Appalachia in Regional Context

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Regional Studies ◽  
Appalachian Studies ◽  
Bell Hooks ◽  
Regional Context ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
Globalized World

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. That is certainly the case in Appalachian studies—a field that brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation and intolerance. In Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, the diverse ways in which place is invoked, the person who invokes it, and the reasons behind that invocation all matter greatly. In this collection, scholars and artists are assembled from a variety of disciplines to broaden the conversation. The book begins with chapters challenging conventional representations of Appalachia by exploring theoretically the relationships among regionalism, globalism, activism, and everyday experience. Other chapters examine, for example, foodways, depictions of Appalachian gendered and racialized identity in popular culture, the experiences of rural LGBTQ youth, and the pitfalls and promises of teaching regional studies. Poems by the renowned social critic bell hooks interleave the chapters and add context to reflections on the region. Drawing on cultural anthropology, sociology, geography, media studies, political science, gender and women’s studies, ethnography, social theory, art, music, and literature, this volume furthers the exploration of new perspectives on one of America’s most compelling and misunderstood regions.

scholarly journals The Scientific and Cultural Journey to Ovarian Rejuvenation: Background, Barriers, and Beyond the Biological Clock

Medicines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 29
Author(s):  
Eric Scott Sills
Keyword(s):  
Ovarian Function ◽  
Platelet Rich Plasma ◽  
Hormone Replacement ◽  
Biological Clock ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Sex Reassignment Surgery ◽  
Older Woman ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Intractable Problem

Female age has been known to define reproductive outcome since antiquity; attempts to improve ovarian function may be considered against a sociocultural landscape that foreshadows current practice. Ancient writs heralded the unlikely event of an older woman conceiving as nothing less than miraculous. Always deeply personal and sometimes dynastically pivotal, the goal of achieving pregnancy often engaged elite healers or revered clerics for help. The sorrow of defeat became a potent motif of barrenness or miscarriage lamented in art, music, and literature. Less well known is that rejuvenation practices from the 1900s were not confined to gynecology, as older men also eagerly pursued methods to turn back their biological clock. This interest coalesced within the nascent field of endocrinology, then an emerging specialty. The modern era of molecular science is now offering proof-of-concept evidence to address the once intractable problem of low or absent ovarian reserve. Yet, ovarian rejuvenation by platelet-rich plasma (PRP) originates from a heritage shared with both hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and sex reassignment surgery. These therapeutic ancestors later developed into allied, but now distinct, clinical fields. Here, current iterations of intraovarian PRP are discussed with historical and cultural precursors centering on cell and tissue regenerative effects. Intraovarian PRP thus shows promise for women in menopause as an alternative to conventional HRT, and to those seeking pregnancy—either with advanced reproductive technologies or as unassisted conceptions.

Russian aesthetics

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Terras
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Social Background ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Architecture And Music

Aesthetics as a branch of philosophy, or in the sense of an explicitly stated theory of art, appeared in Russia no earlier than the seventeenth century, under the direct influence of Western thought. It developed in connection with the adoption of European art forms. Russian contributions in terms of original styles in all forms of art, as well as of certain aesthetic notions which may be credited to Russia, came in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and must be understood in context with European art and aesthetic thought. Russian art, music and literature, as well as the aesthetic notions guiding them, get their Russianness from the political and social background, a major factor in literature, and from a carrying over of traits found in Russian folk art, folk music and folklore, as well as in religious texts, iconography, architecture and music, whose Orthodox version is sharply distinct from their equivalents in the Roman Catholic West.

An Autoethnographic Quest: Searching for “Peace” in Seoul, South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anandam Kavoori
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Criticism ◽  
Korean Studies ◽  
Consumption Community

This autoethnographic narrative explores the cultural contours of “Peace” in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together elements of cultural criticism, narrative travelogue, and cultural anthropology. Written as an exemplar for a “Quest Autoethnography,” it seeks to explore the multiple, layered nature of the question of “Peace” through local vocabularies for identity, including media, language, consumption, community, and above all, culture. The essay draws on the field of Korean Studies (across cultural anthropology, media studies, sociology, and political science) in its theoretical embedding—referenced in footnotes.

scholarly journals Workshops in Healing for Senior Medical Students: A 5 Year Experience

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Henry Kearsley ◽  
Elizabeth Lobb
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Medical Curriculum ◽  
Repeated Reading ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Art Music ◽  
Undergraduate Medical Students ◽  
Music And Literature ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Open Coding ◽  
The University

Objectives:  To provide a 5-year (2008-2012) overview and appraisal of a novel course for senior undergraduate medical students (Workshops in Healing) at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia within the context of a traditional 6-year curriculum.  In these innovative workshops, 8-12 self-selected students per year participate over 6 hours in two sessions, several days apart.  The sessions use artwork and other evocative images, poetry, music, statues and classic/contemporary literature to illustrate points of discussion relating to suffering, healing and the doctor-patient relationship. Methods: A written open-ended reflection was requested from 48 students in the final year of their 6-year medical course within a few weeks of the second workshop.  The study employed an emergent qualitative design.  Open coding involved repeated reading of the sections of the student’s feedback and a line-by-line analysis of this data.  Selective coding was then used to link data together and develop the themes.Results:  Students identified the following benefits from the workshops:  1)  the opportunity to re-affirm their commitment to their chosen career path;  2)  the value of listening to other students share their stories;  3)  the importance of the timing of the Workshops to occur after exams;  4)  the use of various mediums such as art,  music and literature to present concepts of suffering and healing;  and 5) the creation of a safe and confidential space.Conclusions:  Students reported that the workshops gave them a renewed sense of drive and enthusiasm for their chosen career.  They highlighted the importance of addressing an aspect of Medicine (healing) not covered in the traditional medical curriculum.  For many students the workshops provided a broader understanding of the meaning of concepts such as suffering and healing, and helped them to rediscover a deeper meaning to Medicine, and their roles as healthcare professionals.

scholarly journals Revisiting Huxley’s Dystopic Vision of Future Cinema, The Feelies: Immersive Experiences through Contemporary Multisensory Media

2019 ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Manfred Milz
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
New World ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
Human Conditioning ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Mass Entertainment

Aldous Huxley’s concern with media, and in particular with cinema, is one of the most conspicuous components of his work as a social critic and as a novelist. Evaluating its potential societal functions, as an artistic genre, a didactic cultural tool for documentaries or as a mass entertainment venue, determined his critical relationship towards the medium. Due to his impaired eyesight, Huxley’s attention to perception, intertwined with advancing cinema-technologies, was not restricted to the visual, but extended to all of the human senses, as he demonstrated in the Feelies of his novel Brave New World (1932). Primarily with regard to mechanomorphic reflexes of human conditioning, this cinematic concept is interpreted by drawing from articles and essays of evolutionary, psychological, political, and aesthetic perspectives that Huxley developed on a parallel writing track in popular print media during the 1920s/30s. In confronting modes of multisensory immersion around 1900 with some of the 20th/21st centuries, this contribution reevaluates Huxley’s vision of future cinema. Article received: June 10, 2019; Article accepted: July 6, 2019; Published online: October 15, 2019; Original scholarly paperHow to cite this article: Milz, Manfred. "Revisiting Huxley’s Dystopic Vision of Future Cinema, The Feelies: Immersive Experiences through Contemporary Multisensory Media." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies 20 (2019): 27-42. doi: 10.25038/am.v0i20.325

De mulheres e casas: O espaço romanesco e patriarcal em Rachel de Queiroz

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilma dos Santos Coqueiro
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Critic ◽  
Female Protagonists ◽  
Patriarchal Society ◽  
Symbolic Value ◽  
First Moment ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Relationship

This books, oriented towards a social critic perspective, analyses two novels by Rachel de Queiroz – Dôra, Doralina e Memorial de Maria Moura – in which the relationship between the female protagonists within the space is loaded with a symbolic value – land and house – which reveals and interprets women paradoxical evolution in patriarchal society rooted vigorously in the rural Brazil, mainly in the northeast of part of the country. In a first moment, it aimed to draw considerations in relation to the function of space in the novel both in the point of view of relevant analysis of Literary Theory as well as analysis yielded from Sociology and Cultural Anthropology. In a second moment, it aimed to characterize the rural patriarchal society in Brazil during the first half of XIX and XX century, showing land and house’s symbolical importance in this society as well as women’s relationship with those spaces. In a third moment, the novel Memorial de Maria Moura, in which the XIX century patriarchal society is reported, the relationship between the female protagonist and the spaces encompassing the land and house. And, last of all, it aimed to compare the aforementioned novel with Dôra, Doralina, in which the action unfolds in the same space, cearense and rural, one century later, in the first half of XX century, in order to verify a possible women evolution and their relationship in relation to those spaces. Rachel de Queiroz, in her novels here in analyzed, discusses the problematic of female protagonists confronting a patriarchal world, showing the female evolution, in this type of society, was slow, gradual and contradictory, seeming at many times even impossible to occur.

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