The Other Indians in Town

2021 ◽  
pp. 71-91
Author(s):  
Colin Calloway
Keyword(s):  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
Racial Violence ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Early America ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
Indian People ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Unfree Labor

This chapter shows that tribal delegates were not the only Indian people to be found in the cites of early America. Indian people included cities in their trade networks and they lived and worked in and around town in various capacities as both free and unfree labor. They went to cities and stayed there for many reasons and cities became centers of cultural mixing as well as economic exchange. Colonial laws designed to regulate Indian people reveal how much they were part of the fabric of urban life. Some Indians sought refuge in cities during times of war; others were taken there as prisoners of war. Increasing racial violence rendered Indian people in and around town vulnerable.

Conclusion

2021 ◽  
pp. 194-198
Author(s):  
Colin Calloway
Keyword(s):  
Urban Life ◽  
Early America ◽  
Indian People ◽  
Private Homes ◽  
Social Engagements ◽  
The City ◽  
Burial Grounds

INDIAN PEOPLE INVITED AND ESCORTED into town, welcomed by the city fathers, and cheered by enthusiastic crowds; lodging in the finest hotels, wined and dined at formal dinners, and dropping by for breakfast in private homes; touring the city, seeing the sights, strolling in the park, sitting in church, and watching performances at the theater and circus; cared for by physicians, and, if they died, being carried to city burial grounds in funeral corteges of hundreds of people; traveling by stagecoach at government expense and staggering home under the weight of gifts. . . . Contrary to assumptions that Indians were nowhere to be seen in the cities of early America, and that they had retreated as Euro-American settlements advanced, it might seem that citizens could barely walk the streets without bumping into visiting tribal delegates who went about an endless round of social engagements, observing and participating in urban life....

Pragmatic Probe: Preference and Satisfaction with Built Environment

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Salim Ferwati ◽  
Arezou Shafaghat
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Spatial Factors ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life ◽  
Empirical Perspective

Enhancing the quality of urban life is considered by social scientists. It has instigated a growing attention in findings from surveys aiming to measure the inhabitant image in particular places. This paper investigates preference and satisfaction that utilizes a model from both a conceptual and empirical perspective. It mainly explores the image of certain social-spatial factors enhanced in the degree of preference and satisfaction with neighborhood and housing types on both scales, as an overall and as details of urban elements and house features. It first presents a brief overview of literature and the methodology and then reviews findings covering 162 respondents living in two cities that represent four different neighborhood patterns, social-spatial characters, and housing types. The four neighborhoods are: traditional settlements, attached houses, tower apartments and single family houses. The major findings reveal that satisfaction within a given neighborhood does not necessarily associate with place attachment and similarly, despite realization of lacking certain social-spatial qualities in the neighborhood, people may feel attached to the place because of certain attributes. However, there is on one hand a positive relationship between satisfaction and feelings of a neighborhood as home, and on the other hand, differences in preference and satisfaction of house types, urban elements and house features. 

The Urban Environment

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara A. Hanawalt
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Leadership Positions ◽  
Social Divisions ◽  
The Right ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
Ceremonial Life ◽  
The City

London’s civic world included the Thames and the city walls, the main market (Cheapside), the Guildhall, major churches, wards, and parishes, the physical features that had a role in the city’s ceremonial life. Social divisions played a crucial role in urban life. To be “free of the city” (citizens or freemen) was a franchise limited to those who completed apprenticeships or bought the right. The number of freemen was a small fraction of the population, and among them, the members of the elite who governed was even smaller. London’s society was hierarchical at every level, with elites taking leadership positions in government and in the gilds. Londoners were loyal and curious about their history. They kept books with stories of its creation and major events and documents. The proximity of the Tower on one side and Westminster on the other were influential in London’s relationship with the crown.

scholarly journals Selling Spectacular Urban Life: Urban Space and Lifestyle in the Promotion Media of Apartment in Yogyakarta

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-48
Author(s):  
Ratna Noviani ◽  
Elok Santi Jesica
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Extended Time ◽  
Time Compression ◽  
Living Space ◽  
One Stop ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban Arts ◽  
The City

This article discusses how urban life is represented through the Barsa City, Uttara the Icon, and The Palace apartment advertisements and promotional videos. Applying Guy Debord's idea of spectacle to examine how urban life is transformed into visualization and commodification, also George Ritzer’s idea of re-enchantment of the disenchanted world and the new means of consumption. This article is aimed to analyze the position of apartments in the urban space of Yogyakarta that is discursively constructed through apartment promotional media. The conclusion of this research shows that apartments are functionalized to create the spectacle of the city. Urban space and life are aestheticized and spectacularized, in which apartments are displayed as part of dramatic and extravagant urban arts. Presented as one-stop-serving buildings, the apartments also promote the fusion of living space, urban style experience, and consumption which lead to the difficulty in distinguishing spatial boundaries. The advertisements and promotional videos of the apartment in Yogyakarta also promote temporal paradox. On the one hand, it promotes time compression and speed, meanwhile, on the other hand it promotes prolonged and extended time to foster consumption in the urban space.

Town and Steppe in Ottoman Syria: Hostility, Exploitation and Cooperation in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

Der Islam ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
James A. Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Urban Centers ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The One ◽  
Urban People ◽  
Different Sources

AbstractLate-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century sources from the Homs and Hama region in Ottoman Syria present contrasting portrayals of Bedouins. Taken together, these sources offer conflicting perspectives with respect to relationships between peoples of the towns and the steppe. On the one hand, literary sources typically portray Bedouins as antitheses of urban life, as savage wanderers who lived outside the norms of propriety and who collectively posed a threat to the wellbeing and property of settled people and of travelers. But on the other hand, legal sources portray Bedouins variously as targets of exploitation or taxation by urban-based governments; or as partners with urban people in contractual undertakings; or as imperial subjects who, like any others, would seek justice in the urban Sharīʿa courts. The article explores these differing characterizations, and seeks to explain the multifarious realities that different sources convey. It concludes by suggesting that relationships between town and steppe were on their way to becoming more institutionalized in the last years of the eighteenth century. This development foreshadowed documented nineteenth-century trends in which urban civil norms and institutions became noticeable in the lives of Bedouins who lived in proximity to towns and urban centers.

The Egyptian Empire in the Bible

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. N. Premnath
Keyword(s):  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
The Other ◽  
Economic Exchange ◽  
The Bible

This essay is in three parts. Part I explores the references to Egypt in the Hebrew Bible as an ideological construct. A significant number of references to Egypt, particularly in the Pentateuch, can be seen as a way to characterize “the Other” which in turn serves to define Israel over against “the Other.” Part II focuses on specific references to Egyptian activities in the Hebrew Bible and Part III highlights Egyptian influences on Israel with particular reference to political administration, economic exchange, religious ideas, literary aspects and iconography.

The Making of Wage Laborers in Nineteenth Century Southern Africa: Magololo Porters and David Livingstone, 1853–1861

2014 ◽  
Vol 86 ◽  
pp. 15-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Mandala
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
The Other ◽  
Wage Labor ◽  
Documentary Evidence ◽  
Free Labor ◽  
The Core ◽  
Unfree Labor ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Indirect Rule

AbstractThis essay illuminates the worldwide transition to free labor from various forms of unfree labor by examining that process in the particular conditions of Southern Africa's encounter with Britain. Dr. David Livingstone's servants—whose descendants in Malawi have been called “Magololo,”1 a term used throughout this essay to distinguish them from the “Kololo” conquerors of Bulozi in contemporary Zambia and parts of Namibia—exemplify this global development. Between 1853 and 1861, over a hundred young Magololo men worked as porters, deckhands, and guides and showed Livingstone the very places in southern Africa whose “discovery” (for Britons) made Livingstone famous. Owing tribute labor to their king, Sekeletu, they initially performed these tasks as subjects. But, after Livingstone's return from England in 1858, they labored for wages; they were among the first groups of Africans in the region to make the emblematic modern move from formally unfree labor to formally free labor. This transition, which would form the core conflict of indirect rule in British Africa, radically altered Livingstone's relationship with his guides: They rebelled against him in 1861. This is one side of the story. The other side follows from the fact that one cannot sensibly speak about workers without the story of their employers. Accordingly, this essay revisits the well-known story of Livingstone's life but offers a different perspective than other biographies. It is the first study to combine the long-familiar documentary evidence with oral sources, for the specific purpose of retelling the Livingstone narrative (in its many renderings) from the viewpoint of his relations with the Magololo workers. In that way, it can shed light on the beginnings of the transition to wage labor in this region.

scholarly journals DESCOLONIZAR O URBANO PARA VER O “OUTRO”: Ideologias, imagens e a invisibilidade indígena nas cidades médias

ILUMINURAS ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesus Marmanillo Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
The Other ◽  
Indian People ◽  
Urban Images ◽  
The City ◽  
Methodological Reflection ◽  
Made In ◽  
Do So

Resumo O artigo traz uma breve reflexão teórico-metodológica sobre como a Sociologia e a Antropologia no Brasil têm auxiliado numa compreensão de urbano ancorada nos pressupostos da modernidade. Instigados pelas contribuições de autores como Oliven (1980), Castro- Gomes (2005) e outros críticos das Ciências Sociais, nos orientamos pela hipótese de que o primeiro passo para pensar em cidades, efetivamente, plurais é a problematização e descolonização da ideia de urbano. Para tanto, analisamos o processo de invisibilidade indígena, percebido por meio de um conjunto de dados composto por: fotografias e anotações feitas nas cidades de Campo Grande (MS), Imperatriz (MA), Rorainopolis (RR) e Boa Vista (RR), dados do IBGE, Bibliografia especializada, vídeos e reportagens produzidos nessas cidades, e também, na cidade de Macapá (AP). Palavras Chave – Descolonização. Urbano. Imagens. Povos indígenas  DECOLONIZE THE URBAN TO SEE THE "OTHER": Ideologies, images and indigenous invisibility in médium cities AbstractThe article brings a brief theoretical and methodological reflection on how Sociology and Anthropology in Brazil have helped in an understanding of urban anchored in the presuppositions of modernity. Instigated by the contributions of authors such as Oliven (1980), Castro-Gomes (2005) and other critics of Social Sciences, we hypothesized that the first step to think of cities, indeed plural, is the problematization and decolonization of the idea of urban . To do so, we analyzed the process of indigenous invisibility, perceived through a set of data composed of: photographs and annotations made in the cities of Campo Grande (MS), Imperatriz (MA), Rorainopolis (RR) and Boa Vista (RR) IBGE data, specialized bibliography, videos and reports produced in these cities, and also in the city of Macapá (AP).Keywords - Decolonization. Urban. Images. Indian people

scholarly journals Headphone Listening Cultures

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 473-492
Author(s):  
Julián Jaramillo Arango ◽  
Paulo Assis Barbosa ◽  
Esteban Astorga
Keyword(s):  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Smartphone Applications ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Experimental Field ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Subject

This paper discusses the headphones as key factors in the establishment of a mobile listening culture by suggesting that the function of this artifact has been changing according not only with technological innovation, but also with economic contingencies borrowed from capitalist logics. By discussing concepts such as tympanic function (Jonathan Sterne) and Commodity Scientism (Thimoty Taylor) the text will examine theories on the origins of headphones, as well as analyzing early models. The Walkman, launched in the 1980, will be the subject of a detailed scrutiny, since it is responsible for linking the use of audio devices with the urban life. Afterward, the article will confront a handful of texts discussing mobile listening, fostered by the Walkman and extended by subsequent portable audio products such as the Apple’s iPod. In the contemporaneity, the headphones underwent a process of stylization and have achieved the status of a fashion accessory. On the other hand, they are being implemented in interactive audio narratives such as games and smartphone applications. Locative audio will be discussed as an experimental field envisaging future functions and features for the headphones.

scholarly journals AS AN EXPERIENCE OF EMPATHY WITH A LIVE ANIMAL PERFORMANCE ART

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (76) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Life ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Living Animal ◽  
Live Animal ◽  
Art Object ◽  
Dead Animal ◽  
Joseph Beuys ◽  
Social Reaction ◽  
The Social

Modern urban life and all the orders established accordingly are people-oriented. It is managed and operated with the codes determined by this human. In this system, the other was excluded, dislodged and exiled to custom. Neither natural, nor plant, animal, almost the entire eco-system has been reorganized according to the conditions and rules determined by the human being with human ego and hypocrisy. It can make enough space for itself to live in the freedom area bestowed by man. When the art movements after 1960 are examined; again, the effects of a human-centered approach are clearly visible. The viewer and many concepts that move when viewed in the frame; He saw no harm in using the living or dead animal as an art object. Although the actions and actions to react to the social tensions have a ritual characteristic, they are only demonstrations that consist of watching the displaced animal. In this research, in the performance titled "I Love America and Me in America", which Joseph Beuys performed in 1974, next to the art object of the live animal, the next row; An analysis will be made regarding his coming to a social reaction symbol. Keywords: Joseph Beuys, changing art object, living animal

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