Cheris Shun-ching Chan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195394078
- eISBN:
- 9780199951154
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394078.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
Based on an extensive ethnography of the emergence of commercial life insurance in China, this book examines how culture impacts economic practice. It details how a Chinese life insurance market is ...
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Based on an extensive ethnography of the emergence of commercial life insurance in China, this book examines how culture impacts economic practice. It details how a Chinese life insurance market is created in the presence of an ingrained Chinese cultural taboo on the topic of death. It documents how transnational insurance firms, led by AIG’s subsidiary AIA, introduced commercial life insurance to Chinese urbanites, and how they were confronted with local resistance to the risk management concept of life insurance. It compares the organizational strategies of the transnational and the newly emerged domestic insurance firms, analyzing why they adopted disparate strategies to deal with the same local cultural resistance. It further compares the management styles of individual firms headed by executives of different origins, explaining why some were more effective in managing and motivating the local sales agents. It describes how sales agents mobilized various cultural tool-kits to prompt sales, and how potential buyers negotiated with life insurers regarding the meaning of life insurance, and the kinds of products they preferred. The book argues that these dynamics and micro-politics produced a Chinese life insurance market with a specific developmental trajectory. The market first emerged with a money management, instead of risk management, character. As the local cultural tool-kit enabled insurance practitioners to circumvent local resistance to achieve sales, local cultural values shaped the characteristics of the emergent market. This analysis sheds light on the dynamics through which modern capitalist enterprises are diffused to regions with different cultural traditions.Less
Based on an extensive ethnography of the emergence of commercial life insurance in China, this book examines how culture impacts economic practice. It details how a Chinese life insurance market is created in the presence of an ingrained Chinese cultural taboo on the topic of death. It documents how transnational insurance firms, led by AIG’s subsidiary AIA, introduced commercial life insurance to Chinese urbanites, and how they were confronted with local resistance to the risk management concept of life insurance. It compares the organizational strategies of the transnational and the newly emerged domestic insurance firms, analyzing why they adopted disparate strategies to deal with the same local cultural resistance. It further compares the management styles of individual firms headed by executives of different origins, explaining why some were more effective in managing and motivating the local sales agents. It describes how sales agents mobilized various cultural tool-kits to prompt sales, and how potential buyers negotiated with life insurers regarding the meaning of life insurance, and the kinds of products they preferred. The book argues that these dynamics and micro-politics produced a Chinese life insurance market with a specific developmental trajectory. The market first emerged with a money management, instead of risk management, character. As the local cultural tool-kit enabled insurance practitioners to circumvent local resistance to achieve sales, local cultural values shaped the characteristics of the emergent market. This analysis sheds light on the dynamics through which modern capitalist enterprises are diffused to regions with different cultural traditions.
Cheris Shun-ching Chan
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195394078
- eISBN:
- 9780199951154
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195394078.003.0000
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
The life insurance business has been growing rapidly in China in recent years, despite complaints by insurance sales agents about the local public’s resistance to discussing death or misfortune. This ...
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The life insurance business has been growing rapidly in China in recent years, despite complaints by insurance sales agents about the local public’s resistance to discussing death or misfortune. This empirical puzzle serves as a starting point for the book. The introductory chapter poses empirical and theoretical questions, lays out the analytical framework, presents the methodology, and highlights the academic values of the case. It discusses Viviana Zelizer’s insights about the role of cultural values in suppressing the development of American life insurance in the first half of the 19th century, and addresses the questions left unanswered by her argument. In particular, it considers how modern enterprises originating in western contexts can expand to places with different cultural traditions, if cultural values can suppress a market from emerging. To address this question, an analytical framework that incorporates both the classical concept of culture (emphasizing values and ideas) and the tool-kit concept of culture (highlighting practicality), is proposed, laying the groundwork for the analysis in subsequent chapters.Less
The life insurance business has been growing rapidly in China in recent years, despite complaints by insurance sales agents about the local public’s resistance to discussing death or misfortune. This empirical puzzle serves as a starting point for the book. The introductory chapter poses empirical and theoretical questions, lays out the analytical framework, presents the methodology, and highlights the academic values of the case. It discusses Viviana Zelizer’s insights about the role of cultural values in suppressing the development of American life insurance in the first half of the 19th century, and addresses the questions left unanswered by her argument. In particular, it considers how modern enterprises originating in western contexts can expand to places with different cultural traditions, if cultural values can suppress a market from emerging. To address this question, an analytical framework that incorporates both the classical concept of culture (emphasizing values and ideas) and the tool-kit concept of culture (highlighting practicality), is proposed, laying the groundwork for the analysis in subsequent chapters.
Viviana A. Zelizer
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691139364
- eISBN:
- 9781400836253
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691139364.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Economic Sociology
This chapter uses data on the diffusion of life insurance in nineteenth-century America as a testing ground to explore the larger theoretical problem of establishing monetary equivalences for sacred ...
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This chapter uses data on the diffusion of life insurance in nineteenth-century America as a testing ground to explore the larger theoretical problem of establishing monetary equivalences for sacred things. It hypothesizes that cultural resistance to including certain items in the social order—namely, those related to human life, death, and emotions—into a market-type of exchange introduces structural sources of strain and ambivalence into their marketing. Life insurance raises the issue in its sharpest terms by posing the question of how one establishes a fixed-dollar amount for any individual death. The chapter argues that resistance to life insurance during the earlier part of the nineteenth century was largely the result of a value system that condemned the materialistic assessment of death, and of the power of magical beliefs and superstitions that viewed with apprehension any commercial pacts dependent on death for their fulfillment.Less
This chapter uses data on the diffusion of life insurance in nineteenth-century America as a testing ground to explore the larger theoretical problem of establishing monetary equivalences for sacred things. It hypothesizes that cultural resistance to including certain items in the social order—namely, those related to human life, death, and emotions—into a market-type of exchange introduces structural sources of strain and ambivalence into their marketing. Life insurance raises the issue in its sharpest terms by posing the question of how one establishes a fixed-dollar amount for any individual death. The chapter argues that resistance to life insurance during the earlier part of the nineteenth century was largely the result of a value system that condemned the materialistic assessment of death, and of the power of magical beliefs and superstitions that viewed with apprehension any commercial pacts dependent on death for their fulfillment.
Tessa Rajak
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199558674
- eISBN:
- 9780191720895
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199558674.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was a major translation in Western culture. This literary and social study is about the ancient creators and receivers of the translations and ...
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The first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was a major translation in Western culture. This literary and social study is about the ancient creators and receivers of the translations and about their impact. The book shows how the Greek Bible served the Jewish diaspora for over half a millennium, providing the foundations of life for a highly text-centred ethnic and religious minority as they fell under the pressures of the powerful imperial cultures of Greece and Rome, and of a dominant, ‘colonial’ language, Greek. Those large communities of the eastern Mediterranean, with their converts and sympathizers, determined the pattern of Jewish existence outside Palestine for centuries. Far from being isolated and inward-looking, they were, we now know, active members of their city environments. Yet they were not wholly assimilated. The book asks exactly how the translations operated as tools for the preservation of group identity and how, even in their language, they offered a quiet cultural resistance. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of the remarkable hybrid culture of Hellenistic Judaism, during the process of the Church's long drawn-out parting from the Synagogue. That transference allowed the recipients to sideline Christianity's original Jewishness and history to be re-written. In this book, history is recovered and a great cultural artifact is restored to its proper place.Less
The first translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek was a major translation in Western culture. This literary and social study is about the ancient creators and receivers of the translations and about their impact. The book shows how the Greek Bible served the Jewish diaspora for over half a millennium, providing the foundations of life for a highly text-centred ethnic and religious minority as they fell under the pressures of the powerful imperial cultures of Greece and Rome, and of a dominant, ‘colonial’ language, Greek. Those large communities of the eastern Mediterranean, with their converts and sympathizers, determined the pattern of Jewish existence outside Palestine for centuries. Far from being isolated and inward-looking, they were, we now know, active members of their city environments. Yet they were not wholly assimilated. The book asks exactly how the translations operated as tools for the preservation of group identity and how, even in their language, they offered a quiet cultural resistance. The Greek Bible translations ended up as the Christian Septuagint, taken over along with the entire heritage of the remarkable hybrid culture of Hellenistic Judaism, during the process of the Church's long drawn-out parting from the Synagogue. That transference allowed the recipients to sideline Christianity's original Jewishness and history to be re-written. In this book, history is recovered and a great cultural artifact is restored to its proper place.
BILL ASHCROFT
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198075981
- eISBN:
- 9780199081523
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198075981.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter explores globalization and resistance to globalization from the perspective of postcolonial theory. It argues that resistance to cultural domination occurs through transformation of ...
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This chapter explores globalization and resistance to globalization from the perspective of postcolonial theory. It argues that resistance to cultural domination occurs through transformation of those influences rather than simple opposition, citing Bollywood as the most powerful example of ‘transformative cultural resistance’ as well as of ‘alternative modernities’. Bollywood can be disengaged from its subordination to Hollywood by viewing it as a transformation of the institution and technology of cinema to create a total, internally consistent entertainment form with new forms of film narrative and visual styles. The chapter contests the idea of the demise of the idea of the nation in the wake of globalization, and proposes the concept of ‘transnation’ or a nation that is deeply rooted in its past and yet crosses borders, with Bollywood as the prime example.Less
This chapter explores globalization and resistance to globalization from the perspective of postcolonial theory. It argues that resistance to cultural domination occurs through transformation of those influences rather than simple opposition, citing Bollywood as the most powerful example of ‘transformative cultural resistance’ as well as of ‘alternative modernities’. Bollywood can be disengaged from its subordination to Hollywood by viewing it as a transformation of the institution and technology of cinema to create a total, internally consistent entertainment form with new forms of film narrative and visual styles. The chapter contests the idea of the demise of the idea of the nation in the wake of globalization, and proposes the concept of ‘transnation’ or a nation that is deeply rooted in its past and yet crosses borders, with Bollywood as the prime example.
Abraham Acosta
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823257096
- eISBN:
- 9780823261475
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823257096.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This introductory chapter sets out the book’s main themes. This book examines the politics of reading resistance in contemporary Latin America. It explores the predominance and inner workings of ...
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This introductory chapter sets out the book’s main themes. This book examines the politics of reading resistance in contemporary Latin America. It explores the predominance and inner workings of certain narratives of cultural resistance within Latin America and the economies of reading that sustain them. It advances the notion of illiteracy as a means to interrogate and rehabilitate the concept of resistance for contemporary political reflection.Less
This introductory chapter sets out the book’s main themes. This book examines the politics of reading resistance in contemporary Latin America. It explores the predominance and inner workings of certain narratives of cultural resistance within Latin America and the economies of reading that sustain them. It advances the notion of illiteracy as a means to interrogate and rehabilitate the concept of resistance for contemporary political reflection.
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
- Published in print:
- 1969
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679935
- eISBN:
- 9781452948577
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679935.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Larasati elucidates the complex, often paradoxical relationships between the dancing body and the Indonesian state since 1965. In the brief period from late 1965 to early 1966, approximately 1 ...
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Larasati elucidates the complex, often paradoxical relationships between the dancing body and the Indonesian state since 1965. In the brief period from late 1965 to early 1966, approximately 1 million Indonesians, including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, dancers, and artists were killed, arrested, or disappeared as then-general Suharto took control of the nation, implanting his “New Order” regime, which would rule for the next thirty years. Looking back on the New Order from the context of the present, Larasati interrogates the specific ways in which female dancing bodies have been dealt with by the state: vilified, punished, then replaced with idealized, state aligned bodies. Drawing on critical ethnography and the theorization of dance as methodological approaches, the book analyses the relationship of corporeal punishment and the political economics of display to cultural production in the context of East-West cultural exchange, tourism, state diplomatic “culture missions,” and world/ ethnic dance as defined by its peripheral relationship to Europe and the US. Within this framework, Larasati seeks to expand understandings of the moving, dancing body as deployed by state power: a dual-edged rhetorical strategy that enacts the erasure of historical violence, while simultaneously providing access to mobility and a certain space for the negotiation of identity and female citizenship.Less
Larasati elucidates the complex, often paradoxical relationships between the dancing body and the Indonesian state since 1965. In the brief period from late 1965 to early 1966, approximately 1 million Indonesians, including a large percentage of the country’s musicians, dancers, and artists were killed, arrested, or disappeared as then-general Suharto took control of the nation, implanting his “New Order” regime, which would rule for the next thirty years. Looking back on the New Order from the context of the present, Larasati interrogates the specific ways in which female dancing bodies have been dealt with by the state: vilified, punished, then replaced with idealized, state aligned bodies. Drawing on critical ethnography and the theorization of dance as methodological approaches, the book analyses the relationship of corporeal punishment and the political economics of display to cultural production in the context of East-West cultural exchange, tourism, state diplomatic “culture missions,” and world/ ethnic dance as defined by its peripheral relationship to Europe and the US. Within this framework, Larasati seeks to expand understandings of the moving, dancing body as deployed by state power: a dual-edged rhetorical strategy that enacts the erasure of historical violence, while simultaneously providing access to mobility and a certain space for the negotiation of identity and female citizenship.
Mark Silver
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831882
- eISBN:
- 9780824869397
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831882.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between “unequal” cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's ...
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This book argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between “unequal” cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese letters. The book tells the story of Japan's adoption of this new Western literary form at a time when the nation was also remaking itself in the image of the Western powers. It calls into question conventional notions of cultural domination and resistance, demonstrating the variety of possible modes for cultural borrowing, the surprising vagaries of intercultural transfer, and the power of the local contexts in which “imitation” occurs. The book begins by analyzing Tokugawa courtroom narratives and early Meiji biographies of female criminals (dokufu-mono, or “poison-woman stories”), which dominated popular crime writing in Japan before the detective story's arrival. It then traces the mid-Meiji absorption of French, British, and American detective novels into Japanese literary culture through the quirky translations of muckraking journalist Kuroiwa Ruikō. Subsequent chapters take up a series of detective stories nostalgically set in the old city of Edo by Okamoto Kidō (a Kabuki playwright inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) and the erotic, grotesque, and macabre works of Edogawa Ranpo, whose pen-name punned on “Edgar Allan Poe”.Less
This book argues for a reassessment of existing models of literary influence between “unequal” cultures. Because the detective story had no pre-existing native equivalent in Japan, the genre's formulaic structure acted as a distinctive cultural marker, making plain the process of its incorporation into late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Japanese letters. The book tells the story of Japan's adoption of this new Western literary form at a time when the nation was also remaking itself in the image of the Western powers. It calls into question conventional notions of cultural domination and resistance, demonstrating the variety of possible modes for cultural borrowing, the surprising vagaries of intercultural transfer, and the power of the local contexts in which “imitation” occurs. The book begins by analyzing Tokugawa courtroom narratives and early Meiji biographies of female criminals (dokufu-mono, or “poison-woman stories”), which dominated popular crime writing in Japan before the detective story's arrival. It then traces the mid-Meiji absorption of French, British, and American detective novels into Japanese literary culture through the quirky translations of muckraking journalist Kuroiwa Ruikō. Subsequent chapters take up a series of detective stories nostalgically set in the old city of Edo by Okamoto Kidō (a Kabuki playwright inspired by Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) and the erotic, grotesque, and macabre works of Edogawa Ranpo, whose pen-name punned on “Edgar Allan Poe”.
Jermaine Singleton
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252039621
- eISBN:
- 9780252097713
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252039621.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, African-American Literature
A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, this book explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using analysis of ...
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A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, this book explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and film, the book demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform grief discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. It also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts. The book develops the concept of “cultural melancholy” as a critical response to scholarship that calls for the clinical separation of critical race studies and psychoanalysis; excludes queer theoretical approaches from readings of African American literatures and cultures; and overlooks the status of racialized performance culture as a site of serious academic inquiry and theorization. In doing so, the book weaves critical race studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and performance studies into conversation to uncover a host of hidden dialogues—psychic and social, personal and political, individual and collective—for the purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency.Less
A daring cultural and literary studies investigation, this book explores the legacy of unresolved grief produced by ongoing racial oppression and resistance in the United States. Using analysis of literature, drama, musical performance, and film, the book demonstrates how rituals of racialization and resistance transfer and transform grief discreetly across time, consolidating racial identities and communities along the way. It also argues that this form of impossible mourning binds racialized identities across time and social space by way of cultural resistance efforts. The book develops the concept of “cultural melancholy” as a critical response to scholarship that calls for the clinical separation of critical race studies and psychoanalysis; excludes queer theoretical approaches from readings of African American literatures and cultures; and overlooks the status of racialized performance culture as a site of serious academic inquiry and theorization. In doing so, the book weaves critical race studies, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and performance studies into conversation to uncover a host of hidden dialogues—psychic and social, personal and political, individual and collective—for the purpose of promoting a culture of racial grieving, critical race consciousness, and collective agency.
Jahan Ramazani
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226703442
- eISBN:
- 9780226703374
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226703374.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter examines the poetic effects of the decolonization of the British Empire. The analysis uses Edward Said's ideas of cross-national affiliation and decolonizing cultural resistance. It ...
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This chapter examines the poetic effects of the decolonization of the British Empire. The analysis uses Edward Said's ideas of cross-national affiliation and decolonizing cultural resistance. It describes how place was imaginatively creolized and translocalized by black British and other migrant and diasporic poets. It also compares the works of postcolonial poets such as Louise Bennett and Derek Walcott with those of British poets such as Philip Larkin and Tony Harrison.Less
This chapter examines the poetic effects of the decolonization of the British Empire. The analysis uses Edward Said's ideas of cross-national affiliation and decolonizing cultural resistance. It describes how place was imaginatively creolized and translocalized by black British and other migrant and diasporic poets. It also compares the works of postcolonial poets such as Louise Bennett and Derek Walcott with those of British poets such as Philip Larkin and Tony Harrison.
Alessandro Brogi
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807834732
- eISBN:
- 9781469602950
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807877746_brogi.10
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter discusses the importance of the Cold War struggle over ideas and mass culture, which was as crucial as the confrontations in the political, economic, and military arenas. The United ...
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This chapter discusses the importance of the Cold War struggle over ideas and mass culture, which was as crucial as the confrontations in the political, economic, and military arenas. The United States strove not only to demonstrate cultural superiority over the Soviet Union but also to defuse widespread anti-Americanism in Western Europe. The French and Italian Communists privileged cultural resistance because they recognized that their leverage was strongest on those issues. By the late 1940s, however, both the Communists and the Americans had come to realize that culture was the most elusive element in their confrontation. Even so, both concluded that a core challenge came from their opponent's “soft power.” Recent literature has covered separately each side's actions and debates in the cultural Cold War. The purpose of the chapter is not to revisit these debates in detail but to add perspective to the ideological cultural struggle by juxtaposing and comparing the perceptions and responses from both sides of the Atlantic.Less
This chapter discusses the importance of the Cold War struggle over ideas and mass culture, which was as crucial as the confrontations in the political, economic, and military arenas. The United States strove not only to demonstrate cultural superiority over the Soviet Union but also to defuse widespread anti-Americanism in Western Europe. The French and Italian Communists privileged cultural resistance because they recognized that their leverage was strongest on those issues. By the late 1940s, however, both the Communists and the Americans had come to realize that culture was the most elusive element in their confrontation. Even so, both concluded that a core challenge came from their opponent's “soft power.” Recent literature has covered separately each side's actions and debates in the cultural Cold War. The purpose of the chapter is not to revisit these debates in detail but to add perspective to the ideological cultural struggle by juxtaposing and comparing the perceptions and responses from both sides of the Atlantic.
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
- Published in print:
- 1969
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679935
- eISBN:
- 9781452948577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679935.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Chapter one analyzes the Cold War-inspired massacres of up to one million accused communists in Indonesia in 1965-67 during the rise of president Suharto’s “New Order” regime. Further, it explains ...
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Chapter one analyzes the Cold War-inspired massacres of up to one million accused communists in Indonesia in 1965-67 during the rise of president Suharto’s “New Order” regime. Further, it explains and questions the regime’s particular targeting of female dancers, artists, and members of Gerwani, a progressive, proto-feminist women’s organization.Less
Chapter one analyzes the Cold War-inspired massacres of up to one million accused communists in Indonesia in 1965-67 during the rise of president Suharto’s “New Order” regime. Further, it explains and questions the regime’s particular targeting of female dancers, artists, and members of Gerwani, a progressive, proto-feminist women’s organization.
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
- Published in print:
- 1969
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679935
- eISBN:
- 9781452948577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679935.003.0003
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Chapter three examines strategic transmission of “folk” dance technique within villages and family compounds as a coded distribution of alternate historical narratives. Entering the context of ...
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Chapter three examines strategic transmission of “folk” dance technique within villages and family compounds as a coded distribution of alternate historical narratives. Entering the context of national display or global arts organizations like Smithsonian and UNESCO, such forms become commodified, yet potentially function to sublimate otherwise suppressed political perspectives.Less
Chapter three examines strategic transmission of “folk” dance technique within villages and family compounds as a coded distribution of alternate historical narratives. Entering the context of national display or global arts organizations like Smithsonian and UNESCO, such forms become commodified, yet potentially function to sublimate otherwise suppressed political perspectives.
Abraham Acosta
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780823257096
- eISBN:
- 9780823261475
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823257096.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, World Literature
This book reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social ...
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This book reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. “Illiteracy,” it claims, can offer us a way of talking about what cannot be subsumed within prevailing modes of reading, such as the opposition between writing and orality, that have frequently been deployed to distinguish between modern and archaic peoples and societies. The book is organized as a series of literary and cultural analyses of internationally recognized postcolonial narratives. It tackles a series of the most important political/aesthetic issues in Latin America that have arisen over the past thirty years or so, including indigenism, testimonio, the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and migration to the United States via the U.S.-Mexican border.Through a critical examination of the “illiterate” effects and contradictions at work in these resistant narratives, the book goes beyond current theories of culture and politics to reveal radically unpredictable forms of antagonism that advance the possibility for an ever more democratic model of cultural analysis.Less
This book reevaluates Latin American theories and narratives of cultural resistance by advancing the concept of “illiteracy” as a new critical approach to understanding scenes or moments of social antagonism. “Illiteracy,” it claims, can offer us a way of talking about what cannot be subsumed within prevailing modes of reading, such as the opposition between writing and orality, that have frequently been deployed to distinguish between modern and archaic peoples and societies. The book is organized as a series of literary and cultural analyses of internationally recognized postcolonial narratives. It tackles a series of the most important political/aesthetic issues in Latin America that have arisen over the past thirty years or so, including indigenism, testimonio, the Zapatista movement in Chiapas, and migration to the United States via the U.S.-Mexican border.Through a critical examination of the “illiterate” effects and contradictions at work in these resistant narratives, the book goes beyond current theories of culture and politics to reveal radically unpredictable forms of antagonism that advance the possibility for an ever more democratic model of cultural analysis.
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
- Published in print:
- 1969
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679935
- eISBN:
- 9781452948577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679935.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Chapter five critically explores the potential for agency among various groups of nationally and internationally mobilized female “labor”–including state dancers and expatriate academics–through the ...
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Chapter five critically explores the potential for agency among various groups of nationally and internationally mobilized female “labor”–including state dancers and expatriate academics–through the theoretical lens of Aihwa Ong’s “flexible citizenship” and the concept of privileged “free trade zones” for certain classes of workers abroad.Less
Chapter five critically explores the potential for agency among various groups of nationally and internationally mobilized female “labor”–including state dancers and expatriate academics–through the theoretical lens of Aihwa Ong’s “flexible citizenship” and the concept of privileged “free trade zones” for certain classes of workers abroad.
Gerard Delanty (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853239185
- eISBN:
- 9781846313219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853239185.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Political Theory
This chapter examines some aspects of cultural resistance to Americanization in Japan. It also discusses the significance of a nascent cosmopolitanism and further illustrates the effect of ...
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This chapter examines some aspects of cultural resistance to Americanization in Japan. It also discusses the significance of a nascent cosmopolitanism and further illustrates the effect of globalization in Japanese society.Less
This chapter examines some aspects of cultural resistance to Americanization in Japan. It also discusses the significance of a nascent cosmopolitanism and further illustrates the effect of globalization in Japanese society.
Isaiah Helekunihi Walker
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834623
- eISBN:
- 9780824871703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834623.003.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. Ka po'ina nalu (the surf zone) constitutes a Native Hawaiian realm, an overlooked space extremely significant to Kānaka Maoli ...
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This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. Ka po'ina nalu (the surf zone) constitutes a Native Hawaiian realm, an overlooked space extremely significant to Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians). While surfing was a thriving aspect of Hawaiian culture in ancient days, in the twentieth century it served as both a refuge and a contested borderland for many Native Hawaiians. In other words, it was a place where Hawaiians felt free, developed Native identities, and thwarted foreign domination. This book provides a history of this contested Hawaiian surf zone by analyzing particular Hawaiian surfers, including ancient Hawaiians, Waikīkī surfers of the early 1900s, a radical environmentalist group called Save Our Surf, iconic professionals like Eddie Aikau, and finally the North Shore club Hui O He'e Nalu. These surfers are unique to Hawaiian history in that they provide examples of ardent and successful Hawaiian cultural-based resistance that thrived throughout the twentieth century. The book also addresses issues of Hawaiian manhood. Through the surfers discussed in this book, it is argued that Hawaiians did not always subscribe to stereotypes about Hawaiian men, but instead contested, rewrote, or creatively negotiated within them.Less
This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book's main themes. Ka po'ina nalu (the surf zone) constitutes a Native Hawaiian realm, an overlooked space extremely significant to Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiians). While surfing was a thriving aspect of Hawaiian culture in ancient days, in the twentieth century it served as both a refuge and a contested borderland for many Native Hawaiians. In other words, it was a place where Hawaiians felt free, developed Native identities, and thwarted foreign domination. This book provides a history of this contested Hawaiian surf zone by analyzing particular Hawaiian surfers, including ancient Hawaiians, Waikīkī surfers of the early 1900s, a radical environmentalist group called Save Our Surf, iconic professionals like Eddie Aikau, and finally the North Shore club Hui O He'e Nalu. These surfers are unique to Hawaiian history in that they provide examples of ardent and successful Hawaiian cultural-based resistance that thrived throughout the twentieth century. The book also addresses issues of Hawaiian manhood. Through the surfers discussed in this book, it is argued that Hawaiians did not always subscribe to stereotypes about Hawaiian men, but instead contested, rewrote, or creatively negotiated within them.
Edward Legon
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781526124654
- eISBN:
- 9781526144652
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9781526124654.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Early Modern History
The chapter begins the process of understanding the expression of seditious memories by placing them in the context of the Restoration’s politics of memory. This involves viewing seditious memories ...
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The chapter begins the process of understanding the expression of seditious memories by placing them in the context of the Restoration’s politics of memory. This involves viewing seditious memories as ‘counter-memories’ that subverted and resisted efforts by royalists to secure mnemonic hegemony. The chapter examines the expression of seditious memories to audiences that were expected to disagree in order to show that men and women used such views to legitimise publicly their decisions to support parliament and the establishment of a republic. The chapter also shows that the public expression of seditious memories acted as forms of subversive ‘cultural resistance’ by appropriating the identities that royalists imputed to parliamentarians and royalists, and threatening royalists with a return of civil war and revolution.Less
The chapter begins the process of understanding the expression of seditious memories by placing them in the context of the Restoration’s politics of memory. This involves viewing seditious memories as ‘counter-memories’ that subverted and resisted efforts by royalists to secure mnemonic hegemony. The chapter examines the expression of seditious memories to audiences that were expected to disagree in order to show that men and women used such views to legitimise publicly their decisions to support parliament and the establishment of a republic. The chapter also shows that the public expression of seditious memories acted as forms of subversive ‘cultural resistance’ by appropriating the identities that royalists imputed to parliamentarians and royalists, and threatening royalists with a return of civil war and revolution.
Rachmi Diyah Larasati
- Published in print:
- 1969
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816679935
- eISBN:
- 9781452948577
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816679935.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Chapter two interrogates the New Order’s post-1965 cultural reconstruction as a form of ideological domination and self-legitimation: the commemoration of a set of depoliticized, “ancient” national ...
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Chapter two interrogates the New Order’s post-1965 cultural reconstruction as a form of ideological domination and self-legitimation: the commemoration of a set of depoliticized, “ancient” national traditions was strictly enforced, while recollections of mass murder and loss in the course of recent history were violently suppressed, effecting an “Amnesia Project.”Less
Chapter two interrogates the New Order’s post-1965 cultural reconstruction as a form of ideological domination and self-legitimation: the commemoration of a set of depoliticized, “ancient” national traditions was strictly enforced, while recollections of mass murder and loss in the course of recent history were violently suppressed, effecting an “Amnesia Project.”
Gabrielle A. Berlinger
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- February 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781904113461
- eISBN:
- 9781800340343
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3828/liverpool/9781904113461.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Judaism
This chapter looks at a reverse transformation — of a secular house front into an icon of hasidic identity. It considers the implications of the house of the seventh leader of the Lubavitch branch of ...
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This chapter looks at a reverse transformation — of a secular house front into an icon of hasidic identity. It considers the implications of the house of the seventh leader of the Lubavitch branch of hasidic Judaism, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The house, found at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, was reconstructed and redesigned in locations around the world. Although it blends into its Brooklyn streetscape, rebuilt elsewhere it causes a material cultural ‘resistance’, and therefore draws attention to itself as a sectarian icon for a group enduring some dissonance after the Rebbe's death. The chapter illustrates how Lubavitch Jews have maintained their identity and practice during their growth, and realized the Rebbe's vision of spreading holiness after his death by sanctifying new centres, or ‘Chabad houses’, around the world. It addresses the theme of the role of ‘home’ for Jews, by examining the ways in which Lubavitch conceptions of space, place, and spirituality are sustaining a core identity for Lubavitch Jews in the absence of a living leader.Less
This chapter looks at a reverse transformation — of a secular house front into an icon of hasidic identity. It considers the implications of the house of the seventh leader of the Lubavitch branch of hasidic Judaism, Rebbe Menachem Mendel Schneerson. The house, found at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, was reconstructed and redesigned in locations around the world. Although it blends into its Brooklyn streetscape, rebuilt elsewhere it causes a material cultural ‘resistance’, and therefore draws attention to itself as a sectarian icon for a group enduring some dissonance after the Rebbe's death. The chapter illustrates how Lubavitch Jews have maintained their identity and practice during their growth, and realized the Rebbe's vision of spreading holiness after his death by sanctifying new centres, or ‘Chabad houses’, around the world. It addresses the theme of the role of ‘home’ for Jews, by examining the ways in which Lubavitch conceptions of space, place, and spirituality are sustaining a core identity for Lubavitch Jews in the absence of a living leader.
