Search results for " Folklore"
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The commercial activity of tourism companies. Perception of tourism students
2019
El presente trabajo pretende analizar la opinión que los estudiantes universitarios de Turismo tienen respecto a desarrollar su futuro laboral en el área comercial de empresas turísticas, la que más oferta de puestos de trabajo genera en España. En concreto, se pretende conocer cuál es su percepción sobre este tipo de trabajo, tanto desde un punto de vista personal como profesional. Para alcanzar estos objetivos, se ha encuestado a 348 estudiantes de diferentes cursos, de grado y posgrado, que han sido clasificados en función de su interés por trabajar como vendedores en el sector turístico. Los resultados muestran que, en general, la valoración de una futura actividad de tipo comercial es …
Anti-schoolness in context: the tension between the youth project and the qualifications project
2011
Published version of an article in the journal Social Psychology of Education. Also available from the publisher at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11218-011-9153-3 In this ethnographic study conducted in two classrooms in Norway, grade nine (14-year-olds) in lower secondary school and the first year (16-year-olds) of upper secondary school, attention is drawn to how classroom culture is constituted through relationships between students. Through processes of power, dominance, hegemony and marginalisation, classroom culture forms the conditions for a learning environment, and has different opportunities, dilemmas and costs for the students. As classroom culture is negotiated in contextual and r…
Myth and Mind: The Origin of Human Consciousness in the Discovery of the Sacred
2010
By accepting that the formal structure of human language is the key to understanding the uniquity of human culture and consciousness and by further accepting the late appearance of such language amongst the Cro-Magnon, I am free to focus on the causes that led to such an unprecedented threshold crossing. In the complex of causes that led to human being, I look to scholarship in linguistics, mythology, anthropology, paleontology, and to creation myths themselves for an answer. I conclude that prehumans underwent an existential crisis, i.e., the realisation of certain mortality, that could be borne only by the discovery-creation of the larger realm of symbolic consciousness once experienced a…
Culture del tatuaggio
2018
La pratica contemporanea del tatuaggio conosce una diffusione planetaria. Ma la scrittura sul corpo da anti-linguaggio marginale è diventata moda globalizzata. Diverse scienze umane si sono occupate del fenomeno, in particolare l’antropologia criminale a quella culturale, nei loro intrecci con la sociologia, il folklore, la teoria delle immagini, la storia letteraria e gli studi culturali e, not least, la semiotica, teoria del segno e del senso. La questione dell’identità individuale e collettiva dei processi di costruzione, trasformazione e denegazione del segno che dal somatico tracima nel sociale (e viceversa), peraltro, coincide solo parzialmente con quella relativa alla scrittura del c…
Villafranca sicula. La Madonna del Mirto e le Rigattiate. Un culto secolare fra tradizione e innovazione
2012
Viene documentata la secolare Festa della Madonna del Mirto a Villafranca Sicula, con la particolare usanza delle "rigattiate", attraverso fonti folkloriche, numerose testimonianze ed interviste.
Ornamenti un Simetrijas: Ornamentālo Rakstu Zīmju Valoda (intervija ar Modri Tenisonu)
2010
Ornaments and Symmetry: Language of Signs of Ornamental Tracery (see interview with Modris Tenisons http://www.blip.tv/file/3173653) In his first interview Modris Tenisons explains language of ornamentalistic signs for national ornamental belts using his discovered law of sieve displacement, which gives base duality element in ornamentalistic signs, and routine how to generate 240 elements of signs from 10 “seeds of chaos” sufficient to produce all ornametal belts of first order. He tells also about his discoverd 16 sign alphabet, that does the same. Pirmajā mutvārdu liecinājumā Modris Tenisons stāsta par ornamentālo rakstu zīmju veidošanās likumsakarībām sakrustojot divu krāsu diegus audum…
Ape in India
2021
The honey bee is mentioned in some ancient Indian religious texts as a symbol of the sacrificial act; it also appears in some myths throughout Indian religious history with meanings partly related to representations of the divine feminine.
Those Are Lasers That Were Their Eyes
2019
In a Cultural Studies perspective, this essay proposes an intertextual reading of sea-change and representations of the Moor in literature, folklore, visual and decorative arts, and fashion theory studies, as interpreted by William Shakespeare, the artist duo Invernomuto, and fashion designers Dolce & Gabbana.