It’s Sacred Ground

2018 ◽  
pp. 201-210
Author(s):  
John M. Coggeshall
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Process ◽  
Family Land ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Land Using

This chapter uses the example of Liberia’s returning population to offer a wider examination of the relationship between Appalachian residents and their family land. Using an anthropological lens, the chapter outlines the cultural process by which land becomes a member of one’s family. Specifically, the process entails ownership of family land, occupancy of family land, memories of that land, the merging of land and people through time, and finally the anthropomorphizing of land. The chapter ends with an Epilogue linking enslaved ancestors from the Oolenoy Valley with descendants still living in Liberia, and the sweep of history over the same landscape.

scholarly journals Algunos desafíos encontrados en la elaboración de la Teoría de la Objetivación

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 61-80
Author(s):  
Luis Radford
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Theoretical Description ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Teaching Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Este artículo presenta una reflexión alrededor de algunos desafíos encontrados en la elaboración de una teoría de inspiración vygotskiana sobre la enseñanza-aprendizaje de las matemáticas: la teoría de la objetivación. Se discute el contexto histórico de donde emerge la teoría y las dificultades encontradas en concebir el aprendizaje no como un proceso subjetivo, como lo plantea el constructivismo, sino como un genuino proceso social-histórico-cultural. Se arguye que una de las dificultades más importantes de las aproximaciones socioculturales educativas contemporáneas reside en brindar una descripción teórica clara de la relación entre el individuo y su cultura. La respuesta de la teoría de la objetivación se encuentra en su concepto de labor conjunta.Some Challenges Found in the Elaboration of the Theory of ObjectificationThis article deals a reflection about some challenges encountered in the elaboration of a theory of Vygotskian inspiration about the teaching-learning of mathematics: the theory of objectification. We discuss the historical context from which the theory emerges and the difficulties encountered in conceiving learning not as a sub-subjective process, as proposed by constructivism, but as a genuine social-historical-cultural process. It is argued that one of the most important difficulties of contemporary sociocultural educational approaches lies in providing a clear theoretical description of the relationship between the individual and his culture. The answer of the theory of objectification is found in its concept of joint work.Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10481/49438Scopus record and citation

Farm size and production efficiency in Chinese agriculture: output and profit

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiao Yan ◽  
Chunlai Chen ◽  
Biliang Hu
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Production Efficiency ◽  
Stochastic Frontier ◽  
Farm Size ◽  
Land Consolidation ◽  
Profit Efficiency ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Land Size ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Land Using

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between farm size and agricultural production efficiency from the aspects of output and profit in order to find an optimal farm size that achieves both output and profit efficiency in agricultural production in China.Design/methodology/approachThis study uses the 2012 China Family Panel Studies survey data and employs the stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) models to investigate empirically the relationship between farm size and agricultural production efficiency.FindingsThe study finds that there is an inverted-U curve relationship between farm size and output efficiency and a U-shaped curve relationship between farm size and profit efficiency in agricultural production in China. Based on the empirical results, the study estimates that the appropriate farm size is around 10–40 mu and the optimal farm size is around 20–40 mu both in terms of output efficiency and profit efficiency in Chinese agricultural production under the current agricultural technology and land management system.Practical implicationsThe findings of this study suggest that appropriate land consolidation will bring more benefits to farmer households and agricultural production efficiency. There are some policy implications. First, governments should give long term and more stable land using rights to farmers through extending the period of land contract and verifying land using rights. Second, governments should encourage transfers of land using rights and promote land consolidation. But the implementation of this policy should consider regional differences and not be used for blindly pursuing increasing land size. Third, land consolidation should be accompanied with the development of specialized agricultural services.Originality/valueThe paper makes two major contributions to the literature. First, the authors use the SFA model to investigate the relationship between land size and agricultural production efficiency. Second, the authors establish two SFA models – the stochastic frontier output analysis model and the stochastic frontier profit analysis model – to estimate the optimal land size to achieve both output and profit efficiency of agricultural production in China.

scholarly journals How to listen to an Afro-Caribbean landscape

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia Fioretti Bongianino
Keyword(s):  
Caribbean Literature ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Collective Ownership ◽  
Family Land ◽  
Ethnographic Data ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
The Village ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Space Occupation

Abstract Using my 14-month ethnographic research at Old Bank, in the Caribbean coast of Panama, I seek to map how the domains I knew of this village were shaped by the multisensory relationships I established with my interlocutors and the spaces in which they lived, circled, and projected their voices. In dialogue with the Caribbean literature, I show how the locally established contrasts between before and today, as well as the existence of the distinct neighborhoods of the village, expressed the historical process of space occupation, based on the use, inheritance and collective ownership of family land. Finally, connext Ingold's argument about landscape with ethnographic data, underlining how Old Bank´s time and space are created through the relationship between human beings and God.

scholarly journals Evolution of the scenic speech in the domestic cultural and historical process

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
A. Bilenka
Keyword(s):  
Formation Process ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Chronological Order ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Current State ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this paper is to examine the evolution and transformation of Ukrainian scenic speech according to the scheme: folk speech — literary speech — scenic speech in the context of the historical and cultural process. The relevance of the research is that the analysis of the peculiarities of the Ukrainian scenic language, the study of its formation and its role in the domestic cultural process will help overcome the crisis of speech culture caused by ethnic heterogeneity and politics of modern Ukraine. The methodology. The author has used historic and theatric approaches that made it possible to identify the characteristics of scenic language as an important component of the culture of the ХХ century, which allows us to explore the relationship between the current state of the scenic speech with the language culture of the XXI century. Also chronological analysis was used, which allows to reproduce the process of evolution of the Ukrainian scenic speech in chronological order. The results. As a result, we can introduce the evolution process of the Ukrainian language according to the scheme: folk language — literary language — scenic language. The historical and cultural reasons of the language situation in Ukraine from the beginning of the Christianization of Kyivan Rus’ to the present are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the period of the end of the XIX — first half of the XX century as the most important stage in the formation process of the general principles of the scenic speech in the context of the historical and cultural process. The topicality. An attempt is made for the first time to identify the main phase of the formation of scenic speech in the context of the historical and cultural process. The practical significance. The key results of this research can be used by theaters and higher educational institutions of culture and art of Ukraine for further improvement of studying, researching process and practical activity.

17. Informal trusts of land

2019 ◽  
pp. 397-429
Author(s):  
Gary Watt
Keyword(s):  
Practical Significance ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Land ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Trust Law ◽  
The Relationship

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. The trust law that applies to family land might not be applicable to other types of land. Resulting trusts present a particular challenge in this regard. Although the doctrines of resulting trust have long been settled in the law of trusts, they have recently been questioned in the context of the family home. This chapter focuses on informal trusts of land and the social reasons why they are recognised, first looking at the problem of informality before turning to the different kinds of informal trusts of land. It also examines whether facts give rise to a resulting trust or a constructive trust, the practical significance of the distinction between constructive and resulting trusts of land, the relationship between proprietary estoppel and constructive trust, express agreement plus detrimental reliance, and the decision of the House of Lords in Stack v Dowden. The chapter concludes by considering some of the problems addressed by, and caused by, the operation of informal trusts in the context of cohabitation.

scholarly journals PENGARUH AGAMA SAMAWI TERHADAP PERUBAHAN SOSIAL-BUDAYA DI ASSOLOKOBAL LEMBAH BALIM

2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 165
Author(s):  
Albertus Heriyanto
Keyword(s):  
Belief Systems ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Spiritual Life ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract: Before their encounter with the immigrants, the Balim religious lifecentered in their honai adat (traditional house). However, since the presence ofdivine religions, the center of their ritual and spiritual life is devolving to churchesor mosques, and marginalizes the role of the honai adat. The presence of divinereligions has contributed to peoples way of life, especially in broadening theperspective of the Balim about human beings. The extent of human relationsperspective has played a major role in relativizing the influence of traditionalvalues to their ways of thinking and behaving. With few exceptions, the generalcolor manifested in the relationship between the two belief systems is thedominance of the divine religions to local one. Conversion to the divine religionsand process of community building in one religion is not merely a faith event,but also part of the cultural process, part of a strategy to open an access toa better life in economy, socio-politics, or even in spiritual aspects. In this case,the divine religions are challenged to present their faces as the ways of salvationwhich is humane and civilized.

Distributive politics in China: Regional favouritism and expansion of construction land

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (8) ◽  
pp. 1600-1619
Author(s):  
Shenghua Lu ◽  
Hui Wang
Keyword(s):  
Econometric Model ◽  
Resource Distribution ◽  
Distributive Politics ◽  
Land Resource ◽  
Land Conversion ◽  
Planned Economy ◽  
Construction Land ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Land Using

Land conversion control in China remains in the shadow of the planned economy. Highly hierarchical governments fully control both land quotas and land approval, which are indispensable for each added area of construction land. But the actual mechanisms of land resource distribution, because they are masked by the ambiguity of institutional provisions, are opaque. This article discusses the theoretical influence of regional favouritism to birthplace on the expansion of construction land. Using a provincial-level dataset and detailed information about political cadres in the Ministry of Land and Resources, we estimate an econometric model that reflects the relationship between regional favouritism and construction land expansion. The results indicate that, all else equal, the birthplaces of political cadres receive a larger scale of construction land expansion than other locations. We further explore the paths of regional favouritism influencing construction land expansion. The results show that land approval and tolerance of illegal land due to regional favouritism together contribute to the expansion of construction land.

17. Informal trusts of land

2021 ◽  
pp. 394-425
Author(s):  
Gary Watt
Keyword(s):  
Practical Significance ◽  
Legal Knowledge ◽  
House Of Lords ◽  
Key Points ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Family ◽  
Family Land ◽  
Family Home ◽  
Trust Law ◽  
The Relationship

Without assuming prior legal knowledge, books in the Directions series introduce and guide readers through key points of law and legal debate. Questions, diagrams and exercises help readers to engage fully with each subject and check their understanding as they progress. The trust law that applies to family land might not be applicable to other types of land. Resulting trusts present a particular challenge in this regard. Although the doctrines of resulting trust have long been settled in the law of trusts, they have recently been questioned in the context of the family home. This chapter focuses on informal trusts of land and the social reasons why they are recognised, first looking at the problem of informality before turning to the different kinds of informal trusts of land. It also examines whether facts give rise to a resulting trust or a constructive trust, the practical significance of the distinction between constructive and resulting trusts of land, the relationship between proprietary estoppel and constructive trust, express agreement plus detrimental reliance, and the decision of the House of Lords in Stack v Dowden. The chapter concludes by considering some of the problems addressed by, and caused by, the operation of informal trusts in the context of cohabitation.

scholarly journals “I’VE GOTTA DO IT FOR THE BIT”: MEMETIC MEDIA AND COLLECTIVE IDENTITY THROUGH STREAMER PERFORMANCE ON TWITCH

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan J Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Feedback Loop ◽  
Live Performance ◽  
Value System ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Over Time

Videogame livestreamers on the platform Twitch present a carefully curated version of themselves negotiated in part via interactions with their viewers. This persona is encoded not just through their live performance, but also through other platform features including streamer-specific emoticons and audio-visual overlays triggered by stream events such as donations and subscriptions. From these customisable features emerges a complicated feedback loop between the streamer and non-streamer participants that ultimately results in a set of collective values performed and refined by both parties over time. In this paper I interrogate how the incorporation of Internet memes into streaming personas creates accessible avenues for communication with and between members of this collective that contribute significantly to this value system. I do this by defining the term memesis as the cultural process by which Internet users draw upon existing memes in order to create new memetic media. Through two contrasting case studies of Twitch streamers BrownMan and PaladinAmber, I examine how memesis reflects streamer agency and impacts the structure and values of stream collectives. In particular, I draw attention to the relationship between memes and stream collectives as it relates to streamer identity, memetic histories within streams, and the contrasting explicit and latent values within manifestations of particular memes, among others. Further, understanding how memesis renders visible the encoding of meaning and value into manifestations of meme by emphasising the creation process over the memetic product, I argue that the concept has value not just on Twitch, but within broader digital cultural spheres.

scholarly journals Ética e historia: una mirada desde la ética discursiva

2017 ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Gonzalo Scivoletto
Keyword(s):  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Human History ◽  
Cultural Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Human Situation ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Relationship

ResumenEl siguiente trabajo se propone analizar la relación entre la ética discursiva y la historia, a partir de la reconstrucción realizada por Karl-Otto Apel en las Mercier Lectures de 1999 (Lovaina). Se intentará mostrar cómo la ética discursiva se encuentra entrelazada con las tres dimensiones del tiempo histórico. La relación con el pasado apunta al posicionamiento respecto de la situación moral e institucional “heredada” por la tradición (eticidad sustancial). La relación con el presente se refiere a la “situación humana”, entendida esta como un proceso evolutivo-cultural (desde la hominizaciónhasta el presente) y como un “momento” o situación particular dentro de ese proceso. Finalmente, la relación con el futuro alude a la capacidad de la ética de orientar la historia humana hacia un horizonte normativo, en tanto ideal regulativo.Palabras clave: antropología - institucionalización - filosofía prácticaAbstractThis work aims to analyze the relationship between discursive ethics and history, based on the reconstruction by Karl-Otto Apel in the 1999 in Mercier Lectures (Leuven). It attempts to show how discursive ethics is intertwined with the three dimensions of historical time. The relation- ship with the past points to the positioning regarding the moral and institutional situation “inherited” by tradition (substantial ethics). The relationship with the present refers to the “human situation”, understood as an evolutionary-cultural process (from hominization to the present) and as a “moment” or particular situation within that process. Finally, the relationship with the future alludes to the ability of ethics to guide human history towards a normative horizon, as a regulative ideal.Keywords: Anthropology - institutionalization - practical philosophyResumoO seguinte artigo propõe analisar a relação entre a ética do discurso e história, desde a reconstrução realizada por Karl-Otto Apel nas Mercier Lectures de 1999 (Lovaina). Ele tentará mostrar como a ética do discurso se encontra entrelaçada com as três dimensões do tempo histórico. A relação com o passado aponta ao posicionamento sobre a situação moral e institucional “herdada” pela tradição (ética substancial). A ligação com o presente refere-se à “situação humana”, entendida como um processo evolutivo-cultural (a partir da hominização presente) e como um “mo- mento” ou situação particular dentro daquele processo. Finalmente, a relação com o futuro se refere à capacidade da ética para orientar a história humana para um horizonte normativo, enquanto ideal regulador.Palavras-chave: antropologia - institucionalização - filosofia prática

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