Explorations And Entanglements
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Explorations And Entanglements
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Author : Hartmut Berghoff
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-11-16
Explorations And Entanglements written by Hartmut Berghoff and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-11-16 with History categories.
Traditionally, Germany has been considered a minor player in Pacific history: its presence there was more limited than that of other European nations, and whereas its European rivals established themselves as imperial forces beginning in the early modern era, Germany did not seriously pursue colonialism until the nineteenth century. Yet thanks to recent advances in the field emphasizing transoceanic networks and cultural encounters, it is now possible to develop a more nuanced understanding of the history of Germans in the Pacific. The studies gathered here offer fascinating research into German missionary, commercial, scientific, and imperial activity against the backdrop of the Pacific’s overlapping cultural circuits and complex oceanic transits.
Johann Reinhold Forster And The Making Of Natural History On Cook S Second Voyage 1772 1775
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Author : Anne Mariss
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2019-09-09
Johann Reinhold Forster And The Making Of Natural History On Cook S Second Voyage 1772 1775 written by Anne Mariss and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-09 with History categories.
The book examines the role of German scholar Johann Reinhold Forster, who served as principal naturalist on James Cook's second voyage of exploration to the Pacific from 1772 to 1775. It examines how Forster contributed to our knowledge of natural history on a daily basis aboard the Resolution.
Racializing Caste
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Author : Thiago P. Barbosa
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2025-04-21
Racializing Caste written by Thiago P. Barbosa and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-21 with History categories.
The book analyses how racial knowledge has circulated in transnational entanglements, particularly between Germany and India, into the research on human variation in India, racializing the understanding of caste and ethnicity. It focuses on the legacy of Irawati Karve (1905-1970), a Indian anthropologist trained at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Anthropology, Eugenics, and Human Heredity in Berlin, Germany (1927-1930) and a prominent scientist in post-colonial India. Besides a historical analysis of Karve’s adaptation of racial approaches to the study of Indian castes, the book applies material-semiotic and ethnographic lenses to examine how her work is taken up today in anthropology and population genetics. By showing how transnational and transcolonial entanglements in race science shape knowledge on human diversity in India, the book offers novel insights to discussions in anthropology, STS, and global history, including the racialization of difference, colonial legacies, and post-colonial sovereignty in science. It contributes to a better understanding of the co-constitution of politics and sciences of human diversity and it argues for a closer attention to inequalities as a way to de-link from the legacies of scientific racism.
Expeditions In The Long Nineteenth Century
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Author : Jörn Happel
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-04-24
Expeditions In The Long Nineteenth Century written by Jörn Happel and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-24 with History categories.
This book examines the processes of scientific, cultural, political, technical, colonial and violent appropriation during the 19th century. The 19th century was the century of world travel. The earth was explored, surveyed, described, illustrated, and categorized. Travelogues became world bestsellers. Modern technology accompanied the travelers and adventurers: clocks, a postal and telegraph system, surveying equipment, and cameras. The world grew together faster and faster. Previously unknown places became better known: the highest peaks, the coldest spots, the hottest deserts, and the most remote cities. Knowledge about the white spots of the earth was systematically collected. Those who made a name for themselves in the 19th century are still read today. Alexander von Humboldt or Charles Darwin made the epoch a scientific heyday. Ida Pfeiffer or Isabelle Bird (Bishop) traveled to distant continents and took their readers at home on insightful journeys. Hermann Vámbéry or Sir Richard Burton got to know the most remote languages and regions. There are countless travel reports about a fascinating century, which, with surveying and exploration, also brought colonial conquest and exploitation into the world. In ten individual studies, the authors explore travelers from all over the world and analyze their successes. The unifying element of all the studies is the experience of distance and its communication by means of travelogues to the armchair travelers who have stayed at home. This volume will be of value to students and scholars both interested in modern history, social and cultural history, and the history of science and technology.
Anthropologies Of Entanglements
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Author : Christiane Voss
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2023-08-24
Anthropologies Of Entanglements written by Christiane Voss and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-24 with Social Science categories.
Media and human modes of existence are always already intertwined and interdependent. The notion of the anthropocene has further stimulated a new examination of ideas about human agency and responsibility. Various approaches all emphasize relational concepts and the situatedness and embodiment of human-and also non-human-existences and experiences. Their common interest has shifted from any so-called 'human nature' to the multitude of cultural, topographical, technical, historical, social, discursive, and media formats with which human existences are entangled. This volume brings together a range of thinkers from international backgrounds and puts these important reflections and ideas in the spotlight. More specifically, the volume explores the concept of "anthropomedial entanglements." It fosters an understanding of human bodies, experiences, and media as being immanently entangled and mutually constituting, prior to any possible distinction between them. The different contributions thus open up a dialogue between empirical case studies and media-historical research on the one hand and the conceptual work of media and cultural philosophies and aesthetics on the other hand.
Entanglements Of Empire
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Author : Tony Ballantyne
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2015-02-14
Entanglements Of Empire written by Tony Ballantyne and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-14 with History categories.
The first Protestant mission was established in New Zealand in 1814, initiating complex political, cultural, and economic entanglements with Māori. Tony Ballantyne shows how interest in missionary Christianity among influential Māori chiefs had far-reaching consequences for both groups. Deftly reconstructing cross-cultural translations and struggles over such concepts and practices as civilization, work, time and space, and gender, he identifies the physical body as the most contentious site of cultural engagement, with Māori and missionaries struggling over hygiene, tattooing, clothing, and sexual morality. Entanglements of Empire is particularly concerned with how, as a result of their encounters in the classroom, chapel, kitchen, and farmyard, Māori and the English mutually influenced each other’s worldviews. Concluding in 1840 with New Zealand’s formal colonization, this book offers an important contribution to debates over religion and empire.
Utopian And Dystopian Explorations Of Pandemics And Ecological Breakdown
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Author : Heather Alberro
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-07-31
Utopian And Dystopian Explorations Of Pandemics And Ecological Breakdown written by Heather Alberro and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
This edited collection, which is situated within the environmental humanities and environmental social sciences, brings together utopian and dystopian representations of pandemics from across literature, the arts, and social movements. Featuring analyses of literary works, TV and film, theater, politics, and activism, the chapters in this volume home in on critical topics such as posthumanism, multispecies futures, agency, political ecology, environmental justice, and Indigenous and settler-colonial environmental relations. The book asks: how do pandemics and ecological breakdown show us the ways that humans are deeply interconnected with the more-than-human world? And what might we learn from exploring those entanglements, both within creative works and in lived reality? Brazilian, Indian, Polish, and Dutch texts feature alongside classic literary works like Defoe’s A Journal of a Plague Year (1722) and Matheson’s I Am Legend (1954), as well as broader takes on movements like global youth climate activism. These investigations are united by their thematic interests in the future of human and nonhuman relationships in the shadow of climate emergency and increasing pandemic risk, as well as in the glimmers of utopian hope they exhibit for the creation of more just futures. This exploration of how pandemics illuminate the entangled materialities and shared vulnerabilities of all living things is an engaging and timely analysis that will appeal to environmentally minded researchers, academics, and students across various disciplines within the humanities and social sciences. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.
Entanglements And Weavings Diffractive Approaches To Gender And Love
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-11-16
Entanglements And Weavings Diffractive Approaches To Gender And Love written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-16 with Philosophy categories.
This edited volume focuses on gender and love as emerging through complex “entanglements and weavings”. At a time when constructionist ideas are losing support, we interrogate theoretical paradigms to assess if constructionist notions still hold value or if new approaches are needed to address the effects of materiality and non-human agency. Without claiming any unison or definite answers, we offer situated, agential cuts into gender and love in various discursive-material phenomena, including Biblical and Rabbinic literature, ecosexual performance art, the writings of Ursula Le Guin and Angela Carter, butch identities, Bengali folktales, Ferzan Özpetek’s cinema, Golem literature, sexual pursuits in Danish nightlife, mother-daughter relationships, women warriors in the PKK, and BDSM performances. Artistic photographer Sara Davidmann has contributed to the book with the cover illustration and a creative afterword including seven photographs on the interaction between the photographer, her studio, and LGBTQ+ people.
Posthuman And Nonhuman Entanglements In Contemporary Art And The Body
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Author : Justyna Stępień
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2022-05-15
Posthuman And Nonhuman Entanglements In Contemporary Art And The Body written by Justyna Stępień and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-15 with Art categories.
Disclosing the interconnectedness of human and nonhuman bodies, understood here as more/than/human entanglements, this book makes a crucial intervention into the field of contemporary artistic studies, exploring how art can conceptualize material boundaries of entangled beings/doings. Drawing on critical posthumanist and new materialist thought, in this book, nonhumans become subjects of ethics, aesthetics, and politics that produce equally relevant meanings. Designed to include multiple artistic perspectives and forms of expression, which range from sculptures to bio-art and performative practices, the book argues that we are entangled with other organisms around us not only by our socio-cultural connections but predominately by the transformations that we all undergo with the world’s materiality. Thus, the artistic works discussed do not merely reflect the world but transform it, offering solutions for practising alternative ethical values and acting better with and for the world. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, cultural studies, media studies, body studies, performance studies, animal studies, and environmental studies.
Echoes Of Africa S Past Archaeological Explorations In The Anthropocene
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Author : Savino di Lernia
language : en
Publisher: All'Insegna del Giglio
Release Date : 2025-05-30
Echoes Of Africa S Past Archaeological Explorations In The Anthropocene written by Savino di Lernia and has been published by All'Insegna del Giglio this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-05-30 with Religion categories.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the Libyan-Italian archaeological Mission in the Tadrart Acacus and Messak, this volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on Africa’s deep past and its enduring legacies in the Anthropocene. By tracing the echoes of human-environment interactions across time, it highlights how archaeological research continues to reshape our understanding of adaptation, resilience, and transformation in African societies. Drawing on interdisciplinary approaches — including palaeoecology, bioarchaeology, rock art analysis, the archaeology of food production, and their various connections and networks — this book challenges outdated, Eurocentric narratives by foregrounding African agency and complexity. Key themes include – among others – the Holocene environmental changes that influenced settlement patterns, the significance of rock art in interpreting past belief systems, and the impact of colonial trade and imperial expansion on indigenous communities. Echoes of Africa’s Past serves as a resource for archaeologists, historians, anthropologists, and heritage scholars, offering fresh perspectives on Africa’s dynamic past and its relevance to debates on sustainability and cultural heritage in the Anthropocene. «Archaeological knowledge is incremental and hard won. It is assembled through time-intensive study of fragmentary evidence and its corpus represents intergenerational effort. Though sometimes based on the study of stones, our interpretations are not written in them. Our working hypotheses typically run ahead of the evidence needed to assess them. Expanded investigations, new methods and changing premises compel revision and sometimes outright rejection of earlier ideas. Typological aids deemed useful by earlier generations may outlive their usefulness, at the same time as the evidence they organize remains pertinent and available for rethinking. The cumulative character of archaeological knowledge enables scalar perspectives across space and through time, casting what we know of one location in relief through comparison to others. These revisions, rethinkings and scalar reflections encourage us to appreciate the complexity and diversity of past contexts, as amply illustrated in contributions to this volume. In short, resuscitating echoes of Anthropocene Africa is painstaking work. In this way and others, archaeology is — and should be — slow science». Ann B. Stahl, University of Victoria, BC, Canada