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The Study of Photography in Latin America
In this book Nathanial Gardner provides an insider’s perspective to the study of photography in Latin America. He begins with a carefully structured introduction that lays out his unique methodology for the book, which features over eighty photographs and the insights from sixteen prominent Latin American photography scholars and historians, including Boris Kossoy, John Mraz, and Ana Mauad. The work reflects the advances of the study of photography throughout Latin America with certain emphasis on Brazil and Mexico. The author further underlines the role of important institutions and builds context by discussing influential theories and key texts that currently guide the discipline. The Study of Photography in Latin America is critical to all who want to expand their current knowledge of the subject and engage with its experts.
Rio de Janeiro
"Through artistic imaginaries, media productions, social practices and spatial mappings, this book offers an insightful and original contribution to the understanding of Rio de Janeiro, one of the highly contested urban terrains in the world. Offering a rich diversity of examples extracted from lived experience, iconographic materials, and narratives, it provides innovative and compelling connections between theoretical questions and urban vignettes. Throughout the essays, the specificity of Rio de Janeiro is highlighted but framed in relation to theoretical questions that are relevant to major contemporary cities. The book underlines the dilemmas of a city that attempts to compete globally while confronting social inequality, violence, and novel forms of democratic agency. It retraces Rio de Janeiro’s modernist memories as the former political/cultural capital of Brazilian intelligentsia and national culture. It explores Rio as a city of popular culture, mestizo legacies, media productions, and cultural innovation."
Gênero e artefato
In this book, Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho overcomes the inconvenient separation between material and non-material culture, based on the assumption of the existence of a symbiosis between objects and the formation of social identities, according to genders. It develops a history of culture and social life with the introduction of material problems, bringing to light the dynamics of everyday life: the relationship of the human with spaces and objects. The author speaks specifically of the organization of the domestic space and system, in a period marked by radical transformations in the city of São Paulo, and studies, with emphasis on the body and corporality, aspects related to the female gender, such as environments, domestic work, desires and symbolic gratifications. The result of extensive research based on material, visual and textual sources, this is a model of study on material culture that allows the understanding of gender culture.
Sensational Religion
The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion’s sensory and material practice. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil
Press, Power, and Culture in Imperial Brazil introduces recent Brazilian scholarship to English-language readers, providing fresh perspectives on newspaper and periodical culture in the Brazilian empire from 1822 to 1889. Through a multifaceted exploration of the periodical press, contributors to this volume offer new insights into the workings of Brazilian power, culture, and public life. Collectively arguing that newspapers are contested projects rather than stable recordings of daily life, individual chapters demonstrate how the periodical press played a prominent role in creating and contesting hierarchies of race, gender, class, and culture. Contributors challenge traditional views of newspapers and magazines as mechanisms of state- and nation-building. Rather, the scholars in this volume view them as integral to current debates over the nature of Brazil. Including perspectives from Brazil's leading scholars of the periodical press, this volume will be the starting point for future scholarship on print culture for years to come.
Books and Periodicals in Brazil 1768-1930
Before the Portuguese Royal Court moved to its South-American colony in 1808, books and periodicals had a very limited circulation there. It was only when Brazilian ports were opened to foreign trade that the book trade began to flourish, and printed matter became more easily available to readers, whether for pleasure, for instruction or for political reasons. This book brings together a collection of original articles on the transnational relations between Brazil and Europe, especially England and France, in the domain of literature and print culture from its early stages to the end of the 1920s. It covers the time when it was forbidden to print in Brazil, and Portugal strictly controlled which books were sent to the colony, through the quick flourishing of a transnational printing industry and book market after 1822, to the shift of hegemony in the printing business from foreign to Brazilian hands at the beginning of the twentieth century. Sandra Guardini Vasconcelos is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Sao Paulo.
ESTILO URBANO – modos de vestir na primeira metade do séc XX no Rio de Janeiro
Ocupando um lugar central na cultura burguesa, as práticas vestimentares obedeciam, desde meados do século passado, aos paradigmas propostos por uma elite franco-inglesa, atenta aos signos distintivos, que as variações da moda, proporcionava. Em que medida esse padrão, importado pela elite carioca em visitas aos grandes centros difusores da época, penetrou as camadas urbanas cariocas e influenciou os usos e costumes vestimentares? De que modo o vestuário ilustrava os hábitos sociais, refletindo a condição social das diversas frações urbanas? meu objetivo foi verificar como o padrão vestimentar modificou-se, como se interiorizaram os padrões vestimentares e como circulavam e se mantinham os códigos de representação social através do vestuário, próprio das camadas médias urbanas em cinquenta anos. Aqui optou-se por investigar a disposição objetiva do consumo de vestuário e acessórios de uma fração das camadas médias urbanas, no Rio de Janeiro, aqui representada pela famÃlia Pereira das Neves, que constituÃam uma fração da camada dominante, nos primeiros cinquenta anos do século XX.
Machado de Assis e os direitos humanos
O II Encontro Recepção Contemporánea de Machado de Assis, realizado nos dias 10 e 11 de novembro de 2022 na Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, teve como tÃtulo: "Machado de Assis e os direitos humanos", e os dez textos reunidos neste volume correspondem à s participações dos pesquisadores nas discussões de alguns tópicos fundamentais para os direitos humanos no Brasil: o acesso à leitura, a igualdade racial e de gênero e o combate à desigualdade social, levando em consideração a obra machadiana. O contexto dos direitos humanos revela-se aberto a diversas possibilidades de releituras do texto literário: temas associados ao trabalho, à exploração capitalista, à s condiÃ...
Terminologia e catalogação vestuário
A nomenclatura para a descrição do vestuário, tanto em fichas catalográficas de acervos museológicos quanto em trabalhos cientÃficos, tende a empregar um vocabulário complexo e variável, dificultando a recuperação das informações. O livro Terminologia e catalogação do vestuário: percursos interdisciplinares apresenta a versão em português do Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume desenvolvido originalmente pelo ICOM (International Council of Museums). Trata-se de um projeto que envolveu a Faculdade de Letras e a Escola de Belas Artes da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro e o Museu Histórico Nacional.
O circuito das roupas
Na hierarquia social da corte imperial brasileira de D. Pedro II (1841-1889), vestir-se adequadamente revelava riqueza, poder e influência. Desta maneira, uma parcela da nobreza e também de fazendeiros e negociantes enriquecidos pelo café passou a gastar parte de suas fortunas com roupas e assessórios importados. O trabalho começa com as comemorações da coroação de D. Pedro II e termina com a o último baile do império, o Baile da Ilha Fiscal. Dois tempos se entrelaçam, o tempo curto da moda, em que as modificações nas vestimentas passaram a ser feitas regularmente ao longo dos anos, e o tempo longo das mudanças da sociedade ocasionadas pelas modificações do capitalismo globa...
