Volume 14, Issue 1, 2017

Antonetta L. BrunoPages 111-119DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.11 ABSTRACT This paper analyses the attitudes of different genders and age groups toward Italian food in Korea. By asking who consumes it, and with whom, how, when, and why, this paper examines the cross-cultural meaning of Italian food and how it is differently perceived by men and women of different […]

Simon C. EstokPages 121-131DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.12 ABSTRACT This paper argues that garbage is no longer the site of contempt and fear and has become an object of profound theoretical investigation. The paper reviews some of the salient points in the growing body of theory about garbage and shows that if one thing has come out of

Kyung Han YouPages 133-150DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.13 ABSTRACT Using a lens of cultural industry approach, this study explores the rise and fall of the political entertainment with a focus on specific moments associated with the trajectory of Korean political entertainment in public setting. A historical overview of Korean political entertainment traces back to the 1930s when Mandam,

Annette Thorsen VilslevPages 151-158DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.14 ABSTRACT This article examines the feelings of discomfort in the works of Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Ōe. Focusing on Ōe’s first short story “Prize Stock”, Shiiku (1957), the article discusses how the incredible event of a black pilot falling from the sky in the mountains near a small Japanese village

I Gede Mugi RaharjaPages 159-169DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.15 ABSTRACT Indonesia had absorbed various cultures since ancient times, caused the local cultures were enriched with sign language. However, signs on the traditional culture in Indonesia are more symbolic in nature. Interestingly, East and West cross-cultural sign was encountered in Bali, on Sukasada Park design, in Ujung Village, Karangasem

Ulani YunusPages 171-176DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.16 ABSTRACT The purpose of this study is to illustrate how art and culture in the Kasepuhan Palace can be interpreted as a form of cross-cultural communication. The inquiry addresses two research questions: What are cultures that interact in the 15th century in Indonesia? and How does this interaction appear in Kasepuhan

Luqman Hakim, Siti Mutiah SetiawatiPages 177-184DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.17 ABSTRACT Globalization cannot be stopped nor denied. Sometimes it may have not only a positive impact but also a negative one, as rivalry among nations may ensue. Economic and political rivalry leads to break up of the conducive environment of political security. Unresolved territorial claims and boundary disputes

Nicolito A. GiananPages 185-195DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2017.01.18 ABSTRACT The trade-offs of “meaning-making” between East and West may be regarded as an aggiornamento (“updating”) for any culture in contact. But since aggiornamento entails a wide range of subjects, the essay situates the meaning-making within the scope of masterpieces in diverse formats, from the printed literary text to the