Gulliford, Andrew
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American Studies International. Oct2003, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p119-121. 3p.
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American Studies International. Oct2003, Vol. 41 Issue 3, p119-121. 3p.
Reviews the book "Claiming the Stones /Naming the Bones : Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity ," edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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Zimmerman, Devin
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Library Journal. 4/15/2003, Vol. 128 Issue 7, p96. 1/5p.
Reviews the non-fiction book 'Claiming the Stones /Naming the Bones : Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity ,' edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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Claiming the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property & the Negotiation of National & Ethnic Identity (Book) - Barkan, Elazar - Bush, Ronald - Ethnology - NonfictionContent provider:
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Library Journal. April 15, 2003, Vol. 128 Issue 7, p96, 1 p.
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Egloff, Brian
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European Journal of Archaeology. Dec2004, Vol. 7 Issue 3, p328-330. 3p.
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"Opening Pandora's Box: Will the Return of Cultural Heritage Objects to Their Country of Origin Empty Western Museums?".
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Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society. 2021, Vol. 51 Issue 6, p379-392. 14p.
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Losson, Pierre
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Journal of Arts Management, Law & Society. 2021, Vol. 51 Issue 6, p379-392. 14p.
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Sandis Constantine;Sandis Constantine
Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase ...
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2014
Theory without practice is empty, practice without theory is blind, to adapt a phrase from Immanuel Kant. The sentiment could not be truer of cultural heritage ethics. This intra-disciplinary book bridges the gap between theory and practice by bringing together a stellar cast of academics, activists, consultants, journalists, lawyers, and museum practitioners, each contributing their own expertise to the wider debate of what cultural heritage means in the twenty-first century. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides cutting-edge arguments built on case studies of cultural heritage and its management in a range of geographical and cultural contexts. Moreover, the volume feels the pulse of the debate on heritage ethics by discussing timely issues such as access, acquisition, archaeological practice, curatorship, education, ethnology, historiography, integrity, legislation, memory, museum management, ownership, preservation, protection, public trust, restitution, human rights, stewardship, and tourism. This volume is neither a textbook nor a manifesto for any particular approach to heritage ethics, but a snapshot of different positions and approaches that will inspire both thought and action. Cultural Heritage Ethics provides invaluable reading for students and teachers of philosophy of archaeology, history and moral philosophy – and for anyone interested in the theory and practice of cultural preservation.
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Cultural property--Management - Cultural property--Moral and ethical aspects - Museums--Moral and ethical aspectsContent provider:
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The Protection of Archaeological Heritage in Times of Economic Crisis
Elena Korka, Editor;Elena Korka, Editor
This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference “From past experience to...
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The Protection of Archaeological Heritage in Times of Economic Crisis
2014
This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference “From past experience to new approaches and synergies: The future of protection management for archaeological heritage in times of economic crisis”, held in the new Acropolis Museum in Athens in 2012. The conference was organised by the Hellenic National Committee of the International Scientific Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) and the International Scientific Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM),with the participation of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM), the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the International Committee on Risk Preparedness (ICORP). Special interest at the conference was directed to the Mediterranean region, as the area currently faces a variety of serious man-made and natural disasters.This book offers a collection of papers presented at the conference which examine existing experiences in various parts of the world, in order to offer solutions and new ways of managing the protection of cultural heritage, as well as sustaining the preservation of archaeological remains in times of economic crisis, which represents a major threat facing archaeological heritage worldwide. The current economic crisis has had a significant impact on various sectors of archaeological heritage management, and has affected the majority of tangible and intangible cultural assets.In this framework, some of the main themes that are addressed in this volume include: environmental harmonization; management and best practices in sustainability; management action plans; risk mitigation and confrontation; research in conservation; preservation and technologies; shelter protection; restoration, coordination and site use; illicit excavations and trafficking; protection of collections and movable finds; preservation of intangible heritage at sites and monuments; and heritage and the economy. The book offers useful documentation for maintaining high standards in the field of archaeological heritage, while searching for new ground for synergies and fresh initiatives, in order to confront the new challenges archaeology is currently facing, such as the economic crisis, a factor which is closely connected to the development of society and the sustainability of cultural property .
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Antiquities--Collection and preservation--CongressesContent provider:
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History From Loss : A Global Introduction to Histories Written From Defeat, Colonization, Exile, and Imprisonment
Marnie Hughes-Warrington;Daniel Woolf;Marnie Hughes-Warrington;Daniel Woolf
History from Loss challenges the common thought that'history is written by the winners...
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History From Loss : A Global Introduction to Histories Written From Defeat, Colonization, Exile, and Imprisonment
2023
History from Loss challenges the common thought that'history is written by the winners'and explores how history-makers in different times and places across the globe have written histories from loss, even when this has come at the threat to their own safety. A distinguished group of historians from around the globe offer an introduction to different history-makers'lives and ideas, and important extracts from their works which highlight various meanings of loss: from physical ailments to social ostracism, exile to imprisonment, and from dispossession to potential execution. Throughout the volume consideration of the information'bubbles'of different times and places helps to show how information has been weaponized to cause harm. In this way, the text helps to put current debates about the biases and weaponization of platforms such as social media into global and historical perspectives. In combination, the chapters build a picture of history from loss which is global, sustained, and anything but a simple mirror of history made by victors. The volume also includes an Introduction and Afterword, which draw out the key meanings of history from loss and which offer ideas for further exploration. History from Loss provides an invaluable resource for students, teachers, and general readers who wish to put current debates on bias, the politicization of history, and threats to history-makers into global and historical perspectives. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
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History--Philosophy - Historiography - Loss (Psychology) - History in literatureContent provider:
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Entangled Confessionalizations? : Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries
Tijana Krstić;Derin Terzioğlu;Tijana Krstić;Derin Terzioğlu
Historians of the early modern Ottoman Empire have long been pointing out that in the ...
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Entangled Confessionalizations? : Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th18th Centuries
2022; Vol. 00015
Historians of the early modern Ottoman Empire have long been pointing out that in the early sixteenth century the religious outlook of the sultans and the imperially sponsored hierarchy of religious scholars underwent a shift: while heretofore they had been largely unconcerned with defining, observing or enforcing a Sunni ‘orthodoxy'and ‘orthopraxy', they now became increasingly invested in precisely such a project. How did the understanding of what constituted a Sunni orthodoxy and orthopraxy evolve across the spectrum of Ottoman society between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries and how did it affect various Ottoman communities? Was it by chance or perhaps due to similar social and political processes that the growing polarization between Sunnism and Shi‘ism, as well as contemporaneous building of Ottoman and Safavid empires, precisely coincided with the Catholic-Protestant (and later Calvinist) polarization and the rise of confessional states in Europe? Were these contemporaneous projects of defining correct belief and/or practice in some sort of dialogue, and is this dialogue traceable in the sources left by various individuals and communities living in or passing through Ottoman domains between c. 1500 and c. 1750? The present volume explores these questions and early modern Muslim, Jewish and Christian discourses on communal belonging, ‘orthodoxy'and ‘orthopraxy'through the framework of a shared ‘confessional age', thus obviating the top-down model of inter-confessional relations in which Christians and Jews are always seen solely as Ottoman subjects. It offers a unique perspective on Ottoman society and early modern politics of piety by approaching empire's religious groups not as homogenous blocks of ‘Muslims', ‘Jews'and ‘Christians'but rather highlighting intra-communal diversity. By adopting a wider Eurasian perspective, contributors explore the repercussions of the developments within various Ottoman communities as far afield as the Safavid Empire, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Russia, and Europe, and vice versa. The papers focus on specific people who disseminated ideas about ritual and creedal normativity and social clusters through which such ideas spread. At the same time, they also explore the limits of such normative discourses and their agents, as well as the role of alternative ideas about confessional and communal belonging informed by various forms of ambiguity.
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Religions--Relations--History - Religion and politicsContent provider:
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Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries; Jul/Aug2003, Vol. 40 Issue 11/12, p1947, 1/5p
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Reviews the book "Claiming the Stones /Naming the Bones : Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity ," edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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CLAIMING the Stones/Naming the Bones: Cultural Property & the Negotiation of National & Ethnic Identity (Book) - CULTURAL property - NONFICTIONContent provider:
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Talking Dialogue : Eleven Episodes in the History of the Modern Interreligious Dialogue Movement
Karsten Lehmann;Karsten Lehmann
Throughout the last two decades, the modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide sig...
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Talking Dialogue : Eleven Episodes in the History of the Modern Interreligious Dialogue Movement
2021; Vol. 00002
Throughout the last two decades, the modern dialogue movement has gained worldwide significance. The knowledge about its origins is, however, still very limited. This book presents a wide range of insights from eleven case studies into the early history of several important international interreligious/interfaith dialogue organizations that have shaped the modern development of interreligious dialogue from the late nineteenth century up to the present. Based on new archival research, they describe, on the one hand, how these actors put their ideals into practice and, on the other, how they faced many challenges as pioneers in the establishment of new interreligious/interfaith organizational structures. This book concludes with a comparison of those case studies, bringing to light new and broader historico-sociological understanding of the beginnings of international and multi-religious interreligious/interfaith dialogue organizations over more than one century. The World's Parliament of Religions / 1893 The Religiöser Menschheitsbund / 1921 The World Congress of Faiths / 1933-1950 The Committee on the Church and the Jewish People of the World Council of Churches / 1961 The Temple of Understanding / 1968 The International Association for Religious Freedom / 1969 The World Conference on Religion and Peace / 1970 The Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions / 1989-1991 The Oxford International Interfaith Centre / 1993 The United Religions Initiative / 2000 The Universal Peace Federation / 2005 Based on these analyses, the authors identify three distinct groups with sometimes-conflicting interests that are shaping the movement: individual religious virtuosi, countercultural activists, and representatives of religious institutions. Published in cooperation with the King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious & Intercultural Dialogue, Vienna.
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Housing Capital : Resource and Representation
Simone Derix;Margareth Lanzinger;Simone Derix;Margareth Lanzinger
Die Zeitschrift bietet der Erforschung der europäischen Interaktionen und der geistig-...
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Housing Capital : Resource and Representation
2017; Vol. 00018
Die Zeitschrift bietet der Erforschung der europäischen Interaktionen und der geistig-sozialen Prozesse übergreifenden Charakters ein Forum, aber auch Studien zur Ausstrahlung Europas nach Außereuropa. Jeder Band des Jahrbuchs ist einem Kernthema gewidmet, ohne dass dies die Aufnahme'sonstiger'Beiträge ausschließt. Die Zeitschrift enthält Forschungsberichte zu ausgewählten Themen. Durch eine Auswahlbibliographie des im zurückliegenden Jahr erschienenen einschlägigen Schrifttums und eine Rubrik, in der sich Europa-Institute und Europa-Projekte des In- und Auslands vorstellen, wird sein informativer Charakter noch unterstrichen.
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Housing--Europe--History--Case studies - Personal property--Europe--History--Case studiesContent provider:
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Undisciplined : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
Nihad Farooq;Nihad Farooq
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slave...
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Undisciplined : Science, Ethnography, and Personhood in the Americas, 1830-1940
2016
In the 19th century, personhood was a term of regulation and discipline in which slaves, criminals, and others, could be “made and unmade.'Yet it was precisely the fraught, uncontainable nature of personhood that necessitated its constant legislation, wherein its meaning could be both contested and controlled.Examining scientific and literary narratives, Nihad M. Farooq's Undisciplined encourages an alternative consideration of personhood, one that emerges from evolutionary and ethnographic discourse. Moving chronologically from 1830 to 1940, Farooq explores the scientific and cultural entanglements of Atlantic travelers in and beyond the Darwin era, and invites us to attend more closely to the consequences of mobility and contact on disciplines and persons. Bringing together an innovative group of readings—from field journals, diaries, letters, and testimonies to novels, stage plays, and audio recordings—Farooq advocates for a reconsideration of science, personhood, and the priority of race for the field of American studies. Whether expressed as narratives of acculturation, or as acts of resistance against the camera, the pen, or the shackle, these stories of the studied subjects of the Atlantic world add a new chapter to debates about personhood and disciplinarity in this era that actively challenged legal, social, and scientific categorizations.
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Persons--Philosophy - Philosophical anthropology--History--20th century - Ethnology--America--History--19th century - Ethnology--America--History--20th century - Philosophical anthropology--History--19th centuryContent provider:
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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined : Multidirectional Perspectives on Imperial and Colonial Pasts and the Neocolonial Present
Monika Albrecht;Monika Albrecht
Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Exami...
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Postcolonialism Cross-Examined : Multidirectional Perspectives on Imperial and Colonial Pasts and the Neocolonial Present
2020
Taking a strikingly interdisciplinary and global approach, Postcolonialism Cross-Examined reflects on the current status of postcolonial studies and attempts to break through traditional boundaries, creating a truly comparative and genuinely global phenomenon. Drawing together the field of mainstream postcolonial studies with post-Soviet postcolonial studies and studies of the late Ottoman Empire, the contributors in this volume question many of the concepts and assumptions we have become accustomed to in postcolonial studies, creating a fresh new version of the field. The volume calls the merits of the field into question, investigating how postcolonial studies may have perpetuated and normalized colonialism as an issue exclusive to Western colonial and imperial powers. The volume is the first to open a dialogue between three different areas of postcolonial scholarship that previously developed independently from one another: • the wide field of postcolonial studies working on European colonialism, • the growing field of post-Soviet postcolonial/post-imperial studies, • the still fledgling field of post-Ottoman postcolonial/post-imperial studies, supported by sideways glances at the multidirectional conditions of interaction in East Africa and the East and West Indies. Postcolonialism Cross-Examined looks at topics such as humanism, nationalism, multiculturalism, nostalgia, and the Anthropocene in order to piece together a new, broader vision for postcolonial studies in the twenty-first century. By including territories other than those covered by the postcolonial mainstream, the book strives to reframe the “postcolonial” as a genuinely global phenomenon and develop multidirectional postcolonial perspectives.
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Postcolonialism--Social aspects - Postcolonialism in literature - Postcolonialism--Political aspectsContent provider:
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The War of 1948 : Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
Avraham Sela;Alon Kadish;Avraham Sela;Alon Kadish
The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish...
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The War of 1948 : Representations of Israeli and Palestinian Memories and Narratives
2016
The 1948 War is remembered in this special volume, including aspects of Israeli-Jewish memory and historical narratives of 1948 and representations of Israeli-Palestinian memory of that cataclysmic event and its consequences. The contributors map and analyze a range of perspectives of the 1948 War as represented in literature, historical museums, art, visual media, and landscape, as well as in competing official and societal narratives. They are examined especially against the backdrop of the Oslo process, which brought into relief tensions within and between both sides of the national divide concerning identity and legitimacy, justice, and righteousness of'self'and'other.'
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Art and the war - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Literature and the war - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Historiography - Collective memory--Palestine - Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949--Television and the warContent provider:
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Deafening Modernism : Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
Rebecca Sanchez;Rebecca Sanchez
Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical...
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Deafening Modernism : Embodied Language and Visual Poetics in American Literature
2015
Deafening Modernism tells the story of modernism from the perspective of Deaf critical insight. Working to develop a critical Deaf theory independent of identity -based discourse, Rebecca Sanchez excavates the intersections between Deaf and modernist studies. She traces the ways that Deaf culture, history, linguistics, and literature provide a vital and largely untapped resource for understanding the history of American language politics and the impact that history has had on modernist aesthetic production.Discussing Deaf and disability studies in these unexpected contexts highlights the contributions the field can make to broader discussions of the intersections between images, bodies, and text. Drawing on a range of methodological approaches, including literary analysis and history, linguistics, ethics, and queer, cultural , and film studies, Sanchez sheds new light on texts by T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, William Carlos Williams, Charlie Chaplin, and many others. By approaching modernism through the perspective of Deaf and disability studies, Deafening Modernism reconceptualizes deafness as a critical modality enabling us to freshly engage topics we thought we knew.
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Modernism (Literature)--United States - Language and languages in literature - Visual poetry, American--History and criticismContent provider:
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Bray, Tamara L.
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CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship; Fall2003, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p26-26, 1p
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CRM: The Journal of Heritage Stewardship; Fall2003, Vol. 1 Issue 1, p26-26, 1p
The article reviews the book "Claiming the Stones , Naming the Bones : Cultural property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity ," by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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Museum News; Mar/Apr2003, Vol. 82 Issue 2, p25-25, 1/6p
The article reviews the book "Claiming the Stones /Naming the Bones : Cultural Property and the Negotiation of National and Ethnic Identity ," edited by Elazar Barkan and Ronald Bush.
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Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi;Ibram X. Kendi
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and ...
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Stamped From the Beginning : The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
2016
The National Book Award winning history of how racist ideas were created, spread, and deeply rooted in American society. Some Americans insist that we're living in a post-racial society. But racist thought is not just alive and well in America -- it is more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history. He uses the life stories of five major American intellectuals to drive this history: Puritan minister Cotton Mather, Thomas Jefferson, abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison, W.E.B. Du Bois, and legendary activist Angela Davis. As Kendi shows, racist ideas did not arise from ignorance or hatred. They were created to justify and rationalize deeply entrenched discriminatory policies and the nation's racial inequities. In shedding light on this history, Stamped from the Beginning offers us the tools we need to expose racist thinking. In the process, he gives us reason to hope.
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Race discrimination--Economic aspects--United States - Race discrimination--Political aspects--United States - Racism--United States--History - African Americans--Social conditions--History - African Americans--Social conditionsContent provider:
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The Lost White Tribe : Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent
Michael F. Robinson;Michael F. Robinson
In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today R...
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The Lost White Tribe : Explorers, Scientists, and the Theory That Changed a Continent
2016
In 1876, in a mountainous region to the west of Lake Victoria, Africa--what is today Ruwenzori Mountains National Park in Uganda--the famed explorer Henry Morton Stanley encountered Africans with what he was convinced were light complexions and European features. Stanley's discovery of this African'white tribe'haunted him and seemed to substantiate the so-called Hamitic Hypothesis: the theory that the descendants of Ham, the son of Noah, had populated Africa and other remote places, proving that the source and spread of human races around the world could be traced to and explained by a Biblical story. In The Lost White Tribe, Michael Robinson traces the rise and fall of the Hamitic Hypothesis. In addition to recounting Stanley's'discovery,'Robinson shows how it influenced encounters with the Ainu in Japan; Vilhjalmur Stefansson's tribe of'blond Eskimos'in the Arctic; and the'white Indians'of Panama. As Robinson shows, race theory stemming originally from the Bible only not only guided exploration but archeology, including Charles Mauch's discovery of the Grand Zimbabwe site in 1872, and literature, such as H. Rider Haggard's King Solomon's Mines, whose publication launched an entire literary subgenre ded icated to white tribes in remote places. The Hamitic Hypothesis would shape the theories of Carl Jung and guide psychological and anthropological notions of the primitive. The Hypothesis also formed the foundation for the European colonial system, which was premised on assumptions about racial hierarchy, at whose top were the white races, the purest and oldest of them all. It was a small step from the Hypothesis to theories of Aryan superiority, which served as the basis of the race laws in Nazi Germany and had horrific and catastrophic consequences. Though racial thinking changed profoundly after World War Two, a version of Hamitic validation of the'whiter'tribes laid the groundwork for conflict within Africa itself after decolonization, including the Rwandan genocide. Based on painstaking archival research, The Lost White Tribe is a fascinating, immersive, and wide-ranging work of synthesis, revealing the roots of racial thinking and the legacies that continue to exert their influence to this day.
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Ethnology--Africa--History - White people--Africa--HistoryContent provider:
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Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States From 1800 to the Present
Johnny Van Hove;Johnny Van Hove
To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectu...
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Congoism : Congo Discourses in the United States From 1800 to the Present
2017; Vol. 00121
To justify the plundering of today's Democratic Republic of the Congo, U.S. intellectual elites have continuously produced dismissive Congo discourses. Tracing these discourses in great depth and breadth for the first time, Johnny Van Hove shows how U.S. intellectuals (and their influential European counterparts) have been using the Congo in similar fashions for their own goals. Analyzing intellectuals as diverse as W.E.B. Du Bois, Joseph Conrad, and David Van Reybrouck, the book offers a theorization of Central West Africa, a case study of normalized narratives on the'Other', and a stirring wake up call for all contemporary writers on international history and politics.
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Foreign Bodies : Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
Bronwen Douglas;Chris Ballard;Bronwen Douglas;Chris Ballard
From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for schola...
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Foreign Bodies : Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940
2008
From the 18th century, Oceania became the principal laboratory of raciology for scholars, voyagers, and colonisers alike. By juxtaposing encounters and theory, this magisterial book explores the semantics of human difference in all its emotional, intellectual, religious, and practical dimensions. The argument developed is subtle, engrossing, and gives the paradigm of'race'its full use value. Foreign Bodies is a model of analysis and erudition from which historians of science and everyone interested in intercultural relations will greatly profit.— Claude Blanckaert, CNRS (Centre Alexandre Koyré), Paris, and Honorary President, French Society for the History of the Science of Man
