Cultura

Volume 15, Issue 1, 2018

Climate Change Narratives and the Need for Revisioning of Heritage, Knowledge, and Memory

Simon C. EstokPages 7-21DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.01 ABSTRACT Issues about heritage, knowledge, and memory are central to climate change narratives. In an age when reality television stars become world leaders, the urgency of climate change narratives requires us to understand the crucial roles of memory and heritage to the future of our planet. The sanctity of knowledge […]

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Knowledge from Javanese Cultural Heritage: How They Manage and Sustain Teak Wood

Arianti Ayu Puspita, Agus Sachari, Andar Bagus Sriwarno, JamaludinPages 23-48DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.02 ABSTRACT Centhini manuscript is one of the ancient manuscripts from Kesultanan Surakarta Hadiningrat (Royal Kingdom) in the 19th century which has had a role in the cultural and ecological aspects in regulating the use of teakwood. Therefore, deep study into utilization of teak wood

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Bali Traditional Pottery as a Cultural Heritage on the Global Competition Era

I Wayan MudraPages 49-63DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.03 ABSTRACT The existence traditional pottery in Banjar Basangtamiang, Kapal Village, Mengwi Sub-district, Badung Regency cannot be separated from the influence of global culture. The pottery craft center still serves the needs of the local community in Bali, even though there are various types of pottery from outside of Bali as

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Cultural Crisis as a Decline in Human Existential Creativity

Vaida AsakavičiūtėPages 65-83DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.04 ABSTRACT The article analyzes cultural crisis as a decline in human existential creativity. A review of the problematic nature of the conception of creativity shows that this concept is not strictly defined. Non-classical philosophers were among the first to theoretically ground the importance of creativity for an individual, their quality of

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Heritage, Knowledges and Memories on Pura Penulisan Architecture Bali at Ancient Mount Batur Caldera Area

I Gede Mugi RaharjaPages 85-101DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.05 ABSTRACT Bali island’s beautiful nature in Indonesia are the result of volcanic activity under the sea, more than 23 million years ago. The geology of Bali island lies in the Sunda mountains arc, part of the volcanic rings of Pacific ring of fire. This causes the condition of Bali

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Echoes of the Herbartianism in Western Ukraine (late 19th – early 20th centuries)

Nadiya Fedchyshyn, Halyna Klishch, Tetiana Horpinich, Nataliia YelahinaPages 103-114DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.06 ABSTRACT The article analyzes Herbartians pedagogy in the West Ukrainian lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the activities of educational institutions in the light of Herbartianism; retraces the main factors of training teachers of relevant qualifications at higher educational institutions, design and development of curricula

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The Memory and the Ailing Imagination at Immanuel Kant

Eugenia ZaiţevPages 115-124DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.07 ABSTRACT In the present paper, we substantiate the theory according to which the ailments of imagination presented by Immanuel Kant, especially in his work Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View, are sources of artistic creation. It is obvious that not anyone suffering from melancholia, nostalgia, hypochondria or any other ailment

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European Philosophical Identity Narratives

Sanja IvicPages 125-145DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.08 ABSTRACT This inquiry examines various philosophical conceptions of identity and the clash between different identity narratives in the history of philosophy. The main goal of this paper is to show how the European philosophical idea of identity was developed. This paper explores the emergence of European philosophical identity narratives, which have

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Tiger-Hunting Scene on Yeh Pulu Relief in Bali: Romanticism of People’s Heroism in the Study of Iconology

I Wayan AdnyanaPages 147-160DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.09 ABSTRACT This article aims to analyze the tiger-hunting scene on Yeh Pulu relief, located in Bedulu Village, Gianyar, Bali. This relief is estimated to have been created by Balinese artists of the end of the era of Ancient Bali Kingdom in about the 14th century AD. There are only few

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The Question of Immanence in Kwasi Wiredu’s Consensual Democracy

Emmanuel Ifeanyi AniPages 161-176DOI: 10.3726/CUL.2018.01.10 ABSTRACT Kwasi Wiredu, arguably the most influential African philosopher, has proposed a democracy by consensus as an alternative to the majoritarian democracy African countries inherited from their colonial masters. His proposal has generated a lot of debates, and these debates have spanned several aspects of his proposal. In this paper,

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