Christopher B. Balme
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198184447
- eISBN:
- 9780191674266
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198184447.003.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Drama
This book examines theatrical works and performances which are influenced by the triad of imperialism, colonization, and decolonization. It argues that ‘decolonization’ of the stage can be examined ...
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This book examines theatrical works and performances which are influenced by the triad of imperialism, colonization, and decolonization. It argues that ‘decolonization’ of the stage can be examined through a number of strategies involving the integration of indigenous performance forms within the framework of the Western notion of theatre. Syncretic theatre is one of the most effective means of decolonizing the stage, since it utilizes the performance forms of both European and indigenous cultures in a creative recombination of their respective elements. This book also provides an international perspective by focusing not on just one artistic form and genre — drama and theatre — but also on a single, unifying development observable within the theatrical cultures of post-colonial societies which have some kind of tradition of dramatic enactment.Less
This book examines theatrical works and performances which are influenced by the triad of imperialism, colonization, and decolonization. It argues that ‘decolonization’ of the stage can be examined through a number of strategies involving the integration of indigenous performance forms within the framework of the Western notion of theatre. Syncretic theatre is one of the most effective means of decolonizing the stage, since it utilizes the performance forms of both European and indigenous cultures in a creative recombination of their respective elements. This book also provides an international perspective by focusing not on just one artistic form and genre — drama and theatre — but also on a single, unifying development observable within the theatrical cultures of post-colonial societies which have some kind of tradition of dramatic enactment.
John Grim
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823227457
- eISBN:
- 9780823236626
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823227457.003.0010
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
This chapter seeks to associate ecospirit with indigenous knowledge in a plurality of forms. It shows that there is a family resemblance, but not a unity, among the ...
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This chapter seeks to associate ecospirit with indigenous knowledge in a plurality of forms. It shows that there is a family resemblance, but not a unity, among the lifeways of indigenous peoples in their different homelands. Indigenous ways of knowing attend to the flux and tensions of life that are embedded in, and resolved through, living responsibly in relation to one's local place. These are the dynamics of indigenous ecospirit.Less
This chapter seeks to associate ecospirit with indigenous knowledge in a plurality of forms. It shows that there is a family resemblance, but not a unity, among the lifeways of indigenous peoples in their different homelands. Indigenous ways of knowing attend to the flux and tensions of life that are embedded in, and resolved through, living responsibly in relation to one's local place. These are the dynamics of indigenous ecospirit.
Andrew Martindale
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780199696697
- eISBN:
- 9780191804878
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199696697.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, Ancient History / Archaeology
This chapter examines the epistemology of cultural tradition in the context of court cases involving Aboriginal rights and titles in Canada. Focusing on the global impact and the legal legacy of R. ...
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This chapter examines the epistemology of cultural tradition in the context of court cases involving Aboriginal rights and titles in Canada. Focusing on the global impact and the legal legacy of R. v. Delgamuukw, it considers how archaeology is used by courts to reinstate the double standard through an essentialised model of culture, along with its implications for indigenous peoples seeking rights and titles through Western systems of jurisprudence. The chapter argues that archaeological views of indigenous culture need not be as simplified as presented in recent court cases, a logic that challenges some of the fundamental principles of archaeological orthodoxy.Less
This chapter examines the epistemology of cultural tradition in the context of court cases involving Aboriginal rights and titles in Canada. Focusing on the global impact and the legal legacy of R. v. Delgamuukw, it considers how archaeology is used by courts to reinstate the double standard through an essentialised model of culture, along with its implications for indigenous peoples seeking rights and titles through Western systems of jurisprudence. The chapter argues that archaeological views of indigenous culture need not be as simplified as presented in recent court cases, a logic that challenges some of the fundamental principles of archaeological orthodoxy.
Rochelle Pinto
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- October 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780195690477
- eISBN:
- 9780199081899
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195690477.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Indian History
This book explores the contours of print production in Goa as an extension of the questions that had prompted the studies on print in colonial India. It looks into the nature of and principles ...
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This book explores the contours of print production in Goa as an extension of the questions that had prompted the studies on print in colonial India. It looks into the nature of and principles guiding Portuguese colonialism in Goa. The discussion of print as the locus of the formation and contestation of polities rests on certain assumptions about the functioning of the colonial state, its relation with the colonial elite, relations within colonial society, dissemination and bilingualism. The book initially draws on the representations of the Catholic elite, who were historically situated by colonial policy to occupy that public realm in which representations from elite and the state circulated among a limited public. The basic determinants of the colonial print sphere, such as language, the price and availability of print, and the Portuguese colonial state’s stance towards indigenous culture and the colonial elite were manifest in this interaction. This book examines how publications such as newsprint, novels, and pamphlets were printed in Goa during the nineteenth century.Less
This book explores the contours of print production in Goa as an extension of the questions that had prompted the studies on print in colonial India. It looks into the nature of and principles guiding Portuguese colonialism in Goa. The discussion of print as the locus of the formation and contestation of polities rests on certain assumptions about the functioning of the colonial state, its relation with the colonial elite, relations within colonial society, dissemination and bilingualism. The book initially draws on the representations of the Catholic elite, who were historically situated by colonial policy to occupy that public realm in which representations from elite and the state circulated among a limited public. The basic determinants of the colonial print sphere, such as language, the price and availability of print, and the Portuguese colonial state’s stance towards indigenous culture and the colonial elite were manifest in this interaction. This book examines how publications such as newsprint, novels, and pamphlets were printed in Goa during the nineteenth century.
Kirk A. Denton
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9789888528578
- eISBN:
- 9789888528905
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Hong Kong University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5790/hongkong/9789888528578.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter analyses exhibitionary spaces dedicated to the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. The first part of the chapter looks at two museums—the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines (順益台灣原住民博物館) ...
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This chapter analyses exhibitionary spaces dedicated to the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. The first part of the chapter looks at two museums—the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines (順益台灣原住民博物館) and the Ketagalan Culture Center (凱達格蘭文化館)—that reflect two different agendas. The first is a private museum opened in 1994 around the personal collection of the Shung Ye Foundation, a philanthropic arm of the Shung Ye Group, a distributor of Mitsubishi products in Taiwan. The second is state-funded and was a pet project of former president Chen Shui-bian. Although the motivations for their founding may be different, both museums project the view that aboriginal cultures are important features of a united multiethnic nation. The second part of the chapter focuses on two theme parks centered on aboriginal cultures, one of which is highly commercialized and the other more academic in orientation. These parks represent simultaneously the commodification and politicization of ethnic cultures.Less
This chapter analyses exhibitionary spaces dedicated to the aboriginal peoples of Taiwan. The first part of the chapter looks at two museums—the Shung Ye Museum of Formosan Aborigines (順益台灣原住民博物館) and the Ketagalan Culture Center (凱達格蘭文化館)—that reflect two different agendas. The first is a private museum opened in 1994 around the personal collection of the Shung Ye Foundation, a philanthropic arm of the Shung Ye Group, a distributor of Mitsubishi products in Taiwan. The second is state-funded and was a pet project of former president Chen Shui-bian. Although the motivations for their founding may be different, both museums project the view that aboriginal cultures are important features of a united multiethnic nation. The second part of the chapter focuses on two theme parks centered on aboriginal cultures, one of which is highly commercialized and the other more academic in orientation. These parks represent simultaneously the commodification and politicization of ethnic cultures.
Silver Moon and Michael Ennis
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226307213
- eISBN:
- 9780226307244
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226307244.003.0008
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter explores the specific case of postconquest Nahua politics, culture, and intellectual traditions in order to demonstrate the ways the Nahuas conceptualized colonialism and global ...
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This chapter explores the specific case of postconquest Nahua politics, culture, and intellectual traditions in order to demonstrate the ways the Nahuas conceptualized colonialism and global politics. It analyzes the idea that Spanish colonialism either degraded or extinguished indigenous culture to underscore its salience to the Black Legend. The analysis suggests that the Black Legend assumption that the Spanish conquest utterly annihilated indigenous culture is wrong given the persistence of indigenous culture in the Mayan and Mexican contexts.Less
This chapter explores the specific case of postconquest Nahua politics, culture, and intellectual traditions in order to demonstrate the ways the Nahuas conceptualized colonialism and global politics. It analyzes the idea that Spanish colonialism either degraded or extinguished indigenous culture to underscore its salience to the Black Legend. The analysis suggests that the Black Legend assumption that the Spanish conquest utterly annihilated indigenous culture is wrong given the persistence of indigenous culture in the Mayan and Mexican contexts.
Rainer F. Buschmann
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824831844
- eISBN:
- 9780824869960
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824831844.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised ...
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Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians—this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century. This book seeks to recover some of anthropology's global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier—the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884–1914) presents an ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology. Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by preparing large-scale expeditions to German New Guinea. The book explores the interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. It shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous culture. It also shows how ethnological collecting could become politicized and connect to national concerns.Less
Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians—this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century. This book seeks to recover some of anthropology's global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier—the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884–1914) presents an ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology. Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by preparing large-scale expeditions to German New Guinea. The book explores the interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. It shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous culture. It also shows how ethnological collecting could become politicized and connect to national concerns.
John Clifford Holt
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824833275
- eISBN:
- 9780824869991
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824833275.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Buddhism
This book contributes to the understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. This book brings this nation into focus. With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting ...
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This book contributes to the understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. This book brings this nation into focus. With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and religious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era. The book advances the argument that common Lao knowledge of important aspects of Theravada Buddhist thought and practice has been heavily conditioned by an indigenous religious culture dominated by the veneration of phi, spirits whose powers are thought to prevail over and within specific social and geographical domains. The enduring influence of traditional spirit cults in Lao culture and society has brought about major changes in how the figure of the Buddha and the powers associated with Buddhist temples and reliquaries have been understood by the Lao. Despite vigorous attempts by Buddhist royalty, French rationalists, and most recently by communist ideologues to eliminate the worship of phi, spirit cults have not been displaced; they continue to persist and show no signs of abating. Not only have the spirits resisted eradication, but they have withstood synthesis, subordination, and transformation by Buddhist political and ecclesiastical powers. Rather than reduce Buddhist religious culture to a set of simple commonalities, the book takes a comparative approach to elucidate what is unique about Lao Buddhism.Less
This book contributes to the understanding of religious culture in Laos and Southeast Asia. This book brings this nation into focus. With its overview of Lao Buddhism and analysis of how shifting political power has impacted Lao religious culture, the book offers an integrated account of the entwined political and religious history of Laos from the fourteenth century to the contemporary era. The book advances the argument that common Lao knowledge of important aspects of Theravada Buddhist thought and practice has been heavily conditioned by an indigenous religious culture dominated by the veneration of phi, spirits whose powers are thought to prevail over and within specific social and geographical domains. The enduring influence of traditional spirit cults in Lao culture and society has brought about major changes in how the figure of the Buddha and the powers associated with Buddhist temples and reliquaries have been understood by the Lao. Despite vigorous attempts by Buddhist royalty, French rationalists, and most recently by communist ideologues to eliminate the worship of phi, spirit cults have not been displaced; they continue to persist and show no signs of abating. Not only have the spirits resisted eradication, but they have withstood synthesis, subordination, and transformation by Buddhist political and ecclesiastical powers. Rather than reduce Buddhist religious culture to a set of simple commonalities, the book takes a comparative approach to elucidate what is unique about Lao Buddhism.
Florence E. Babb
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780520298163
- eISBN:
- 9780520970410
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520298163.003.0011
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
The concluding chapter argues that it is not at all coincidental that today Andean women are the emblematic figures in the national imagination, representing both a rich cultural history and the last ...
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The concluding chapter argues that it is not at all coincidental that today Andean women are the emblematic figures in the national imagination, representing both a rich cultural history and the last vestiges of a perceived “backward” and recalcitrant culture. This book offers a close examination of the ambivalent ways in which gender, race, and cultural heritage intertwine to position Andean women as the quintessential subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn and neglect in Peru. Studies from the former hacienda community of Vicos, the highland city of Huaraz, and the migrant stream to Lima, placed in relation to broader regions of Latin America, provide ample ethnographic material to support that argument. The book has engaged in a self-critical process of locating the author’s writings in the historical contexts in which they were written and then reexamining them from the present vantage point of emergent decolonial feminisms. Ultimately, her objective has been to work toward a decolonial feminist anthropology of gender, race, and indigeneity that recognizes culturally diverse lives in all their complexity, as neither saints nor sinners, neither iconic heroes nor pitiable victims. The work should inspire others to undertake their own reflections and contribute to what she hopes will be a growing and vigorous discussion of gender, race, and other axes of power in Latin America and beyond.Less
The concluding chapter argues that it is not at all coincidental that today Andean women are the emblematic figures in the national imagination, representing both a rich cultural history and the last vestiges of a perceived “backward” and recalcitrant culture. This book offers a close examination of the ambivalent ways in which gender, race, and cultural heritage intertwine to position Andean women as the quintessential subjects of both national pride and everyday scorn and neglect in Peru. Studies from the former hacienda community of Vicos, the highland city of Huaraz, and the migrant stream to Lima, placed in relation to broader regions of Latin America, provide ample ethnographic material to support that argument. The book has engaged in a self-critical process of locating the author’s writings in the historical contexts in which they were written and then reexamining them from the present vantage point of emergent decolonial feminisms. Ultimately, her objective has been to work toward a decolonial feminist anthropology of gender, race, and indigeneity that recognizes culturally diverse lives in all their complexity, as neither saints nor sinners, neither iconic heroes nor pitiable victims. The work should inspire others to undertake their own reflections and contribute to what she hopes will be a growing and vigorous discussion of gender, race, and other axes of power in Latin America and beyond.
Saikat Majumdar
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231156950
- eISBN:
- 9780231527675
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231156950.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter analyzes boredom as a colonial condition in Katherine Mansfield's stories. Her understated relationship with New Zealand's landscape is as important to the analysis as is her insistent ...
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This chapter analyzes boredom as a colonial condition in Katherine Mansfield's stories. Her understated relationship with New Zealand's landscape is as important to the analysis as is her insistent disavowal of her colonial roots and subsequent identification with English culture. It argues for a reading of Mansfield's works based on the complex and often-contradictory realities of white settler colonial society and the more distant but looming landscape of Māori culture and history. It is an intriguing relationship between two very different forms of colonialism existing in an explosive contact zone. In Mansfiel's stories, this contact is often dictated by the pivotal performance of gender. Gender enacts the distinction of private and public spaces, and accordingly marks a rift over the expansionist ambitions of settler colonialism. While Mansfield's location within the domestic world of settler society has been obvious, her relationship with the world of indigenous culture has only just begun to be addressed.Less
This chapter analyzes boredom as a colonial condition in Katherine Mansfield's stories. Her understated relationship with New Zealand's landscape is as important to the analysis as is her insistent disavowal of her colonial roots and subsequent identification with English culture. It argues for a reading of Mansfield's works based on the complex and often-contradictory realities of white settler colonial society and the more distant but looming landscape of Māori culture and history. It is an intriguing relationship between two very different forms of colonialism existing in an explosive contact zone. In Mansfiel's stories, this contact is often dictated by the pivotal performance of gender. Gender enacts the distinction of private and public spaces, and accordingly marks a rift over the expansionist ambitions of settler colonialism. While Mansfield's location within the domestic world of settler society has been obvious, her relationship with the world of indigenous culture has only just begun to be addressed.
Paul Giles
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- March 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780198830443
- eISBN:
- 9780191873652
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198830443.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century and Contemporary Literature
Arguing that one of the most negative consequences of modernism’s traditional designs has been the way they have tended to marginalize or exclude major writers on the basis of ideological assumptions ...
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Arguing that one of the most negative consequences of modernism’s traditional designs has been the way they have tended to marginalize or exclude major writers on the basis of ideological assumptions that are never made explicit, this chapter reads Australian novelist Eleanor Dark and American fiction writer James T. Farrell alongside each other. Both writers interrogated conventional understandings of modernism as a phenomenon predicated upon a rhetoric of liberal progress. Instead, Dark and Farrell both seek aesthetically to track back into the past, and they both adduce in their different ways a collectivist understanding of society, one in which individualism is interwoven in complex ways with communal sympathies. Hence the complex fictions of both writers mediate a heterodox version of temporality, in which the recursive passage from present to past carries as much weight as the existential charge from present to future.Less
Arguing that one of the most negative consequences of modernism’s traditional designs has been the way they have tended to marginalize or exclude major writers on the basis of ideological assumptions that are never made explicit, this chapter reads Australian novelist Eleanor Dark and American fiction writer James T. Farrell alongside each other. Both writers interrogated conventional understandings of modernism as a phenomenon predicated upon a rhetoric of liberal progress. Instead, Dark and Farrell both seek aesthetically to track back into the past, and they both adduce in their different ways a collectivist understanding of society, one in which individualism is interwoven in complex ways with communal sympathies. Hence the complex fictions of both writers mediate a heterodox version of temporality, in which the recursive passage from present to past carries as much weight as the existential charge from present to future.
Paul Giles
- Published in print:
- 2021
- Published Online:
- March 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780198857723
- eISBN:
- 9780191890352
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198857723.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, 19th-century Literature and Romanticism
Taking its title from Australian novelist Alexis Wright’s description of her novel Carpentaria as a ‘long song, following ancient tradition’, this chapter considers how antipodean relations of place ...
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Taking its title from Australian novelist Alexis Wright’s description of her novel Carpentaria as a ‘long song, following ancient tradition’, this chapter considers how antipodean relations of place interrupt abstract notions of globalization as a financial system. The first section exemplifies this by focusing on Australian/American director Baz Luhrmann, whose version of The Great Gatsby (2013), filmed in Sydney, resituates Fitzgerald’s classic novel within an antipodean context. The second section develops this through consideration of Wright’s fiction, along with that of New Zealand/Maori author Keri Hulme, so as to illuminate ways in which spiral conceptions of time, where ends merge into beginnings, contest Western epistemological frames. In the final section, this ‘long song’ is related to the musical aesthetics of Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe and English composers George Benjamin and Harrison Birtwistle. The chapter concludes by arguing that musical modes are an overlooked dimension of postmodernist culture more generally.Less
Taking its title from Australian novelist Alexis Wright’s description of her novel Carpentaria as a ‘long song, following ancient tradition’, this chapter considers how antipodean relations of place interrupt abstract notions of globalization as a financial system. The first section exemplifies this by focusing on Australian/American director Baz Luhrmann, whose version of The Great Gatsby (2013), filmed in Sydney, resituates Fitzgerald’s classic novel within an antipodean context. The second section develops this through consideration of Wright’s fiction, along with that of New Zealand/Maori author Keri Hulme, so as to illuminate ways in which spiral conceptions of time, where ends merge into beginnings, contest Western epistemological frames. In the final section, this ‘long song’ is related to the musical aesthetics of Australian composer Peter Sculthorpe and English composers George Benjamin and Harrison Birtwistle. The chapter concludes by arguing that musical modes are an overlooked dimension of postmodernist culture more generally.
Carol Magee
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617031526
- eISBN:
- 9781617031533
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617031526.003.0004
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Media Studies
This chapter focuses on the second of the three case studies on how Africa is imagined through popular culture, namely, Mattel’s world of Barbie. This chapter first looks at Mattel’s Princess of ...
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This chapter focuses on the second of the three case studies on how Africa is imagined through popular culture, namely, Mattel’s world of Barbie. This chapter first looks at Mattel’s Princess of South Africa (2003), who was dressed in the same garments as Martha Nomvula in the Sports Illustrated photograph with Kathy Ireland. Research shows that this Barbie’s costuming is an homage to Ndebele culture, keeping with the Ndebele styles and traditions. In the same way that Sports Illustrated did previously, Mattel chose Ndebele culture as a representation of all South African indigenous cultures, as well as South Africa as a whole. The chapter thus examines the presence of Ndebele culture in the Sports Illustrated and Barbie worlds. Where the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue could be read as both reductive and empowering, the sense of empowerment in Mattel’s world of Barbie is largely diminished. The chapter thus asserts that even though Ndebele culture gains exposure to large audiences, this exposure does not adequately balance the problematic issues that this Barbie and its companion dolls manifest.Less
This chapter focuses on the second of the three case studies on how Africa is imagined through popular culture, namely, Mattel’s world of Barbie. This chapter first looks at Mattel’s Princess of South Africa (2003), who was dressed in the same garments as Martha Nomvula in the Sports Illustrated photograph with Kathy Ireland. Research shows that this Barbie’s costuming is an homage to Ndebele culture, keeping with the Ndebele styles and traditions. In the same way that Sports Illustrated did previously, Mattel chose Ndebele culture as a representation of all South African indigenous cultures, as well as South Africa as a whole. The chapter thus examines the presence of Ndebele culture in the Sports Illustrated and Barbie worlds. Where the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue could be read as both reductive and empowering, the sense of empowerment in Mattel’s world of Barbie is largely diminished. The chapter thus asserts that even though Ndebele culture gains exposure to large audiences, this exposure does not adequately balance the problematic issues that this Barbie and its companion dolls manifest.
Vicente M. Diaz
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824834340
- eISBN:
- 9780824870058
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824834340.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, this book critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego ...
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In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, this book critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Matå'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The book juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific. The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. The third section moves from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author's own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Matå'pang. The book melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.Less
In the vein of an emergent Native Pacific brand of cultural studies, this book critically examines the cultural and political stakes of the historic and present-day movement to canonize Blessed Diego Luis de San Vitores (1627–1672), the Spanish Jesuit missionary who was martyred by Matå'pang of Guam while establishing the Catholic mission among the Chamorros in the Mariana Islands. The book juxtaposes official, popular, and critical perspectives of the movement to complicate prevailing ideas about colonialism, historiography, and indigenous culture and identity in the Pacific. The book is divided into three sections. The first focuses exclusively on the narratological reconsolidation of official Roman Catholic Church viewpoints as staked in the historic (seventeenth century) and contemporary (twentieth century) movements to canonize San Vitores, including the symbolic costs of these viewpoints for Native Chamorro cultural and political possibilities not in line with Church views. Section two shifts attention and perspective to local, competing forms of Chamorro piety. In their effort to canonize San Vitores, Natives also rework the saint to negotiate new cultural and social canons for themselves and in ways that produce new meanings for their island. The third section moves from official and lay Roman and Chamorro Catholic viewpoints to the author's own critical project of rendering alternative portrayals of San Vitores and Matå'pang. The book melds poststructuralist, feminist, Native studies, and cultural studies analytic and political frameworks with an intensely personal voice to model a new critical interdisciplinary approach to the study of indigenous culture and history.
Gabrielle Tayac and Tanya Thrasher
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780807832646
- eISBN:
- 9781469606019
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9780807889787_blue_spruce.10
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Native American Studies
This chapter looks at the influence of the animal and plant life on the surrounding landscape of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). This is illustrated by the 27,000 trees, shrubs, ...
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This chapter looks at the influence of the animal and plant life on the surrounding landscape of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). This is illustrated by the 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants; 40 massive boulders; and 4 Cardinal Direction Marker stones that were placed throughout the NMAI's landscape. All were carefully selected, blessed with prayer and song, transported over thousands of miles, and thoughtfully re-oriented on the museum's four-acre site. The museum's diverse plantings aims to recall the indigenous environment and culture of the landscape prior to European contact.Less
This chapter looks at the influence of the animal and plant life on the surrounding landscape of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI). This is illustrated by the 27,000 trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants; 40 massive boulders; and 4 Cardinal Direction Marker stones that were placed throughout the NMAI's landscape. All were carefully selected, blessed with prayer and song, transported over thousands of miles, and thoughtfully re-oriented on the museum's four-acre site. The museum's diverse plantings aims to recall the indigenous environment and culture of the landscape prior to European contact.
Christine D. Beaule
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- January 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780813054346
- eISBN:
- 9780813053073
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813054346.003.0013
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
The chapter outlines some key conclusions apparent from the collection of case studies in this edited volume, particularly regarding the highly variable, and sometimes minimal, impact of processes of ...
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The chapter outlines some key conclusions apparent from the collection of case studies in this edited volume, particularly regarding the highly variable, and sometimes minimal, impact of processes of colonialism on local or indigenous cultures. The argument briefly revisits other chapters’ conclusions about fluidity and variability in cross-cultural interaction. It ties this varability to modern conceptions of continuity and cultural change in ongoing struggles to reckon with the lasting impact of colonialism in modern nation states. And the chapter seeks to problematize archaeologists’ conceptual frameworks that employ key terms and data from prehistoric and historic, Western and non-Western case studies of colonialism. In doing so, it aims to extend the critique of archaeologies of colonialism beyond the regions, time periods, and cultural case studies included in this book.Less
The chapter outlines some key conclusions apparent from the collection of case studies in this edited volume, particularly regarding the highly variable, and sometimes minimal, impact of processes of colonialism on local or indigenous cultures. The argument briefly revisits other chapters’ conclusions about fluidity and variability in cross-cultural interaction. It ties this varability to modern conceptions of continuity and cultural change in ongoing struggles to reckon with the lasting impact of colonialism in modern nation states. And the chapter seeks to problematize archaeologists’ conceptual frameworks that employ key terms and data from prehistoric and historic, Western and non-Western case studies of colonialism. In doing so, it aims to extend the critique of archaeologies of colonialism beyond the regions, time periods, and cultural case studies included in this book.
Anne Lambright
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2019
- ISBN:
- 9781781382516
- eISBN:
- 9781786945471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781382516.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
This chapter examines the theatrical interventions by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru’s premier popular theater collective, at the CVR’s public hearings in Huanta and Huamanga. From an established ...
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This chapter examines the theatrical interventions by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru’s premier popular theater collective, at the CVR’s public hearings in Huanta and Huamanga. From an established repertoire on Peruvian cultural heterogeneity, ethnic and gendered violence, and the war, Yuyachkani presented two plays whose protagonists are dead (one indigenous male, one mythic female) and called upon more (indigenous) dead when creating new pieces to accompany the endeavor, suggesting that after years of sustained—real and symbolic—violence, only the dead can embody the national situation, serve as the nation’s memory, and bridge individual and collective trauma. Challenging the therapeutic efforts of the CVR, dead bodies of marginalized subjects, and their ghosts, serve to explore collective and individual trauma, and mediate between the people and the state.Less
This chapter examines the theatrical interventions by Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, Peru’s premier popular theater collective, at the CVR’s public hearings in Huanta and Huamanga. From an established repertoire on Peruvian cultural heterogeneity, ethnic and gendered violence, and the war, Yuyachkani presented two plays whose protagonists are dead (one indigenous male, one mythic female) and called upon more (indigenous) dead when creating new pieces to accompany the endeavor, suggesting that after years of sustained—real and symbolic—violence, only the dead can embody the national situation, serve as the nation’s memory, and bridge individual and collective trauma. Challenging the therapeutic efforts of the CVR, dead bodies of marginalized subjects, and their ghosts, serve to explore collective and individual trauma, and mediate between the people and the state.
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479871254
- eISBN:
- 9781479822843
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479871254.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, Imperialism and Colonialism
This chapter presents Haunani-Kay Trask's critique on the reduction of Hawaiian culture, lands, and people into attractions, destinations, and entertainers. Attending to the rise of mass tourism in ...
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This chapter presents Haunani-Kay Trask's critique on the reduction of Hawaiian culture, lands, and people into attractions, destinations, and entertainers. Attending to the rise of mass tourism in Hawai'i that began in the 1950s and 1960s, she identifies the commodification of the islands and its indigenous culture by corporate tourism as a primary cause of the social problems that shape the lived realities of the islands' native population. Her manifesto strikes two particularly dissonant notes: the first condemns the participation of native Hawaiians in a tourism industry that depends on them as exotic symbols of aloha. The second rejects the gendered and sexualized imagination of the hospitable, welcoming native woman.Less
This chapter presents Haunani-Kay Trask's critique on the reduction of Hawaiian culture, lands, and people into attractions, destinations, and entertainers. Attending to the rise of mass tourism in Hawai'i that began in the 1950s and 1960s, she identifies the commodification of the islands and its indigenous culture by corporate tourism as a primary cause of the social problems that shape the lived realities of the islands' native population. Her manifesto strikes two particularly dissonant notes: the first condemns the participation of native Hawaiians in a tourism industry that depends on them as exotic symbols of aloha. The second rejects the gendered and sexualized imagination of the hospitable, welcoming native woman.
Jodi A. Byrd
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816676408
- eISBN:
- 9781452947754
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816676408.003.0003
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter presents a reading of Guyanese novelist Wilson Harris’s Jonestown, focusing on the narrative strategies Harris employs to represent indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the Jonestown ...
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This chapter presents a reading of Guyanese novelist Wilson Harris’s Jonestown, focusing on the narrative strategies Harris employs to represent indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978. Harris draws upon what he terms “Amerindian” influences as a radical imagined source for Caribbean aesthetics and decolonial nationalism. His work suggests that the Caribbean continues to be influenced by Amerindian traces lingering in the land to shape past and future historical violences that haunt the Americas. Harris gestures towards those deeper ethical issues that confront the historical presences and violences within the Americas that infiltrate and influence modern politics and aesthetics in order to provide potential avenues for grievability of and accountability to history.Less
This chapter presents a reading of Guyanese novelist Wilson Harris’s Jonestown, focusing on the narrative strategies Harris employs to represent indigenous cultures in the aftermath of the Jonestown massacre on November 18, 1978. Harris draws upon what he terms “Amerindian” influences as a radical imagined source for Caribbean aesthetics and decolonial nationalism. His work suggests that the Caribbean continues to be influenced by Amerindian traces lingering in the land to shape past and future historical violences that haunt the Americas. Harris gestures towards those deeper ethical issues that confront the historical presences and violences within the Americas that infiltrate and influence modern politics and aesthetics in order to provide potential avenues for grievability of and accountability to history.
Jo Smith
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824838959
- eISBN:
- 9780824869496
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824838959.003.0013
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter provides a broader context for understanding Maiden Aotearoa, a photography exhibit held at the Wellington City Gallery in New Zealand on May 21–June 26, 2011. Maiden Aotearoa features ...
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This chapter provides a broader context for understanding Maiden Aotearoa, a photography exhibit held at the Wellington City Gallery in New Zealand on May 21–June 26, 2011. Maiden Aotearoa features works by four Māori women artists—Vicky Thomas, Suzanne Tamaki, Aimee Ratana, and Sarah Hudson. The collection demonstrated a range of approaches to representing Indigenous worlds and women. This chapter examines the two meanings of Maiden Aotearoa: one refers to campaigns promoting products “made in” New Zealand and the other refers to the Dusky Maiden stereotype. It considers the key characteristics of the Dusky Maiden dynamic and how it helps cloak ongoing forms of social regulation and contributes to an “aesthetics of investment space.” It also discusses the ways in which Indigenous cultures are inextricably linked to land, place, whanau, and community as embedded in the term “tangata whenua” (people of the land).Less
This chapter provides a broader context for understanding Maiden Aotearoa, a photography exhibit held at the Wellington City Gallery in New Zealand on May 21–June 26, 2011. Maiden Aotearoa features works by four Māori women artists—Vicky Thomas, Suzanne Tamaki, Aimee Ratana, and Sarah Hudson. The collection demonstrated a range of approaches to representing Indigenous worlds and women. This chapter examines the two meanings of Maiden Aotearoa: one refers to campaigns promoting products “made in” New Zealand and the other refers to the Dusky Maiden stereotype. It considers the key characteristics of the Dusky Maiden dynamic and how it helps cloak ongoing forms of social regulation and contributes to an “aesthetics of investment space.” It also discusses the ways in which Indigenous cultures are inextricably linked to land, place, whanau, and community as embedded in the term “tangata whenua” (people of the land).
