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This volume, Rhizomes, is a challenging path into a very multidisciplinary set of papers. Papers range across cultural studies and film, to applied linguistics to sociolinguistics; and as gathered in this one volume - the result of postgraduate student research of a very high order - they'force'readers to think critically of disciplines, their assumed boundaries and most importantly, the usefulness of assuming the enduring value of such boundaries. This is not to say that ‘anything goes', but the diversity of areas under scrutiny means that sharper re-thinking of one's own comfort zones is necessarily one key outcome when confronted with a volume like this. This is one advantage of the selected papers – besides the obvious one of having at your finger tips a simple way of delving into a challenging diversity.Brian Ridge, Campion College, SydneyThis is a wonderful collection of papers, which demonstrates the power and vitality of contemporary literary and cultural research. The scope of the papers, the diversity of the subject matter, and the willingness of their authors to work across disciplinary boundaries work together to create an exemplary collection of research for the twenty-first century – multidisciplinary, multigeneric, and multimodal, like 21st century texts and media.Greg Hainge's opening paper sets the stage for the diverse and engaging papers that follow. With his own examples of rhizomatics drawn from music, Greg immediately has the reader acknowledging the multidisciplinary – and multimodality – of contemporary texts – and so the need for research that can address the richness and complexity of these texts.In Part 1 we have two papers that address the issue of the limitations of conventional research methodology in their own fields (language acquisition, film studies) – and propose alternative and more productive methodologies. The exciting thing about this section is that these are fields normally considered very different and without much to say to one another – and yet the combination works to create a dialogue that extends across these and many other fields of research. Most importantly, both challenge the dichotomising of research and analytical methods that has worked to impoverish their fields and the research on which it is based. Part 2 presents papers on a range of marginalised social positionings and experiences – and in the process demonstrates both the power of research to uncover what has been ignored or elided in contemporary histories (how many westerners know of the long history of Chinese women in film? Or of an Aboriginal Taiwanese literature?) as well as the power of new perspectives, new ways of thinking the research subject, to open up areas of study such as dating manuals and country music, both conventionally dismissed as inherently trivial and/or sexist.In Part 3 the papers all play brilliantly with the notion of connectivity, demonstrating for readers the inextricability of texts and meaning systems (verbal, visual and other) with the cultural contexts in which they operate – and so the diverse ways they may be deployed. These papers banish forever any reliance on a formalist reading or methodology for the analysis of text and meaning! And, again, the range of subject-matter is breath-taking and argues the need for cross-disciplinary, transdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research practice.Part 4 takes the reader into the realm of transformations, challenging the ways in which textual and systemic changes articulate profound cultural changes in the societies that produce them. So we learn about grammatical interventions in the Chinese language as feminine and neuter pronouns are added to the gender-free Chinese language – and consider the major cultural change that both caused this change and is subsequently produced by it. We consider the ways in which cinema has evolved as an art-form, under the influence of its material and verbal technologies.

Over their long and colorful history, the Chinese people have produced a variety of fascinating and useful cultural artifacts and performance inventions--from the compass and paper money to tea ceremonies and wedding parties--that have won the admiration of people around the world. They have improved living conditions for many who remain unaware of the Chinese origins of these innovations. This book's forty concise chapters serve as windows into a wide range of Chinese cultural traditions and practices. Some aspects of culture featured here include Chinese gardens, homes, and temples; calligraphy, chess, and clothing; paper cutting, seals, and musical instruments; martial arts and Peking Opera; and feng shui (auspicious design). Amply illustrated, with idiomatic phrases parsed throughout, the authors offer a road map to guide both the novice and'old hand'alike through the essential elements of Chinese culture.

Can cultural exchange be understood as a mutual act of translation? Or are elements of a country's cultural identity inevitably lost in the act of exchange? Brazil and Great Britain, although unlikely collaborators, have shared an artistic dialogue that can be traced back some 500 years. This publication, arising from the namesake research project funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council, seeks to understand and raise awareness of the present practices of cultural exchange between Brazil and Great Britain in relation to their historical legacy. Presenting five case studies and eight position papers, this research-based project investigates how artists interpret, transmit and circulate ideas, ideologies and forms of knowledge with specific reference to the production of new ‘translations'produced from and, where possible, between peripheral territories. Written in accessible language, the case studies describe the experience of artists, managers and cultural leaders dealing with important challenges in the creative sector regarding the translation of creative and learning arts methodologies. Projects investigated are at the forefront of social arts collaborative practice, representing internationally influential initiatives that have had a demonstrable impact not only in urban centres and peripheries but also in isolated areas of central Brazil and the north of England. The position papers commissioned by the research from Brazilian and British academics and cultural leaders provide a remarkable variety of social, political, anthropological, historic and artistic perspectives of cultural exchange projects offering valuable experiences for those working in research, policy and for creative practitioners.

This book is composed of a selection of papers presented at a conference in Cambridge in December 2005. Cultural history is a relatively new sub-discipline. Over the past few decades, it has become increasingly apparent that a new generation of historians has emerged. These scholars have become concerned with research, sources and questions traditionally beyond the scope of the discipline of history. Indeed, recent monographs in history have demonstrated a growing awareness of the cultural imagination in analyses of patterns of change and continuity in the past. Such a movement has also encouraged the development of new networks between different disciplines in the Arts and Social Sciences.The authors of these chapters come from a wide range of academic backgrounds. While all are concerned with crucial issues of the past, they represent a substantial variety of disciplines. In addition to the historians are those trained and working in literary studies, art history, design, music and science. As early-career scholars, the research they present is cutting edge: these contributions represent the very latest trends in cultural studies and demonstrate the attempts of new researchers to answer the most current and challenging questions that are being proposed in this field.

This volume brings together selected papers covering topics related to the contemporary cultural heritage research framework within the field of Digital Humanities (DH). Intended for scholars, students and practitioners, the book provides the reader with insights into the description and access, and digitization of cultural heritage. It also explores Croatian Glagolitic and Latin written heritage as a source for historiographic and linguistic research.It is organized into seven topics, each questioning one of the research areas within the DH framework, namely DH as a contemporary cultural heritage research framework; the description of, and access to, cultural heritage; the digitization of cultural heritage; written heritage as a source for historiographic and linguistic research; literary studies; research and communication of cultural heritage; and education in the field of DH.

This collection of papers explores the sacred and magical aspects of ethno-medicine. The subject area is marked out by the points of connection between religious anthropology, ethno-medicine and medical anthropology, focusing on topics such as magical and religious concepts of health and disease, causes of disease, religious and magical averting and healing rites, healing gods, saints and, last but not least, the role that these play in the society, religion, mentality and everyday life of a community, as well as their various representations in folklore, literature or art. This volume includes, without restrictions of a methodological, temporal or geographical nature, works from the fields of folklore studies, anthropology, cultural history, comparative historical and textual philology, as well as research findings using the latest methods of analysis in textual folklore or based on archival research or fieldwork in or outside of Europe. This book will appeal to researchers and students of religion, folklore, and medical anthropology, as well as general readers interested in the humanities and cultural history.

The historical upheavals in Southeast Europe since the early 20th century brought about deep transformations of people's everyday lives and their life courses. The concept of ‘life course'enables the understanding of human lives within their socio-cultural and political contexts, stressing agency and people's everyday experience. Balkan contexts invite for analyses that bridge political and social changes and their influence on individual life courses. The papers discuss problems such as family life and parenthood, ages and ageing, life-cycle rituals and the artistic expressions devoted to them. The authors present manifestations of the social differentiation and cultural multiplicity under post-socialist or post-colonial conditions – from developing contemporary global life styles among the emerging urban middle class to the ghettoization of some social or age groups. This volume focusses on developing family cultures, on experiencing socialization and age, on ‘old'and ‘new'life cycle rituals and their artistic representations in contemporary Southeast Europe.

The numerous and varied indicators of environmental risks point toward the likelihood of a systemic and catastrophic ecological failure at some point during this century. Political inaction and cultural resistance, meanwhile, are even preventing the implementation of already available technical solutions, which has led many experts to conclude that averting a global environmental catastrophe is, foremost, a socio-political, rather than a technical, challenge. The World Science Union (ICSU) has recognized that knowledge of the social sciences is indispensable for facilitating the major socio-cultural transformations now required, and, together with the International Social Science Council (ISSC), called for a mainstreaming of environmental research in the social sciences at the Rio+20 Earth Summit. The two major international organizations in anthropology, IUAES and WCAA, responded to this call by co-sponsoring a symposium on environmental change at the Manchester World Anthropology Congress, and by creating a scientific Commission for Anthropology and Environment, which then hosted a second symposium in Chiba City, Tokyo, in May 2014. This volume is a selection of the many papers presented by a truly international group of experts at the two symposia. It identifies and provides case study examples in six major research areas where anthropology and local and indigenous people's knowledge can make a significant contribution: Environmental Vulnerability and Risk Perceptions; Sustainable Urban Environments; Sustainable Rural Environments and Food Security; Indigenous People and Nature Conservation; Environmental Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility; and Sustainable Resource Management. Contributors represent nine different national anthropologies across all continents. The volume thus also enacts a new ‘world anthropologies'paradigm, first proposed by the World Anthropologies Network (WAN), which aspires to unify and globalize the discipline in a spirit of equality and mutual respect among scholars across all national traditions and language barriers. Furthermore, the volume will also support teaching and promote further research in the anthropology of the environment.

The Postcard's Radical Openness offers a groundbreaking exploration of what this multifaceted, double-sided open card entails and how it has affected our being in the world. With a holistic approach, it focuses on studying the postcard's specific way of being and performing, a particular ontology that opens up what is constitutively implicated in such an apparently trivial artifact. The book, organized into four parts, meticulously unveils the postcard's political, technological, aesthetic, and ethical dimensions, ending with a coda correlating the postcard's radical openness to G. Klimt's painting, Nuda Veritas (1899) in reference to the scope of truth. By examining the postcard's complex worldwide history, its socio-cultural significance, and its global effect, the book reveals hidden stories shedding light on its impact on photography, printing, marketing, trade, and business practices and exposes the aesthetic, communicative, and ethical qualities that lie behind the enormous success of postcards at the turn of the 20th century. This comprehensive study is positioned as a thought-provoking invitation to scholars and students interested in material culture, media studies, and human interactions, as well as to history enthusiasts, art lovers, and postcard collectors. Offering a distinctive contribution, the book not only fills a void in the literature but also encourages readers to question and reflect on the transformative power inherent in the postcard's'radical openness,'presenting a novel and unparalleled analysis of this seemingly trivial yet culturally significant object.

Hokkaido Dairy Farm offers a historical and ethnographic examination of the rapid industrialization of the dairy industry in Tokachi, Hokkaido. It begins with a history of dairy farming and consumption in Hokkaido from a macro perspective, mapping the transition from survival to subsistence and then from mixed family farms to monoculture and'mega'industrial operations. It then narrows the focus to examine concrete changes in a Tokachi-area dairying community that has undergone rapid sociocultural upheaval over the last three decades, with shifts in human relationships alongside changes in human and cow connections through new technologies. In the final chapters, the scope is further narrowed to a detailed history and ethnography of a single industrializing dairy farm and the morphing cast of individuals attached to it, centering on their idiosyncratic searches for economic, social, and even ontological security in what is popularly considered a peripheral region and industry. The culmination of over fifteen years of ethnographic, policy, and historical research, Hokkaido Dairy Farm argues that the dairy industry in Japan has always been entwined with notions of Otherness and security seeking, notably in terms of frontiers.

This volume showcases new research on popular academic topics in Ghana. Its wide range of focus across disciplines includes topics such as pidgin, performing apologies and politeness, music, the argument for adopting geographical indications (GI) policies for Ghana's unique agricultural products, and the poetics of names, among many others. It will appeal particularly to students pursuing degrees in Africana and Ghanaian studies.

The book is a study of the emergence of market economy with modern economic institutions in the early civilizations of Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt from the third and early second millennium B.C.E. The study covers the Sumerian, Old Assyrian and Old Babylonian periods. The economic analysis is based on Institutional Economics theory, and the data on the Old Assyrian period is based on the work of many scholars that transliterated, translated and studied many of the 23,000 documents of the Old Assyrian traders found in old Kanesh in Central Turkey.The book includes chapters on the institutions of: property rights; the markets and means of exchange; the organization and finance of trade; and enforcement institutions from the judicial, social and political systems. In addition, it gives a detailed analysis of: the early means of exchange (money) like the use of volume measure of barely and weight measure of copper and silver in Sumer; various instruments establishing property rights such as Kuduru border stones, seals and inserted cones in walls; detailed analysis of the communication system and its components; and the description of the modern financial instruments used to include, for example, limited partnerships.

This book takes a journey into the fascinating world of numerical systems in South Asian languages, offering a unique exploration of the intricate patterns, cultural nuances, and historical significance embedded within the numerical frameworks of the given languages. It blends the discovery of new facts with the reinterpretation of existing ones, while developing a methodology for investigating number systems that can be applied to languages around the world.It is a groundbreaking study that unveils the complex linguistic patterns and socio-cultural significance of numerical systems in South Asian languages, offering valuable insights for researchers, linguists, anthropologists, and language enthusiasts alike. By bridging the gap between linguistics, anthropology, cultural studies, and mathematics, this book encourages interdisciplinary dialogue and collaboration by examining numeral systems from multiple angles.

En el año 1492, después de que Boabdil entregara las llaves de Granada, un embajador de los Reyes Católicos en Roma, Bernardino López de Carvajal, pronunciaba ante la curia unas sonoras palabras: «Toda la virtud y la gloria de Hispania se han restaurado». La antigua provincia establecida por los romanos en la península ibérica, cuna de hombres ilustres y fuente de riquezas, retornaba a su esplendor gracias a las obras de Fernando e Isabel, quienes continuaban con su proyecto de unificar los reinos ibéricos. Se trataba, fundamentalmente, de recuperar el vínculo histórico entre Roma y España, para ensalzar no solo el prestigio y liderazgo de los reyes frente a los demás monarcas europeos, sino su complejo programa político. Siguiendo la metodología de la recepción de la Antigüedad clásica, esta obra estudia cómo a finales del siglo xv se produjo una importante transferencia cultural entre Italia y España que permitió la introducción del humanismo monárquico en Castilla y Aragón. A través de la historiografía y de la literatura política, se produjo un nuevo interés por el pasado clásico que derivó en dos grandes fenómenos, interrelacionados: el inicio de la cultura anticuaria, origen de la futura ciencia arqueológica, y la utilización de la cultura clásica en el ámbito político. Así, un nutrido grupo de intelectuales al servicio de los reyes elaboró, a las puertas del Renacimiento español, dos argumentos cruciales que se mantuvieron inherentes al discurso de la monarquía hispánica en los siglos posteriores: la unidad ibérica y la ideología imperial. Los Reyes Católicos, como hijos de Hércules y césares de un nuevo Imperio, favorecieron el desarrollo del relato histórico de la península ibérica, lo que llevaría a Antonio de Nebrija a escribir en su crónica sobre el reinado aquella rotunda expresión: «Hispania tota sibi Restituta est».

This volume brings together a range of views and arguments that healthily contribute to global conversations on media, culture and conflict in Africa. It explores how cultural practices, media practices, social movements, and the possibilities of emerging technologies could be ventilated and directed towards remediating the perilous state of affairs in political, social, and economic spaces in contemporary Africa. As the intersection of culture and conflict is relatively underexplored or under-researched in African media studies, this book makes an important contribution to the field.

Musical vernaculars are a rare and challenging object of study. Their sound can include everything—from local folk and popular songs to random foreign hits and fragments of classic repertoire. It is an everchanging element—eclectic, whimsical, and resistant to regularity.Based on the author's multicultural experience, proficiency in Russian and Jewish music history, and interest in anthropology, this book explores the essential features of vernaculars. They can have varying degrees of changeability; some are quite stable, and exist in closed rural or immigrant communities (phylo-vernacular), while others are dynamic, like those of an urbanized population (onto-vernacular). These types of vernacular can turn into one another when communities migrate—that is, agricultural people move to cities, and the townspeople settle on the land. Understanding the changes in the vernacular repertoires as something natural, this book defends the value of urbanized folk music, disputing the traditional view of art-music composers of rural folk songs as only “authentic” and suitable for expressing nationalistic sentiments. The book also examines unexpected interconnections between Russian and Jewish music, both in their vernacular manifestations and the creative work of Sergei Slonimsky and Dmitry Shostakovich.

This comprehensive study of digital visualization brings together insights from the fields of anthropology and music analysis and explores their import for critical pedagogy and digital education. Anchored on an array of ethnographically informed examples of visualization, it discusses the cultural, educational and cognitive repercussions of our engagement with visually-centered research and teaching. The book offers a hands-on approach to experimental pedagogies attuned to the needs of researchers, educators and artists in the digital humanities who seek to open passageways between theory and praxis.

This book is a theological reflection of Sheen's contribution to humanity and society. It analyzes the modern person from the Catholic doctrinal perspective, explores Fulton Sheen's perception of the contemporary individual, and demonstrates that global economic, religious, and political crises cannot be resolved by focusing only on the mundane. It further underscores some contemporary anthropological challenges and proposes a philosophy and theology of life that can enable contemporary humans to know themselves better and make life worth living. The authors argue that advancements in science and technology have failed to prolong happiness; people are still frustrated, disillusioned, cynical, bored, and suicidal.This book enters the landscape of Sheen's controversial pause before he was sanctified and provides a lengthy, liturgical extrapolation of Sheen's Christian anthropology, wrestling with other thinkers and general concerns surrounding human angst in modern society.

الأقباط يمثلون جماعة أساسية في المجتمع المصري، ورغم خصوصيتهم الدينية فإنهم يشتركون في كثير من سمات هذا المجتمع ويتفاعلون مع تحولاته الاجتماعية، والاقتصادية، والسياسية بصورة واضحة. ولهذا يصعب اختزال الأقباط في مفهوم الأقلية الذي يعكس تكوينًا ثقافيًا أو إثنيًا أو عرقيًا مختلفًا عن سكان الأغلبية. ويكشف هذا الكتاب عن وجود دلائل على أن هموم الأقباط المصريين وسقف تطلعاتهم في التعليم والعمل والحياة العامة تتشابه مع هموم وتطلعات سائر المسلمين من المصريين، خاصة في ظل تراجع مستوي التعليم عمومًا، واتساع الفجوة الواسعة بين العرض والطلب في سوق العمل والتي تؤثر على الجميع. كما أن مستقبل الأقباط يسير في طريق المزيد من الاندماج الاجتماعي في المجتمع، وهذا ما يضفي على الكتاب أهمية كبرى في كونه يصحح كثيرًا من التصورات الرائجة عن الشأن الاجتماعي القبطي في المجتمع المصري، الملتبس دائمًا بغيوم التبسيط المعرفي والتعصب والجهل.

Il volume intende rappresentare le principali linee di ricerca sviluppate in ambito accademico italiano da studiosi nazionali e internazionali sulle aree caucasica e centroasiatica. In questa prospettiva, il volume presenta una serie di saggi che traggono spunto da interventi effettuati nell'ambito dei principali appuntamenti annuali incentrati sull'area: l'edizione del 2021 del Convegno annuale dell'Associazione per lo Studio in Italia dell'Asia centrale e del Caucaso (ASIAC) e la XV Giornata di Studi Armeni e Caucasici. Per sua natura, il volume ospita dunque contributi di differente matrice disciplinare, che spaziano da studi di carattere storico e filologico fino a studi di taglio linguistico, letterario e politologico.

This volume is the result of the debates held at Ca'Foscari University during the Iberismo(s) study day, aimed at discussing the ethical, theoretical and methodological limits of Iberian Studies and demonstrating their applications. Far from a unidirectional reading, the works gathered here explore the multiple aspects of Iberism, or rather ­Iberisms: different aspects such as the literary, cultural, economic and political ones are taken into account and interpreted on the basis of their plurality – since the diversity of actors, discourses, and contexts makes it impossible to outline a closed narrative. According to Claudio Guillén, “national literature is […] an institution that is not only insufficient, but also spurious and fraudulent”, hence the commitment to redefine this field of study. Moreover, its analytical perspective is associated with the ‘crisis of Hispanism'as a ‘uninational'and monolingual paradigm. Iberian Studies as such do not take root in a simple broadening of the object of research in order to give space – and thus a new location – to the more peripheral realities; it is rather a theoretical and methodological reformulation in constant development, as all the essays in this volume attest.

This collection focuses on representations of Egypt between 1750 and 1956. Napoleon's Egyptian expedition of 1798-1801 failed in military terms, but succeeded in focusing Western attention on the country. The nation fascinated travellers because of its antiquity, its monuments, and its bazaars. In the nineteenth-century, the typical itinerary for travellers included Alexandria, Cairo, the Pyramids, and a journey by boat up the Nile to the temples of Luxor and others. Some of the essays included in this volume focus on fiction by writers like Samuel Johnson and Charles Dickens, or travel works by Florence Nightingale, Lucie Duff-Gordon, and Gérard de Nerval. Others analyse representations of Egypt by explorers, American ex-soldiers, French painters, British colonial administrators and sociologists, and a Russian doctor investigating the efficacy of Muhammad Ali's reforms in relation to the plague. There is also a discussion of the changes in nineteenth-century Egyptian dress.

Modern America is an introduction to American Studies within the fields of history, culture, and society from a Scandinavian perspective. Its focus is on understanding important aspects of contemporary American society through discussions of political, historical, and cultural processes. The book aims to equip readers with knowledge of and insight into a complex and varied nation that wields tremendous power and influence on the wider world. Presented in an accessible and readable manner, the chapters seek to explore and explain the development of American society, covering topics such as immigration, ethnic minorities, religion, politics, foreign policy, and popular culture. The book is a joint venture between Norwegian and American authors, all specialists in their respective areas.

Key book on the debates surrounding the knowledge economy and decolonialization of African Studies, that brings the subject up to date for the 21st century.Decolonization of knowledge has become a major issue in African Studies in recent years, brought to the fore by social movements such as #RhodesMustFall and #BlackLivesMatter. This timely book explores the politics and disputed character of knowledge production in colonial and postcolonial Uganda, where efforts to generate forms of knowledge and solidarity that transcend colonial epistemologies draw on long histories of resistance and refusal. Bringing together scholars from Africa, Europe and North America, the contributors in this volume analyse how knowledge has been created, mobilized, and contested across a wide range of Ugandan contexts. In so doing, they reveal how Ugandans have built, disputed, and reimagined institutions of authority and knowledge production in ways that disrupt the colonial frames that continue to shape scholarly analyses and state structures. From the politics of language and gender in Bakiga naming practices to ways of knowing among the Acholi, the hampering of critical scholarship by militarism and authoritarianism, and debates over the names of streets, lakes, mountains, and other public spaces, this book shows how scholars and a wide range of Ugandan activists are reimagining the politics of knowledge in Ugandan public life.

This volume highlights five critical key issues relevant to Colorado's Black and Brown communities. As a result of the recent activity around policing and equity, marijuana, education and biases, prisoner reintegration, and activism, it offers solutions to managing those problems. The book is a resource that must be read by K-12 educators, social workers, probation officers, grass roots leaders, adult educators, and university professors in the area of sociology, education, Black studies, and the non-traditional disciplines. Additionally, the volume contains essential tools for training professionals and teaching our youth by offering insights to problem solve in urban areas. It provides pertinent information vital to the development and success of our youth struggling in K-12, higher education, and the criminal justice system. Although Colorado's Black communities are the focus of the volume, it will also serve as a model for urban communities in different states.

Tradicionalmente, en la disciplina antropológica, la idea de festival o feria se asociaba con eventos breves recurrentes en el tiempo, donde la ilusión de comunidad cobraba cuerpo, cristalizando una supuesta identidad colectiva. Hoy, los festivales pueden estar organizados desde fuera de la comunidad donde se ubican y, por lo tanto, también son reflejo de los valores de sus organizadores y de sus posibles y potenciales audiencias. Tiempos puntuales, localizados en lugares concretos, donde se diseñan y se re-inventan discursos y prácticas sociales que construyen identidades, tradiciones y modernidades. Cada año, el Festival de Cine Africano de Tarifa (FCAT) crea un espacio y un tiempo acotado para compartir imágenes, ideas, definiciones y símbolos, que materializan una determinada identidad social sobre lo africano. El FCAT representa un África diferente y especializada que cuestiona otras visiones sobre el continente. Un evento de estas características es mucho más que un lugar en el tiempo para mostrar películas, es un potente agente heurístico donde investigar y generar un buen número de cuestiones: ¿Por qué este cine es africano? ¿Qué África nos presenta y quién elige las representaciones? ¿Por qué se celebra un evento como este en un municipio pequeño, apartado de lo que podríamos considerar como los circuitos al uso de las manifestaciones culturales oficiales? ¿Cómo vive el municipio esta celebración? ¿Quién puede hablar sobre África? ¿Y por qué? Este estudio interroga sobre los procesos de legitimación de la construcción identitaria y sobre la importancia de los contextos en la producción de significados. Contextualizado en el marco geográfico y simbólico de la ciudad de Tarifa, el FCAT es analizado desde la perspectiva de la mercantilización de la etnicidad y su implicación en las industrias culturales, como un nuevo producto/productor para el mercado de lo exótico que demanda un mundo globalizado. Porque eso es precisamente un festival, una intersección local/global puntualmente programada.

ギリシア語およびデモティック（民衆文字）で書かれたパピルス文書から、古代の多文化社会の秩序を明らかにする。 ヘレニズム時代のエジプト社会では、民族的にも文化的にも混淆を深め、様々な法や紛争解決手段が並存していた。本書では、従来の研究で主に扱われてきたギリシア語嘆願書だけでなくデモティック嘆願書や和解宣誓書、各言語の裁判記録など、紛争解決に関連する740点余の法的資料を包括的に活用・分析し、多様な方策を戦略的に利用しながら紛争解決を目指す民衆たちの姿を明らかにする。同時に、古代エジプト社会がヘレニズムという文化・社会現象をとおして、いかなる変容を遂げたのかを示す。 巻末付録として、プトレマイオス朝期エジプトの嘆願書一覧を収録。西洋古代史研究者、エジプト史研究者必携。

This volume brings together explorations of different aspects of Utopia studied from contemporary perspectives. Its main asset is its diversity and the broad scope of themes it covers and discusses. From literary utopias to media and philosophy, it offers a vista of approaches and contexts that testify to the book's interdisciplinary character. In the words of Lyman Towers Sargent, a leading authority on Utopia and Utopian Studies, an interview with whom is at the same time an Introduction to this collection, “Utopia has universal relevance, but the way it is applied and operationalized varies from country to country and over time.” Professor Sargent's observation can also serve as the leitmotif of the book and the current research on Utopia, its endless possibilities and varieties.

Language: Hebrew The book examines the ideological motivations behind the selection of representations for Israeli banknotes and coins. The research is based on the proceedings and correspondence of the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee from its inception in 1955 to 2012. The study reveals the mechanisms in which the legal tender is exploited as an expression of banal nationalism, implementing national emblems in an unnoticed manner. Banal nationalism is one of three theoretical frameworks we adopted. The other two are the long history of the Jewish people in the territory which today is the State of Israel; and selective tradition as a means for designing a nation. The book comprises eight chapters: theoretical overview; analytical portrayal of the working methods of the Bank of Israel Banknotes and Coinage Planning Committee; a study of the first designed “Allegoric Figures Series” (1959); analysis of the selection of human figures; the construction of the state borders through an array of landscape images; the reflection of the shifting boundaries in the changing representations Jerusalem; the selection of archaeological emblems as a proof for national continuity; and the symbolic role of flora as identification with the land.

This book discusses a rich variety of voices from the margins and experiences of living in the postmillennial globalised world represented in selected novels by Irish-Canadian, British, American, Serbian, Australian, Iraqi and Māori authors. Contributions focus on illustrative examples of the contemporary novel that reflects acute awareness of globalizing processes and the rising tension between global and local identities, discourses and trends. In its diversity, the book serves to map voices from the new margins overshadowed by the intense pressure of globalization. Whether these new margins are ethnic minorities living in globalized centres of contemporary metropoles or authors whose national, local or regional voices are marginalized by works with more global ones, they are equally deserving of the attention of general readers, university students and literary scholars. The book will primarily appeal to scholars in the fields of literary, gender, postcolonial and food studies, but will also be of interest to a broader readership involved in explorations of literary works in the context of globalizing processes.

Boken drøft er norske og internasjonale eksempler på fremstilling av uvanlige kropper og gir en innføring i nyere forskning på funksjonshemning. Dette er en bok om kropp i sin alminnelighet og uvanlige kropper i særdeleshet. Den handler om hvordan vi tenker, skriver og forteller om kropper, og om hvordan det går et hovedskille mellom mennesker med kropper som klassifiseres som vanlige, og mennesker med kropper som klassifiseres som uvanlige. For å forstå hvordan dette skillet har oppstått kreves det både kultur- og samfunnsanalyse. Kroppsspråk har funksjonshemning som et sentralt begrep fordi vårt moderne begrep om funksjonshemning favner mange av de viktigste sidene ved det å ha en uvanlig kropp.

Il libro raccoglie i contributi presentati nel corso del primo Seminario internazionale METra (Mapping Epic in Tragedy – Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura) svoltosi nel maggio del 2021 presso l'Università degli Studi di Verona. Il fine di questo volume – e del progetto da cui prende le mosse – è sondare i confini della ricca e frastagliata eredità dell'epica greca arcaica (in primis Omero) nel dramma attico. Tale eredità viene qui indagata secondo direttrici molteplici e multidisciplinari: dall'analisi linguistica e metrica all'esegesi filologica, stilistico-letteraria e drammaturgica, dalle prospettive della ricerca antropologica e storico-religiosa a quelle della storia culturale e delle idee. I saggi costituiscono – per quanto in modo inevitabilmente parziale – una prima, provvisoria ma già estesa mappatura delle fertili, continue e innovative rivisitazioni in chiave drammatica del patrimonio mitico, linguistico e culturale dell'epica messe in opera dai grandi tragediografi del V secolo a.C.

This book addresses the inherent ambiguities in ‘childhood', a widely familiar term. The main problem lies in the definition, duration and diverse socio-cultural implications of ‘childhood', which is a part of everyone's life. To explore the literary, artistic and cultural representation of this constantly evolving term, this book provides insights into a number of relevant issues relating to childhood. Explicitly rejecting the idea of childhood as an unambiguous monolith, it offers various critical approaches to the treatment of childhood with all its complexities in art and literature.

Flerkulturell forståelse i praksis bygger på erfaringer og problemstillinger knyttet til det flerkulturelle Norge. Profesjonsutøvere i helse- og omsorgssektoren, i NAV og i utdanningssektoren har et yrkesaktivt forhold til den flerkulturelle virkeligheten. Derfor er det viktig å forstå flere kulturer enn ens egen, samtidig som man må forstå hvordan man kan leve med kulturelt mangfold. Boken presenterer et allsidig utvalg av erfaringer og problemstillinger knyttet til profesjonsutøvelse i det flerkulturelle Norge. Problemstillingene settes inn i en større global kontekst, og temaene spenner fra migrasjonens betydning for levemåter og for relasjoner mellom mennesker, til transnasjonale liv og nye og uvante premisser for menneskelig utvikling og læring. Forfatternes mål er å utløse refleksjoner og diskusjoner.

هذا الكتاب هو عمل وإنجاز ملموس، يلقي الضوء على وجود الأرمن في مصر، ذاكرًا دورهم الحيوي والهام في مجال الاقتصاد المصري والفنون والتجارة والهندسة، مبينًا مدى اجتهادهم وإخلاصهم ودورهم في تقدم ونمو مصر. من المهم أيضًا ذكر دور الأرمن في مجال الثقافة، وعرض بتفاصيل دقيقة الحياة التعليمية، والمدارس الأرمنية، والحرف والفنون، والتصوير، والفرق المسرحية، والمغنيين، والموسيقيين، والفنانين والمطابع. في خمسة فصول، يستعرض الكتاب وجود الأرمن على ضفاف نيل مصر، من حيث النيل والحياة في مصر، وجذور الجالية الأرمينية في مصر، والهجرات والمذابح الأرمينية. بالإضافة إلى الحياة السياسية للأرمن على ضفاف نيل مصر، فيلقي الضوء على تسلق الأرمن للوصول للسلطة السياسية، وخاصة زمن بدر الدين الجمالي، وفترة الحكم العثماني لمصر، وأيام محمد علي باشا، وأيضًا ما بين الحربين العالميتين وحتى يومنا هذا. وبعدها يتناول الكتاب دور الأرمن في إنعاش السوق المصرية، وأيضًا الزراعة والرعي والمهن والحرف والصناعات، وكذلك التجارة وحياة التجار الأرمن اليومية داخل الأسواق المصرية، ومهنة الصيارفة والعاملين بها من الجالية الأرمينية في مصر، وأيضًا مشروعات الأرمن الاقتصادية. ومن بعدها يعرض الكتاب حياة الأرمن قبل مرسوم ميلانو، أي قبل عام 313 م، وطبيعة الإيمان عند الأرمن، والكنيسة الأرمينية على ضفاف نيل مصر، والرهبنة الأرمينية في مصر، والأديرة الأرمينية في مصر، ودير الأرمن بوادي النطرون، والأرمن وفن الأيقونات القبطية. وفي النهاية يتناول الكتاب الحياة الثقافية ونوابغ الأرمن على ضفاف نيل مصر فيما يتعلق بالتعليم من حيث المدارس والمكتبات والفنون والطباعة، والمؤسسات الخيرية والجمعيات الثقافية الأرمينية على ضفاف نيل مصر، ومشاهير ونوابغ الأرمن.

Welchen Platz nehmen die Kämpfe von Gewerkschaften und anderen sozialen Bewegungen in der kollektiven Erinnerung ein? Wie ist es um deren Errungenschaften bestellt? Was stärkt die Werte sozialer Demokratie in der Erinnerungskultur? Die Beiträger•innen des Bandes bieten erstmals ausführliche Einblicke in die Erinnerungsgeschichte sozialer Kämpfe und Auseinandersetzungen um Gleichheit, Freiheit und Gerechtigkeit. An wen oder an was erinnert wurde, erweist sich dabei immer auch als Machtfrage, als Kampf um Inklusion und Exklusion. Dieser Band stellt somit nicht nur einen ersten Schritt auf dem Weg zu einer Erinnerungsgeschichte sozialer Demokratie dar, sondern leistet auch einen Beitrag zur politischen Debatte der Gegenwart.

The appeal of this book hinges on a critical reading of the accounts of six literate early 19th century pioneer authors and their families, three from America's eastern coast and three from the UK. It highlights the struggles they faced as they attempted to shape and sustain a life and a future in the territorial wilderness in what was originally designated as America's “Northwest Territory,” but is now commonly identified as the “Old North-West,” which includes the present day states of Pennsylvania (west of the Alleghenies), Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. For all six pioneer authors, survival depended on the ability to sustain “grace under pressure” and to overcome unexpected existential challenges that demanded resourcefulness, ingenuity, and a sense of their own self-worth and their variant but embedded cultural identities that served to advance a deep-rooted sectionalism that, on occasion, continues to imperil fundamental American democratic ideals.

Papers presented at the 2002 Wenner-Gren Symposium, held in Oaxaca, Mexico.

The book of studies named Globalisation Trends in the Media contains an evaluation of the media culture in Slovakia. It deals with problems caused by globalisation and by the specific circumstances of media production. Whilst the post socialist states are, in many respects, in a similar situation, they each have their own specific attributes too. As this book features not only Slovak, but also Czech and Polish authors, the English reader will be able to gain an idea of the state of media production, and especially of the media culture, in Central Europe. The nature of media culture in Central Europe, when compared to that of countries situated further east, differs mainly in its inclination towards western Europe and, unfortunately, towards America too. The book contains theoretical and glozing articles dealing with radio and television production, as well as the Internet. Overall the book aims to introduce the reader to the state of the Slovak media culture, to its audience and also to its problems and successes since the year 1989. The book will probably attract the attention of experts in media production, academics of media culture and young people interested in radio and television production who would like to learn something about the culture of a small Central European country. They might have come across a similar phenomena in England. The book will help them find out how European culture influences Slovakia.

Crossing Places: New Research in African Studies brings together the work of twelve international research students, united by their interest in Africa. This new generation of scholars is questioning existing disciplinary frameworks and looking for new academic approaches to African history and culture in the twenty-first century. The volume explores the themes of crossing through time and space, encounters across generations and the renegotiation of identity for the future. Incorporating insights from the worlds of literary theory, history, anthropology and philosophy, the collection offers a sample of new research in African Studies with a wide geographical range, from Algeria to South Africa, from Cameroon to Zimbabwe. Crossing Places forms a useful introduction to African Studies for both undergraduates and masters students. It is of particular relevance to scholars interested in postcolonial studies, migration studies, comparative literature and the geography of identity.

The anti-liberal turn in Central Europe aroused a lively scholarly discussion to which this book wishes to contribute by providing a novel perspective. The recent illiberal upsurge is often ascribed to weakly rooted liberalism in the context of an unfinished transition, or, conversely, to the completion of the transition process in which populists turn against their erstwhile mentors from the West. Without separating Central Europe from global trends, the authors of this book look at a change in the political dynamics of post-accession Central Europe through the prism of the culture wars. Conflicts over values, symbols and social norms have marked the 2010s in strikingly similar ways across Central Europe. To some extent they replace the older, socioeconomic right versus left cleavage, and, at the same time, they highlight topics like gender, identity, sovereignty and globalization. Every Central European country has undergone deeply polarizing episodes in the aftermath of the 2015 refugee crisis, and some even before. In certain nations, these are linked to a strong national-conservative project, to religion or to traumas of the past, but there is no simple pattern. The book studies culturalized politics in a broadly conceived Central Europe - Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria and Croatia - and shows the various forms that culture wars have taken in the 2010s as well as their underlying logic.

Language: Hebrew The book offers a fresh view on the life of Jews under National Socialism. Focusing on the spatial and temporal aspects of the changes brought about by the new regime, it highlights the “tactics” utilized by German Jews to cope with the new reality, make sense of it, and rethink their position vis-à-vis German nationality. Based on a rich theoretical framework from various fields in social and cultural studies (human geography, environmental psychology, sociology of time and so on) the book examines German Jews'reflections on their new experiences through the paradigms of'lived space'and'lived time.'In discussing two main types of sources—private (diaries, correspondences and memoirs) and public (Jewish press)—the book sheds new light on the topics of maintaining Jewish agency under Nazism; the possibility and forms of Jewish defiance; and scope (and limits) of Jewish awareness of the processes that reshaped Germany's approach to its Jewish population. The book's analysis of Jews'reflections on the spatial and temporal aspects of life under Nazism portrays an intricate endeavor to understand the new reality, adjust to it, and answer its increasing challenges.

Este libro presenta una investigación sobre la economía “colaborativa”, un fenómeno que comenzó a describirse a mediados de 2010 con referencia a las plataformas de intercambio que operaban entre particulares. El movimiento estuvo auspiciado desde sus inicios por el éxito de grandes plataformas, como Airbnb, impulsadas a su vez por la inversión de grandes sumas de capital riesgo. En su expansión, el “paradigma colaborativo” trató de incluir bajo su paraguas a iniciativas de base comunitaria, plataformas sin ánimo de lucro que ofrecían diferentes servicios de colaboración, creando con ello una categoría confusa y polifacética que se popularizó con el nombre de “economía colaborativa”. La presente obra comienza con una aproximación crítica al proceso que dio lugar a este paradigma y sus implicaciones sociales. Asimismo, aporta una perspectiva sociológica al estudio de las plataformas de intercambio para establecer una tipología que identifique los diferentes modelos económicos y sociales a los que responden. De este modo, se identifican empíricamente dos tendencias contrapuestas en la economía digital: una que avanza hacia la intensificación del capitalismo digital, la precariedad y la concentración de riqueza; y otra que explora diferentes formas de economía comunitaria, orientadas a satisfacer necesidades sociales a partir de relaciones igualitarias, “realmente” colaborativas. Como conclusión, se reflexiona sobre la relación dialéctica entre los principios de valor sobre los que se sostiene cada una de estas tendencias. En este proceso, esta investigación apuesta por el desarrollo de una “sociología de las instituciones digitales”, proponiendo un marco teórico y metodológico desde el que estudiar cómo, en términos generales, las plataformas digitales construyen nuevas realidades. Desde esta perspectiva, las plataformas —y las organizaciones que hay detrás de ellas— se constituyen como nuevas instituciones sociales, capaces de producir grandes procesos de socialización, así como de ocupar posiciones clave en la sociedad actual.

City Visions: The Work of Iain Sinclair collects fourteen pathbreaking essays treating the panoramic oeuvre of novelist, poet, filmmaker and essayist Iain Sinclair. This book aims to reflect and develop the current strong interest in the work of Sinclair, who is widely recognized as one of the most significant figures in contemporary British literature and culture. The essays herein cover the key genres and periods of Sinclair's output, discussing his poetry, prose and filmmaking, and are developed from the proceedings of the first academic conference on Sinclair, which was held at the University of Greenwich in 2004.Following the introductory chapter, which includes a brief survey of Sinclair's career up until now, the collection is arranged thematically in four sections. The first part, ‘Contexts', features essays which comment on the critical categorization and definition of Sinclair's work. The second part, ‘Culture and Critique', includes essays which explore the political import and contexts of Sinclair's oeuvre. The articles in the third part, ‘Connections', look at the links between Sinclair and other writers, addressing the often noted intertextuality of his writing; and the final section, ‘Spaces', contains three considerations of Sinclair's treatment of London's urban spaces. This collection provides access to the latest research by the leading scholars working in this area, and will be a key point of reference for anyone interested in Sinclair's production.“To some, the field of `London writing'may increasingly look like an indifferent, over-populated wasteland. Iain Sinclair, however, remains pre-eminent, by virtue, not only of the amplitude of his knowledge of the city, but of the intensity and complexity of his thought about it. He is the redemptive memorialist of a host of disregarded London cultures that lie quite beyond the reach of contemporary pieties. In that respect, he is less our Blake, as he sometimes seems to believe, than our Pepys or our Defoe. At the same time, he is an audacious experimenter with prose forms in the modernist tradition from Joyce to Burroughs and beyond. Like the Sinclair phenomenon itself, this valuable collection of essays is multifaceted, illuminating its subject from a variety of different angles, whilst very well aware that it is part of a `work in progress'. It offers important testimony to the scope and power of a writer engaged in an original, serious and necessary project.”—Andrew Gibson, Research Professor of Modern Literature and Theory, Royal Holloway, University of London“This is an important and timely collection about arguably the most significant living London writer who is increasingly being recognised as an important contemporary English author in every sense.”—Lawrence Phillips, Principal Lecturer in English, University of Northampton“At last, Iain Sinclair has the readers he deserves--at least on the ample, often provocative, and always fascinating evidence of City Visions, a collection of essays marked equally by panache and verve, awareness of alternative cultural history and theoretical sophistication. Over fourteen chapters, critics with wide-ranging interests gather their restless energies and obsessions in response to the scatter-gun agitprop and guerilla-intellectualism of Sinclair, to produce a necessary and necessarily edgy volume. In this admirably relentless collection Jenny Bavidge and Robert Bond offer an unnerving and inventive critical topography that uncovers the dark heart of a writer who is simultaneously the enfant terrible and éminence grise of English letters. Belles-lettrists and other dilettantes be warned, this is not a volume for the faint-hearted—these essays manifest an evangelical zeal equal to their subject's own; in doing so, they take us on an exhilarating intellectual adventure, so refreshing in the world of lit-crit, where the polite formulas of sensible reading make one want to faint from ennui.”

Versions of Ireland brings a refined postcolonial theoretical optic to bear on many of the most urgent questions within contemporary Irish cultural studies. Drawing on, and extending, the most advanced critical work within the discipline, the book offers a subtle critical genealogy of the development of Ireland's diverse postcolonial projects. Furthermore, it reflects on the relevance and the effectiveness of postcolonial and subaltern historiographical methodologies in an Irish context, interrogating the ethical and political problematics of such discursive importation. Flannery's work highlights the operative dynamics of imperial modernity, together with its representational agents, in Ireland, and also divines moments of explicit and implicit resistance to modernity's rationalising and accumulative urges.The book is pioneering in the facility and ease with which it navigates the interdisciplinary terrain of Irish studies. Flannery provides enabling and challenging new readings of the poetry of the bi-lingual poet, Michael Hartnett; the politically imaginative vistas of the republican mural tradition in the North of Ireland; the gothic anxieties inherent in the fiction of Eugene McCabe and the semi-fictional writing of Seamus Deane, and the differential codes of visual surveillance apparent in Irish tourist posters and late nineteenth century photography in Ireland. Versions of Ireland does not dwell on the exclusively theoretical, but offers rich critical analyses of a range of Irish cultural artefacts in terms of Ireland's protracted colonial history and contested postcolonial condition.

Este libro es un recorrido histórico y etnográfico que presenta la configuración de las fronteras europeas, un elemento clave en la definición de Europa como proyecto político y como comunidad imaginada de pertenencia. No es una etnografía sobre la vida de las personas migrantes, sino que se centra sobre cómo son imaginadas, criminalizadas, asistidas, detenidas, trasladadas; en definitiva, cómo se han configurado las novedosas formas de gobierno sobre las personas que son categorizadas como'migrantes'. La obra analiza este régimen de gobierno a través de algunas de las zonas de frontera más definitorias de Europa: Ceuta, la ciudad española fronteriza con Marruecos, cuya imagen simboliza la Europa fortaleza y que se ha convertido en una cárcel dulce; Ventimiglia, ciudad italiana vecina a Francia, escenario de la solidaridad ciudadana más criminalizada y punto de fractura de la Europa sin fronteras interiores; Calais, la ciudad francesa que da paso a las islas británicas, convertida en un entorno hostil para los migrantes; y Katsikas, un campamento de recepción, un lugar de frontera en el interior de Grecia, ejemplo de la definición europea de acogida.

All Graceful Instruments: The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon gathers thirteen representative essays from a wide array of fields into an interdisciplinary anthology that reveals the depth and extent of this fascinating, variegated cultural phenomenon. Contributors use the techniques of literary criticism, musicology, sociology, philosophy, business theory, and more to explore the meaning and significance of the music of the Grateful Dead, the implications of their artistic and commercial success, and the social dimensions of their following, the Deadheads.For scholars and students of American history and culture, this book makes a convincing case for why the Grateful Dead phenomenon is worthy of academic attention and what that study can offer. By focusing a wide array of critical approaches on a single, discrete subject, All Graceful Instruments provides a refreshing approach to interdisciplinary studies that should appeal to a wide audience.

Echo and Narcissus: Echolocating the Spectator in the Age of Audience Research came about as a response to the recent shift of focus in the studies of cinema. While the seventies and the eighties were marked by increasingly complex theorisations of spectatorship, the last two decades have witnessed a turn towards ethnographic research into film reception. However, this long overdue turn towards the empirical viewer has not produced a genuinely broader scope of analysis. It has rather, all too hastily, consigned the spectator, a textually constructed viewing position, to oblivion, thanks to the concept's perceived hegemonic and totalising premise. Echo and Narcissus intervenes into this state of affairs by arguing for a productive nexus between theorisations of spectatorship and the currently more fashionable audience research. Petek maintains that an informed mapping of contemporary (and past) filmviewing practices still requires a spectatorial model and she offers such a model through a re-reading of Ovid's tale of Echo and Narcissus. She demonstrates that the myth's central role in traditional theorisations of spectatorship has not yet been properly reflected upon. Her critical recuperation of the Ovidian myth provides a revised model of the spectator—one with discursive access to all types of cinema, yet, flexible enough to accommodate a range of viewers'responses and their cultural diversity.