In contemporary capoeira groups, newcomers are symbolically ‘baptised’ into the community at a public ceremony called their Batizado (literally baptism) held during festival. Novices play game with guest expert, get first belt and thereafter they members of teacher’s group. Drawing on long term, two-handed ethnography diasporic contemporanea in UK, including observation 53 such festivals, cerem...

Shifting criminal justice practices away from sligmalization and toward rcintegration is no small challenge. The innovation of community conferences in New Zealand and Australia has two structural features that are conducive to reinlegralive shaming: (a) selection of the people who respect and care most about the offender as conference participants (conducing to rcintegration) ; and (b) confron...

The National Student Computer Games Tournament and the Chinese Computer Games Championship (NSCGT-CCGC), sponsored by the chess game management center, General Administration of Sport of China (GASC, a government department of China) and the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence (CAAI) and the College Steering Committee of Computer Science and Technology Education (CSC-CSTE), were hel...

Abstract Isabel Casteels examines the response of contemporary viewers – both intended and actual to Frans Hogenberg’s execution prints dating from first decades Dutch Revolt. Hogenberg characterised these executions, like those counts Egmond Horn in Brussels 1566, as religious ceremonies, thus implicitly criticising them. The highlight public, ritual, indeed purely theatrical elements events, ...

The global epidemiological trends led to the declaration of coronavirus (COVID-19) as a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) on March 11, 2020. This necessitated closure schools, parks, and recreation community facilities in most parts globe. As result, there was rapid shift online education delivery, even virtual school graduation ceremonies. Thus, children became part sudden behavioura...

decreasing qualitative aspects of residential environments is a real problem in recent public housing of kerman. this article is concentrated on surveying the impact of in-between spaces on residential environments quality (req), to evaluate different kinds of it and to determine interrelation of two main components: residents individual characteristics and characteristics of in-between spaces....