Exploring cultural margins and liminalities through visual and material culture: the case of Kaliningrad as presented in guided tours

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-28
Author(s):  
Gintarė Kudžmaitė
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural Margins ◽  
Guided Tours

scholarly journals Cultura material dos escravizados e expografia: um estudo do Museu de Porto Alegre Joaquim Felizardo

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 104-125
Author(s):  
Ana Maria Sosa Gonzalez ◽  
Evylin KoligosKi da Silva
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
The Other ◽  
Porto Alegre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Guided Tours ◽  
Archaeological Objects ◽  
The Way

O presente artigo tem como objetivo compreender a maneira como os museus trabalham com os objetos arqueológicos referentes à cultura material dos escravizados em sua expografia e acervo. Para tal foi realizado uma análise do acervo arqueológico e expográfico do Museu de Porto Alegre Joaquim Felizardo (criado em 1979) a fim de entender como os objetos relacionados à cultura material dos escravizados estavam expostos e sua relação com os demais objetos. A partir de aí questiona-se a maneira como são tratadas as memórias desse passado colonial violento vinculado à escravidão. Através de uma abordagem metodológica qualitativa com observação das visitas guiadas e entrevistas a funcionárias do museu, percebeu-se a importância da mediação para a compreensão da expografia e demais aspectos do museu assim como possíveis maneiras de trabalhar essas memórias para conhecer o passado e conscientizar ao público a partir dos objetos dos escravizados.Abstract: The purpose of this article is to understand how museums work with archaeological objects related to the material culture of the enslaved in their expografia and collection. For that, an analysis of the archaeological and expographic collection of the Porto Alegre Museum Joaquim Felizardo (created in 1979) was carried out in order to understand how the objects related to the material culture of the enslaved were exposed and their relation with the other objects. From there, one questions the way in which the memories of this violent colonial past linked to slavery are treated. Through a qualitative methodological approach with observation of the guided tours and interviews with museum employees, the importance of mediation for the understanding of the expografia and other aspects of the museum as well as possible ways of working these memories to know the pastand to make the public aware of the objects of the enslaved.  

Book Reviews

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 115-122
Author(s):  
Book Reviews
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Mexican Immigrants ◽  
Silicon Valley ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Missing Link ◽  
Transit Migration

Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists: The Lives of Mexican Immigrants in Silicon Valley by Christian Zlolniski Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press, 2006 ISBN 0520246438, 249 pp.The Archaeology of Xenitia: Greek Immigration and Material Culture Ed. by Kostis Kourelis Athens: Gennadius Library, 2008 ISBN 978-960-86960-6-8, 104 pp.  Transit Migration: The Missing Link between Emigration and Settlement by Aspasia Papadopoulou-Kourkoula New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 ISBN 0-230-55533-0, 177 pp.How Professors Think: Inside The Curious World of Academic Judgment, 1st Edition by Michele Lamont Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0674032668, 336 pp.

Touchy-Feely History: The ‘Stuff’ of American Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
New Research

This state of the field essay examines recent trends in American Cultural History, focusing on music, race and ethnicity, material culture, and the body. Expanding on key themes in articles featured in the special issue of Cultural History, the essay draws linkages to other important literatures. The essay argues for more a more serious consideration of the products within popular culture, less as a reflection of social or economic trends, rather for their own historical significance. While the essay examines some classic texts, more emphasis is on work published within the last decade. Here, interdisciplinary methods are stressed, as are new research perspectives developing by non-western historians.

Neil Guthrie, The Material Culture of the Jacobites

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-93
Author(s):  
Jennifer Novotny
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture

Leroi-Gourhan and the Field of Ethnology

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2020 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-44
Author(s):  
Christopher Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Intellectual History ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Human Sciences ◽  
Arctic Circle ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Language Technology ◽  
Formative Experience ◽  
Post War

The work of French ethnologist and prehistorian André Leroi-Gourhan (1911–86) represents an important episode in twentieth-century intellectual history. This essay follows the development of Leroi-Gourhan's relationship to the discipline of ethnology from his early work on Arctic Circle cultures to his post-war texts on the place of ethnology in the human sciences. It shows how in the pre-war period there is already a conscious attempt to articulate a more comprehensive form of ethnology including the facts of natural environment and material culture. The essay also indicates the biographical importance of Leroi-Gourhan's mission to Japan as a decisive and formative experience of ethnographic fieldwork, combining the learning of a language with extended immersion in a distinctive material and mental culture. Finally, it explores how in the post-war period Leroi-Gourhan's more explicit meta-commentaries on the scope of ethnology argue for an extension of the discipline's more traditional domains of study to include the relatively neglected areas of language, technology and aesthetics.

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