scholarly journals Introduction

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-234
Author(s):  
JOYA CHATTERJI ◽  
PRASANNAN PARTHASARATHI
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Trinity College ◽  
65Th Birthday ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Distinguished Career ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

Most of the articles in this special issue were presented at a conference held at Trinity College, Cambridge, in May 2014 in honour of David Washbrook, to mark his 65th birthday. As a Festschrift, it is unusual: its authors are drawn not only from the ranks of Washbrook's students, but also include his collaborators and colleagues. But it is, we hope, more than a commemorative volume. Inspired by David Washbrook's work, the articles not only speak to the rich range of topics he has taken up in his distinguished career, they also reflect important new directions in the economic and social history of India, and Asia more broadly.

Medical Technology and Technique

Anthropology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sameena Mulla
Keyword(s):  
History Of Medicine ◽  
Social History ◽  
Medical Anthropology ◽  
Science And Technology Studies ◽  
Medical Technology ◽  
Visual Technology ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Health And Illness ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Rich

The rich array of anthropological research on medical technology has primarily been carried out by anthropologists with specialization in medical anthropology, and science and technology studies. This research benefits from its conversations with the history of medicine. Among journals that have frequently published in this area are: Anthropology and Medicine; Culture, Health and Psychiatry; Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences; Medical Anthropology: Cross-Cultural Studies in Health and Illness; Medical Anthropology Quarterly; Medicine Anthropology Theory; Social History of Medicine; Social Studies of Science; and Sociology of Health and Illness. In this bibliography, material is organized thematically into eleven substantive sections to include work that exemplifies both long-standing topics as well as emerging frontiers of research. The first section introduces readers to the framework of biopolitics that often contextualizes scholarship on technology. Next, the reader is introduced to theorizing technology in relation to technique. This is followed by the issue of discipline in relation to medicine. The next two sections describe sensory practices encompassing the audio and the haptic. The article then turns to the conditions under which technologies are produced and used, treating the question of politics before discussing systems of subjugation. After this, the next section highlights technologies of rendering, broken down into visual technology, writing, and enumeration. The final three sections cover reproductive health, pharmaceuticals, and subjectivities. These topics represent dense nodes of anthropological scholarship that have informed the broader approach of anthropological research on technology and technique.

scholarly journals Introduction: Labour in Transport: Histories from the Global South (Africa, Asia, and Latin America), c.1750 to 1950

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (S22) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Bellucci ◽  
Larissa Rosa Corrêa ◽  
Jan-Georg Deutsch ◽  
Chitra Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Global South ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Imperial Expansion ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Market Driven ◽  
Agrarian Societies

AbstractThis introduction highlights the main subjects and research questions addressed in the articles making up this Special Issue on the labour histories of transport in the Global South. Although historiographical interest in the history of transport labour is growing, scientific knowledge on the subject is still very limited. This is especially true for histories from outside Europe and North America. Important topics and research problems covered here are: (1) transport labour as facilitating the exchange and mobility of goods but also of peoples and ideas – as such transport constitutes a noteworthy element of social history; (2) transport labour as a factor of production which is relevant for industrial and agrarian societies, as well as for market-driven and socialist economies; (3) the extent to which the processes of globalization, imperial expansion, and the emergence of global capitalism owe a debt to transport labour of the global south and its micro-histories.

A Cultural History of Theatre: A Prospectus

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 (3) ◽  
pp. 402-421 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Balme ◽  
Tracy C. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social History ◽  
Theatre History ◽  
Special Effects ◽  
Technical Developments ◽  
Performance Techniques ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Theatre Studies ◽  
And Performance

If theatre historians had been paying attention to the proceedings at a Gilbert and Sullivan conference in Lawrence, Kansas in 1970, they would have heard a gauntlet strike the ground when Michael R. Booth delivered “Research Opportunities in Nineteenth-Century Drama and Theatre.” He called for research on audiences (“cultural levels, class origins, income, tastes, and development”), performance in the hinterlands (“we know that in 1866 60% of the theatre seats in metropolitan London were outside the West End”), economics (“theatre profits and losses, actors' wages, authors' income, management and organization, the pricing of seats”), and performance techniques (“technical developments in set construction, staging, lighting, traps, and special effects” as well as acting style). This cri de coeur to break the hegemony of literary teleologies is recognizable, in 2015, as a mandate to reorient inquiry toward how repertoires were delivered rather than how authorial talent was paramount, what buttressed profitability rather than what constituted fame, and who sustained a gamut of theatres rather than what demarcated elite taste. It set the agenda for aligning theatre studies in wholly new directions, and without citing a single source or calling out any particular historian it inventoried how theatre history could come into line with social history.

scholarly journals Introduction: The Material Worlds of Food in Early Modern Europe

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Calaresu
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Social History ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract All of the articles in this special issue show the necessity of having to combine different kinds of sources—texts with images, images with objects, and objects with absences—to build an integrated history of the material worlds of food in the early modern period. They also reflect newer approaches to materiality which are sensitive to the relationship between matter and the senses and consider the haptic, visual, olfactory, and even aural aspects of cooking and eating alongside taste. In turn, the tastes of collectors and the fragility and absence of source material also need to be taken into consideration in order to write a meaningful cultural and social history of food. Despite the ephemeral nature of eating and cooking, this special issue shows that the sources studied by historians of material culture of the early modern period are remarkably rich, and their analysis fruitful.

New Directions in Employment Relations Theory: Understanding Fragmentation, Identity, and Legitimacy

ILR Review ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-579
Author(s):  
Virginia Doellgast ◽  
Matthew Bidwell ◽  
Alexander J. S. Colvin
Keyword(s):  
Theory Development ◽  
Employment Relationship ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Directions ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of

This article introduces the special issue on New Theories in Employment Relations. The authors summarize the history of employment relations theory and reflect on the implications of recent disruptive changes in the economy and society for new theory development. Three sets of changes are identified: the growing complexity of actors in the employment relationship, an increased emphasis on identity as a basis for organizing and extending labor protections, and the growing importance of norms and legitimacy as both a constraint on employer action and a mobilizing tool. The articles in this special issue advance new frameworks to analyze these changes and their implications for the future of employment relations.

scholarly journals The Hypothesis of Change from Above in the History of English: State of the Art and Perspectives

2019 ◽  
Vol 54 (s1) ◽  
pp. 251-266
Author(s):  
Nikolaos Lavidas
Keyword(s):  
Language Change ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Linguistic Ideology ◽  
Anglo Norman ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Definition Of

AbstractThe present paper presents the state of the art of research related to hypothesized changes from above in the diachrony of English. A main aim of the paper is to show how the cooperation of various perspectives can open new directions in the research of language change. We examine the main aspects of a definition of the change from above. We investigate the various perspectives through which the concept of change from above, as an “importation of elements from other systems” (Labov 2007), has been considered a significant factor for the development of English. We show that any attempt to investigate the presence or role of change from above includes the parameters of prestige, distribution of old and new forms, diffusion, gender, and linguistic ideology. Finally, we discuss typical examples of development of patterns and characteristics of English that have been analyzed as influenced by change from above, as well as the prestige dialects / languages and contexts that have been regarded as facilitating a hypothesized change from above (Latin, Anglo-Norman, standardization, prescriptivism, networks and individuals). We argue that the articles of the present special issue provide stable criteria that are required in any attempt to test the hypothesis of change from above in the development of English.

scholarly journals Rethinking the Refuge

2020 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-445
Author(s):  
Chrystel Bernat ◽  
David van der Linden
Keyword(s):  
Religious History ◽  
Systemic Approach ◽  
Transnational Networks ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Dutch Republic ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Impact

Abstract The history of the Huguenot Refuge in the Dutch Republic has often been written from a strictly national and confessional perspective, with little attention paid to the connections between French Protestants and other religious communities. In recent years, however, scholars from fields other than religious history have begun to explore the impact of the Huguenot Refuge, while historians of migration have compared the Huguenots to other minorities. Building on these new directions, this special issue seeks to move beyond the traditional boundaries of scholarship on the Dutch Refuge. Focusing on untapped archival sources, the relations between the Huguenots and other religious communities, as well as transnational networks of conflict and solidarity, the articles gathered here propose a more systemic approach towards the Huguenot Refuge in the Dutch Republic.

(Chapman) R. and others. Ed.The archaeology of death. (New directions in archaeology.) Cambridge etc.: University Press. 1981. Pp. vii + 159, [79] illus. (incl. plates, text figs, maps, plans). £17.50. - (G.) Gnoli and J.-P. Vernant Ed.La mort, les morts dans les sociétés anciennes. Cambridge etc.: University Press and Paris: Maison des Sciences de l'Homme. 1982. Pp. xvi + 505, [55] illus. (incl. plates, text figs, maps, plans). £25.00. - (S. C.) Humphreys and H. King Ed.Mortality and immortality: the anthropology and archaeology of death. Proceedings of a meeting of the Research Seminar in Archaeology and Related Subjects. … London, June, 1980. London etc.: Academic Press. 1981 (1982). Pp. x + 346, numerous illus. (incl. plates, text figs, maps). £15.80/$32.50. - (E.) Vermeule Aspects of death in early Greek art and poetry. (Sather classical lectures, 46.) Berkeley etc.: University of California Press. 1979. Pp. xvi + 270, [169] illus. (incl. plates (1 col.), text figs). £13.50. - (J.) Whaley Ed.Mirrors of mortality: studies in the social history of death. (Europa social history of human experience.) London: Europa. 1981. Pp. viii + 252, [12] plates. £19.50.

1983 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 195-197
Author(s):  
S. R. F. Price
Keyword(s):  
Social History ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Academic Press ◽  
Research Seminar ◽  
The Social ◽  
New Directions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Art ◽  
Archaeology Of Death
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