scholarly journals Die Karlsbad-Reise des Ferdinand Krackowizer im Jahre 1909. Anmerkungen zu einer Kulturgeschichte der bürgerlichen Badereise

Český lid ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 399-438
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Fendl
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
External Representation ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Travel Diary ◽  
Attending Physician

In May 1909, Ferdinand Krackowizer (1844–1933), an archival councillor from Linz, took a trip to the spa in Karlovy Vary. He kept a travel diary as well as a memory album where he stored all sorts of documents: postcards, concert programmes, tickets, menus, a report from his attending physician, etc. By analysing these documents we are able to reconstruct in detail Krackowizer’s stay at the spa and gain deeper knowledge of the everyday spa culture in Karlovy Vary at the turn of the century. In addition, the analysis takes into account the opinions and assessments provided by the traveller himself in his travel diary. The diary further facilitates reconstructing Krackowizer’s networks and understanding different aspects of cultural practices connected to spa travel. Finally, these primary sources show the importance which Krackowizer attributed to his spa trip as a form of external representation.

Hopscotch Modernism: On Everyday Life and the Blurring of Art and Social Science

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Highmore
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Systematic Study ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Centre ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Modernist Literature ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Point Of Departure

From a remarkably innovative point of departure, Ben Highmore (University of Sussex) suggests that modernist literature and art were not the only cultural practices concerned with reclaiming the everyday and imbuing it with significance. At the same time, Roger Caillois was studying the spontaneous interactions involved in games such as hopscotch, while other small scale institutions such as the Pioneer Health Centre in Peckham, London attempted to reconcile systematic study and knowledge with the non-systematic exchanges in games and play. Highmore suggests that such experiments comprise a less-often recognised ‘modernist heritage’, and argues powerfully for their importance within early-twentieth century anthropology and the newly-emerged field of cultural studies.

Requiem for a Hospital

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 88 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-289
Author(s):  
Mark F. Ditmar
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Driving Force ◽  
Sunday School ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Atlantic City ◽  
Pediatric Hospital ◽  
Layer Cake ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
New Facility

The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. —from The Splendor Falls by Alfred, Lord Tennyson This is the story of the closure of a hospital and with it a part of American pediatric history. Children's Seashore House of Atlantic City is the nation's fourth oldest pediatric hospital. After 118 years, it will close in the summer of 1990 and move to a new facility in Philadelphia. The simple brick, layer-cake structure looks very tired now, its iconic soul having been steadily removed for incorporation into the new hospital. The cornerstone animals, lions and bighorn, have been chiseled free and now guard a new outpost. So too have the plaques from the turn of the century, optimistically commemorating the establishment of endowed beds, wards, and cottages "for perpetual use" with their benefactors of simplicity and gentleness by name, such as the "Endowed Bed of St James Sunday School, 1889" and "Endowed by the Everyday Kindness Society, 1912." On this day, the workers hammer to remove the final link—an enormous marble tablet from 1919 eulogizing Dr William Bennett, the principal driving force of Children's Seashore House and also the founder of St Christopher's Hospital in Philadelphia. A mere 50 yards away, the Atlantic Ocean beats inexorably as it did at the founding in 1872, 2 years after the first planks were laid for the famous boardwalk.

scholarly journals A book as an attribute of everyday life culture (based on the German classics)

Bibliosphere ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 27-35
Author(s):  
N. N. Misyurov
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Material Thing ◽  
Literary Reading ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Inner World

The functional role of books (scientific, artistic, philosophical, religious and moralistic) in the public prac­tice of the German Enlightenment is comparable to the significance of such major national concepts as the Lutheran faith and a special German character. The idea of aesthetic education in contemporary historical circumstances and socio-political circumstances actually became the ideology of national self-determina­tion. The book, its semantic «images» as literary reading images enshrined in famous works of German clas­sics, helps better revealing the spiritual content of the era and the human inner world (in typical «hero of time»). Educational book (serious and entertaining) defines the vector of social development in Germany.  German book in its «materiality» belongs to the everyday life culture, reflects the level of development of the book business in Germany and the specificity of the «culture of consumption». Everyday life culture is a holistic «life world» shared «values» and «meanings» perceived as a world attitudes and behavioral habits and regarded as a natural space of human activity. Such an approach makes it possible to study the typical, recurring forms of «cultural practices», before remaining on the periphery of classical humanities. «Reading» could be attributed to this range of socio-cultural practices. Philosophical basis of the study is the following: everything that a thing opens our perception is simply «a scheme of sensation» changing in accordance with «angles», in which we perceive them; what the thing is in its materiality can be revealed only through our final experiences. A material thing and its «causality» base in sensory perception of a subject. This series of «material things» should include «the book in general» and specifically German book as an attribute of everyday life culture of the Enlightenment. The author investigates representations of meanings of «books» (ash an abstracted subject of study) realized in the «chronotope» of a literary work. The structure of «reading image» and «book image» identified during the texts analysis of famous masterpieces of German classics have a moral connotation.  

scholarly journals Kuća u Splitskom statutu – građenje, održavanje, rušenje

Ars Adriatica ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Josip Belamarić
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Urban Planning ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Private Property ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Town

It can be said that the town statute of Split and the stipulations concerning the everyday life in this medieval town are not characterized by the aim to create an ideal city and, in this, they are far from the long-range urban planning contained in the statute of Dubrovnik. The fact that less than five per cent of the stipulations in the statute of Split relate to urban planning ought to be understood as indicating that the town, set in Diocletian’s Palace and determined by its structures, had already been defined to a large extent and that it functioned well and fulfilled the needs of its inhabitants. Thirty chapters of the statute deal with different aspects of the development of medieval Split and its everyday maintenance. This article focuses on the relationship between the local government and private property, that is, with the cases of private spaces being transformed into public spaces and the ‘ritualistic erasures’, that is, the demolition of houses whose owners committed treason and broke the law. This phenomenon of demolition as setting example was not limited to medieval Split but was recorded in other Dalmatian communes (in Omiš and Dubrovnik as late as the eighteenth century) and this discussion of it is based on the examination of a wider set of primary sources.

scholarly journals The Walls Have Ears: Accessing Participant Narratives amid Silence, Secrecy, and Mistrust

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Brittney Shanel Mengistu
Keyword(s):  
State Government ◽  
Mental Distress ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Central Theme ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Negative Perceptions ◽  
Everyday Experiences

Eritreans have long been considered a close-knit community bound by the memorialisation of history and the preservation of cultural practices. My anthropological enquiry into the everyday experiences of mental distress among diasporic women revealed that the depth of their exclusivity was a response to the continual and unsystematic surveillance of the Eritrean state. Government spies targeted outspoken critics, either forcing them into exile or pushing them into perpetual silence. In this essay, I explain how the perceived looming presence of secret agents created widespread mistrust and pervasive silence that complicated relationship-building among diasporic women. I then describe how negative perceptions of the term ‘mental health’ required an alteration of my lexicon and methodological approach, revealing the embodiments of silence and distress in everyday interactions. By reflexively and critically engaging with women’s everyday experiences, silence emerges as a central theme in my work, eventually becoming a conceptual anchor that has helped me understand and connect with a politically silenced diaspora. Through these ethnographic encounters, the complexities of the social, cultural, and political interactions gave meaning to simple utterances.

Wartime Ozu: Between Bourgeois Drama and National Policy Film

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Woojeong Joo
Keyword(s):  
Green Tea ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Gender Politics ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
Film Genre ◽  
Japanese Cinema ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Form

This chapter deals with Ozu’s wartime works from the perspective of their continuing inquiry into the everyday as well as their relation to his postwar films so that they can be re-evaluated as a connecting bridge between the prewar and the postwar period. In the first part, Ozu’s complex stance on the war and the nationalistic ideology is examined through contextual survey of wartime history of Japan and Japanese cinema, and also analysing primary sources that has recorded Ozu’s own experience at battlefield. The second part analyses Ozu’s wartime bourgeois drama, The Flavour of Green Tea over Rice (1939), which, along with the previous work, What Did the Lady Forget? (1937), reveals gender politics of the female domestic everyday that operates antithetical to prevailing male-centric wartime collectivism. The last part of this chapter discusses Ozu’s humanistic position, by analysing two wartime films about paternity and its absence (The Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (1941) and There Was a Father (1942)) along with Burma Campaign (1942), which is Ozu’s only attempt at war film genre in a complete form.

Correspondence, “cultural pilgrimage”, and the transnational legitimation of philological and linguistic knowledge in Colombia, 1876–1911

2020 ◽  
Vol 136 (2) ◽  
pp. 567-586
Author(s):  
Andrés Jiménez Ángel
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Small Group ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Spanish Language ◽  
Linguistic Knowledge ◽  
Cultural Communication ◽  
Aboriginal Languages

AbstractDuring the last three decades of the nineteenth century and the first ten years of the twentieth, a small group of Colombian intellectuals became respected linguistic and philological authorities. Through their research on Spanish language, aboriginal languages and Latin classics – inspired by the historical and comparative paradigm for the study of language – they obtained recognition from the European scientific community, mainly in Germany and France. By focusing on Rufino José Cuervo, the most prominent Colombian philologist/linguist at the turn of the century, this article attempts to show that the successful integration of these intellectuals in transnational scientific networks, as well as their privileged position among the Spanish and Latin American letrados resulted mainly from two cultural practices: correspondence and “cultural pilgrimage”. These practices played a key role in Cuervo’s strategy of cultural communication and transmission that aimed to establish contact with prominent figures in linguistic and philological studies in Europe in order to validate and legitimate his work, particularly his opinion on the question of the unity of the Spanish language.

Everyday Life and Lifestyles of Social Classes in Montenegro

Südosteuropa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-202
Author(s):  
Borislav Djukanović
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Mass Culture ◽  
Time Management ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Value Orientations ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
High Deprivation ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Stratified Sample

Abstract The author analyses the everyday life and lifestyles of social classes in Montenegro based on a survey conducted on a randomized, proportional, and stratified sample of 805 respondents. The survey covers the topics: consumption; family and professional life; citizens’ attitudes towards society and the state; leisure time; cultural practices; value orientations; time management; and general satisfaction with various aspects of life. The theoretical approach accords with Pierre Bourdieu’s. The everyday life of the Montenegrins emerges as having the following characteristics: restriction to necessities only in purchases; high deprivation; family conflicts brought about by poor financial circumstances; stereotypical leisuretime activities; a low opinion of governmental and social institutions fuelled by perceptions of nepotism and job allocation based on political party membership; differentiation of cultural practices from the dominant mass culture; value confusion; and a focus on everyday routines. The basic line of differentiation turns out to be social class, as all the listed characteristics are much more pronounced in the lower social strata.

scholarly journals Racism in multicultural neighbourhoods in Chile: Housing precarity and coexistence in a migratory context

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-181
Author(s):  
Macarena Bonhomme
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Public Spaces ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Racial Formations ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Everyday Interaction ◽  
The City ◽  
Depth Interviews

Chile is one of the countries with major destination flows from Latin America. In such a context, new distinctions and racial formations have emerged, establishing different forms of social exclusion and racism that are performed in the everyday interaction and socio-cultural practices that take place in residential neighbourhoods. This research is based on one of the most multicultural boroughs in Santiago, Recoleta, historically located in a territory called ‘La Chimba.’ The aim is to examine the intercultural coexistence in increasingly multicultural neighbourhoods in the context of South-South migration, in order to discuss the emerging social conflict, understanding how housing policies and limited access to decent housing by migrants reproduce everyday racism. Drawing on a larger research project that consisted in a 17-month ethnography, 70 in-depth interviews and two focus groups with migrants and Chileans between 2015 and 2018, this article shows and discusses how public spaces are racialised through social practices and interactions, and how the making of ‘race’ in urban spaces have an impact on the way in which migrants inhabit and navigate urban spaces and negotiate their ‘right to the city’ in the everyday.

Between Sharia and the Beloved

2020 ◽  
pp. 161-195
Author(s):  
James Pickett
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Roles ◽  
The Other ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Widespread Belief ◽  
The One ◽  
Islamic Society

This chapter examines the puzzling implications inherent in the amalgamation of so many social roles and knowledge forms into the figure of the high Persianate intellectual. Its title alludes to two sorts of tension: paradoxes of hindsight that were not necessarily perceived as such within the society in question; and apparent logical contradictions of Perso-Islamic culture emerging from the primary sources themselves, products of their own time and understood as problematic by the historical actors in question. The chapter first addresses the former category: widespread belief in the everyday supernatural was for the most part compatible with scripturalist Islam, even though that imagery would seem to cut across the modern categories of “orthodoxy” and “folklore.” It demonstrates that there was no contradiction between these practices, to the extent that retrospective categorizations of orthodox mullahs, on the one hand, and ecstatic sufis and poets, on the other, ought to be jettisoned altogether. These were all social roles performed by the polymaths of Islam. The chapter then looks at tensions within Islamic society during the long nineteenth century.

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