Search results for "taboo"

The taboo against group contact: Hypothesis of Gypsy ontologization

2007

The concept of this article is that the symbolic relationships between human beings and animals serve as a model for the relationships between the majority and the ethnic minority. We postulate that there are two representations that serve to organize these relationships between human beings and animals: a domestic and a wild one. If the domestic animal is an index of human culture, the wild animal is an index of nature which man considers himself to share with the animal. With the wild representation, contact with the animal will be taboo, as it constitutes a threat to the anthropological difference. We offer the hypothesis that ontologization of the minority, that is, the substitution of …

Children's rights and teachers' responsibilities : Reproducing or transforming the cultural taboo on child sexual abuse?

2019

Enhancing young learners’ knowledge about appropriate and inappropriate sexual behaviour is crucial for the protection of children’s rights. This article discusses teachers’ understandings of their practices and approaches to the topic of child sexual abuse in Norwegian upper secondary schools, based on phone interviews with 64 social science teachers. Countering child sexual abuse is a political priority for the Norwegian government, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child acknowledges several state initiatives to counter child sexual abuse through education. Nevertheless, this study finds that teachers do not address this topic adequately, indicating that cultural taboos regarding ta…

Understanding Deafhood: in search of its meanings.

2013

The authors argue that Deafhood (a term coined by Dr. Paddy Ladd) is an open-ended concept with an essentialist core. They describe how deaf people who have attended their Deafhood lectures and workshops have perceived different aspects of the Deafhood concept, and compare the basic tenets of Deafhood and criticisms on Deafhood to theories and criticisms on feminist essentialisms. The authors find that the vagueness and wideness of the Deafhood concept is one of its strengths, though they also find that it is in some respects problematic to combine and unite ontology and liberation theory in one concept. They further suggest that the ontological aspects of Deafhood need to be foregrounded. …

Tři pohledy do života Boženy Němcové (Miloš Urban, František Novotný, Lenka Lagronová)

2018

The paper employs Aby Warburg’s concept of Nachleben to analyse Božena Němcova’s figure. It concentrates on her images created after 1989 which constitute a sign of breaking the cultural taboo. In Urban’s action novel, she is demythologized in the intermezzi that are ostensibly unrelated to the actual plot. Novotný’s figuratively and literally “undresses” the writer, whereas Lagronová demonstrates the woman’s tragedy as a victim of other people’s desires.

La dimensione pubblica del discorso d'odio

2022

Il contributo mette in luce la dimensione pubblica del discorso d'odio. Questo, sul presupposto di una contrapposizione tra gruppo-noi e gruppo-target, esprime la colpevolizzazione del bersaglio in quanto appartenente al gruppo-target, e più in particolare in quanto autore di un crimine di indifferenziazione, consistente nel disconoscere la ripartizione dello spazio sociale secondo gerarchie di potere che vedono il gruppo-noi dominante e il gruppo-target reietto e soccombente.

Taboo on two wheels: the bicycle as a disruptive cultural object

2014

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The taboo against contact with minorities: A folk‐anthropology approach to prejudices

2021

Elder Abuse in Live-in Migrant Carer Arrangements

2021

This chapter focuses on an issue rarely addressed in research: abuse and protection against abuse in live-in migrant carer (LIMC) arrangements. Based on a secondary analysis of data collected in LIMC arrangements in Germany, potential risks of abuse and protective factors against abuse are identified. The chapter shows that questions about abuse and protection against abuse in these arrangements have to be analyzed in the context of complex, interrelated factors, structures and processes. There is no clear answer as to whether LIMC arrangements increase or decrease the risk of abuse and neglect of older dependent people. Aside from the existing taboo against abuse in home-based care in old …

Rituaalikuolema ja perhetragedia: Itsemurhan määrittely ja tabuluonteisuus kauhuelokuvassa Midsommar – loputon yö

2021

Elokuvissa ja erityisesti angloamerikkalaisissa elokuvissa kuvataan itsemurhaa usein. Niiden representaatiot heijastelevat kulttuurisia käsityksiä itsemurhasta, mutta myös itsenäisesti vaikuttavat käsitysten syntymiseen. Tässä artikkelissa tarkastelen Ari Asterin folk-kauhugenreä edustavaa elokuvaa Midsommar – loputon yö (2019). Elokuvassa sisarensa tekemää murha-itsemurhaa sureva Dani matkustaa Yhdysvalloista Ruotsiin fiktiiviseen Hårga-kommuuniin poikaystävänsä ja tämän ystävien kanssa. Hårgalainen juhannusrituaali paljastaa eroja amerikkalaisen ja hårgalaisen kulttuurin välillä muun muassa kuolemasuhteeseen, tunteiden ilmaisuun ja perheeseen liittyen.Keskityn artikkelissa yhtäältä itsemu…

La Transición, ¿un mito creado por y para la televisión

2015

This article deals with the representations of Spanish transition to democracy shown by television in Spain from 1995 to nowadays. Without claiming to be exhaustive, it analyses the recycling as well as the re-creating of scenes and figures which already belong to History although they are still present in collective memory. The analysis of a few fictional and informative programmes will enable us to sketch out a cartography of the representations of the transition on television. We will see how they get organized around TV formats and genres (series and mini-series, biopics and political thrillers), how they are related to other previous programmes or, on the contrary, how they attempt to …