consideration was located near two archaeological sites, Cova del Fum–a cave with presence of the Chalcolithic material (López, 2010)–and the archaeological site of Fontcalent, with remains from different phases of occupation spanning from 7th-6thBC to the 20thcentury (Ximénez, 2012).</p><p>In the last few years, the use of digital tools provided by new technologies and software development has left traditional work methodology behind (De Reu et al., 2014)while enabling the development of new approaches to both minimise heritage alteration and provide objective and accurate information (Lopez-Menchero, Marchante, Vincent, Cárdenas, &amp; Onrubia, 2017). 3D documentation allows recording of cultural heritage at a reasonable cost with precision and quality through digital photography and SfM (Structure from Motion) photogrammetry with specialised software (De Reu et al., 2013).</p><p>In this project, recording and documentation with digital photography and automated photogrammetric techniques are applied to the Fontcalent stone slab for its digitisation and subsequent 3D representation. From the resulting model, a two-folded line of study is obtained. On the one hand, a Digital Elevation Model (DEM) is generated to study the microtopographies of the stone with geographic analysis techniques provided by Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from different lighting conditions and surface reflections, which are calculated by hillshading or LRM (Local Relief Model) for the interpretation of the object (Carrero-Pazos, Vilas, Romaní, &amp; Rodríguez, 2014;Gawior, Rutkiewicz, Malik &amp; Wistuba, 2017).On the other hand, from both the 3D model and the point cloud, the study is completed with the application of the methods of analysis and visualisation based on the Morphological Residue Model (MRM) which stands out every single detail of the surface morphology of the object (Caninas, Pires, Henriques, &amp; Chambino, 2016;Correia, Pires, &amp; Sousa, 2014). Further visualisations are based on Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) which provides different shadows and reflections over the object from the application of a multidirectional illumination (Happa et al., 2010; Malzbender, Gelb, Wolters, &amp; Zuckerman, 2000; Mudge et al., 2010).</p><p>The  results thus obtained of the  Fontcalent  stone  slab  allow  us  to  visualise  several  characteristic  elements. The anthropomorphous figure awaking interest is also combined with the figure resulting from different visualisations applied with GIS techniques which may resemble a zoomorph. The use of visualisation techniques shown in this study has been fundamental in order to recognise the latter element. The composition reveals a zigzag line already appreciated before the study so that it is interesting to check if visualisations based on GIS techniques are able to highlight it though being shallow incisions. In our experience regarding this study, visualisation by using the hillshading technique shows a greater level of 3D detail than that provided by the application of the sky-view factor technique which offers a flattering view. However, the former  technique  may occasionally show  shadows  which  hide  other  details, unlike the  latter  technique  which  plots  the entire slab surface illuminated while differentiating the associated microtopography on the basis of its marks. The use of shaders  in  combination  with  hillshading  and  particularly  combined  with  high  pass filtering, contributes  to improving the visualisation and accuracy of shadowed areas. As a result, we conclude that the results obtained in this work by lighting techniques with GIS add a greater level of detail in comparison to those provided by the mesh or the point cloud.</p><p>The study of the Fontcalent stone slab paves the way for two working hypotheses to be developed: on the one hand, its anthropological origin possibly related to the Chalcolithic, and on the other hand, its study as natural geological formations with ichnofossils.</p><p>The digitisation of cultural heritage with available 3D technologies should be a mandatory requirement when facing any study, analysis or intervention.  With  the  current  development  of  such techniques, we  have  verified  their  contribution  to fundamental characteristics in the corresponding stages of visualisation and study. Thus, the proposed methodology is presented as an accurate and complete alternative for the study and analysis of the existing cultural heritage, and opens new  ways  for  the  revision,  reinterpretation  and  revaluation  of  the  previously  evaluated  heritage  through  traditional techniques.</p>

scholarly journals A community of spoken words. Forms and practices of the conversation at Viața românească cenacle

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-50
Author(s):  
Maricica Munteanu
Keyword(s):  
Literary Work ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
The Other ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Collective Representation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Oral Speech ◽  
Written Word ◽  
The One ◽  
The Voice

The present article analyses the conversation of the cenacle Viața românească by exploring three directions of research. In the first place, the study concentrates on the conversation as a phenomenon of loss, focussing on the voice of the writers and oral speech as signs of extreme fragility. On the one hand, the reflection on the absence of the spoken word articulates an imaginary of evanescence that functions as a collective representation of the community. On the other hand, it reconsiders the relation between the oral and the written word by favouring the conversation against the literary work. In the second place, the article investigates the forms of the conversation specific to the cenacle as they appear in the memoirs of some members. Representing the cenacle as a democratic society where each member has equal rights, the memoirs of the cenacle depict, at the same time, some regulations that limit the speech such as the anti-rhetoric, the delicacy, and the admiration. Finally, the last issue to be approached is the content of the conversation. On the one hand, the cenacle represents itself as an elevated group that discusses the issues of literature, investing in the “profitable” conversation (Glinoer, Laisney) at the expense of the agreeable interaction. On the other hand, the cenacle values the forms of entertainment as a way of detachment from writing, the study focussing, in the last part, on the functions of laughter inside the literary community.

scholarly journals Escola Profissional de Arqueologia: desafios e oportunidades

2020 ◽  
pp. 389-398
Author(s):  
Susana Nunes ◽  
Dulcineia Dias ◽  
Júlia Silva ◽  
Ana Mascarenhas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Vocational Education ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
The Other ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Professional School ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Constant Change ◽  
The One ◽  
Global World

The permanent challenge of education in general, and vocational education in particular, requires a permanent adaptation of pedagogical practices to the global world in which we live. The younger generations raise the need for strategies that make pedagogical practices more motivating and appropriate to a world in constant change. In response to this challenge, the Professional School of Archeology (EPA) has been developing projects and activities that allow, on the one hand, to equip our students with specific technical skills in the area of archeology; and on the other hand, to disseminate and promote the taste and respect for cultural heritage, particularly archaeological.

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