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Culture and the absurd: the means and meanings of Aboriginal identity in the time of cultural revivalism

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 2012
This essay proposes that a fundamental arbitrariness and absurdity at the heart of culture becomes visible in times of radical social change. As the Australian nation attempts to celebrate and revive Aboriginal Culture, and institutions call upon culture to remedy Aboriginal ills, Aboriginal traditions are also
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Understanding My Culture Means Understanding Myself: The Function of Cultural Identity Clarity for Personal Identity Clarity and Personal Psychological Well‐Being

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 2014
AbstractCulture is acknowledged to be a critical element in the construction of an individual's identity; however, in today's increasingly multicultural environments, the influence of culture is no longer straightforward. It is now important to explore cultural identity clarity—the extent to which beliefs about identity that arise from one's cultural ...
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Meaning and identities: a visual performative pedagogy for socio‐cultural learning

The Curriculum Journal, 2009
In this article I present personalised socio‐cultural inquiry in visual art education as a critical and expressive material praxis. The model of Visual Performative Pedagogy and Communicative Proficiency for the Visual Art Classroom is presented as a legitimate means of manipulating visual codes, communicating meaning and mediating values through ...
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Discovering and constituting meanings and identities midst languages and cultures

2009
How should we understand the lived experiences of students in an English language program at a community college? This study seeks to explore and discuss the experiences of international students as they discover and constitute cultural identities in places between languages and cultures.
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Phraseological means of expressing cultural identity of representatives of English and Ukrainian linguistic cultures

Journal of the National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”: Philology and Educational Studies, 2018
The article considers linguo-cultural aspect of phraseological units as the language “signs” of culture and their role in expressing cultural identity of representatives of American and Ukrainian linguistic cultures. The concepts “family” and “home” which are the main values of all cultures, are shown as the examples of cultural identity representation
Tikan, Y. G., Yarmak, D. О.
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The meaning of boundaries and barriers in the development of cultural identity and between cultures

Psychodynamic Counselling, 1999
Abstract In this paper I shall argue that, although currently in the world of psychotherapy and counselling allusions to culture and cross-cultural work are becoming increasingly frequent, the issues are often talked about in simplistic ways. I shall unpack some of the complexities in the notions of culture and identity to show that they are not the ...
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Struggle over Meanings: Reconstruction of Indigenous Mythology, Cultural Identity, and Social Representation

Ethnohistory, 1998
An important part of the postcolonial struggles for ethnic identity in Native America is the active retelling of the past, where the Indians construct themselves not as aboriginal others but as people who have for hundreds of years been mediated by colonialism.
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CULTURAL MEANING IN TRANSLATION: A LINGUO-PRAGMATIC ANALYSIS OF NATIONAL IDENTITY

Language Bridge Academic Journal
This study explores the representation of linguo-pragmatic elements that reflect national mentality in the translation of literary texts, with a particular focus on Abdulla Qodiriy’s novel O‘tkan kunlar. The purpose of the research is to identify how speech acts, cultural references, and context-dependent expressions are transferred into English and to
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