scholarly journals A Ilustração portuguesa e a Missão dos Padres Matemáticos na América * The portuguese Illustration and Mission of Mathematicians Priests in America

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
SEZINANDO LUIZ MENEZES ◽  
GISELLE RODRIGUES ◽  
CÉLIO JUVENAL COSTA
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Human Actions ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Norbert Elias ◽  
French Court ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

<p><strong>Resumo:</strong> Este trabalho tem o objetivo de analisar a relação entre a Missão dos Padres Matemáticos, expedição organizada pela Coroa portuguesa na primeira metade do século XVIII para realizar estudos sobre os territórios portugueses na América, e o desenvolvimento de uma cultura ilustrada em Portugal, pois, segundo nosso entendimento, a “missão” se relaciona às transformações culturais vividas em Portugal naquele período. Nesta análise partimos do pressuposto teórico de que as ações humanas, apesar de expressarem uma individualidade, correspondem a um determinado contexto social, político, econômico e cultural. Isso significa que o pensamento e comportamento humano associam-se a uma “configuração” – conceito aplicado por Norbert Elias, na obra <em>A sociedade de corte</em> (2001), para estudar a sociedade da corte francesa entre os séculos XVII e XVIII.</p><p><strong>Palavras-chave:</strong> Ilustração – Fronteiras Americanas – Mineração – Padres Matemáticos.</p><p> </p><p><strong>Abstract:</strong> This paper is intended to analyze the relationship between the Mission of the Mathematicians Priest expedition organized by the Portuguese crown in the first half of the eighteenth century to conduct studies on the Portuguese territories in America, and the development of an illustrated culture in Portugal. According to our understanding, the "mission" is connected to cultural transformations in Portugal at that time. In this analysis we set of theory premise that human actions, although expressing individuality, correspond to a particular, political, economic and cultural context. This means that human thought and behavior associated to a "configuration" - concept applied by Norbert Elias, <em>The society in the work of cutting</em> (2001), to study the society of the French court between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.</p><p><strong>Keywords:</strong> Illustration – American Borders – Mining – Mathematical Priests.</p>

Politics and the Reception of Andrew Lloyd Webber’sThe Phantom of the Opera

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 271-287
Author(s):  
Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Government Subsidy ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
Elite Culture ◽  
Art Form ◽  
The Government ◽  
Reagan Era ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractThis article analyses the complicated and conflicted critical response to Andrew Lloyd Webber’sThe Phantom of the Operawithin the political, economic and cultural context of the Thatcher/Reagan era. British critics writing for Conservative-leaning broadsheets and tabloids took nationalist pride in Lloyd Webber’s commercial success, while others on both sides of the Atlantic claimed thatPhantomwas tasteless and crassly commercial, a musical manifestation of a new Gilded Age. Broader issues regarding the relationship between the government and ‘elite’ culture also affected the critical response. For some,Phantomforged a path for a new kind of populist opera that could survive and thrive without government subsidy, while less sympathetic critics heardPhantom’s ‘puerile’ operatics as sophomoric jibes against an art form they esteemed.

The Slave as System

2020 ◽  
pp. 195-257
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Hewitt
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Black Atlantic ◽  
Global Market ◽  
Slave Labor ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
Chattel Slavery ◽  
System P ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter concentrates on the relationship between eighteenth-century political economic theory and chattel slavery in the Americas. It begins by explaining how British, French, and American economic theorists asserted the inefficiency of slave labor even as the institution was sustained within the global market. This orthodox belief in the incompatibility between the free market and the legalization of slavery was crucial both to abolitionism and economic liberalism, inoculating capitalism from the moral degradations of slaveholding and slave trading. A very different economic argument emerges in the narratives of Black Atlantic authors who construct their life stories as “it-narratives,” precisely designed to reveal the mutualism between the global capital economy and the slave trade. The chapter provides close readings of the narratives of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Venture Smith, and Boyrereau Brinch, emphasizing their work as economic treatises and not autobiography.

Religion and the Body

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Fuller
Keyword(s):  
Mating Strategies ◽  
The Body ◽  
Emotional States ◽  
Genital Mutilation ◽  
Religious Traditions ◽  
Human Thought ◽  
Sensory Modalities ◽  
Religious Thoughts ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between religion and the body can be viewed from two very different perspectives. The first perspective emphasizes culture’s role in constructing human thought and behavior. This approach illuminates the diverse ways that religious traditions shape human attitudes toward the nature and meaning of their physical bodies. Scholars guided by this perspective have helped us better understand religion’s complicity in such otherwise mysterious phenomena as mandated celibacy, restrictive diets, circumcision, genital mutilation, self-flagellation, or the specification of particular forms of clothing. Newly emerging information about the biological body has given rise to a second approach to the body’s relationship to religion. Rather than exploring how religion influences attitudes toward our bodies, these new studies investigate how our biological bodies exert identifiable influences on our religious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Neural chemistry, emotions, sensory modalities, pain responses, mating strategies, sexual arousal systems, and genetic personality predispositions all influence the personal salience of religious beliefs or behavior. Attention to the biological body unravels many of the enigmas that formerly accompanied the study of such things as the appeal of apocalyptic beliefs, the frequent connection between religion and systems of healing, devotional piety aiming toward union with a beloved deity, the specific practices entailed in ascetic spirituality, or the mechanisms triggering ecstatic emotional states.

Introduction

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Lyndsey Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Source Material ◽  
The Political ◽  
Family Needs ◽  
Feminist Politics ◽  
The Family ◽  
Biographical Approach ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter explains who the Kenneys were, provides biographical detail about the family and the individual sisters, and sets out the political, economic, social, and cultural context in which they grew up. It shows that, despite the rhetoric of sisterhood which often characterizes feminist politics, friendship rather than family has been central to suffrage studies, and argues that the family needs to be given greater consideration. It also explains the place of class in suffrage historiography and the relationship between the women’s and labour movements as a way into understanding the relative lack of work on suffrage militants. The chapter sets out the source material which forms the basis for this study, explains the thematic biographical approach, and summarizes the chapters which follow.

scholarly journals LOCAL IDENTITY AND FEATURES OF THE ARCHITECTURE OF KYIV IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

2021 ◽  
pp. 150-159
Author(s):  
Andrii Markovskyi
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Avant Garde ◽  
Global Context ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
Regional Features ◽  
Local Manifestation ◽  
Invented Traditions ◽  
Political Economic

The article presents an analysis of the compilation of local and regional features of the development of Kyiv at the beginning of the last century, which arose as a reflection on global socio-political, economic and cultural transformations. In particular, successive iterations of the main city-forming function, "invented traditions" in their local manifestation, local decorative techniques ("brick style") and terrain subordination are studied. Mentioned as domestic (J. Yu. Karakis, P. F. Alyoshin, V. G. Krychevsky, V. G. Zabolotny, D. M. Dyachenko, and others) as all- Soviet architects (J. G. Langbard, I. O. Fomin and others). The concept of invented traditions according to E. Hobsbawm is extrapolated to the field of architecture through the prism of artistic and cultural context. The localization of traditions and the corresponding separation are presented in the concept of T. Eriksen: as a means of self-identification and response to the need to create an internal coordinate system for representatives of individual groups. The article summarizes a series of author's researches devoted to a detailed analysis of each of the mentioned artistic transitions in Kyiv architecture (from eclecticism and historical reminiscences to modernism, from Art Nouveau to avant-garde, from constructivism to Soviet neoclassicism and, finally, from Stalinist empire to modernism), being part of a global analysis of the genesis of city architecture in a global context. A detailed analysis of the objects identified in the article is presented in other works of the author. 

scholarly journals THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SULTAN ABDUL HAMID II AND MIDHAT PASHA (NOVEMBER 1876-FEBRUARY 1877)‎‎

2021 ◽  
Vol 03 (08) ◽  
pp. 408-427
Author(s):  
Seenaa Jasim Mohammed Seenaa Jasim AL TAEE
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Position ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
The Relationship

At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Ottoman Empire witnessed ‎attempts to reform the political, economic, military, and social systems ‎according to the European style. Reforms emerged clearly in the ‎nineteenth century, resulting in a conflict between opponents and ‎supporters of reform. Among the manifestations of that dispute was ‎between Sultan Abdul Hamid II, who opposes reform, and Midhat Pasha, ‎who supports reforms. The research was divided into an introduction, a ‎conclusion, and three axes. The first axis dealt with the starting of the ‎development of views between Sultan Abdul Hamid II and Midhat Pasha. ‎As for the second one, it was the role of Midhat Pasha during the reign of ‎Sultan Abdul Hamid II. While the third axis discussed the political ‎position of Midhat Pasha after he was appointed as the (Grand Vizier). ‎The research came out with a set of important conclusions‎‎‎‎. Keywords: The Ottoman Empire, the politician, Medhat Pasha, Sultan Abdul Hamid.

Two Gambling Women

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Tzu-Hui Chen
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experiences ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Immigrant Population ◽  
The Other ◽  
Mail Order ◽  
Foreign Brides ◽  
And Migration ◽  
The Relationship

This narrative aims to explore the meaning and lived experiences of marriage that a unique immigrant population—“foreign brides” in Taiwan—possesses. This convergence narrative illustrates the dynamics and complexity of mail-order marriage and women's perseverance in a cross-cultural context. The relationship between marriage, race, and migration is analyzed. This narrative is comprised of and intertwined by two story lines. One is the story of two “foreign brides” in Taiwan. The other is my story about my cross-cultural relationship. All the dialogues are generated by 25 interviews of “foreign brides” in Taiwan and my personal experience.

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