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Two Cultures (two + culture)

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Implications of Sibling Caregiving for Sibling Relations and Teaching Interactions in Two Cultures

ETHOS, Issue 2 2003
Jacqueline Rabain-Jamin
This article explores the social and cognitive implications of sibling caregiving among the Zinacantec Maya of Mexico and the Wolof of Senegal. Ethnographic video data of sibling caregiving interactions were collected, focusing on children ages three to 13 years interacting with their two-year-old siblings. Sibling relations in both cultures reflect a system of multiage play, the children's sensitivity to age and gender hierarchies, and the older siblings'role as teachers of their younger siblings. Differences in the two groups include more verbal exchanges and wordplay with the two-year-old Wolof children and more overt efforts by older Zinacantec siblings to incorporate the two year olds into their group activity. The data indicate an overall pattern of cultural transmission by which older siblings teach younger ones in the context of caring for them. The pattern is nuanced by each group's social organization and rules for social interaction, exhibited in the children's play. [source]

Aldhelm and the Two Cultures of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

LITERATURE COMPASS (ELECTRONIC), Issue 5 2007
Christopher Abram
Old English literature dominates the study of Anglo-Saxon culture as a whole, to the extent that ,Anglo-Saxon' and ,Old English' were for a long time considered synonymous. The Anglo-Saxons, however, also produced a large body of texts in Latin. In this survey, I examine the often false dichotomy sometimes made between Old English and Anglo-Latin literary aesthetics and textual production as they are revealed through Anglo-Saxon poetry, and discuss the post-medieval intellectual contexts that produce and sustain this dichotomy. The figure and work of Aldhelm (c.639 ce,709 ce) is used as an example of how Anglo-Saxon poets often occupied a liminal position between Latinate and Germanic culture. I argue that a proper understanding of Anglo-Saxon culture (and poetry's place within it) requires us to disassemble the artificial barriers that have been erected between Old English and Anglo-Latin verse. [source]

The Story Catches You and You Fall Down: Tragedy, Ethnography, and "Cultural Competence"

MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2003
Janelle S. Taylor
Anne Fadiman 's The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Noonday Press, 1997) is widely used in "cultural competence" efforts within U.S. medical school curricula. This article addresses the relationship between theory, narrative form, and teaching through a close critical reading of that book that is informed by theories of tragedy and ethnographies of medicine. I argue that The Spirit Catches You is so influential as ethnography because it is so moving as a story; it is so moving as a story because it works so well as tragedy; and it works so well as tragedy precisely because of the static, reified, essentialist understanding of "culture" from which it proceeds. If professional anthropologists wish our own best work to speak to "apparitions of culture" within medicine and other "cultures of no culture," I suggest that we must find compelling new narrative forms in which to convey more complex understandings of "culture." [medical education, cultural competence, tragedy, ethnography, theories of culture] [source]

Accountability and the Media: A Tale of Two Cultures

THE POLITICAL QUARTERLY, Issue 2 2004
Ben Pimlott
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Repeat Teenage Pregnancy in Two Cultures,The Meanings Ascribed by Teenagers

CHILDREN & SOCIETY, Issue 3 2010
Jean Clarke
This qualitative study charts the views, feelings and experiences of two diverse, yet in many ways similar, groups of respondents from two cultures , one group of 26 respondents from the Caribbean islands of Jamaica and Barbados and the other group of 26 respondents from London, who have experienced repeat teenage pregnancies. The study uses a comparative approach to provide a psychosocial, emotional and economic understanding of the factors, which lead to repeat pregnancies. This study cautions against an over reliance on a mechanistic understanding and management of both single and repeat teenage pregnancies, and emphasises the fact that economic, social, psychological and emotional processes are also crucial to our understanding of repeat teenage pregnancies. [source]