“I’m a girl who is going to school so I can get my education… My father said, ‘That’s nonsense.

 

CASE STUDY #1 :  Sometimes a Girl's Best Friend Is Not Her Father

 

"At the start her father would not visit her at school at all, but slowly he came.... He does not talk about marriage anymore.... He has seen now hat i have done a good job. He has said it is very important for me to be educated".  This came from a fourteen year old Girl who went to the school after her father told he she is to be married. 

 

Set on a dusty plateau in southern Kenya, The African Inland Church School for Girls, is circled by a barbed wire chain-link fence to

keep fathers from sneaking daughters away.

 

 In Kikuyu, the largest Kenyan tribe, the presence of change is reflected in the wearing of underwear          

 

 

 

 

 

    

 

CASE STUDY #3  Yielding to the Dreamy Tug of Shadows 

 

"Dalangs are among the most learned and accomplished people in Indonesia...It's quite a wonder to watch them work."

 

 The puppet master (dalang) presents a play (lakon) during important social events including  religious festivals , weddings , and  births

 
  Despite its enduring popularity, shadow-puppet masters are performing less and less these days. The main reason is economic performance carries a hefty price tag as high as

 $5,000.00

 

 

 

 

CASE STUDY#3 :  Yielding to the Dreamy Tug of Shadows [Igloonik, Northwest Territories]

 

The Sun Ceremony:  A celebration of the return to sunlight to the region after an extended period of complete darkness (7 weeks).

 

The traditional ceremony is being overtaken by modern technology.

 

The “great darkness" has been celebrated in the Canadian arctic for over 1,000 years. During the great darkness Soapstone lamps      had provided the only illumination during the long nights

 

There is now a mix of traditional and modern:  One hundred percent of Alaskan dog sleds are made with American materials;   Women carry their babies in parkas, but they also bring along disposable diapers; Men wear caribou breeches while they zip around on snowmobiles

 

 

"...the judges, she said, 'want someone like a stick, malnourished.'"

 

ARTICLE #4  Kampala Journal: Rating Beauty With a Tape Measure, Inch by Inch 

 

Young women between the ages of 17 and 24 who met the entry criteria of at least 172m  in height with a maximum hip measurement of 36 inches

 

A successful contestant under the Miss Uganda contest rules has to be : at least 5’2’, Skinny, but not too skinny (might have AIDs); A figure 8

 

Medium brown skin,

 

 

 

 

 

ARTICLE #5 The Language of Love - Discovering the Cultural Aspects of Love and Courtship

 

"Japanese men and women have a history of going to extraordinary lengths to meet each other, from the protocol-heavy courtships of powdered faces and opaque screens used in the feudal era to today's carefully arranged dating parties and omiai, or elaborately researched matings, that still account for about 10 percent of Japan's weddings."

 

The key to the success of dating  clubs, as with so many other dating services in Japan, would be that it protects the ego of the suitor and shields the courted from embarrassment." In Japan people…. avoid eye contact,  public display of affection,    dread spontaneous conversation

 

Participants in Japanese dating clubs sight prospective dates -  discreetly across a glass divide'

 

 

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CASE STUDY #6:  A Faith of Their Own 

 

According  to a survey of Islamic education in Syria published by the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat, there are about 80 madrasas in Damascus, serving more than 75,000 women and girls

 

Qubaisiate members, the woman said, tie their head scarves so there is a puff of fabric under the chin, like a wattle. As girls and women progress in their study of Islam and gain stature within the group, the color of their scarves changes.

 

New members wear white ones, usually with long khaki colored coats, she said. Later they graduate to wearing navy blue scarves with a navy coat. At the final stage the sheikha may grant them permission to cover themselves completely in black.