scholarly journals Globalization and Armenian Identity. Challenges and Integration (Armenia and Artsakh)

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1 (21)) ◽  
pp. 157-168
Author(s):  
Naira Gasparyan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Global Changes ◽  
Deep Roots ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Values ◽  
The People ◽  
Armenian Identity

In the present paper an effort is made to analyze the deep roots of the concerns and the past-oriented conservative Armenian attitude towards the spread of globalization. Every aspect of human life is being radically transformed due to global changes. It also helps to spread European and American values, create new values. Among the most significant changes observed as a result of globalization are said to be religious and linguo-cultural identity issues. The study of the mentioned issues is vital in an Armenian context since the people of Armenia and Artsakh, during the past 30 years of independence, have been living in an environment of undeclared war with authoritarian aggressive Azerbaijan.

scholarly journals The Place Of Karakalpak Ethnoculture In The Integration Of Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (04) ◽  
pp. 676-688
Author(s):  
Halima Kadirova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Global Space ◽  
The People

This scientific article highlights the place and role of the Karakalpak ethnic culture in the development and preservation of the identity of the people. The authors analyze the culture and life of the modern Karakalpak family, which inherits to the next generation the traditional way of life associated with national holidays and traditions, dastans performed by Karakalpak bakhshi (singers), legends and legends of the past, told by the older generation. The article argues that social changes in the global space contribute to the emergence of certain changes in the content of cultural identity, language, art, spiritual categories, which are elements of the basis of the national identity of each nation and various ethno-regional units, which further strengthens the study of this issue under the influence of the process of globalization.

scholarly journals Marine conservation in Oceania: Past, present, and future

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan M. Friedlander
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Adaptive System ◽  
Marine Conservation ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Innovative Solutions ◽  
Contemporary Management ◽  
Customary Practices

The people of Oceania have long relied on the ocean for sustenance, commerce, and cultural identity, which promulgated a sophisticated understanding of the marine environment and its conservation. Global declines in ocean health now require innovative solutions that can benefit from customary knowledge and practices, which in the past led to sustainable marine resource use. The resurgence of local stewardship, which incorporates customary practices and governance, has shown promise in many locations throughout the Pacific, although a complete return to past practices is not fully implementable owing to the loss of traditional knowledge, centralized governmental structures, economic development, and globalization. Hybrid systems that incorporate elements of customary and contemporary management can overcome some of these limitations to implementation of successful local management, and lead to greater food security, social cohesion, and the creation of an adaptive system that can potentially mitigate the effects of climate change and other stressors.

scholarly journals LIFE EXPECTANCY AS A SOCIO-ECONOMIC PHENOMENON

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (6(75)) ◽  
pp. 4-9
Author(s):  
Yu. V. Zolotareva ◽  
O.I. Serdukova ◽  
U. I . Zolotareva
Keyword(s):  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Ecological Condition ◽  
Main Task ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
The Government

Life expectancy is a phenomenon that concerns both theorists and practitioners in sociological, economic, and anthropological research. Declining of mortality and enhancement of the tangible life expectancy of the population depend on the ecological condition of the environment, the level and lifestyle of the people, and the efficiency of health and medical services. According to the estimates of scientists over the past 160 years the real life expectancy increases by three months every year. Studies of factors influencing on life expectancy prove how much each individual will live. Longevity is variable and depends on living conditions, living standards, and nutrition. The main task of the government of economically developed countries is to create conditions for scientists to further research in the field of extending the human life cycle.

scholarly journals ROLE OF MEMORY IN SHAPING CHARACTERS� IDENTITY IN MAHESH DATTANI�S FINAL SOLUTIONS

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 227
Author(s):  
Suman Sigroha
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Public Memory ◽  
The Political ◽  
Personal Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Personal Interests

While writing of contemporary issues Mahesh Dattani constructs a sense of a shared urban cultural identity, which is upper-middle class, professional, English speaking and a cityfied identity. Memory plays a very important part in the plays. Public memory is time and again juxtaposed with personal memory, and it becomes a means to explain and justify the political acts committed for personal interests. This paper looks at how memory, personal as well public, shapes the identities (social, personal and religious) of characters in Mahesh Dattanis Final Solutions. Incidents are important, but only to explain why and how the people populate his plays, acting in ways that they do. The psychological action is of greater relevance than any physical action that takes place in the play. He reveals his characters by placing them in situations where they are forced to analyze themselves in the light of what happened in their lives in the past.

scholarly journals Of Winged Women and Stone Tombs: Identity and Agency through Iron Age Lycian Mortuary Architecture

Religions ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 643
Author(s):  
Stephanie Selover
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Iron Age ◽  
Monumental Architecture ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Identity And Agency ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Mortuary Architecture ◽  
Political Turmoil

The people collectively named the Lycians in modern scholarship are the best represented of the western Anatolian first millennium BC cultures in terms of philological, historical, and archaeological data. This article seeks to better understand the meanings behind Iron Age Lycian mortuary monuments and religious images, and how they reflect Lycian identity and agency in a time of political turmoil. By studying the Lycian mortuary landscape, tombs and images, we can begin to comprehend Lycian perceptions of the afterlife, religion and cultural identity. In particular, we look to the images of the so-called “Harpies” and “Running Men” to better understand evidence of the afterlife, connections to the past and the creation of their own identity of what it means to be Lycian. The study of Lycian mortuary trends, monumental architecture, and religion gives us a small but tantalizing view into the Lycian understanding of religion and death, and how they wielded their own culture as a tool for survival in a politically fraught world.

scholarly journals Looking across the river

2002 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Galasiński ◽  
Ulrike H. Meinhof
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
Border Communities ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
The Town ◽  
East West

The paper reports results of an ongoing ESRC-funded project into constructions of identity in German and Polish border communities. We are interested here in how our informants from different generations position themselves and their communities with regard to those on the other side of the river. The data come from a set of semi-structured interviews conducted in the towns of Guben (Germany) and Gubin (Poland) separated by the river Neisse, with some reference to the data elicited in the similarly split communities on the former East West German border on the Saale. For the people living in our target communities, the official narratives of the nation were re-written not just once, but in the case of the older generation at least three times. This meant a challenge of how to construct their own cultural identity in response to official changes and in relation to oppositional constructions of the nation on the other side of the border literally by ‘looking across’ at the Other in their every-day lives. In this paper we discuss how members of the oldest generation living on both sides of the river Neisse in the respective German and Polish towns of Guben and Gubin construct each other in their discourses. We show that the discourses of the Other are ridden by a mismatch in the constructions of the ownership of the past and the present. While the Polish narratives construct the German neighbours in terms of threat to the present status quo of the town, the German narratives position Gubin mostly in terms of the nostalgic past.

scholarly journals FOREWORD, Pendhapa: Vol. XI, No. 2.

Pendhapa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. i
Author(s):  
Sumarno Sumarno
Keyword(s):  
Interior Design ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Shared Responsibility ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Community Group ◽  
The Past ◽  
Central Java ◽  
The People ◽  
Art And Culture ◽  
The City

History is the circumstances and events of human life in the past including previous achievements that are disclosed again. The glory, advancement, and fame of a certain nation, state, tribe or community group are often retold to educate, remember, and generate a positive spirit to build the future through various ways with various points of view in accordance with their respective fields of knowledge and passion.Jaza Chehata Hadi, in designing the interior of the Port, seeks to bring back the old Semarang atmosphere with the concept of Venice van Java, the nickname of Semarang city – Central Java Indonesia, years ago, due to many rivers in the middle of the city just like the city of Venice (Italy). The icons, documentation and knick-knacks of the past are presented to bring out the old Semarang atmosphere.The second article is Mahdi Nurcahyo's article, revealing how people with visual impairment or blindness recognize and present some aspects of convenience in the house where he lives in, as a part of giving meaning to everyday life through his sense of experience and sensitivity to arrange space according to his body's comfort. The third article by Muhammad Fadilah Fatah and his friends concerns on the design of a chair as a sitting facility which combines functions of bag, charger, as well as table by utilizing waste as its raw material to reduce environmental pollution.The existence of batik for Indonesian people is as the nation's ancestral cultural heritage. Batik covers various aspects such like philosophy, techniques or production, community economy, batik motifs, coloring, identity and other aspects. In the Edition XI, No. 2 of Pendhapa: Journal of Interior Design, Art and Culture, there are three articles related to batik. Two articles contain the results of some designs of the infrastructure facilities for the interiors to protect and develop batik. The revitalization of a noble's residence that had been neglected into a batik shop and museum in Laweyan village, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, is the article of Yosafat Adi Pradipta and Raden Ersnathan Budi Prasetyo. Another article about batik is the interior design of Omah Batik in Bayat, Klaten, Central Java, Indonesia as a means of protecting and developing batik, by Annisa Isma Safitri and Joko Budiwiyanto. The last article is batik motifs as a design idea for hotel design, written by Wahyu Tri Widiyanto and Putri Sekar Hapsari.History stores a lot of knowledge, philosophy, science, wisdom, and many other things. The time span of batik work that has been going on for generations has become a part of the history of the cultural journey of the people, especially in Java. The preservation and development is a shared responsibility. The scholars, the researchers, and the academics morally have the obligation to always be sensitive to various things, especially related to phenomena in their surrounding environment.

scholarly journals Biography of a Painted Wessel from Starčevo: Discovering Layers of Meaning

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga Bajčev
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
Painted Pottery ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Representative Material

Scientific interest in the painted pottery of the Starčevo culture in Serbia dates back to the very beginnings of research and the first works on the relative-chronological systematization of the Early and Middle Neolithic of the central Balkans. This paper presents the deconstruction of our established notion of painted ceramics as the ultimate parameter of relative-chronological dating, the most representative material reflection of the cultural identity of the people of Starčevo culture and the highest achievements of Starčevo culture. The paper discusses circumstances and archaeological practices through which this ingrained view and knowledge of painted pottery was formed. The research is based on the analysis of the biography of a painted vessel from the Starčevo-Grad site, having in mind that a detailed life history of an object can shed light on wider phenomena in the archaeological discipline. The aim of this paper is to remind that objects do not have a single essential meaning, but that their meaning shifts and builds through changes in the historical and social context, as well as through changes of actors gathered around certain practices in which the objects are used. The biography of the painted vessel is therefore viewed as a series of assemblages of relations in two planes, through which its identity and layers of meaning were built. The first plane is the Neolithic, in which the focus is on the practices of painting and use, and the second is her life in the role of an archaeological artifact, during which she moves from the sphere of scientific research and musealization to the sphere of negotiating contemporary cultural identities. By applying a new analytical approach, we discovered that this vessel was not very skilfully and carefully painted, and that as such it does not testify to the highest achievements of Starčevo culture, but to a social practice, learning, apprentices and mastering the skill of pottery painting. Therefore, I believe that by reducing painted pottery to relative-chronological parameters and luxury objects, we lose sight of the possibilities through which we can build much more diverse interpretations of the past.

scholarly journals Religious nature of Duggar graffiti

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (12) ◽  
pp. 135-140
Author(s):  
Aparna Srivastava
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Mural Painting ◽  
Special Significance ◽  
Religious Expression ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The People ◽  
Color Form ◽  
Religious Nature ◽  
Religion And Art

The primary goal of art is the feeling of beauty. The creative expression of aesthetics in the arts has been possible due to the creation of religious spiritual artifacts since the beginning of human civilization. Both religion and art make human life orderly and consistent and presents the great truth of human life. Art and religion have acted as inspiration to each other.The Duggar culture of Jammu has special significance in the context of religious manifestation of art, where art has developed a variety of forms for the manifestation of religious expression, of which mural painting is prominent. In the murals of the Duggar culture, the realization of the religious spirit of the people is visible, whose purpose is to propagate the religion and preserve the past. Dogra artists did not originate the art only because of the sublime beauty there, but the power of their inner inspirations and the divine beliefs conferred within them gave color, form, speech and expression to their thoughts and feelings. Presentation of the expression of the religious instincts of Dogra kings is visible to us in the architectural works of these Dogra kings, such as the frescoes built in the cave, temples and palaces, Dogra kalin has various construction under the concept of Hinduism in these murals.   कला का प्रधान लक्ष्य सौन्दर्य की अनुभूति है। कलाओं में सौन्दर्यानुभूति की सृजनात्मक अभिव्यक्ति की उत्पत्ति मानव सभ्यता के आदि काल से ही धार्मिक आध्यात्मिक कलाकृतियों की रचना के कारण सम्भव हुई है। धर्म एवं कला दोनों ही मानवीय जीवन को व्यवस्थित एवं संगतिपूर्ण बनाते हैं तथा मानवीय जीवन के महान सत्य को प्रस्तुत करती है। कला तथा धर्म ने एक दूसरे के निहितार्थ प्रेरणा का कार्य किया है।कला की धार्मिक अभिप्यक्ति के सन्दर्भ में जम्मू की डुग्गर संस्कृति का विशेष महत्व है जहाँ कला ने धार्मिक अभिव्यक्ति के प्रकटन हेतु विविध स्वरूपों का विकास किया, जिनमें से भित्ति चित्रण प्रमुख है। डुग्गर संस्कृति के भित्ति चित्रों में लोगों की धार्मिक भावना का साकार रूप दृष्टिगोचर होता है, जिसका उदेश्य धर्म का प्रचार एवं अतीत का सरंक्षण करना है। डोगरा कलाकारों ने वहाँ के बाहय सौन्दर्य के वशीभूत होकर ही कला की उद्भावना नहीं की अपितु उसकी अन्तः प्रेरणाओं और उसके भीतर प्रसुप्त दैवीय विश्वासों के बल ने इनके विचारों व भावों को रंग, रूप, वाणी और अभिव्यक्ति प्रदान की है। डोगरा राजाओं की धार्मिक प्रवृत्ति की अभिव्यक्ति का प्रस्तुतीकरण हमें इन डोगरा राजाओं के वास्तु सम्बन्धी कृतियों यथा-गुफा, मन्दिरों एवं महलों में निर्मित भित्तिचित्रों में दृष्टिगोचर होते हैं डोगरा कालीन इन भित्ति चित्रों में हिन्दू धर्म की अवधारणा के अन्तर्गत विभिन्न निर्माण हुआ है।

scholarly journals Konflik dalam Al-Quran

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Rasyad Rasyad
Keyword(s):  
Family Conflict ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Religious Conflict ◽  
Social Changes ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Conflicts ◽  
Religious Conflicts ◽  
The People ◽  
Racial Conflicts ◽  
The World

Every human life, whenever and wherever there will always be conflicts that surround it. The conflict occurs because it is motivated by differences in attitudes and feelings, cultural differences and differences in interests and social changes. These differences have given rise to various conflicts in various parts of the world, whether political conflicts, racial conflicts, religious conflicts, mental conflicts and so on. In the Qur'an, in general, there are only three types of conflict, namely family conflict, religious conflict and ethnic conflict. Most of these conflicts are the story of the people of the past and their prophets from the prophet Adam to the Prophet Muhammad SAW. Every time there is a conflict that is told in the Qur'an, Allah always hints at how to resolve it differently, and always ends with instructions so that it can be resolved peacefully (ash-shulh), deliberation, negotiation and so on. So that there is no conflict that cannot be resolved if both parties have good intentions and intentions. ABSTRAKSetiap kehidupan manusia, kapan pun dan dimanapun pasti akan selalu ada konflik yang mengitarinya. konflik itu terjadi karena dilatar belakangi oleh perbedaan pendirian dan perasaan, perbedaan kebudayaan dan perbedaan kepentingan dan perubahan sosial. Perbedaan-perbedaan itulah yang melahirkan berbagai konflik di berbagai belahan dunia ini, baik konflik politik, konflik rasial, konflik agama, konflik mental dan sebagainya. Dalam Al-Qur’an, secara garis besar terdapat tiga jenis konflik saja, yaitu konflik keluarga, konflik agama dan konflik etnis. Konflik-konflik tersebut sebagian besarnya adalah  kisah umat masa lalu bersama nabi-nabi mereka sejak nabi Adam sampai kepada Nabi Muhammad SAW. Setiap ada konflik yang diceritakan dalam Al-Qur’an, Allah selalu mengisyaratkan cara penyelesaiannya secara berbeda-beda pula, dan selalu diakhiri dengan petunjuk agar diselesaikan secara damai (ash-shulh), musyawarah, negosiasi dan lain sebagainya. sehingga tidak ada konflik yang tidak bisa diselesaikan jika kedua belah pihak memiliki niat dan itikad yang baik

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