Cláudia Samuel Kessler and Silvana Vilodre Goellner
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496809889
- eISBN:
- 9781496809926
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496809889.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Sport and Leisure
Marta, one of the few football (soccer) stars to be known by only her first name was raised in abject poverty in the football crazy Brazil, also home to male star Pele. Her inclusion on a boys’ team ...
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Marta, one of the few football (soccer) stars to be known by only her first name was raised in abject poverty in the football crazy Brazil, also home to male star Pele. Her inclusion on a boys’ team led to her joining the women’s national team and ultimately leaving Brazil to play in Sweden and the United States. Marta’s scoring and dominance in the women’s game have made her a worldwide star in sport, though often to greater gains outside of her home country where she continues to play under Pele’s enormous shadow.Less
Marta, one of the few football (soccer) stars to be known by only her first name was raised in abject poverty in the football crazy Brazil, also home to male star Pele. Her inclusion on a boys’ team led to her joining the women’s national team and ultimately leaving Brazil to play in Sweden and the United States. Marta’s scoring and dominance in the women’s game have made her a worldwide star in sport, though often to greater gains outside of her home country where she continues to play under Pele’s enormous shadow.
Cathy Curtis
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- August 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780190498474
- eISBN:
- 9780190498504
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190498474.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History, American History: 20th Century
While emphasizing a sympathetic view of her sitters’ individuality, Elaine often revealed personality-shaping forces of turmoil and discontent. Her subjects included Bill, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas ...
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While emphasizing a sympathetic view of her sitters’ individuality, Elaine often revealed personality-shaping forces of turmoil and discontent. Her subjects included Bill, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas Hess, Merce Cunningham, Edwin Denby, Donald Barthelme, Alex Katz, Frank O’Hara, Pelé, and, most famously, John F. Kennedy. She based her “gyroscope men” on a book by psychologist Rollo May about repressed men unable to change. Her “faceless” sitters included O’Hara, easily identifiable by his characteristic posture. Other portraits with missing facial features, all of men she knew well, may have been prompted by her unresolved feelings about them. While most of her sitters were male—she was intrigued by abstract elements of men’s suits and by men’s habitual seated postures—Elaine also painted sensitive portraits of women, including the daughters of friends. Her group portraits notably included The Burghers of Amsterdam Avenue, a group of young men undergoing treatment for drug addiction.Less
While emphasizing a sympathetic view of her sitters’ individuality, Elaine often revealed personality-shaping forces of turmoil and discontent. Her subjects included Bill, Harold Rosenberg, Thomas Hess, Merce Cunningham, Edwin Denby, Donald Barthelme, Alex Katz, Frank O’Hara, Pelé, and, most famously, John F. Kennedy. She based her “gyroscope men” on a book by psychologist Rollo May about repressed men unable to change. Her “faceless” sitters included O’Hara, easily identifiable by his characteristic posture. Other portraits with missing facial features, all of men she knew well, may have been prompted by her unresolved feelings about them. While most of her sitters were male—she was intrigued by abstract elements of men’s suits and by men’s habitual seated postures—Elaine also painted sensitive portraits of women, including the daughters of friends. Her group portraits notably included The Burghers of Amsterdam Avenue, a group of young men undergoing treatment for drug addiction.
Carlos Andrade
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831196
- eISBN:
- 9780824868826
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831196.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter discusses the origins of people who continue to inhabit Hā'ena by drawing on stories attached to the land. Sources for these stories include oral traditions passed informally over the ...
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This chapter discusses the origins of people who continue to inhabit Hā'ena by drawing on stories attached to the land. Sources for these stories include oral traditions passed informally over the years from generation to generation as well as books and texts containing stories of Hā'ena. This chapter enters the world of Hā'ena, as seen through the eyes of the ancestors, the kūpuna (elders), and their descendants, all of whom inhabit the land today. It considers a variety of sources where the Hawaiian people preserved their own understanding of their origins, including the cosmological genealogy known as the Kumulipo; accounts suggesting that the earliest inhabitants of Hā'ena might have been the Menehune; and stories about the akua Kāne and his traveling companion Kanaloa, the female akua Pele, the Piliwale sisters, Kapalae, and Hi'iakaikapoliopele (Hi'iaka in the bosom of Pele).Less
This chapter discusses the origins of people who continue to inhabit Hā'ena by drawing on stories attached to the land. Sources for these stories include oral traditions passed informally over the years from generation to generation as well as books and texts containing stories of Hā'ena. This chapter enters the world of Hā'ena, as seen through the eyes of the ancestors, the kūpuna (elders), and their descendants, all of whom inhabit the land today. It considers a variety of sources where the Hawaiian people preserved their own understanding of their origins, including the cosmological genealogy known as the Kumulipo; accounts suggesting that the earliest inhabitants of Hā'ena might have been the Menehune; and stories about the akua Kāne and his traveling companion Kanaloa, the female akua Pele, the Piliwale sisters, Kapalae, and Hi'iakaikapoliopele (Hi'iaka in the bosom of Pele).
