Ariel Glucklich
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195314052
- eISBN:
- 9780199871766
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195314052.003.0008
- Subject:
- Religion, Hinduism
This chapter looks at the Gupta Empire and in particular the career of Samudragupta. Hindu arts and sciences attained a high level of success, the earliest examples of north Indian temples date to ...
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This chapter looks at the Gupta Empire and in particular the career of Samudragupta. Hindu arts and sciences attained a high level of success, the earliest examples of north Indian temples date to this period and elaborate public rituals, including the horse sacrifice, were sponsored by the king. The chapter discusses the works of Kalidasa, in particular Shakuntala, examines temple architecture, and explains the governing rationality that encompassed both the arts and religion.Less
This chapter looks at the Gupta Empire and in particular the career of Samudragupta. Hindu arts and sciences attained a high level of success, the earliest examples of north Indian temples date to this period and elaborate public rituals, including the horse sacrifice, were sponsored by the king. The chapter discusses the works of Kalidasa, in particular Shakuntala, examines temple architecture, and explains the governing rationality that encompassed both the arts and religion.
Jacqueline Baxter
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781447326021
- eISBN:
- 9781447326229
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447326021.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Criminal Law and Criminology
What impact have the unprecedented and rapid changes to the structure of education in England had on school governors and policy makers? And what effect has the intensifying media and regulatory ...
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What impact have the unprecedented and rapid changes to the structure of education in England had on school governors and policy makers? And what effect has the intensifying media and regulatory focus had on volunteer school governors? Jacqueline Baxter takes the 2014 ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal, in which it was alleged that governors at 25 Birmingham schools were involved in the ‘Islamisation’ of secular state schools, as a focus point to examine the pressures and challenges in the current system. Informed by her twenty years’ experience as a school governor, she considers both media analysis and policy as well as the implications for the future of a democratic system of education in England.Less
What impact have the unprecedented and rapid changes to the structure of education in England had on school governors and policy makers? And what effect has the intensifying media and regulatory focus had on volunteer school governors? Jacqueline Baxter takes the 2014 ‘Trojan Horse’ scandal, in which it was alleged that governors at 25 Birmingham schools were involved in the ‘Islamisation’ of secular state schools, as a focus point to examine the pressures and challenges in the current system. Informed by her twenty years’ experience as a school governor, she considers both media analysis and policy as well as the implications for the future of a democratic system of education in England.
George F. Hofmann
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813124032
- eISBN:
- 9780813134819
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813124032.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, Military History
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of the book, which is about the history of the mechanization of the U.S. Army horse cavalry during the first half of the twentieth century. The book ...
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This introductory chapter explains the coverage of the book, which is about the history of the mechanization of the U.S. Army horse cavalry during the first half of the twentieth century. The book examines the changes in the cavalry doctrine during this period, the untold story of the first mechanized cavalry theorist Frank Parker, and the Army Organization Act which merged the cavalry with the armor branch. It also highlights of the role of Fort Knox in Kentucky, where new ideas had germinated at times and been discussed with German staff officers who visited the base in the 1930s.Less
This introductory chapter explains the coverage of the book, which is about the history of the mechanization of the U.S. Army horse cavalry during the first half of the twentieth century. The book examines the changes in the cavalry doctrine during this period, the untold story of the first mechanized cavalry theorist Frank Parker, and the Army Organization Act which merged the cavalry with the armor branch. It also highlights of the role of Fort Knox in Kentucky, where new ideas had germinated at times and been discussed with German staff officers who visited the base in the 1930s.
John Holmwood and Therese O'Toole
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447344131
- eISBN:
- 9781447344179
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447344131.001.0001
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
In 2014 the UK government launched an investigation into the “Trojan Horse” affair: an alleged plot to “Islamify” several state schools in Birmingham. Twenty-one schools in Birmingham were subjected ...
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In 2014 the UK government launched an investigation into the “Trojan Horse” affair: an alleged plot to “Islamify” several state schools in Birmingham. Twenty-one schools in Birmingham were subjected to snap Ofsted inspections and included in the various inquiries into the affair. The book's authors — one who was an expert witness in the professional misconduct cases brought against the teachers in the school, and the other, who researches the government's counter-extremism agenda — challenge the accepted narrative, arguing that a major injustice was inflicted on the teachers, and they go on to show how the affair was used to criticize multiculturalism and justify the expansion of a broad and intrusive counter-extremism agenda. The government cites the 'plot' in its argument about the need to develop a new counter-extremism strategy that confronts extremist ideology and not just threats of violence. However, the Kershaw Report and some other commentators argue that there was, in fact, no evidence of extremism.Less
In 2014 the UK government launched an investigation into the “Trojan Horse” affair: an alleged plot to “Islamify” several state schools in Birmingham. Twenty-one schools in Birmingham were subjected to snap Ofsted inspections and included in the various inquiries into the affair. The book's authors — one who was an expert witness in the professional misconduct cases brought against the teachers in the school, and the other, who researches the government's counter-extremism agenda — challenge the accepted narrative, arguing that a major injustice was inflicted on the teachers, and they go on to show how the affair was used to criticize multiculturalism and justify the expansion of a broad and intrusive counter-extremism agenda. The government cites the 'plot' in its argument about the need to develop a new counter-extremism strategy that confronts extremist ideology and not just threats of violence. However, the Kershaw Report and some other commentators argue that there was, in fact, no evidence of extremism.
DAVID LOADES
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198201939
- eISBN:
- 9780191675089
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198201939.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter details the life of Edward Dudley's son, John. During the uncertain period between Edward's arrest and execution over a year later, John and his brothers presumably remained with their ...
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This chapter details the life of Edward Dudley's son, John. During the uncertain period between Edward's arrest and execution over a year later, John and his brothers presumably remained with their mother, but it is not known where — or with whom — she lived with during this period. He began his career in 1523, when, at the age of 19, he served a lieutenant in the Duke of Suffolk's army. By 1527 Sir John became a young man of some substance and had also taken a wife. In November 1539, he was named Master of the Horse to Henry's latest queen, Anne of Cleves, and he played a prominent part in the ceremonies which attended her ill-omened arrival in January 1540.Less
This chapter details the life of Edward Dudley's son, John. During the uncertain period between Edward's arrest and execution over a year later, John and his brothers presumably remained with their mother, but it is not known where — or with whom — she lived with during this period. He began his career in 1523, when, at the age of 19, he served a lieutenant in the Duke of Suffolk's army. By 1527 Sir John became a young man of some substance and had also taken a wife. In November 1539, he was named Master of the Horse to Henry's latest queen, Anne of Cleves, and he played a prominent part in the ceremonies which attended her ill-omened arrival in January 1540.
Jim Host and Eric A. Moyen
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780813179551
- eISBN:
- 9780813179582
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813179551.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
After running Senator Cooper’s successful reelection campaign, Host was asked to do the same for Judge Marlow Cook in the Republican gubernatorial primary against Louie Nunn in 1967. Nunn won the ...
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After running Senator Cooper’s successful reelection campaign, Host was asked to do the same for Judge Marlow Cook in the Republican gubernatorial primary against Louie Nunn in 1967. Nunn won the primary and asked Host to help organize his campaign against Democrat Henry Ward. After he won the general election, Governor Nunn named Host commissioner of public information. Host helped secure votes for Nunn’s sales tax increase, promoted state tourism, helped secure funding for Kentucky Educational Television, developed plans for the Kentucky Horse Park, and organized the Republican Governors’ Conference in 1969. Host then became commissioner of state parks and worked to expand the park system and preserve historic homes such as the Mary Todd Lincoln House and White Hall (home of abolitionist Cassius Clay).Less
After running Senator Cooper’s successful reelection campaign, Host was asked to do the same for Judge Marlow Cook in the Republican gubernatorial primary against Louie Nunn in 1967. Nunn won the primary and asked Host to help organize his campaign against Democrat Henry Ward. After he won the general election, Governor Nunn named Host commissioner of public information. Host helped secure votes for Nunn’s sales tax increase, promoted state tourism, helped secure funding for Kentucky Educational Television, developed plans for the Kentucky Horse Park, and organized the Republican Governors’ Conference in 1969. Host then became commissioner of state parks and worked to expand the park system and preserve historic homes such as the Mary Todd Lincoln House and White Hall (home of abolitionist Cassius Clay).
Margaret M. McGuinness
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780823239870
- eISBN:
- 9780823239917
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823239870.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
In 1940, Reverend George Lewis Smith invited the Sisters of Christian Doctrine to begin a ministry in the Horse Creek Valley section of South Carolina. Convinced that the model of urban social ...
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In 1940, Reverend George Lewis Smith invited the Sisters of Christian Doctrine to begin a ministry in the Horse Creek Valley section of South Carolina. Convinced that the model of urban social settlements could be transferred to rural areas, Mother Marianne agreed, and the community established a presence in South Carolina that would continue until a lack of personnel forced them to withdraw in the 1970s. The congregation's work in South Carolina exhibited many of the same characteristics found in Madonna House and Ave Maria House, but the sisters often had to convince their non-Catholic neighbors that they were welcome at the Horse Creek Valley Welfare Center. They also found themselves working to combat the inherent anti-Catholicism of the area. Although their work included religious education and sacramental preparation, the sisters were unable to count many converts to Catholicism among their successes.Less
In 1940, Reverend George Lewis Smith invited the Sisters of Christian Doctrine to begin a ministry in the Horse Creek Valley section of South Carolina. Convinced that the model of urban social settlements could be transferred to rural areas, Mother Marianne agreed, and the community established a presence in South Carolina that would continue until a lack of personnel forced them to withdraw in the 1970s. The congregation's work in South Carolina exhibited many of the same characteristics found in Madonna House and Ave Maria House, but the sisters often had to convince their non-Catholic neighbors that they were welcome at the Horse Creek Valley Welfare Center. They also found themselves working to combat the inherent anti-Catholicism of the area. Although their work included religious education and sacramental preparation, the sisters were unable to count many converts to Catholicism among their successes.
Katharina Zimmermann
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781447346517
- eISBN:
- 9781447346555
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447346517.003.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the overall research interest of the book: the role EU funding plays in local social and employment policies. Departing from a European perspective and taking the ...
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Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the overall research interest of the book: the role EU funding plays in local social and employment policies. Departing from a European perspective and taking the ESF (– which has turned from a relatively small and unconditional financing tool into a powerful and complex governance instrument; meant to back up EU social and employment policy – as a crucial case for financial incentives in multilevel setups, the study asks how local entities in different European countries react to the European money and how they are shaped by it. The introduction outlines in which way this question is addressed in the course of the study and how the book is structured.Less
Chapter 1 introduces the reader to the overall research interest of the book: the role EU funding plays in local social and employment policies. Departing from a European perspective and taking the ESF (– which has turned from a relatively small and unconditional financing tool into a powerful and complex governance instrument; meant to back up EU social and employment policy – as a crucial case for financial incentives in multilevel setups, the study asks how local entities in different European countries react to the European money and how they are shaped by it. The introduction outlines in which way this question is addressed in the course of the study and how the book is structured.
Jan Bryant
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474456944
- eISBN:
- 9781474476867
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474456944.003.0007
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Aesthetics
Henri Lefebvre spent many decades developing a theory of the everyday as a locus of revolutionary potential. Maurice Blanchot takes a sideways route from praising to pulling down Lefebvre’s ...
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Henri Lefebvre spent many decades developing a theory of the everyday as a locus of revolutionary potential. Maurice Blanchot takes a sideways route from praising to pulling down Lefebvre’s ‘everyday’, arguing that revolutionary desire cannot dwell in this enigmatic sphere. Rather, the everyday is the unthought, private, absorbing, and self-contained. The failure of Lefebvre to move from abstraction to action, from metaphysics to an effective Marxist critical theory is revealed at a crucial moment in history, as the Left is appearing to fracture in response to the disappointments of 1968. The chapter includes a close analysis of Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse (2011) in relation to the everyday and tedium. [110]Less
Henri Lefebvre spent many decades developing a theory of the everyday as a locus of revolutionary potential. Maurice Blanchot takes a sideways route from praising to pulling down Lefebvre’s ‘everyday’, arguing that revolutionary desire cannot dwell in this enigmatic sphere. Rather, the everyday is the unthought, private, absorbing, and self-contained. The failure of Lefebvre to move from abstraction to action, from metaphysics to an effective Marxist critical theory is revealed at a crucial moment in history, as the Left is appearing to fracture in response to the disappointments of 1968. The chapter includes a close analysis of Béla Tarr’s The Turin Horse (2011) in relation to the everyday and tedium. [110]
Jonathan Rayner
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719070983
- eISBN:
- 9781781701157
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719070983.003.0012
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
In the 1950s, British war films became some of the most successful national film products. They entered the national consciousness as the common frame of reference on the conflict, particularly for ...
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In the 1950s, British war films became some of the most successful national film products. They entered the national consciousness as the common frame of reference on the conflict, particularly for later generations who did not experience it first hand. Where some films produce heroic, uncomplicated retransmissions of accepted versions of known events, others offer a painful, private and subjective vision of war experience, which emphasises the compartmentalisation of the conflict, particularly in naval terms. The remarkable aura of defeat and loss is magnified in some naval examples (The Cruel Sea, The Gift Horse, Above Us the Waves, The Ship That Died of Shame), and yet downplayed, dismissed or exulted in heroic terms in others (Sailor to the King, The Battle of the River Plate). The films addressing naval subjects display remarkable consistency, despite tonal differences. A continued convergence between the stylistic and structural characteristics of the wartime documentary feature and the drama-documentary basis of many naval films is evident in several productions. The service comedy applies a basic unit of humour (inappropriate or incongruous behaviour) to the regulated environments and forms of conduct demanded within the military.Less
In the 1950s, British war films became some of the most successful national film products. They entered the national consciousness as the common frame of reference on the conflict, particularly for later generations who did not experience it first hand. Where some films produce heroic, uncomplicated retransmissions of accepted versions of known events, others offer a painful, private and subjective vision of war experience, which emphasises the compartmentalisation of the conflict, particularly in naval terms. The remarkable aura of defeat and loss is magnified in some naval examples (The Cruel Sea, The Gift Horse, Above Us the Waves, The Ship That Died of Shame), and yet downplayed, dismissed or exulted in heroic terms in others (Sailor to the King, The Battle of the River Plate). The films addressing naval subjects display remarkable consistency, despite tonal differences. A continued convergence between the stylistic and structural characteristics of the wartime documentary feature and the drama-documentary basis of many naval films is evident in several productions. The service comedy applies a basic unit of humour (inappropriate or incongruous behaviour) to the regulated environments and forms of conduct demanded within the military.
Koenraad Claes
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781474426213
- eISBN:
- 9781474453776
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474426213.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century and Victorian Literature
This chapter is entirely dedicated to a pioneering little magazine that elaborated on the example of The Germ and the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (see Chapter 1), the Century GuildHobby Horse ...
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This chapter is entirely dedicated to a pioneering little magazine that elaborated on the example of The Germ and the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (see Chapter 1), the Century GuildHobby Horse (1884/86–92), which started as the periodical organ of the early Arts & Crafts organisation the Century Guild. To this magazine, the production and design of the material text was as much an opportunity for experiments as its actual contents, a notable aesthetic innovation that was motivated by a notion of artistic artisanship, and that made it a milestone in Victorian print culture. Each issue of the magazine—in which Victorian sages such as Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin made guest appearances— commands for the applied art workers producing it the respect usually reserved for authors and artists working within the category of ‘Fine Art’. So doing, the magazine helped to create a wider appreciation for Fine Printing. After the discontinuation of the Century Guild in 1893, this periodical was temporarily revived by the enterprising publishers at the Bodley Head to boost that firm’s Print-Revivalist credentials. The Hobby Horse is thereby also an early example of how supposedly avant-garde principles are sometimes difficult to distinguish from commercial strategies.Less
This chapter is entirely dedicated to a pioneering little magazine that elaborated on the example of The Germ and the Oxford and Cambridge Magazine (see Chapter 1), the Century GuildHobby Horse (1884/86–92), which started as the periodical organ of the early Arts & Crafts organisation the Century Guild. To this magazine, the production and design of the material text was as much an opportunity for experiments as its actual contents, a notable aesthetic innovation that was motivated by a notion of artistic artisanship, and that made it a milestone in Victorian print culture. Each issue of the magazine—in which Victorian sages such as Matthew Arnold and John Ruskin made guest appearances— commands for the applied art workers producing it the respect usually reserved for authors and artists working within the category of ‘Fine Art’. So doing, the magazine helped to create a wider appreciation for Fine Printing. After the discontinuation of the Century Guild in 1893, this periodical was temporarily revived by the enterprising publishers at the Bodley Head to boost that firm’s Print-Revivalist credentials. The Hobby Horse is thereby also an early example of how supposedly avant-garde principles are sometimes difficult to distinguish from commercial strategies.
Clyde E. Fant and Mitchell G. Reddish
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780195139174
- eISBN:
- 9780197561706
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780195139174.003.0049
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Biblical Archaeology
Called Alexandria Troas to distinguish it from other cities named Alexandria, the city is often referred to simply as Troas. (“The Troad” is the name used ...
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Called Alexandria Troas to distinguish it from other cities named Alexandria, the city is often referred to simply as Troas. (“The Troad” is the name used for the area around the ancient city of Troy.) What was once a large and important city on the western coast of Asia Minor has today been reduced to a few ruins overgrown by trees and shrubs, receiving only a cursory visit from a small number of sightseers. Troas was an important city in antiquity because of its location. Situated on the Aegean coast almost directly opposite the island of Tenedos (modern Bozcaada), the city became a major trading center. To reach the site of ancient Troas, take highway E87/550 to Ezine. In Ezine turn west onto the road marked for Geyikli and Odunluk Iskelesi. In Geyikli turn south toward Odunluk Iskelesi. The ruins of Alexandria Troas are by the highway that continues south to Gülpinar. Troas was founded circa 310 B.C.E. by Antigonus I Monopthalmus (“the One-Eyed”), one of the successors of Alexander the Great. Antigonus created the new city by forcing the residents of several smaller neighboring towns and communities to move to the new location. Antigonus named the new settlement after himself, giving it the name Antigonia. When Antigonus was killed in 301 by the Macedonian king Lysimachus at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, Lysimachus took control of the city and renamed it Alexandria in honor of Alexander the Great. Because of its proximity to Troy, the city became known as Alexandria Troas. With its artificial harbor, the city grew as a commercial and transportation center, becoming the leading city of the Troad during Hellenistic times. Eventually Troas developed into one of the most important cities in the Greco-Roman world due to its command of the western entrance to the Hellespont. Claims were made in the ancient world that Julius Caesar considered moving the capital of the empire to Troas, as also reportedly did Augustus (and, even later, Constantine). Whether true or not, that such ideas circulated in the Roman era and were believed by some people indicates the importance of the city.
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Called Alexandria Troas to distinguish it from other cities named Alexandria, the city is often referred to simply as Troas. (“The Troad” is the name used for the area around the ancient city of Troy.) What was once a large and important city on the western coast of Asia Minor has today been reduced to a few ruins overgrown by trees and shrubs, receiving only a cursory visit from a small number of sightseers. Troas was an important city in antiquity because of its location. Situated on the Aegean coast almost directly opposite the island of Tenedos (modern Bozcaada), the city became a major trading center. To reach the site of ancient Troas, take highway E87/550 to Ezine. In Ezine turn west onto the road marked for Geyikli and Odunluk Iskelesi. In Geyikli turn south toward Odunluk Iskelesi. The ruins of Alexandria Troas are by the highway that continues south to Gülpinar. Troas was founded circa 310 B.C.E. by Antigonus I Monopthalmus (“the One-Eyed”), one of the successors of Alexander the Great. Antigonus created the new city by forcing the residents of several smaller neighboring towns and communities to move to the new location. Antigonus named the new settlement after himself, giving it the name Antigonia. When Antigonus was killed in 301 by the Macedonian king Lysimachus at the battle of Ipsus in Phrygia, Lysimachus took control of the city and renamed it Alexandria in honor of Alexander the Great. Because of its proximity to Troy, the city became known as Alexandria Troas. With its artificial harbor, the city grew as a commercial and transportation center, becoming the leading city of the Troad during Hellenistic times. Eventually Troas developed into one of the most important cities in the Greco-Roman world due to its command of the western entrance to the Hellespont. Claims were made in the ancient world that Julius Caesar considered moving the capital of the empire to Troas, as also reportedly did Augustus (and, even later, Constantine). Whether true or not, that such ideas circulated in the Roman era and were believed by some people indicates the importance of the city.
Eve Dunbar
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780300196511
- eISBN:
- 9780300235678
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300196511.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Theory and Practice
This chapter argues that despite Zora Neale Hurston's training under Boas and her work as an intellectual arm of his theoretical and methodological machine, her marginality to American anthropology ...
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This chapter argues that despite Zora Neale Hurston's training under Boas and her work as an intellectual arm of his theoretical and methodological machine, her marginality to American anthropology was no mere accident. When recounting the history of how American anthropology positively challenged and changed foundational notions about racial difference and diversity in the United States, one must also account for the erasure of Hurston's centrality to narratives of modern anthropology's methodological innovations around diversity. Through the use of archival materials and Hurston's own scholarly production, the chapter fleshes out a story that rests squarely within the tension created by Hurston's sense of the discipline's desire to write her out. It focuses on Hurston's Caribbean ethnography, Tell My Horse, paying special attention to textual examples where she attempts to distinguish herself from laypersons treating Haiti in order to textually frame herself as a trained ethnographer.Less
This chapter argues that despite Zora Neale Hurston's training under Boas and her work as an intellectual arm of his theoretical and methodological machine, her marginality to American anthropology was no mere accident. When recounting the history of how American anthropology positively challenged and changed foundational notions about racial difference and diversity in the United States, one must also account for the erasure of Hurston's centrality to narratives of modern anthropology's methodological innovations around diversity. Through the use of archival materials and Hurston's own scholarly production, the chapter fleshes out a story that rests squarely within the tension created by Hurston's sense of the discipline's desire to write her out. It focuses on Hurston's Caribbean ethnography, Tell My Horse, paying special attention to textual examples where she attempts to distinguish herself from laypersons treating Haiti in order to textually frame herself as a trained ethnographer.
Gary Needham
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633821
- eISBN:
- 9780748651252
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633821.003.0003
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
One of the most contested and risible issues surrounding Brokeback Mountain was its generic status as a Western. In part, this was because the Western has close ties with American history and ...
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One of the most contested and risible issues surrounding Brokeback Mountain was its generic status as a Western. In part, this was because the Western has close ties with American history and national mythology as well as links with certain forms of normative and hegemonic masculinity, often idealised as stoic, conservative and, most of all, ‘straight’. With the film questioning directly all these staples of masculinity, this chapter explores and validates Brokeback Mountain as a Western and utilises queer theory to demonstrate how the Western film genre can be rethought in alternative ways. It also positions Brokeback Mountain within a wider historical net concerning the links between the Western and homosexuality, a net that dates back to classical Westerns such as Red River (1948) and extends to underground films such as Andy Warhol's Horse (1965). The chapter considers a wider set of questions and issues that allows sexual politics and queerness to be articulated in relation to one of American cinema's most precious and enduring film genres.Less
One of the most contested and risible issues surrounding Brokeback Mountain was its generic status as a Western. In part, this was because the Western has close ties with American history and national mythology as well as links with certain forms of normative and hegemonic masculinity, often idealised as stoic, conservative and, most of all, ‘straight’. With the film questioning directly all these staples of masculinity, this chapter explores and validates Brokeback Mountain as a Western and utilises queer theory to demonstrate how the Western film genre can be rethought in alternative ways. It also positions Brokeback Mountain within a wider historical net concerning the links between the Western and homosexuality, a net that dates back to classical Westerns such as Red River (1948) and extends to underground films such as Andy Warhol's Horse (1965). The chapter considers a wider set of questions and issues that allows sexual politics and queerness to be articulated in relation to one of American cinema's most precious and enduring film genres.
Sinéad Moynihan
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- July 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780719082290
- eISBN:
- 9781781702727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719082290.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
This chapter examines the enduring significance of religion as a category of identity in contemporary U.S. society, analysing the ways in which religious discourse overlaps with raced and gendered ...
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This chapter examines the enduring significance of religion as a category of identity in contemporary U.S. society, analysing the ways in which religious discourse overlaps with raced and gendered identities in two novels by contemporary German American-Ojibway writer Louise Erdrich: Tracks (1988) and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001). Perhaps because of scholars' profound commitment to anti-essentialism from the 1980s on, race and gender, as categories that have been historically conceived as rooted in the body, have received the most attention. Erdrich's preoccupation with religious identity is mapped upon the bodies of two women who pass in order to take up their Catholic vocations. In her comprehensive study of tranvestism, Marjorie Garber warns against restricting discussions of cross-dressing ‘to the context of an emerging gay and lesbian identity’. For her, the cross-dresser represents a ‘third term’ that ‘questions binary thinking and introduces crisis’ and which ‘puts in question the idea of one: of identity, self-sufficiency, self-knowledge’. In Tracks and The Last Report, the category in crisis is Catholicism.Less
This chapter examines the enduring significance of religion as a category of identity in contemporary U.S. society, analysing the ways in which religious discourse overlaps with raced and gendered identities in two novels by contemporary German American-Ojibway writer Louise Erdrich: Tracks (1988) and The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001). Perhaps because of scholars' profound commitment to anti-essentialism from the 1980s on, race and gender, as categories that have been historically conceived as rooted in the body, have received the most attention. Erdrich's preoccupation with religious identity is mapped upon the bodies of two women who pass in order to take up their Catholic vocations. In her comprehensive study of tranvestism, Marjorie Garber warns against restricting discussions of cross-dressing ‘to the context of an emerging gay and lesbian identity’. For her, the cross-dresser represents a ‘third term’ that ‘questions binary thinking and introduces crisis’ and which ‘puts in question the idea of one: of identity, self-sufficiency, self-knowledge’. In Tracks and The Last Report, the category in crisis is Catholicism.
David Martin-Jones
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748633913
- eISBN:
- 9780748651207
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748633913.003.0004
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the ...
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This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the history of Nessie, including its relationship with tourism and the ways in which the early British Nessie movie The Secret of the Loch (1934) used the monster to assess the relationship between England and Scotland. This theme is pursued throughout the rest of the chapter, for the majority of which the focus is on Loch Ness (1996), analysing its contested status in terms of the national identity offered by this U.S./British coproduction to international viewers. Through comparison with other globally peripheral films like Crocodile Dundee (1986) and contemporary U.S. monster movies Jurassic Park (1993), Anaconda (1997), and Lake Placid (1999), Loch Ness is positioned in a broader, global context. Its deliberate appeal to international markets is highlighted, bringing discussion back to the monster's relationship with tourism, a theme which leads into the concluding discussion of The Water Horse (2007).Less
This chapter examines the Loch Ness monster movie, an incarnation of the monster genre completely ignored in academic discussions of Scotland and cinema. It begins with a brief overview of the history of Nessie, including its relationship with tourism and the ways in which the early British Nessie movie The Secret of the Loch (1934) used the monster to assess the relationship between England and Scotland. This theme is pursued throughout the rest of the chapter, for the majority of which the focus is on Loch Ness (1996), analysing its contested status in terms of the national identity offered by this U.S./British coproduction to international viewers. Through comparison with other globally peripheral films like Crocodile Dundee (1986) and contemporary U.S. monster movies Jurassic Park (1993), Anaconda (1997), and Lake Placid (1999), Loch Ness is positioned in a broader, global context. Its deliberate appeal to international markets is highlighted, bringing discussion back to the monster's relationship with tourism, a theme which leads into the concluding discussion of The Water Horse (2007).
J. E. Smyth
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617039645
- eISBN:
- 9781626740136
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617039645.003.0007
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Behold a Pale Horse again moves outside conventional histories of Resistance in its assessment of the life and death of anarchist Manuel Artigas/Francisco Sabaté. Banned in Franco's Spain, a ...
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Behold a Pale Horse again moves outside conventional histories of Resistance in its assessment of the life and death of anarchist Manuel Artigas/Francisco Sabaté. Banned in Franco's Spain, a commercial failure, and the source of many of Zinnemann's future battles with film critics, the film nonetheless remains one of the most complex productions about the memory of the Spanish Civil War.Less
Behold a Pale Horse again moves outside conventional histories of Resistance in its assessment of the life and death of anarchist Manuel Artigas/Francisco Sabaté. Banned in Franco's Spain, a commercial failure, and the source of many of Zinnemann's future battles with film critics, the film nonetheless remains one of the most complex productions about the memory of the Spanish Civil War.
Heinz A. Lowenstam and Stephen Weiner
- Published in print:
- 1989
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780195049770
- eISBN:
- 9780197560068
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780195049770.003.0012
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences and Geography, Geology and the Lithosphere
The functions of mineralized hard parts are often self-evident. In many of the tables throughout the book we note the assigned or very often assumed functions of many ...
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The functions of mineralized hard parts are often self-evident. In many of the tables throughout the book we note the assigned or very often assumed functions of many different mineralized bodies. Often, however, assumed functions do not stand up to closer examination. A good example is the study of the cells of the hepatopancreas of gastropods (Howard et al. 1981). These glands have numerous cells containing intracellular mineralized granules. It was generally assumed that they all functioned as transient storage sites for calcium ions, until it was found that a subpopulation forms granules of a different type, which are used for heavy metal detoxification. Granules can be used in other ways as well. Certain polychaete worms, for example, strengthen their muscles by packing them with granules (Gibbs and Bryan 1984). Spicules are also commonly formed by many organisms and their functions are often not understood. They tend to have elaborate morphologies and mineralogies that are species specific, implying that they do perform specialized functions. These are just a few of many examples in which the functions of mineralized bodies still need to be determined. In this chapter we describe four different cases in which the functions are fairly well established. They have been investigated in some detail and, thus, provide good guidelines as to the various approaches by which function can be investigated. Some gravity receptors have been closely examined with respect to neuroanatomy and function, but not with respect to the specific adaptations of structure and mineralogy of the ubiquitous “heavy bodies.” Studies of biologic magnetic field receptors, in contrast, have focused on the mineral, and virtually nothing is known about the neuroanatomy. The molecular structure of the iron storage molecule ferritin is known with a resolution of a few Angstroms. Ferritin provides us with a glimpse of the insights that can be gained into function from such detailed structural information. Finally, some studies on the control of proteins on ice crystal formation represent the first application of the powerful techniques of molecular biology to determining function in biomineralization. These are undoubtedly the forerunners of many function-oriented studies using molecular biological techniques.
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The functions of mineralized hard parts are often self-evident. In many of the tables throughout the book we note the assigned or very often assumed functions of many different mineralized bodies. Often, however, assumed functions do not stand up to closer examination. A good example is the study of the cells of the hepatopancreas of gastropods (Howard et al. 1981). These glands have numerous cells containing intracellular mineralized granules. It was generally assumed that they all functioned as transient storage sites for calcium ions, until it was found that a subpopulation forms granules of a different type, which are used for heavy metal detoxification. Granules can be used in other ways as well. Certain polychaete worms, for example, strengthen their muscles by packing them with granules (Gibbs and Bryan 1984). Spicules are also commonly formed by many organisms and their functions are often not understood. They tend to have elaborate morphologies and mineralogies that are species specific, implying that they do perform specialized functions. These are just a few of many examples in which the functions of mineralized bodies still need to be determined. In this chapter we describe four different cases in which the functions are fairly well established. They have been investigated in some detail and, thus, provide good guidelines as to the various approaches by which function can be investigated. Some gravity receptors have been closely examined with respect to neuroanatomy and function, but not with respect to the specific adaptations of structure and mineralogy of the ubiquitous “heavy bodies.” Studies of biologic magnetic field receptors, in contrast, have focused on the mineral, and virtually nothing is known about the neuroanatomy. The molecular structure of the iron storage molecule ferritin is known with a resolution of a few Angstroms. Ferritin provides us with a glimpse of the insights that can be gained into function from such detailed structural information. Finally, some studies on the control of proteins on ice crystal formation represent the first application of the powerful techniques of molecular biology to determining function in biomineralization. These are undoubtedly the forerunners of many function-oriented studies using molecular biological techniques.
John Holmwood and Therese O’Toole
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447344131
- eISBN:
- 9781447344179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447344131.003.0002
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter discusses the importance of promoting ‘British values’. The Trojan Horse affair has shaped subsequent debates on community cohesion and the counter-extremism agenda, but it was, in its ...
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This chapter discusses the importance of promoting ‘British values’. The Trojan Horse affair has shaped subsequent debates on community cohesion and the counter-extremism agenda, but it was, in its turn, shaped by preceding events. These earlier events — urban disturbances, claims that communities are self-segregating, perceived threats of terrorism, and specific acts of terrorism themselves — have produced a variety of political interventions. These have included policies designed to mitigate what were understood to be problems of community cohesion, threatening the social fabric and security. The interventions helped to create the narratives that were drawn upon in interpretations of the Trojan Horse affair, just as the latter has been taken as evidence of the veracity of those concerns and as a motivation for further interventions.Less
This chapter discusses the importance of promoting ‘British values’. The Trojan Horse affair has shaped subsequent debates on community cohesion and the counter-extremism agenda, but it was, in its turn, shaped by preceding events. These earlier events — urban disturbances, claims that communities are self-segregating, perceived threats of terrorism, and specific acts of terrorism themselves — have produced a variety of political interventions. These have included policies designed to mitigate what were understood to be problems of community cohesion, threatening the social fabric and security. The interventions helped to create the narratives that were drawn upon in interpretations of the Trojan Horse affair, just as the latter has been taken as evidence of the veracity of those concerns and as a motivation for further interventions.
John Holmwood and Therese O’Toole
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781447344131
- eISBN:
- 9781447344179
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447344131.003.0004
- Subject:
- Education, Educational Policy and Politics
This chapter evaluates how the debate on ‘British values’ and the security agenda associated with Prevent have been translated into policies for schools, and how those policies have been implemented. ...
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This chapter evaluates how the debate on ‘British values’ and the security agenda associated with Prevent have been translated into policies for schools, and how those policies have been implemented. One of the immediate consequences of the publicity surrounding the Trojan Horse affair was that the Department for Education (DfE) reinforced the requirement on publicly funded schools in England to actively promote ‘shared values’, now called ‘fundamental British values’. The new guidance states that ‘schools should promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs’. It states further that schools should, 'enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England'.Less
This chapter evaluates how the debate on ‘British values’ and the security agenda associated with Prevent have been translated into policies for schools, and how those policies have been implemented. One of the immediate consequences of the publicity surrounding the Trojan Horse affair was that the Department for Education (DfE) reinforced the requirement on publicly funded schools in England to actively promote ‘shared values’, now called ‘fundamental British values’. The new guidance states that ‘schools should promote the fundamental British values of democracy, the rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs’. It states further that schools should, 'enable students to acquire a broad general knowledge of and respect for public institutions and services in England'.
