Food and the Self: Consumption, Production and Material Culture I. de Solier London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013. ix + 199 pp. ISBN 978-8578. Price £29-95 (Pb.); ISBN 978-085785422. Price £100-00 (Hb.); ISBN 978-857854353. Price £27-99 (ePub.)

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„Rzymski” Żyd – nieznana twórczość Romana Brandstaettera

Ruch Literacki ◽

10.2478/v10273-012-0003-5 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 53 (1) ◽

pp. 47-61

Author(s):

Dariusz Konrad Sikorski

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Social Norms ◽

Cultural Values ◽

Interwar Period ◽

Free Speech ◽

Role Model ◽

The Self ◽

Polish Literature ◽

The Bible ◽

The Law

Summary After 1946, ie. after embracing Christianity, Roman Brandstaetter would often point to the Biblical Jonah as a role model for both his life and his artistic endeavour. In the interwar period, when he was a columnist of Nowy Głos, a New York Polish-Jewish periodical, he used the penname Romanus. The ‘Roman’ Jew appears to have treated his columns as a form of an artistic and civic ‘investigation’ into scandalous cases of breaking the law, destruction of cultural values and violation of social norms. Although it his was hardly ‘a new voice’ with the potential to change the course of history, he did become an intransigent defender of free speech. Brought up on the Bible and the best traditions of Polish literature and culture, Brandstaetter, the self-appointed disciple of Adam Mickiewicz, could not but stand up to the challenge of anti-Semitic aggression.

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Anthropologic Relationships among Prehistoric Northeastern Amerindians

North American Archaeologist ◽

10.2190/6g0g-8pd9-52t7-p0gq ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 145-159

Author(s):

Edward F. Harris ◽

Nicholas F. Bellantoni

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Gene Flow ◽

Material Culture ◽

New England ◽

Cultural Barriers ◽

Group Differences ◽

Phenetic Analysis ◽

Trade Relationships ◽

Good Agreement

Archaeologically defined inter-group differences in the Northeast subarea ate assessed with a phenetic analysis of published craniometric information. Spatial distinctions in the material culture are in good agreement with those defined by the cranial metrics. The fundamental dichotomy, between the Ontario Iroquois and the eastern grouping of New York and New England, suggests a long-term dissociation between these two groups relative to their ecologic adaptations, trade relationships, trait-list associations, and natural and cultural barriers to gene flow.

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Judy Jaffe-Schagen, Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel. New York: Berghahn Books, 2016. x + 221 pp.

10.1093/oso/9780190912628.003.0023 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Material Culture ◽

Cultural Landscape ◽

Minority Groups ◽

Nation State ◽

Main Argument ◽

Multicultural Society ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Ethiopian Jews ◽

State Of Israel

This chapter reviews the book Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel (2016), by Judy Jaffe-Schagen. In Having and Belonging, Jaffe-Schagen explores the connection between identity, material culture, and location. Focusing on eight cases involving Chabad, religious Zionists, Moroccan Jews, Iraqi Jews, Ethiopian Jews, Russian Jews, Christian Arabs, and Muslim Arabs, the book shows how various minority groups in Israel are represented through objects and material culture in homes and museums. According to Jaffe-Schagen, in the politicized cultural landscape of borderless Israel, location not only affects the interplay between objects and people but can also provide important insights about citizenship. Her main argument is that the nation-state of Israel is not a multicultural society because it has failed to serve as a cultural “melting pot” for the various immigration groups.

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Charles Olson and American Modernism

10.1093/oso/9780198813255.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Mark Byers

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Political Action ◽

The Self ◽

Instrumental Reason ◽

Charles Olson ◽

American Modernism ◽

Avant Garde ◽

Wide Range ◽

American Poet ◽

Mark Rothko

The Practice of the Self situates the work of American poet Charles Olson (1910–70) at the centre of the early postwar American avant-garde. It shows Olson to have been one of the major advocates and theorists of American modernism in the late 1940s and early 1950s; a poet who responded fully and variously to the political, ethical, and aesthetic urgencies driving innovation across contemporary American art. Reading Olson’s work alongside that of contemporaries associated with the New York Schools of painting and music (as well as the exiled Frankfurt School), the book draws on Olson’s published and unpublished writings to establish an original account of early postwar American modernism. The development of Olson’s work is seen to illustrate two primary drivers of formal innovation in the period: the evolution of a new model of political action pivoting around the radical individual and, relatedly, a powerful new critique of instrumental reason and the Enlightenment tradition. Drawing on extensive archival research and featuring readings of a wide range of artists—including, prominently, Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, David Smith, Wolfgang Paalen, and John Cage—The Practice of the Self offers a new reading of a major American poet and an original account of the emergence of postwar American modernism.

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