Rumah Bugis sebagai Bentuk Pemertahanan Budaya Masyarakat Bugis di Desa Kemojan Karimunjawa

This paper examines the Bugis house in the Kemojan Village of Karimunjawa as a form of cultural retention of the Bugis people. The efforts of the Bugis community of Kemojan Karimunjawa Village maintain the preservation of the Bugis house as their residence because they try to maintain their culture. Besides that they want to introduce to the people around them their identity through the philosophy contained in the construction of Bugis houses. Although the Bugis house in Kemojan Village is different from the Bugis house in South Sulawesi, but in principle the philosophy and concept of development are the same. The development of tourism which is rampant in Karimunjawa has caused Bugis people in Kemojan Village to take the initiative to build several Bugis houses on the beach for Home Stay. Home Stay was built in accordance with the rules and forms of Bugis houses in Sulawesi. With the existence of Bugis houses for the sake of this tourism, it is hoped that the public will get to know the Bugis culture overseas

African oral tradition, cultural retentions and the transmission of knowledge in the West Indies

For three centuries Africans were trafficked to slave for Europeans in the West Indies. Forcibly uprooted from their homes, they carried only recollections of a way of life as they faced an uncertain future while enduring gruelling conditions. Unversed in the enslavers’ language and custom, their past was mentally retained and transmitted through oral expressions and cultural products. Yet, the history of libraries as repositories of knowledge gives credit to all newcomers except these Africans. This paper proposes the modern concept of a library supports African slaves’ cultural retention and transmission of knowledge as important in the development of life in the West Indies.

Inscribing Ethnicity: A Preliminary Analysis of Gaelic Headstone Inscriptions in Eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton

Focusing on the verbal rather than the visual elements of early and more modern headstones in eastern Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, this essay will comment on a selection of Gaelic headstone inscriptions, highlighting such elements as word choice (whether secular or religious), cemetery location, time period, and the deceased’s background. Despite the striking paucity of Gaelic examples, it is our objective to discuss why Gaelic had a limited presence in Nova Scotia’s pioneer Scottish immigrant cemeteries and to demonstrate how these cemeteries were contested sites, which mirrored ongoing tensions between assimilation and cultural retention. In sum, this article will assess the importance of cemeteries as material articulations of language use and language maintenance among Nova Scotia’s diasporic Scots, set against the wider background of their struggles, aspirations, and shared values.

La Escuela Pública en el Canadá de Habla Ingelesa: de Tratamiento de la Diferencia en el Contexto de la Globalización Económica

Our understanding of Canadian polity formation is based on a pluralistic moral democracy that recognizes a fluid concept of cultural retention, differentiated citizenship as explained by Kymlicka, and a social ethic of care. We argue that multicultural education has not addressed issues concerning the national question with respect to Aboriginal nationalist and Quebec demands or has done so only in a fragmentary manner. Anti-racist education has developed a refreshing oppositional approach that deals with structures sustaining racism, sexism, and power issues. However, we contend that the dominance of globalization as an economic ideology and concomitant educational changes have generated conditions to deal with difference in terms of a democracy that has great faith in the power of the free market and lacks confidence in the possibility of conscious collective efforts to build a apace to define and redefine a public good. There is no doubt that the economic agenda is influencing citizenship formation in our schools even as teachers and students mediate those influences. Relevant to the understanding of the building of a Canadian polity is the clarification of the concept of democracy in light of the market imperative which has permeated language and the construction of meanings.