Cargo Cults, Cultural Creativity, and Autonomous Imagination

Stephen, Michele

doi:10.1525/eth.1997.25.3.333

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“…-The relationship between language and religion can be especially evident, for instance, in the context of proselytization and conversion, through which language may help make the supernatural believable or, at least, conceivable‖ (Harding 1987;Stephen 1997).…”

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Revisiting Creative Teaching Approach in Saudi EFL Classes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective

Ismail¹

2022

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The present study aims to address the aspects of similarities and differences between the traditional and the creative teaching approaches in the Saudi EFL context by providing a comparative critical review of literature about the current teaching approaches. The study adopts a comparative critical approach that employs critical comparison to assess, critique, and synthesize the literature on a research topic in a way that enables new theoretical frameworks and perspectives to emerge. It also critically compares the previous studies dealing with creativity in teaching English as a Foreign Language with those dealing with traditional teaching approaches to explore the impediments of the application of the creative teaching approach to teaching English in a Saudi environment. The study has found that the previous studies on creativity and teaching English as a foreign language are in short of a clear understanding of how creativity can be used as an effective teaching approach and they also lack empirical evidence. In addition, there seems to be a conflation of creativity and the traditional teaching approach in the sense that although several studies claimed that they provided a creative teaching approach, their results and findings contradicted their objectives and hypotheses. In most cases, their methods were tailored to offer an impractical and illusory teaching approach, which has nothing to do with creativity. The proposed teaching approaches are incoherent and inhomogeneous which never suits either of them. Therefore empirical studies on creativity and its impact on EFL learners' minds in Saudi Arabia should be initiated.

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Revisiting Creative Teaching Approach in Saudi EFL Classes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective

Ismail¹

2022

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“…(Bloch, 1990, pp. xviii-xix;our italics) The history of these and other analogous misunderstandings is extremely long (for the interpretations of the cargo cults in psychiatric terms, for example, see Lattas, 1992 andStephen, 1998; on these issues see, first of all, Fanon, /1967Fanon, , 1961Fanon, /1970. In their totality, these misunderstandings reveal a common logic.…”

Section: Ethnopsychiatry and Politics Or The Politics Of Ethnopsychiatrymentioning

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Politics of Healing and Politics of Culture: Ethnopsychiatry, Identities and Migration

Beneduce

Martelli

2005

Transcult Psychiatry

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Ethnopsychiatry is today a contested field, in which concepts and terms such as ethnicity, identity, culture, citizenship, traditional therapies or symbolic efficacy are used in a very controversial way. Recent accusations of'racism' against some ethnopsychiatrists have contributed to making more obscure the deep roots of these issues and controversies. Little attention has been paid to analysing the complex legacy of colonial psychiatry, as well as the relationships among current definitions of 'culture' and 'belonging', post-colonial subjectivities and migration. In this article, the authors briefly analyse the contributions of Italian ethnopsychiatry and investigate the hidden expressions of racism and prejudice still characterizing mental health workers' attitudes toward immigrants. It is argued that a 'generative' and community-based ethnopsychiatry can challenge the hegemony of western psychiatry and improve the quality of therapeutic strategies.

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“…'The Horse Braid' dreamer puts the narrative resources of a colonizing culture (the horse and Westerns) to work, imagining novel resolutions to anxieties generated by colonialism. Similarly, Lattas (1992) and Stephen (1997) have noted that the iconic resources of colonizing cultures are put to work creating new symbolic orders in Melanesian cargo cults.…”

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Intertextual Interpretation, Fantasy and Samoan Dreams

Mageo

2002

Culture & Psychology

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This paper offers both an intertextual method for analyzing dreams and a model of fantasy processes in culture.The method consists in interpreting a dream in light of other narratives in a culture that share a motif with it. There is a spectrum of tales in cultures, ranging from founding myths rooted in the political realm to the highly personal proto-narratives we dream. I argue that narrative motifs from stories that circulate in public life move into people's dreams, where these motifs represent shared meanings. In dreams, motifs are combined in novel ways; these combinations are, in effect, thought about these meanings. The narrative spectrum, together with this symbolic traffic, comprises a cultural fantasy system that is compelled by socially stylized desires and shared anxieties rooted in historical experience. The method and the model are explicated and illustrated through the analysis of four Samoan dreams from a larger collection.

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Cargo Cults, Cultural Creativity, and Autonomous Imagination

Cited by 14 publications

References 33 publications

Revisiting Creative Teaching Approach in Saudi EFL Classes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective

Revisiting Creative Teaching Approach in Saudi EFL Classes: Theoretical and Pedagogical Perspective

Politics of Healing and Politics of Culture: Ethnopsychiatry, Identities and Migration

Intertextual Interpretation, Fantasy and Samoan Dreams

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