Using non-human culture in conservation requires careful and concerted action

Discussions of how animal culture can aid the conservation crisis are burgeoning. As scientists and conservationists working to protect endangered species, we call for reflection on how the culture concept may be applied in practice. Here, we discuss both the potential benefits and potential shortcomings of applying the animal culture concept and propose a set of achievable milestones that will help guide and ensure effective integration of this concept into existing conservation frameworks, such as Adaptive Management cycles or Open Standards.

The Canadian national intelligence culture: A minimalist and defensive national intelligence apparatus

This paper seeks to understand the nature and characteristics of Canadian national intelligence culture post–Cold War using the analytical insights of the strategic culture and intelligence culture literature. Previous studies have focused on an organizational description or historical studies of Canadian intelligence during the Cold War or after 9/11. Yet, no studies have examined the characterization of a national intelligence culture in Canada and proposed to contextualize the Canadian intelligence system in light of its national intelligence culture. Building on a culturalist approach of national intelligence systems, this paper proposes an operationalization of the national intelligence culture concept drawn on the strategic and intelligence culture literature. The paper concludes that Canada’s national intelligence culture is mostly defensive and minimalist. However, we note that recent changes in the Canadian intelligence apparatus have led to a gradual evolution of Canadian intelligence from defensive to offensive.

Makna Material Culture dalam “Sarung” sebagai Identitas Santri

In material culture as a concept of local culture and nation heritage, “sarong” also has non-material value, likes as a symbol of santri, heroism, social class, kindness and honor. Sarong with variuos size, color, motifs, and pattern shapes the person and society, even the identity of a nation, especially Indonesia. Sarong even became part of the symbol of religiosity and diversity of Indonesia. By borrowing Bung Karno's message that the task of future generations is nation character building, caring for and developing a sarong culture, it can be seen as an effort to care for and develop the nation's character. Therefore, this paper use approachs or perspectives : material culture concept, social class perspective, and nation characer building concept. Method of writing is literary studies and analysis content method by various in resorches that support this article. The result of exprloration indicate that sarong can be the symbol for nation building character and identity with meaning and history contents powerly.

CONCEPT AS A SYNTHESIS OF THE ELEMENTS OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

The article deals with the problem of the relationship and interaction of language and culture. Language and culture are inextricably linked, and the concept is the connecting link between them. Currently, the concept turns out to be one of the key concepts of modern linguistics, since it allows each person to enter the culture of his society and, to a certain extent, influence it. Language acts as a mechanism, without the help of which culture would not find its expression. KEYWORDS: language of the people, culture, language and culture, concept, cultural linguistics, intercultural communication.

From Culture to People: Thinking Anthropologically with Jesus and Paul

The culture concept has been crucial to anthropology. Yet, I argue against its use. I examine how Jesus and Paul interacted with, and focused on, people and contend that we shift our attention from culture to people. Human diversity and difference should no longer be categorized into different cultures as relative, bounded and divisive units. Rather, we should view it as an integral part of humanity’s commonality. Shifting our attention to people as cultural beings also means a move beyond a preoccupation with knowledge by embracing practical, reflexive, and ontological engagements with others. It is only when we try to understand specific people’s diverse perspectives and the way they see themselves and the world, that we can take them seriously. This opens up anthropology, both at a theoretical level and by collaborating with other disciplines, including theology.

LEGO-LEGO AS PHENOMENON OF INTER-RELIGIOS AND CULTURAL IN ALOR SOCIETY

The reality of culture is actualised in sistemic sign relation, forming perception, representing contexts, and at the highest level it functions as a portrayal of the society’s ideology (Soames, 2010). As a phenomenon, Lego-lego defines the ideology among the people of Alor. The population live in the Island of Alor and Pantar, with Kalabahi as its capital city. There are 42 indigenous languages in the area of 2864 Km² with 66.4% of the population are Protestants, 30.27% are Muslims, 3.2% are Catholics, 0.02% are Hindus, and 0.01% are Buddhists. The primary data used was the text of Lego-lego and the secondary data was the interview trascript. The theory of Dichotomy Semiotic of Ferdinand de Saussure (1993) was used. A descriptive qualitative method was used with a phenomenology approach (Gallagher, 2008). The result shows a) the sign system of inter-religious and culture in Lego-lego is divided into textual and intertextual signify where signify covers place and time as well as Alorese perception; b) diagram of cultural events in Lego-lego consists of group ideology, attitude, cultural events and contexts. It also shows that religion context is placed in the group attitude. To summarize, the interreligious and culture concept in Lego-lego are defined by using sign system and diagram of cultural events. Religion concept in Alor has become part of group attitude which is based on culture and perceived through Lego-lego discourse. Novelty in this research is the Alorese culture reflected in Lego-lego has become an extremely strong fundamental with inter-religious as one of its elements.

New phenomena in usage of the lexemes mentalitet and mental’nost’ in contemporary Russian speech

The article considers reflexes of non-standard language representations of the international lexemes mentalitet and mental’nost’ in contemporary Russian speech as indicator of communicative-discursive appropriation of corresponding foreign-culture concept “mentality”. The purpose is to study changes of conditions of lexemes’ standard attributive compatibility. The material of the study is contexts of usage of these words in Russian National Corpus and in the Internet-communication. The models of word-combinations “adjective + substantive” with attributed words mentalitet and mental’nost’ are analyzed. The findings are that extension of spheres of their application and opportunity of evaluative reception of their primordially non-evaluative conceptual content demonstrates continuing tendency to cultural appropriation of the foreign-culture concept “mentality” in contemporary Russian speech.