scholarly journals Materielle Minder: Om at huske med genstand og krop

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolette Makovicy
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Physical Training ◽  
The Body ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Craft Knowledge ◽  
Specific Object ◽  
The Senses ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship

Nicolette Makovicy: Material Memories: On Remembering with Object and Body We live surrounded by cultural objects, either of our own making, or appropriated from other sources through purchase or gift. This article is an exploration of how our interaction with material culture can affect how we remember, and inquires into the wider implications this has on knowledge and memories which circulate in social relations and across generations. The specific object of study is handmade bobbin lace, its production and circulation in the central Slovak provincial town of Banská Bystrica and its surrounding villages. The author takes a critical stance towards the conventional notion that objects can act as analogues for memory, as illustrated by Aristotle’s memoria. Instead, the author attempts to explore what an approach which underscores memory as a spontaneous recall. The article first deals with the relationship between skill, an embodied form of knowledge which relies on the physical training of the body to perform precise movements, and the product of this knowledge, the lace, as a means of transferring craft knowledge between makers. It is argued that the body and the senses are indispensable to this transfer, the key to the understanding and memorization of knowledge being physical reproduction. The second part of the article deals with lace articles as an element of household décor. It is shown that lace articles, while all being spoken of as making permanent memories through their materiality, most often have shifting meanings attached to them determined by a frequent circulation between households. Finally, it is suggested that the emphasis on materiality is used by the informants as a discursive device in their attempts to ground themselves socially and historically. 

scholarly journals Le sommeil d’un mannequin: exploring material memory through film

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Del Giacco
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Body ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Relationship

Le Sommeil d’un mannequin is a practice-based research project that examines the relationship between the female body and the body of the mannequin through creative methods of plaster body casting and experimental film. The film, Le Sommeil d’un mannequin, conveys the psychic experience of memory found in the unconsciousness state. Through the use of experimental filmmaking, this project speaks to the transformative power of memories and the interpretation of memory that is implied in the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud. Subsequently, this project bares importance to the study of material culture because it takes into account the human essence present in the fabrication and production of cultural objects. Applying Jules Prown’s method of object analysis uncovered the role of the mannequin to be more than just a cultural display of feminine identity.

scholarly journals Le sommeil d’un mannequin: exploring material memory through film

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Del Giacco
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
The Body ◽  
Experimental Film ◽  
Transformative Power ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Human Essence ◽  
Practice Based Research ◽  
The Relationship

Le Sommeil d’un mannequin is a practice-based research project that examines the relationship between the female body and the body of the mannequin through creative methods of plaster body casting and experimental film. The film, Le Sommeil d’un mannequin, conveys the psychic experience of memory found in the unconsciousness state. Through the use of experimental filmmaking, this project speaks to the transformative power of memories and the interpretation of memory that is implied in the psychoanalytic writings of Sigmund Freud. Subsequently, this project bares importance to the study of material culture because it takes into account the human essence present in the fabrication and production of cultural objects. Applying Jules Prown’s method of object analysis uncovered the role of the mannequin to be more than just a cultural display of feminine identity.

scholarly journals Salvação do corpo. Sujeito e negatividade a partir da filosofia de Byung-Chul Han

2020 ◽  
Vol 80 (316) ◽  
pp. 441
Author(s):  
Welder Lancieri Marchini ◽  
Renan Silva Carletti
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Contemporary Philosopher ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

O presente artigo discute a noçao de corpo a partir do filósofo contemporâneo Byung-Chul Han e como ela pode oferecer caminhos para pensar a constituição do sujeito na atualidade. Partiremos da exposição dos conceitos de positividade e negatividade descritos em A Sociedade do Cansaco e em outras obras do autor. Em seguida, abordaremos a relação do corpo com a liberdade e pornografia. Por último, mostraremos como a inserção e o reconhecimento do sujeito em suas relações sociais pode sugerir um caminho possível para ultrapassar o excesso de positividade característico de nossa época. Abstract: This article discusses the notion of body from the contemporary philosopher Byung-Chul Han and how it can offer ways to think about the subject’s constitution today. We will start from the exposition of the concepts of positivity and negativity described in The Burnout Socieity and other works by the author. Next, we will address the relationship of the body to freedom and pornography. Finally, we will show how the subject’s insertion and recognition in his social relations can suggest a possible way to overcome the excess of positivity characteristic of our time.Keywords: Freedom; Pornography; Subject; Transparency.

scholarly journals Imaginários sociais sobre as favelas cariocas: o turismo-cultural do museu de favela e seus modos de ativação digital

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Mônica Machado
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media ◽  
Theoretical Frame ◽  
Cultural Contradictions ◽  
The Relationship

Esse artigo objetiva refletir sobre as representações sociais das favelas cariocas em registros midiáticos ao longo os últimos anos, o crescente movimento do Favela-tour e seus paradoxos, bem como as suas implicações conceituais. Em seguida reflete sobre as experiências do turismo cultural do Museu de Favela, com destaque para o processo de criação do hotsite Museu de Favela Tour como dispositivo que faz circular o capital cultural comunitário. Todas essas noções associam-se aos pressupostos teóricos da cultura material, como um campo da antropologia que estuda as correlações entre objetos e inventários socioculturais e avança para o estudo da sub-linha da pesquisa da antropologia digital, onde as relações entre sujeitos sociais e tecnologias são imaginadas como reelaborações da sociabilidade que precedem a essa tradição e se predispõem a revelar as contradições sociais já dispostas na cultura.Social narratives about slum in Rio:the cultural-tourism in favela museum and digital activismAbstract This article aims to analyse favelas in Rio and also the media records about this issue, arguing that the Favela-tour concept can be seen as paradoxal process. Then will be debated Favela Museum’s cultural tourism heritage, highlighting the process of creating the Favela Museum Tour’s hotsite as a way of spread the favela’s legacy. All these notions are associated with the theoretical frame of material culture as a field of anthropology and links between socio-cultural objects and inventories. This research is called digital anthropology where the relationship between social and technology subject are imagined as re-workings of sociability that precedes this tradition, where the digital technologies are predisposed to share the social-cultural contradictions.

scholarly journals Shaping Toronto: female economy and agency in the corset industry, 1871-1914

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alanna M. M. McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fashion History ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Female Consumers ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Relationship

In amplifying the contours of the body, the corset is an historical site that fashions femininity even as it constricts women’s bodies. This study sits at the intersection of three histories: of commodity consumption, of labour, and of embodiment and subjectivity, arguing that women were active participants in the making, selling, purchasing and wearing of corsets in Toronto, a city that has largely been ignored in fashion history. Between 1871 and 1914 many women worked in large urban factories, and in small, independent manufacturing shops. Toronto’s corset manufacturers were instrumental in the urbanization of Canadian industry, and created employment in which women earned a wage. The women who bought their wares were consumers making informed purchases, enacting agency in consumption and aesthetics; by choosing the style or size of a corset, female consumers were able to control to varying degrees, the shape of their bodies. As a staple in the wardrobe of most nineteenth-century women, the corset complicates the study of conspicuous consumption, as it was a garment that was not meant to be seen, but created a highly visible shape, blurring the lines between private and public viewing of the female body. Marxist analysis of the commodity fetish informs this study, and by acknowledging the ways in which the corset became a fetishized object itself, both signaling the shapeliness of femininity while in fact augmenting and diminishing female bodies. This study will address critical theory regarding the gaze and subjectivity, fashion, and modernity, exploring the relationship women had with corsets through media and advertising. A material culture analysis of extant corsets helps understand how corsets were constructed in Toronto, how the women of Toronto wore them, and to what extent they actually shaped their bodies. Ultimately, it is the aim of this dissertation to eschew common misconceptions about the practice of corsetry and showcase the hidden manner in which women produced goods, labour, and their own bodies in the nineteenth century, within the Canadian context.

scholarly journals Shaping Toronto: female economy and agency in the corset industry, 1871-1914

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alanna M. M. McKnight
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Fashion History ◽  
Women's Bodies ◽  
The Gaze ◽  
Female Consumers ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
The Relationship

In amplifying the contours of the body, the corset is an historical site that fashions femininity even as it constricts women’s bodies. This study sits at the intersection of three histories: of commodity consumption, of labour, and of embodiment and subjectivity, arguing that women were active participants in the making, selling, purchasing and wearing of corsets in Toronto, a city that has largely been ignored in fashion history. Between 1871 and 1914 many women worked in large urban factories, and in small, independent manufacturing shops. Toronto’s corset manufacturers were instrumental in the urbanization of Canadian industry, and created employment in which women earned a wage. The women who bought their wares were consumers making informed purchases, enacting agency in consumption and aesthetics; by choosing the style or size of a corset, female consumers were able to control to varying degrees, the shape of their bodies. As a staple in the wardrobe of most nineteenth-century women, the corset complicates the study of conspicuous consumption, as it was a garment that was not meant to be seen, but created a highly visible shape, blurring the lines between private and public viewing of the female body. Marxist analysis of the commodity fetish informs this study, and by acknowledging the ways in which the corset became a fetishized object itself, both signaling the shapeliness of femininity while in fact augmenting and diminishing female bodies. This study will address critical theory regarding the gaze and subjectivity, fashion, and modernity, exploring the relationship women had with corsets through media and advertising. A material culture analysis of extant corsets helps understand how corsets were constructed in Toronto, how the women of Toronto wore them, and to what extent they actually shaped their bodies. Ultimately, it is the aim of this dissertation to eschew common misconceptions about the practice of corsetry and showcase the hidden manner in which women produced goods, labour, and their own bodies in the nineteenth century, within the Canadian context.

scholarly journals Gender and Television. Stereotypes and power relations in TV

Comunicar ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 13 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonia Núñez-Puente
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Studies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Gender Stereotypes ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Power Strategies ◽  
Gender Constructions ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion

Gender Studies have placed a pivotal role in mass media studies in the last decade. Power strategies and the relationship that has been established among different stereotypes in TV are the main object of study of this paper. Gender relations are an essential field of analysis of social relations in the field of mass media studies. There is a need to rethink most of the gender constructions implying power strategies. The aim of this paper is to analyze the power strategies that make gender stereotypes possible in TV. Los estudios sobre los medios de comunicación comenzaron a incorporar la categoría analítica de género a partir de la teoría y la hermenéutica feminista. Desde ese punto de reflexión fueron también situando su propia perspectiva los crecientes estudios sobre la condición masculina. En la actualidad es frecuente encontrar matices y apreciaciones provenientes de las diversas teorías de los estudios de género en los manuales sobre los medios de comunicación. En este último decenio, se ha avanzado lo suficiente como para poder afirmar que algunas líneas de investigación han alcanzado cierta solidez en países de cultura anglosajona, y se han afianzado con cierta precariedad en países de cultura mediterránea. Lo que se aborda en este trabajo es la multiplicidad del sujeto que amplifica y define los medios de comunicación, y en concreto la televisión. Se trata, pues, de analizar la construcción desde el discurso televisivo de un sujeto en permanente contradicción que nos hace partir de una noción de género que no depende de la diferencia sexual, sino de una construcción en muchos casos situada en un espacio cultural concreto. En un estudio realizado en los años 90 se señalaba que tanto en USA y como en Europa surge un tipo especial de periodismo orientado hacia un mercado segmentado. Se mostraba que los periódicos dirigidos a un público general que se ocupaban de asuntos generales sociales y políticos estaban decreciendo significativamente en número, y se desarrollaban, sin embargo, publicaciones dirigidas a grupos con intereses especiales que trataban de cuestiones como el ocio, los viajes, el deporte o la decoración. Dichos estudios concluían diciendo que se produce, de este modo, una jerarquización de los profesionales de los medios de comunicación, entre los que está la televisión, y quizás una feminización del periodismo, que afecta en gran medida al periodismo televisivo. En esta supuesta feminización de los medios de comunicación en general y de la televisión en particular tiene mucho que ver el proceso de relaciones complejas que se establecen con la audiencia y en los que la incorporación estereotipada de lo masculino y lo femenino desempeña un papel fundamental. La construcción de género en los medios de comunicación es, por consiguiente, tan producto de su representación como producto de los propios medios. Por tanto se hace necesario analizar, a mi juicio, las nuevas construcciones y configuraciones de la identidad de género en su representación mediática televisiva y las relaciones que se establecen entre éstas y la audiencia como receptora del mensaje, que es lo que este trabajo pretende estudiar. Y esto siempre en relación con los telespectadores que son, en definitiva, los destinatarios finales de los mensajes elaborados desde la televisión. Las relaciones que se establecen entre ellos y los mecanismos de poder que emanan de las instancias que dirigen los medios de comunicación constituyen una fuente de análisis que merece un estudio detallado y que supone el elemento vertebrador de este trabajo, así como un breve desarrollo de un posible protocolo de actuación para las cuestiones de género en la televisión.

scholarly journals RELASI ALKHAIRAAT-NU DI MANADO TAHUN 1955-1998 (Studi Pertemuan Antara Alkhairaat dan NU dalam Konteksd Ideologi Sosio-kultiral)

2018 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Aisyah Rasyid
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
The Body ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Sociological Factors ◽  
Political Dimensions ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. Alkhairaat and NU are two different organizations and structures. NU is active in various fields with not small political dimensions, while Alkhairaat focuses on education and da'wah. But in Manado it is interesting, the Islamic community considers that Alkhairaat is an embryo of NU. This is certainly related to the historical-sociological factors of these two institutions born in the local context. This study wants to answer two questions; First, what is the background of the relationship between Alkhairaat and NU in Manado in 1955-1998 and what is the dynamics and pattern characteristics of the Alkhairaat relationship with NU in Manado during 1955-1998. Temporally, this research was restricted from 1955 because this year Alkhairaat built its social relations with NU, which at that time was the party participating in the first election in Indonesia. The final limitation of the study was set in 1998 because this year there was a change in the body of NU by declaring the PKB as a party formed by and for NU citizens, but open to anyone including non-Muslims. This caused conflict in the Alkhairaat-NU relationship in Manado,   Keywords:NU, Alkhairaat, Manado, Education, Da'wah, Historical-Sociological Abstrak.Alkhairaat dan NU adalah dua organisasi yang berbeda secara kelembagaan maupun struktur.NU aktif dalam berbagai bidang dengan dimensi politiknya yang tidak kecil, sedangkan Alkhairaat fokus pada pendidikan dan dakwah. Namun di Manado menarik, masyarakat Islam menganggap bahwa Alkhairaat adalah embrio dari NU. Ini tentu terkait dengan faktor historis-sosiologis kedua lembaga ini lahir dalam konteks lokal. Penelitian ini ingin menjawab dua pertanyaan; Pertama, Bagaimana latarbelakang terjalinnya hubungan antara Alkhairaat dan NU di Manado pada tahun 1955-1998 dan Bagaimana dinamika dan karakteristik pola relasi Alkhairaat dengan NU di Manado selama tahun 1955-1998. Secara temporal, penelitian ini dibatasi dari tahun 1955  karena pada tahun inilah Alkhairaat membangun relasi sosialnya dengan NU yang saat itu menjadi partai peserta dalam Pemilu pertama di Indonesia. Adapun batasan akhir penelitian ditetapkan tahun 1998 karena pada tahun ini terjadi perubahan di tubuh NU dengan mendeklarasikan PKB sebagai partai yang dibentuk oleh dan untuk warga NU, namun terbuka bagi siapapun termasuk non-Muslim. Hal ini menimbulkan konflik dalam relasi Alkhairaat-NU di Manado.Kata Kunci: NU, Alkhairaat, Manado, Pendidikan, Dakwah, Historis-Sosiologis

Fashioning culture: Transforming perspectives from Oceania

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-24
Author(s):  
Kalissa Alexeyeff ◽  
Geir Henning Presterudstuen
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
Clothing Style ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Anthropological Research ◽  
Analytical Category ◽  
Embodied Practice ◽  
The Relationship

In this introductory article we discuss what might be gained from examining more familiar areas of anthropological research such as cloth, dress or material culture through fashion as an analytical category and, in turn, how insights from Pacific clothing cultures can broaden understandings of fashion. Our aim is to unsettle the ethnographic gaze that is often brought to bear on non-western cultures of fashion, cloth, clothing, style and innovation. Fashion, as we conceive of it, spans from the physical production and design of garments and objects to everyday appearances, the desire to be ‘in vogue’ and the consumption of aesthetic objects that are considered popular. From this starting point we move analyses of fashion from the systemic to the experiential, reflecting ethnographic sensitivity to everyday embodied practice and the constant political and creative negotiation of values and norms that takes place in quotidian social relations. We situate these analyses in a region that is often perceived to be at the very edge of the world economy and invite further discussion about the relationship between fashion and the global flow of people, ideas and commodities.

Sustainable practice: The future mode of temporality in fashion

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 377-385 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harah Chon
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
The Body ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Social Production ◽  
Sustainable Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Meaning Creation ◽  
Sociocultural Development ◽  
Nature Of Time ◽  
The Relationship

Fashion is indicative of time and, serving as the interpretive and representational forms of a society, is measured against the cyclical rhythms of trend diffusion and style adoption. This article examines the function of time within the framework of historical research, reviewing the construction and translation of contemporary fashion. The temporality of material objects is further probed by an analysis of the sociocultural development of current sustainable practices to grasp the affective nature of time and its relationship to the fashion system. With an overview of emerging sustainable design practices, the relationship between time and meaning creation is critically examined, analysed and discussed. The social production of design and its utilization of the body-as-space are presented in relation to the social construction of time, explicated as part of a subjective, embodied experience. This article presents a new modality of time in how it is articulated, imitated, reproduced and reinterpreted through material culture and future sustainable practices.

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