The global COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected Fiji, hitting at backbone economic sectors, such as international tourism and export fisheries. It has also brought to the fore the need to embark ...on a more sustainable model of development.
This study explores the centrality of the senses for the maintenance or disruption of people’s commonsensical familiarity with the world. Drawing from in-depth interviews with people affected by ...depersonalization/derealization, which the American Psychiatric Association defines as a dissociative condition in which people perceive the world as dream-like, I conceptualize what I term somatic defamiliarization. I define somatic defamiliarization as a process whereby people experience previously unquestioned sensory phenomena, such as mundane objects or their bodies, as unfamiliar. Building on Berger and Luckmann’s work, I contend that somatic defamiliarization is a perpetual, albeit latent, condition of social life that threatens reality maintenance. I discuss how the concept of somatic defamiliarization can be applied to explore the somatic qualities of experiential ruptures that people may undergo in various circumstances, such as immigration or war.
An obscured vanguard in hip hop Filipino Americans
have been innovators and collaborators in hip hop since the
culture's early days. But despite the success of artists like
Apl.de.Ap of the Black ...Eyed Peas and superstar producer Chad Hugo,
the genre's significance in Filipino American communities is often
overlooked. Mark R. Villegas considers sprawling coast-to-coast hip
hop networks to reveal how Filipino Americans have used music,
dance, and visual art to create their worlds. Filipino Americans
have been exploring their racial position in the world in embracing
hip hop's connections to memories of colonial and racial violence.
Villegas scrutinizes practitioners' language of defiance, placing
the cultural grammar of hip hop within a larger legacy of
decolonization.
An important investigation of hip hop as a movement of racial
consciousness, Manifest Technique shows how the genre has
inspired Filipino Americans to envision and enact new ideas of
their bodies, their history, and their dignity.
Africa Every Day Balogun, Oluwakemi M; Gilman, Lisa; Graboyes, Melissa ...
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Africa Every Day presents an exuberant, thoughtful, and
necessary counterpoint to the prevailing emphasis in introductory
African studies classes on war, poverty, corruption, disease, and
human ...rights violations on the continent. These challenges are real
and deserve sustained attention, but this volume shows that adverse
conditions do not prevent people from making music, falling in
love, playing sports, participating in festivals, writing blogs,
telling jokes, making videos, playing games, eating delicious food,
and finding pleasure in their daily lives.
Across seven sections-Celebrations and Rites of Passage;
Socializing and Friendship; Love, Sex, and Marriage; Sports and
Recreation; Performance, Language, and Creativity; Technology and
Media; and Labor and Livelihoods-the accessible, multidisciplinary
essays in Africa Every Day address these creative and
dynamic elements of daily life, without romanticizing them.
Ultimately, the book shows that forms of leisure and popular
culture in Africa are best discussed in terms of indigenization,
adaptation, and appropriation rather than the static binary of
European/foreign/global and African. Most of all, it invites
readers to reflect on the crucial similarities, rather than the
differences, between their lives and those of their African
counterparts.
Contributors: Hadeer Aboelnagah, Issahaku Adam,
Joseph Osuolale Ayodokun, Victoria Abiola Ayodokun, Omotoyosi
Babalola, Martha Bannikov, Mokaya Bosire, Emily Callaci, Deborah
Durham, Birgit Englert, Laura Fair, John Fenn, Lara Rosenoff
Gauvin, Michael Gennaro, Lisa Gilman, Charlotte Grabli, Joshua
Grace, Dorothy L. Hodgson, Akwasi Kumi-Kyereme, Prince F. M. Lamba,
Cheikh Tidiane Lo, Bill McCoy, Nginjai Paul Moreto,
Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué, James Nindi, Erin Nourse, Eric
Debrah Otchere, Alex Perullo, Daniel Jordan Smith, Maya Smith,
Steven Van Wolputte, and Scott M. Youngstedt.
Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits—the "Inner Winds" of Malay ...medical lore—in a kind of performance. These healing ceremonies, formerly viewed by Western anthropologists as exotic curiosities, actually reveal complex multicultural origins and a unique indigenous medical tradition whose psychological content is remarkably relevant to contemporary Western concerns.
Accepted as apprentice to a Malay shaman, Carol Laderman learned and recorded every aspect of the healing seance and found it comparable in many ways to the traditional dramas of Southeast Asia and of other cultures such as ancient Greece, Japan, and India. The Malay seance is a total performance, complete with audience, stage, props, plot, music, and dance. The players include the patient along with the shaman and his troupe. At the center of the drama are pivotal relationships—among people, between humans and spirits, and within the self. The best of the Malay shamans are superb poets, dramatists, and performers as well as effective healers of body and soul.
Issues of measure and measurement, and their relation to value and values, are of concern in several major threads in contemporary social theory and social research. In this article, the notion of ...‘measure–value environments’ is introduced as a theoretical lens through which the life of measures can be better understood. A number of points are made which represent both a continuation and a slight change in emphasis vis-à-vis the existing scholarship. First, it is argued that the relation between measure and value is necessarily circular – better, entangled. Second, a conceptualization of measures as territorializing devices is advanced. Third, importance is given to the fact that measures are not simply tools in our hands, they are also environments in which we live. Fourth, attention is drawn to the fact that the unit (n = 1) is not just a quantitative happening among others, but is qualitatively distinct.
Mental health problems among older people are large public health concerns but often go unrecognized and undertreated. During COVID - 19 several restrictions regarding social contacts were launched, ...primarily for the old. The objective of this study is to investigate which factors that had the main negative affect on mental health in the older population during the pandemic.
A cross-sectional cohort study set in Swedish primary care during the pandemic years 2021-2022. The population constitutes of 70-80-years-old, N = 260. Instruments used are Geriatric depression scale 20 (GDS20); Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADS), and Perceived stress scale 10 (PSS10). Sociodemography and risk factors are explored. Outcome measures are factors independently associated with decreased mental health. Analyses were performed for the group as a whole and with logistic regression models comparing individuals who stated they were mentally affected by the pandemic to individuals who stated they were not.
Participants who stated they were mentally affected by the COVID - 19 pandemic reported significantly higher levels of anxiety (p < 0.001), depression (p < 0.001), and stress (p = 0.026) compared to those who stated they were not mentally affected. Explanatory regression models of up to 50% showed that following factors were prominent among individuals who reported a decline in their mental health due to the COVID - 19 pandemic (n = 24); impaired social life (OR 20.29, p < 0.001, CI 4.53-90.81), change in physical activity (OR 5.28, p = 0.01, CI 1.49-18.72), perceived family situation (OR 31.90, p = 0,007, CI 2,53-402.42), mild/moderate and high anxiety (OR 4.94, p = 0.034, CI 1.13-21.60, OR 7.96, p = 0.035, CI 1.16-54.53 respectively), and female gender (OR 6.52, p = 0.029, CI 1.22-34.92).
Anxiety, family situation, social life and change in physical activity were the main factors influencing the 70-80-years-old's self-perceived mental health during the COVID - 19 pandemic. Long-term effects of social restrictions on mental health in the older population need to be further investigated.
Dedicated fans of Jane Austen's novels will delight in
accompanying historian Jeremy Black through the drawing rooms,
chapels, and battlefields of the time in which Austen lived and
wrote. In this ...exceedingly readable and sweeping scan of late 18th-
and early 19th-century Britain, Black provides a historical context
for a deeper appreciation of classic novels such as Pride and
Prejudice , Emma , and Sense and Sensibility .
While Austen's novels bring to life complex characters living in
intimate surroundings, England in the Age of Austen
provides a fuller account of what the village, the church, and the
family home would really have been like. In addition to seeing how
Austen's own reading helped her craft complex characters like Emma,
Black also explores how recurring figures in the novels, such as
George III or Fanny Burney, provide a focus for a historical
discussion of the fiction in which they appear. Jane Austen's world
was the source of her works and the basis of her readership, and
understanding that world gives fans new insights into the
multifaceted narratives she created.
Like every major culture, Chinese has its set of keywords:
pivotal terms of political, ethical, literary and philosophical
discourse. Tracing the origins, development, polysemy, and usages
of ...keywords is one of the best ways to chart cultural and
historical changes. This volume analyzes some of these keywords
from different disciplinary and temporal perspectives, offering a
new integrative study of their semantic richness, development
trajectory, and distinct usages in Chinese culture.
The authors of the volume explore different keywords and focus on
different periods and genres, ranging from philosophical and
historical texts of the Warring States period (453-221 BCE) to late
imperial (ca. 16th-18thcenturies CE)
literature and philosophy. They are guided by a similar set of
questions: What elevates a mere word to the status of
keyword? What sort of resonance and reverberations do we
expect a keyword to have? How much does the semantic range of a
keyword explain its significance? What kinds of arguments does it
generate? What are the stories told to illustrate its meanings?
What are political and intellectual implications of the keyword's
reevaluation? What does it mean to translate a keyword and map its
meaning against other languages?
Throughout Chinese history, new ideas and new approaches often
mean reinterpreting important words; rupture, continuities, and
inflection points are inseparable from the linguistic history of
specific terms. The premise of this book is that taking the long
view and encompassing different disciplines yield new insights and
unexpected connections. The authors, who come from the fields of
history, philosophy, and literature, explore keywords in different
genres and illuminate their multiple dimensions in various
contexts. Moreover, despite their different temporal focus, they
take into consideration the development of selected keywords from
the Warring States to the late imperial period, sometimes adding
excurses that extend to contemporary usage.
Frontier Figures is a tour-de-force exploration of how the American West, both as physical space and inspiration, animated American music. Examining the work of such composers as Aaron Copland, Roy ...Harris, Virgil Thomson, Charles Wakefield Cadman, and Arthur Farwell, Beth E. Levy addresses questions of regionalism, race, and representation as well as changing relationships to the natural world to highlight the intersections between classical music and the diverse worlds of Indians, pioneers, and cowboys. Levy draws from an array of genres to show how different brands of western Americana were absorbed into American culture by way of sheet music, radio, lecture recitals, the concert hall, and film. Frontier Figures is a comprehensive illumination of what the West meant and still means to composers living and writing long after the close of the frontier.
