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Re-telling, Re-cognition, Re-stitution: Sikh Heritagization in Canada

Susan LT AshleyPages 39-58DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411214 ABSTRACT In Canada, the language and techniques of museums and heritage sites have been adopted and adapted by some immigrant communities to make sense of their place within their new country. For some groups, “heritagization” is a new value, mobilized for diverse purposes. New museums and heritage sites serve as […]

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Hedonistic Heritage: Digital Culture and Living Environment

Michel Rautenberg, Sarah RojonPages 59-81DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411215 ABSTRACT History is not anymore the prerogative of historians, nor is displaying heritage the exclusive privilege of museum curators. In the digital era, local interconnected amateurs commit themselves to the cultural circuit of heritage through the mediation of globalised images. In that circuit, heritage and social memory take a

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“Something Nice.” Pride Houses, Post-peasant Society and the Quest for Authenticity

Vintilă MihăilescuPages 83-107DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411216 ABSTRACT As already stated by Alfred Marshall in 1891, a house is “the most conven- ient and obvious way of advancing a material claim to social distinction.” The pre- sent paper is tracking the means and meanings of such “claims” in the case of the new households built all over the

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(Re-) Settled People and Moving Heritage – Borders, Heirs, Inheritance

Meglena ZlatkovaPages 109-130DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411217 ABSTRACT This paper discusses inheritance after migration on both sides of the Bulgarian-Turkish border. A specific approach to the (re-)settled people and moving objects, inheritance and patrimonialisation of the movement, instrumentalized by the (state) border, is applied in a comparative way to two specific groups: the Bulgarians from Aegean Thrace, or

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Re-scripting Colonial Heritage

Ema PiresPages 131-141DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411218 ABSTRACT This paper explores alternative meanings and appropriations of the category colonial heritage. How do different categories of people practice and appropriate spaces that have been labelled as colonial heritage? How are these formely colonial spaces (re-) appropriated, contested, commodifed, in contemporary societies? My interest here is strongly influenced by Ann

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Tourist Neoreadings of Heritage in Local and Transnational Contexts

Eloy Martos Núñez, Alberto Martos GarcíaPages 143-161DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411219 ABSTRACT Tourism is a worldwide phenomenon which is causing both a rereading and a rewriting of tradition. Heritage, apart from its academic (ethnographic, historiographical, etc.) or cultural (identity of peoples) consideration, is nowadays an important tourist resource. Thus, it is included within more global markets and it

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Keeping of Cultural Heritage in Emigration: Experience of Russia Abroad

Elena SerdyukovaPages 163-180DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411220 ABSTRACT The research reported in this paper examines the spiritual heritage of the Russian émigrés of the first half of the 20th century. The Russian émigrés is a unique phenomenon in the history of Russia. The October Socialist Revolution 1917, shock of creative intelligentsia at the events taking place in the

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Believers and Secularists: “Postmodernism,” Relativism, and Fake Reasoning

Thorsten Botz-BornsteinPages 183-198DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411221 ABSTRACT In spite of the long tradition of coexistence, and in spite of the emergence of some kind of “postmodern relativism,” the positions of believers and secularist remain very distinct. What is it more precisely that distinguishes secularists from believers? In this article I explore the topics of “postmodernism” and relativism

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Marcuse’s Legacy and Foucault’s Challenge: A Critical Inquiry into the Relationship between Comedic Pleasure and the Popular Media

Kyung Han You, Jiha KimPages 7-22DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141111 ABSTRACT The primary goal of this paper is to investigate the theoretical and methodological applicability of the relevant theories of Marcuse and Foucault to analyzing the relationship between comedic pleasure and the popular media. The researchers investigate the similarities of and the differences between the respective positions of

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The Economics of Being: The Struggle for Existence in Prehistory

Pedro Blas GonzálezPages 23-39DOI: 10.5840/cultura20141112 ABSTRACT This paper takes a phenomenological perspective regarding the difficulties encountered in daily life by man in prehistory. I argue that the economics of being necessarily establishes man as a being that must make choices. Of these, man must eventually arrive at the realization that higher, rather than lower choices

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