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Culture as community creation, property and patrimony

Critique of overspecialized artistry and star system as elitist and separative in bases and consequences

Holistic view of culture as synergy of collective value-systems and practices of the community

Interrelation and balance of aesthetics and functionality

Community's cultural identity and enrichment as a component of collective self-respect and as basis for assimilation

  1. Total Human Development and Harmony Through Synergism

  2. Holistic Health Care and Medicine

  3. Deep Ecology and Harmony with Nature 

  4. Sense of History and Sense of Mission

  5. Civics and Democratic Governance

  6. Culture as Community Creativity

  7. Light-Seeking and Light-Sharing Education

  8. Gender Sensitivity, Equality & Harmony

  9. Reconstructive/Restor-ative Justice

10. Associative Economics, Social Capital and Sustainable Development

11. Synergetic Leadership and Organizations

12. Appropriate/Adaptive Technology

13. Mutual Enrichment of Families and Friendships

14. Human Dignity and Human Harmony: Human Rights and Peace

15. Aesthetics Without Boundaries: 'Art from the Heart'   

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Culture as Community Creativity respects all human cultures are essentially equal and deserving of due respect, as the characteristic blend of beliefs, technologies and celebrations of these in functional forms of aesthetics, as the product of collective creativity of generations of members of the community.

Initial Collection of Articles,

Books & Other References:

06-01: General

Culture Manifests the ‘Collective Unconscious’   By Dr. Mina M. Ramirez

The Nature of Man and Culture: Alternative Paradigms in Anthropology (Jacket Description of Content) edited by Baidyanath Saraswati

06-02: Community's Creation, Property and Patrimony

Varying Cultural Practices A Matter of Collective Free Choice by Alain de Boton

Culture: Meaning in Symbolic Interactionism by James P. Spradley

Indigenous Ingenuity by Nicanor Perlas

06-03: Critique of overspecialized artistry and star system as elitist and separative

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06-04: Holistic View of Culture as Synergy of Community's Values and Practices

Efforts to Protect Traditional Knowledge: Phil. Experience

06-05: Interrelation and Balance of Aesthetics and Functionality

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06-06: Community's Cultural Identity and Enrichment as Component of Collective Self-respect and Basis for Assimilation

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06-07: Additional and Miscellaneous

Philippine Cultural Education  by John Paul Tañedo Olivares

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