scholarly journals How to exhibit a human mummy in a former monastery? The case of the body of Michael Willmann (1630–1706)

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 95-109
Author(s):  
Andrzej Kozieł
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
Human Mummy

This paper discusses the mummified body of Michael Willmann (1630–1706) – one of the most outstanding painters of the Baroque period in Central Europe. Willmann’s mummy was preserved in the crypt of the former Cistercian monastery church in Lubiąż, Silesia (Poland). The article presents the history of the mummy and possibilities for opening the crypt and displaying it to the public, following the example of similar expositions in Europe which have found respectful and sensitive solutions for presenting the bodies of the deceased (e.g. Capuchin Crypt in Palermo and Capuchin Church in Brno). Willmann’s mummy is not only the body of an artist, but also a part of the cultural heritage of the Lubiąż Cistercians, making it worthy museification. This issue is particularly important in the context of the plans for establishing the Michael Willmann Museum in the former Cistercian monastery church in Lubiąż.

scholarly journals Men of Parts: Masculine Embodiment and the Male Leg in Eighteenth-Century England

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 797-821 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sexual Difference ◽  
Visual Representations ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Gender

AbstractThis essay explores changes in eighteenth-century male clothing in the context of the history of sexual difference, gender roles, and masculinity. The essay contributes to a history of dress by reconstructing a range of meanings and social practices through which men's clothing was understood by its consumers. Furthermore, critically engaging with work on the “great male renunciation,” the essay argues that the public authority that accrued to men through their clothing was based not on a new image of a rational disembodied man but instead on an emphasis on the male anatomy and masculinity as intrinsically embodied. Drawing on findings from the material objects of eighteenth-century clothing, visual representations, and evidence from the archival records of male consumers, the essay adopts an interdisciplinary approach that allows historians to study sex and gender as embodied, rather than simply performed. In so doing, the essay not only treats “embodiment” as an historical category but also responds to recent shifts in the historical discipline and the wider academy towards a more corporealist approach to the body.

scholarly journals From San Francisco to Tōhoku – 111 yr of continuous earthquake recording in Göttingen

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
H. Steffen ◽  
W. Brunk ◽  
M. Leven ◽  
U. Wedeken
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
The Public ◽  
Scientific Investigations ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Göttingen ◽  
The University ◽  
Observational Record ◽  
Almost Continuous

Abstract. In 1902, the so-called Erdbebenhaus (earthquake house) was built in the garden of the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Göttingen to host and protect the very sensitive and fragile seismographs designed by Emil Wiechert. These instruments were the standard at their time, and they are still in operation today, documenting 111 yr of almost continuous seismological observations. Since 2005, the observatory is owned by the Wiechert'sche Erdbebenwarte Göttingen e.V. (Wiechert's earthquake observatory in Göttingen, registered society). This society aims at extending the observational record and protecting the observatory as a cultural heritage. In this paper we review the history of the observatory in the last 111 yr. Special attention is given to the developments in the last decade, when the observatory and further historic buildings and instruments changed ownership. Due to the efforts by the society, the observatory is still running now and open to the public. In addition, it is a part of the German Regional Seismic Network and, thus, observations can be used for scientific investigations.

Neoliberalism, Rationality, and the Savage Slot

2019 ◽  
pp. 177-195
Author(s):  
Julia Elyachar
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Free Market ◽  
Market Price ◽  
Economic Thought ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Neoliberal Governmentality ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Free Market Price ◽  
History Of

This chapter upends usual discussions of neoliberal governmentality by focusing on the relation of neoliberalism to the irrational. The central task of neoliberalism in its early days was to resurrect a discredited liberalism. WW I and the problematic Versailles Peace of 1919 convinced many that irrationality lay at the core of the “civilized” European world. Those who became neo-liberal (before the hyphen was eliminated) embraced that which was irrational while resolutely attacking all kinds of collectivism. Early neoliberals such as Mises equated socialists with savages and put socialists in what Trouillot called “The Savage Slot,” thanks to their wilful overthrow of the free market price system, without which rationality itself could not exist. Hayek and the next generation of neoliberals shifted the source of irrationality into the physiology of individual humans. After the dissolution of the Soviet Union against which early neoliberal polemics were aimed, tacit knowledge moved out of the body to the corporation via Jean Lave’s concept of communities of practice. The chapter draws on classic works in anthropology; history of economic thought; US corporate history; and obscure annals of the public sector in Egypt to make these arguments.

The Body Beyond the Anatomy Lab: (Re)Addressing Arts Methodologies for the Critical Medical Humanities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachael Allen
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Anatomical Dissection ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of ◽  
Special Knowledge ◽  
Human Dissection ◽  
Anatomy Lab

Bearing witness to these anatomies ‘in the flesh’ is rooted in the cultural history of human anatomy and dissection: the meeting of artists and anatomists around the dissecting table; the public spectacle of ritualised dissections in Renaissance anatomical theatres; the study of anatomy in institutions; the contentious display of dead bodies in Gunther von Hagen’s Body Worlds, to name a few. Our bodies have commonly been understood by both medical and lay people as a biological machine of sorts and an image ‘embedded in popular culture and sustained in the anatomy lab’. First-hand experience of anatomical dissection has become a guarded professional ritual and a marker of special knowledge that depends on the violation of the taboo (access to the interior of the body and to death): ‘The anatomy theatre lies at the mysterious heart of medicine in the public fantasy and the professional imagination.’ Categorical, turbulent and romantic accounts of human dissection have circulated widely over the centuries, through prose, poetry and the arts, and it is precisely because of the body’s moral centrality that it can be used subversively by contemporary artists today.

Leprosy

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte A. Roberts
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Neglected Tropical Disease ◽  
Global Knowledge ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current State ◽  
Global View ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
History Books

Leprosy is an infection and neglected tropical disease that is steeped in myths, and, although it is described in history books, it can remain a challenge to manage today. Written in an accessible manner for professionals and the public alike, this book takes a global view of leprosy past and present. As a backdrop, it starts with exploring what we actually know about leprosy from medicine, how it is spread to humans, and its effects on the body. It then moves to consider its diagnosis and treatment in people, past and present. The focus switches next to the ways in which leprosy is diagnosed in skeletons (paleopathology), from just looking at the bones to analyzing the DNA of the bacteria preserved in the bones. By doing so, information on skeletons with evidence of leprosy across the globe is synthesized with the aim of considering the current state of global knowledge regarding the origin, evolution, and history of leprosy. In particular, the book explores how all the people diagnosed with leprosy in their skeletons in the past were buried, and the myth that everybody was ostracized and segregated into leprosy hospitals, due to stigma, is dismissed. It concludes with thoughts on a future for leprosy, the need to continue to dispel its myths and to seriously reconsider the use of the word “leper” when discussing leprosy today and in the past.

Albert L. Operti: chronicler of Arctic exploration

Polar Record ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 276-293
Author(s):  
Douglas W. Wamsley
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
The Body ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
Written Narratives ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
The Public ◽  
Metropolitan Opera ◽  
History Of ◽  
Arctic Exploration

ABSTRACTThe great wave of immigrants to the United States during the late 1800s brought many talented individuals who enriched American culture and society. Notable among them stands the Italian-born artist, Albert L. Operti (1852–1927), a versatile painter, illustrator and sculptor. For much of his professional career, Operti served as a scenic artist for the Metropolitan Opera House and later as an exhibit artist for the American Museum of Natural History. However, he maintained an avid personal interest in polar explorers and the history of polar exploration, ultimately turning his artistic skills to the subject. Operti served as official artist for Robert E. Peary during his Arctic expeditions of 1896 and 1897, producing paintings, drawings and even plaster casts of the Inuit from the expedition. Over the course of his lifetime he painted a number of ‘great’ pictures depicting, in a factually accurate manner, important incidents in Arctic history along with numerous smaller paintings, sketches, illustrations and studies. The quality of his work never rivaled his more talented contemporaries in the field of ‘great’ paintings, such as the prominent artists William Bradford and Frederic Church. Nonetheless, Operti achieved some recognition in his time as a painter of historical Arctic scenes, but the full extent of his contributions are little known and have been largely unexamined. Unlike the explorers themselves whose legacy rests upon geographic or scientific accomplishments and written narratives, Operti's legacy stands upon the body of distinctive artwork that served to convey, in realistic and graphic terms, the hardships and accomplishments of those explorers. This article recounts the life of Operti and his role as an historian in disseminating knowledge of the polar regions and its explorers to the public.

scholarly journals A PERSONALIZED APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF THE PROBLEM OF EDUCATIONAL AND PEDAGOGICAL FORECASTING IN UKRAINE IN THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cherniak S. G.
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sunday Schools ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Native Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personalized Approach

The article is devoted to the study of a personalized approach to the problem of educational and pedagogical forecasting in Ukraine in the early twentieth century. The author emphasizes that a personalized approach to the study of the problem of educational and pedagogical forecasting in the early twentieth century is the main prerequisite for the development of forecasting pedagogical thought, which must be specified. I.Ya. Franco saw the direction of educational influence in the mastery of scientific knowledge, the harmonious improvement of the body in the process of physical labor. S.F. Rusova, as the coryphaeus of preschool pedagogy, laid the foundation for the content of the educational process through the introduction of the native language, national holidays, and Christian values of the Ukrainian people. G.G. Vashchenko took the Christian ideal as the basis for predicting pedagogical phenomena and processes. P.P. Blonsky defended the independent nature of pedagogical science. І.І. Ogienko stressed the importance of native education, the formation of Christian virtue, justice, and diligence. B.D. Grinchenko defended the inseparable connection of education with the life and culture of other peoples. L. Ukrainka had the same opinion. The teacher insisted on the importance of considering the role of the teacher in the public school, sharply raised the issue of the struggle for social and national liberation of the Ukrainian people. T.G. Lubnets is considered the luminary of the theory of pedagogy. H.D. Alchevskaya entered the history of pedagogy in Ukraine as a prominent figure in the field of adult education, organizer of Sunday schools. І.М. Steshenko advocated the nationalization of secondary and higher education. Minister P.M. Ignatiev defined the organizational and pedagogical principles of educational and pedagogical forecasting through the reform of the education system.

scholarly journals Interpretasi Konsep Interior pada Tiga Ruang Museum House of Sampoerna Surabaya Berdasarkan Visualisasi Ruangan

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-136
Author(s):  
Rania Erin Oktiara ◽  
Lilik Indrawati ◽  
Swastika Dhesti Anggriani
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Educational Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Heritage Buildings ◽  
Historical Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
And Function ◽  
Collection Methods

Abstract: A museum is an institution that collects and looks after historical objects to showcase and function them as educational media for the public. The realization of those functions depends on the interior concept through visualization in each room. One museum that is particularly attractive to the researcher to analyze is Surabaya House of Sampoerna Museum. This museum is recorded to be one of Surabaya’s cultural heritage buildings. It displays the history of the establishment and the development of Sampoerna company thematically in each room in the building, therefore, there are different themes even in one room. The implementation of the mentioned visualization concept has become the basis of interpretation for the researcher with the focus on room visualization. House of Sampoerna Museum consists of five showcase rooms; however, this research only interprets three rooms that do not undergo significant alteration since 2018. The three rooms are referred to as room 1, room 2, room 3. The data collection methods of this research are observation, interview, and document analysis that involves the researcher’s interpretation. Based on the results of this research, the interior concepts of room 1, room 2, and room 3 have been discovered. Keywords: concept, interior, museum, House of Sampoerna, visualization Abstrak: Museum merupakan lembaga yang mengumpulkan dan merawat benda-benda yang memiliki nilai sejarah untuk dipamerkan dan difungsikan sebagai sarana edukasi kepada masyarakat umum. Penyampaian fungsi tersebut dipengaruhi oleh konsep interior melalui visualisasi pada setiap ruangannya. Salah satu museum yang menarik peneliti untuk menginterpretasi penerapan konsepnya yaitu Museum House of Sampoerna Surabaya. Museum ini tercatat sebagai salah satu bangunan cagar budaya di Kota Surabaya. Museum ini menampilkan sejarah pendirian dan berkembangnya perusahaan Sampoerna yang bersifat tematik pada masing-masing ruangannya, sehingga terdapat tema yang berbeda-beda meskipun masih dalam satu ruangan. Adanya penerapan visualisasi tersebut yang melandasi tujuan penelitian ini untuk menginterpretasi konsep interior yang diterapkan berdasarkan visualisasi ruangannya. Museum House of Sampoerna terdiri atas 5 ruang pamer, akan tetapi pada penelitian ini hanya menginterpretasi 3 ruang pamer yang tidak mengalami perubahan interior secara signifikan sejak tahun 2018, yang disebutkan sebagai ruang 1, ruang 2, ruang 3. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode pengumpulan data observasi, wawancara, serta analisis dokumen yang melibatkan interpretasi peneliti. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian ini dapat diketahui konsep interior yang diterapkan pada ruang 1, ruang 2, dan ruang 3.  Kata kunci: konsep, interior, museum, House of Sampoerna, visualisasi

scholarly journals On Body and Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 119-122
Author(s):  
Anita Lanszki
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
History Of Education ◽  
Document Analysis ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
Artistic Development ◽  
Research Paradigm ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
The Public ◽  
History Of

The history of the teaching of movements is a remarkable field in the history of education, the research paradigm of which also presupposes social and cultural-historical studies and accurate document analysis. The impressive volume published in 2021 and edited by Simonetta Polenghi, András Németh and Tomáš Kasper, provides a comprehensive overview of the educational trends from the turn of the century to the 1950s. The book’s authors present the trends in physical education and movement arts in the European countries of the era from exciting perspectives. The studies focus on how the public health, ideology, art, and pedagogical trends of the first half of the 20th century influenced educational policy aspirations for the physical and artistic development of the body.

Audacious Fusion: Thinking About Singaporean Cuisine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Tarulevicz
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Everyday Experience ◽  
The Family ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scholarly Attention

This introductory chapter discusses the importance of studying the history of food in Singapore. Singapore's outstanding economic transformation since independence understandably dominates scholarly attention. However, it is through the bowls and plates of Singapore that one can read a significant portion of its history. For Singaporeans, the universal human experience of eating assumes a preeminent position in definitions of both the national and the lived everyday experience. As such, eating—the how and the what—provides a unifying experience amid diversity and becomes a metaphor for the fledgling state's multiracialism. This book focuses on the themes of cultural heritage, the family, and the body in understanding Singaporean food and its relationship to Singaporean society.

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