scholarly journals Making a case for the spiritual significance of Dinkho tsa Badimo as sacred ceramics in museum collections

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mabafokeng Hoeane ◽  
Isabelle McGinn
Keyword(s):  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Curatorial Practice ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Collection Practices ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects ◽  
Separate Class

Ceramics as cultural heritage objects have been extensively studied with the main focus being on their functions as vessels used for the transportation, storage, processing and serving of food, and through this study of foodstuffs an exploration of past lifeways, social exchanges and processes. Part of these social processes include beliefs, myths and rituals, particularly those of rulers and chiefs that promote the welfare and wellbeing of a community and assist in social cohesion such as rainmaking. Oftentimes these intangible practices are carried out through tangible conduits such as ceramic vessels, whether to hold potions or mix medicines. Few studies however have focussed their attention on these artefacts, and likewise few have focussed on rituals in domestic settings as used by. In this context, the small ancestral vessel, or Dinkho tsa Badimo, as used by families to engage the ancestors is the focus of the present research. Past museum collection practices could be the cause for this oversight, as these vessels were misidentified, misclassified and incorporated into collections as common household wares, which they resemble. However, highlighting the significance and importance of Dinkho tsa Badimo as a separate class of ceramics, which could be considered ’sacred’, requires particular consideration in curatorial practice informed by appropriate cultural protocols. This article, based on interviews with traditional healers and supplemented with published references seeks to underline the importance of the use of ancestral ceramic vessels in the spiritual practices of Sesotho-Setswana cultural groups of Southern Africa.

scholarly journals Documentation of Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels in the Smith County Historical Museum Collections

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Perttula ◽  
Nelson ◽  
Robert Selden ◽  
Walters
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Personal Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Ceramic Vessels ◽  
Neches River ◽  
Smith County

This report puts on record the collection of 34 ancestral Caddo vessels held by the Smith County Historical Museum (SCHM) in Tyler, Texas. Most of the collection was donated to the SCHM in 2013, but several were also donated in 1985 (Carol Kehl, April 2014 personal communication). The vessels in this collection have been documented following the methods employed by the Friends of Northeast Texas Archaeology and Archeological & Environmental Consultants, LLC on a number of ancestral Caddo ceramic collections from East Texas archaeological sites (e.g., Perttula 2011, 2013, 2014; Perttula and Nelson 2013; Perttula and Thacker 2014; Perttula et al. 2007, 2009a, 2009b, 2010a, 2010b, 2010c, 2012a, 2012b, 2012c, 2013, 2014). The provenance of the Caddo vessels includes a number of vessels from sites at Lake O’ the Pines in the Big Cypress Creek basin, while the other 10 vessels are believed to have been collected from sites in the upper Neches River basin in Smith County, Texas. We discuss these conclusions in the “Summary and Conclusions” section of the report, relying on the decorative styles and types of the vessels (see Suhm and Jelks 1962) to sort them into the material culture remains known to be associated with different ancestral Caddo cultural groups in East Texas.

scholarly journals Perspectives of wild medicine harvesters from Cape Town, South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 113 (9/10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leif Petersen ◽  
Andrew M. Reid ◽  
Eugene J. Moll ◽  
Marc T. Hockings
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
National Park ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Cape Floristic Region ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Conservation Areas ◽  
Economic Survival ◽  
Wild Resources ◽  
The City

Cape Town is a fast-growing cityscape in the Cape Floristic Region in South Africa with 24 formally protected conservation areas including the World Heritage Table Mountain National Park. These sites have been protected and managed as critical sites for local biodiversity, representing potentially one-third of all Cape Floristic Region flora species and 18% of South Africa’s plant diversity. Cape Town is also inhabited by a rapidly growing culturally and economically diverse citizenry with distinct and potentially conflicting perspectives on access to, and management of, local natural resources. In a qualitative study of 58 locally resident traditional healers of distinct cultural groups, we examined motivations underlying the generally illicit activity of harvesting of wild resources from Cape Town protected areas. Resource harvester motivations primarily link to local economic survival, health care and cultural links to particular resources and practices, ‘access for all’ outlooks, and wholesale profit-seeking perspectives. We describe these motivations, contrast them with the current formal, legal and institutional perspectives for biodiversity protection in the city, and propose managerial interventions that may improve sustainability of ongoing harvest activities.

STOPPERS, TRANSPORT STIRRUP JARS AND WINE TRANSPORT, 1450–1150 bc

2019 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 93-117
Author(s):  
Trevor Van Damme
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Eastern Mediterranean ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Maximum Diameter ◽  
Late Bronze Age ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Meaningful Relationship ◽  
Consumption Practices ◽  
Ceramic Vessels

This paper examines Late Bronze Age chipped ceramic and stone discs known most commonly as stoppers. Stoppers are distinguished from other classes of archaeological finds, including pierced discs and lids. Although it has long been known that stoppers could play a role in sealing ceramic vessels, recent scholarship has preferred to see them as multifunctional. For this article, 158 stoppers and 100 spout apertures from transport stirrup jar spouts found in secure Late Bronze Age III contexts have been studied. The results demonstrate a strong correlation in the apertures of transport stirrup jar spouts and the maximum diameter of stoppers that points to a meaningful relationship between the two. As the primary transport container of the Late Bronze Age, transport stirrup jars required careful sealing in order to allow their contents to transit without spilling or spoiling. There were many possible sealing configurations, however, and indeed this paper demonstrates some support for independent Mycenaean and Minoan traditions. A comparison with sealing traditions throughout the eastern Mediterranean reveals that the stopper method of sealing endured or reoccurred for thousands of years for the storage and transport of a specific commodity – wine. I conclude with the case study of stopper distributions at ancient Eleon, Boeotia, in order to show that a contextualised study of stoppers and stoppering activities in domestic structures has much to contribute to the study of social processes and domestic consumption practices.

scholarly journals Best Practices for the Conservation and Preservation of Herbaria

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Leora Bromberg
Keyword(s):  
Natural History ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Unusual Form ◽  
Museum Professionals ◽  
Collection Practices ◽  
Human Exploration

This paper offers an in-depth report on the best practices for the conservation and preservation of herbaria within library and museum collections. A herbarium (singular) is a collection of dried and pressed plant specimens, typically mounted onto paper and accompanied by a certain degree of recorded information. These organic specimens tend to be housed in museums or special collections libraries, where their handling can be carefully monitored and/or restricted. Each herbarium is typically one-of-a-kind and may serve as a vital primary source on human exploration, taxonomy, natural history and even amateur collection practices. A closer look at the best practices for their conservation and preservation spotlights the herbarium as a fragile, valuable and perhaps an unexpected or unusual form of “recorded information” that librarians, archivists and museum professionals may encounter or even have some responsibility over at some point in their careers.

scholarly journals Museisamlingarnas sociomateriella dynamik

1970 ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Lotten Gustafsson Reinius ◽  
Eva Silvén ◽  
Fredrik Svanberg
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Processes Of Change ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
The Third ◽  
National Museums ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

“The sociomaterial dynamics of museum collections” is an overarching research idea connecting three separate projects, with the aim of creating new knowledge about the roles of collections and collecting in the shaping of culture and society. The program includes three Swedish national museums that have been decisive in defining Sweden, Swedishness and the surrounding world – the Nordiska Museet (Swedish cultural history) the National Historical Museum (history, archaeology) and the Museum of Ethnography (the third/fourth world). In one study each, two ethnologists and one archaeologist will focus on objects and issues that have in some way been pointed out as problematic but which also seem to have a strong ability to define identity, social relations and create both conflict and reconciliation: collections from indigenous peoples, human remains and repatriation. The program includes three separate and ongoing projects, financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond and The Swedish Research Council. The projects are connected by a shared interest in the dynamic interplay between material practices and social processes of change. This will be analyzed with an emphasis on turning points in collecting, classification, display and storage, such as the relocation of objects between and from the museums mentioned. 

scholarly journals Is social cohesion produced by weak ties or by multiplex ties? Rival hypotheses regarding leader networks in urban community settings

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (9) ◽  
pp. e0257527
Author(s):  
Silvio Salej Higgins ◽  
Neylson Crepalde ◽  
Ivan L. Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Order Structure ◽  
Weak Ties ◽  
High Order Structure ◽  
Community Settings ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Belo Horizonte ◽  
The One

In his seminal work, Mark Granovetter (1973) challenged sociologists to test sociometric hypotheses regarding collective action in communitarian settings. In this article, we tested the two main hypotheses which consider social cohesion in communitarian urban settings–these being firstly cohesion by weak ties and secondly cohesion by multiplex ties. We studied the elite leaders of two slum communities of Belo Horizonte (Brazil). Three social processes were examined as multiplex interactions: recognized status, exchange of useful information and collaboration. Our findings reveal, on the one hand, that multiplexity is associated with the frequency of ties and, on the other, that reciprocity and shared domains of performance fuel such strong multiplexity. If we assume that elite connections conform to a high order structure, our findings, in contrast to previously well-established hypotheses, reveal a segmented social order in which multiplexity does not mean the overlapping of social circles. On the contrary, multiplexed social exchanges are restricted to specialized domains.

scholarly journals E-Kiosk : Digitizing the Sonobudoyo Museum Collections

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Daru Prasetyawan ◽  
Agus Mulyanto
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Design Method ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Multimedia Application ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Experimental Design Method ◽  
Cultural Heritage Objects

E-kiosk is one of the medias in culture and tourism development in Indonesia. E-kiosks can provide information that can add to the curiosity of tourists towards cultural heritage objects, especially museum collections in Indonesia. This research aims to build e-kiosk applications with experimental design method to develop applications that are integrated with the database. The e-kiosk application was developed in collaboration with Flash programs, ActionScript, PHP, XML, and Microsoft Accsess so as to produce a multimedia application that is integrated with the database.

scholarly journals Folk midwifery in change. The case the Tarascan Indians' Region

1970 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 37-52
Author(s):  
Anna Helena Wądołowska
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Traditional Healers ◽  
Social Processes ◽  
Short Description ◽  
Mexican Government ◽  
Public Clinics

The article was originally published without an abstract. Short description: The article relates to the role of folk midwifery in social processes among indigenous communities in Michoacán. In the 1970s the Mexican government decided to include practitioners of traditional medicine as assistants in public clinics. The intention was to facilitate acceptance of western medicine among the indigenous population. The article describes the practice of integrating traditional healers and midwifes in Michoacán, and the indigenous peoples’ and doctors’ opinions on it. Short description written by Michal Gilewski

scholarly journals The Neural Correlates of Persuasion: A Common Network across Cultures and Media

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (11) ◽  
pp. 2447-2459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily B. Falk ◽  
Lian Rameson ◽  
Elliot T. Berkman ◽  
Betty Liao ◽  
Yoona Kang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processing ◽  
Social Cognitive ◽  
Brain Activity ◽  
Region Of Interest ◽  
Persuasive Communication ◽  
Persuasive Messages ◽  
Cultural Groups ◽  
Social Exchanges ◽  
Underlying Mechanisms ◽  
The Moment

Persuasion is at the root of countless social exchanges in which one person or group is motivated to have another share its beliefs, desires, or behavioral intentions. Here, we report the first three functional magnetic resonance imaging studies to investigate the neurocognitive networks associated with feeling persuaded by an argument. In the first two studies, American and Korean participants, respectively, were exposed to a number of text-based persuasive messages. In both Study 1 and Study 2, feeling persuaded was associated with increased activity in posterior superior temporal sulcus bilaterally, temporal pole bilaterally, and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest a discrete set of underlying mechanisms in the moment that the persuasion process occurs, and are strengthened by the fact that the results replicated across two diverse linguistic and cultural groups. Additionally, a third study using region-of-interest analyses demonstrated that neural activity in this network was also associated with persuasion when a sample of American participants viewed video-based messages. In sum, across three studies, including two different cultural groups and two types of media, persuasion was associated with a consistent network of regions in the brain. Activity in this network has been associated with social cognition and mentalizing and is consistent with models of persuasion that emphasize the importance of social cognitive processing in determining the efficacy of persuasive communication.

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