Beyond cultural security; towards sanctuary

Beyond Cross- Cultural Philosophy: Towards a New Enlightenment

The acculturalization of humanities from the late 1980ies onwards led not only to imagined different worlds (e.g. West / Islam), postmodernity overshadowed also common grounds of world`s philosophies. Christianity and Islam share far more than what might separate them, and we find Islam in „the West “as Christianity „in the East“. The Logos of Life Philosophy as developed by Anna-Teresa Tymieni...

Uncovering the cultural knowledge of sanctuary apes

Behavioral differences observed between wild communities of the same species have been called "cultures" by some researchers who aimed to underline the similarities with human cultures. However, whether these differences truly result from social learning processes is debated. Despite promising recent research, data acquired in the wild still fail to exclude genetic and ecological factors from b...

IP Security for Beyond 3G towards 4G

Towards a Corporate Cultural Theory Towards a Corporate Cultural Theory

Despite the significance and impact of corporate culture upon organisational performance, rigorous ethnographic techniques are relatively absent in the management literature. This won’t do – culture is too important to be left undefined and unrefined, and analysts need a deeper awareness of the anthropological and sociological frameworks that can clarify cultural analysis. There are many cultur...

Cultural sensitivity: beyond first impressions.