Widowhood and Motherhood in Cinematic Imagination in the Historical Context

This article engages with the question of how Hindi cinema sought to synergize and imagine the nation, community and land in independent India as the embodiment of widowhood. I suggest that this process of embodiment was the culmination of a long historical-political process. The focus of this chapter is a 1957 Hindi film by Mehboob Khan named Mother India. The film stands out as a powerful emotional drama. On the one hand, this film marked continuity with the Indian literature, painting, theatre and cinema of the colonial period,1 on the other, Mother India influenced the culture of a new Indian nation after 1947. Within a decade after India attained independence from Britain, the Indian cinema became an undisputed site where the cultural engineering of a new nation could be enacted.2

Cultural Aspects of Disposable Diaper Waste and Sanitary Napkins in Indonesia

The cultural aspect of managing disposable diapers and sanitary napkins in Indonesia is very important. The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview of the cultural aspects of the waste management process. The method used literature review. The data analysis used thematic analysis. The articles obtained from the selection were 18 titles. The results of the review show that the culture that is most discussed in the issue of disposable diapers and sanitary napkin waste management is the culture of industrial society, then Javanese society, and the last one is colonial. Culture is discussed in the realm of practice and reasons for use as well as practices and reasons for waste management. Things that need to be deepened are culture in the form of (1) cultural engineering and cultural environment and (2) the realm of the impact of using and managing disposable diapers and sanitary napkins. Another suggestion is to expand database searches and perform SLRs for more detailed results.

Rekayasa Budaya dan Dinamika Sosial: Menemukan Pokok Pikiran Lokalitas Budaya Sebagai Daya Cipta

This paper discusses cultural engineering on social dynamics, namely culture as the creativity of facing social change. In this paper, social dynamics is a creative response from the culture support community that originates from ideas which are then channeled into activities and appear in human artifacts. Social dynamics are not always supported by formal institutions but are also supported by informal institutions, namely cultures that play an active role. The idea that the origin of activities and artifacts in culture is a way of thinking that is a creative response to creativity. As for the problem in this study, is it true that culture can be engineered into creativity? The results of the study show that culture can be engineered as a creative power as an agent of social dynamics by: (i) recording and filtering out the thoughts of cultural locality, (ii) formulating and designing strategies for developing locality culture, (iii) building cultural locality pranata , (iv) disseminating and instilling the core of cultural locality, (v) making regulations protect the core thoughts of cultural locality, and (vi) applying basic things to cultural locality as agents of social dynamics.