Eating is an indispensable part of human life. Not only human beings but also other living creatures do this act of eating to sustain their lives. In human life, this act also has a cultural ...dimension. At some point, food becomes a basic need for the human taste buds and creates a culture around it. Also, the culture of the society is reflected in the food/drinks in question. Items belonging to food and culinary culture have always taken place on special occasions and transitional periods in human life. Items belonging to culinary culture are also included in literary products that take their subject from human beings. The representatives of minstrel literature, who created works within the circle of "Turkish Minstrel Art", also dealt with culinary culture, food, and beverages in their works. Poems on food, the first examples of which were observed in the 14th century, are also frequently encountered in the minstrels of the Republican era. In these works, which are mostly created as food epics, topics such as the origin, preparation, and taste of food are addressed and a humoristic style is often perceived. In this study, based on three poems of Minstrel Ali̇ Çatak From Develi titled Pastırma (Bacon), Mantı Destanı (Manti Saga), and Yemekler Geçidi (Food Parade) and by presenting some examples from other poems, the reflections of cuisine culture in minstrel literature are analyzed. In the meantime, the concepts of food, catering culture, and culinary culture have been emphasized and their effects and place on our cultural world have been discussed. Consequently, the role of minstrels as culture carriers was once again presented to the attention. The processing of the elements of culinary culture by minstrels constitutes a proper example of cultural transfer.
This article contextualizes the works of art presented during the penultimate edition of Permutations Festival in CKiS Wiea Cinie Gallery in June 2021, Poland. The tools used in the analysis are ...scientific narratives such as monographs and articles about cyberculture, technoculture and STS. It poses questions about how they are helpful in the interpretation of the art gathered at the exhibition, what kind of place they give to science fiction, what differs between them and what is shared in the context of technicized contemporary culture.
Celem niniejszego artykuu jest zaprezentowanie uycia motywu tczy na elementach otaczajcej nas rzeczywistoci materialnej, takich jak ubrania, akcesoria, meble, dekoracje, ale przede wszystkim w ...komunikacji marketingowej firm i marek. Analiza ta wyrasta z przekonania o roli rzeczy jako czynników ksztatujcych rzeczywisto spoeczn zgodnie z teori aktora-sieci Bruno Latoura. Wytwory materialne bdce nonikami motywu tczy nabieraj niekiedy waloru retorycznego, gdy tcza jako symbol staje si narzdziem przekonywania. Te wanie sytuacje, a szczególnie uycie tczy jako symbolu rodowisk LGBTQ+ w celu ksztatowania wizerunku marki, znane jako tczowy kapitalizm oraz tzw. rainbow washing zostan zbadane w artykule za pomoc narzdzi retoryki, a zwaszcza retoryki wizualnej. Perswazja nie odbywa si tu bowiem za pomoc kodu werbalnego, lecz gównie przez kod wizualny. Do wyjanienia tych zjawisk zostan wykorzystane narzdzia retoryki, takie jak koncepcja identyfikacji oraz dwa elementy z triady rodków perswazyjnych: ethos i pathos. Take rozrónienie perswazji i manipulacji okae si przydatne w analizie omawianego zjawiska.
Drawing on the long-term ethnographic research conducted in the addiction treatment center Via da Paz, the article discusses the relationship between the concept of sobriety and reality. Via da Paz ...is located in the Brazilian Amazon. The center combines the União do Vegetal religious rituals with psychotherapeutic methods mostly grounded in Twelve-Step approaches. During the 9-month therapy people undergoing treatment drink vegetal the psychoactive brew containing DMT. Though DMT is schedule 1-substance, classified within the UE Drug Conventions as a hallucinogenic drug, in Via da Paz practices related to consumption of vegetal play a central role in the recovery from addiction. Moreover, people undergoing therapy differentiate the state induced by the brew from intoxication with other psychoactive substances and experience it as sober. The aim of the article is to show that in certain social contexts, the path to sobriety (understood as a clear recognition of reality), may lead through the use of substances, that in other contexts are considered as distorting the perception of reality. As it is suggested this is related to the different ontological conceptualizations of the reality itself.
The Geometry of Culture Kozlowski, Austin C.; Taddy, Matt; Evans, James A.
American sociological review,
10/2019, Letnik:
84, Številka:
5
Journal Article
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We argue word embedding models are a useful tool for the study of culture using a historical analysis of shared understandings of social class as an empirical case. Word embeddings represent semantic ...relations between words as relationships between vectors in a highdimensional space, specifying a relational model of meaning consistent with contemporary theories of culture. Dimensions induced by word differences (rich–poor) in these spaces correspond to dimensions of cultural meaning, and the projection of words onto these dimensions reflects widely shared associations, which we validate with surveys. Analyzing text from millions of books published over 100 years, we show that the markers of class continuously shifted amidst the economic transformations of the twentieth century, yet the basic cultural dimensions of class remained remarkably stable. The notable exception is education, which became tightly linked to affluence independent of its association with cultivated taste.
The idea of cultural studies by Stanisław Pietraszko and the concept of “active culture” by Jerzy Grotowski were born at the same time. One can point to many similarities between them, despite the ...extreme difference in the languages in which they were formulated. Pietraszko’s theory is a classic concept of cognitive humanities, laying the foundations for thinking about culture as an autonomous sphere of reality requiring a specific field of science and a specific language dedicated to its study. Grotowski’s actions are an act of non-cognitive humanities, i.e. getting to know the world in non-conceptual categories of doing and experiencing. Despite this, and despite the lack of evidence of any direct contact or infl uence of both their creators on each other, there are visible similarities in their way of understanding culture: as “a way of living according to values”. Values are the central subject of consideration for Pietraszko, and activities for Grotowski. The explanation of this convergence, also referred to as Zeitgeist, can be sought in the rules of cultural creation. This is a process of internal change of the cultural order, and it manifests itself through the creativity of outstanding individuals.
Generation Y is currently one of the largest age cohort representatives performing military service worldwide and in the Lithuanian armed forces. Generation Y individuals are more individualistic ...compared to previous generations: generation X or-Baby Boomers. Meanwhile, military service requires greater involvement and dedication to collective goals from individuals, compared to civilian professions – it is a greedy, total, and more socially isolated profession (Soeters 2018, Soeters and et al. 2006). Research shows that Generation Y individuals leave the labor market more easily – they change jobs if they do not satisfy their expectations. The purpose of the article is to reveal the value features of social integration in the military service of generation Y individuals (officers and non-commissioned officers) serving in the Lithuanian armed forces. The study is exceptional because it reveals the value aspects of the social integration of generation Y soldiers – the implementation of which in the military service is a condition for social inclusion. The research is conducted using a semi-structured interview with 22 generation Y individuals who are actively performing military service in the Lithuanian armed forces or who have served previously but terminated their contracts prematurely. The article presents unique cultural aspects of the social integration of generation Y individuals into the armed forces, like the need for creativity and growth or alienating features like the imitation of work, stagnation, or suppression of innovations. That allows us to consider not only the current expectations of generation Y individuals in the military service but also to foresee the challenges awaiting Lithuanian armed forces in the future.
The interruption of Japan's foreign relations, which has lasted since the beginning of the 7th century, was interrupted by the signing of the treaty of Kanagawa and the seizure of power by the ...emperor Mutsuhito, who called his reign the Meiji period, or „Enlightened rule.” It was during this period that the foundations for modernization of today's sophisticated Japan were laid. Japan begins to open up to the world, but it retains its independence, combining tradition and modernism in all segments. The journey and the exchange of ideas that have inspired many literary works, not only by the French writer Pierre Loti, on whose work this paper is partially based, then artistic ideas and artefacts, aim to explore the author of this paper, which focuses on the presentation of elements of Japanese art and culture at the Exibition Universelle in Paris, 1867. The analytical-comparative method used in this paper shows the remarkable place of Japan in the cross-section that transported silk from the Mediterranean to East Asia, which has become a symbol of the connection between East and West and metaphors for various myths and legends from previous periods, and today the link between western and eastern cultural development models, whose proximity and distance are constantly changing, leaving a strong mark on all societies.
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