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Aesthetics and Anthropology
"Aesthetics and Anthropology" is a collection of contributions by an international and interdisciplinary team of authors from the fields of anthropology, performance studies, curatorial studies and the arts. The title refers to the paths that lead to the in-betweens and the beyonds of aura and trace in the representation of life that is performed in aesthetic reflexivity. Aesthetic reflexivity refers not only to the authors' attempts at an interdisciplinary encounter with one another, but also to their encounter with the readers, and with the recipients of an intended message in an aesthetic dialogue. Our approach is innovative in that it looks upon aesthetics as a "topos of the living". We ...
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture
The Social (Re)Production of Architecture brings the debates of the ‘right to the city’ into today’s context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s’ discussions about the ‘production of space’, which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who has the right to make space, and explore the kinds of relations that are produced in the process. In the emerging post-capitalist era, this book addresses urgent social and ecological imperatives for change and opens up questions around architecture’s engagement with new forms of organization and practice. The book asks what (new) kinds of ‘social’ can architecture (re...
Towards an Atlas of the History of Interpreting
The aspiration of an Atlas is to cover the whole world, by compiling cartographical material representing territories from across the five continents. This book intends to contribute to that ideally comprehensive, yet always unfinished, Atlas with pieces gathered from all of the Earth’s regions. However, its focus is not so much of a geographical nature (although maps and geographical reflections are not absent in its pages), but of a historical-analytical one. As such, the Atlas engages in the historical analysis of interpreters (of both language and cultures) in multiple interpreting settings and places, including in zones which are less frequently studied in specialized literature, in d...
Yiddish and the Field of Translation
Yiddish literature and culture take a central position in Jewish literatures. They are shaped to a high degree, not least through migration, by encounter, transfer, and transformation. Translation, sustained by writers, translators, journalists amongst others, encompasses besides texts also discourses, concepts and medialities. The volume's contributions negotiate this dynamic field between Yiddish studies, translation and world literature in different spatial and temporal contexts. The focus on translation in Yiddish literature and culture allows insights into the glocal Yiddish cultural production as well as it delivers incentives to current transdisciplinary cultural theories.
Love against all Reason
It was during a party at the university, in a Czechoslovakia then under communist rule, that Hélène Krulich, nicknamed here Léna, met Abdol Rahman Ghassemlou. In her slight accent, she thinks he is Slovak. He is Kurdish, Muslim, but claims to be unbeliever. To be able to marry her at the Iranian embassy in Prague, Lena converted to Islam. In convoking, she marries with him the Kurdish cause: her husband will become, over the years, general secretary of the Democratic Party of Kurdistan of Iran (PDKI) and the most respected leader among the Kurdish movements of his country, and elsewhere. Lena and Abdol Rahman move to Tehran. What is exceptional about Lena is the love she will now bring to...
Networking Across Borders and Frontiers
This volume presents the proceedings of a Coimbra Group conference on networking across borders and frontiers in European culture and society that took place at the University of Graz in September 2007. Organised by the Task Force on Culture, Arts and Humanities it brought together researches from ten different European countries and an array of disciplines across the Humanities and Social Sciences spectrum, from Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology, History, Literary Studies and Fine Arts to Peace Studies, Sociology and Political Sciences. It explores the capacity of the frontier-network binary for describing and analysing historical, cultural and political processes in the formation of European cultures and societies past and present, and across national and disciplinary boundaries.
Kultur_Kultur.
Kultur ist nicht nur seit nunmehr vier Jahrzehnten die zentrale Kategorie der Volkskunde und ihrer disziplinären Fortentwicklungen in Deutschland und darüber hinaus, Kultur ist - ungeachtet aller Problematik - auch eine der wirkmächtigsten Ordnungsvorstellungen der Moderne. Als Konzept der Selbstauslegung hat Kultur zu keiner Zeit eine ähnliche Reichweite und Anziehungskraft besessen wie heute, zugleich beschreibt sie ein Feld wachsender Ökonomien, ist weltweit Gegenstand politischen Handelns und nicht zuletzt Schlüsselbegriff und Fluchtpunkt einer Reihe von sich zusehends als Kulturwissenschaften verstehenden Fächern. Seit dem von Tübingen ausgehenden 'Abschied vom Volksleben' nimmt...
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Bilder. Bücher. Bytes. Zur Medialität des Alltags
Medien sind ein fester Bestandteil unserer Kultur. Sie repräsentieren alltägliches Leben, stellen Wissen zur Verfügung, liefern Sinnangebote und halten Handlungsoptionen bereit - und dies nicht erst seit dem digitalen Zeitalter. Die Wechselwirkungen zwischen alltäglichen Praktiken und deren medialer Vermittlung in historischer und gegenwartsbezogener Perspektive waren Thema des 36. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Volkskunde, der vom 23. bis 26. September 2007 auf Einladung des Deutschen Instituts der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Abteilung Kulturanthropologie/Volkskunde, und der Gesellschaft für Volkskunde in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. in Mainz stattfand. Der vorliegende Band liefert eine umfassende Dokumentation der auf dem Kongress diskutierten Beiträge und berücksichtigt neben den fachwissenschaftlichen Ansätzen auch interdisziplinäre und internationale Zugänge. Die mit dem Buch erscheinende DVD bietet zudem Einblick in die den Kongress begleitende Onlinepräsentation sowie Ausschnitte aus ergänzenden Bild- und Wortbeiträgen, die zum Kongress entstanden sind.
