July 2012

Nadezhda NikolenkoPages 151-162DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129211 ABSTRACT Despite, or perhaps as a form of resistance to contemporary globalization tendencies, the Central Asia region has chosen a way of life that combines modern conditions with deeply ingrained ancient customs and traditions. The gap between the by-gone glorious nomadic past in the communities of the Great Steppe and the […]

Susi FerrarelloPages 163-174DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129212 ABSTRACT I am looking at a bird flying above my head and I barely see it; in the meantime I am talking to a friend of mine about my job. All these things: the bird, my friend, my job, even the ground beneath my feet, are outside of me. Yet, while

Dennis IoffePages 175-194DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129213 ABSTRACT This paper is focused on the major contributions of the two main schools of semiotic thought in Russia during the 20th century. It considers cultural mythologies of behaviour as the focal point of the Moscow-Tartu school and then proceeds to the pre-semiotic school of Russian thought, which dealt with the

Nicolito A. GiananPages 195-206DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129214 ABSTRACT The article aims to elucidate on the notion of philosophy of culture, particularly in non-Western societies. This is exemplified by the promotion of philosophy, with its advocates and approaches, in Filipino culture. In addition, it gives an account of a type of alienation that has had a profound influence

Diego BusiolPages 207-226DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129215 ABSTRACT Hong Kong is a peculiar case for the study of cultural practices. One of the most Westernized cities in Asia, Hong Kong is, to many people in China, one of the most ‘Chinese’ places in the country. Hong Kong’s no-place situation presents an interesting example of the tensions within and

I-Chun WangPages 227-236DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129216 ABSTRACT By discussing Bonduca (1611) a a Jacobean tragi-comedy in the Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher canon, generally judged by scholars to be the work of the second one alone, this paper looks into the tragic story of Queen Boadicea, as rewritten in fiction. The cultural and semiotic codes that Bonduca

Massimo LeonePages 237-258DOI: 10.5840/cultura20129217 ABSTRACT Tourism industry is increasingly stripping traveling of one of its most fundamental anthropological and existential values: its being a laboratory in which travelers can temporarily experience the disruption of their regime of sedentary belonging, protected by a plan of return. According to this perspective, non-touristy traveling is one of the