Challenges and Scopes of Pottery Industry

Pottery is unique art of making artifacts from clay. It produces different kinds of clay and ceramics items such as flowerpots, water and grain storage jars, large vessels for distilling rice spirits called rakshi, cooking pots, tableware, stoneware cups, bowls, and plates, stoneware pitcher and mug, etc. This research aims to examine challenges faced by the pottery industries and to examine scopes of the pottery industries in Nepal. This research is based on the descriptive method. The results show that there is good scope in the this industry but the people involved in this industry are facing different kinds of challenges or problems like shortage of raw materials, manpower, and lack of space to dry the formed pottery, firing pottery, to store the finished goods along with the different raw materials. The sales of the product in the national and international markets are being increased. This industry is being affected by the change in lifestyle and different substitute products. The intermediaries get good profits but they face the problem of getting the products damaged, demand dependent on the festive occasion, problem of transportation, etc. Study shows that there is a huge demand for Nepali handmade ceramic products in the international market due to their improved quality. Buyers are willing to pay a premium for handmade goods, which are propelling exports. Pravaha Vol. 24, No. 1, 2018, Page: 147-158

Semantic and functional features of tauromachy (bullfighting) vocabulary within the framework of cognitive and linguoculturological approaches

The article is dedicated to the investigation and interpretation of semantic and functional features of phraseological expressions and paroemias referring to tauromachy (bullfighting) within the framework of cognitive and linguoculturological approaches. The introduction of relevant examples in the article aims to detect these features. Tauromachy which is called "an art of bullfighting" is an inseparable part of Spanish culture. Corrida (bullfight) has deep historical roots and it is a specific, festive occasion belonging to the Spanish people. It has entered into the national consciousness of Spaniards, developed and reflected in all manifestation forms of their lives. In its turn, it has lead to the linguistic reflection of tauromachy vocabulary in the language. According to their use in the language, tauromachy terms have four levels: words referring to tauromachy which is a special field and used only in the bullfight, tauromachy words with figurative meaning that can be used as a methaphora in other fields, tauromachy words used in literature and words referring to tauromachy field used in spoken language. Linguoculturological approach is a new stage of the study of complex relations between language, thinking and culture within the framework of cognitive linguistics. Linguistic and semantic aspects of cognitivism, that’s, mental imaginations of a language speaker are observed more vividly in phraseological expressions and paroemias. In the article we will try to study phraseological expressions and paroemias referring to tauromachy used in the spoken language, that’s, the fourth level of the use of tauromachy vocabulary in the language. It is obvious that the phraseological system generalizes language units with extremely great value in terms of understanding the level of national language consciousness of the people. Phraseological expressions and paroemias can be considered precious linguoculturological source, so that daily lifestyle, world outlook, traditions of language speakers are reflected in the phraseological system visually through metaphoric coding. The vocabulary of tauromachy in this field has gone through certain processes and gained new connotative meanings and assists in more concrete, laconic, expressive delivery of the idea being used in the spoken language.

A Gendered Bun in the Oven. The Gender-reveal Party as a New Ritualization during Pregnancy

By appropriating both medical and communication technologies, the gender-reveal party has recently emerged as a ritual performance centered on a dramatically staged disclosure of the sex of a gestating fetus. The gender-reveal party is an example of the new forms of ritualization that take place during pregnancy in 21st-century North America. Typically, the focal point of the party is when the future parents cut a cake whose inside color (blue or pink) reveals the sex of the fetus. This article examines the ritual dynamics and creativity at work in the preparation, the performance and the mediated dissemination of this festive occasion. Key elements of the ritual will be described, as well as its conditions of emergence in a context where neither medical nor religious institutions offer ritual options deemed appropriate enough for celebrating joyfully and emotionally during pregnancy.

Concurrence of Sports and Entertainment Industries

Modern entertainment is defined as the experience that is marketed to entertain a large and heterogeneous group of human beings. Products might be evaluated in different ways by those who have different cultural and historical backgrounds. The meanings evoked by a particular branch of sports may differ according to the demographic aspects and experiences of individuals, and even the history of their counties along with their cultures. On that note, the sports branch intertwined with American culture is undoubtedly American football. The Super Bowl, which might be considered an ordinary sports activity, has turned into a huge organization that is discussed for days and experienced as a festive occasion. In this chapter, the Super Bowl is analyzed with a literature review through the ideas of intellectuals as well as the figures and examples within the context of the concurrence between the sports and entertainment industries.

Wisdom on the Pursuit of Happiness in Daily Life.

The aim of this paper is to provide perspectives on conducting an international comparative study of happiness. This comparative survey, which the Free University of Berlin, Germany, and Kyoto University began jointly in 2008, is a truly international, interdisciplinary research project that designated Japan and Germany as sites for anthropological fieldwork where experts in philosophy, sociology, and pedagogy would jointly tackle the same field. Employing a historical and cultural anthropology perspective, this research project starts with the assumption not to seek to identify a model of happiness or well-being that goes beyond history and culture. Rather, the main focus of the research has been on how happiness and well-being are constructed in interactions among family members in the course of their various daily practices as well as in the ritual practices involved in families celebrating a festive occasion. First, in addressing family happiness, we examined the Christmas period for German households as typical seasonal festivity celebrated by families.

Past, Present, and Future of Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Virus Vaccines

It is a real pleasure for me to speak on this memorable occasion. Dr Saul Krugman is now entering his ninth decade while enjoying the world status of senior statesman! Saul and I have collaborated often during the last three of these decades. In the studies of new vaccines in our laboratories, our first clinical probes were made in cooperative studies with the late Dr Joseph Stokes and his colleagues and successors at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. Following such initial phase, Dr Krugman received the vaccines for expanded clinical studies. Hence, he has been an indispensible clinical partner in most of the new viral vaccine developments in our laboratories during the past 30 years. In discussions with Dr Wade Parks, I was advised that I might speak on any subject I choose. I chose to talk about the measles-mumps-rubella vaccine (M-M-R), a topic that has occupied Dr Krugman for nearly three decades and that is receiving renewed attention in the worlds of pediatrics and public health at the present time. This being a festive occasion, I feel I should keep it light. Therefore, I want to emphasize the science, but also to recount some of the less well-known "behind-the-scenes" activities that led to the creation and birth of M-M-R. There were lessons learned that might provide historic insight into problems that can be avoided in the future. MEASLES Measles vaccine began when the late Dr John Enders and Dr Samuel Katz and their coworkers developed and tested their Edmonston strain of attenuated live measles virus.1

Clifford Dugmore 1910–1990

Whatever are you doing here?’ Professor Dugmore asked his daughter Ismayne when he bumped into her quite unexpectedly on Cambridge station in May 1979. It was the year in which Clifford Dugmore handed over the editorship of the Journal of Ecclesiastical History to Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Linehan. There was a benevolent conspiracy. A meeting of the Editorial Board of the Journal, which its chairman, Walter Ullmann, had arranged at Trinity College, was to assume the character of a festive occasion: lunch and the presentation to Clifford of the April number of vol. xxx designed as a Festschrift. There was, exceptionally, a title, Ecclesia Anglicana, and all the articles were contributed by members of the Board. Apparently it had not occurred to the honorand that the coincidence of a seventieth birthday and his relinquishment of the editorial chair after thirty years should require any special celebration.

The Vanishing Host

Our efforts during the last few years to collect systematic observations of parties, to be self-conscious and observant at parties which we attended, and to interview our friends about parties which we could not attend, have led us to view party sociability as a product of highly variable quality, in which the chief artist and engineer might logically be supposed to be the host. As hosts—a term which we use to refer to both host and hostess—we ourselves have tried to be skilful and inventive in the never-ending search for ways of creating "better" parties; and, as guests, we have noted with appreciation the efforts made on our behalf by our more imaginative hosts. And yet we cannot help but feel that generally, in the population to which we had access, the role of host is a neglected one—a role taken too much for granted, and often underplayed to such an extent that the party remains diffuse, without the élan and sense of excitement which mark a truly festive occasion.