Museums and Antiquarian Anthropology: Past, Present, and Future

2015 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 66-67
Author(s):  
Lea S. McChesney
Keyword(s):  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Museum Collections ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Museum Practice ◽  
Critical Perspectives ◽  
Native Voice

This article traces the divergent reception of a museum catalog I co-authored at the outset of my career as a case study to explore shifting paradigms of museum practice in the 20th and 21st centuries. Reconsidering its initial condemnation as “antiquarian” on its publication becomes a means to rethink collections as heritage resources in relation to Native communities and consider how museum publications are repurposed in other arenas through ethnographic research. This new perspective draws on decades of collaboration with members of the community whose heritage the collection represents, assessing the role of mutually engaged, critical perspectives on “old” museum collections for contemporary museum practice. Using a reflexive lens, I argue that collaborative anthropology recovering historical entanglements and Native voice and agency enables museum resources to engender a post-colonial, post-antiquarian anthropology.

Co-constituting Fijian identity: the role of constitutions in Fijian national identity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Mudaliar
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
British Colonialism ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Legacy ◽  
Island States ◽  
National Symbols ◽  
Insight Into

This chapter focuses on the role that constitutions play in national identity, particularly in states that are recently independent and constrained by a colonial legacy. It uses Fiji as a case study, exploring how British colonialism influenced conceptions of Fijian national identity in the constitutional texts of 1970, 1990 and 1997. The chapter explores the indigenous ethno-nationalist ideals that underpinned these constitutions, which led to the privileging of indigenous Fijian identity within the wider national identity. However, in 2013, Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama introduced a new constitution which shifted away from previous ethno-nationalist underpinnings towards a more inclusive national identity through the promotion of a civic nationalist agenda. In doing so, Bainimarama’s goal of reducing ethnic conflict has seen a constitutional re-imagining of Fijian identity, which includes the introduction of new national symbols, and a new electoral system, alongside equal citizenry clauses within the Constitution. This study offers a unique insight into power and identity within post-colonial island states.

Innovative Business Models in Digital Firms

2020 ◽  
pp. 79-98
Author(s):  
Patrizia Accordino ◽  
Tindara Abbate ◽  
Daniela Rupo ◽  
Raffaella Coppolino ◽  
Elvira Tiziana La Rocca
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Service Innovation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Great Opportunity ◽  
Use Of Services ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
New Perspective

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development intends to improve efforts of governments, societies, and companies to deal with major social and environmental problems affecting contemporary societies. From a business perspective, companies can find a propulsive boost of innovation looking at different models of production and use of services/products. This new perspective is radically changing the ways companies and consumers interact, and the role of companies in supporting the achievement of SDGs through service innovation is becoming pervasive. In addition, the emerging digital economy represents a great opportunity opening up to sustainability-oriented service innovation and firms are developing their competitive advantage based on the introduction of new digital business models. This chapter explores this issue through an explorative case study based on the MyTaxi business model. Implications for managers and researchers and opportunities for future research are highlighted.

The Rôle of Colonial and Post-Colonial States in Imperialism – a Case-Study of the Sierra Leone Development Company

1978 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ankie M. M. Hoogvelt ◽  
Anthony M. Tinker
Keyword(s):  
Mineral Resources ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Western World ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Emerging Nations ◽  
Political Independence ◽  
Concise Report ◽  
British North American

‘The events of recent years have brought out the conflicts that can arise between the continuing pressures for political independence and the inescapable truths of economic interdependence in the modern world’. – Recent words from the horse's mouth, to wit the British– North American Committee, consisting of some 100 leading industrialists of the western world who view with alarm the strong desire on the part of the emerging nations to exercise ever-greater control over their own mineral resources. In a concise report, they sternly remind the governments of developing countries of the dire consequences of the hostile attitude to foreign investors as expressed in demands for higher taxes, more local participation, and – Heaven forbid – nationalisation.1

scholarly journals Gender representations in politics of belonging: An analysis of Swiss immigration regulation from the 19th century until today

Ethnicities ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-468 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolin Fischer ◽  
Janine Dahinden
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Gender Representations ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Gender Culture ◽  
Critical Case Study ◽  
The 19Th Century

The literature increasingly recognises the importance of gender in defining the boundaries between national societies and migrants. But little is still known about the history and changes of mechanisms that shape the role of gender as category of difference. Based on a critical case study of Switzerland, this article examines how gender is implicated in the politics of migrant admission and incorporation and underlying notions of ‘the other’. Drawing on theories of boundary work, we show that gendered representations of migrants are mobilised by different actors to advance their claims and calls for certain forms of immigration control and migrant integration. Since the late 19th century, gendered representations of Swiss nationals and migrant others shift from classical gender ideas to culturalised post-colonial interpretations of gender roles and, most recently, to normative ideas of gender equality. As part of these changes, migrant women moved from the periphery to the core of public and political attention. Concomitantly, categories of difference shift from the intersection of gender and social class to an intersection of gender, culture and ethnicity. Local particularities of Switzerland – the idea of ‘overforeignisation’ and the system of direct democracy – play a significant role in shaping categories. But Switzerland’s embeddedness in transnational fields emerges as equally important. The article expands on recent research and illuminates how changing dynamics of categorisation and othering facilitate the construction of nations and national identities in a transnationalised world.

Locating women within the Irish Department of External Affairs: a case study of Irish women at the League of Nations and United Nations, 1923–76

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (163) ◽  
pp. 94-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Marie O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
New Perspective

AbstractBy using the League of Nations and United Nations as case studies, this article identifies the women working at the diplomatic level in the Irish Department of External Affairs (D.E.A.) in the period 1923–76. Drawing on gender analysis, the article assesses where men and women were positioned in Irish diplomacy and asks if the role of women in the D.E.A. was shaped by a gendered viewpoint. It argues that there were more opportunities for women within the United Nations than the League of Nations and it questions if these increased diplomatic opportunities were reflective of women's changing status within the D.E.A. in the period under investigation. Overall, the article offers a new perspective on the conduct of Irish foreign policy between 1923 and 1976.

Constructivism, Pluralism, and Pedagogy From Below in India

2021 ◽  
pp. 110-126
Author(s):  
Wahid Ahmad Dar
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
The Political ◽  
Central Position ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Formal Curriculum ◽  
Native Communities ◽  
Indian Schools ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Teaching Learning

The chapter argues for a synthesis of principles of constructivism with the political and legal dimensions of educational pluralism. This synthesis has been argued to give a determining and central position to pedagogies from below in the process of framing curriculum and organizing teaching learning activities in Indian schools. Constructivism and educational pluralism represent two voices which assert for relying on psychological principles and countering the dangers of political hegemony in educational landscape, respectively. They both talk about the importance of pedagogy from below as a helpful reality focused toolkit for undoing the effects of historical social inequity and breaking the hegemony of dominant class in the process of knowledge construction and dissemination. Integrative role of educational anthropologists with the help of ethnographic research on native communities across the world in developing innovative methods on how can local community knowledge be integrated into formal curriculum and pedagogic practice has been highlighted.

Reciting the Goddess

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Vantine Birkenholtz
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Detailed Examination ◽  
Ruling Elite ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Role Of Religion

This book presents a new perspective on the making of Hinduism in Nepal with the first book-length study of Nepal’s goddess Svasthānī and the popular Svasthānīvratakathā textual tradition. In the centuries following its origin as a short local legend in the sixteenth century, the Svasthānīvratakathā developed into a comprehensive Purana text that is still widely celebrated today among Nepal’s Hindus with an annual month-long recitation. This book interrogates the ways in which the Svasthānīvratakathā can be viewed as a medium through which the effects of important shifts in the political and cultural landscape that occurred among Nepal’s ruling elite were taken up by the general public and are evidenced within one decidedly local, lay tradition. Drawing on both archival and ethnographic research, the book begins with a detailed examination of Svasthānī (“the Goddess of One’s Own Place”) and the Svasthānīvratakathā within the shifting literary, linguistic, religious, cultural, and political contexts of medieval and modern Nepal from the sixteenth century to the present. It then widens its scope to explore the complementary and contentious dynamics between Nepal’s heterogeneous Newar Hindu and high-caste hill Hindu communities and those of Nepal as a Hindu kingdom vis-à-vis Hindu India. The Svasthānī tradition serves as a case study for a broader discussion of the making of Hindu religious identity and practice in Nepal and South Asia, and the role of religion in historical political change. This book brings to the fore a neglected vantage point on the master narratives of Hinduism on the Indian subcontinent.

Marginalized Memories and Multi-Layered Narratives of the Great War in Kamila Shamsie’s A God In Every Stone (2014)

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 229-246
Author(s):  
Tara Talwar Windsor
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Great War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Context ◽  
The Great War

Abstract Taking Kamila Shamsie’s 2014 war novel A God in Every Stone as its core case study, this article examines the development of increasingly complex, heterogeneous and inclusive understandings and memories of the Great War in the twenty-first century. It demonstrates how the novel’s complex and intricate narrative, as well as its paratextual framing and much of its reception, offer a timely engagement with a range of hitherto hidden or marginalized histories, particularly in relation to the role of women and experiences of South Asian soldiers, as well as with colonial violence and anti-colonial resistance in the war’s aftermath. At the same time, the novel underscores the ambivalences contained in those stories. Through this analysis, the article considers the extent to which A God in Every Stone can be seen as a ‘more expansive form of commemoration [...] with the scope for multiple narratives’.1 The novel is also ‘historically and ethically responsible’, not least in its critical reflection on the purposes, practices and power structures behind longer-standing historical narratives and cultural memories of the war itself and the (imperial) past in a post-colonial global context.

scholarly journals Catholics, Muslims, and Global Politics in Southeast Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 391
Author(s):  
Sumanto Al Qurtuby
Keyword(s):  
Political Activism ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Cultures ◽  
Geographical Feature

<p>This article discusses the role of catholics, muslims, and civic associations in the global politics of the Philippines and Indonesia. The two countries have shared in common with regard to the geographical feature (both are archipelagic countries), the diversity of societies and cultures, and the history of colonialism, dictatorship, ethno-religious violence, and political movement, to name but a few. In addition to their similarities, both countries also have significant differences in particular pertaining to religious dominance (the Philippines dominated by Catholicism, while Indonesia by Islam) and the structure of their societies: while the Philippines is a class-stratified society, Indonesia has long been ideologized by colonial and post-colonial religious and political powers. Apart from their parallels and distinctions, religion --both Catholicism and Islam-- has marvellous role, negatively or positively, in global politics and public cultures, indicating its vigor and survival in global political domains. This comparative paper, more specifically, examines the historical dynamics of the interplay between religion, civil society, and political activism by using the Philippines and Indonesia as a case study and point of analysis.</p><p>[Artikel ini mendiskusikan peran Katolik, Muslim dan asosiasi warga dalam politik global di dua negara; Indonesia dan Filipina. Kedua negara tersebut memiliki kesamaan, baik dalam hal ciri geografis sebagai negara kepulauan, keragaman masyarakat dan budayanya, sejarah kolonialisme, pemerintahan diktator, kekerasan etnik-agama, serta gerakan keagamaan. Terlepas dari kesamaan tersebut, keduanya memiliki perbedaan, utamanya menyangkut agama dominan (di Filipina didominasi oleh Katolik, sementara di Indonesia oleh Islam) dan struktur masyarakatnya (Filipina ditandai dengan stratifikasi masyarakat berdasarkan klas sosial, sementara di Indonesia ditandai dengan ideologi agama kolonial, paska-kolonial, politik). Terlepas dari kesamaan dan perbedaan antara keduanya, agama -baik Katolik maupun Islam- memainkan peran penting, baik negatif maupun positif, dalam politik global dan budaya publik. Ini menandai kuatnya peran agama di kedua negara itu. Artikel ini menggunakan analisis perbandingan, utamanya terhadap dinamika sejarah hubungan antara agama, masyarakat sipil, dan aktifisme politik.]</p>

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