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China's Living Houses
It has been said that for the Chinese "a house is a living symbol," one endowed with meaning and the result of conscious action. China's Living Houses is the first book in any language to explore comprehensively the extraordinarily complex links among folk beliefs and household ornamentation across time, space, and social class. Well-written and copiously illustrated, it reveals dwellings as dynamic entities that express the vitality of Chinese families as each journeys through life.
Technology, Gender and History in Imperial China
What can the history of technology contribute to our understanding of late imperial China? Most stories about technology in pre-modern China follow a well-worn plot: in about 1400 after an early ferment of creativity that made it the most technologically sophisticated civilisation in the world, China entered an era of technical lethargy and decline. But how are we to reconcile this tale, which portrays China in the Ming and Qing dynasties as a dying giant that had outgrown its own strength, with the wealth of counterevidence affirming that the country remained rich, vigorous and powerful at least until the end of the eighteenth century? Does this seeming contradiction mean that the stagnatio...
Disability and Aid
* The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. * At a time when rights are increasingly placed on the humanitarian agenda, this book provides a unique ethnographic account of the dynamics of aid to disabled people in a Ugandan refugee camp. By unraveling the complexities of social, material and institutional interdependencies, the author invites us to rethink conventional notions of dependence and vulnerability. Exploring issues of personhood as they relate to the exchange of material goods and care, the book offers a thought-provoking perspective on the seemingly promising shift towards a rights-based approach. A compelling read for anyone seeking to reshape the humanitarian agenda.
Performing Remembering
This book explores the performances and politics of memory among a group of women war veterans in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Through ethnographic, oral history-based research, it connects the veterans’ wartime histories, memory politics, performance practices, recollections of imprisonment and torture, and social activism with broader questions of how to understand and attend to continuing transgenerational violence and trauma. With an extensive introduction and subsequent chapters devoted to in-depth analysis of four women’s remarkable life stories, the book explores the performance and performativity of culture; ethnographic oral history practice; personal, collective, and (trans)cultural memory; and the politics of postwar trauma, witnessing, and redress. Through the veterans’ dynamic practices of prospective remembering, 'pain-taking', and enduring optimism, it offers new insights into matrices of performance vital to the shared work of social transformation. It will appeal to readers interested in performance studies, memory studies, gender studies, Vietnamese studies, and oral history.
Kulinaristik
4e de couv.: Die Kulinaristik (von lat. culina = die Küche) ist ein Fächer und Branchen übergreifender Beitrag zu den Kultur- und Lebenswissenschaften. Die versammelten Beiträge des Bandes schreiben Visionen, Forschungen und Initiativen ihrer Umsetzung in die Praxis fort, die insbesondere im Umfeld der 2000 gegründeten Deutschen Akademie für Kulinaristik entstanden sind. Die Autoren sind Wissenschaftler und renommierte Vertreter der Gastronomie, der Lebensmittelwirtschaft, der Medien, der Freien Berufe und Kulturinstitute. Sie beleuchten Themen und Kontexte von der kulturellen Verankerung des Ess- und Trinkverhaltens, des Kochens und der Gastlichkeit bis hin zu rituellen, gastronomischen, geschlechtsspezifischen, kulturpolitischen, philosophischen, ökonomischen, theologischen, semiotischen und kommunikativen Aspekten des Zusammenhangs von Kultur, Kommunikation und Küche.
Ein Jahrhundert Licht
Die Arbeit konzentriert sich auf die Frage, in welcher Weise die künstliche Beleuchtung die Lebensgewohnheiten und Lebensumstände der Bauern in Nordchina verändert hat. In dieser Region haben sich im letzten Jahrhundert gewaltige technische Neuerungen vollzogen, die von der Öllampe über die Petroleum-Lampe bis zum elektrischen Licht reichen. In ihrer Studie zeigt die Autorin auf, dass sich durch die neuen Möglichkeiten, die eine künstliche Erleuchtung des Raums mit sich brachte, nicht nur die zeitliche und räumliche Wahrnehmung der Bauern verändert hat, sondern auch ihr soziales Leben. Es wird verdeutlicht, dass auch die Erforschung einer scheinbaren Nebensache aus dem wissenschaftlich häufig vernachlässigten Bereich des Alltagslebens dazu beitragen kann, das Verhalten und die Gedanken, die Vorstellungen und die Wahrnehmung der Menschen in einem technischen-sozialen Prozess besser zu erkennen und zu verstehen. Für ihre Studien hat die Autorin in den Jahren 2003 und 2004 in zwei Dörfern in Dingzhou in der Provinz Hebei umfassende Feldforschung betrieben und sich zudem eingehend mit schriftlichen Dokumenten zur Lokalgeschichte Dingzhous befasst.
Das alte China
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Waves and Forms
An examination of the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies. Technical objects constrain what users do with them. They are not neutral entities but embody information, choices, values, assumptions, or even mistakes embedded by designers. What happens when a technology is designed in one culture and used in another? What happens, for example, when a Chinese user is confronted by Roman-alphabet-embedded interfaces? In this book, Basile Zimmermann examines the relationship between technical objects and culture in contemporary China, drawing on concepts from science and technology studies (STS). He presen...
Entangled Landscapes
The exchange of landscape practice between China and Europe from 1500–1800 is an important chapter in art history. While the material forms of the outcome of this exchange, like jardin anglo-chinoisand Européenerie are well documented, this book moves further to examine the role of the exchange in identity formation in early modern China and Europe. Proposing the new paradigm of “entangled landscapes”, drawing from the concept of “entangled histories”, this book looks at landscape design, cartography, literature, philosophy and material culture of the period. Challenging simplistic, binary treatments of the movements of “influences” between China and Europe, Entangled Landscapes reveals how landscape exchanges entailed complex processes of appropriation, crossover and transformation, through which Chinese and European identities were formed. Exploring these complex processes via three themes—empire building, mediators’ constraints, and aesthetic negotiations, this work breaks new ground in landscape and East-West studies. Interdisciplinary and revisionist in its thrust, it will also benefit scholars of history, human geography and postcolonial studies.
