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Batik. Traces through time
The batik of Java has a special place in museum textile collections and aspects of the art of batik have been discussed at length in countless publications. This study, based on the batik collections of the Náprstek Museum, raises a number of questions which have been so far underexplored. How strong is the evidence for the early manufacture of batik in Java? How and when did batik-making become widely practised there? Was it made by village women for their own use? How and why did batik develop into an industry employing thousands of people, filling warehouses with stock to be distributed throughout the Indonesian archipelago? What was the effect of the introduction of wax printing and of aniline dyes? It is often asserted that batik carries deep meaning. To what extent is this really the case? When did batik depicting wayang or shadow puppet figures start to be made, and who for? What was the role of calligraphy batiks? And what was it that drew European collectors to batik in the early 20th century? What local circumstances governedtheir choices? In a series of essays, this volume explores these questions, drawing on contemporary sources and providing a wealth of new insights.
DNA Damage, Oxidative Stress and Related Metabolic By-Products in Cancer and Environmental Studies
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD), which uses numerical analysis to predict and model complex flow behaviors and transport processes, has become a mainstream tool in engineering process research and development. Complex chemical processes often involve coupling between dynamics at vastly different length and time scales, as well as coupling of different physical models. The multiscale and multiphysics nature of those problems calls for delicate modeling approaches. This book showcases recent contributions in this field, from the development of modeling methodology to its application in supporting the design, development, and optimization of engineering processes.
Drug Resistance in Leukemia and Lymphoma III
Cellular drug resistance is a major limitation to the success of chemotherapy of leu kemia and lymphoma. The importance of this has now been recognized by both clinicians and scientists. It is of utmost importance to bridge the gap between laboratory and clinic in this field of research. This is the main purpose of the series of International Symposia on Drug Resistance in Leukemia and Lymphoma. These are held every three years in Am sterdam, The Netherlands, since 1992. This book contains the proceedings of the third of these meetings, organised in 1998. The book covers all important aspects of drug resistance in leukemia and lymphoma, both in the form of extensive reviews as in manuscripts...
Indický textil ve sbírkách Náprstkova muzea
Publikace seznamuje čtenáře s pestrým souborem textilií z indického subkontinentu ze sbírek Náprstkova muzea v Praze. Rozmanité přírodní podmínky dnešní Indie, Pákistánu a Bangladéše stejně jako národnostní, sociální a náboženská specifika se odrážejí v široké škále materiálů, výrobních technik i repertoáru vzorů použitých při výrobě oděvů. Práce poskytuje řadu informací všem zájemcům o indickou kulturu stejně jako obecných znalostí o textilnictví, tradičních řemeslech i muzejním odborníkům. Indické oděvy jsou vedle erudovaného výkladu představeny i velkým množstvím barevných fotografií.
The Academic Study of Religion During the Cold War
While the academic study of religion in the former Soviet Union had to contend with an official ideology of scientific atheism, such study in the West - particularly in the United States - was being (re)invented in the 1960s, during the very midst of the Cold War. The twenty-one contributions to this volume - by scholars from North America, Europe, Russia, and eastern Europe - examine the ideological and theological influences on the academic study of religion during the period from 1945 to 1989 and thus raise the question of whether an academic study of religion (Religionswissenschaft) might be defined in ways that avoid the extremes of both ideology and theology.
Dějiny Náprstkova muzea I
První díl dvousvazkové monografie věnované pražskému Náprstkovu muzeu pojednává o dějinách této významné muzejní instituce. Cílem je objasnit vývoj postavení muzea v soustavě českých a československých paměťových institucí a proměnu úkolů, které si buď samo předsevzalo, či mu byly ukládány autoritami určujícími směr politického a kulturního vývoje ve státě. Pozornost je věnována i budování expozic a nejvýznamnějším výstavám, a to i v souvislosti s prostory, v nichž muzeum v průběhu let působilo, představen je i jeho vědecký program. Výklad se držím chronologické linie a dějiny muzea jsou zachyceny v celé jejich šíři v podstatě až do současnosti. Druhou, do jisté míry autonomní část výkladu představuje rozsáhlá kapitola o vývoji knihovny Náprstkova muzea.
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century
Central Europe and the Non-European World in the Long 19th Century explores various ways in which inhabitants of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy perceived and depicted the outside world during the era of European imperialism. Focusing particularly on the Czech Lands, Hungary, and Slovakia, with other nations as comparative examples, this collection shows how Central Europeans viewed other regions and their populations, from the Balkans and the Middle East to Africa, China, and America. Although the societies under Habsburg rule found themselves (with rare exceptions) outside the realm of colonialism, their inhabitants also engaged in colonial projects and benefited from these interactions. Rather than taking one “Central European” approach, the volume draws upon accounts not only by writers and travelers, but by painters, missionaries, and other observers, reflecting the diversity that characterized both the region itself and its views of non-Western cultures.
The Shaping of Persian Art
While the impact of the Persian style is undeniably reflected in most aspects of the art and architecture of Islamic Central Asia, this Perso-Central Asian connection was chiefly formed and articulated by the Euro-American movement of collecting and interpreting the art and material culture of the Persian Islamic world in modern times. This had an enormous impact on the formation of scholarship and connoisseurship in Persian art, for instance, with an attempt to define the characteristics of how the Islamic art of Iran and Central Asia should be viewed and displayed at museums, and how these subjects should be researched in academia. This important historical fact, which has attracted schola...
