William P. Brown
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199730797
- eISBN:
- 9780199777075
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730797.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies, Theology
The topic is the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:4b-3:24, the Yahwist account of creation. In contrast to the God of Genesis 1, the God of the Garden is a down-to-earth deity who improvises and sometimes ...
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The topic is the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:4b-3:24, the Yahwist account of creation. In contrast to the God of Genesis 1, the God of the Garden is a down-to-earth deity who improvises and sometimes fails in the act of creating. This “low” view of God is matched by humankind’s portrayal as a “groundling,” a product of God’s work with dirt, in contrast to the “image of God” portrayal in Genesis 1. Written in view of ancient Israel’s mixed experience with monarchy, the Garden narrative focuses on the human family and its rise to power. As such, it invites dialogue with the anthropological account of human evolution, the human tree of life. Both accounts affirm the common ground of biological life and the challenging transitions that have shaped humanity’s development and ascendancy in creation. Evolutionary science reinterprets the account of the “Fall” of humanity in powerfully ecological ways.Less
The topic is the Garden of Eden in Genesis 2:4b-3:24, the Yahwist account of creation. In contrast to the God of Genesis 1, the God of the Garden is a down-to-earth deity who improvises and sometimes fails in the act of creating. This “low” view of God is matched by humankind’s portrayal as a “groundling,” a product of God’s work with dirt, in contrast to the “image of God” portrayal in Genesis 1. Written in view of ancient Israel’s mixed experience with monarchy, the Garden narrative focuses on the human family and its rise to power. As such, it invites dialogue with the anthropological account of human evolution, the human tree of life. Both accounts affirm the common ground of biological life and the challenging transitions that have shaped humanity’s development and ascendancy in creation. Evolutionary science reinterprets the account of the “Fall” of humanity in powerfully ecological ways.
Dominic Janes
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195378511
- eISBN:
- 9780199869664
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195378511.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
This chapter examines the notion of dirt and abjection in more detail before exploring the ways in which these phenomena were accommodated within Victorian society. The key mechanism is understood to ...
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This chapter examines the notion of dirt and abjection in more detail before exploring the ways in which these phenomena were accommodated within Victorian society. The key mechanism is understood to be that underpinning Gothic literature in which transgression is harnessed as entertainment. By exploring a case study of critique of the Anglo-Catholic confessional, the chapter explains how pleasure was generated via the invention of a sexualised and scandalous Catholicism in the minds of Protestant viewers. It is then explained how this is associated with a boom in the production of the sale of Gothic narratives in the form not only of fiction, but also of tracts and journalism. In this way the anomalous position of ritualism was rendered into financially profitable form for wider elements in society.Less
This chapter examines the notion of dirt and abjection in more detail before exploring the ways in which these phenomena were accommodated within Victorian society. The key mechanism is understood to be that underpinning Gothic literature in which transgression is harnessed as entertainment. By exploring a case study of critique of the Anglo-Catholic confessional, the chapter explains how pleasure was generated via the invention of a sexualised and scandalous Catholicism in the minds of Protestant viewers. It is then explained how this is associated with a boom in the production of the sale of Gothic narratives in the form not only of fiction, but also of tracts and journalism. In this way the anomalous position of ritualism was rendered into financially profitable form for wider elements in society.
Peter Hart
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198208068
- eISBN:
- 9780191677892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198208068.003.0007
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter examines the Volunteers of the I.R.A., looking at the type of people who joined and why. Most official British commentators regard the I.R.A. as being a bad lot recruited from the lowest ...
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This chapter examines the Volunteers of the I.R.A., looking at the type of people who joined and why. Most official British commentators regard the I.R.A. as being a bad lot recruited from the lowest classes. With the guerilla warfare and widespread killing, dirt was a constant theme of the descriptions. The Volunteers were considered dirty, ragged, and ‘a scrubby-looking lot of corner boys’. Most of the opinions against the I.R.A. were an outgrowth of deep-rooted prejudices: those of the English against the Irish, Protestant against Catholics, townspeople against countrymen, among many others. Upper-middle-class or upper-class people almost never joined the I.R.A. The belief that that these were ‘persons of no consequence’ was based not just on class, but on age as well. They were considered to be ‘young upstarts’.Less
This chapter examines the Volunteers of the I.R.A., looking at the type of people who joined and why. Most official British commentators regard the I.R.A. as being a bad lot recruited from the lowest classes. With the guerilla warfare and widespread killing, dirt was a constant theme of the descriptions. The Volunteers were considered dirty, ragged, and ‘a scrubby-looking lot of corner boys’. Most of the opinions against the I.R.A. were an outgrowth of deep-rooted prejudices: those of the English against the Irish, Protestant against Catholics, townspeople against countrymen, among many others. Upper-middle-class or upper-class people almost never joined the I.R.A. The belief that that these were ‘persons of no consequence’ was based not just on class, but on age as well. They were considered to be ‘young upstarts’.
John Godwin
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781904675631
- eISBN:
- 9781781380703
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781904675631.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval
Of all the Roman poets, Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to ...
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Of all the Roman poets, Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This book, which assumes no prior knowledge of the poet or of Roman poetry in general, explores Catullus in all his many guises. In six concise chapters, it deals with the cultural background to his poetic production, its literary context, the role of love, Alexandrian learning and obscenity, and, in the final chapter, considers the coherence and rationale of the collection as a whole. Each chapter is illustrated by readings of a number of poems, chosen to give a representative overview of Catullus' poetry. All quotations from the text are translated, and a brief discursive section of ‘Further Reading’ is provided at the end of each chapter. A timeline giving dates of authors mentioned and a full bibliography are also supplied.Less
Of all the Roman poets, Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This book, which assumes no prior knowledge of the poet or of Roman poetry in general, explores Catullus in all his many guises. In six concise chapters, it deals with the cultural background to his poetic production, its literary context, the role of love, Alexandrian learning and obscenity, and, in the final chapter, considers the coherence and rationale of the collection as a whole. Each chapter is illustrated by readings of a number of poems, chosen to give a representative overview of Catullus' poetry. All quotations from the text are translated, and a brief discursive section of ‘Further Reading’ is provided at the end of each chapter. A timeline giving dates of authors mentioned and a full bibliography are also supplied.
Mukul Sharma
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- March 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780199477562
- eISBN:
- 9780199090969
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199477562.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History, Social History
Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social ...
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Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.Less
Rarely do Indian environmental discourses examine nature through the lens of caste. Whereas nature is considered as universal and inherent, caste is understood as a constructed historical and social entity. Mukul Sharma shows how caste and nature are intimately connected. He compares Dalit meanings of environment to ideas and practices of neo-Brahmanism and certain mainstreams of environmental thought. Showing how Dalit experiences of environment are ridden with metaphors of pollution, impurity, and dirt, the author is able to bring forth new dimensions on both environment and Dalits, without valourizing the latter’s standpoint. Rather than looking for a coherent understanding of their ecology, the book explores the diverse and rich intellectual resources of Dalits, such as movements, songs, myths, memories, and metaphors around nature. These reveal their quest to define themselves in caste-ridden nature and building a form of environmentalism free from the burdens of caste. The Dalits also pose a critical challenge to Indian environmentalism, which has, until now, marginalized such linkages between caste and nature.
Lotika Singha
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- January 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781529201468
- eISBN:
- 9781529201505
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529201468.003.0004
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gender and Sexuality
This chapter considers the symbolic construction of domestic cleaning as dirty work and the real, physical work of dealing with dirt. Through the lens of outsourced domestic cleaning – how much ...
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This chapter considers the symbolic construction of domestic cleaning as dirty work and the real, physical work of dealing with dirt. Through the lens of outsourced domestic cleaning – how much cleaning is necessary and what can be outsourced – the chapter shows that an ‘objective’ analysis of human experiences of dealing with real physical dirt is not possible without reference to dirt’s moral meanings for the researched as well as the researcher. The chapter concludes that the dirty work approach offers an incomplete understanding of paid domestic work and that an alternative paradigm is required.Less
This chapter considers the symbolic construction of domestic cleaning as dirty work and the real, physical work of dealing with dirt. Through the lens of outsourced domestic cleaning – how much cleaning is necessary and what can be outsourced – the chapter shows that an ‘objective’ analysis of human experiences of dealing with real physical dirt is not possible without reference to dirt’s moral meanings for the researched as well as the researcher. The chapter concludes that the dirty work approach offers an incomplete understanding of paid domestic work and that an alternative paradigm is required.
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804770170
- eISBN:
- 9780804775090
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804770170.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, European Literature
Regulation of error's ambiguity is tied to narratives of risk and promise, including a reliable history of language and thought, a coherent model of subject-formation, and a rigorous critical ...
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Regulation of error's ambiguity is tied to narratives of risk and promise, including a reliable history of language and thought, a coherent model of subject-formation, and a rigorous critical philosophy. The impure rhyme that seals the fate of both Penthesilea and Achilles in Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy implies a complex interaction between dirt, error, and the production of meaning. Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger, with its analysis of pollution and taboo, offers a structuralist answer to a paradox about uncleanliness: objects that are considered “dirty” or “unclean” by a culture are sometimes revered in the holiest of rituals. This chapter examines the neutralization of dirt and its conversion into symbolic power in Purity and Danger. It also explores how an indelible dirtiness persists in the texts of Herodotus and Kleist, and argues that a similar anxiety about hygiene and waste disposal occurs in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.Less
Regulation of error's ambiguity is tied to narratives of risk and promise, including a reliable history of language and thought, a coherent model of subject-formation, and a rigorous critical philosophy. The impure rhyme that seals the fate of both Penthesilea and Achilles in Heinrich von Kleist's tragedy implies a complex interaction between dirt, error, and the production of meaning. Mary Douglas's Purity and Danger, with its analysis of pollution and taboo, offers a structuralist answer to a paradox about uncleanliness: objects that are considered “dirty” or “unclean” by a culture are sometimes revered in the holiest of rituals. This chapter examines the neutralization of dirt and its conversion into symbolic power in Purity and Danger. It also explores how an indelible dirtiness persists in the texts of Herodotus and Kleist, and argues that a similar anxiety about hygiene and waste disposal occurs in John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding.
Anthony Pavlik
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2015
- ISBN:
- 9781628461329
- eISBN:
- 9781626740723
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781628461329.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, American, 20th Century Literature
This chapter considers Pollyanna in view of recent ideas of ecophobia—an unreasonable but deeply conditioned reaction against nature—taking the idea of dirt and disorder as matter out of place. The ...
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This chapter considers Pollyanna in view of recent ideas of ecophobia—an unreasonable but deeply conditioned reaction against nature—taking the idea of dirt and disorder as matter out of place. The presence of the natural world in Pollyanna reveals contemporary perceptions of dirt as disorder and the natural world as intrusions into the domestic. Aunt Polly's desire for a well-cleaned and orderly house and her need to maintain the purity and order of the inside of her house against the outside can be considered in terms of how dirt and pollution relate to social structures and norms. The presence of dust and dirt represents a failure of control over the environment. Thus, cleanliness and good housekeeping become intrinsic to maintaining the social space of the home by instituting a cultural boundary whereby the clean and ordered house marks the difference between culture and the “other”—the natural world.Less
This chapter considers Pollyanna in view of recent ideas of ecophobia—an unreasonable but deeply conditioned reaction against nature—taking the idea of dirt and disorder as matter out of place. The presence of the natural world in Pollyanna reveals contemporary perceptions of dirt as disorder and the natural world as intrusions into the domestic. Aunt Polly's desire for a well-cleaned and orderly house and her need to maintain the purity and order of the inside of her house against the outside can be considered in terms of how dirt and pollution relate to social structures and norms. The presence of dust and dirt represents a failure of control over the environment. Thus, cleanliness and good housekeeping become intrinsic to maintaining the social space of the home by instituting a cultural boundary whereby the clean and ordered house marks the difference between culture and the “other”—the natural world.
Sam Dubal
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520296091
- eISBN:
- 9780520968752
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520296091.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
The interlude attends to the concept of “reintegration,” or demobilization, whereby LRA rebels leaving the frontlines were to be reformed to live in peace among civilians. It highlights the ways in ...
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The interlude attends to the concept of “reintegration,” or demobilization, whereby LRA rebels leaving the frontlines were to be reformed to live in peace among civilians. It highlights the ways in which civilians and NGO workers conceptualized rebels as animals needing to be humanized and the ways in which rebels, in turn, resisted this disciplinary process. It shows that rebels did not want or need to have their heads “repaired.” Rather, it was civilians for whom “reintegration” was ritually healing, allowing them to heal their own sicknesses by projecting them onto rebels. Whereas reintegration offered to cleanse rebels through the pure concept of “humanity,” the interlude acts as a dirtying process of dis-integration, rejecting the healing offered by “humanity.”Less
The interlude attends to the concept of “reintegration,” or demobilization, whereby LRA rebels leaving the frontlines were to be reformed to live in peace among civilians. It highlights the ways in which civilians and NGO workers conceptualized rebels as animals needing to be humanized and the ways in which rebels, in turn, resisted this disciplinary process. It shows that rebels did not want or need to have their heads “repaired.” Rather, it was civilians for whom “reintegration” was ritually healing, allowing them to heal their own sicknesses by projecting them onto rebels. Whereas reintegration offered to cleanse rebels through the pure concept of “humanity,” the interlude acts as a dirtying process of dis-integration, rejecting the healing offered by “humanity.”
Encarnación Juárez-Almendros
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781786940780
- eISBN:
- 9781786945013
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781786940780.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
The introduction defines and describes the academic field of disabilities studies. It explains the different models of disability, --social, medical, religious, constructionist-- as well as the ...
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The introduction defines and describes the academic field of disabilities studies. It explains the different models of disability, --social, medical, religious, constructionist-- as well as the recent scholarship in disability studies. It also explains the major concepts drawn from other disciplines to illuminate the construction of disability, such as Erving Goffman’s stigma theory, Mary Douglas’s notion of the other as “dirt,” and Michael Foucault’s social constructionism. Diverse theories of the body as well as phenomenological perspectives complement these constructionist positions. Furthermore, the introduction delineates theoretical disability studies in the humanities and particularly discusses applications of disability methodologies in the analysis of early modern literary productions. Finally, it expounds the feminist approach to disability theory used in the book.Less
The introduction defines and describes the academic field of disabilities studies. It explains the different models of disability, --social, medical, religious, constructionist-- as well as the recent scholarship in disability studies. It also explains the major concepts drawn from other disciplines to illuminate the construction of disability, such as Erving Goffman’s stigma theory, Mary Douglas’s notion of the other as “dirt,” and Michael Foucault’s social constructionism. Diverse theories of the body as well as phenomenological perspectives complement these constructionist positions. Furthermore, the introduction delineates theoretical disability studies in the humanities and particularly discusses applications of disability methodologies in the analysis of early modern literary productions. Finally, it expounds the feminist approach to disability theory used in the book.
Yingjin Zhang
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833374
- eISBN:
- 9780824870584
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833374.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Asian Studies
This chapter examines both the space of production and the production of space in Chinese cinema during the postsocialist period. It draws on Dai Jinhua's guangchang (square) to consider the changing ...
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This chapter examines both the space of production and the production of space in Chinese cinema during the postsocialist period. It draws on Dai Jinhua's guangchang (square) to consider the changing power-geometries in 1990s China, as well as Henri Lefebvre's differentiation of isotopias, utopias, and heterotopias and Michel Foucault's meditation on other spaces to illustrate the coexistence and interpenetration of underground, independent, semi-independent, and official modes of filmmaking. The chapter first presents a diagram on modes of interactions among contending players of politics, capital, art, and marginality. It then traces the early trajectories of Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan and emphasizes the importance of marginality in cultivating an alternative public sphere. It also looks at the emergence of the sixth generation by focusing on the 1994 film Dirt, along with the subcultural margins of rock music in the early 1990s. The chapter concludes by assessing changes in Chinese urban cinema from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.Less
This chapter examines both the space of production and the production of space in Chinese cinema during the postsocialist period. It draws on Dai Jinhua's guangchang (square) to consider the changing power-geometries in 1990s China, as well as Henri Lefebvre's differentiation of isotopias, utopias, and heterotopias and Michel Foucault's meditation on other spaces to illustrate the coexistence and interpenetration of underground, independent, semi-independent, and official modes of filmmaking. The chapter first presents a diagram on modes of interactions among contending players of politics, capital, art, and marginality. It then traces the early trajectories of Wang Xiaoshuai and Zhang Yuan and emphasizes the importance of marginality in cultivating an alternative public sphere. It also looks at the emergence of the sixth generation by focusing on the 1994 film Dirt, along with the subcultural margins of rock music in the early 1990s. The chapter concludes by assessing changes in Chinese urban cinema from the late 1990s to the early 2000s.
Thomas Jundt
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199791200
- eISBN:
- 9780199378562
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199791200.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, Cultural History
Organic agriculture was at the heart of an alternative, environmental vision for postwar America. J. I. Rodale led the way with his book Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts (1945), and his ...
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Organic agriculture was at the heart of an alternative, environmental vision for postwar America. J. I. Rodale led the way with his book Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts (1945), and his monthly journal Organic Farming and Gardening. Organic agriculture was an environmental response to the rise of corporate agribusiness, and the synthetic chemical pesticides and herbicides developed for the war and adapted to agriculture. James Rorty, a poet and journalist, and N. Philip Norman, a nutritionist and physician, took up where Rodale left off with their 1947 book, Tomorrow’s Food: The Coming Revolution in Nutrition. With government seemingly more beholden to big business than the protection of citizens and the environment, proto-environmentalists in the late 1940s urged citizens to assert agency by choosing environmentally friendly products. By decade’s end, air pollution had become a growing cause of concern after a fatal smog incident in Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948.Less
Organic agriculture was at the heart of an alternative, environmental vision for postwar America. J. I. Rodale led the way with his book Pay Dirt: Farming and Gardening with Composts (1945), and his monthly journal Organic Farming and Gardening. Organic agriculture was an environmental response to the rise of corporate agribusiness, and the synthetic chemical pesticides and herbicides developed for the war and adapted to agriculture. James Rorty, a poet and journalist, and N. Philip Norman, a nutritionist and physician, took up where Rodale left off with their 1947 book, Tomorrow’s Food: The Coming Revolution in Nutrition. With government seemingly more beholden to big business than the protection of citizens and the environment, proto-environmentalists in the late 1940s urged citizens to assert agency by choosing environmentally friendly products. By decade’s end, air pollution had become a growing cause of concern after a fatal smog incident in Donora, Pennsylvania in 1948.
Frank Graziano
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- April 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190663476
- eISBN:
- 9780190940263
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190663476.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History
After a summary of the santuario’s history, the Christ of Esquipulas is discussed in relation to the Guatemalan image by the same name and to other Black Christs in the region. The use of holy dirt ...
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After a summary of the santuario’s history, the Christ of Esquipulas is discussed in relation to the Guatemalan image by the same name and to other Black Christs in the region. The use of holy dirt at the santuario is then considered together with miracles attributed to it. The subsequent section discusses aesthetic and spiritual emotional reactions to the interior of the santuario chapel. Also described and analyzed are Holy Week events at the santuario, including the Penitentes’ participation; pilgrimage and the annual Pilgrimages for Vocations; and the murder in 2000 of two teenage pilgrims to the santuario. The chapter concludes with a visiting guide, including directions to historic churches in the area.Less
After a summary of the santuario’s history, the Christ of Esquipulas is discussed in relation to the Guatemalan image by the same name and to other Black Christs in the region. The use of holy dirt at the santuario is then considered together with miracles attributed to it. The subsequent section discusses aesthetic and spiritual emotional reactions to the interior of the santuario chapel. Also described and analyzed are Holy Week events at the santuario, including the Penitentes’ participation; pilgrimage and the annual Pilgrimages for Vocations; and the murder in 2000 of two teenage pilgrims to the santuario. The chapter concludes with a visiting guide, including directions to historic churches in the area.
Santana Khanikar
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780199485550
- eISBN:
- 9780199092031
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780199485550.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, Indian Politics
This chapter examines the discursive production of some spaces as ‘filthy’ and ‘criminal’ places, and thus requiring a specific form of policing. By attaching meanings to geographical spaces and ...
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This chapter examines the discursive production of some spaces as ‘filthy’ and ‘criminal’ places, and thus requiring a specific form of policing. By attaching meanings to geographical spaces and people therein, such constructions create a division between a ‘self’ to be protected and an ‘other’ to be policed, and in the context of a postcolonial society ridden by hierarchies of various nature makes for easy accommodation and tolerance of violence. The chapter draws on texts of laws and court judgments, reports of state bodies and rights advocacy organizations, and personal interactions and ethnographic observations in the field. Focusing on everyday policing practices in contemporary Delhi, and conceptualizing categorizations of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘civilized’ and ‘criminal’, ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ and ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’, the chapter looks for their implications in the acceptance and understanding of the role of the state in society.Less
This chapter examines the discursive production of some spaces as ‘filthy’ and ‘criminal’ places, and thus requiring a specific form of policing. By attaching meanings to geographical spaces and people therein, such constructions create a division between a ‘self’ to be protected and an ‘other’ to be policed, and in the context of a postcolonial society ridden by hierarchies of various nature makes for easy accommodation and tolerance of violence. The chapter draws on texts of laws and court judgments, reports of state bodies and rights advocacy organizations, and personal interactions and ethnographic observations in the field. Focusing on everyday policing practices in contemporary Delhi, and conceptualizing categorizations of ‘good’ and ‘bad’, ‘civilized’ and ‘criminal’, ‘clean’ and ‘dirty’ and ‘legal’ and ‘illegal’, the chapter looks for their implications in the acceptance and understanding of the role of the state in society.
George Cotkin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- December 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780190218478
- eISBN:
- 9780190218508
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190218478.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century, Cultural History
Robert Rauschenberg was important for challenging traditional divisions in culture between high and low, for expanding the possibilities of what constituted a work of art. His work from 1953 was ...
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Robert Rauschenberg was important for challenging traditional divisions in culture between high and low, for expanding the possibilities of what constituted a work of art. His work from 1953 was excessive in its devotion to experiment, ranging from single-color paintings to using various objects for sculptural works, and even including a “dirt painting” that needed to be watered. He had cajoled a drawing from the major artist Willem de Kooning. Rauschenberg then attempted to erase it, thereby transforming it into a new work of art called Erased de Kooning. In his work during this year he was attempting to distance himself from the establishment in art.Less
Robert Rauschenberg was important for challenging traditional divisions in culture between high and low, for expanding the possibilities of what constituted a work of art. His work from 1953 was excessive in its devotion to experiment, ranging from single-color paintings to using various objects for sculptural works, and even including a “dirt painting” that needed to be watered. He had cajoled a drawing from the major artist Willem de Kooning. Rauschenberg then attempted to erase it, thereby transforming it into a new work of art called Erased de Kooning. In his work during this year he was attempting to distance himself from the establishment in art.
