scholarly journals Moving Unsettlement: Excursions into Public and Pedagogical Memory

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Decter
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Colonial Power ◽  
Strategic Performance ◽  
White Subject ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Colonial Policies ◽  
Civic Space

This paper reflects upon my recent durational performance art work, memoration #2: constituent parts, which I undertook in Kingston, Ontario in response to the bicentenary celebrations of John A. Macdonald’s birth. The performance and its discussion in this paper invoke temporal and political through-lines from the colonial policies instituted by John A. Macdonald to contemporary structures of racial power and dominant settler mythologies that continue to shape mainstream Canadian imaginaries and spaces. I suggest that a strategic performance of the white settler body -- the embodiment of the exalted white subject, as articulated by Sunera Thobani -- can produce disturbances to the perpetuation of white settler dominance in the lands now known as Canada. memoration #2 interferes with icons of material culture that imbue white settler emplacement and infiltrates civic space, university architectures, sites of memorialization and celebratory impulses that assume state and white settler primacy. Further, as an intervention into sites that are inscribed into daily life with disregard for their bonds to historical and ongoing colonial nation-building, the performance works to reveal the well-honed practices of biased amnesia that contribute to the maintenance of colonial beliefs, systems and values. By scrutinizing the embodied, symbolic and relational gestures of this performance, this paper considers the potential, complexities and limits of performative acts that aim to resist colonial power from a critical white settler positionality and invites reflection on non-colonial futures.

The Story of Storyboards from East Sepik, Papua New Guinea

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-74
Author(s):  
Martin Soukup ◽  
Dušan Lužný
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Field Research ◽  
New Guinea ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Cultural Changes ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Global Tourism ◽  
The Village

This study analyzes and interprets East Sepik storyboards, which the authors regard as a form of cultural continuity and instrument of cultural memory in the post-colonial period. The study draws on field research conducted by the authors in the village of Kambot in East Sepik. The authors divide the storyboards into two groups based on content. The first includes storyboards describing daily life in the community, while the other links the daily life to pre-Christian religious beliefs and views. The aim of the study is to analyze one of the forms of contemporary material culture in East Sepik in the context of cultural changes triggered by Christianization, colonial administration in the former Territory of New Guinea and global tourism.

scholarly journals Makna Material Culture dalam “Sarung” sebagai Identitas Santri

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (01) ◽  
pp. 77-100
Author(s):  
Toto Sugiarto
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Nation Building ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Character Building ◽  
Culture Concept

In material culture as a concept of local culture and nation heritage, “sarong” also has non-material value,  likes as a symbol of santri, heroism, social class, kindness and honor. Sarong with variuos size, color, motifs, and pattern shapes the person and society, even the identity of a nation, especially Indonesia. Sarong even became part of the symbol of religiosity and diversity of Indonesia. By borrowing Bung Karno's message that the task of future generations is nation character building, caring for and developing a sarong culture, it can be seen as an effort to care for and develop the nation's character. Therefore, this paper use approachs or perspectives : material culture concept, social class perspective, and nation characer building concept. Method of writing is literary studies and analysis content method by various in resorches  that support this article. The result of exprloration indicate that sarong can be the symbol  for nation building character and identity with meaning and history contents powerly.

Material Culture and Daily Life

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
CATHERINE HEZSER
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Rabbinic Literature ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
Archaeological Data ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interdisciplinary Framework ◽  
Early Byzantine

This chapter evaluates the use of rabbinic literature in the study of Jewish daily life and material culture. It explains that one of the main problems associated with research on material culture and daily life is the establishment of a proper relationship between rabbinic literary references and archaeological data, between text and object. It suggests that these problems can be resolved by approaching the issues on the basis of a historical-critical study of rabbinic sources in a broad interdisciplinary framework, which takes account of archaeological research within the Graeco-Roman and early Byzantine context and which uses tools, methods and models developed by the social sciences.

Nourishing Life, Cultivation and Material Culture in the Late Ming: Some Thoughts on Zunsheng bajian (Eight Discourses on Respecting Life, 1591)

2008 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chen Hsiu-fen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Song Dynasty ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Economic Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
The Song Dynasty ◽  
Late Ming

AbstractThis article sets out to explore the ideas and practices of yangsheng (nourishing life or health preservation) in the late Ming, i.e. late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century China. Yangsheng had long played a key role in the traditions of Chinese medicine, religions and court societies. Initially restricted to certain social classes and milieux, knowledge of yangsheng began to spread much more widely from the Song dynasty (960–1279) onwards, mostly owing to rapid social and economic change. In this context, the theories and practices of yangsheng attracted the attention and curiosity of many scholars. The popularisation of yangsheng peaked in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Numerous literary works, essay collections and household encyclopaedias for everyday use have passages and sections on yangsheng. They describe various ideas and techniques of yangsheng by means of regulating the body in daily life, involving sleeping, exercising, washing, eating, drinking, etc. Through a survey of the most famous late Ming work on yangsheng, Zunsheng bajian (1591), this article attempts to highlight how yangsheng came to dominate the scholarly lifestyle. It will give a clear picture of the ideas of a late Ming literatus on prolonging life and replenishing the body, while showing how these practices were inspired by the flourishing material culture of the late Ming as a whole.

Counting pots in Early Neolithic Greece

2004 ◽  
Vol 99 ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paraskevi Yiouni
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Early Period ◽  
Active Role ◽  
High Status ◽  
Regular Component ◽  
Early Neolithic ◽  
Contextual Data ◽  
And Function

The present paper examines the quantity and function of the pottery found at the Greek Early Neolithic sites. Review of the quantitative, technological, typological, functional and contextual data suggest that Early Neolithic pottery was most probably a regular component of material culture. Thus, in contrast with the highly favoured hypothesis that Early Neolithic pots were used mainly for cult-related or socially related prospects, it is argued that pottery had, since this early period, a variety of functions. It is very probable that some vessels were used in ceremonies or were high-status objects. The majority of vessels, however, had an active role in daily life concerning the storage and transportation of supplies, the preparation of food (most probably excluding cooking) and the treatment of other raw materials.

scholarly journals Das Brautinventar der Paola Gonzaga: Hochzeitswagen und Brauttruhen

2020 ◽  
pp. 278
Author(s):  
Wolfgang D. Wanek
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Medieval Period ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Political Situation ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
15Th Century ◽  
Shed Light

The Bride Inventory of Paola Gonzaga: Bridal Cart and ChestsThe following paper takes a closer look at the bridal cart and chests of the Mantuan princess Paola Gonzaga, who was sent to marry Leonhard of Gorizia in 1478. With her she brought an adequate dowry, which was listed in an inventory. Based on this document, aspects of the material culture of the time shall be discussed and used to gain insights into the daily life of women and their situation in the 15th century. The analysis will focus on two categories of Paola’s dowry: the partly preserved chests and the luxurious bride cart and its accessories. Those objects also shed light onto the socio-political situation of the late medieval period, and provide insights into the mechanism and imaginaries of medieval dynastic representation, namely of the Gonzaga family.

scholarly journals THE RELIGIOUS HIERARCHY AND SPIRITUAL LIFE OF JEWISH COMMUNITIES FROM THE EIGHTEENTH TO THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES

2021 ◽  
pp. 53-59
Author(s):  
Jamolitdin KARIMOV
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Education System ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Oral Literature ◽  
Great Contribution ◽  
Jewish Communities ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Religious Texts ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
The 19Th Century

The Jews have come a long way in the historical process. It had an impact on all aspects of social and material culture related to daily life. Most of the Central Asian Jews reached high peaks and played a significant role in trade. Studies show that the Jewish community in Bukhara was well developed in the middle of the 19th century and had its orderly organizational structure. At the head of the administration was a man named Kalantar, and the chief rabbi, nicknamed Mullai Kalan, served as a representative for religious affairs. It also observed that from time to time, one person performed these two functions. Secular and religious administrations were closely intertwined but operated autonomously. The article analyzes the socio-religious structure of Bukharian Jews in the region, the tasks and activities of Kalantar, Mullai Kalan, Aksakal, Kaywani, and their role in the life of Jews. The article also contains information about the education system of Bukharian Jews, types of education, and the specialists who taught there. The article also includes the analysis of the written and oral literature of the Jews of Bukhara, individually written works, translations of religious texts and, the works of scientists who have made a great contribution to improving the literacy of the Jews of Bukhara.

scholarly journals The Presence of Absence. Longing and Nostalgia in Post-Soviet Art and Literature

2015 ◽  
pp. 149-165
Author(s):  
Irina Marchesini
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Trauma Studies ◽  
Soviet Art ◽  
Visual Composition ◽  
The Relationship

This article explores the phenomenon of nostalgia for the Soviet era found in contemporary Russian society and manifested both in contemporary art, such as in the installations of Il'ja Kabakov, Sergej Volkov, and Jevgenij Fiks, and in modern literature, especially in the prose of Andrej Astvacaturov. Such regret for a bygone past primarily mourns not the apparatus of the Soviet state, but the routine and the quality of familiar daily life. Insights from the fields of visual studies and trauma studies undergird this exploration of the relationship between a work of art's visual composition and its representation of toska, memory, and material culture in the Soviet era. By juxtaposing artwork with literary prose, we reveal the significant role had by 'reflective' toska-nostalgia (as defined by Svetlana Boym, 2001) in the formation of post-Soviet identity.

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