BATEK, BATOK, AND WHATOK are various local words that denote a traditional tattooing practice among the peoples in the Cordillera Region, particularly in the province of Kalinga. Their bodies are inked with figurative designs of snake, centipede, frog, rice grain, and fern plant, among others, and interspersed with geometric motifs and patterns. These traditional tattoos speak strongly about th...

This article develops a critical perspective on ‘modernity’, derived from an interest in the anthropology of time. Drawing on social scientific and philosophical work on time and temporality, I seek to unravel the temporal dimension of this term, both through an initial theoretical analysis and subsequent ethnographic interrogation. The ethnographic component of the article draws on a year’s fi...

This study aimed to provide preliminary estimates on proclivity to elder abuse and to determine the efficacy of the intergenerational transmission of violence and ecological theories in predicting elder abuse in contemporary Chinese societies. A total of 464 (225 males and 239 females) Chinese residing in Hong Kong completed questionnaires on attitudes toward elderly people, modernity, and fili...

modernity is a concept which has been investigated from different aspects. probc. bly one the most valid theories in this field is giddens’s theory. giddens originally considers modernity as a cultural trend that has arrived new phase and has its own characteristics in all social life aspects. reviewing giddens’s theory shows the claims expressing that modernity shows itself in leisure time. it...