Papua New Guinea's Indigenous Cultural Festivals: Cultural Tragedy or Triumph?

Literature Preserves Papua New Guinea (png) Cultural Heritage

The rich cultural heritage is gradually loosing its value, respect and identity. The present generation is focusing on outside changes with drastic influences and not realizing the damage caused on the withering of their cultural traditions. This paper seeks to discuss the importance of literature as a vehicle for the preservation of cultural heritage in relation to some of many major issues ta...

Cultural dimensions of Indigenous participation

Cultural Commodity Chains, Cultural Clusters, or Cultural Production Chains?

The paper begins with a discussion of the definition of cultural industries. The paper’s three main themes are concerned with, first: 1) a contestation of the generic application of the global commodity chain concept, 2) the need for a unique focus on cultural industries associated with the particular nature of its production process, and 3) the role of embedded judgments of quality is an integ...

Rethinking cultural competence: Insights from indigenous community

Multicultural professional psychologists routinely assert that psychotherapeutic interventions require culturally competent delivery for ethnoracial minority clients to protect the distinctive cultural orientations of these clients. Dominant disciplinary conceptualizations of cultural competence are ‘‘kind of person’’ models that emphasize specialized awareness, knowledge, and skills on the par...

Evaluating Indigenous Design Features Using Cultural Dimensions

This study compares previous analytical findings in the area of cultural web design using Hofstede’s dimensions with findings from a three year case study. This case study used an ethnographic and user-centric approach to better integrate cultural requirements into the website for a specific Indigenous community. We overview this design process and describe the ten key design features that were...