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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.
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Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting. This includes considering the entanglement of objects and collectors alike in webs of social relations, the creation of value and social change; object biographies and the stories – often conflicting – that objects come to represent; and the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of objects. The book includes considerations of individual objects and groups of objects, such as domestic interiors, Chinese Buddhist artefacts, novelty tea-pots, Scottish stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also contains chapters dealing with particular collectors – including Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter – and representational techniques.
Picturing Tropical Nature
Whether considered a sublime landscape, malignant wilderness, or the endangered site of environmental conflicts, the tropics are, Picturing Tropical Nature argues, largely a construct of American and European imaginations. Nancy Leys Stephan asserts that images of the tropics conveyed through drawings, paintings, photographs, literature, and travel writings are central to what Stepan calls the "tropicalization of nature," or the often harmful misrepresentation of the tropics and its peoples. She here examines several aspects of such tropicalization as they emerge through the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century scientists and artists, including Alexander von Humboldt, Alfred Russel Wall...
Looking for Mexico
In Looking for Mexico, a leading historian of visual culture, John Mraz, provides a panoramic view of Mexico’s modern visual culture from the U.S. invasion of 1847 to the present. Along the way, he illuminates the powerful role of photographs, films, illustrated magazines, and image-filled history books in the construction of national identity, showing how Mexicans have both made themselves and been made with the webs of significance spun by modern media. Central to Mraz’s book is photography, which was distributed widely throughout Mexico in the form of cartes-de-visite, postcards, and illustrated magazines. Mraz analyzes the work of a broad range of photographers, including Guillermo K...
Brazilian Railway Culture
Brazilian Railway Culture examines the cultural relationship Brazil has had with its railways since tracks were first laid by British, American and French engineers in the nineteenth century. ‘Railway’ and ‘Brazil’ are words not often found in the same sentence. Yet each year over seven hundred million passengers are carried by train in the major urban centres, and tens of thousands of visitors enjoy heritage steam rides at over a dozen restored lines and museums. Brazilian Railway Culture starts from the premise that Brazilian society and culture is not just samba, football and sex. The book takes a journey through Brazilian cultural output from 1865 to the present day, examining no...
Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies
Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022), July 24–28, 2022, New York, USA
Latin American Popular Culture
Latin American Popular Culture: An Introduction is a collection of articles that explores a wide range of compelling cultural subjects in the region, including carnival, romance, funerals, medicine, monuments, and dance, among others. The introduction lays out the most important theoretical approaches to the culture of Latin America, and the chapters serve as illustrative case studies. Featuring the latest scholarship in cultural history, most of the chapters have not previously been published. Latin American Popular Culture is an important resource for courses in Latin American history, civilization, popular culture, and anthropology.
Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography
The Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography is the first comprehensive encyclopedia of world photography up to the beginning of the twentieth century. It sets out to be the standard, definitive reference work on the subject for years to come. Its coverage is global – an important ‘first’ in that authorities from all over the world have contributed their expertise and scholarship towards making this a truly comprehensive publication. The Encyclopedia presents new and ground-breaking research alongside accounts of the major established figures in the nineteenth century arena. Coverage includes all the key people, processes, equipment, movements, styles, debates and groupings which helped photography develop from being ‘a solution in search of a problem’ when first invented, to the essential communication tool, creative medium, and recorder of everyday life which it had become by the dawn of the twentieth century. The sheer breadth of coverage in the 1200 essays makes the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography an essential reference source for academics, students, researchers and libraries worldwide.
Das culturas da alimentação ao culto dos alimentos, Volume II
A presente obra reúne estudos de especialistas de diferentes áreas do conhecimento que se dedicaram a refletir sobre fenómenos alimentares a partir de dois eixos de análise distintos, porém intercomunicantes: as culturas alimentares e o culto dos alimentos. Esses eixos organizam a obra do ponto de vista formal e conceptual, pois revelam o paradoxo expresso pelas culturas alimentares enquanto forças vivas, mas invisíveis participadoras da construção da cultura (volume I), e, ao mesmo tempo, pelo destaque de alguns alimentos enquanto objetos de formas diversas de culto, que emergem da invisibilidade, para se destacarem enquanto signos dos discursos e das práticas culturais humanas – religiosa, ética, artística, gastronómica e medicinal (volume II). A riqueza de temáticas que atravessam tempos e espaços variados e de abordagens multi- e transdisciplinares fazem da obra mais um contributo importante para a área dos Estudos da Alimentação e das Humanidades, em geral.
