Modern technology is believed to be the panacea for all issues; nevertheless, it has both merits and demerits. Many aspects of technology of today have not been time-tested nor known for their adverse effects on the natural environment. On contrary, local knowledge had been timetested and eco-friendly, though it is slow to exert in terms of mass industrial outcome. With the growing concern for ...

This paper examines a range of problems centring on the theorization of cultural identity and cultural property by reference to debates about the appropriation of the Maori tattoo, or ta moko, and the authenticity of contemporary Maori tattooing practices. Through a consideration of the relationship between cultural identity and tattooing, and the question of whether tattooing is an effect of a...

Darwinian evolution, defined as evolution arising from selection based directly on the properties of individuals, does not account for cultural constructs providing the organizational basis of human societies. The difficulty with linking Darwinian evolution to structural properties of cultural constructs is exemplified with kinship terminologies, a cultural construct that structures and delinea...

Learning experience at cultural heritage site is highly necessary needed to visitor when visiting cultural heritage sites. However, it is not adequately provided with the existing of traditional media. Augmented Reality is an alternative of the current emerging technologies to be applied at cultural heritage sites to facilitate learning experience. This article presents the design and developme...

Cultural heritage information and adaptive hypermedia have so far been pursuing completely different goals. Only recently, a research trend has emerged which has pointed out the potcntial advantages of exploiting adaptive methodologies to the delivery of cultural information. In this paper, we present an ongoing project that shows how thesc two research areas can come to terms.

This study examined the relationship between three mental health constructs and perceived cultural attitudes toward homosexuality among lesbian, gay, and bisexual individuals. Specifically, differences in perceived cultural attitudes and depression, self-esteem, and perceived stress between 49 Iranians and 47 Americans were compared. It was hypothesized that (a) perceived cultural attitudes tow...

When we think of mobility in technical terms, we think of topics such as bandwidth, resource management, location, and wireless networks. When we think of mobility in social or cultural terms, a different set of topics come into view: pilgrimage and religious practice, globalization and economic disparities, migration and cultural identity, daily commutes and the suburbanization of cities. In t...

nowadays, the audience plays a key role in the interpretation of cultural products including movies. thus, discovering how the audience make sense of and interpret things can lead us to the social world underlying such interpretations. women are among audience who could have different readings based on their cultural and generational experiences and background. based on the interpretive paradig...

Creative domains such as art and music have distinct properties, not only in terms of the structure of the artefacts produced by in terms of their cultural dynamics and relation to adaptive functions. A number of theories have examined the possibility of functionless cultural domains emerging through a runaway evolutionary process. This includes models in which engaging in creative domains is a...

The Portuguese Cultural Leisure Time Visualization project aimed to show how people have been spending their leisure time, in cultural terms. Through the use of different data visualization and interaction techniques, data series between 1994 and 2009 are displayed to the end-user. The visual representation is based on simple and regular shapes allowing a straightforward and an easy interpretat...