https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijch/issue/feedInternational Journal of Culture and History2024-03-20T21:49:48-07:00Bill Johnsonijch@macrothink.orgOpen Journal Systems<p><img style="float: right; padding-left: 20px; padding-right: 20px;" src="/journal/public/site/images/ijch/Homepage11.jpg" alt="" width="300" /><em>International Journal of Culture and History</em> (IJCH) is an online, peer-reviewed, open-access journal published by Macrothink Institute. It provides an academic platform for professionals and researchers to contribute innovative work in all areas of culture and history.</p><p>The journal focuses on the following topics all over the world:</p><ul><li>Literature</li><li>Aesthetics</li><li>Religion</li><li>Language</li><li>Law</li><li>Institution</li><li>Ideology</li><li>Cuisine</li><li>Social structure</li><li>Social conventions</li><li>History </li><li>The issues during cultural preservation and development</li></ul>https://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijch/article/view/21563Conventional Therapy and Psychotherapy (The Case of the Arab-Bedouin Society, the Healer Sheikh and the Psychologist)2024-02-20T01:27:02-08:00Badeea El-kashallaalk.badeea@gmail.com<p>The research points to a very important issue in the traditional Arab society - the possibility of providing mental health care. It is customary in the traditional Arab-Bedouin community to receive treatment from a sheikh and a traditional healer, rather than from a specialist (psychiatrist). This study deals with the factors affecting the choice of therapist - the factors attributed in Bedouin society to mental illnesses and other factors affecting the choice of treatment method (psychological, traditional). The research was conducted in the Bedouin community in southern Palestine. The researcher used two types of research tools - questionnaires and interviews. As for the questionnaires, two types of questionnaires were distributed - in one of them it was distributed to 84 people (whose generations were determined over 18 years old, which is a random category of society, educated and non-educated, and their gender or the extent of their education was not specified), and the prevailing perception of these was examined The category of the population in relation to psychotherapy. The other questionnaire was passed to 204 people (whose generations were determined over 18 years, which is a random category of society, educated and non-educated and did not specify their gender or the extent of their education), and examined the prevailing perception regarding treatment by traditional healers - the Sheikh and the traditional healer. As for open interviews, I interviewed fifty Bedouin students from the College of Education to check how learners perceive the role of a psychologist.</p><p>The results of the current study show that four obstacles prevent the individual in the Arab-Bedouin community from obtaining psychological treatment:</p><p>1. Lack of awareness of the role of the psychologist.</p><p>2. Social pressure.</p><p>3. A traditional view of the world.</p>4. Self-interpretation of religion.2023-12-26T00:56:37-08:00Copyright (c) 2023 Badeea El-kashallahttps://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijch/article/view/21701Pablo Picasso: In Search of Language2024-02-20T01:27:02-08:00Enrique Mallenenriquemallenphd@gmail.comThe article explores Picasso’s multiple influences early in his career as he searched for a language that best expressed his vision of reality. Already the first critics, such as Félicien Fagus for his first exhibition at <em>Galerie Vollard</em>, mentioned the impact on the young Spaniard of a wide range of modern painters in addition to the great classical masters. Many of the identifiable periods in his extensive career can be associated with one or more influential artists: Casas, Rusiñol, Steinlen, Munch during the Modernist years in Barcelona; Toulouse-Lautrec, Renoir, Degas, Van Gogh and others in the first years in Paris; El Greco, Nonell, Puvis, among others during the Blue Period; Matisse, Redon, and others, in the Rose Period; Gauguin later on, etc., etc. These are just a few of the many artists whose styles Picasso explored in numerous ways. Their influence often occurred in complex combinations and would not fully disappear from his works once their incidence had left their imprint. Thus one can find the presence of El Greco or Van Gogh as late as the last years of Picasso’s life. Here we will focus on their influence in the period that preceded Cubism, Picasso’s first truly original language.2024-02-20T01:26:06-08:00Copyright (c) 2023 Enrique Mallenhttps://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijch/article/view/21742From Cultural Labyrinths to Social Transformation: Young Women’s Struggles in Sahndra Fon Dufe’s Yefon: The Red Necklace2024-02-24T20:36:01-08:00Eleanor Anneh Dasiwandasi5@Yahoo.ComWomen in Africa are negatively affected by cultural practices which impede their social participation and identity formation. Set in the form of defined gender roles, these practices, which are designed to maintain social cohesion, are far from ensuring protection and participation particularly for women. This paper explores, from this background, the intricate journey of young women as they navigate the dual realms of tradition and modernity in Sahndra FonDufe’s (2016) novel, <em>Yefon: The Red Necklace</em>. Central to this exploration is the protagonist’s struggle for identity formation, set against a backdrop of cultural norms and the burgeoning influence of modern ideas. The study delves into how young women confront and reconcile the often conflicting demands of traditional expectations and their aspirations influenced by modern ideals. The study is based on an interpretative analysis built on an African feminist framework to examine how young women in the novel sail through tradition to embrace more fulfilling forms of being. This was done from two critical perspectives - a survey of the practices that hold them captive and an analysis of their move towards social transformation.2024-02-25T00:00:00-08:00Copyright (c) 2024 Eleanor Anneh Dasihttps://www.macrothink.org/journal/index.php/ijch/article/view/21780Metonymy, the Origins of Expression and the Trends of Contrast2024-03-20T21:49:48-07:00Jalila Yacoubyacoubjalila@yahoo.frThis paper is concerned with metonymy in the rhetorical works of the ancient Arabs, and what is meant by it according to the context of pronunciation and reception with the stylistic and pragmatic concepts, and inferring them from imagination, methodology, and indication, linking that to time, reality and pattern of thinking; however, the problem that we raise in this research is the extent to which today's generations are able to understand this books, and is it something that benefits the learners and matches their era, or is it for them a burden that they have no ability to understand or interpret? A problem that we address from two dimensions: the first is cognitive and referential, the second is methodological in the relationship of transmission with the mind, and codification with thinking and management; difficulties in learning and teaching did not go beyond the circle of speakers of their own language, so how about speakers of another language? We have limited our discussion of the issue to its first level, and we wanted to explain part of it in two aspects: the first is educational related to curricula and methods of approximating knowledge, the second is social and psychological that makes language a tool and not an end, but at the same time it does not negate its originality and specificity.2024-03-21T00:00:00-07:00Copyright (c) 2024 Jalila Yacoub