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Peeters Publishers Forme Et Sens Des Mots Du Tunumiisut. Lexique
Book SynopsisD'un point de vue typologique, la langue inuit (famille eskaleoute) est connue pour son caractere polysynthetique qui se manifeste non seulement au niveau de la proposition mais aussi au niveau du lexique hautement motive. Bon nombre d'entrees lexicales sont aisement decomposables et l'on constate qu'un meme radical peut servir de denominateur commun a toute une serie d'unites lexicales designant des realites variees. Cependant l'histoire phonetique du tunumiisut, dialecte inuit du Groenland oriental, a contribue a rendre plus opaques certaines unites lexicales. On presentera tout d'abord les entrees lexicales analysees suivies des derivations s'y afferant puis une liste des affixes attestes dans le corpus. Il s'agit d'une analyse synchronique fondee sur des enquetes de terrain. L'ouvrage presente enfin une liste des entrees et des affixes en langue anglaise et danoise. Cet ouvrage a ete decerne du Prix de la Fondation Lantier de l'Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres (Institut de France). This book has been bestowed with the Lantier Foundation Prize. The Lantier Foundation Prize is an offshoot of the Academie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres of the Institut de France.
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Peeters Publishers Dictionnaire Francais-kabyle. Parler Des At
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Peeters Publishers Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A
Book SynopsisJos J.S. Weitenberg, Professor of Armenian Studies at Leiden University (1994-2009), co-founder and President of the Association Internationale des Études Arméniennes, was a scholar of global standing in Hittite, Armenian and Indo-European linguistics. The twenty-three studies by colleagues and former students gathered in this volume reflect some of the depth and breadth of Weitenberg’s scholarship: Hittite and Anatolian, to which Weitenberg made a classic contribution with Die hethitischen u-Stämme (1984), and Indo-European etymologies. Armenian dialectology is well represented, as are contributions to wider Armenian culture, and the reception of Greek literary culture in Armenian. Further studies are devoted to digital preparation of critical editions, the relationship between master and pupil as well as the Armenian reception and interpretation of Biblical and apocryphal material, to which Weitenberg contributed in Eusèbe d'Émèse. Commentaire de la Genèse. Texte arménien de l'édition de Venise [1980]. Fragments grecs et syriaques. Avec traductions, together with Françoise Petit and Lucas Van Rompay (2011).
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Peeters Publishers Dictionnaire birman-français. Fasc. 3
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Peeters Publishers Un berbérisant de terrain: Arsène Roux
Book SynopsisLe fonds d’archives berbères inédites `Arsène Roux’ déposé à la Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l'Homme (MMSH, Médiathèque) à Aix-en-Provence (France) est d’une richesse exceptionnelle. S’il a attiré plusieurs berbérisants s'intéressant à la langue, à la littérature et aux manuscrits, et si quelques publications ont déjà été réalisées, seule une très faible partie de ce fonds a été exploitée jusqu’ici. Une collaboration régulière a été mise en place depuis plusieurs années entre l’IREMAM d’Aix et l’IRCAM de Rabat en vue de l’exploitation et de la valorisation de ce fonds – elle est bien sûr largement ouverte à tous les chercheurs. La qualité et la pertinence des écrits d'Arsène Roux, disséminés dans des revues aujourd'hui difficilement accessibles, et l'originalité des matériaux linguistiques recueillis et exploités, ont amené les éditeurs à regrouper tous ses articles, communications et comptes-rendus dans le présent ouvrage intitulé Un berbérisant de terrain: Arsène Roux (1893-1971). Écrits et inédits. On y a également intégré un certain nombre de rapports et notes internes relatifs à l’enseignement du berbère pendant la période du Protectorat, ainsi que le fac-similé de quelques travaux d’élèves, tous particulièrement éclairants sur l’activité pédagogique d’A. Roux. Car la carrière d'Arsène Roux a été marquée par un domaine de prédilection : celui de l'enseignement, aussi bien du berbère que de l'arabe. Sa bibliothèque foisonne de documents relatifs à ce champ d'intérêt, fondés le plus souvent sur des corpus authentiques collectés auprès de ses informateurs, essentiellement Si Brahim Akenku et ses élèves du Collège berbère d’Azrou. Le fonds documentaire Roux renferme également de précieux manuscrits en tachelhit en caractères arabes, désormais numérisés. Roux avait plus d'une corde à son arc. Son intérêt pour la langue berbère et pour son enseignement l'a amené à projeter d'élaborer des ouvrages de référence, en l'occurrence un dictionnaire et une grammaire pour le tachelhit et le tamazight. Les fichiers lexicographiques, les matériaux lexicaux ainsi que les diverses notes de linguistique sont les éléments d'un grand projet que Roux n'a pas eu le temps d'achever, pourtant tous les ingrédients étaient réunis pour sa réalisation. On espère que la publication de cet hommage posthume suscitera des vocations parmi les jeunes générations de berbérisants qui trouveront dans ce fonds des matériaux linguistiques, littéraires et ethnographiques considérables, divers et fiables.
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Thela Thesis The Vulnerable Hours of Leisure: New Patterns of
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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales La Mondialisation Contre Le Développement Durable
Book SynopsisLa mondialisation et le développement durable font l'objet de débats ardents. De manière inédite en France, cet ouvrage fait le point sur l'étude des relations entre les processus de mondialisation et les discours et pratiques du développement durable, avec une attention toute particulière accordée aux pays en développement. La mondialisation et le développement durable imposent-ils une analyse renouvelée, voire une remise en cause, des théories du développement ? Les régulations pour un développement durable dans les économies en développement sont-elles des symptômes d'une mondialisation arrangée servant une économie libérale, ou sont-elles à l'origine de l'expression de nouvelles formes de développement qui s'insèrent dans les interstices de la mondialisation ? Les auteurs de cet ouvrage dressent un tableau, nuancé et multidisciplinaire, de l'étude des complémentarités et/ou des contradictions entre la mondialisation, le développement et l'environnement, et analysent de manière critique des stratégies et pratiques de développement durable ainsi que les modalités de gouvernance dans les économies en développement en général et à Madagascar en particulier.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd From Beijing to Port Moresby: The Politics of
Book SynopsisEssays in this volume focus on Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China as sites rife with discursive complexity. From small to large, young to old, former colony to former colonial power, these six examples do well to represent situated voices and cultural values meted out in a larger "global" space.Table of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Cultural(ist) Articulations of National(ist) Stakes, Virginia R. Domínguez, Sasha Su-Ling Welland; Part 1 Singapore; Chapter 2 The Making of a New Nation: Cultural Construction and National Identity in Singapore, Chua Beng-Huat, Eddie Kuo; Chapter 3 A Second Look: On The Making of a New Nation, Allen J. Chun; Part 2 Taiwan; Chapter 4 The Culture Industry as National Enterprise: The Politics of Heritage in Contemporary Taiwan, Allen J. Chun; Chapter 5 Invention of Taiwanese: A Second Look at Taiwan's Cultural Policy and National Identity, David Y.H. Wu; Chapter 6 Rejoinder to Second Look, Allen J. Chun; Part 3 Papua New Guinea; Chapter 7 Pasin Tumbuna: Culture and Nationalism in Papua New Guinea, Lamont Lindstrom; Chapter 8 Cultural Diversity and Identity in Papua New Guinea: A Second Look, Wari Iamo, Jacob Simet; Part 4 China; Chapter 9 Cultural Fever: A Cultural Discourse in China's Post-Mao Era, Haiou Yang; Chapter 10 The Cultural Mission of the Chinese Intelligentsia: A Second Look at Cultural Fever, David Y.H. Wu; Part 5 Japan; Chapter 11 Hegemony of Homogeneity in the Politics of Identity in Japan, Harumi Befu; Chapter 12 A Second Look: Anatomy of Misinterpretation, Darrell William Davis; Part 6 Thailand; Chapter 13 Buddhist Cultural Tradition and the Politics of National Identity in Thailand, Yos Santasombat; Chapter 14 The Politics of Cultural Citizenship: A Second Look at Buddhist Cultural Tradition and the Politics of National Identity in Thailand, Chaiwat Satha-Anand;
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International Books Indigenous or Aboriginal Rights to Property: A
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International Books The Violence of Development: A Choice for
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Peeters Publishers Dictionnaire Abzakh (tcherkesse Occidental). Tome
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Peeters Publishers Le Proto-gbaya. Essai de Linguistique Comparative
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Peeters Publishers La Neologie Lexicale Berbere (1945-1995)
Book SynopsisLa premiere partie de l'ouvrage comprend: (1) des generalites sur la langue berbere, et en particulier des rappels de systhematique oA' sont exposes les principales procedures traditionnelles de generation lexicale; (2) un chapitre sur l'amenagement linguistique qui contient des generalites ainsi que des developpements concernant le berbere. La deuxieme partie presente, selon l'ordre chronologique, les materiaux neologiques berberes produits depuis un demi-siecle: les premiers neologismes (1945), les pages lexicales du Bulletin de l'Academie berbere de Paris, la grammaire berbere de Mammeri (1976), l'Amawal (1974-1980), le Lexique francais-berbere de mathematiques (1984), la traduction berbere de la Declaration universelle des droits de l'homme (1990), le Vocabulaire de l'education de Boudris (1993), quelques materiaux neologques touaregs (Mali, Niger), etc. La mise en situation historique et l'analyse interne des materiaux produits constituent l'essentiel de cette partie qui contient aussi des elements d'approche critique. La troisieme partie concerne l'usage des neologismes. Un premier chapitre expose des etudes de cas qui abordent separement les principaux canaux de diffusion: la poesie, la neo-chanson berbere, la radio, la litterature moderne, le theatre, les revues et bulletins culturels, la presse politique kabyle et la television. Le second chapitre contient des elements d'analyse et des conclusions. La quatrieme et derniere partie contient un bilan linguistique global et une typologie des neologismes berberes, ainsi qu'un chapitre de propositions que pourrait integrer une perspective de resaississement de l'action neologique.
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Sidestone Press Engendering Objects
Book SynopsisEngendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and female garments, gifts, and commodities, it explores the relationships between these cloths and Maisin people. The main question is how barkcloth, as an object made by women, engenders people’s identities, such as gender, personhood, clan and tribe, through its manufacturing and use.This book describes in detail how barkcloth (tapa) not only visualizes and expresses, but also materializes and defines, people’s multiple identities. By ‘following the object’ and how it is made and used in the performance of life-cycle rituals, in exchanges and in church festivities, this interaction between people and things, and how they are mutually constituted, becomes visible. How are women’s bodies and minds linked with the production of barkcloth? How do cloths produced by women both establish and contest clan identity? In what ways is the commodification of barkcloth related to gender dynamics? Barkcloth and its associated designs show how gender ideologies and the socio-material constructions of identity are performed and, as such, developed, established and contested.The narratives of both men and women reveal the ways in which barkcloth provides a link with the past and dreams for the future. The author argues that the cloths and their designs embody dynamics of Maisin culture and in particular of Maisin gender relations. In contributing to the current debates on the anthropology of ‘art’, this study offers an alternative way of understanding the significance of an object, like decorated barkcloth, in shaping and defining people’s identities within a local colonial and postcolonial setting of Papua New Guinea.“Engendering Objects is among the most comprehensive and innovative new works emerging from Melanesia examining the intimate connections between material culture, cultural identity and gendered personhood. Drawing upon extensive ethnographic fieldwork, archival research and examination of museum collections, Anna-Karina Hermkens traces the enduring yet innovative place of tapa (barkcloth) among the Maisin people. Written with warm compassion and immediacy, the book is a theoretically provocative, accessible and compelling portrait of changing life in a Papua New Guinean village society.” – John Barker, University of British Columbia“This book makes a most welcome contribution to the study of the materiality by showing how gender is performed in the sensuous terms of clothing, food, and the exchange of objects. Anna-Karina Hermkens accomplishes this with enviable care and intellectual resources, and a prose and ethnography that make the book a pleasure to read.” – David Morgan, Duke University“Anna-Karina Hermkens takes us to look at designs on bark cloth from Papua New Guinea through a magnifying glass. A fascinating perspective on material culture evolves. Beyond the art work we discover individuals – mainly women – painting their stories about who they and their beloved are as women and men, as traditional members of a clan, and also what they head for as strugglers in a new economy driven world.” – Christian Kaufmann, Honorary Research Associate, Sainsbury Reseach Unit, University of East Anglia, Norwich UK, former curator for Oceania at the Museum der Kulturen BaselAbout the author:Anna-Karina Hermkens obtained her PhD in Cultural Anthropology in 2005 from Radboud University Nijmegen. She is currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the ‘College of Asia and the Pacific’ of the Australian National University in Canberra Australia.
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Amsterdam University Press The Emotional Life of Contemporary Public Memorials: Towards a Theory of Temporary Memorials
Book SynopsisFrom the commemoration of September 11 to the Holocaust memorial in Berlin, recent decades have witnessed a substantial increase in the number of new public memorials built in both Europe and the United States. This volume considers the contemporary explosion of public commemoration in terms of changed cultural and social practices of mourning, memory, and public feeling. Positing memorials as the physical and visual embodiment of our affective responses to loss, Erika Doss focuses especially on the memorial ephemera of flowers, candles, balloons, and cards placed at sites of tragic death in order to better comprehend how grief is mediated in contemporary commemorative cultures.
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Amsterdam University Press Ecstatic Encounters: Bahian Candomblé and the
Book SynopsisEcstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomblé temples in Bahia, Brazil, where – for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been meeting to marvel at each other’s otherness. Having allowed himself to be baffled by Candomblé’s mysteries and miracle productions, the author explores the notion of ‘the-rest-of-what-is’: the excess that is the inevitable by-product of all reality definitions; the non-sensical that is the surplus of all culturally informed sense-making. Ethnographical insights in Afro-Brazilian mysticism are thus made to speak to anthropological forms of world-making, in a study that rejects the totalizing pretensions of all reality definitions, emphatically including those of academia. The theoretical importance of this book lies in its critical assessment of the constructivist paradigm that long dominates cultural and social anthropology. Adopting the Lacanian premise that the meaningful worlds we inhabit are lacking, and depend on fantasy and make-belief to be perceived as coherent, persuasive and incontestable, this study argues that the analysis of cultural forms should always include an exploration of the processes of cultural enchantment that endow man-made worlds of meaning with a sense of the really real.Ecstatic Encounters is written in an accessible, engaging, literary style. Philosophical issues are taken out on the streets, to be pondered in the face of everyday life; just as mundane dimensions of being are allowed to soil the conventional proprieties of academic text production.Trade Review"Thriving in the gap between the sensuous fullness of life and the impossibility of its cultural representation, Ecstatic Encounters opens mind-blowing vistas for 'writing culture' in anthropology today."— Birgit Meyer, VU University Amsterdam. "This is a daring, beautiful book. Van de Port is an exceptional writer. But by praising his literary skill, I do not mean to imply that this is one more experimental, confessional,embarrassing autoethnography. Van de Port plays tricks with the ethnographic genre, but this vertiginous rollercoaster is not a hollow facade; it is full of content. This study is one of the more theoretically complex, and original contributions to Candombl´e and Bahia ever written." -- Roger Sansi Roca, Universitat de Barcelona/Goldsmiths University of London in Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology "Ecstatic Encounters is not the usual in-depth, anthropologist-becomes-initiate type of study, and in this sense it makes for a refreshing change. It constitutes more of a cultural history drawn through a series of essays that tangentially explore the theme of Candomblé in the public sphere. [=] the strength of Ecstatic Encounters is not so much as a convincing ethnographic detailing of other lives and worlds, but as a meditation on representation as a form of world-making and the limits of human meaning making." - Maya Mayblin, Anthropology of This Century JournalTable of ContentsContents - 6 Preface - 8 Introduction - 12 1 On Immersion - 48 2 Mysteries are Invisible - 70 3 Re-encoding the Primitive - 100 4 Abstracting Candomblé - 128 5 Allegorical Worlds - 160 6 Bafflement Politics - 184 7 The Permeable Boundary - 216 Conclusions - 250 Notes - 264 Bibliography - 274 Index - 296
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Amsterdam University Press Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and
Book SynopsisModernity is surrounded by an almost magic aura that casts a spell over people all over the world. To connect with modernity, various ways and means are used, among them magic practices and religious ideas. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity deals with the magic in and of modernity and asks about its current significance for the dynamics of religion in Southeast Asia. Drawing on recent ethnographic research in this area, the contributors to this wide-ranging volume demonstrate how religious concepts contribute to meeting the challenges of modernity. Against this background, religion and modernity are no longer perceived as in contradiction; rather, it is argued that a revision of the western notion of religion is required to understand the complexity of 'multiple modernities' in a globalised world.. Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity is part of the series Global Asia, published by Amsterdam University Press (AUP) in close collaboration with the International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)Trade Review'The most significant contribution of this book is that it uses grounded empirical examples to engage with social theory, and in particular modernity, or should I say, modernities. It provides anthropologists, and more generally social scientists, with a generous tapestry from which to engage with ideas of religion, spirituality and the intellectual lineages of modernity.' - Jeremy Kingsley, Swinburne Law School, Melbourne, Australia, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Volume 18, 2017 'The book does an excellent job in capturing the way in which religion is conceived of and expressed in a popular context. Together these papers really do show - as it says in the blurb - that 'religion and modernity are no longer perceived as contradictory' and that 'a revision of the western notion of religion is required to understand the complexity of 'multiple modernitites' in a globalised world'. This reviewer agrees wholeheartedly.' - Michael Hitchcock, ICEE, Goldsmiths, University of London, Aseasuk News no. 57 Spring 2015 "An excellent collection of ethnographically and historically well-informed and well-written essays. [...] for many the book will serve as a welcome introduction to non-Anglophone research into Southeast Asia" - Gregory Forth, Pacific Affairs
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Amsterdam University Press David Gorlaeus (1591-1612): An Enigmatic Figure
Book SynopsisWhen David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) passed away at 21 years of age, he left behind two highly innovative manuscripts. Once they were published, his work had a remarkable impact on the evolution of seventeenth-century thought. However, as his identity was unknown, divergent interpretations of their meaning quickly sprang up. Seventeenth-century readers understood him as an anti-Aristotelian thinker and as a precursor of Descartes. Twentieth-century historians depicted him as an atomist, natural scientist and even as a chemist. And yet, when Gorlaeus died, he was a beginning student in theology. His thought must in fact be placed at the intersection between philosophy, the nascent natural sciences, and theology. The aim of this book is to shed light on Gorlaeus’ family circumstances, his education at Franeker and Leiden, and on the virulent Arminian crisis which provided the context within which his work was written. It also attempts to define Gorlaeus’ place in the history of Dutch philosophy and to assess the influence that it exercised in the evolution of philosophy and science, and notably in early Cartesian circles. Christoph Lüthy is professor of the history of philosophy and science at Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands.Trade ReviewToen David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) op 21 jarige leeftijd overleed, liet hij twee baanbrekende manuscripten na. Na de postume publicatie in 1620 en 1651 hadden zijn werken een opmerkelijke invloed. Doordat Gorlaeus’ identiteit onbekend was, ontstonden al snel zeer uiteenlopende interpretaties van de publicaties. Lezers uit de zeventiende eeuw dachten met een anti-aristotelische denker en een voorloper van Descartes van doen te hebben. Twintigste-eeuwse historici schilderden hem af als een atomist, natuurwetenschapper en zelfs als chemicus. Gorlaeus was echter 'slechts' beginnend theologiestudent en zijn werk bevindt zich op het kruispunt van filosofie, de ontluikende natuurwetenschappen en theologie. Dit boek beoogt inzicht te geven in de familieomstandigheden van Gorlaeus, zijn opleiding aan de universiteit van Franeker en Leiden en de historische context waarin hij zijn werk schreef. Ten slotte probeert de auteur te bepalen welke plaats Gorlaeus’ werken innemen in de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse filosofie en wat hun invloed was op de ontwikkelingen in filosofie en wetenschap. |Deze studie van het leven en denken van David Gorlaeus (1591-1612) probeert opheldering te geven rond het mysterie dat deze vroegmoderne Nederlandse denker omgeeft. Bij Gorlaeus’ overlijden op slechts eenentwintigjarige leeftijd liet hij twee zeer vernieuwende manuscripten na, die postuum gepubliceerd zijn, respectievelijk in 1620 en 1651. Aangezien zijn identiteit op dat moment nog onbekend was, begrepen zeventiende-eeuwse lezers hem als een antiaristotelisch denker en als een voorloper van Descartes. Twintigste-eeuwse geschiedkundigen daarentegen hebben hem afgebeeld als een atomist, als natuurwetenschapper en zelfs als scheikundige. Gorlaeus stond echter ten tijden van zijn overlijden ingeschreven als beginnend student in de theologie. Zijn gedachtegoed moet dan ook gepositioneerd worden op het snijvlak tussen filosofie, de ontluikende natuurwetenschappen en de theologie, en moet bovendien geplaatst worden in een precieze historische situatie. Het doel van deze studie is nieuw licht te werpen op Gorlaeus’ familieomstandigheden, zijn onderricht in Franeker en Leiden, en op de venijnige Arminiaanse crisis die de context vormde waarbinnen Gorlaeus’ werk geschreven werd. Ze poogt eveneens Gorlaeus’ plaats binnen de geschiedenis van de Nederlandse filosofie te definiëren en te beoordelen welke invloed hij mogelijk heeft gehad in vroege Cartesiaanse kringen.Table of ContentsDavid Gorlaes (1591-1612) - 2 Table of Contents - 6 Preface - 8 Chapter 1 Introducing Gorlaeus - 12 Chapter 2 Gorlaeus’ Two Treatises - 26 Chapter 3 Gorlaeus’ Life - 62 Chapter 4 Gorlaeus’ Place in the History of Seventeenth-Century Thought - 134 Notes - 164 Bibliography - 196 Index - 218
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Amsterdam University Press Capitalist Workingman's Paradises Revisited:
Book SynopsisThis book offers an in-depth exploration of the international phenomenon of enlightened paternalist capitalism and social engineering in the golden age of capitalism in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, and France. Erik de Gier shows how utopian socialist, religious, and craft-based ideas influenced the welfare work and educations programmes offered by paternalistic businesses in different ways from nation to nation, looking closely at sites like the Pullman community in Chicago and Port Sunlight in the UK. De Gier brings the book fully up to date with a brief comparison to contemporary welfare capitalism in our highly flexible working world.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2.Secular and purist origins of enlightened capitalism 3. Victorian England. From Coketown to Port Sunlight, Bournville and the Garden City Movement 4. 'The American Way'. Factory system, mass production, welfare capitalism and company towns in the USA 5.Worker Colonies and Settlements: Joy in Work and Enlightened Entrepreneurs in Germany 6. France. From the Mulhousian Welfare Work Model to the Taylorist Turn 7.A Comparison of Welfare Work between Great Britain, the Usa, Germany and France 8.Learning from Past Experience Bibliography Notes
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Amsterdam University Press The Christianization of Western Baetica:
Book SynopsisThe province of Baetica, in present-day Spain, was one of the most important areas in the Roman Empire in terms of politics, economics, and culture. And in the late medieval period, it was the centre of a rich and powerful state, the Umayyad Caliphate. But the historical sources on the intervening years are limited, and we lack an accurate understanding of the evolution of the region. In recent years, however, archaeological research has begun to fill the gaps, and this book-built on more than a decade of fieldwork-provides an unprecedented overview of urban and rural development in the period.Trade Review"The main argument of this detailed archaeological study is that the Christianization of Baetica "happened faster and deeper than generally admitted" within the immediate 75 years after Constantine’s Edict of Toleration, 313 CE (25) (...) Sánchez Velasco makes a cogent case for a rapid and sometimes violent Christian displacement of traditional Roman civic religion in the archaeological record." - Norman Underwood, New York University, *Bulletin for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies*, Vol. 43, 2018Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface by Rosa Sanz Serrano Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction PART 1. BAETICA IN LATE ANTIQUITY Chapter 1. Roman Baetica in History Chapter 2. Cities and Landscapes in West Roman Baetica Chapter 3. From Constantine the Great to the Arab Invasion PART 2. EARLY CHRISTIAN TOPOGRAPHY Chapter 4. The Ecclesiastical Organization of Baetica in Late Antiquity Chapter 5. The Bishopric of Corduba (Córdoba) Chapter 6. The Bishopric of Egabrum (Cabra, Córdoba Province) Chapter 7. The Bishopric of Astigi (Écija, Sevilla Province) Chapter 8. The Bishopric of Hispalis (Sevilla) Chapter 9. The Bishopric of Italica (Santiponce, Sevilla Province) Chapter 10. The Bishopric of Ilipla (Niebla, Huelva) PART 3. CHRISTIANIZATION: AN ARCHEOLOGY OF ECCLESIASTICAL POWER Chapter 11. The First Christian Buildings of Roman Western Baetica Chapter 12. The City of God: The Making of Church Power Bibliography
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Amsterdam University Press Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the
Book SynopsisThe first English-language book to focus on northeast Sino-Russian border economies, Trust and Mistrust in the Economies of the China-Russia Borderlands examines how trans-border economies function in practice. The authors offer an anthropological understanding of trust in juxtaposition to the economy and the state. They argue that the history of suspicion and the securitised character of the Sino-Russian border mean that trust is at a premium. The chapters show how diverse kinds of cross-border business manage to operate, often across great distances, despite widespread mistrust.Trade Review"Given the changing political and economic relationship between China and Russia in recent years, this collection of research on the Sino-Russian borderlands is especially timely and insightful." - Xiaochen Su, *International Journal of Asian Studies*, May 2019Table of ContentsIntroduction Trusting and Mistrusting Across Borders Caroline Humphrey Déjà vu of Distrust in the Sino-Russian Borderlands Sayana Namsaraeva Economies of Trust Informality and the State in the Russian-Chinese borderland Tobias Holzlehner Can Kinship Come to the Rescue? Trust and Cooperation across the Border between China and Mongolia Nasan Bayar Betrayed by Trust Inter-Korean Relations across Northeast Asian Borders Hyun-Gwi Park The Trade Town of Manzhouli Trust Created and Undermined Ivan Peshkov Différances of Doverie (Mis)trust and the Old Faith in the Russian Far East Dominic Martin Trust, Chance and Disappointment Real Estate Business in Russia’s Far East Caroline Humphrey Searching for Trust Indigenous People in the Jade Business Tatiana Safonova, István Sántha, and Pavel Sulyandziga The Emergence of Cross-Border Electronic Commerce Creativity and Declining Trust Natalia Ryzhova Index
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The Nordic Africa Institute Culture in Africa: An Appeal for Pluralism
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The Nordic Africa Institute Survival on Meagre Resources: Hadendowa
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The Nordic Africa Institute Common Security and Civil Society in Africa
Book SynopsisThis title is the outcome of a conference on common security and civil society in Africa. The contributions seek to go beyond the "war of images" to imagine a different and more secure future. They are concerned with five different themes: economic and social change; prevention of violent conflicts; the causes of conflict; political security, and the international politics of development partnership.
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Nordic Africa Institute Diasporas Within and Without Africa
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Monastic Wanderers: Nath Yogi Ascetics in Modern
Book SynopsisHow have the premodern Shaiva ascetic sect of the Nath Yogis (known also as the Yogis with splitted ears) succeeded in maintaining its presence and importance until today? This book intends to give a general survey of this sampradaya which is said to have been founded by the Siddha Gorakhnath, known for his strong link to Hatha Yoga. However, rather than to Yoga, the history and expansion of the Nath sect are linked to its rich legendary corpus. Dealing first with the marks of belonging (such as the huge earring worn by the fully initiated Yogis) which give the sect its unity.
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Alpha Edition Automatic Pistol Shooting; Together with
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HarperCollins India Landscapes Of Wilderness
Book SynopsisLandscapes of Wilderness draws upon Narendra's conversations, observations and ethnographic notes made during his stay with the adivasis in Abujhmad and Bastar over thirty-three years, and his deep association with his childhood village in the plains of north India. Rooted in popular adivasi narratives that are invariably indeterminate and captivating, it evokes the colloquial grandeur of adivasi folk discourse and idiom, and a nativity that is intrinsically comfortable with itself-an echo of the surrounding landscape.
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Double 9 Booksllp Sartor Resartus: The Life And Opinions Of Herr
Book SynopsisSartor Resartus is a satirical novel by Scottish author Thomas Carlyle. The book is divided into three sections, with the first section providing a biographical account of Teufelsdröckh's life and his philosophical ideas, which include a rejection of traditional morality and the importance of the individual's subjective experience. The second section explores the symbolism and meaning behind clothing and fashion, using it as a metaphor for the ways in which people construct their identities and relationships with the world. Finally, the third section, titled The Everlasting No, addresses the idea of skepticism and doubt, arguing that questioning and rejecting established beliefs can lead to a more meaningful life. Throughout the book, Carlyle employs a complex and sometimes obscure writing style, incorporating elements of poetry, philosophy, and history, and often satirizing the conventions of traditional narrative. Sartor Resartus has been praised for its innovative form and challenging ideas.
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Double 9 Books The Land of Fetish
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Zubaan Voices and Values – The Politics of Feminist
Book SynopsisOver the last several years, regular evaluation of development programs has become essential in measuring and understanding their true impact. Feminist and gender-sensitive evaluations have gradually emerged, drawing attention to existing inequities—gender, caste, class, location, and more—and the cumulative effect of these biases on daily life. Such evaluations are also deeply political; they explicitly acknowledge that gender-based inequalities exist, show how they remain embedded in society, and articulate ways to address them. Based on four years of research, Voices and Values offers critical insight into how gender, class, and nationality inflect and affect sociological research. It examines how feminist evaluations could make an effective contribution to new policy formulations oriented to gender and social equity. The essays here focus centrally on the structural roots of inequity: giving weight to all perspectives; adding value to marginalized groups and people under evaluation; and taking forward the findings of evaluation into advocacy for change. In doing so, each essay advances the understanding of feminist evaluation both conceptually and as practice.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Family, Kinship and Marriage Among Muslims in
Book SynopsisThis classic work deals with aspects of family, kinship and marriage in Muslim communities in different parts of India. Each contribution included here is based on data collected by the authors through fieldwork in specific communities. Each contributor also seeks to describe and analyse the social institutions in terms of social practices rather than the formal laws of Islam. Some contributors do refer to the formal Islamic principles and try to examine the correspondence between them and the social practices and behaviour they found in the areas of their study. The Islamic rules relating to kinship and marriage are not their primary concern.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Tribal Society in India: An Anthropo-historical
Book SynopsisTribes have been either romanticized as delightful primitives' or given up as lost' people on the periphery of Indian society. The autonomy of tribes, the uniqueness of their social structure, and their response to change in complex situations have not been adequately highlighted. This pioneering study brings together historical and anthropological perspectives on change in tribal society and its wider linkages. Like other segments, tribal society has been part of the universe of Indian civilization and of its dominant social formations through history. Similar historical processes have impinged on its autonomy, and its isolation has been relative and never absolute, atleast in middle India. According to this study, the roots of change go back to state formation, transfer of technology and culture contact. Peasants and tribes interacted over a wide spectrum. As the dominant community in some regions tribes also set the model for emulation.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Panjab Castes: Races Castes and Tribes of the
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Native Races of the British Empire: Natives
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Khasis
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Parsees: Their History, Manners, Customs, and
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Niyogi Books Iridescent Skin: A Multispecies Journey of White
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Ho: Living in a World of Plenty, Of Social
Book SynopsisThe book is set in the anthropologically much-neglected multi-ethnic interior of Highland Middle India. It is the result of fieldwork done over a period of 15 years among the Ho, an indigenous community of approximately one million people, who have shared cultural norms and the space of the hilly region of the Chota Nagpur Plateau with other aboriginal (adivasi) and artisan communities for ages. The work explores the structured tapestry of the Ho people's social relations and interrelatedness within their culture-specific socio-cosmic universe, ensuring their social reproduction in the present and affording them the means for and awareness of living in a world of plenty.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Sentinel Islanders: The Most Isolated Tribe
Book SynopsisIt was, however, in November-December 2018, that the Sentinelese received international attention, when an American national went missing after having ventured to encroach upon their land. It was alleged that a Sentinelese killed him after warning him twice to leave the island.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Cultural Heritage of Nagaland
Book SynopsisThe contributors have mainly focussed on the cultural heritage of the majority Naga tribes, but other tribes like the Kukis and Kacharis are part and parcel of the cultural melting pot of Nagaland, and this volume in a way underscores the cultural exchange and interactions.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Darjeeling: In Search Of People's History Of The
Book SynopsisAccepting history as constantly âextra muralâ the objectives of the book are to focus on un documented histories related to harmony, intimacy, belongingness and environmental care and thereby, interact the living with what is often projected as âdeadâ, by rejecting to abide by any given set of references.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Adaptation of the Jarawa to Andaman Islands
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors The Resilience of Indigenous Religion: A Struggle
Book SynopsisThe book is a sociological study of the resilience of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak one of the indigenous religions of the Rongmei people of Manipur. It examines the underlying factors contributing towards the ability of the adherents of Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak to continue with their religion despite stigmatisation, conversion and persecution by sections of Christians. This book reflects the contemporary relevance of the legacies of the religious movements under Jadonang Malangmei and Rani Gaidinliu. Thus, the book also examines the continuity between the past and the present religious movements with complex underlying factors contributing to the resilience of an indigenous religion. The Rongmei people following Tingkao Ragwang Chapriak, a reformed religion, are seen to be not shying away from changes in their religious beliefs and practices.
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Westland Publications Limited Tawaifnama
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Springer Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images
Book SynopsisThe aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for use in the laboratory when collections of fossils are being analyzed. Images in the book are a combination of scanning electron micrographs, regular photographs, cross-sections of bones and line drawings and graphs. By providing good quality illustrations of taphonomic modifications, with links between similar types of modification, the atlas provides a reference source for identifying the agents responsible for the modifications, the processes by which they were formed, and the potential bias introduced by the processes.The authors also aim to emphasize on the directions they consider taphonomic studies should be headed. Firstly, we should seek to quantify the degree of bias introduced into a fossil fauna and to take account of this bias before interpreting the palaeoecology of the fossil site. Secondly, we should recognize that taphonomic modifications increase the information encoded in fossils by identifying perimortem and postmortem contexts. This provides a more dynamic and realistic view of the past.Trade Review“The Atlas of Taphonomic Identification is an excellent resource for identification of common taphonomic modifications to bone. The information in this book is addressed to a broad audience of archeologists, anthropologists, paleontologists and forensic scientists. … this book is an excellent resource for professionals and students of many different scientific specialties. … I would recommend this for anyone who might encounter taphonomic issues in vertebrate remains, or indeed anyone with an interest in the subject.” (Karen A. Koy, PRISCUM, The Newsletter of the Paleontological Society, Vol. 26 (1), May, 2021)Table of ContentsIntroduction and Rationale.- Methods in Taphonomy.- Part I: Surface Modifications.- Linear Marks.- Pits and Perforations.- Discoloration and Staining.- Part II: Modifications Affecting Shape.- Abrasion and Rounding.- Part III: Modifications Penetrating Bone Tissue.- Flaking and Cracking.- Corrosion and Digestion Corrosion.- Part IV: Modification by Loss of Bone Tissue or Skeletal Elements.- Breakage and Deformation.- Disarticulation and Completeness.- Part V: Conclusions.- Why Taphonomy?.
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Leuven University Press Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies,
Book SynopsisReframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museumsHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful. Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies. Preface by Arjun Appadurai. Afterword by Roger SansiContributors: Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Annette Bhagwati (Museum Rietberg, Zurich), Clémentine Deliss (Berlin), Sarah Demart (Saint-Louis University, Brussels), Natasha Ginwala (Gropius Bau, Berlin), Emmanuel Grimaud (CNRS, Paris), Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós (Paris), Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Montreal), Toma Muteba Luntumbue (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels), Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Wayne Modest (Research Center for Material Culture, Leiden), Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin), Margareta von Oswald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Roger Sansi (Barcelona University), Alexander Schellow (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels), Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo), Anna Seiderer (University Paris 8), Nanette Snoep (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne), Nora Sternfeld (Kunsthochschule Kassel), Anne-Christine Taylor (Paris), Jonas Tinius (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)Ebook available in Open Access.This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).Listen to an interview with editors Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius at New Books Network: https://newbooksnetwork.com/across-anthropologyTrade ReviewAn extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary practice—its real possibilities and constraints. The editors’ guiding concept of “trans-anthroplogy” avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating former anthropology museums today. James Clifford, Author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st CenturyI seldom came across a similarly well-reflected and convincing volume! It asks future-oriented questions across a coherent range of contributions and conversations. This original collection covers relevant exhibition and debates. It is suitable for MA programmes and PhD programmes in curatorial studies, anthropology, postcolonial studies, visual culture, material culture studies, and art. Thomas Fillitz, University of ViennaBy opening the debate up to a European perspective, with contributions related to the French, Belgium, Dutch and Italian contexts, this anthology offers a well-balanced set of statements, interviews and experiences that allow for different practices to resonate and establish common terrains of concern and enquiry. The editors have proposed a rich selection of points of view that neatly embody one of the key requests for a revision of the colonial past that its narrative be formulated through new forms of pluri-vocality, that "trouble", and thus avoid the smoothing effect of the singular institutional voice.En ouvrant ce débat a une perspective européenne, à travers des contributions liées aux contextes français, belge, néerlandais et italien, cette anthologie offre un ensemble équilibre de déclarations, d'entretiens et d'expériences, permettant a différentes pratiques d'entrer en résonnance et d'établir des terrains communs d'intérêt et d'enquete. Les directeurs de l' ouvrage ont proposé une riche sélection de points de vue qui incarnent bien l'une des demandes clés dans la révision du passé colonial: que le récit du colonialisme soit exprimé à travers de nouvelles formes chorales qui soient « troublantes », évitant ainsi l'effet de lissage des voix institutionnelles singulières.Felicity Bodenstein, Critique d'art 55, https://doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.68093An assemblage of research articles, reflections, and conversations, Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial provides a unique and necessary contribution to recent conversations questioning the meaning, relevance, and legitimacy of anthropology as a discipline [...] Offering ongoing projects of ontological shifts and epistemic critiques, this book demonstrates the potential for decolonizing practices in the museum, while also acknowledging that representational work is not enough. [...] I would recommend this work to scholars, students, and practitioners, especially those dubious of the efficacy of anthropology and museums. In interrogating the validity of anthropology and museums, these contributors have deftly demonstrated the radical potentialities offered by these institutions through epistemological technologies and ethical apparatus, even as their epistemic existence is reconsidered. Sowparnika Balaswaminathan, Museum Anthropology, November 2021, https://doi.org/10.1111/muan.12239Table of ContentsList of imagesAcknowledgements Introduction: Across Anthropology Margareta von Oswald and Jonas TiniusMuseums and the Savage Sublime Arjun AppaduraiTransforming the Ethnographic : Anthropological Articulations in Museum and Heritage Research Sharon Macdonald“Museums are Investments in Critical Discomfort” A conversation with Wayne ModestFrontiers of the (Non)Humanly (Un)Imaginable : Anthropological Estrangement and the Making of Persona at the Musée du Quai Branly Emmanuel Grimaud“On Decolonising Anthropological Museums : Curators Need to Take ‘Indigenous’ Forms of Knowledge More Seriously” A conversation with Anne-Christine TaylorTroubling Colonial Epistemologies in Berlin’s Ethnologisches Museum : Provenance Research and the Humboldt Forum Margareta von Oswald“Against the Mono-Disciplinarity of Ethnographic Museums” A conversation with Clementine DelissResisting Extraction Politics : Afro-Belgian Claims, Women’s Activism, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa Sarah Demart“Finding Means to Cannibalise the Anthropological Museum” A conversation with Toma Muteba LuntumbueAnimating Collapse: Reframing Colonial Film Archives Alexander Schellow and Anna Seiderer“Translating the Silence” A conversation with le peuple qui manqueArt-Anthropology Interventions in the Italian Post-Colony : The Scattered Colonial Body Project Arnd Schneider“Dissonant Agents and Productive Refusals” A conversation with Natasha GinwalaPorous Membranes : Hospitality, Alterity, and Anthropology in a Berlin District Gallery Jonas Tinius“What happens in that space in-between and beyond this relation” A conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng NdikungMaterial Kin : “Communities of Implication” in Post-Colonial, Post-Holocaust Polish Ethnographic Collections Erica Lehrer“Suggestions for a Post-Museum” A conversation with Nanette SnoepRepresentation of Culture(s) : Articulations of the De/Post-Colonial at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin Annette Bhagwati“How Do We Come Together in a World that Isolates Us?” A conversation with Nora SternfeldThe Trans-Anthropological, Anachronism, and the Contemporary Roger SansiList of contributorsVisual constellations across the fields Some lists to inspire the reader
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Leuven University Press Working Through Colonial Collections: An
Book SynopsisReckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a newly built and contested cultural centre on Berlin's Museum Island. The book discusses almost a decade of debate in which German colonialism was negotiated, and further recognised, through conflicts over colonial museum collections. Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork examining the Museum's various work practices, this book highlights the Museum's embeddedness in colonial logics and shows how these unfold in the Museum's everyday activity. It addresses the diverse areas of expertise in the Ethnological Museum - the preservation, storage, curation, and research of collections - and also draws on archival research and oral history interviews with current and former employees. Working through Colonial Collections unravels the ongoing and laborious processes of reckoning with colonialism in the Ethnological Museum's present - processes from which other ethnological museums, as well as Western museums more generally, can learn. Free ebook available at OAPEN Library, JSTOR, Project Muse, and Open Research LibraryTrade ReviewImpressive. This research spans a crucial decade of critique, debate, and change in Europe’s ethnological museums. The fieldwork offers a rich 'inside' view of the choices facing museum professionals working under unprecedented pressures and constraints. Von Oswald’s attitude of 'observant participation' dissolves the binaries that can orient understandings of a controversial project like the Humboldt Forum. The book’s detailed ethnographic accounts are effectively articulated with analyses pitched at wider institutional, national and international levels. The organizing concept of 'working through' denotes acting within-and-against institutional structures, working toward a transformation without guarantees. Von Oswald argues for more open, responsive, decolonizing developments, without ever grasping for easy alternatives or final solutions.James Clifford, University of CaliforniaTable of ContentsA visual introduction Acknowledgements Foreword Introduction Chapter One Learning about German colonialism: On memory, activism, and the Humboldt Forum Chapter Two Being affected: A methodological approach to working through colonial collections Chapter Three Expanding collection histories: The museum as peopled organisation Chapter Four Troubling epistemologies: On the endurance of colonial discrimination Chapter Five Managing plethora:Caring for colonial collections Chapter Six Researching provenance: The politics of writing history Chapter Seven Probing materiality: Collections as amalgams of their histories Chapter Eight Repairing representations: Curatorial cultures and change in the Ethnological Museum Conclusion Timeline References cited
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