When I Awake with Thy Likeness

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
Memory Work ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Sacred History

This chapter examines family Bible portrait galleries within the context of studio portraiture and nineteenth-century notions of “likeness.” Portrait galleries for small, card-sized “carte de visite” studio portraits became popular additions to family bibles in the 1860s and remained so through the end of the century. This chapter positions these galleries against standalone photograph albums and other forms of memory work within family bibles in order to consider what genealogies these silent likenesses created for their beholders. As a point of entry into the communion of shadows, this chapter argues that family bible portrait galleries were sites where knotted threads of race and nation were smuggled into sacred history—unwittingly, perhaps—under the guise of family pictures.

The Courier League

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samuel O. Regalado
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
Japanese Language ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Point Of Entry ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Language Schools

This chapter discusses the proliferation of baseball in Seattle—another point of entry for the Japanese coming to the Americas in the late nineteenth century. The Seattle Japanese community was very active in its athletic endeavors and incorporated baseball as a means to display the virtues of the second generation to those in Japan. Thus, boxer-turned-journalist James Sakamoto sought to unify this community into an athletic union—the Courier Athletic League—which drew its membership from a variety of institutions; such as Buddhist and Christian churches, YMCAs, and Japanese-language schools. Following the lead of the ambitious and patriotic Sakamoto, the new league officials constructed athletics around the notion that Courier League sports would be those distinctively “American.”

Beginnings

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Taves
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Church History ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Book Of Mormon ◽  
Sacred History

This chapter turns to a close reading and comparison of the origin narratives that Smith and others recounted in the 1830s in the wake of the publication of the Book of Mormon and the founding of the new church. By asking how and why Mormons got to the official story of their origins as expressed in Smith's 1839 history, it situates the question in relation to two fundamental transitions: (1) from producing new scripture to evangelizing based on it, and (2) from revelation-guided production of a sacred history that began in biblical times (the Book of Mormon) to human narration of the story of how and why the Lord was intervening in the nineteenth century to provide continuing access to revelation (church history).

Photography in Sierra Leone, 1850–1918

Africa ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 510-518 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Viditz-Ward
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Sierra Leone ◽  
Photograph Albums ◽  
Sierra Leonean ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Colonial Archives ◽  
History Of ◽  
Opening Paragraph ◽  
The City ◽  
European Technology

Opening ParagraphIn recent years scholars have shown considerable interest in the early use of photography by non-Western peoples. Research on nineteenth-century Indian, Japanese and Chinese photography has revealed a rich synthesis of European and Asian imagery. These early photographs show how non-Western peoples created new forms of artistic expression by adapting European technology and visual idioms for their own purposes. Because of the long history of contact between Sierra Leoneans and Europeans, Freetown seemed a logical starting point for similar photographic research in West Africa. The information presented here is based on ten years of searching for nineteenth-century photographs made by Sierra Leonean photographers. To locate these pictures, I have visited Freetonians and viewed their family portraits and photograph albums, interviewed contemporary photographers throughout Sierra Leone, and researched in the various colonial archives in England to locate photographs preserved from the period of colonial rule. I have discovered that a community of African photographers has worked in the city of Freetown since the very invention of photography. The article reviews the first phase of this unique photographic tradition, 1850–1918, and focuses on several of the African photographers who worked in Freetown during this period.

Treaty Stories: Reclaiming the Unbroken History of Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Sovereignty

Ethnohistory ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
pp. 215-236
Author(s):  
Margaret Huettl
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
State Policy ◽  
Wild Rice ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Indian Land ◽  
History Of ◽  
Sacred Stories ◽  
Sacred History

Abstract Ojibwe leaders negotiated treaties with the United States amid nineteenth-century encroachments on their territory. These treaties, which were more than tools of dispossession, enfolded and extended aadizookanag (sacred stories) in agreements that embodied Ojibwe relationships with land, language, sacred history, ceremony, and kin. Federal and state policy makers, fueled by the desire for Indian land and resources, attempted to unravel these relationships in the decades that followed. By continuing to live out through labor and stories their relationships with the woods, waters, and manoomin (wild rice) beds of Anishinaabewaki, the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibweg kept their treaties and their sovereignty alive.

The Fiscal Problems of Nineteenth-Century Colombia

1982 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malcolm Deas
Keyword(s):  
Public Finance ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Political Life ◽  
Joseph Schumpeter ◽  
Point Of Entry

The assertion that a country is rich, or a government is powerful, is usually followed by some description of what that entails. Conversely, poverty and weakness are not so often explored in all their detail, though they too are complicated matters. Public finance is one point of entry.1 According to Joseph Schumpeter, it is ‘one of the best starting points for an investigation of society, especially though not exclusively of its political life. The spirit of a people, its cultural level, its social structure, the deeds its policy may prepare – all this and more is written in its fiscal history, stripped of all phrases’.

The Corpora of Isrāʾīliyyāt

2020 ◽  
pp. 681-692
Author(s):  
Roberto Tottoli
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Literary Genres ◽  
Early Literature ◽  
Ibn Taymiyya ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Sacred History ◽  
Islamic Literature

Narrative enlargements and exegetical explanations are usually considered at the origin of the so-called isrāʾīliyyāt. With this name early literature recalls traditions and material about biblical stories and Jewish and Christian sacred history, ranging from the creation of Adam to Jesus. Hadith criticism and opinions emerging with Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Kathīr, and from the end of the nineteenth century onwards have raised doubts upon this material and its circulation in Islamic literature. The significance of these reports, spread all over Islamic literary genres, has also prompted discussion relating to their origin and continues to attract studies on the developments of isrāʾīliyyāt throughout medieval times. Along with this, its exegetical relation with the contents of the Qur’an on patriarchs and prophets has attracted attention by Muslim exegetes and Western scholars.

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