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Gender and Animals in History
The category of species has remained largely understudied in mainstream gender scholarship. This edition of the Yearbook of Women's History attempts to show how gender history can be enriched through the study of animals. It highlights that the inclusion of nonhuman animals in historical work has the potential to revolutionize the ways we think about gender history. This volume is expansive in more than one way. First, it is global and transhistorical in its outlook, bringing together perspectives from the Global North and the Global South, and moving from the Middle Ages to the contemporary world. Even more importantly for its purposes, a range of animals appear in the contributions: from the smallest insects to great apes, and from 'cute' kittens to riot dogs and lions. The articles collected here reflect the variety of the animal kingdom and of the creative approaches enabled by animal history.
Matters of Engagement
By drawing on a broad range of disciplinary and cross-disciplinary expertise, this study addresses the history of emotions in relation to cross-cultural movement, exchange, contact, and changing connections in the later medieval and early modern periods. All essays in this volume focus on the performance and negotiation of identity in situations of cultural contact, with particular emphasis on emotional practices. They cover a wide range of thematic and disciplinary areas and are organized around the primary sources on which they are based. The edited volume brings together two major areas in contemporary humanities: the study of how emotions were understood, expressed, and performed in shap...
The Stolen Bones of St. John of Matha
On the night of March 18, 1655, two Spanish friars broke into a church to steal the bones of the founder of their religious institution, the Order of the Most Holy Trinity. This book investigates this little-known incident of relic theft and the lengthy legal case that followed, together with the larger questions that surround the remains of saints in seventeenth-century Catholic Europe. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript and print sources from the era, A. Katie Harris uses the case of St. John of Matha’s stolen remains to explore the roles played by saints’ relics, the anxieties invested in them, their cultural meanings, and the changing modes of thought with which early modern Catholics...
Verstörte Sinne
Sinne gehören zur anthropologischen Grundausstattung des Menschen, ihre Definition, Erfahrung und Verwendung sind jedoch kulturell und historisch je unterschiedlich: Sinnesordnungen sind gesellschaftliche Ordnungen. Was geschieht nun mit den damit verbundenen Geschlechterordnungen, wenn die Sinneswahrnehmung Störungen ausgesetzt ist, sei es infolge von Kriegserlebnissen oder Gotteserfahrung, im Kulturkontakt oder im Zuge von Konsumwandel? Zu dieser Frage versammelt das Themenheft neben einer Rubrik zu Archiven der Sinnesgeschichte vier Beiträge, die exemplarisch von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert untersuchen, ob und wie durch die Verunsicherung der sinnlichen Gewissheit zuweilen die G...
Welches Wissen (und welche Wissenschaft) braucht die Politik?
Unter Krisenbedingungen wird das Wechselverhältnis von Wissenschaft, Öffentlichkeit und Politik auf besondere Weise herausgefordert. Die Dringlichkeit und Tragweite politischen Handelns, etwa mit Blick auf Infektionsschutz und Sicherung des Gesundheitssystems in der Covid-19-Pandemie, hat die Frage, welches Wissen politisch handlungsleitend sein soll, noch einmal verschärft. Insbesondere das Paradigma evidenzbasierter Politik (EPB) stellt dabei einen Kristallisationspunkt dar, anhand dessen die Grenzen eines verengten Begriffs tragfähigen Wissens ebenso deutlich werden wie die Gefahr eines verkürzten Verständnisses von Politik. Ziel des Bandes ist, das aufgezeigte Spannungsfeld in seinen verschiedenen Dimensionen zu beleuchten und (1) aufzuzeigen, unter welchen Bedingungen wissenschaftliches Wissen einen Beitrag zu guter demokratischer Politik leisten kann, (2) welche Verantwortung der Wissenschaft für die Bildung einer kompetenten Öffentlichkeit zukommt und (3) zu fragen, wie demokratische Gesellschaften aufgestellt sein bzw. sich transformieren müssen, um diese Art selbstreflexiver kooperativer Problemlösung betreiben zu können.
African Appropriations
This exploration of African adaptations of global pop culture is “a genuinely innovative book unlike most others in either anthropology or African studies” (American Ethnologist). Why would a Hollywood film become a Nigerian video remake, a Tanzanian comic book, or a Congolese music video? Matthias Krings explores the myriad ways Africans respond to the relentless onslaught of global culture. He seeks out places where they have adapted pervasive cultural forms to their own purposes as photo novels, comic books, songs, posters, and even scam letters. These African appropriations reveal the broad scope of cultural mediation that is characteristic of our hyperlinked age. Krings argues that there is no longer an “original” or “faithful copy,” but only endless transformations that thrive in the fertile ground of African popular culture. “The text is jargon free, a pleasure to read, remarkably well researched, and enriched by 40 illustrations . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
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Writing Mobile Lives, 1500–1700
This Element develops and showcases a new methodological framework in which to study the connections between early modern travel writing and life- and self-writing. Turning the scholarly focus in the study of travel writing from eye-witnessing and proto-ethnography of foreign lands to the 'fashioned' and portrayed selves and 'inner worlds' of travellers – personal memory, autobiographical practices, and lived yet often heavily mediated travel experiences – it opens up perspectives to travel writing in its many modes, that extend both before and after 'lived' travels into their many pre- and afterlives in textual form. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
