scholarly journals The Ulli Beier Archives at the Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU), Nigeria, and a Summary of Holdings

2019 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. vii-xxii
Author(s):  
RAHEEM Oluwafunminiyi
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Black Culture ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
African Culture ◽  
International Understanding ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Cultural Interactions

AbstractThe Centre for Black Culture and International Understanding (CBCIU) was established on 7 January 2009. Located behind the Osun State Secretariat, southwest Nigeria, the CBCIU prides itself on being the inheritor of the archival estate of Ulli Beier, the late German connoisseur and African culture enthusiast. Housed in its Archive and Documentation Room/Unit, this repository contains very rich archival materials that include over 700 photographs with carefully preserved negatives and slides all dating back to the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s, and thousands of works of literature published between 1921 and the 2000s on virtually all aspects of Yoruba art, culture, philosophy and intellectual history. Based on fieldwork conducted at the CBCIU in 2018 and 2019, this study embarks on three mutually-connected transactions. First, it examines Ulli Beier's ‘cultural border-crossings’ into Yorubaland, particularly in Osogbo, southwest Nigeria, where his diverse cultural interactions facilitated the revival of a diminishing culture. Second, the study discusses the genesis of the CBCIU dating back to Ulli Beier's emergence in Nigeria in 1950. Third, it analyses what it means for the CBCIU to inherit an invaluable material legacy. This is done by giving an account of the inventories and a summary of the holdings in the Archives. While the Archive forms the very nucleus of what the CBCIU stands for, I argue that this agency serves as a worthy inheritor of a material legacy that continually seeks cultural relevance and perpetuity.

Origins

2020 ◽  
pp. 23-61
Author(s):  
Durba Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Female Sexuality ◽  
Indian Society ◽  
Sanskrit Text ◽  
Conceptual History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This chapter offers a conceptual history of the modern study of ancient Indian sex. It traces the intellectual history of how the philology of Sanskrit erotics, particularly through concepts of deviant female sexuality, shaped the modern study of social life. In doing so, the chapter reveals a history of how modern philological inquiry produced deviant female sexuality, as found in premodern Sanskrit text, as an originary object for the study of modern Indian society. What was lost in these new fixed structures of knowledge was the multiplicity of interpretations of different texts on premodern social life. Thus, this chapter examines the transregional rise of the field of Indological erotics in the period between the 1880s and the 1950s and beyond.

Navajo-Churro sheep and wool in the United States

2009 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 99-105 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.P. Sponenberg ◽  
C. Taylor
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Native American ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Region ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Registry System ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
American Nation

SummaryNavajo-Churro sheep have been part of the subsistence of three cultures in the Southwest of the United States for over 400 years. These cultures include Navajo (a Native American nation), Hispanic and Anglo. The Navajo-Churro breed nearly became extinct in the 1950s to 1970s, but farsighted conservation programmes were then begun which involved all three cultures in saving this unique breed. Navajo-Churro sheep are a distinctive double-coated Criollo breed. The fleece type is superbly suited to the textiles produced in the local region and which are famous throughout the United States for their unique qualities and cultural relevance. A registry system involving ongoing inspection of each generation assures that the type remains traditional. Census numbers are now close to 3000 head as the breed moves beyond its original homeland to become more widely established throughout the United States.

scholarly journals Disease control and border lockdown at the EU’s internal borders during Covid-19 pandemic: the case of Finland

Baltic Region ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 83-102
Author(s):  
J. Virkkunen
Keyword(s):  
Disease Control ◽  
Civil Disobedience ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Cross Border ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
The Government ◽  
Work Commuting

The article discusses the lockdown of the EU’s internal borders during the Covid-19 pandemic in Finland. Special attention is paid to bordering as a means of disease control and the governments’ aim to “protect the population and secure functions of society”. Not only did the government restrict flights and ‘non-essential’ travel from non-Schengen countries such as Russia, China and Thailand but, with some exceptions, it also restricted travel-to-work commuting and everyday cross-border encounters between Finland and its Schengen neighbours of Sweden, Norway and Estonia. The restrictions hampered tourism and migrant-dependent industries as well as complicated the lives of migrants’ families. While the lockdown of the Estonian and Russian border does not cause any debates in Finnish society, the closure of the Finnish-Swedish border that has been completely open since the 1950s and the new regime led to a debate of citizens’ constitutional rights and to civil disobedience that materialised in semi-legal border crossings.

scholarly journals C. Wright Mills: A Political Writer and his Fan Mail

2001 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kim Sawchuk
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Public Intellectual ◽  
The Political ◽  
Informal Networks ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Penny Press ◽  
Epistemological Challenge ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Constructive Criticism ◽  
The 1950S

Abstract: This paper examines the "fan mail" received by C. Wright Mills from his readership to better understand the reasons for Mills' popularity as a public intellectual in the 1950s. The paper documents Mills' strategic use of magazines and penny press publishers, his deployment of vernacular stylistic forms to express political issues, and the responses of these fans. These writerly readers not only lauded Mills' efforts but offered their constructive criticism and personal testimony, which Mills sometimes incorporated back into his speeches and articles. Many letter writers assisted in the circulation of Mills' texts within other informal networks, thus shedding light on the political conjuncture of the 1950s. The paper also attends to the methodological and epistemological challenge of using such letters, typically used to study responses to popular cultural texts, for the study of intellectual history. Résumé: Cet article se penche sur le courrier des « admirateurs » de C. Wright Mills afin de mieux comprendre les raisons de la popularité du sociologue américain en tant qu'intellectuel engagé durant les années 1950. On y documente l'utilisation stratégique par Mills des magazines et des journaux populaires, du langage vernaculaire pour aborder des questions politiques, ainsi que les réactions des lecteurs à ses interventions. Ceux-ci félicitaient l'auteur pour ses efforts de vulgarisation; ils lui offraient également commentaires constructifs et témoignages que Mills incorporait à l'occasion dans ses conférences et ses articles. Plusieurs de ces épistoliers ont aussi fait circuler les textes du sociologue dans leurs réseaux informels, contribution éclairante à la compréhension de la conjoncture politique des années 1950. Cet article s'attache enfin au défi méthodologique et épistémologique posé par l'utilisation de ce type de documents, typiquement employés pour analyser les réactions à des textes de culture populaire, pour étudier l'histoire du monde intellectuel.

Erasing the Marks of Domination: Economic Sovereignty, Decolonization, and International Lawmaking in the 1950s and 1960s

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Christopher Dietrich
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

Abstract This article tells a legal and intellectual history of oil and decolonization in the 1950s and 1960s through the projects of international institutions including the UN Permanent Sovereignty Commission and the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the work of anti-colonial lawyers Hasan Zakariya and Nicolas Sarkis. It examines the ideas and infrastructure of decolonization as they related to the question of how international law could be used to win economic sovereignty.

“When Knowledge is there, Other Things Follow”: The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria and the Making of Yoruba Muslim Youths

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 127-152
Author(s):  
Adeyemi Balogun
Keyword(s):  
Educational Environment ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Muslim Students ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
The 1950S

Among the religiously mixed Yoruba people of southwest Nigeria, the knowledge and values involved with being a Muslim are taught by both Muslim clerics in Qurʾanic schools and modern madrasas and by non-scholarly Muslims in different contexts. While some research has focussed on Yoruba clerics, little is known about the teaching initiatives of other Muslims. An important movement led by ordinary Muslims is the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (mssn), formed in 1954 to provide guidance to Muslim students in a predominantly non-Muslim educational environment. Since the 1950s, the mssn has engaged young Muslims in a series of socio-cultural, educational and religious activities aimed at encouraging young Muslims to engage with Islam, but which also equips them with the socio-economic skills necessary to operate in a modern, mixed religious world.

Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Probst
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Cohesive Force ◽  
Sacred Grove ◽  
Southwest Nigeria ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

The Osun Osogbo Sacred Grove is part of the story of Nigerian Modernism. Situated on the outskirts of the city of Osogbo in Southwest Nigeria, the grove consists of seventy-five hectares of forestland along the banks of the Osun river. Hunting, farming, and fishing are forbidden in the grove. No permanent settlements are allowed. Instead the area is covered with a large number of sculptures and temples of various sizes and materials. Some are made of wood, others of stone and cement. Both the structures and the restrictions echo the religious character of the site. Osun is not only a river, but also Osogbo’s guardian deity who is credited with providing wealth, fertility, and protection. The origin of these structures dates back to the 1950s when the entangled forces of colonialism, Christianity, and commerce had started to erode the relationship between the city and the goddess. The cohesive force of the Osun Grove declined. People began to ignore local restrictions on hunting, fishing, and farming to the point that the grove was at risk of abandonment. To address this crisis, in 1959—one year before Nigeria gained independence—a group of Osun ritual officials approached Susanne Wenger, an Austrian artist and a convert to Yoruba religion, and asked for her help.

scholarly journals Meanings and Understandings in the History of Ideas

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 232-256
Author(s):  
Adrian Blau
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
History Of Ideas ◽  
History Of Political Thought ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Intellectual Foundations

Abstract This paper presents a framework of four types of meaning and understanding in the history of political thought and intellectual history. Previous frameworks have overlooked a whole type of meaning – the type often prioritised by political theorists and philosophers. I call this “extended meaning.” Correcting a wrong turn in philosophy of language in the 1950s, I show how extended meaning has robust intellectual foundations, and I illustrate its value for textual interpreters. Even historians often need extended meaning, for example to help resolve ambiguous passages. So, the main types of meaning are not alternatives: scholars interested in one kind of meaning still need others. This paper thus celebrates both diversity and unity.

American Character Revisited

1983 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rupert Wilkinson
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
Social Character ◽  
Lonely Crowd ◽  
American Character ◽  
American Intellectual ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
American Intellectual History

One of the intellectual industries that has flourished as the economic barometer has fallen is the study of American social character: the enterprise of generalizing about American culture in a way that focuses on psychological tendencies: on character, attitude, and personal values. Ten years ago, most readers, I believe, would have accepted this topic as a distinctive part of American intellectual history, but as something which more or less went out after the concerns of the 1950s that made such a market for David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd and William Whyte's The Organization Man. We now know that it did not go out; it merely receded in the centrifugal sixties and resumed in the seventies. Yet despite the industry's resurgence and its long antecedents, it has never been fully analysed and explained.

From Volunteering to Academic Programming: A Case Example

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (17) ◽  
pp. 7-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Gill ◽  
Sneha Bharadwaj ◽  
Nancy Quick ◽  
Sarah Wainscott ◽  
Paula Chance
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Master's Program ◽  
Speech Language Pathology ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Charitable Organization ◽  
Language Pathology ◽  
The University

A speech-language pathology master's program that grew out of a partnership between the University of Zambia and a U.S.-based charitable organization, Connective Link Among Special needs Programs (CLASP) International, has just been completed in Zambia. The review of this program is outlined according to the suggested principles for community-based partnerships, a framework which may help evaluate cultural relevance and sustainability in long-term volunteer efforts (Israel, Schulz, Parker, & Becker, 1998).

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