{"title":"Cultural constraints on knowledge transmission and knowledge erosion: An indigenous community in India","authors":"Kodirekkala Koteswara Rao","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.10.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.10.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The paper aims to add a novel dimension to the ongoing discourses on the erosion of indigenous knowledge. The loss of indigenous knowledge as a result of external forces (of modernization, market economy, development, and globalization) has been well documented. There is, however, a lack of understanding about the internal constraints or cultural factors, which may be as important as external (outside) factors in the erosion of knowledge. Extending the focus to internal cultural factors for effective knowledge management is also imperative. Therefore, the present study will examine this issue from a different perspective and with specific reference to the ethnomedicinal knowledge among a tribal society (the Konda Reddis) in South India. The paper discusses how internal constraints– such as social restraints of supernatural forces, and disruptions in knowledge transmission – are playing a critical part in the erosion of indigenous medicinal knowledge.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 23-30"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"McGregor, Katharine E. Systemic Silencing: Activism, Memory, and Sexual Violence in Indonesia. Critical Human Rights. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023.","authors":"Sita Hidayah","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Page 33"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fischer, Michael M. J. Probing Arts and Emergent Forms of Life. Experimental Futures. Durham: Duke University Press, 2023.","authors":"Roger Nelson","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 34-35"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Zhou, Jianbo. Westernization Movement and Early Thought of Modernization in China: Pragmatism and Changes in Society, 1860s-1900s. Trans. Jianhua Zhao. Palgrave Studies in Economic History. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. 386pp","authors":"George Hong Jiang","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Page 20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Uchida, Jun. Provincializing Empire: Ōmi Merchants in the Japanese Transpacific Diaspora. Asia Pacific Modern, vol 18. Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2023.","authors":"Takahiro Yamamoto","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 21-22"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ko Ko Thett, Brian Haman, Kenneth Wong, Su San Thett, and Ethos Books, eds. Picking off New Shoots Will Not Stop the Spring: Witness Poems and Essays from Burma/Myanmar, 1988-2021. Singapore: Ethos Books, 2022","authors":"Elliott Prasse-Freeman","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.11.003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 31-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142651909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Corrigendum to “Iranian women, e-learning, and experience of motherhood in the age of COVID-19: An analysis of mothers’ lived experience of their children's e-learning” [Asian Journal of Social Science (September 2023) Pages 162-171/Volume 51, Issue 3]","authors":"Shiva Parvaei , Zahra Mirhosseini","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.09.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.09.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Page 19"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142320162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How social change occurs: Women's agentic negotiation and defiance of Chhaupadi practice","authors":"Miyang Jun","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.08.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.08.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study examines how the practice of Chhaupadi, a traditional Nepalese custom that restricts menstruating women from participating in their daily activities, is being challenged and negotiated by women. A thorough analysis utilized interview data from 11 women in Dhanshingpur village in Nepal, revealing that Chhaupadi is not an unchanging cultural norm. Instead, it undergoes agentic actions—scrutiny, questioning, challenge, and negotiation by women. Those adhering to the practice actively negotiated its extent, not passively accepting societal norms. Factors like new information, external influences, community values, family relationships, and personal beliefs played a role. Changes in Chhaupadi rules indicate a shift toward flexibility. Women's agentic actions, leveraging circumstances to tailor the practice to their preferences, result in a more adaptable compliance among Nepalese women.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 10-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142150710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The reasons of unmarried Chinese women for avoiding marriage and childbirth and their identity construction","authors":"Yu Hu, Bo Jiang, Jiaxin Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.08.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.08.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The phenomenon of women avoiding marriage and childbirth has recently caused heated discussion in China. However, limited attention has been given to the reasons for this phenomenon and to their identity construction from a linguistic perspective. To fill this gap, this study employs corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis with legitimation as a theoretical framework to analyze the reasons of unmarried Chinese women for avoiding marriage and childbirth and their identity construction. The findings indicate that, influenced by macro-level political, meso-level social, and micro-level personal factors, these women predominantly define their identities through 2 dimensions: self-affirmation and self-stigmatisation. This discourse is articulated via several discursive legitimation strategies, including authorization, moral evaluation, rationalization, and mythopoesis. By systematically examining the overarching discourse, this article aims to assist unmarried Chinese women in managing their fears and cultivating a balanced, rational sense of identity for future decision-making.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 4","pages":"Pages 1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142150709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The changing faces of racism: Tracing the racial state through mixed-race categories in South Korea","authors":"Ji-Hyun Ahn","doi":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.05.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.ajss.2024.05.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This paper examines the emergence and development of mixed-race categories in South Korea in the context of the shift in the state's governing practices from the postwar period to the present. In particular, “mixed-race” serves as a conceptual framework for tracing the formation of Korea's racial state with respect to the distinct categories of Amerasians and the children of multicultural families. Drawing on theoretical approaches to racism, racial state, and biopower, I examine the treatment of mixed-race individuals in the regulation of the Korean population since the middle of the previous century. I document a shift in the subject-positions of these individuals from the status of <em>homo sacer</em> to that of <em>homo economicus</em>, each of which is associated with distinct modes of racism. The findings presented here have implications for critical mixed-race studies in Korea and East Asia more broadly and for expanding the understanding of the nexus of race, state, and power.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45675,"journal":{"name":"Asian Journal of Social Science","volume":"52 3","pages":"Pages 128-135"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142168354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}