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Traditional Medical Popular Culture in Boir Ahmad, Iran
Explanatory Models, Philosophies and Behaviour
Erika Friedl
Analysis of my ethnographic data on medical popular culture in tribal south-west Iran, mostly from 1965 to 1983, suggests several traditional explanatory models and philosophical tenets that guide approaches to health issues. Empirical knowledge of natural processes motivates people to observe their bodily requirements. The belief in God's autocratic power is tempered with God's purported wish that people use their abilities to take responsibility for their health, complicating the notion of 'fate'. The various models provide health management choices. Traditionally, patients and healers shared these models, acting on the same cosmological assumptions.
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2007
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 24–37 (14 total)
‘… But Is It Literature?’
Graphic Adaptation in Germany in the Context of High and Popular Culture
Juliane Blank
perception of graphic adaptation in Germany are determined by a persistent division between high and popular culture: ‘a classist social system that equalled education with culture reinforced a perceived gap between elite “high” and mainstream “low” culture
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 74–93 (20 total)
Ira J. Allen
machine-learned strategies for yanking those strings. Strange, and almost equally important, is that popular culture representations of this harvesting of a version of you for use in shaping you and those probabilistically like you are nearly as difficult
Invoking the “Yolocaust”?
German Memory Politics, Cultural Criticism, and Contemporary Popular Arts
Ralph Buchenhorst
Present-day Western societies consider popular culture a crucial asset in promoting lifestyles, shaping politics, and producing economic wealth. With its easy-to-understand messages, it is a set of practices and beliefs destined to transgress the
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 92–111 (20 total)
Introduction
Comics and Adaptation
Armelle Blin-Rolland, Guillaume Lecomte, and Marc Ripley
transnational circulation of visual, narrative and generic motifs; heteronormalisation and phallogocentrism; authenticity of drawn events; identity in a stateless minoritised culture; ‘high’ and popular culture; reverence in comics adaptations of the literary
Political Comedy as Fuel for Populist Rhetoric?
Representations of Politicians and Institutions in the German TV Shows “Eichwald MdB” and “Ellerbeck”
Niko Switek
representatives in popular culture. 2 Yet in the age of populists challenging established democratic norms, portrayals of politics like this have an eerily familiar ring to them. Numerous manifestations of the populist wave in global politics (e.g., the
In German Politics and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2021
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 74–91 (18 total)
Ronald de Rooy
representation of Dante and his text, seeking inspiration more in the traditional representations of Dante than in popular culture, and refraining from all-too-vigorous or aggressive appropriations or modernisations. This reverent and text-driven attitude becomes
In European Comic Art
- Published (Print):
- 01 Mar 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 94–109 (16 total)
Canon-Building and Popular Culture
Gender Trouble in Bulgarian Culture Today
Nadezhda Alexandrova
Milena Kirova, Literaturniat kanon. Predizvikatelstva (The literary canon. Challenges) (Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2009), 287 pp., 15 BGN (hb), ISBN 978-954-07-2811-7.
Milena Kirova, ed., Neslucheniat kanon. Bulgarski pisatelki ot Vuzrazhdaneto do Vtorata svetovna voina (The canon that did not happen. Bulgarian women writers from the Bulgarian national revival period to World War II) (Sofia: Altera, 2009), 430 pp., 18 BGN (pb), ISBN 978-954-975-732-3.
Milena Kirova and Kornelia Slavova, eds., Identichnosti v prehod: rod, medii i populiarna kultura v Bulgaria sled 1989 g. (Gender identities in transition: Media and popular cul- ture in Bulgaria a er 1989) (Sofia: Polis Publishers, 2010), 256 pp., 12 BGN (pb), ISBN 978-954-796-032-9.
Batman Returns
Brazilian Conflicts and the Popular Culture of Sovereignty
Martijn Oosterbaan
This article explores the aesthetic elements of sovereignty. Building on the anthropological literature on sovereignty and on contemporary work on the politics of aesthetics, the article analyzes contemporary appearances of Batman symbols and figures in Rio de Janeiro. Despite political debate and academic discussion about the Batmen appearing in mafia-like militias and popular street protests in Rio, the question of what these appearances tell us about the relations between popular imagery and political contestation has remained untouched. This article supports the work of writers who argue that superhero comics and movies present fierce figures that operate in the zone of indistinction, at the crossroads of lawful order and its exception. However, it adds to this literature an analysis that shows in what kind of sociopolitical contexts these figures operate and how that plays itself out. To understand the contemporary appearances and force of figures of the entertainment industry better, this article proposes the concept “popular culture of sovereignty.”
In Conflict and Society
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
- Pages:
- 197–215 (19 total)