2015

Mary TheisPages 129-143DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512110 ABSTRACT Given the increasing complexity of living in a global village, countries and regions that are parts of larger political entities frequently have considered the option of separating or seceding an ideal solution to their problems with a larger center of power. Isolation, a form of “freedom from,” has the potential […]

Maximiliano KorstanjePages 145-157DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512111 ABSTRACT In the hyper-mobile world of today, the industry of tourism and cultural entertainment, witnesses the multiplication of opportunities to travel. According to John Urry, we inhabit mobile cultures where being kind to strangers is a positive cultural value. This reality archives the bloody past of hospitality, which from the ideological

Liudmila Baeva, Anna RomanovaPages 159-172DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512112 ABSTRACT This contribution is devoted to frontier theory, the analysis of its conceptual apparatus as well as its topical issues and practical application. We propose a revision of this theory, and confront the usefulness of the term “frontier” with other the similar concepts such as border, boundary and limit.

Soon-ok Myong, Byong-soon ChunPages 173-186DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512113 ABSTRACT This paper intends to highlight how the Kazakhs, the indigenous ethnic group that emerged as the leading subject of society in Kazakhstan after independence from the former Soviet Union, reclassify and remodel their self-culture in the new socio-political context. Despite the craving for resuscitating the Islamic tradition, shrunk

Nurlykhan Aljanova, Karlygash BorbassovaPages 187-196DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512114 ABSTRACT This paper considers Kazakh traditional culture in terms of its etiquette rules. Four main blocks are explored: the etiquette of greeting and farewell, hospitality, family etiquette, and blessings, all of which are mandatory in everyday situations. This study acquires importance in relation to the complicated processes of interethnic

Huiyong WuPages 211-220DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512116 ABSTRACT This paper explores the role of Confucian education in the perception and representation of the image of the Japanese soldiers in Chinese cultural products. The paper recognizes that perceptions have been greatly affected by governmental demands as well as by other changing aspects that have evolved alongside societal changes, and

Simon C. EstokPages 221-232DOI: 10.5840/cultura201512117 ABSTRACT This paper argues that food security is a very important topic in cosmopolitanism, one that has simply not received the kind of attention that it should receive. The paper reveals how global food monopolies destroy possibilities for national self-sufficiency, raises questions about neo-nationalism in an age of terror, and