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City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe Barbara A. Hanawalt and Kathryn L. Reyerson, Editors 1994 Spring
Drawing examples from Spain, England, France, Italy, and the Netherlands, most of them in the fifteenth century, the contributors explore the uses of ceremony as statements of political power, as pleas for divine intercession, and as expressions of popular culture. Their essays show us spectacles meant to confirm events such as victories, the signing of a city charter, or the coronation of a king. In other circumstances, the spectacle acts as a battleground where a struggle for the control of the metaphors of power is played out between factions within cities or between cities and kings. Still other ceremonies called upon divine spiritual powers in the hope that their intervention might save the urban inhabitants. Contributors; Lorraine Attreed, Brigitte Bedos-Rezak, Elizabeth A. R. Brown, Lawrence McBride Bryant, Maureen Flynn, Barbara A. Hanawalt, Bram Kempers, Sheila Lindenbaum, Ben R. McRee, James Murray, David Nicholas, Gerard Nijsten, Nancy Freeman Regalado, Kathryn L. Reyerson, and Teofilo R. Ruiz.
Labor of Dionysus: A Critique of the State-Form Labor of Dionysus A Critique of the State-Form Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri 1994 Spring
“Labor is the living, form-giving fire,” Marx wrote. “It is the transitoriness of things, their temporality, as their transformation by living time.” How is it, then, that labor, with all its life-affirming potential, has become the means of capitalist discipline, exploitation, and domination in modern society? The authors expose and pursue this paradox through a systematic analysis of the role of labor in the processes of capitalist production and in the establishment of capitalist legal and social institutions. Critiquing liberal and socialist notions of labor and institutional reform from a radical democratic perspective, Hardt and Negri challenge the state-form itself.
Fictions of Feminist Ethnography Fictions of Feminist Ethnography Kamala Visweswaran 1994 Spring
Although feminist ethnography is an emerging genre, the question of what the term means remains open. Recent texts which fall under this rubric rely on unexamined notions of “sisterhood” and the recovery of “lost” voices. In these essays about her work with women in Southern India, Kamala Visweswaran addresses such troubled issues. Blurring distinctions between ethnographic and literary genres, these essays employ the narrative strategies of history, fiction, autobiography and biography, deconstruction, and post-colonial discourse to reveal the fictions of ethnography and the ethnography in fiction.
Freshwater Marshes: Ecology and Wildlife Management Freshwater Marshes Ecology and Wildlife Management Milton W. Weller 1994 Spring
In this updated third edition, Weller describes the components of the freshwater marsh-its annual and seasonal dynamics as affected by rainfall cycles and the plant and animal population's response to such changes. Weller discusses how such wetland areas are managed for wildlife populations and diversity, and how such processes can be used in wetland conservation and restoration. He considers the impact society has on wetlands and offers conservation goals for freshwater wetland complexes. Weller broadens the third edition to include an analysis of how prairie wetlands compare in water dynamics with swamps, tidal marshes, and other wetlands. He also expands the discussion of wetland classification, evaluation, mitigation, and restoration, and introduces a new glossary of current wetland terminology.
Reading Proust: In Search of Wolf-Fish Reading Proust In Search of Wolf-Fish Maria Paganini 1994 Spring
Reading Proust focuses on the specificity of Proustian writing, revealing the patterns of thought and play of words peculiar to Proust's language, and showing how these metamorphose throughout La Recherche du temps perdu. Her work offers a new model for reading fictional prose, one that replaces the critical "why?" with the more practical and productive "how?"
Woman of the Boundary Waters: Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing, and Surviving Woman of the Boundary Waters Canoeing, Guiding, Mushing, and Surviving Justine Kerfoot 1994 Spring
The Boundary Waters region of Minnesota and Ontario is a vast wilderness of quiet beauty, visited and loved by many, but home to only a rugged few. Justine Kerfoot arrived there in 1928 and has lived there ever since. As she relates her lessons from the Canadian Indians across the lake-how to paddle a canoe, hunt moose, drive a dog team, and stay warm at minus 40 degrees-Kerfoot gives us a rich sense of the world of the Indians and fur trappers. Her lyrical descriptions of wildlife and seasonal environments express the deep reverence for nature that has become her way of life.
Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles Museum Culture Histories, Discourses, Spectacles Daniel J. Sherman and Irit Rogoff, Editors 1994 Spring
Written from a broad range of perspectives in history, art history and criticism, critical theory, and sociology, the essays in this volume go beyond previous institutional analyses to consider museums as the intricate amalgam of architecture, history, practices and strategies of display, pedagogical and other programs, functioning under the aegis of various governing ideologies. Contributors: Ariella Azoulay, Frederick N. Bohrer, Chantal Georgel, Walter Grasskamp, Boris Groys, Anne Higonnet, Detlef Hoffman, Seth Koven, Dominique Poulot, Irit Rogoff, Daniel J. Sherman, Brian Wallis, and Vera L. Zolberg.
Bad Aboriginal Art: Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons Bad Aboriginal Art Tradition, Media, and Technological Horizons Eric Michaels 1993 Fall
This is the account of the author‘s period of residence and work with the Walpiri Aborigines of western Central Australia, where he studied the impact of television on these remote communities. Sharp, exact, and unrelentingly honest, this volume records with an extraordinary combination of distance and immersion the intervention of technology into a remote Aboriginal community and that community’s forays into broadcasting.
Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons Racial Conditions Politics, Theory, Comparisons Howard Winant 1994 Spring
More than a quarter-century after the passage of civil rights legislation in the United States and decades since the last European colonies attained their independence, race continues to play a central role in cultural, political, and economic life, both in the United States and around the globe. Howard Winant argues that race cannot be understood as a “social problem” or as a “survival” of earlier, more benighted ages. Indeed, from the rise of Europe to the present, race has been a social condition, a permanent though flexible feature of human society and identity. Among the topics discussed are the relationship between race and class, as well as the racial dimensions of gender, diaspora, colonialism, and fascism. Other key topics include the changing nature of racial identity in the post-civil rights era, the 1992 Los Angeles riot, and politics of race in Brazil.
Passionate Fictions: Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector Passionate Fictions Gender, Narrative, and Violence in Clarice Lispector Marta Peixoto 1994 Spring
Canonical States, Canonical Stages: Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century Drama Canonical States, Canonical Stages Oedipus, Othering, and Seventeenth-Century Drama Mitchell Greenberg 1994 Spring
"Greenberg offers a powerful interpretation of the classical stage in its relationship to the emergence of absolutism in Europe....The originality and strength of the book reside in its fascinating integration of texts dealing with political theory, psychoanalysis, history, and literature....This book is one of the most important contributions to date on the study of the European classical stage." --Marie-Hélène Huet, University of Virginia
Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil Formations of Ritual Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil David Scott 1994 Spring
Yaktovil is an elaborate healing ceremony employed by Sinhalas in Sri Lanka to dispel the effects of the eyesight of a pantheon of malevolent supernatural figures known as yakku. Scott’s investigation of yaktovil and yakku within the Sinhala cosmology is also an inquiry into the ways in which anthropology, by ignoring the discursive history of the rituals, religions, and relationships it seeks to describe, tends to reproduce ideological-often, specifically colonial-objects. “A challenging work that is on the one hand a fine descriptive ethnography of a Sri Lankan ritual and on the other hand an examination of the presuppositions that went into the construction of 'demonology' in Sri Lanka. It will, I am sure, provoke a vigorous debate on the nature of ethnographic writing.” --Gananath Obeyesekere, Princeton University
Anti-Apocalypse: Exercises in Genealogical Criticism Anti-Apocalypse Exercises in Genealogical Criticism Rowena Lee Quinby 1994 Spring
Drawing on feminist and Foucauldian theory, Quinby offers a powerful critique of the millenarian rhetoric that pervades American culture. Tracing the deployment of power through systems of alliance, sexuality, and technology, the author promotes a variety of critical stances-genealogical feminism, an ethics of the flesh, and “pissed criticism”-as challenges to apocalyptic claims for absolute truth and universal morality.
The Electronic Eye: The Rise of Surveillance Society The Electronic Eye The Rise of Surveillance Society David Lyon 1994 Spring
Lyon looks into our mediated way of life, where every transaction and phone call, border crossing, vote, and application registers in some computer, to show how electronic surveillance influences social order in our day.
A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin A Dialogue of Voices Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow, Editors 1994 Spring
Focusing on feminist theorists such as Hélène Cixous, Teresa de Lauretis, Julia Kristeva, and Monique Wittig in conjunction with Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogism, heteroglossia, and chronotope, the authors offer close readings of texts from a wide range of multicultural genres, including nature writing, sermon composition, nineteenth-century British women’s fiction, the contemporary romance novel, Irish and French lyric poetry, and Latin American film.