Situating Bön and the Life of Shardza

2018 ◽  
pp. 19-36
Author(s):  
William M. Gorvine
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
General Orientation ◽  
Eastern Tibet ◽  
Historical Developments

The opening chapter locates Bön within a broader Tibetan cultural landscape, with a view to how historical developments have contributed to modern Bönpo identity in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Beginning with a general orientation to what it has meant to be an adherent of Bön, the chapter introduces key historical developments that have shaped Bön in ways significant to our understanding of Shardza’s life. These include complex and sometimes contentious relations with nascent Buddhist lineages in Tibet, internal divisions within Bön itself, and the climate of nonsectarianism that emerged in eastern Tibet in the nineteenth century. This presentation concludes with a look at some of the particular dynamics that fueled a dispute erupting late in Shardza’s career, in which his commitment to time-honored Bön tradition came to be questioned by critics from within the lineage.

scholarly journals Making a Bible Enterprise: James Thomson and the British and Foreign Bible Society in British North America, 1838–1842

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Barnard
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
North America ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Christian Faith ◽  
British North America ◽  
The World ◽  
Ample Supply ◽  
James Thomson ◽  
Historical Developments

The reading and study of bibles in Canada has shaped the ways in which the Christian faith is practiced, but it was not until the middle of the nineteenth century that bibles became widely available. This article examines the historical developments of bible distribution in British North America, focusing on the British and Foreign Bible Society (BFBS), which became the largest distributor of bibles in the world. Strengthening the BFBS's Canadian influence was its agent James Thomson, whose work in British North America between 1838 and 1842 expanded the organization’s reach and ensured an ample supply of bibles in the colonies. Through the expansion of local Bible Society auxiliaries and the establishment of distribution networks, Thomson laid the foundations for the BFBS’s success in establishing a successful bible enterprise that would dominate the trade in British North America for the rest of the century.

Part I Finance in Hong Kong, 1 Hong Kong’s Financial Markets: Evolution and Overview

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arner Douglas W ◽  
Hsu Berry FC ◽  
Goo Say H ◽  
Johnstone Syren ◽  
Lejot Paul ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Financial Markets ◽  
Financial Centre ◽  
Financial Activity ◽  
Historical Developments ◽  
Institutional Foundations

The chapter provides an in-depth discussion and analysis of finance in Hong Kong, today one of the world’s major international financial centres, focusing on historical developments along with some of the unique or unusual features of those markets. The chapter considers financial law in relation to financial activity as a whole, and within each segment of Hong Kong’s markets. Hong Kong has been a port of trade since the mid-nineteenth century and subsequent centre of commerce. However, only recently has it developed as a major financial centre. It is known for its unusual institutional foundations, the nature of which are analysed and contrasted at intervals in this book with those of other sophisticated financial hubs.

Cultural Encounters with the Arabian Nights in Nineteenth-Century Britain

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Melissa Dickson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Changing Environment ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Arabian Nights ◽  
East And West ◽  
A Site

Aladdin, Sinbad, Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, Scheherazade winding out her intricate tales to win her nightly stay of execution: the stories of the Arabian Nights are a familiar and much-loved part of the English literary inheritance. But how did these tales become so much a part of the British cultural landscape? This book identifies the nineteenth century as the beginning of the large-scale absorption of the Arabian Nights into British literature and culture. It explores how this period used the stories as a means of articulating its own experiences of a rapidly changing environment. It also argues for a view of the tales not as a depiction of otherness, but as a site of recognition and imaginative exchange between East and West, in a period when such common ground was rarely found.

scholarly journals The Great Wall of Jimbour: Heritage and the Cultural Landscape

2006 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 103-110
Author(s):  
Michael T. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Stone Wall ◽  
Management Techniques ◽  
Heritage Industry ◽  
Great Wall

On the Darling Downs in Queensland stands one of the most majestic and charming homestead residences from the nineteenth century called Jimbour House. Best known for its homestead complex, comprising heritage listed buildings and ancillary structures, the property at Jimbour has a lesser known but equally significant relic: an expansive dry-stone wall. Built during the 1870s, this wall was recently listed separately on the Queensland Heritage Register and it stands as lasting testimony of the skills and tenacity of our European forebears. It is a rare and significant reminder of nineteenth-century land management techniques, a technology that has few examples in Queensland. This article looks at the story behind this truly fascinating landmark, revealing its importance as a reminder of our past and as a symbol of the rise of the modern-day heritage industry.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Agnes Arnold-Forster
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
The Social

This introductory chapter shows that it was in the nineteenth century that cancer acquired the unique symbolic, emotional, and politicized status it maintains today. Not only did it maintain a not-insignificant incidence, cancer also played a culturally significant role in nineteenth-century life. Then, as now, observers tied cancer to environment, diet, and morality; and malignancy was a prominent feature of the social, political, and cultural landscape. This chapter introduces the two main interrelated concerns of the book: one, the lasting formation of cancer’s identity as an uncommonly incurable and therefore uncommonly dreadful disease; and two, how cancer was made into a malady of modern life, a pathology of progress, and a product of civilization.

scholarly journals Capri’s Touristification. A Millennial Cultural Landscape Reinvented by Luxury Tourism

Heritage ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1509-1529
Author(s):  
Giovanna Russo Krauss
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Slow Pace ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Over Time

In recent years the issue of touristification has been progressively discussed in relation to its impact on historic towns. In this regard, physical transformations and gentrification consequences are both issues often addressed. In Italy, consciousness on the subject primarily grew in relation to Florence and Venice, both national cases widely discussed also on newspapers. The awareness of a wider range of cases affected by this problem, from big cities to small holiday destinations, is even more recent. The aim of the present paper is to address Capri’s touristification process, which started in the last decades of the nineteenth century and exploded in the second half of the twentieth century, from the point of view of the field of study of history and conservation of cultural heritage and landscape. Therefore, this process and some of its consequences on the island’s cultural landscape and identity are thoroughly analyzed. The paper starts with a brief introduction to the island and its history, which is necessary in order to highlight its rich cultural heritage and the slow pace at which Capri has grown over time as a fishermen island to suddenly transforming into a touristic destination during the last century. Finally, the current touristic vocation and the consequences on Capri’s natural and built environment are discussed, with the aim of individuating if and why there have already been losses and what should be done to prevent this negative process from going on.

The lexical impact of language contact with Arabic on Spanish and Catalan

2018 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 277-296
Author(s):  
Stefan Ruhstaller ◽  
María Dolores Gordón Peral
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Language Contact ◽  
Cultural Exchange ◽  
Romance Languages ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
General Orientation

AbstractDuring the nine centuries of Arab presence in the Iberian Peninsula (from the conquest in 711 to the expulsion of the Moriscos in 1610), the Ibero-Romance languages received hundreds of Arabic loanwords. This lexicon is distributed in specific notional fields that reflect the cultural exchange that Christian Spain benefitted from in its contact with Al-Andalus, and is often characterized by a limited diatopic, diastratic and diachronic diffusion that reveals that the transfer of lexical material occurred in very varied social, political and cultural contexts and periods. There was already an interest in Arabic loanwords during the Age of Humanism, at which time they began to be the object of systematic compilations and attempts at etymological interpretation. In the second half of the nineteenth century, authors such as Dozy and Eguílaz gathered an ample documentation of Arabic loanwords and proposed numerous, largely correct etymologies. With the studies of modern authors, mainly of J. Corominas and F. Corriente, the lexical material has been further extended and deepened in the description and etymological analysis, efforts whose results are incorporated into dictionaries specifically centred on Arabic loanwords and etymological works of general orientation.

scholarly journals Mirroring Modernity: on consumerism in cosmopolitan Zanzibar

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Prestholdt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Global Integration ◽  
East African ◽  
Global Trends ◽  
Western Modernity ◽  
Cultural Forms ◽  
Global Relations

This essay develops an image of nineteenth century Zanzibari consumer sensibilities by demonstrating how goods from and new engagements with distant locales affected the socio-cultural landscape of Zanzibar. The East African port’s particular cosmopolitanism represents one form of social reconstitution stimulated by global integration. It also represents a material vision of global relations that was discounted by nineteenth century theorizations of Western modernity. By focusing on the rise of a new materiality in Zanzibar, I excavate precolonial visions of global relations and cultural assimilations of global symbols. I argue that East African desires for goods produced all over the globe represented not simply a Westernization, Indicization, or Arabization of Zanzibar, but also a reconfiguration of a standardized set of global materials in an attempt to bring Zanzibari cultural forms into conversation with broader global trends.

scholarly journals Restoration of Cultural Landscapes in Spatial Planning / Problemy Rewaloryzacji Krajobrazu Kulturowego w Planowaniu Przestrzennym

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelika Kosieradzka ◽  
Bogna Ludwig
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Anthropogenic Landscape ◽  
The Creation

Abstract The issue of protection and development of the cultural landscape is an integral part of spatial planning at all levels. Progressing from the nineteenth century, interest in natural and anthropogenic landscape over the years has become the basis for conducting this research and the creation of a series of documents. Their result was to legitimize the principles of protection and landscaping by acts of planning. Advanced action in this area conducted by the European countries are beginning to exert more and more emphasis on setting the protection and development of the cultural landscape as one of the main objectives of planning in Poland.

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