Cultural Studies - Science topic

Oh such an interesting idea! Certainly we see some notable comics with physical disabilities but off the top of my head I can't think of developmental or communication conditions.

Definition:

Cultural studies examines how culture is shaped by social, political and economic forces, and how culture in turn influences these forces.

Economic development refers to policies and programs designed to improve a community's economic well-being and quality of life. This includes job creation, business development and infrastructure development.

City creativity refers to its ability to generate new ideas, products and solutions. Creative cities are often characterized by a strong presence of creative industries (such as design, media and art) and an environment that supports entrepreneurship and innovation.

Interactions

Economic growth can fund cultural projects, while a rich cultural scene can attract businesses and highly skilled workers, further driving economic growth. However, it is important to consider the protection of cultural heritage to avoid the loss of uniqueness and cultural identity caused by economic development.

The creative economy, which includes industries such as technology, design and art, can be an important driver of economic development. Creative industries often create high-value jobs and help to enhance a city's global image.

Cultural and creative projects can play a key role in the regeneration of urban areas, transforming neglected or underused spaces into lively centers of activity. Creative and culturally rich environments can improve quality of life and make cities more desirable places to live, work and visit

Challenges

The influx of creative and affluent people can lead to rising real estate values ​​and the displacement of long-term residents, posing challenges to social equity.

Globalization and the spread of international brands and franchises can threaten local culture and unique city identities.

Continued support from governments and the private sector is essential for the success of cultural and creative projects. Policies must balance economic interests with cultural preservation and community needs.

For quantitative data, you may use SPSS, AMOS, SEM, Excel, etc.

Good luck, Leila!

The numerical system of English is based on tens, i.e. related to the number of fingers. This conclusion is supported by the existence of the numbers 'eleven' and 'twelve'. In Gorthic 11 is 'ein liefnan' = one left, one extra. The same is with 'twelve' = two extra. And 13-19. are really transparent: 'three with ten' and so forth. Low numbers are cognates with IndoEuropean languages, going as deep as PIE, probably even deeper but we cannot penetrate as far to restore the proto forms.

Saussure’s Dichotomy:

Langue: The abstract, shared knowledge of a language. Parole: Actual language use by individuals. Saussure emphasized the social aspect of language.

Chomsky’s Framework: Competence: Idealized language knowledge. Performance: Real-world language use. Chomsky focused on innate cognitive structures.

Sociolinguistics: Studies language variation in society.

Culture is an essential part of human race, customs and believes. It can be done without or kept at arms length. it depicts who we are, where we are from and the kinds and types of things we do in relation to food, dance, art, sculptor, dressing and also craft. Hence is a phenomenon.

According to the Treccani Dictionary (the most authoritative Italian dictionary) rappresentazione is "Il processo mediante il quale un contenuto di percezioni, immaginazioni, giudizi e concetti, si presenta alla coscienza, e quanto viene così rappresentato". Accordingly, 'representation' may apply both to the past and to the future and the re- prefix is no longer bound to its original Lat. meaning "back" --though even in Latin re- did not mean just "back". You may have a mental representation ( immaginazione, Vorstellung) of what will be the situation in Israel next month.

On the other hand, rappresentazione can have a more concrete, physical meaning, exactly as Vorstellung: La rappresentazione alla Scala dello Zauberfluete di Mozart. I do not know whether Engl. representation can have this meaning: I do not think so. As for French, représentation may refer, among many other meanings, to 'Action de donner un spectacle devant un public, en particulier au théâtre' and also to 'Perception, image mentale, etc., dont le contenu se rapporte à un objet, à une situation, à une scène, etc., du monde dans lequel vit le sujet'.

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A. C. Graham's Chinese Philosophy is also very good Another Western scholar Ivanhoe's essay entitled Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism... to name just a few. Please be informed that every 5 years there is an International Conference in Honour of the 257Xth Anniversary of Confucius and xth of the International Confucian Association held in Beijing. In Its Proceedings, the last volume is always in English, where papers on Confucian ethics are compiled, quite bulky indeed! Hope it helps. To know Chinese ethics, de Bary's Sources of Chinese Tradition is a standard reference for beginners. Mei Kao Kow

Are you interested in the aged-care debate in Australia and Malaysia? Check out our latest journal article on media power and passivity in constructing this important issue. In 'Passivity and exclusion: media power in the construction of the aged-care debate in Australia and Malaysia,' we delve into the ways in which media shapes our perceptions of aging and elderly care. Read more at

There is also an option to have a look at Lahiri's texts from the perspective of quantitative linguistics, which enable researchers to study semantic intricacies intersubjectively. If you wish, feel free to contact me for further information.

Hello Ayodeji Abijo

You will have to decide on the seeding density in such a way that the number of cells you decide will help to produce healthy attachment and growth. This number is unique to each cell line, meaning different cell types will have different seeding density requirements based upon their growth characteristics.

Plating cells with different densities can influence the phenotypic characteristics and the growth rate of the cells themselves. If cells are seeded at too low a density, they will go through a lag phase of growth, grow very slowly, or die out completely. If cell densities are allowed to become too high, the cells may exhaust the nutrients in the medium and die abruptly.

The seeding number of 0.8 x 10^6 which you have read for 60mm dish will vary for different cell types depending on their growth characteristics.

Best.

We are not supposed to ignore our cultural biases in humanities research but rather to learn to work around them. First try to understand what does Eurocentrism means to you. Second try to identify its manifestation in your work, last determine its role in your work

hope it helped a bit

The most important requirement is to achieve a significant group of people who love and feel proud of the language concerned. This could involve actively promoting and publishing the literature, stories, poems and songs contained in its cultural legacy. There are unfortunate examples, on the other hand, where a government attempted to force its population to embrace a particular language, creating a reaction against it. There are also instances where the authorities deliberately tried to suppress a language spoken in their country - sometimes [but not always] successfully.

In South America, encouraging youngsters to learn an indigenous tongue might be an uphill struggle - because many of them probably prefer to devote their time and efforts to studying English.

Dear Linus,

It is not exactly clear which your research problem is, or at least the topic of your paper. If you intend, for example, to address the role of media in social construction of (hegemonic) masculinity / masculinities, some scientific literature is avaliabe (see, for example, among other interesting approaches, the worthwhile studies in the book ”Men, Masculinity, and the Media”, edited by Steve Craig, Sage Publications, 1992), as is also for phenomenological approaches, as for example how media portray (idealized) men, or how media influence men self-image, self-esteem, and body esteem.

I wish you much success in your research.

Thank you, dear Suvashree Suvadarshinee for your suggestion. I have fascination for folk literature but it is a little bit difficult for me to do as I am from English literature background. Again I love cultural studies but getting no areas where I can work. Would you please suggest me some areas of cultural studies where I can put my fingerprint?

Thank you again.

You will likely find the (recent) work of people such as Oded Shenkar, Sjoerd Beugelsdijk, and Douglas Dow very useful. A good starting point might be: Beugelsdijk, S., T. Kostova, M. van Essen. V. Kunst and E. Spadafora (2018) Cultural distance and the process of firm internationalization, Journal of Management 44(1): 89-130.

When you start plant tissue cultures, you know that you want to start with material that is free from any microorganisms. (The only part of the plant that is usually free is the shoot tip.) However, you have used a whole stem piece. You probably surface sterilized the shoot with chemicals but your bacteria are inside the shoot before you started. When you put it on the culture medium with nutrients the bacteria grew. I do not know what plant you are using but I suggest that you surface sterilize the shoot segments and then working in a hood (with usual aseptic technique) you take a cork borer and remove plant material from the center of the stem. See if you can get that to make callus without the bacteria. (In another case explants from roots can use a cork borer that takes cortex but not central tissue that contains xylem.) Do not use any part of the explant that might have sodium hypochlorite on it. Another way is to surface sterilize seeds and grow the plants in sterile containers. The plants that grow might be free of bacteria and then you can use a whole stem piece. Hope you get this to work. Good luck.

Dear Mohammed Almahfali

A week ago the new JCReport is released (see enclosed file).

Good luck with finding a suitable journal.

Best regards.

PS. You can also search in the so-called Master Journal list of Clarivate: https://mjl.clarivate.com/home here you can see in which index of the WoS a journal is included (SSCI, SCIE or ESCI).

In addition to the answer of Geertje you should carefully purge the vascular system by perfusion of saline or an appropriate buffer

best regards , Gert

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Dear author, thank you for sharing this excellent question.

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I believe it is imperative to work on a some form of a literary anthology to register all the literary works that depicted the turning point in the history of the country and how the American invasion of Iraq and its aftermath were portrayed in the works of Iraqi writers (dead or still alive). It is a promising and massive project but it is not an impossible task. There is a bad need for volunteers to start working on such project. It is a national obligation!

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i don't know anyone like that but this is a research I will be looking out for.

Dear Sara Abdellatif, Can you please clarify your research so we can try to help. What do you mean by Egyptian-Japanese workplaces? Are you comparing "workplaces" in Egypt and Japan? Normaly, in social sciences one can only compare subjects or objects sharing the same time-space scale. If they don't have it convective or contrastive research must be used. Can you please elaborate more on your research subject, data, and inquiry?

One of the art critic roles may be expanding the realm of possibility, through various even contradictory interpretations and comments which can persuade the artist to create new different works or start new career.

Nimal Raveendran Thank you Nimal sir for helping me with your wisdom

This largely depends on the more specific areas that you are researching of course. There are correlations between literary theory and art/aesthetic theory, and both can and are often utilized for art and literature, so you can draw correlations between the two. In addition, I tend to use theory that already exists in the interdisciplinary realm, like Derrida’s hauntology, or Kristeva’s abjection(two of my favorite). The balance between the two fields Is really up to you and how you approach your research as long as one isn’t an afterthought, in which case you need to question whether it belongs in the project. I hope that helps!

Renben: Like many other approaches, it would be beneficial if you have a sample data set in order to come up with a basic question, in case you do not have it yet. If you are thinking about a grounded theory approach, then my recommendation is for you to "interview" a diverse group of artists within the genre you want to study, to generate the basic data set. Of course, use Since one of the weaknesses of grounded theory is that you would be using inductive reasoning; therefore, it is particularly important for you to have well defined and type-organized questions for the "final" interview questionnaire. The sample data set will help you generate the final questionnaire. This way it would be easier for you to generate reasonable conclusions, and not overtly simplified ones.

Hi Nyasha, the mortality rate of poor people is relatively high indeed, but so is their fertility rate, which offsets earlier demises. This contributes to a quite stable proportion between the rich and the poor.

Comparative literature may be part of the cultural studies, or the contrary, if the literary text reflects really its cultural origins.

In addition to all that has been said above, translation depends on the subject matter. One has to be very careful of the concepts that cannot be captured by single words of another language. As a translator of works in my mother tongue to English, I have found myself many years later making revision on words I thought could be easily interchanged with the English language. So a lot of research and careful reflection is absolutely necessary.

In an academic sense, social class is a reality directly linked to academic attainment, heritage, financial status and social positions. Hence an individual's knowledge of the literary and relevant theories and concepts naturally will be applied in making an analysis. However, these variables I mentioned, in many ways contribute to an individual's social construction of reality, inclination and attributions. Beyond and within academic stipulations of analysis of texts, individuals view texts based on the aforementioned persuasions and worldviews.

Dear Prof. Wilson,

I'm working as a Research Fellow at the Chemnitz University of Technology in the field of Intercultural Competence. At our University, in a small town in East-Germany, our international stutends' rate goes up to 27% (Wintersemester 2018). It increased in only ten years, going from 7% in 2006 until 25% in 2016. In the frame of our research on Academic Cultures and Integration at TU Chemnitz, I have conducted interviews with with researchers and teaching staff and international students studying in Chemnitz about their difficulties (both groups) in an intercultural learning environment. Many topics were enlightened: art of teaching (frontal vs. participative), structural (in Germany, choice of the classes is on the students whereas in France, for example, where I'm from, students receive a study plan), financial (pressure to finish early your studies)... I'm working on the publication.

Regards from Germany!

Check this one: https://ksiegarnia.pwn.pl/Interpretacja-materialow-wizualnych,157876331,p.html

and Saras's Pink Visual Ethnography. Best intro. We have been using visual ethnography working with refugees. Unfortunately did not publish it in visual form. You can check in my works: Generation 1.5...

Best

Well, this is very heavy question. You should bear in mind that learning of mathematical operations is - in the aspects of learning theories - very similar to grammar learning because both of them are based in logic thinking operations (e.g. induction, deduction, abstraction etc.). Learning about literature (e.g. reading literature and literary theory), music, film, culture etc. is quite different and include some elements of creative thinking. There are several didactics theories that are dealing with it: theory of formal discipline, theory of generalisation etc.

Livia Rosseto Your paper is very fascinating, even though it was definitely out of my area of expertise. I appreciate the engagement and comparison between different approaches to spatial planning. The discussion on different forms of knowledge, aka knowledgescape, is wonderful. However, it did not touch on Hofstede as much as I would like, but I really enjoy this piece. It definitely taught me new things.

Roiyah Saltus,

Considering aloneness separately is how leisure studies scholars study contemplation and spirituality (as leisure activities). I've written in this area, but Paul Heintzman (Univ. of Ottawa) is the leading thinker here.

Bob Stebbins

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I'd recommend you to start with a fresh stock. Even if u add antibiotics and antimycotic agents in higher concentration than normal, this contamination would not go away. Discard these cells as i can see that cells have not yet adapted to the original epithelial morphology typical of Saos-2 cells indicating that they are in stress and like u said there is a turbidity in the medium so no way that it indicates the presence of debris which sometimes is released in the medium by the cells. So these cells shouldn't be propagated or passaged further or be used for experiment.

For further confirmation use mycoplasma testing kit or DAPI staining for mycoplasma.

For bacteria u can take a few microliters of the media and spread on nutrient agar media or any bacterial broth and observe for enhancement of growth. This should erase any confusions and again start with a fresh stock and keep a watch on your aseptic technique as well.

Hope it helps

şerefe !!

You should be more specific: what kind of analysis are you interested in? For what language?

If you want to perform basic NLP tasks on English texts I suggest you the Stanford CoreNLP suite, which offers tools for POS tagging, parsing, NER and sentiment analysis.

Please share with us.

Gore Vidal's essays, without fail. Beautiful style, analytical and knowledgeable.

Gore Vidal's 'Creation', a novel about a point in time when great thinkers emerged and the world changed, as they say in all the good blurbs. Brilliant novel and brilliant history!

Thanks @ Adom and Abumere for your response

Hello Gloria, greetings from Germany.

In the field of early European Ethnology , Hans Naumann suggested the theory of "Gesunkenes Kulturgut" in the early 1920s, saying that innovative powers in higher socio-cultural hierarchies create cultural aspects, which are then by time copied and adapted by what was then called "lower classes". Obviously, this theory didn't stand for long, as many examples of modern pop culture show us that culture may be transferred vertically bottom-to-top as well (Jeans, Tattoos, Boots with steel cabs, etc.). But nevertheless it is a considerable idea to begin with. It might also be worth discussing and adapting the Broken-Window-Theory by Wilson and Kelling or the characteristics of innovation diffusion stated by Hägerstrand for your work. Also defining the characteristics of the "Early-Adaptors" in diffusion processes and seeing different mechanisms in "vertical" and "horizontal" diffusion, using cultural expressions to include or exclude, might show a path to how a cluster of theories that might be helpful.

Dear Leonidas A. Papakonstantinidis

Thanks for the answer. I am actually more concerned about the methodology of studying school culture than definition of school culture.

Thanks

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When human begins live together, as a society, in a particular area, they form several key habits and norms by which they live their life. Culture is the knowledge, language, values, customs, belief, food, attitudes, religion, morals that are passed from person to person and one generation to the next. Dominant culture consists of several sub cultures. Each sub culture provides its members with a different set of values and expectations. They share these norms with one another and collectively, this is called a culture. Culture is a collective phenomenon. Culture is a way of acting, a way of behaving; It is continually changing and dynamic. Culture is not inherited, it is learned

As regards the relatonship between translation and censorship, you could take a look, first, at the discussion in Translation Studies in 2011 and 2012. The discussion started with the article ‘‘Translation and Censorship’’, by Piotr Kuhiwczak, Translation Studies

4, 2011, no. 3, and was commented on by Brian James Baer, Beate Müller and Paul St-Pierre & Cormac Ó Cuilleanáin in 2012 (attached).

Secondly, you might wish to read Samantha Sherry's (2012) PhD dissertation Censorship in Translation in the Soviet Union in the Stalin and Khrushchev Eras (attached) especially for its references section even if the topic itself is outside your sphere of interests..

Finally, as regards text selection for purposes of translation, you might wish to read a few articles on retranslation as such texts often discuss the issue of selecting texts for (re)translation. See e.g. Paloposki, Outi, and Kaisa Koskinen. "A thousand and one translations: Revisiting retranslation." BENJAMINS TRANSLATION LIBRARY 50 (2004): 27-38, available at http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.468.4623&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=42.

Hope the above references will help you move forward...

It evinces Indian influence to a tremendous extent. The depiction of Vishnu arises from the first half of the twelfth century, while the syncretic effects of Hinduism came in the second half of the twelfth century.

In a nutshell, the observer (viz., the conservatory) becoming the participant (viz., the musician) and, in turn, unintentionally changing the original character of the music.

I believe that cultural globalization means cultural impoverishment. It is like when a text is summarized: only the main ideas are retained.

In addition, throughout time each community has  developed the best adaptation to the environment. No common solution can be better for the community than its own cultural solutions.

I am currently residing in a small rural village in Tanzania, partly to learn how the traditional family/village/tribe structure presents a substantially smaller number of suicides, especially amongst males, than in my own culture in Australia.

Any contributions on this subject would be much appreciated.

Thanks Laura

This question particularly interests me as well.

All previous answers contain possible solutions. However, I think it would also be worth looking into the way digital technologies change all of us, and particularly one generation in respect to previous ones. It's one thing if your University Library doesn't have a copy of what you need (isn't it sweet to get that PDF online, especially if it's for free?). However, it's altogether a different thing if you prefer Google anyway : I believe it has a lot to do with our contemporary presentist temporality (french historian Francois Hartog) and other such mentalities. Everything has to be now, and the so-called smartphone does just that - the magnificent instant gratification.

Your phone, and google or other multi-nationals are smart, so you don't have to be. Being smart is a lot of hard work, and sadly, kids find their "phone" less intimidating than these multinationals (!), or having to think or expose themselves to the austerity of an actual intellectual workplace, such as a library hall.

you can use NH4SO4 ...good luck.

You may want to look at UNESCO world heritage guidelines, or similar organization definitions on the subject.

As I study in Sahara desert, I am thinking on nomadic people that live in the same way there for centuries. But now this habit is decreasing and people are becoming sedimentary, establishing new settlements everywhere and loosing their livelihoods as nomadic. How one can measure the preservation of Tuareg culture? 

This is an interesting question. Keep exploring it

Here's a good summary account from the popular press (Cockburn is a very good investigative journalist with wide experience):

Rashid Dostum: The treacherous general

By Patrick Cockburn Saturday 1 December 2001

it is a question of lexicology. Not everything that is named an observatory is actually one. What is your subject? An observer is a quite generic word, whilst an observatory is a scientific institution with tools such a telescopes. Any other use is like the trend to call everything a lab or laboratory. It is pointless to try to tackle it all. Tackle the abuse, tackle the scientific cloud to obfuscate and create an aura of science, tackle the sciencitific history...

A plural society is defined by Fredrik Barth as a society combining ethnic contrasts . The term ‘plural society’ was originally a creation of colonial administrators for societies where diverse populations ‘mixed’ only in the market, but failed to achieve cultural consensus or organic solidarity. creating deep cleavages which reinforced each other and offered few opportunities for cross-linkages.  In Barth’s view, ethnic boundaries are most enduring and stable when groups occupy different ecological niches; simply, they make their living in different ways and don’t compete. Societies which are divided into different linguistic,  ethnic, religious, or racial groups and communities..

oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority...

www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/pnorris/Acrobat/stm103 articles.

www.academia.edu/240338/Constructing_a_Shared_Public..

hi everyone 

i think that this article may be usefull for answering your question : 

Hi Avinash,

for what I am concerned with (meaning only what I know of) the only recent study that includes gender aspect for prenatal test is related to the detection of strep b on mom to be that could have conséquences on male offsprings (seemingly demonstrates a possible link between sterp b and hyperactivity-attention deficit and so on on males). Another I might have seen somewhere I can't remember is a link between the adminsitration of Pitocin (to speed up labor) and autism (majority of males). But these studies when related to gender seem to wander off because 1st very hard to establish a sure relation and 2nd would open a Pandora box that nobody wants to touch...and for cause. We choose different battles I guess...or we are stuck with the battles our ancestors left us?

Dear Eri,

I think there is not one single answer that solves the problem. Not only did ancient Greek's Poseidon carry the trident, but also Hindu God Shiva. Moreover, Roman gladiators (e.g. the "retarius") used it as a weapon in battle. So, it is quite reasonable to assume that Roman Catholic Church brought up the image of the Devil carrying a trident by reversing - in their belief - heathen symbolism and mixing this with some collective memory of brutality (symbolised by the gladiator maybe). Nevertheless keep in mind, that the actual image of the Devil was/is subject to historical and sociocultural change. it is most likely that the image of the Devil you are referring to arose in the Middle Ages.

Hope I could provide at least some ideas for further inquiry!

Best regards,

Florian

Women's movement continues to grow, thankfully. This is because women's liberation  is still a meaningful agenda,  Economic growth has not brought about equitable outcomes.  The women's movement has deepened through looking at the intersection of identities - gender, race, caste, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability etc.  However, it has got fragmented as well.  Further, not all women's movements are based on a socialist feminist perspective like before. Liberal feminism prevails, than liberating  feminism 

You might have a look at my book below where here are a number of comparative figures regarding different areas (Education, Health, Employment, etc). And an article in attach published in Ute Eickelkamp (ed.) Growing Up in Central Australia: New Anthropological Studies of Aboriginal Childhood and Adolescence, Oxford, Berghahn Books : 239-272. ISBN hardback 978-0-85745-082-1 ; ebook 978-0-85745-083-8

Thanks to all for your answers. I am proceeding carefully. 

Dee Stewart

Pierre Nora's classical work " Les lieux de mémoire would be helpful

Fashion may also propagate a culture-independent style, may not it?

Hello Eric,

You might like the books of Malidoma Patrice Somé. His book "Of Water and the Spirit" is about his personal history and experiences and it is fascinating - or at least I enjoyed it. He also has other books Healing Wisdom of Africa and Ritual: Power Healing and Community. 

Kind regards - tina

Yes, Edward Hall discussed in detail. As well he mentioned the differences between east and west cultures. This should help you to find your answer to Japanese and Canadian culture.

Faiz,

I do not know if it is now true, since it has been decades since I roamed Mexico, but used to the workers got a siesta (nap) break starting around 2 PM. I believe this also was practiced in Spain. Thus work shut down during the siesta, then started back after the break. This definitely is a cultural tradition that very much affected the daily lives and work of the citizens.

Poets are public voices, many people can hear their thoughs that's why they can be strong influence in some crisis moments in a country, however some poets reflect the reality around, so can be influent for further generations; both cases promote massive reflexion. Music is every where, and help people to fell free when they take the music from composers to put in their own interior and build a peaceful reality inside into their own body and mind.

Hi Carljohnson,

Its not clear whether you'll be translating from written texts, or from an oral performance.  Even if you're working from a written text, or some later generation of a written text, the original transmission had to be oral, told by someone who actually held the tales in tradition.

That makes it important to note that a native tradition-bearer, telling traditional tales in his native tongue, may nevertheless tell the tale in whatever he thinks are the ethnographer's own terms, in an attempt to best get his points across.

For example, it has always disturbed me that Sam Blowsnake, translator of Native American Trickster tales for Paul Radin (turn of the 20th century), began his Winnebago myth cycle "once upon a time" (or else Radin translated Blowsnake's opening formula as "once upon a time").  Either way, "once upon a time" is the opening formula for what native English-speakers call a fairy tale; its a formula that signals "this is not a true story."  It seems highly questionable as the opening formula of any peoples' sacred text.  

We can't know, but It seems like Blownake was reluctant to assign truth-value to the tradition when telling it to someone from a dominant, colonizing Judeo-Christian tradition.  Alternatively, Radin himself may have assumed "once upon a time" for the the formulaic opening, based on his own bias regarding non-Judeo-Christian myth cycles (i.e., not true stories).  

Despite this instance, Radin's translation is really remarkable, done with notes that are easy to follow.  In Radin's case, even problematic instances (like "once upon a time") are also instructive.  For learning from academic discussion, I second the motion on Burke, Geertz and Levi-Strauss.  But for learning by seeing how its done, I highly recommend Paul Radin's masterful treatment of "Wakdjunkaga," the Winnebago trickster cycle in his classic work "The Trickster: a study in American Indian Mythology."

Judith