久しぶりにACADEMIAの論文のご紹介です!二文化共存(併存)の意味が明瞭ではないという論ですが、興味深いですね。一人の人間が二つの文化を包摂しそれを生きる、活かすことができること、二つの文化の中に個人が生きることができること?ローカルとコスモポリタンの共存にも思えます。その他、興味深い論文が5本並んでいます!
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What it Means to Be Bicultural
The words "bicultural" and "biculturalism" are occasionally used, but it is evident that their meanings are not clearly understood. In Japan "bicultural" is often a label in preference to "half" for children of mixed parentage regardless of their actual personality. Yet most basically, "bicultural" should mean that two cultures are operative in one person, or at least that one person can operate in two cultures.
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Japan in New Zealand: Taiko, Authenticity, and Identity in Transcultural Context
New Zealand has a number of active taiko (drumming) groups, each of which has distinct links to Japan. This article introduces taiko in New Zealand in connection with the notions of authenticity and identity construction in transcultural context (i.e., connecting with two or more cultures – e.g., Kostogriz and Tsolidis 2008; Pratt 1992), for both Japanese and non-Japanese. The taiko settings under study are transcultural in that they are in New Zealand on the one hand yet inseparable from taiko’s real or imagined homeland of Japan on the other. The research focuses on the creative settings...
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