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Book Beyond Culture and Heritage  Exploring the Essence of Identity

Download or read book Beyond Culture and Heritage Exploring the Essence of Identity written by Bolanle N. Akingbehin and published by Hadar Creations. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Culture and Heritage explores the limitations of borrowed culture and the importance of embracing our heritage in today's generation. This book sheds light on the misguided assumption of helplessness and impotence that often accompany the adoption of foreign cultures and offers a powerful reminder of the value of our African roots. The book delves into the rich tapestry of African ways and values, serving as a compass to guide us in aligning our morals with our daily lives. It emphasizes the importance of embracing our upbringing and the cultural shaping we received as Africans. Even in the face of living in diaspora, being exposed to modern civilization, and navigating advanced technologies, our mentality should remain untainted, and our sense of identity should be invigorated and refined. Beyond Culture and Heritage invites us to live consciously, embodying the essence of our African upbringing and reclaiming our rightful place as descendants of giants. It is a call to preserve our unique heritage, allowing it to influence and enrich every aspect of our lives, wherever we may find ourselves in the world.

Book Beyond Culture

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  • Author : Edward T. Hall
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 1976-12-07
  • ISBN : 0385124740
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Beyond Culture written by Edward T. Hall and published by Anchor. This book was released on 1976-12-07 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a renowned American anthropologist comes a proud celebration of human capacities. For too long, people have taken their own ways of life for granted, ignoring the vast, international cultural community that srrounds them. Humankind must now embark on the difficult journey beyond culture, to the discovery of a lost self a sense of perspective. By holding up a mirror, Hall permits us to see the awesome grip of unconscious culture. With concrete examples ranging from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake to the mating habits of the bowerbird of New Guinea, Hall shows us ourselves. Beyond Culture is a book about self-discovery; it is a voyage we all must embark on if mankind is to survive. "Fascinating and emotionally challenging. . . . The book's graceful, non-technical style and the many illuminating, real-life illustrations make it a delight to read." —Library Journal "Hall's book helps us to rethink our values. . . . We come away from it exhilarated." —Ashley Montagu "In this penetrating analysis of the culturally determined yet 'unconscious' attitudes that mold our thought, feeling, communication and behavior. . . . Hall makes explicit taken-for-granted linguistic patterns, body rhythms, personality dynamics, educational goals. . . . Many of Hall's ideas are original and incisive . . . [and] should reward careful readers with new ways of thinking about themselves and others." —Publishers Weekly "A fascintaing book which stands beside The Hidden Dimension and The Silent Language to prove Hall one of the most original anthropologists of our era." —Paul Bohannan

Book Beyond  culture

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  • Author : Akhil Gupta
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 14 pages

Download or read book Beyond culture written by Akhil Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Uses of Heritage

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  • Author : Laurajane Smith
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2006-11-22
  • ISBN : 1134368038
  • Pages : 369 pages

Download or read book Uses of Heritage written by Laurajane Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.

Book Sense and Essence

Download or read book Sense and Essence written by Birgit Meyer and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social formations and bound to particular forms of mediation. Yet the appeal of cultural heritage often rests on its denial of being a fabrication, its promise to provide an essential ground to social-cultural identities. Taking this paradoxical feature as a point of departure, and anchoring the discussion to two heuristic concepts—the "politics of authentication" and "aesthetics of persuasion"—the chapters herein explore how this tension is central to the dynamics of heritage formation worldwide.

Book Essential Essays  Volume 2

Download or read book Essential Essays Volume 2 written by Stuart Hall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From his arrival in Britain in the 1950s and involvement in the New Left, to founding the field of cultural studies and examining race and identity in the 1990s and early 2000s, Stuart Hall has been central to shaping many of the cultural and political debates of our time. Essential Essays—a landmark two-volume set—brings together Stuart Hall's most influential and foundational works. Spanning the whole of his career, these volumes reflect the breadth and depth of his intellectual and political projects while demonstrating their continued vitality and importance. Volume 2: Identity and Diaspora draws from Hall's later essays, in which he investigated questions of colonialism, empire, and race. It opens with “Gramsci's Relevance for the Study of Race and Ethnicity,” which frames the volume and finds Hall rethinking received notions of racial essentialism. In addition to essays on multiculturalism and globalization, black popular culture, and Western modernity's racial underpinnings, Volume 2 contains three interviews with Hall, in which he reflects on his life to theorize his identity as a colonial and diasporic subject.

Book National Identity  Popular Culture and Everyday Life

Download or read book National Identity Popular Culture and Everyday Life written by Tim Edensor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Millennium Dome, Braveheart and Rolls Royce cars. How do cultural icons reproduce and transform a sense of national identity? How does national identity vary across time and space, how is it contested, and what has been the impact of globalization upon national identity and culture?This book examines how national identity is represented, performed, spatialized and materialized through popular culture and in everyday life. National identity is revealed to be inherent in the things we often take for granted - from landscapes and eating habits, to tourism, cinema and music. Our specific experience of car ownership and motoring can enhance a sense of belonging, whilst Hollywood blockbusters and national exhibitions provide contexts for the ongoing, and often contested, process of national identity formation. These and a wealth of other cultural forms and practices are explored, with examples drawn from Scotland, the UK as a whole, India and Mauritius. This book addresses the considerable neglect of popular cultures in recent studies of nationalism and contributes to debates on the relationship between ‘high' and ‘low' culture.

Book Beyond Jewish Identity

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  • Author : Jon A. Levisohn
  • Publisher : Academic Studies PRess
  • Release : 2019-12-31
  • ISBN : 1644691183
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Beyond Jewish Identity written by Jon A. Levisohn and published by Academic Studies PRess. This book was released on 2019-12-31 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something deeply problematic about the ways that Jews, particularly in America, talk about “Jewish identity” as a desired outcome of Jewish education. For many, the idea that the purpose of Jewish education is to strengthen Jewish identity is so obvious that it hardly seems worth disputing—and the only important question is which kinds of Jewish education do that work more effectively or more efficiently. But what does it mean to “strengthen Jewish identity”? Why do Jewish educators, policy-makers and philanthropists talk that way? What do they assume, about Jewish education or about Jewish identity, when they use formulations like “strengthen Jewish identity”? And what are the costs of doing so? This volume, the first collection to examine critically the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish identity, makes two important interventions. First, it offers a critical assessment of the relationship between education and identity, arguing that the reification of identity has hampered much educational creativity in the pursuit of this goal, and that the nearly ubiquitous employment of the term obscures significant questions about what Jewish education is and ought to be. Second, this volume offers thoughtful responses that are not merely synonymous replacements for “identity,” suggesting new possibilities for how to think about the purposes and desired outcomes of Jewish education, potentially contributing to any number of new conversations about the relationship between Jewish education and Jewish life.

Book Heritage  Culture and Identity

Download or read book Heritage Culture and Identity written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Indigenous Ancestors

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  • Author : Carolyne R. Larson
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2015-08-13
  • ISBN : 0271073179
  • Pages : 233 pages

Download or read book Our Indigenous Ancestors written by Carolyne R. Larson and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-08-13 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carolyne Larson demonstrates how scientists, collectors, the press, and the public engaged with Argentina’s native American artifacts and remains (and sometimes living peoples) in the process of constructing an “authentic” national heritage. She explores the founding and functioning of three museums in Argentina, as well as the origins and consolidation of Argentine archaeology and the professional lives of a handful of dynamic curators and archaeologists, using these institutions and individuals as a window onto nation building, modernization, urban-rural tensions, and problems of race and ethnicity in turn-of-the-century Argentina. Museums and archaeology, she argues, allowed Argentine elites to build a modern national identity distinct from the country’s indigenous past, even as it rested on a celebrated, extinct version of that past. As Larson shows, contrary to widespread belief, elements of Argentina’s native American past were reshaped and integrated into the construction of Argentine national identity as white and European at the turn of the century. Our Indigenous Ancestors provides a unique look at the folklore movement, nation building, science, institutional change, and the divide between elite, scientific, and popular culture in Argentina and the Americas at a time of rapid, sweeping changes in Latin American culture and society.

Book Exploring Culture and Heritage Through Experience Tourism

Download or read book Exploring Culture and Heritage Through Experience Tourism written by Rawal, Yashwant Singh and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of disasters and crises on culture, heritage, and religious tourism, have been realized in recent years, creating a need for solutions to heal and prevent future damage to these aspects of tourist regions. There is a need for strategies in mitigating these challenges and preserving cultural sites for the future. An emphasis on the importance of sustainability in cultural and heritage tourism, discussions on digitalization, stakeholder participation, and socio-economic livelihoods must be made to properly address this intricate issue. This book explores the development, marketing, and societal implications of cultural and heritage tourism enterprises, showcasing best practices and innovative business models. Exploring Culture and Heritage Through Experience Tourism is an academic research book that delves into the intricate relationship between tourism, culture, and heritage. It offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary exploration of this evolving field. Drawing on the latest research and international frameworks, this volume identifies new areas of culture and heritage tourism, understand its scope and challenges, and highlight its interlinkages with various sectors of the industry and the broader economy. Designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of travel and tourism management, this book serves as a valuable resource. It also meets the needs of universities with cultural and heritage tourism in their curricula, and offers insights for industry leaders, policymakers, and researchers interested in multidisciplinary studies.

Book Diaspora in the MENA Region and Beyond

Download or read book Diaspora in the MENA Region and Beyond written by Aditya Anshu and published by UJ Press. This book was released on 2024-07-18 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diaspora in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and Beyond is very relevant for emerging multidisciplinary Diaspora studies. The region itself has settled or long-term international migrants; Diasporas from neighbouring regions to Diasporas from distant places; Diasporas with the same ethnic/religious/cultural identity as that of natives, to Diasporas having a distinct and divergent ethnic/linguistic identity. The number of these Diasporic communities and their role in economic development is substantial. Their concerns and contributions require academic and research output to understand them and their potential to serve the domestic and foreign objectives of the host countries as well as those of world community.

Book Japanese Yen

Download or read book Japanese Yen written by Fouad Sabry and published by One Billion Knowledgeable. This book was released on 2024-01-26 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is Japanese Yen The yen is the currency that is permitted to be used in Japan. On the foreign exchange market, it is the third most traded currency, following the United States dollar (US$) and the euro among the currencies that are exchanged. A third reserve currency, after the United States dollar and the euro, it is also frequently utilized as a reserve currency. How you will benefit (I) Insights, and validations about the following topics: Chapter 1: Japanese yen Chapter 2: Canadian dollar Chapter 3: Philippine peso Chapter 4: Korean won Chapter 5: Hong Kong dollar Chapter 6: New Taiwan dollar Chapter 7: Indian rupee Chapter 8: Australian pound Chapter 9: Yuan (currency) Chapter 10: History of the rupee Chapter 11: Japanese mon (currency) Chapter 12: 10 yen coin Chapter 13: Japanese currency Chapter 14: Korean currency Chapter 15: 1 yen note Chapter 16: 1 yen coin Chapter 17: 50 sen coin Chapter 18: 20 sen coin Chapter 19: 20 yen coin Chapter 20: 20 sen note Chapter 21: 50 sen note (II) Answering the public top questions about japanese yen. (III) Real world examples for the usage of japanese yen in many fields. Who this book is for Professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, enthusiasts, hobbyists, and those who want to go beyond basic knowledge or information for any kind of Japanese Yen.

Book 6th Edition of International Students Conference   Research in Architecture

Download or read book 6th Edition of International Students Conference Research in Architecture written by Dr. Nilesh Pore and published by Allied Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has offered a unique platform for a constructive dialogue with the students and experts in the field of Architecture. Also, providing an opportunity to participate in an offline as well as online mode. The conference has prioritized on broadening the students’ knowledge and contribution towards the profession. Research fosters critical thinking and analytical skills and helps in defining academic, career and personal interests. Through the 5th National Students Conference on Research in Architecture our purpose to promote innovative, diverse, and scholarly exchange of ideas has been met. The conference has aimed to deliver the most recent relevant research, best practices, and critical information to support higher education professionals and experts. It has provided a professional platform to refresh and enrich the knowledge base and explore the latest innovations. It also provides a platform to the students of architecture to present their research to academicians and professionals as well as receive valuable feedback from them.

Book Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post Apartheid South Africa

Download or read book Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post Apartheid South Africa written by Duane Jethro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the postapartheid period. The book also highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds.Jethro uses five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state-sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how smell memories of apartheid-era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularized during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimize its unofficial African and South African heritage status.This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in sync with the broader material turn in the humanities.

Book A Cry of Mabaan Son

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  • Author : James Daniel
  • Publisher : Pencil
  • Release : 2024-02-21
  • ISBN : 9358839279
  • Pages : 161 pages

Download or read book A Cry of Mabaan Son written by James Daniel and published by Pencil. This book was released on 2024-02-21 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cry of Mabaan Son" is a poignant and powerful narrative that unfolds across three countriesSouth Sudan, Ethiopia, and Norway. At its core is the emotional journey of a young boy born in Maban County, Dangaji, South Sudan, who, due to the persistent challenges faced by his community in Bunj, Maban, finds himself seeking refuge in Ethiopia before eventually settling in Norway. The narrative is a heart-wrenching exploration of the turmoil faced by the Mabaan community, torn apart by internal conflicts and external pressures. The young boy's cry echoes from the lands of his birth to foreign shores, a lament for the peace of mind that seems elusive for his people.

Book A Very Short  Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross Cultural Management

Download or read book A Very Short Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap Book About Cross Cultural Management written by Jasmin Mahadevan and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Cross-Cultural Management, the author takes a critical, power-sensitive and culturally-aware perspective that moves beyond the paradigms debate, placing greater emphasis on the holistic nature of culture and its managerial consequences and taking into account the diversity and multiple identities apparent in cross-cultural management. Conceived by Chris Grey as an antidote to conventional textbooks, each book in the ‘Very Short, Fairly Interesting and Reasonably Cheap’ series takes a core area of the curriculum and turns it on its head by providing a critical and sophisticated overview of the key issues and debates in an informal, conversational and often humorous way. Suitable for students of cross-cultural management, human resource management or workplace diversity and professionals working in organizations and intercultural training.