Benjamin Gidron, Stanley N. Katz, and Yeheskel Hasenfeld
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780195125924
- eISBN:
- 9780199833894
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195125924.003.0009
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
Assessing the efficacy of peace and conflict‐resolution organizations (P/CROs) in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine was difficult because the regions shared no common definition of ...
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Assessing the efficacy of peace and conflict‐resolution organizations (P/CROs) in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine was difficult because the regions shared no common definition of peace, the political situation in each was constantly evolving, and it was generally difficult to determine causality in complex social processes. Researchers in each region were asked to interview knowledgeable individuals about whether P/CROs had political or cultural influence on their conflicts. Across all regions, there was a consensus that P/CROs had little direct political impact, although Israeli P/CROs played a role in the Oslo process, and South African P/CROs in the Dakar meetings. Political contexts in Israel and South Africa also allowed P/CROs in these countries more access to political parties, and therefore somewhat more influence on the political system. Culturally, P/CROS in all regions were effective in promoting nonmainstream analyses of their conflicts, in introducing new tactics of social action, and in attracting media attention and so a measure of public acceptance. Although they may not have hastened peace, P/CROs probably slowed the course of violence.Less
Assessing the efficacy of peace and conflict‐resolution organizations (P/CROs) in South Africa, Northern Ireland, and Israel/Palestine was difficult because the regions shared no common definition of peace, the political situation in each was constantly evolving, and it was generally difficult to determine causality in complex social processes. Researchers in each region were asked to interview knowledgeable individuals about whether P/CROs had political or cultural influence on their conflicts. Across all regions, there was a consensus that P/CROs had little direct political impact, although Israeli P/CROs played a role in the Oslo process, and South African P/CROs in the Dakar meetings. Political contexts in Israel and South Africa also allowed P/CROs in these countries more access to political parties, and therefore somewhat more influence on the political system. Culturally, P/CROS in all regions were effective in promoting nonmainstream analyses of their conflicts, in introducing new tactics of social action, and in attracting media attention and so a measure of public acceptance. Although they may not have hastened peace, P/CROs probably slowed the course of violence.
M. L. Gasparov
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198158790
- eISBN:
- 9780191673368
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198158790.003.0012
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry, European Literature
The first chapter talked about the national versification systems in Europe as they exist in a close inter-relationship. The next chapter focused on the development of one or another verse form in ...
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The first chapter talked about the national versification systems in Europe as they exist in a close inter-relationship. The next chapter focused on the development of one or another verse form in particular languages. The other chapters talked about the cultural influences that defined the development and the struggles observed between the demands of the language and system of versification. Permanent interaction between literary and popular culture is important for the development of a particular verse forms.Less
The first chapter talked about the national versification systems in Europe as they exist in a close inter-relationship. The next chapter focused on the development of one or another verse form in particular languages. The other chapters talked about the cultural influences that defined the development and the struggles observed between the demands of the language and system of versification. Permanent interaction between literary and popular culture is important for the development of a particular verse forms.
Jianjun Mei
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263037
- eISBN:
- 9780191734007
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263037.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This lecture discusses some preliminary observations on the early cultural relationship between China and Central Asia in the light of the most recent archaeological discoveries from Northwest China. ...
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This lecture discusses some preliminary observations on the early cultural relationship between China and Central Asia in the light of the most recent archaeological discoveries from Northwest China. It considers three main issues: the role of outside influences in the beginnings and early development of bronze metallurgy in China, the shift to the ‘Steppe Road’, and the two-way traffic of cultural influence along the prehistoric ‘Silk Road’. The lecture also tries to show that early cultural interaction between China and Central Asia was the crucial drive for the growth of civilisations in both regions.Less
This lecture discusses some preliminary observations on the early cultural relationship between China and Central Asia in the light of the most recent archaeological discoveries from Northwest China. It considers three main issues: the role of outside influences in the beginnings and early development of bronze metallurgy in China, the shift to the ‘Steppe Road’, and the two-way traffic of cultural influence along the prehistoric ‘Silk Road’. The lecture also tries to show that early cultural interaction between China and Central Asia was the crucial drive for the growth of civilisations in both regions.
Hassan Malik
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691170169
- eISBN:
- 9780691185002
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691170169.001.0001
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Economic History
Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. This book tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, ...
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Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. This book tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age. Shedding critical new light on the decision making of the powerful personalities who acted as the gatekeepers of international finance, the book explains how they channeled foreign capital into Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While economists have long relied on quantitative analysis to grapple with questions relating to the drivers of cross-border capital flows, this book adopts an historical approach, drawing on banking and government archives in four countries. It provides rare insights into the thinking of influential figures in world finance as they sought to navigate one of the most challenging and lucrative markets of the first modern age of globalization. The book reveals how a complex web of factors—from government interventions to competitive dynamics and cultural influences—drove a large inflow of capital during this tumultuous period in world history. The book demonstrates how the realms of finance and politics—of bankers and Bolsheviks—grew increasingly intertwined, and how investing in Russia became a political act with unforeseen repercussions.Less
Following an unprecedented economic boom fed by foreign investment, the Russian Revolution triggered the worst sovereign default in history. This book tells the dramatic story of this boom and bust, chronicling the forgotten experiences of leading financiers of the age. Shedding critical new light on the decision making of the powerful personalities who acted as the gatekeepers of international finance, the book explains how they channeled foreign capital into Russia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While economists have long relied on quantitative analysis to grapple with questions relating to the drivers of cross-border capital flows, this book adopts an historical approach, drawing on banking and government archives in four countries. It provides rare insights into the thinking of influential figures in world finance as they sought to navigate one of the most challenging and lucrative markets of the first modern age of globalization. The book reveals how a complex web of factors—from government interventions to competitive dynamics and cultural influences—drove a large inflow of capital during this tumultuous period in world history. The book demonstrates how the realms of finance and politics—of bankers and Bolsheviks—grew increasingly intertwined, and how investing in Russia became a political act with unforeseen repercussions.
Michael Herzfeld
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789622091214
- eISBN:
- 9789882207493
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789622091214.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter explores the indeterminacy of cultural influence, arguing that in matters as apparently discrete as the use of space, dress, and eating habits and the language of popular science, a ...
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This chapter explores the indeterminacy of cultural influence, arguing that in matters as apparently discrete as the use of space, dress, and eating habits and the language of popular science, a peculiarly local idiom of governmentality in Thailand rests on the ambiguity about origins and attitudes. It also explores, through comparisons of Thailand with Greece and other countries, the dynamics of “crypto-colonialism”: the condition in which the very claim of independence marks a symbolic as well as material dependence on intrusive colonial power.Less
This chapter explores the indeterminacy of cultural influence, arguing that in matters as apparently discrete as the use of space, dress, and eating habits and the language of popular science, a peculiarly local idiom of governmentality in Thailand rests on the ambiguity about origins and attitudes. It also explores, through comparisons of Thailand with Greece and other countries, the dynamics of “crypto-colonialism”: the condition in which the very claim of independence marks a symbolic as well as material dependence on intrusive colonial power.
Melissa Hines
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195188363
- eISBN:
- 9780199865246
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195188363.003.0008
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Neuroendocrine and Autonomic, Development
This chapter discusses sex differences in parenting. Animal models of parenting, sex differences in parenting in humans, and social and cultural influences on human parenting are discussed. Some ...
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This chapter discusses sex differences in parenting. Animal models of parenting, sex differences in parenting in humans, and social and cultural influences on human parenting are discussed. Some evidence suggests that the hormones of pregnancy may play a role in human parenting or attachment behavior. In addition, the early hormone environment, particularly levels of androgens prenatally, may influence interest in infants. However, given the minimal sex differences in the ability to show parenting behavior in humans and other mammals, and the dramatic impact of socialization, experience, and the current environment on parenting behaviors in primates, it has generally been assumed that the role of hormones, if it exists at all, is relatively minor.Less
This chapter discusses sex differences in parenting. Animal models of parenting, sex differences in parenting in humans, and social and cultural influences on human parenting are discussed. Some evidence suggests that the hormones of pregnancy may play a role in human parenting or attachment behavior. In addition, the early hormone environment, particularly levels of androgens prenatally, may influence interest in infants. However, given the minimal sex differences in the ability to show parenting behavior in humans and other mammals, and the dramatic impact of socialization, experience, and the current environment on parenting behaviors in primates, it has generally been assumed that the role of hormones, if it exists at all, is relatively minor.
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520211384
- eISBN:
- 9780520920088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520211384.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The aim of this book is to explain to readers how and why, in the postwar period, East and West German encounters with American popular culture were crucial to constructions of German identities in ...
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The aim of this book is to explain to readers how and why, in the postwar period, East and West German encounters with American popular culture were crucial to constructions of German identities in the two states. The project places the conflicts between adolescents and authorities over American cultural influences in the context of the legacy of National Socialism and the emerging Cold War. The whole study focuses on the most controversial U.S. imports, which constituted the most debated aspects of consumer culture for both East and West Germans. There are two interconnected concerns which shaped the battles within and between the two German states over American influences: (1) East and West German authorities perceived American cultural imports as a threat to established gender norms; and (2) in responding to American popular culture, which often had roots in African American culture, Germans confronted their own notions of racial hierarchies.Less
The aim of this book is to explain to readers how and why, in the postwar period, East and West German encounters with American popular culture were crucial to constructions of German identities in the two states. The project places the conflicts between adolescents and authorities over American cultural influences in the context of the legacy of National Socialism and the emerging Cold War. The whole study focuses on the most controversial U.S. imports, which constituted the most debated aspects of consumer culture for both East and West Germans. There are two interconnected concerns which shaped the battles within and between the two German states over American influences: (1) East and West German authorities perceived American cultural imports as a threat to established gender norms; and (2) in responding to American popular culture, which often had roots in African American culture, Germans confronted their own notions of racial hierarchies.
Peter Robb
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198075110
- eISBN:
- 9780199080885
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075110.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Social History
This chapter explains the historical relevance of Richard Blechynden’s diaries. It argues that Blechynden’s diaries provide insights into colonial impact, cross-cultural influences, social spheres ...
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This chapter explains the historical relevance of Richard Blechynden’s diaries. It argues that Blechynden’s diaries provide insights into colonial impact, cross-cultural influences, social spheres and categories, social mores, and identity. In addition, the stories of Blechynden and his bibis may call into question some current ideas about cultural formations and historical change.Less
This chapter explains the historical relevance of Richard Blechynden’s diaries. It argues that Blechynden’s diaries provide insights into colonial impact, cross-cultural influences, social spheres and categories, social mores, and identity. In addition, the stories of Blechynden and his bibis may call into question some current ideas about cultural formations and historical change.
Uta G. Poiger
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520211384
- eISBN:
- 9780520920088
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520211384.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
In the year 1956, as youth riots were shaking both Germanies, the West German paper Hamburger Anzeiger illustrated an article about the psychology of German adolescent rebels who they call ...
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In the year 1956, as youth riots were shaking both Germanies, the West German paper Hamburger Anzeiger illustrated an article about the psychology of German adolescent rebels who they call Halbstarke, with stills from the American movie Rebel Without a Cause. Shifting and contested evaluations of Halbstarke were part of important East and West German transformations in the second half of the 1950s. In 1955 and 1956, the West Germans strongly believed in the unfavorable effects of American cultural influences. They found themselves on the defensive against the two kinds of East German attacks.Less
In the year 1956, as youth riots were shaking both Germanies, the West German paper Hamburger Anzeiger illustrated an article about the psychology of German adolescent rebels who they call Halbstarke, with stills from the American movie Rebel Without a Cause. Shifting and contested evaluations of Halbstarke were part of important East and West German transformations in the second half of the 1950s. In 1955 and 1956, the West Germans strongly believed in the unfavorable effects of American cultural influences. They found themselves on the defensive against the two kinds of East German attacks.
Peter W. Speck
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- November 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780192629609
- eISBN:
- 9780191730054
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192629609.003.0022
- Subject:
- Palliative Care, Patient Care and End-of-Life Decision Making
Most studies of cultural influences in palliative care have related mainly to people coming to terms with a cancer-related diagnosis. Some of the work undertaken can be applied to non-cancer patients ...
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Most studies of cultural influences in palliative care have related mainly to people coming to terms with a cancer-related diagnosis. Some of the work undertaken can be applied to non-cancer patients but more research is needed specifically with non-cancer patients. This chapter examines the meaning of culture and ethnicity, the experience of becoming ill, and the way in which that may be culturally determined. It explores the importance of being aware of ethnocentricity together with two aspects of care where some research has been undertaken: pain and communication. Finally, it looks at staff needs and training, managerial issues, and suggestions for further research in this area of care.Less
Most studies of cultural influences in palliative care have related mainly to people coming to terms with a cancer-related diagnosis. Some of the work undertaken can be applied to non-cancer patients but more research is needed specifically with non-cancer patients. This chapter examines the meaning of culture and ethnicity, the experience of becoming ill, and the way in which that may be culturally determined. It explores the importance of being aware of ethnocentricity together with two aspects of care where some research has been undertaken: pain and communication. Finally, it looks at staff needs and training, managerial issues, and suggestions for further research in this area of care.
Christine Kelly
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781474427340
- eISBN:
- 9781474476508
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427340.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Scottish Studies
The first chapter places the book in its historical, theoretical and cultural setting, exploring the background against which juvenile justice reform occurred in Scotland and placing this in the ...
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The first chapter places the book in its historical, theoretical and cultural setting, exploring the background against which juvenile justice reform occurred in Scotland and placing this in the wider context of exchange between reformers on the international front. The aim here is to explain the way in which children evolved as a distinctive group in terms of criminalisation, providing a fuller understanding of the legal processes of reform analysed in the book.Less
The first chapter places the book in its historical, theoretical and cultural setting, exploring the background against which juvenile justice reform occurred in Scotland and placing this in the wider context of exchange between reformers on the international front. The aim here is to explain the way in which children evolved as a distinctive group in terms of criminalisation, providing a fuller understanding of the legal processes of reform analysed in the book.
R. J. W. Evans
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199541621
- eISBN:
- 9780191701252
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199541621.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, European Early Modern History
This chapter presents an essay on the perception and definition of nationality in East and Central Europe before 1848. It explores the political, socio-economic, and intellectual background to the ...
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This chapter presents an essay on the perception and definition of nationality in East and Central Europe before 1848. It explores the political, socio-economic, and intellectual background to the rise of national identity in East-Central Europe and the existence of national allegiances during this period. It also examines the role of the westernized intellectuals who acted both as conduits and as agents of change and formulated cosmopolitan cultural influences as national agendas.Less
This chapter presents an essay on the perception and definition of nationality in East and Central Europe before 1848. It explores the political, socio-economic, and intellectual background to the rise of national identity in East-Central Europe and the existence of national allegiances during this period. It also examines the role of the westernized intellectuals who acted both as conduits and as agents of change and formulated cosmopolitan cultural influences as national agendas.
James L. Heft S.M.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199796656
- eISBN:
- 9780199919352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199796656.003.0003
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
This chapter highlights five general themes in contemporary US culture that leaders of Catholic high schools need to understand. The first two are clearly historically rooted: the stress on ...
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This chapter highlights five general themes in contemporary US culture that leaders of Catholic high schools need to understand. The first two are clearly historically rooted: the stress on individual and especially religious freedom, and then, as the different types of religious practices multiplied in the United States, the effort to privatize the expression of religion. The last three are recent cultural developments that are especially influential today. These are the impact of media, the therapeutic shape that religious belief takes in a culture that stresses individual choice in the midst of religious pluralism, and the growing number of people who have been described as the “spiritual but not religious”.Less
This chapter highlights five general themes in contemporary US culture that leaders of Catholic high schools need to understand. The first two are clearly historically rooted: the stress on individual and especially religious freedom, and then, as the different types of religious practices multiplied in the United States, the effort to privatize the expression of religion. The last three are recent cultural developments that are especially influential today. These are the impact of media, the therapeutic shape that religious belief takes in a culture that stresses individual choice in the midst of religious pluralism, and the growing number of people who have been described as the “spiritual but not religious”.
John Lie
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780520283114
- eISBN:
- 9780520958944
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520283114.003.0001
- Subject:
- Music, Popular
The introductory chapter provides a genealogy of popular music in South Korea and charts a series of rifts that separates traditional Korean music from K-pop. In particular, Japanese and American ...
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The introductory chapter provides a genealogy of popular music in South Korea and charts a series of rifts that separates traditional Korean music from K-pop. In particular, Japanese and American influences are significant, as are the changing political-economic context of South Korea, including the salience of censorship.Less
The introductory chapter provides a genealogy of popular music in South Korea and charts a series of rifts that separates traditional Korean music from K-pop. In particular, Japanese and American influences are significant, as are the changing political-economic context of South Korea, including the salience of censorship.
Jennifer Ingleheart (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199603848
- eISBN:
- 9780191731587
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199603848.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Ancient Greek, Roman, and Early Christian Philosophy
The poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors; banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, in his Tristia (‘Sad Things’) and ...
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The poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors; banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, in his Tristia (‘Sad Things’) and Epistulae ex Ponto (‘Letters from the Black Sea’), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. For a huge variety of writers throughout the world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the role of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation, and to explore exile from a number of perspectives, including both the personal and the fictional. The broad cultural impact of Ovid’s exile in Western literature is assessed in the present interdisciplinary volume by bringing together the fruit of the investigations of scholars working across a range of disciplines, including Classics, Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies; the volume should appeal to those working in all of these areas as well as those with a broader interest in exile as a literary and historical phenomenon. The volume’s exploration of the manifold repercussions of Ovidian exile illuminates Ovid’s cross-cultural influence (as contributors explore responses from the ancient world, through the Renaissance, to the modern era), Ovidian authorship (as it analyses how the theme of exile is powerfully interwoven into numerous works by Ovid), and of ‘exilic’ works of art.Less
The poet Ovid stands at the head of the Western tradition of exiled authors; banished by the emperor Augustus in AD 8 from Rome to the far-off shores of Romania, in his Tristia (‘Sad Things’) and Epistulae ex Ponto (‘Letters from the Black Sea’), Ovid records his unhappy experience of political, cultural, and linguistic displacement from his homeland. For a huge variety of writers throughout the world in the two millennia after his exile, Ovid has performed the role of archetypal exile, allowing them to articulate a range of experiences of disgrace, dislocation, and alienation, and to explore exile from a number of perspectives, including both the personal and the fictional. The broad cultural impact of Ovid’s exile in Western literature is assessed in the present interdisciplinary volume by bringing together the fruit of the investigations of scholars working across a range of disciplines, including Classics, Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies; the volume should appeal to those working in all of these areas as well as those with a broader interest in exile as a literary and historical phenomenon. The volume’s exploration of the manifold repercussions of Ovidian exile illuminates Ovid’s cross-cultural influence (as contributors explore responses from the ancient world, through the Renaissance, to the modern era), Ovidian authorship (as it analyses how the theme of exile is powerfully interwoven into numerous works by Ovid), and of ‘exilic’ works of art.
Helen Jacobsen
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199693757
- eISBN:
- 9780191731976
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693757.003.0011
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History, Cultural History
During the second half of the seventeenth century there was a substantial shift in the manner in which envoys believed it was necessary to live while they were abroad, evidenced through the greater ...
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During the second half of the seventeenth century there was a substantial shift in the manner in which envoys believed it was necessary to live while they were abroad, evidenced through the greater quantities of personal possessions which they took with them and an increasing desire to identify with the local elite by subscribing to international court fashions in their private as well as professional lives. Resident diplomats had more time to imbibe the cultural influences around them and many used the opportunity to purchase, commission, and copy local luxury goods, paintings, architecture, and garden design while they were abroad. Later Stuart diplomats well understood the rhetorical and social use of luxury objects. In the struggle for distinction that characterized the domestic political environment they knew that the possession of certain objects – and the requisite knowledge of their appropriate consumption – not only evidenced elite status but simultaneously differentiated them from other members of the elite. A political agenda informed their aesthetic and cultural choices and their patronage was far from random.Less
During the second half of the seventeenth century there was a substantial shift in the manner in which envoys believed it was necessary to live while they were abroad, evidenced through the greater quantities of personal possessions which they took with them and an increasing desire to identify with the local elite by subscribing to international court fashions in their private as well as professional lives. Resident diplomats had more time to imbibe the cultural influences around them and many used the opportunity to purchase, commission, and copy local luxury goods, paintings, architecture, and garden design while they were abroad. Later Stuart diplomats well understood the rhetorical and social use of luxury objects. In the struggle for distinction that characterized the domestic political environment they knew that the possession of certain objects – and the requisite knowledge of their appropriate consumption – not only evidenced elite status but simultaneously differentiated them from other members of the elite. A political agenda informed their aesthetic and cultural choices and their patronage was far from random.
Hilal Elver
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199769292
- eISBN:
- 9780199933136
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199769292.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Society
In national and international courts, cases concerning freedom of religion and religious symbols raise critical questions about the limits of religious freedom in the increasingly diverse societies ...
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In national and international courts, cases concerning freedom of religion and religious symbols raise critical questions about the limits of religious freedom in the increasingly diverse societies of the West, within the European Union and beyond. On the one hand, these cases signify a growing tension between cultural extension and the legal enforcement of human rights, including freedom of religion and belief. The cases, especially in Europe, also disclose “the growth of pan-European legal discourse of religious symbols not only as text, but as a mechanism, however broad and ambiguous, of social control.” Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, (ECHR) in such cases illustrate the pertinence of such a statement. International lawyers generally regard the European human rights system as the “most effective and advanced” supranational human rights regime in the world. This chapter deals with the pivotal role of the European Human Rights Court. Starting from case against Turkey, several headscarf cases against various members of the European Convention on Human Rights that upholding national bans on headscarf will be discussed and evaluated comparatively to reach jurisprudential underpinning of such cases.Less
In national and international courts, cases concerning freedom of religion and religious symbols raise critical questions about the limits of religious freedom in the increasingly diverse societies of the West, within the European Union and beyond. On the one hand, these cases signify a growing tension between cultural extension and the legal enforcement of human rights, including freedom of religion and belief. The cases, especially in Europe, also disclose “the growth of pan-European legal discourse of religious symbols not only as text, but as a mechanism, however broad and ambiguous, of social control.” Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights, (ECHR) in such cases illustrate the pertinence of such a statement. International lawyers generally regard the European human rights system as the “most effective and advanced” supranational human rights regime in the world. This chapter deals with the pivotal role of the European Human Rights Court. Starting from case against Turkey, several headscarf cases against various members of the European Convention on Human Rights that upholding national bans on headscarf will be discussed and evaluated comparatively to reach jurisprudential underpinning of such cases.
W. Anthony Sheppard
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- October 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190072704
- eISBN:
- 9780190072735
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190072704.003.0004
- Subject:
- Music, History, American
Japanese music played a central role in the formation of American musical modernism. This chapter focuses on the position of Japanese music in the careers of Henry Eichheim and Henry Cowell. For ...
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Japanese music played a central role in the formation of American musical modernism. This chapter focuses on the position of Japanese music in the careers of Henry Eichheim and Henry Cowell. For Eichheim, Japan had “a poetry no other country seems to possess.” Inspired by the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, Eichheim traveled to Japan between 1915 and 1928 and composed multiple pieces based on Japanese material. Japan was of central importance throughout Cowell’s life. In the 1930s Cowell studied shakuhachi with Kitaro Tamada who later wrote poignantly to Cowell from his Japanese American Internment Camp. Cowell traveled to Japan in 1957 and 1961 during the Cold War and composed several Japanese-inspired works, including for koto. Juxtaposing the musical journeys of these two composers and proselytizers highlights the roles Japanese music played for those Americans who sought to sound “ultra modern” in the twentieth century.Less
Japanese music played a central role in the formation of American musical modernism. This chapter focuses on the position of Japanese music in the careers of Henry Eichheim and Henry Cowell. For Eichheim, Japan had “a poetry no other country seems to possess.” Inspired by the writings of Lafcadio Hearn, Eichheim traveled to Japan between 1915 and 1928 and composed multiple pieces based on Japanese material. Japan was of central importance throughout Cowell’s life. In the 1930s Cowell studied shakuhachi with Kitaro Tamada who later wrote poignantly to Cowell from his Japanese American Internment Camp. Cowell traveled to Japan in 1957 and 1961 during the Cold War and composed several Japanese-inspired works, including for koto. Juxtaposing the musical journeys of these two composers and proselytizers highlights the roles Japanese music played for those Americans who sought to sound “ultra modern” in the twentieth century.
Richard Stoneman
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780691154039
- eISBN:
- 9780691185385
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691154039.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were ...
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When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. This book explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, the book examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, it offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the King Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes' now-fragmentary book Indica. The book considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics. The book is an account of the encounters between two remarkable civilizations.Less
When the Greeks and Macedonians in Alexander's army reached India in 326 BCE, they entered a new and strange world. They knew a few legends and travelers' tales, but their categories of thought were inadequate to encompass what they witnessed. The plants were unrecognizable, their properties unknown. The customs of the people were various and puzzling. While Alexander's conquest was brief, ending with his death in 323 BCE, the Greeks would settle in the Indian region for the next two centuries, forging an era of productive interactions between the two cultures. This book explores the various ways that the Greeks reacted to and constructed life in India during this fruitful period. From observations about botany and mythology to social customs, the book examines the surviving evidence of those who traveled to India. Most particularly, it offers a full and valuable look at Megasthenes, ambassador of the King Seleucus to Chandragupta Maurya, and provides a detailed discussion of Megasthenes' now-fragmentary book Indica. The book considers the art, literature, and philosophy of the Indo-Greek kingdom and how cultural influences crossed in both directions, with the Greeks introducing their writing, coinage, and sculptural and architectural forms, while Greek craftsmen learned to work with new materials such as ivory and stucco and to probe the ideas of Buddhists and other ascetics. The book is an account of the encounters between two remarkable civilizations.
Andrew R. Martin
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781496812407
- eISBN:
- 9781496812445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496812407.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Ethnomusicology, World Music
This chapter illustrates the US Navy Steel Band's musical and cultural influence throughout New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. By the late 1960s, the US Navy Steel Band moved past its high-profile early ...
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This chapter illustrates the US Navy Steel Band's musical and cultural influence throughout New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. By the late 1960s, the US Navy Steel Band moved past its high-profile early years of chasing stardom and settled into a new phase that saw the band become a fixture of the US Navy's recruitment and goodwill outreach program on a national level. Examining the US Navy Steel Band's transition from San Juan to New Orleans is essential for understanding the band's musical and cultural influence throughout New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region during the 1970s. This is particularly the case when exploring the band's seamless integration into the New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition as well as ways in which the US Navy Steel Band infused elements of the Caribbean Carnival into their adopted cultural home.Less
This chapter illustrates the US Navy Steel Band's musical and cultural influence throughout New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. By the late 1960s, the US Navy Steel Band moved past its high-profile early years of chasing stardom and settled into a new phase that saw the band become a fixture of the US Navy's recruitment and goodwill outreach program on a national level. Examining the US Navy Steel Band's transition from San Juan to New Orleans is essential for understanding the band's musical and cultural influence throughout New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region during the 1970s. This is particularly the case when exploring the band's seamless integration into the New Orleans Mardi Gras tradition as well as ways in which the US Navy Steel Band infused elements of the Caribbean Carnival into their adopted cultural home.
