Monique Deveaux
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199289790
- eISBN:
- 9780191711022
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199289790.003.0006
- Subject:
- Political Science, Democratization
This chapter explores the ways in which particular liberal notions of personal autonomy sit uneasily with certain cultural practices, especially those of ‘traditional’ or nonliberal groups. It argues ...
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This chapter explores the ways in which particular liberal notions of personal autonomy sit uneasily with certain cultural practices, especially those of ‘traditional’ or nonliberal groups. It argues that idealized, substantive ideals of autonomy can impede attempts to understand, evaluate, and where necessary, reform cultural traditions. The particular example that provides the focus for this chapter is that of the public debate on arranged and forced marriages among some (mostly Muslim) South Asians in Briton, a practice which has in recent years attracted the attention of British media, politicians, and the public. By examining the ways in which arranged and forced marriage have been framed in public debates in Britain, this discussion sheds light both on the limitations of the liberal autonomy paradigm — with its emphasis on choice and consent — and demonstrates the importance of engaging minority communities in the evaluation and reform of their own traditions.Less
This chapter explores the ways in which particular liberal notions of personal autonomy sit uneasily with certain cultural practices, especially those of ‘traditional’ or nonliberal groups. It argues that idealized, substantive ideals of autonomy can impede attempts to understand, evaluate, and where necessary, reform cultural traditions. The particular example that provides the focus for this chapter is that of the public debate on arranged and forced marriages among some (mostly Muslim) South Asians in Briton, a practice which has in recent years attracted the attention of British media, politicians, and the public. By examining the ways in which arranged and forced marriage have been framed in public debates in Britain, this discussion sheds light both on the limitations of the liberal autonomy paradigm — with its emphasis on choice and consent — and demonstrates the importance of engaging minority communities in the evaluation and reform of their own traditions.
Farah Jasmine Griffin
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195088960
- eISBN:
- 9780199855148
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195088960.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
This book is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music, and painting. It identifies the “migration narrative” as a dominant African ...
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This book is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music, and painting. It identifies the “migration narrative” as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, the book provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry, and painting; in so doing it carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American cultural forms.Less
This book is the first sustained study of migration as it is portrayed in African American literature, letters, music, and painting. It identifies the “migration narrative” as a dominant African American cultural tradition. Covering a period from 1923 to 1992, the book provides close readings of novels, autobiographies, songs, poetry, and painting; in so doing it carves out a framework that allows for a more inclusive reading of African American cultural forms.
Marilyn Friedman
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- February 2006
- ISBN:
- 9780195138504
- eISBN:
- 9780199785902
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195138503.003.0009
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Feminist Philosophy
This chapter aims to identify a common ground between liberals and defenders of cultural minorities that can serve as the basis for a mutually acceptable, yet still liberal, policy toward the ...
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This chapter aims to identify a common ground between liberals and defenders of cultural minorities that can serve as the basis for a mutually acceptable, yet still liberal, policy toward the treatment of women and girls by the cultural minority groups to which they belong. It also aims to defend the very project of a liberal policy by responding to some of the criticisms that Okin and others have received for defending women's rights in apparent opposition to some minority cultural traditions.Less
This chapter aims to identify a common ground between liberals and defenders of cultural minorities that can serve as the basis for a mutually acceptable, yet still liberal, policy toward the treatment of women and girls by the cultural minority groups to which they belong. It also aims to defend the very project of a liberal policy by responding to some of the criticisms that Okin and others have received for defending women's rights in apparent opposition to some minority cultural traditions.
Xiaorong Li
- Published in print:
- 1995
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780198289647
- eISBN:
- 9780191596698
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198289642.003.0018
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Development, Growth, and Environmental
Li provides an account of women's inequality in China and its relation to traditional norms. Contending against cultural relativist approaches to China and in favour of a more internationalist and ...
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Li provides an account of women's inequality in China and its relation to traditional norms. Contending against cultural relativist approaches to China and in favour of a more internationalist and critical framework, Li concludes that the capabilities ethic as developed by Sen and Nussbaum can diagnose what is wrong in the situation and promote women's equality with neither patriarchal imposition nor historical insensitivity.Less
Li provides an account of women's inequality in China and its relation to traditional norms. Contending against cultural relativist approaches to China and in favour of a more internationalist and critical framework, Li concludes that the capabilities ethic as developed by Sen and Nussbaum can diagnose what is wrong in the situation and promote women's equality with neither patriarchal imposition nor historical insensitivity.
Lee A. Smithey
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195395877
- eISBN:
- 9780199914470
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195395877.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter examines the potentials for cultural traditions or heritage work to contribute to conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. The construction of memory and identity are closely related ...
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This chapter examines the potentials for cultural traditions or heritage work to contribute to conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. The construction of memory and identity are closely related and must be considered in any assessment of collective identity change. The Orange Order, bands, and amateur historical and cultural organizations, among others, have developed programs that focus on histories of Protestant experience including origin myths, migration, industry, military battles, and political struggles. Such programs constitute a form of single-identity work that runs risks of generating division and prejudices. However, they can also build confidence and provide grounds for cross-community dialogue and the development of more diverse, sophisticated, and shared historical narratives and identities. Interview data reveal instances of reframing Protestant, unionist, and loyalist collective memory that counter zero-sum mentalities.Less
This chapter examines the potentials for cultural traditions or heritage work to contribute to conflict transformation in Northern Ireland. The construction of memory and identity are closely related and must be considered in any assessment of collective identity change. The Orange Order, bands, and amateur historical and cultural organizations, among others, have developed programs that focus on histories of Protestant experience including origin myths, migration, industry, military battles, and political struggles. Such programs constitute a form of single-identity work that runs risks of generating division and prejudices. However, they can also build confidence and provide grounds for cross-community dialogue and the development of more diverse, sophisticated, and shared historical narratives and identities. Interview data reveal instances of reframing Protestant, unionist, and loyalist collective memory that counter zero-sum mentalities.
Peter Jordan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520276925
- eISBN:
- 9780520958333
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520276925.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter outlines the general aims of the book, contextualizes its general approach within older streams of research, and identifies the key debates and questions it will address. It ...
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This introductory chapter outlines the general aims of the book, contextualizes its general approach within older streams of research, and identifies the key debates and questions it will address. It starts from first principles, by examining the unique nature of human social learning and the ways in which it underpins the maintenance of cumulative cultural traditions. It then examines how cultural-transmission theory-which draws broad analogies between processes of cultural and genetic inheritance-can now be applied to empirical research, providing a general framework of descent with modification for understanding the factors that structure the social propagation of material-culture traditions. The book generates insights that link back into long-standing anthropological and archaeological debates about the primary causes of local variability and long-term change in human technological traditions.Less
This introductory chapter outlines the general aims of the book, contextualizes its general approach within older streams of research, and identifies the key debates and questions it will address. It starts from first principles, by examining the unique nature of human social learning and the ways in which it underpins the maintenance of cumulative cultural traditions. It then examines how cultural-transmission theory-which draws broad analogies between processes of cultural and genetic inheritance-can now be applied to empirical research, providing a general framework of descent with modification for understanding the factors that structure the social propagation of material-culture traditions. The book generates insights that link back into long-standing anthropological and archaeological debates about the primary causes of local variability and long-term change in human technological traditions.
Kathryn Linn Geurts
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520234550
- eISBN:
- 9780520936546
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234550.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This book investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. It was discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo ...
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This book investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. It was discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of “intuition,” comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu. The kind of mind–body dichotomy that pervades Western European–Anglo-American cultural traditions and philosophical thought is absent. The book relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense.Less
This book investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. It was discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance in Anlo culture, where balance is a sense, and balancing (in a physical and psychological sense as well as in literal and metaphorical ways) is an essential component of what it means to be human. Much of perception falls into an Anlo category of seselelame (literally feel-feel-at-flesh-inside), in which what might be considered sensory input, including the Western sixth-sense notion of “intuition,” comes from bodily feeling and the interior milieu. The kind of mind–body dichotomy that pervades Western European–Anglo-American cultural traditions and philosophical thought is absent. The book relates how Anlo society privileges and elaborates what we would call kinesthesia, which most Americans would not even identify as a sense.
Magdi Guirguis
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9789774161520
- eISBN:
- 9781617971013
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774161520.003.0008
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
Trying to understand any particular trend out of a historical setting can easily lead to a distorted view of the matter. The same is true for the legacy of an artist like Yuhanna al-Armani. This ...
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Trying to understand any particular trend out of a historical setting can easily lead to a distorted view of the matter. The same is true for the legacy of an artist like Yuhanna al-Armani. This study has argued that Yuhanna's icons developed and flourished in the second half of the eighteenth century as a result of a combination of factors that coincided at that time. It has argued against the dominant view among many scholars that the artist had recently arrived in Egypt and had come with his cultural luggage, for the most part a set of exogenous cultural traditions that flourished in the new society he moved to. The traditions that Yuhanna introduced are assumed to have been more modern and more developed than those that could be found locally.Less
Trying to understand any particular trend out of a historical setting can easily lead to a distorted view of the matter. The same is true for the legacy of an artist like Yuhanna al-Armani. This study has argued that Yuhanna's icons developed and flourished in the second half of the eighteenth century as a result of a combination of factors that coincided at that time. It has argued against the dominant view among many scholars that the artist had recently arrived in Egypt and had come with his cultural luggage, for the most part a set of exogenous cultural traditions that flourished in the new society he moved to. The traditions that Yuhanna introduced are assumed to have been more modern and more developed than those that could be found locally.
A. Martin Byers
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813029580
- eISBN:
- 9780813039183
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813029580.003.0003
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology
This chapter argues for the critical necessity of cosmology, ideology, ethos, and worldview as delineating real differences within the cultural tradition of a people. At the general level, then, the ...
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This chapter argues for the critical necessity of cosmology, ideology, ethos, and worldview as delineating real differences within the cultural tradition of a people. At the general level, then, the term cultural tradition is used to refer to this sphere of collective consciousness. The chapter then treats a cultural tradition as structured by four basic relatively autonomous states of consciousness that are called cosmology, ethos, worldview, and ideology. The term intentionality is used in philosophy generically to refer to the directedness (or “aboutness”) that is intrinsic to beliefs, desires, intentions, hopes, worries, fears, and so on. In addition, this term can be explained from the perspective that particularly counts for archaeology and cultural traditions. Next, the relative autonomy of components of cultural traditions is explored. The integrated and fused views of cultural traditions are covered as well.Less
This chapter argues for the critical necessity of cosmology, ideology, ethos, and worldview as delineating real differences within the cultural tradition of a people. At the general level, then, the term cultural tradition is used to refer to this sphere of collective consciousness. The chapter then treats a cultural tradition as structured by four basic relatively autonomous states of consciousness that are called cosmology, ethos, worldview, and ideology. The term intentionality is used in philosophy generically to refer to the directedness (or “aboutness”) that is intrinsic to beliefs, desires, intentions, hopes, worries, fears, and so on. In addition, this term can be explained from the perspective that particularly counts for archaeology and cultural traditions. Next, the relative autonomy of components of cultural traditions is explored. The integrated and fused views of cultural traditions are covered as well.
Nina Eliasoph
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691147093
- eISBN:
- 9781400838820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691147093.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Social Stratification, Inequality, and Mobility
This chapter is an overview of “empowerment projects.” It shows how empowerment projects are supposed to blend different kinds of people and different kinds of organizations—civic association, state ...
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This chapter is an overview of “empowerment projects.” It shows how empowerment projects are supposed to blend different kinds of people and different kinds of organizations—civic association, state agency, nonprofit organization, family, and cultural tradition. Since funding is usually short-term, all of this blending has to happen flexibly, rapidly, and transparently, with documentation for multiple sources, each with a separate form. Organizers celebrate all this melting of stiff boundaries, finding it exciting and empowering. But the blending also produces tensions, as it is often hard to juggle this many different types of relationships all in one place, all at once.Less
This chapter is an overview of “empowerment projects.” It shows how empowerment projects are supposed to blend different kinds of people and different kinds of organizations—civic association, state agency, nonprofit organization, family, and cultural tradition. Since funding is usually short-term, all of this blending has to happen flexibly, rapidly, and transparently, with documentation for multiple sources, each with a separate form. Organizers celebrate all this melting of stiff boundaries, finding it exciting and empowering. But the blending also produces tensions, as it is often hard to juggle this many different types of relationships all in one place, all at once.
J. Mark Kenoyer
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195305326
- eISBN:
- 9780199850884
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305326.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
The discoveries of this book do not seem to match the well-entrenched models that attribute the second period of urbanism to the late Northern Black Polished Ware period corresponding with the ...
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The discoveries of this book do not seem to match the well-entrenched models that attribute the second period of urbanism to the late Northern Black Polished Ware period corresponding with the emergence of the Mauryan Empire. The origin or stimulus for this urbanism is either attributed to Achaemenid influence from the west or from socioeconomic and political developments in middle and lower Ganga. Similarly, the Kushana Empire is thought to have its stimulus from contact with the west and north, Iran and Central Asia, as well as the far-off Mediterranean with only minimal contributions from indigenous processes. The well-known literary evidence for the presence of indigenous polities, as well as earlier archaeological evidence for the presence of substantial settlements and local cultural traditions needs to be reevaluated. This chapter focuses on the Indus valley and discusses recent surveys and excavations conducted in Pakistan.Less
The discoveries of this book do not seem to match the well-entrenched models that attribute the second period of urbanism to the late Northern Black Polished Ware period corresponding with the emergence of the Mauryan Empire. The origin or stimulus for this urbanism is either attributed to Achaemenid influence from the west or from socioeconomic and political developments in middle and lower Ganga. Similarly, the Kushana Empire is thought to have its stimulus from contact with the west and north, Iran and Central Asia, as well as the far-off Mediterranean with only minimal contributions from indigenous processes. The well-known literary evidence for the presence of indigenous polities, as well as earlier archaeological evidence for the presence of substantial settlements and local cultural traditions needs to be reevaluated. This chapter focuses on the Indus valley and discusses recent surveys and excavations conducted in Pakistan.
Renée C. Fox and Judith P. Swazey
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195365559
- eISBN:
- 9780199851881
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365559.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Science
This chapter focuses on the development of bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan based on the study of Farhat Moazam, who is a surgeon and a bioethicist. It presents bioethics in a ...
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This chapter focuses on the development of bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan based on the study of Farhat Moazam, who is a surgeon and a bioethicist. It presents bioethics in a non-Western country and how cultural practices and traditions are related to the field.Less
This chapter focuses on the development of bioethics in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan based on the study of Farhat Moazam, who is a surgeon and a bioethicist. It presents bioethics in a non-Western country and how cultural practices and traditions are related to the field.
T. N. Madan
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198069409
- eISBN:
- 9780199080038
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198069409.003.0020
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sociology of Religion
The translation of cultural traditions from one into another is, however, always problematic and the modern Hindu suffers from the strain of a fragmented consciousness. This chapter focuses on this ...
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The translation of cultural traditions from one into another is, however, always problematic and the modern Hindu suffers from the strain of a fragmented consciousness. This chapter focuses on this predicament. It argues that since its encounter with Christianity early in the seventeenth century, Hinduism has never been disengaged from the West in the consciousness of ‘modern’ Hindus. Today the challenge that Hinduism faces does not come from an alien religion but from the Western ideals of secularism and modernization.Less
The translation of cultural traditions from one into another is, however, always problematic and the modern Hindu suffers from the strain of a fragmented consciousness. This chapter focuses on this predicament. It argues that since its encounter with Christianity early in the seventeenth century, Hinduism has never been disengaged from the West in the consciousness of ‘modern’ Hindus. Today the challenge that Hinduism faces does not come from an alien religion but from the Western ideals of secularism and modernization.
Pashaura Singh
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198075547
- eISBN:
- 9780199082056
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075547.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Sikhism
This introductory chapter places the book within the context of the widening area of Sikh studies, including on the Internet. It also includes brief discussions about the content of the essays in the ...
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This introductory chapter places the book within the context of the widening area of Sikh studies, including on the Internet. It also includes brief discussions about the content of the essays in the book which go beyond the mistaken notion that Sikhism provides a synthesis of Hindu and Muslim ideals—a notion that has been completely abandoned in most of recent scholarly works. Sikh Studies is no longer ‘the forgotten tradition’ of the late 1970s and is becoming increasingly recognized in undergraduate programmes, and for being the benefactor of a growing number of endowed chairs in universities across North America. The author discusses how, after 1984—the turning point in the history of the Sikhs in the post-colonial and the post-modern world—the Sikhs of North America worked to provide their youth with university-level instruction in their religious and cultural tradition, and to make that tradition accessible to the wider non-Sikh community.Less
This introductory chapter places the book within the context of the widening area of Sikh studies, including on the Internet. It also includes brief discussions about the content of the essays in the book which go beyond the mistaken notion that Sikhism provides a synthesis of Hindu and Muslim ideals—a notion that has been completely abandoned in most of recent scholarly works. Sikh Studies is no longer ‘the forgotten tradition’ of the late 1970s and is becoming increasingly recognized in undergraduate programmes, and for being the benefactor of a growing number of endowed chairs in universities across North America. The author discusses how, after 1984—the turning point in the history of the Sikhs in the post-colonial and the post-modern world—the Sikhs of North America worked to provide their youth with university-level instruction in their religious and cultural tradition, and to make that tradition accessible to the wider non-Sikh community.
Kathryn Linn Geurts
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520234550
- eISBN:
- 9780520936546
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520234550.003.0010
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
This chapter aims to provide an interpretive framework for the study of sensoriums and sensory experience and their place in one's understanding of cultural difference, discussing four arguments that ...
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This chapter aims to provide an interpretive framework for the study of sensoriums and sensory experience and their place in one's understanding of cultural difference, discussing four arguments that help structure the ethnographic descriptions of Anlo-Ewe sensory experiences and philosophical thought. The first argument is that sensoriums differ due to cultural tradition, and the second is that a sensorium is embodied, and that sensory orientations are acquired through processes of child socialization. The last two arguments state that sensoriums help shape notions of the person and guarantee that persons differ culturally and yet appear natural, and that the notions of the person and engagement with other intentional persons are central to health and well-being.Less
This chapter aims to provide an interpretive framework for the study of sensoriums and sensory experience and their place in one's understanding of cultural difference, discussing four arguments that help structure the ethnographic descriptions of Anlo-Ewe sensory experiences and philosophical thought. The first argument is that sensoriums differ due to cultural tradition, and the second is that a sensorium is embodied, and that sensory orientations are acquired through processes of child socialization. The last two arguments state that sensoriums help shape notions of the person and guarantee that persons differ culturally and yet appear natural, and that the notions of the person and engagement with other intentional persons are central to health and well-being.
Elfriede Hermann
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833664
- eISBN:
- 9780824870355
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833664.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to demonstrate how social and structural interactions in Oceania yield articulations of cultural traditions and their meanings. The ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to demonstrate how social and structural interactions in Oceania yield articulations of cultural traditions and their meanings. The chapters focus on reciprocities between these meanings and their respective contexts, past and present. With an eye set firmly on objects, cultural practices, and ideas, they trace continuities and transformations alike. The shaping and reshaping of meanings via a multiplicity of interactions is analyzed in four sections under the following headings: (1) early encounters, (2) memories, (3) ongoing global and (trans)local processes, and (4) cultural exchange and identities. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book's purpose, which is to demonstrate how social and structural interactions in Oceania yield articulations of cultural traditions and their meanings. The chapters focus on reciprocities between these meanings and their respective contexts, past and present. With an eye set firmly on objects, cultural practices, and ideas, they trace continuities and transformations alike. The shaping and reshaping of meanings via a multiplicity of interactions is analyzed in four sections under the following headings: (1) early encounters, (2) memories, (3) ongoing global and (trans)local processes, and (4) cultural exchange and identities. An overview of the subsequent chapters is also presented.
Grace J. Yoo and Barbara W. Kim
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814768976
- eISBN:
- 9780814771983
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814768976.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Migration Studies (including Refugee Studies)
This chapter explores how adult children of Korean immigrants view their cultural identity and practice cultural traditions while also reclaiming and re-making their culture and interpreting it in ...
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This chapter explores how adult children of Korean immigrants view their cultural identity and practice cultural traditions while also reclaiming and re-making their culture and interpreting it in new ways that provide meaning in their Korean American contexts. Focusing on the work of women in continuing and remaking Korean culture, the chapter considers the Korean American children's experiences of familiarity with cultural rituals and their meanings as well as degrees of identification and attachment to their cultural heritage. It also sheds light on the immigrant children's journey towards a formation of cultural and ethnic identity beyond the pivotal college years. Although the cultural experiences of reclaiming and remaking what is Korean vary, the chapter shows that Korean American children have strong desire to retain the value of respect towards elders and to care for their immigrant parents in old age.Less
This chapter explores how adult children of Korean immigrants view their cultural identity and practice cultural traditions while also reclaiming and re-making their culture and interpreting it in new ways that provide meaning in their Korean American contexts. Focusing on the work of women in continuing and remaking Korean culture, the chapter considers the Korean American children's experiences of familiarity with cultural rituals and their meanings as well as degrees of identification and attachment to their cultural heritage. It also sheds light on the immigrant children's journey towards a formation of cultural and ethnic identity beyond the pivotal college years. Although the cultural experiences of reclaiming and remaking what is Korean vary, the chapter shows that Korean American children have strong desire to retain the value of respect towards elders and to care for their immigrant parents in old age.
Elfriede Hermann (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833664
- eISBN:
- 9780824870355
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833664.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. It ...
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This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. It examines these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, the book takes a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, the book addresses ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders.Less
This book sheds new light on processes of cultural transformation at work in Oceania and analyzes them as products of interrelationships between culturally created meanings and specific contexts. It examines these interrelationships for insight into how cultural traditions are shaped on an ongoing basis. Following a critique of how tradition has been viewed in terms of dichotomies like authenticity vs. inauthenticity, the book takes a novel perspective in which tradition figures as context-bound articulation. This makes it possible to view cultural traditions as resulting from interactions between people and the ambient contexts. Such interactions are analyzed from the past down to the Oceanian present—with indigenous agency being highlighted. The work focuses first on early encounters, initially between Pacific Islanders themselves and later with the European navigators of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, to clarify how meaningful actions and contexts interrelated in the past. The present-day memories of Pacific Islanders are examined to ask how such memories represent encounters that occurred long ago and how they influenced the social, political, economic, and religious changes that ensued. Next, the book addresses ongoing social and structural interactions that social actors enlist to shape their traditions within the context of globalization and then the repercussions that these intersections and intercultural exchanges of discourses and practices are having on active identity formation as practiced by Pacific Islanders.
Anthony P. Maingot
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780813061061
- eISBN:
- 9780813051345
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813061061.003.0011
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Barbados has long been severely criticized––or ignored––because of its adherence to British political and cultural traditions. Much of this censure and neglect was a result of its having had the most ...
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Barbados has long been severely criticized––or ignored––because of its adherence to British political and cultural traditions. Much of this censure and neglect was a result of its having had the most racially segregated social relations among the Caribbean nations. Paradoxically, the island has evolved to have the best educated populace and the most politically stable and economically open of societies in the Caribbean. The growth of a black business bourgeoisie is one of the paramount features of the island’s modernization.Less
Barbados has long been severely criticized––or ignored––because of its adherence to British political and cultural traditions. Much of this censure and neglect was a result of its having had the most racially segregated social relations among the Caribbean nations. Paradoxically, the island has evolved to have the best educated populace and the most politically stable and economically open of societies in the Caribbean. The growth of a black business bourgeoisie is one of the paramount features of the island’s modernization.
Robert Song
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198269335
- eISBN:
- 9780191683619
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198269335.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology, Religion and Society
This chapter examines French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain's view on liberalism and his liberal defence of pluralism. It suggests that the ideas of Maritain have been as important as those of ...
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This chapter examines French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain's view on liberalism and his liberal defence of pluralism. It suggests that the ideas of Maritain have been as important as those of any Catholic thinker of the 20th century and that his vision of a ‘new Christendom’ has provided the theological foundations for a distinctive solution to the problems in the communitarian critique of liberalism. This chapter concludes that though Maritain's defence of pluralism admits the importance of human socialization and cultural traditions, his notion that natural legislation is an essential feature of any political society has its own problems.Less
This chapter examines French Catholic philosopher Jacques Maritain's view on liberalism and his liberal defence of pluralism. It suggests that the ideas of Maritain have been as important as those of any Catholic thinker of the 20th century and that his vision of a ‘new Christendom’ has provided the theological foundations for a distinctive solution to the problems in the communitarian critique of liberalism. This chapter concludes that though Maritain's defence of pluralism admits the importance of human socialization and cultural traditions, his notion that natural legislation is an essential feature of any political society has its own problems.
