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Cultural Institutions (cultural + institution)

Distribution by Scientific Domains
Humanities and Social Sciences66%

Selected Abstracts

Finding Room for Same-Sex Marriage: Toward a More Inclusive Understanding of a Cultural Institution

JOURNAL OF SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY, Issue 3 2005
Nicholas Buccola
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The Future of Zoos: A New Model for Cultural Institutions

CURATOR THE MUSEUM JOURNAL, Issue 1 2007
John Fraser
World-class zoos have invested substantially in species conservation and animal research as part of their involvement in wildlife conservation. However, zoo exhibit interpretation, policy development, and strategic planning are yet to be organized around a well-developed agenda with a clear set of conservation objectives. As museums increasingly redefine their role in society to speak about alternative futures for living with nature, zoos have the potential to become much more focused cultural change agents, potentially crafting a new vision for how society can live in a productive relationship with the world's remaining biodiversity. This article argues for an activist approach in which institutions with living collections would take on unique conservation tasks including scientifically grounded promotion of conservation values. [source]

Marketing of cultural institutions in French-speaking Switzerland

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NONPROFIT & VOLUNTARY SECTOR MARKETING, Issue 3 2007
François H. Courvoisier
Marketing in cultural institutions is a field that has rarely been studied in French-speaking Switzerland so far. Therefore this paper explores the way in which visitors-clients appreciate qualitatively their contacts with cultural institutions concerned with the visual arts in comparison with the communication strategy of the curators and directors of museums. A survey has been conducted amongst 20 museums and over 200 visitors of French-speaking Switzerland to evaluate the way visitors perceive the marketing of cultural institutions and behave accordingly or not. The paper concludes with recommendations to improve the knowledge of the visitors' background and expectations. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

A heritage of ambiguity: The historical substrate of vernacular multiculturalism in Yucatán, Mexico

AMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009
FERNANDO ARMSTRONG-FUMERO
ABSTRACT Forms of official multiculturalism that many recent scholars have characterized as a reflection of post,Cold War social movements and emergent forms of neoliberal governmentality can be experienced locally in ways that reflect a greater degree of continuity with older institutions and styles of politics. In Yucatán, ambiguities in the meaning of officially sanctioned categories such as "Maya" and "indigenous" have persisted even as local people and representatives of the state collaborate in the consolidation of official cultural institutions. The collective experience of several generations of Maya speakers in negotiating this ambiguous discursive space creates strong parallels between contemporary multiculturalism and older indigenist policies. [Maya, Mexico, Yucatán, multiculturalism, indigenous policy, ambiguity] [source]

Een-Gonyama Gonyama!: Zulu Origins of the Boy Scout Movement and the Africanisation of Imperial Britain

PARLIAMENTARY HISTORY, Issue 1 2008
TIMOTHY PARSONS
British imperialists in the late 19th century denigrated non-western cultures in rationalising the partition of Africa, but they also had to assimilate African values and traditions to make the imperial system work. The partisans of empire also romanticised non-western cultures to convince the British public to support the imperial enterprise. In doing so, they introduced significant African and Asian elements into British popular culture, thereby refuting the assumption that the empire had little influence on the historical development of metropolitan Britain. Robert Baden-Powell conceived of the Boy Scout movement as a cure for the social instability and potential military weakness of Edwardian Britain. Influenced profoundly by his service as a colonial military officer, Africa loomed large in Baden-Powell's imagination. He was particularly taken with the Zulu. King Cetshwayo's crushing defeat of the British army at Isandhlawana in 1879 fixed their reputation as a ,martial tribe' in the imagination of the British public. Baden-Powell romanticised the Zulus' discipline, and courage, and adapted many of their cultural institutions to scouting. Baden-Powell's appropriation and reinterpretation of African culture illustrates the influence of subject peoples of the empire on metropolitan British politics and society. Scouting's romanticised trappings of African culture captured the imagination of tens of thousands of Edwardian boys and helped make Baden-Powell's organisation the premier uniformed youth movement in Britain. Although confident that they were superior to their African subjects, British politicians, educators, and social reformers agreed with Baden-Powell that ,tribal' Africans preserved many of the manly virtues that had been wiped by the industrial age. [source]