What do historical representational imageries of the Chinese in television commercials tell us about Britain’s perceptions this ‘silent’ community? The power advertising to distort reality and misrepresent ‘the Other’ is well documented. This report addresses colonial constructions race using archival evidence as a hidden ethnic minority community Britain. arguments, drawn from my doctoral thes...

Abstract The article analyzes the trajectory of reconstitution gastronomic heritage among Italian Walser community. It focuses on case study potato production in Otro Valley, Alagna Valsesia (VC), and explores how process heritagization linked to these products allowed community reconstitute a trait their biocultural diversity lost during twentieth century. In so doing, it offers details about ...

Inspired by Fairclough's suggestion of the idea of commodification in higher education, particularly in terms of "the marketization of the discursive practices of universities" (1993, p. 143), the author of the present paper proposes a theoretical basis within which the constitutive functioning of academic discourse in the mentioned process can be understood.  In this attempt, Althusser's chain...

culture has always been regarded as the most important element of human communities; we can easily observe cultural changes. what causes these changes has been a matter of controversy. the issues such as people’s increasingly getting detached from each other, psychopathy, behavioral abnormalities, traditions being increasingly faded away, malformation, extravagancy and value conversion into ant...

abstract in this experiment the effects of two type of medium cultures, gibberellic acid and dark/cold and light/warm culture conditions on mature embryos germination of a local cultivar of walnut were investigated. the mature fruits were collected at 22 weeks postanthesis and after disinfection the mature embryo along with cotyledon pieces were excised and then were cultured on mt and modified...