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Does Sense of Tourism Ritual Promote Tourists’ Protection Behavior of Destination Folk Culture?
The development of ethnic tourism has promoted the wider dissemination of folk culture. As tourists become key participants in interacting with folk culture, guiding them to consciously inherit and protect this culture has become an important issue. Rituals are a significant form of cultural presentation, characterized by profound anti-structuralism, spatiality, isolation, and symbolism. This study employs a questionnaire survey method to examine the impact of the sense of tourism ritual on tourists’ perception of folk cultural value, place attachment, and behavioral intention to protect folk culture. The results show that the sense of tourism ritual influences tourists’ willingness to protect folk culture through the identification of cultural value and place attachment. This research enhances the basic theoretical framework of the sense of tourism ritual, providing effective theoretical guidance for tourism providers and destination managers, meeting tourists' higher-level spiritual needs. Additionally, it offers suggestions on how to guide tourists to consciously protect folk culture in the context of folk cultural development.
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The beautiful music all around us : field recordings and the American experience
Highlights the stories behind thirteen field recordings captured between 1934 and 1942, focusing on the experiences of the people--ranging from students to prisoners--who contributed to the recordings.
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From Storeroom to Stage
Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.
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The Culture of Death Detection in Çukurova and Cyprus Folk Culture / Çukurova ve Kıbrıs Halk Kültüründe Ölümü Algılama
The notion of death is one of the themes which are handled in literature. Death is handled with the Sufi’s perception and according to Sufi’s ideas soul immortality and eternity are the infrastructure of the notion of death. What people do in the world in which people live in, we are responsible for them in future life. People believe that they will face their sins or good deeds in the future life. Meaning of death is not end of everything. Death is not dark and unbeknown. On the contrary, death is the second life for people. The real existence is soul and soul is immortal but body is mortal. In their poems which are related with death and grave, Minstrel advices that people should obey to Islamic rules. Meanwhile minstrels tell us life is temporary at the same time they tell people the way of eternal happiness. Minstrels’ religious knowledge is smattering. Although they are religious, they are bigoted. They discuss the god, prophets and clergymen in their poems. Death is not a terrible situation. Each living being will face the fact of death in minstrels’ poems. Religious information reflects minstrels’ tradition. According to Minstrels death is a faith and god has absolute dominance on the universe. People cannot do anything against the dominance of god. In Çukurova’s and Cyprus’s folk culture, there are a vast number of mistrials’ poems and laments which emphasize death and some effects of death. Moreover, traditions, believes, practises which are mentioned death and some effects of death shed light on people’s thoughts, reflections and behaviours.
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Critical craft : technology, globalization, and capitalism
\"From Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what defines and makes 'craft' in a wide variety of practices from around the world.Challenging the conventional understanding of craft as a survival, a revival, or something that resists capitalism, the book turns instead to the designers, DIY enthusiasts, traditional artisans, and technical programmers who consider their labor to be craft, in order to comprehend how they make sense of it. The authors' ethnographic studies focus on the individuals and communities who claim a practice as their own, bypassing the question of craft survival to ask how and why activities termed craft are mobilized and reproduced. Moving beyond regional studies of heritage artisanship, the authors suggest that ideas of craft are by definition part of a larger cosmopolitan dialogue of power and identity. By paying careful attention to these sometimes conflicting voices, this collection shows that there is great flexibility in terms of which activities are labelled 'craft'. In fact, there are many related ideas of craft and these shape distinct engagements with materials, people, and the economy. Case studies from countries including Mexico, Nigeria, India, Taiwan, the Philippines, and France draw together evidence based on linguistics, microsociology, and participant observation to explore the shifting terrain on which those engaged in craft are operating. What emerges is a fascinating picture which shows how claims about craft are an integral part of contemporary global change\"-- Provided by publisher.
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From Storeroom to Stage
Departing from an ethnographic collection in London, From Storeroom to Stage traces the journey of its artefacts back to the Romanian villages where they were made 70 years ago, and to other places where similar objects are still in use. The book explores the role that material culture plays in the production of value and meaning by examining how folk objects are mobilized in national ideologies, transmissions of personal and family memory, museological discourses, and artistic acts.
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Depression folk : grassroots music and left-wing politics in 1930s America
While music lovers and music historians alike understand that folk music played an increasingly pivotal role in American labor and politics during the economic and social tumult of the Great Depression, how did this relationship come to be? Ronald D. Cohen sheds new light on the complex cultural history of folk music in America, detailing the musicians, government agencies, and record companies that had a lasting impact during the 1930s and beyond. Covering myriad musical styles and performers, Cohen narrates a singular history that begins in nineteenth-century labor politics and popular music culture, following the rise of unions and Communism to the subsequent Red Scare and increasing power of the Conservative movement in American politics--with American folk and vernacular music centered throughout. Detailing the influence and achievements of such notable musicians as Pete Seeger, Big Bill Broonzy, and Woody Guthrie, Cohen explores the intersections of politics, economics, and race, using the roots of American folk music to explore one of the United States' most troubled times. Becoming entangled with the ascending American left wing, folk music became synonymous with protest and sharing the troubles of real people through song.
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Regional and communal identity in response to politics, Islamism, and Hindutva in North Malabar
This paper aims to address particular dimensions of regional and communal identity, concerning the peculiarities of spatial strategies and cultural locations as well as various inter- and intra-community political interactions. Identities of regions and communities are dynamic and evolving in relation to time and space. This paper is an attempt to address the complexities of the Hindu cultural nationalist Islamist politics. In this paper, the emphasis is on how the contemporary social life and politics of North Malabar appropriate and adopt cultural and political aspects of the past, in the creation of an identity in the present. The focus of this paper is more on latent political engagement and structural components of identity than the directly visible forms of articulations and assertions. Latent aspects of political engagements often associated with structural and cultural elements of regional and local societies directly relate to the ideological and political elements. In North Malabar, ethics of folk art and martial tradition are inseparable from various aspects of the latent political engagement. Elements of courage, heroism, martyrdom, altruism, sacrifice and resistance are integral elements in everyday cultural elements of the region. The daily aspect of political engagement and socialisation reinforce these values in terms of regional and community identity. In North Malabar, the ethics of folk culture, and martial art are not only appropriated in political engagement but also functional as crucial elements in various stages of political socialisation.
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