Crossing Cultural Borders

Author : Lili Hernández
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527556720

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Crossing Cultural Boundaries by Lili Hernández Pdf

To cross boundaries, to go beyond borders: an evocative idea, but what are the implications and consequences of transgression? How are boundaries challenged, redefined and overcome within the intricacies of taboos, bodies and identities? Crossing Cultural Boundaries: Taboos, Bodies and Identities brings together a range of articles that address this theme using different frameworks of interpretation. As in the case of taboo, boundaries are often internalised and may function as regulators for a society. Their existence becomes visible the moment they are violated. The essays in this book explore voluntary and accidental encounters with boundaries not only from theoretical perspectives but also from the experience of those who are part of transitions on a regular basis in their everyday lives. The notion of otherness is central to the articles in this book. The definition and interpretation of cultural others become part and parcel of the process of negotiation of bodies and identities. While ‘the other’ is marked by outward bodily signs, spaces, taboos and cultural practices, the self is empowered by resisting submission to dominant modes and descriptions. Deconstructing boundaries becomes part of the project of redefining the self. This book will appeal to academics and researchers in communications, cultural studies, sociology, health sciences, anthropology, literature, and applied linguistics.

Author : Concha Delgado-Gaitan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850008859

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Author : Charles M. Butter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Art and biology
ISBN : 145152613X

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Crossing Cultural Borders Universals in Art and Their Biological Roots by Charles M. Butter Pdf

CROSSING CULTURAL BORDERS UNIVERSALS IN ART AND THEIR BIOLOGICAL ROOTS is a book written for art lovers. It describes how artists from prehistoric to modern times have exploited brain systems that evolved for survival to create art that viewers around the world admire today. This neuroesthetic approach to art offers new insights into several universal aspects of art and suggests new solutions to old puzzles, for example: Why is balance around the center pleasing? How do viewers recognize movement, emotional states and intentions in persons depicted in art? Why is 'variety in unity' (diversity of colors and forms organized in patterns) a universal principle in decorative art? How do artists use their visual memory and mental imagery in creating art? This book includes 52 works of art from cultures around the world and from prehistoric to modern times.

Author : Massimo Rospocher,Jeroen Salman,Hannu Salmi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110639896

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Crossing Borders, Crossing Cultures by Massimo Rospocher,Jeroen Salman,Hannu Salmi Pdf

This volume explores the challenges and possibilities of research into the European dimensions of popular print culture. Popular print culture has traditionally been studied with a national focus. Recent research has revealed, however, that popular print culture has many European dimensions and shared features. A group of specialists in the field has started to explore the possibilities and challenges of research on a wide, European scale. This volume contains the first overview and analysis of the different approaches, methodologies and sources that will stimulate and facilitate future comparative research. This volume first addresses the benefits of a media-driven approach, focussing on processes of content recycling, interactions between text and image, processes of production and consumption. A second perspective illuminates the distribution and markets for popular print, discussing audiences, prices and collections. A third dimension refers to the transnational dimensions of genres, stories, and narratives. A last perspective unravels the communicative strategies and dynamics behind European bestsellers. This book is a source of inspiration for everyone who is interested in research into transnational cultural exchange and in the fascinating history of popular print culture in Europe.

Author : C. Delgado-Gaitan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0850008867

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Crossing Cultural Borders by C. Delgado-Gaitan Pdf

Author : Concha Delgado-Gaitan,Henry Trueba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000777314

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Crossing Cultural Borders by Concha Delgado-Gaitan,Henry Trueba Pdf

Crossing Cultural Borders (1991) examines the day-to-day interaction of immigrant children with adults, siblings and peers in the home, school and community at large as these families demonstrate their skill in using their culture to survive in a new society. Children of Mexican and Central American immigrant families in Secoya crossed a national border, and continue to cross linguistic, social and cultural borders that separate the home, school and outside world.

Author : Reiko Maekawa,Darwin Stapleton,Roberta Wollons
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004435506

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Crossing Cultural Boundaries in East Asia and Beyond by Reiko Maekawa,Darwin Stapleton,Roberta Wollons Pdf

The studies in this volume reveal the personal complexities and ambiguities of crossing borders and boundaries, with a focus on modern East Asia. The authors transcend geography-bound border and migration studies by moving beyond the barriers of national borders.

Author : Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781135858438

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Crossing Cultural Borders Through the Actor's Work by Cláudia Tatinge Nascimento Pdf

This book redirects the intercultural debate by privileging the actor’s creative process. Original interviews illuminate how the intersection of technique, memory, and imagination manifests in actor training and intercultural performance. Ultimately, this study reassesses the meanings of intercultural embodiment onstage.

Author : Konrad Gunesch,Olena Lytovka,Aleksandra Tryniecka
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781527516830

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Crossing Borders in Gender and Culture by Konrad Gunesch,Olena Lytovka,Aleksandra Tryniecka Pdf

While gender issues are almost always multidimensional and complex, this book discusses them from a cultural angle and with a focus on crossing borders, to represent their concepts meaningfully and to illuminate their realities as sharply as possible. Its five parts detail specific aspects and issues within that focus, namely communication, literary representation, equality and violence, work and politics, and cross-cultural connections. This combination of a wide topical range with specific discussions of gender issues makes the volume’s insights worthwhile for a wide range of readers, from individuals and groups engaging with current gender challenges, to institutional and political decision-makers entrusted with improving gender relations on national or international levels, up to social, economic or educational institutions empowered to implement such solutions in everyday reality. Its “unity in diversity” contributes to gender and cultural studies by offering considerations and conclusions that are specific and generalizable, theoretically robust and empirically tested, professionally rational and poetically ravishing.

Author : Anne Golden,Lars Anders Kulbrandstad,Lawrence Jun Zhang
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781788928588

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Crossing Borders, Writing Texts, Being Evaluated by Anne Golden,Lars Anders Kulbrandstad,Lawrence Jun Zhang Pdf

This book provides critical perspectives on issues relating to writing norms and assessment, as well as writing proficiency development, and suggests that scholars need to both carefully examine testing regimes and develop research-informed perspectives on tests and testing practices. In this way schools, institutions of adult education and universities can better prepare learners with differing cultural experiences to meet the challenges. The book brings together empirical studies from diverse geographical contexts to address the crossing of literacy borders, with a focus on academic genres and practices. Most of the studies examine writing in countries where the norms and expectations are different, but some focus on writing in a new discourse community set in a new discipline. The chapters shed light on commonalities and differences between these two situations with respect to the expectations and evaluations facing the writers. They also consider the extent to which the norms that the writers bring with them from their educational backgrounds and own cultures are compromised in order to succeed in the new educational settings.

Author : Henry A. Giroux
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-11
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135928988

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Border Crossings by Henry A. Giroux Pdf

The concept of border and border crossing has important implications for how we theorize cultural politics, power, ideology, pedagogy and critical intellectual work. This completely revised and updated edition takes these areas and draws new connections between postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and critical pedagogy. Highly relevant to the times which we currently live, Giroux reflects on the limits and possibilities of border crossings in the twenty-first century and argues that in the post-9/11 world, borders have not been collapsing but vigorously rebuilt. The author identifies the most pressing issues facing critical educators at the turn of the century and discusses topics such as the struggle over the academic canon; the role of popular culture in the curriculum; and the cultural war the New Right has waged on schools. New sections deal with militarization in public spaces, empire building, and the cultural politics of neoliberalism. Those interested in cultural studies, critical race theory, education, sociology and speech communication will find this a valuable source of information.

Author : Richard Michelson
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781607348962

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The Language of Angels by Richard Michelson Pdf

2018 Sydney Taylor Book Award 2017 National Jewish Book Award In 1885, few Jews in Israel used the holy language of their ancestors, and Hebrew was in danger of being lost—until Ben Zion and his father got involved. Through the help of his father and a community of children, Ben modernized the ancient language, creating a lexicon of new, modern words to bring Hebrew back into common usage. Historically influenced dialogue, engaging characters, and colorful art offer a linguistic journey about how language develops and how one person's perseverance can make a real difference. Influenced by illuminated manuscripts, Karla Gudeon’s illustrations bring Ben Zion—and the rebirth of Hebrew—to life. A compelling emotional journey — Publisher's Weekly A lively introduction to the work of a Hebrew language scholar and lover—and his family — Kirkus Reviews A perfect resource for religious school collections and public library language shelves — Booklist Hebrew teachers and students in Jewish schools will welcome this gorgeous new picture book about how the language developed and the impact of one person's perseverance on an entire people — School Library Journal

Author : Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803222748

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Border Crossings by Kathleen Sue Fine-Dare Pdf

For anthropologists and social scientists working in North and South America, the past few decades have brought considerable change as issues such as repatriation, cultural jurisdiction, and revitalization movements have swept across the hemisphere. Today scholars are rethinking both how and why they study culture as they gain a new appreciation for the impact they have on the people they study. Key to this reassessment of the social sciences is a rethinking of the concept of borders: not only between cultures and nations but between disciplines such as archaeology and cultural anthropology, between past and present, and between anthropologists and indigenous peoples. "Border Crossings" is a collection of fourteen essays about the evolving focus and perspective of anthropologists and the anthropology of North and South America over the past two decades. For a growing number of researchers, the realities of working in the Americas have changed the distinctions between being a "Latin," "North," or "Native" Americanist as these researchers turn their interests and expertise simultaneously homeward and out across the globe.

Author : Giuseppina Marsico,Koji Komatsu,Antonio Iannaccone
Publisher : IAP
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781623963965

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Crossing Boundaries by Giuseppina Marsico,Koji Komatsu,Antonio Iannaccone Pdf

This book brings in the focus on the borders between different contexts that need to be crossed, in the process of education. Despite the considerable efforts of various groups of researchers all over the World, it does not seem that traditional educational psychology has succeeded in illuminating the complex issues involved in the schoolfamily relationship. From a methodological perspective, there is no satisfactory explanation of the connection between representations and actual practice in educational contexts. Crossing Boundaries is an invitation to cultural psychology of educational processes to overcome the limits of existing educational psychology. Eemphasizing social locomotion and the dynamic processes, the book try to capture the ambiguous richness of the transit from one context to another, of the symbolic perspective that accompanies the dialogue between family and school, of practices regulating the interstitial space between these different social systems. How family and school fill, occupy, circulate, avoid or strategically use this space in between? What discourses and practices saturate this Border Zone and/or cross from one side to the other? Crossing Boundaries gathers contributions with the clear aim of documenting and analysing what happens at points of contact between family culture and scholastic/educational culture from the perspective of everyday life. This book is in itself an attempt to cross the border between the "theorizing on the borders" (and how “the outside world” and “the others” are perceived from a certain point of view) and “the practices" that characterize the school-home interaction.

Author : Neriko Musha Doerr,Hannah Davis Taïeb
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333590

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The Romance of Crossing Borders by Neriko Musha Doerr,Hannah Davis Taïeb Pdf

What draws people to study abroad or volunteer in far-off communities? Often the answer is romance – the romance of landscapes, people, languages, the very sense of border-crossing – and longing for liberation, attraction to the unknown, yearning to make a difference. This volume explores the complicated and often fraught desires to study and volunteer abroad. In doing so, the book sheds light on how affect is managed by educators and mobilized by students and volunteers themselves, and how these structures of feeling relate to broader social and economic forces.