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Besides the well-known "sunken cultural heritage" -- ie, the lower class's tendency to adopt the higher class's culture, considered to be an invariable -- there are also instances of "rising cultural heritage." Giving examples from Viennese Court minstrelsy during the reign of Frederick the Bellicose (d. 1246), the masochistic enjoyment of Neidhart's audience in being inferior to the uncouth peasants who took the women away from their courtly suitors is noted. The inclination of the courtly audience to identify with peasants & shepherds is further demonstrated by the development of the pastoral theme in minstrelsy (the "Tannhauser"), plays ("Le Jeu de Robin et de Marion" [The Game of Robin and Marion]), & the figure of the "Wild Men," who, according to some traditions, lived in a state of blissful innocence symbolized by their nudity & pelt-like hair. The fourteenth century saw a well-documented search for alternative ways of life. However, this phenomenon was not due to a cultural pessimism comparable to that of late antiquity, but rather to a new evaluation of nature, as can be observed in the philosophy of the school of Chartre, especially in Bernard Silvestris. AA

America's Culture of Professionalism proves an emerging culture of interdependence is possible if and when enough professionals and laypersons refashion their roles and relationships having both something to contribute and something to learn from each other.

English In the development of indigenous social work knowledge in China, the power relationship between teacher and student can act as a barrier to the development of scientific knowledge and practice research. Social work education and practice research in Chinese societies should focus on the empowerment of social work students, methodological pluralism and the development of a culturally specific practice research model. French Dans le développement des connaissances en travail social indigène en Chine, le rapport de pouvoir entre professeur et étudiant peut agir en tant que barrière au développement de la connaissance scientifique et de la recherche en matière de la pratique. La formation et la recherche en travail social dans les sociétés chinoises devraient se concentrer sur l'empowerment des étudiants, la pluralité des méthodologies et le développement d'un modèle de recherche en matière de la pratique qui sera spécifique à la culture chinoise. Spanish En el desarrollo del saber indígena del trabajo social en la China, la relación de poder entre profesor y estudiante puede actuar como impedimento al desarrollo de la ciencia y de la práctica. La educación de trabajadores sociales y la práctica de investigación en las sociedades chinas deben ceñirse a conferir poder a los estudiantes, a promover el pluralismo metodológico, y a desarrollar un modelo de investigación culturalmente específico.

Abstract: This paper examines the implications of the categorical separation between Nature, Culture and History that is common in Western museums. It focuses on the Royal British Columbia Museum's (RBCM) configuration of galleries, which separates, first, the human from the natural world, and, second, First Peoples from modern history. With the basic structure of its galleries remaining largely unchanged since the 1970s, but with significant alterations and additions, the RBCM is a palimpsest whose layers can be read in relation to the changing sociopolitical contexts and hegemonic ideals through which British Columbia has been imagined and represented. Its division of Nature, Culture and History represents a perspective entangled with European colonialism and thus reproduces colonial relations of authority, regardless of the intentions of those working within the institution. At the same time, it offers opportunities for contesting colonial legacies and rethinking what these categories might mean.

PurposeThis study aims to empirically investigate the role of organizational culture and climate in supporting intellectual capital (IC) management systems. Specifically, it seeks to investigate the relationship between organizational characteristics (culture and climate) and IC management systems in the Middle East (Iran and Lebanon) and Canada.Design/methodology/approachData were gathered via a survey instrument and statistical analysis was used to test for significance between dependent and independent variables. Then a two‐stage hierarchical multiple regression was used to test for the nature and effects of country of origin as a moderating variable.FindingsThe findings suggest that both culture and climate play significant roles in developing management systems for IC. In addition, for country, when organizational climate improves, Middle Eastern respondents perceived an even greater improvement in IC management systems compared to their Canadian counterparts.Originality/valueThere is limited research that has been undertaken to compare developed and developing countries with regard to the influence of organizational characteristics on IC management systems. This research is timely given the recent publication of the Arab Human Development Report and the Arab Knowledge Report. This study provides insight into the ability of organizations in the Middle East to develop a knowledge base and reduce the knowledge gap between the Arab world and countries currently classified as knowledge intensive.

The early modern period was of great significance throughout Europe with respect to its gradual transition from a largely oral to a fundamentally literate society. On the one hand, the spoken word remained of the utmost importance to the dissemination of ideas, the communication of information and the transmission of the cultural repertoire. On the other hand, the proliferation of written documents of all kinds, the development of printing and the spread of popular literacy combined to transform the nature of communication. Studies previous to this have traditionally focussed on individual countries or regions, and emphasised the contradictions between oral and literate culture. The essays in this fascinating collection depart from these approaches in several ways. By examining not only English, but also Scottish and Welsh oral culture, they provide the first pan-British study of the subject. The authors also emphasise the ways in which oral and literate culture continued to compliment and inform each other, rather than focusing exclusively on their incompatibility, or on the 'inevitable' triumph of the written word. The chronological focus, ranging from the sixteenth to the mid-nineteenth century, with glances ahead to the twentieth, set the problem against a longer chronological span than most other studies, providing a link between early modern and modern oral and literate cultures. This book it will be of interest to students and scholars of British history, Linguistics, Literary Studies and Folklore Studies.

If deficits, nor defaults, don't really matter anymore, what sign of our times is it? What has changed from the days that Franklin Delano Roosevelt risked the fragile economic recovery from the great depression by returning, in 1937, to the standard of his economic orthodoxy, a belief in fiscal rectitude and anaversion to debts and deficits? If that was a sign of a certain American character, what has happened to it? A massive shift in public culture must have occurred, affecting people's views on public probity and political rectitude. The following is an attempt to trace some of the main shifts on the way to our present quandary.

The contemporary fields of the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences are unfolding in a dynamic constellation of cultural turns. This book provides a comprehensive overview of these theoretically and methodologically groundbreaking reorientations. It discusses the value of the new focuses and their analytical categories for the work of a wide range of disciplines. In addition to chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns, it discusses emerging directions of research. Drawing on a wealth of international research, this book maps central topics and approaches in the study of culture and thus provides systematic impetus for changed disciplinary and transdisciplinary research in the humanities and beyond – e.g., in the fields of sociology, economics and the study of religion.This work is the English translation by Adam Blauhut of an influential German book that has now been completely revised. It is a stimulating example of a cross-cultural translation between different theoretical cultures and also the first critical synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Meaning, life and culture: The Natural Semantic Metalanguage approach -- 1. Prototypes, polysemy and constructional semantics: The lexicogrammar of the English verb climb -- 2. The comparative semantics of verbs of 'opening': West Africa vs Oceania -- 3. Gezellig: A Dutch cultural keyword unpacked -- 4. Royal semantics: Linguacultural reflections on the Danish address pronoun De -- 5. The Singlish interjection bojio -- 6. The semantics of bushfire in Australian English -- 7. The semantics of migrant in Australian English -- 8. The semantics of verbs of visual aesthetic appreciation in Russian -- 9. Christian values embedded in the Italian language: A semantic analysis of carità -- 10. The semantics of two loanwords in Navarrese Spanish -- 11. Time in Portuguese saudade and other words of longing -- 12. Lost in translation: A semantic analysis of no da in Japanese -- Part II: Meaning, life and culture: Perspectives -- 13. Locating 'mind' (and 'soul') cross-culturally -- 14. Teknocentric kin terms in Australian languages -- 15. Showing and not telling in a sign language -- 16. Games that people play: Capitalism as a game -- 17. Our ordinary lives: Pathways to a more human-oriented linguistics -- 18. On defining parts of speech with Generative Grammar and NSM -- 19. Cut-verbs of the Oceanic language Teop: A critical study of collecting and analysing data in a language documentation project -- 20. The depiction of sensing events in English and Kalam -- 21. Russian language-specific words in the light of parallel corpora -- 22. 'Sense of privacy' and 'sense of elbow': English vs Russian values and communicative styles -- 23. On the semantics of cup -- 24. Where we part from NSM: Understanding Warlpiri yangka and the Warlpiri expression of part-hood -- Envoi.

The closely interrelated essays in this volume address the question of the internal dynamism of the high culture of modernity in its paradoxical constitution as the complementary unity of strict opposites: the sciences (philosophy included) and the arts. Special attention is paid to the internal strains of these two great fields in our contemporaneity. It discusses on the one hand the role of experts and, on the other, that of the market in both of these areas . It also deals with the hermeneutical relationship between author - work - recipient and its historical transformations. Although essays deal with the complex philosophical issues, these are discussed in a clear way, approcheable for a person with a broad philosophical interest. They are, however, addressed primarily to philosophers, social scientists, culturologists and aestheticians.

The role of media projects in the modern world is growing. Today they are used in various spheres of activity of subjects of sociocultural communication. Theaters and museums, striving to remain a living part of society, are increasingly using media projects, providing their visitors with the opportunity to interact with the cultural achievements of the present and past.The article considers media projects as a promising communication technology in the development of cultural institutions. The article describes the transformation of the museum and theatrical space organization, the trend towards the growth of interactivity as a form of open dialogue between the visitor and the cultural institution. The author defines the concept of "media project in the field of art". Museums and theaters today are participants in the process of mediatization, they actively use digital communication technologies and new models of communication with the audience. There are considered examples of successful media projects using virtual and augmented reality technologies in Russian museums and theaters over the past few years, including in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The article focuses on the connection of cultural institutions with new media — both of them disseminate information content, seek to gain and retain the attention of the audience. There are described examples of new media that have a successful experience in the implementation of educational projects. The article also discusses culture-oriented media projects in the field of education, which contributes to the formation and strengthening of the cultural competence of a modern specialist in any field.There are formulated the problems that a cultural institution may face at the stages of planning and implementing a media project. The author comes to the conclusion that media projects help to attract a wide audience to a cultural institution and retain the interest of its regular visitors; and interactivity, gamification and high-quality design will bring media projects in the field of art to a qualitatively new level.