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  1. Sinisten maisemien mies : J. G. Granön tutkijantie 1882-1956
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    The man of blue landscapes describes the life and work of the Finnish geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), whose career also reflected Finland’s development as a modern state. Granö was a scientific explorer, writer, a pioneer of Finnish... more

     

    The man of blue landscapes describes the life and work of the Finnish geographer Johannes Gabriel Granö (1882–1956), whose career also reflected Finland’s development as a modern state. Granö was a scientific explorer, writer, a pioneer of Finnish photographic art and a professor of geography at the universities of Tartu (Estonia), Helsinki and Turku. In Estonia he applied scientific method to the study of local history and from Tartu brought the tradition of urban research. Granö spent much of his youth in Omsk in western Siberia, where his father worked as a priest among displaced and deported Finns and Estonians. From 1906 to 1916 Granö made an expedition to Mongolia and the Altai mountains, but his fieldwork remained unfinished when the 1917 revolution broke out, the area was then closed to Western scholars for 70 years. Among Granö’s most important works are the classic travel book Altai, vaellusvuosina nähtyä ja elettyä (‘The Altai, seen and experienced during my years of travel’, 1921) and his methodological masterpiece Puhdas maantiede (‘Pure geography’, 1930). In it Granö outlined a theory of landscapes, and the book was a pioneering work ahead of its time: landscape was examined in terms of the relation between human beings and their environment, as the sum of all the senses.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522229847; 9789522222923
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    Subjects: Individual photographers; Biography: general; Geography
    Other subjects: photography; geographers; explorers; scientists
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (541 p.)
  2. Aino Kallas : Negotiations with Modernity
    Contributor: Kurvet-Käösaar, Leena (Publisher); Rojola, Lea (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became... more

     

    "The collection, first one ever on Aino Kallas in English, highlights her significance to the artistic and intellectual horizons of modernity of Finland and Estonia as well as those of Scandinavia and Europe. In the 1920s and 30s, Aino Kallas became an internationally renowned author and a selection of her work was translated into English. For her, participating in the immediate cultural debates in Estonia and Finland was a priority, yet her whole oeuvre is a negotiation between her more immediate contexts and the leading conceptual frameworks of aesthetics, geniality, knowledge, subjectivity, race, sexuality, nature, etc., circling in Europe at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. Containing articles focusing on the question of female voice and echoes of feminist ecological thought in her fiction, a contrapuntal reading of her fiction and that of Isak Dinesen, her unknown manuscript “Bathseba”, the implications of existentialist thought for her work, Kallas’ engagement in her cultural criticism and life writings with decadent modernism, issues of race and heredity, subjectivity and borders, travel, ageing, her interpretation of Goethe, and the iconography of Kallas, the collection features the work of today’s leading Aino Kallas scholars in Finland and in Estonia. "

     

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    Contributor: Kurvet-Käösaar, Leena (Publisher); Rojola, Lea (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522227508; 9789522222602
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    Subjects: The arts; Portraits in art; Biography & True Stories; Literature & literary studies; History
    Other subjects: modernization; diaries; ageing; mourning; poetry; biography; Aino Kallas; Estonia; Estonian language; Finland; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Young Estonia
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (259 p.)
  3. Preternatural
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  punctum books

    The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable... more

     

    The preternatural, as explored by these artists, disturb the ontological boundaries of art, nature and metaphysics. They exist within the folds of classificatory thresholds: both beyond and between nature and supernature; human and animal; vegetable and mineral; living and dead. The confusion between animate and inanimate is a primary concern, a surreality which unites with the preternatural’s love for reveling in the mysterious: bizarre fragments, unreadable words, objects of absurd scale, and distortions of the relativity of time and space flourish throughout this exhibition. Preternatural is the catalogue for a multi-site art exhibition (9 December 2011 through 17 February 2012, in Ottawa, Canada) that draws from the idea that art itself is a form of preternatural pursuit, in which the artists participating explore the bewildering condition of being in between the mundane and the marvelous in nature. It questions a world that understands itself as accessible, reachable, and ‘knowable’ and counters it with a consideration of this heterogenous proposition.

     

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    Contributor: Bryant, Levi S. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Exhibition catalogues & specific collections
    Other subjects: metaphysics; nature; supernatural; exhibition catalog
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (38 p.)
  4. Poetry's Afterlife: Verse in the Digital Age
    Author: Stein, Kevin
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed ""death,"" Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay... more

     

    At a time when most commentators fixate on American poetry's supposed ""death,"" Kevin Stein's Poetry's Afterlife instead proposes the vitality of its aesthetic hereafter. The essays of Poetry's Afterlife blend memoir, scholarship, and personal essay to survey the current poetry scene, trace how we arrived here, and suggest where poetry is headed in our increasingly digital culture. The result is a book both fetchingly insightful and accessible. Poetry's spirited afterlife has come despite, or perhaps because of, two decades of commentary diagnosing American poetry as moribund if not already deceased. With his 2003 appointment as Illinois Poet Laureate and his forays into public libraries and schools, Stein has discovered that poetry has not given up its literary ghost. For a fated art supposedly pushing up aesthetic daisies, poetry these days is up and about in the streets, schools, and universities, and online in new and compelling digital forms. It flourishes among the people in a lively if curious underground existence largely overlooked by national media. It's this second life, or better, Poetry's Afterlife, that his book examines and celebrates.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780472070992; 9780472050994
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: poetry & poets
    Other subjects: Literature
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (276 p.)
  5. Parodies of Ownership : Hip-Hop Aesthetics and Intellectual Property Law
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor

    What is the relationship between hip-hop and African American culture in the post--Civil Rights era? Does hip-hop share a criticism of American culture or stand as an isolated and unique phenomenon? How have African American texts responded to the... more

     

    What is the relationship between hip-hop and African American culture in the post--Civil Rights era? Does hip-hop share a criticism of American culture or stand as an isolated and unique phenomenon? How have African American texts responded to the increasing role intellectual property law plays in regulating images, sounds, words, and logos? Parodies of Ownership examines how contemporary African American writers, artists, and musicians have developed an artistic form that Schur terms ""hip-hop aesthetics."" This book offers an in-depth examination of a wide range of contemporary African American painters and writers, including Anna Deavere Smith, Toni Morrison, Adrian Piper, Colson Whitehead, Michael Ray Charles, Alice Randall, and Fred Wilson. Their absence from conversations about African American culture has caused a misunderstanding about the nature of contemporary cultural issues and resulted in neglect of their innovative responses to the post--Civil Rights era. By considering their work as a cross-disciplinary and specifically African American cultural movement, Schur shows how a new paradigm for artistic creation has developed. Parodies of Ownership offers a broad analysis of post--Civil Rights era culture and provides the necessary context for understanding contemporary debates within American studies, African American studies, intellectual property law, African American literature, art history, and hip-hop studies. Weaving together law, literature, art, and music, Schur deftly clarifies the conceptual issues that unify contemporary African American culture, empowering this generation of artists, writers, and musicians to criticize how racism continues to affect our country.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780472070602; 9780472050604
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism; Intellectual property law
    Other subjects: Literature
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (253 p.)
  6. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain
    Contributor: Chambers, Colin (Publisher)
    Published: 2011

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed... more

     

    Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an unprecedented study tracing the history of ‘the Other’ through the ages in British theatre. The diverse and often contradictory aspects of this history are expertly drawn together to provide a detailed background to the work of African, Asian, and Caribbean diasporic companies and practitioners. Colin Chambers examines early forms of blackface and other representations in the sixteenth century, through to the emergence of black and Asian actors, companies, and theatre groups in their own right. Thorough analysis uncovers how they led to a flourishing of black and Asian voices in theatre at the turn of the twenty-first century. Figures and companies studied include: Ira Aldridge Henry Francis Downing Paul Robeson Errol John Mustapha Matura Dark and Light Theatre The Keskidee Centre Indian Art and Dramatic Society Temba Edric and Pearl Connor Tara Arts Yvonne Brewster Tamasha Talawa. Black and Asian Theatre in Britain is an enlightening and immensely readable resource and represents a major new study of theatre history and British history as a whole.

     

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    Contributor: Chambers, Colin (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780415365130; 9780415375986
    Subjects: Theatre studies
    Other subjects: Asian; Black; Britain; History; Theatre
  7. Violets between Cherry Blossoms. The diffusion of classical motifs to the East : traces in Japanese art : fictions, conjectures, facts
    Author: Arts, P.L.W.
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    This richly illustrated book is a comparative study, which shows how motifs and images travelled throughout Eurasia from Rome to Tokyo. It covers a period from around the early fifth century BC up until today. It is likely that already in the fifth... more

     

    This richly illustrated book is a comparative study, which shows how motifs and images travelled throughout Eurasia from Rome to Tokyo. It covers a period from around the early fifth century BC up until today. It is likely that already in the fifth century BC there was some indirect cultural exchange between the Black Sea region and China. From the second to the sixth century AD elements of Greco-Buddhist culture gradually found their way to China and subsequently, from the mid-sixth century AD on, reached Japan. This book is the first comprehensive work to provide a critical and compelling study of the cultural flow across this extensive area. It shows convincingly how Greek images and motifs travelled East, were adopted and preserved in Chinese art and how they spread to Japan.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: History of art / art & design styles
    Other subjects: antiquity; art history; oriental art; japan; china; Anno Domini
  8. Irish Literature Since 1990 : Diverse Voices
    Published: 20110601
    Publisher:  Manchester University Press, Manchester

    This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of... more

     

    This volume explores the meaning of republicanism in contemporary Ireland. While this has often been identified simply with nationalism, the book examines the connections, comparisons and contrasts between Irish republicanism and other strands of republican politics: the ideology and practice of official French republicanism, the broader European and American civic republican tradition and the contemporary revival of this tradition of citizenship.

     

    Academics from different disciplines, along with statesmen and politicians from different political perspectives, are brought together to examine the relationship of historical and contemporary Irish republicanism to the wider republican theoretical tradition. The book analyses political positions among those parties describing themselves as republican in Ireland in the twenty-first century and examines the possible relevance of the ideas of the broader republican tradition for future politics in Ireland.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781847795052
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    Subjects: Literary studies: general
    Other subjects: History; Ireland; Literature; Literary Criticism
  9. Embodiments of Evil. Gog and Magog: Interdisciplinary Studies of the "Other" in Literature & Internet Texts
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Arab world, in Berber, Persian and Indonesian... more

     

    Gog and Magog, as archetypes of evil, have dwelt in our consciousness since their threatening appearance in the Bible and Quran. Maps, literature and texts ranging from Medieval Europe, the Byzantine and Arab world, in Berber, Persian and Indonesian traditions, to contemporary internet texts: all use these imaginary monstrous creatures. The figures are constantly reinterpreted as the enemies of order change. This volume reveals in eight essays the images of the 'Other' in genres ranging from contemporary folk religion on the internet to the rich literary heritage of Alexander romances.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Literature: history & criticism
    Other subjects: evil in literature; language and linguistics; history; God; Gog and Magog; Magog (Bible); Quran
  10. Der Schutz materieller Kulturgüter in Lateinamerika - universelles, regionales und nationales Recht
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    The main reason why Latin America is a cultural diverse region is because of the indigenous peoples who inhabit it. That is why indigenous peoples' interests on their cultural property have to be taken into account when this matter is to be legally... more

     

    The main reason why Latin America is a cultural diverse region is because of the indigenous peoples who inhabit it. That is why indigenous peoples' interests on their cultural property have to be taken into account when this matter is to be legally regulated in Latin American countries. In order to ascertain whether that has occurred, the book explores relevant legal instruments at the international and regional levels and compares national norms in some Latin American countries, particularly those concerning ownership. It concludes that recognition of indigenous interests in Latin American law on cultural property is still a pending task. Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage: Wie ist der Schutz von Kulturgütern in Lateinamerika rechtlich geregelt, und in welcher Weise werden indigene Kulturgüter innerhalb solcher Regelungen berücksichtigt? Die Frage besteht aus zwei Teilen. Der erste Teil betrifft eine vergleichende Analyse der geltenden Regelungen über den Schutz materieller Kulturgüter Lateinamerikas. Unterstrichen wird dabei ein Aspekt des Rechtsschutzes von Kulturgütern, nämlich die Regelung des Eigentums. Der zweite Teil der Frage, der sich auf die Berücksichtigung der materiellen Kulturgüter der indigenen Völker bezieht , wird bei der Untersuchung der verschiedenen Rechtsinstrumente beachtet. Dabei geht die Arbeit von der Annahme aus, dass die indigenen Völker ein Interesse an der Kontrolle der mit ihrer Kultur verbundenen Güter haben, welches von den Rechtsnormen in der Regel nicht in Betracht gezogen wird.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Society & social sciences; Cultural studies; Public international law
    Other subjects: cultural assets; Latin America; Archäologie; Dekret; Guatemala; Indigene Völker; Konvention; Kulturgut; San Salvador; UNESCO
  11. New forms of collaborative innovation and production on the internet - an interdisciplinary perspective
    Contributor: Wittke, Volker (Publisher); Hanekop, Heidemarie (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and co-producers lead to new forms of production and innovation, as seen in Wikipedia, open source software development, in social... more

     

    The Internet has enabled new forms of large-scale collaboration. Voluntary contributions by large numbers of users and co-producers lead to new forms of production and innovation, as seen in Wikipedia, open source software development, in social networks or on user-generated content platforms as well as in many firm-driven Web 2.0 services. Large-scale collaboration on the Internet is an intriguing phenomenon for scholarly debate because it challenges well established insights into the governance of economic action, the sources of innovation, the possibilities of collective action and the social, legal and technical preconditions for successful collaboration. Although contributions to the debate from various disciplines and fine-grained empirical studies already exist, there still is a lack of an interdisciplinary approach.

     

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  12. Bücher unter Verdacht : NS-Raub- und Beutegut an der SUB Göttingen
    Contributor: Bartels, Nicole (Publisher); Deinert, Juliane (Publisher); Enderle, Wilfried (Publisher); Rohlfing, Helmut (Publisher); Möbus, Frank (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Bücher unter Verdacht - so lautete der Titel einer Ausstellung der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, bei der Beispiele von NS-Raub- und Beutebüchern aus ihren Beständen präsentiert wurden. Der Ausstellungskatalog... more

     

    Bücher unter Verdacht - so lautete der Titel einer Ausstellung der Niedersächsischen Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen, bei der Beispiele von NS-Raub- und Beutebüchern aus ihren Beständen präsentiert wurden. Der Ausstellungskatalog dokumentiert nicht nur alle gezeigten Objekte, sondern gibt in kurzen Einführungen auch Informationen zum historischen Hintergrund. Wohl fast alle wissenschaftlichen Bibliotheken haben während des Dritten Reiches Bücher in ihre Bestände aufgenommen, die aus beschlagnahmten Bibliotheken von Arbeitervereinen und anderen Organisationen stammten, die bei Razzien in Buchhandlungen und Verlagen von den Nationalsozialisten entwendet und an Bibliotheken weitergegeben wurden, die Privatpersonen unter Zwang abgeben mussten oder die während des Krieges in den besetzten Gebieten geraubt wurden. Viele weitere Beispiele ließen sich nennen. Der vorliegende Ausstellungskatalog gibt einen Einblick in die zeitgenössische Praxis einer Universitätsbibliothek beim Umgang mit NS-Raub- und Beutebüchern, wie sie heute genannt werden. "Books under suspicion" was the title of an exhibition of the Göttingen State and University Library presenting examples of Nazi looted and looted books from its holdings. The exhibition catalogue not only documents all the objects on display, but also provides information on the historical background in short introductions. Probably almost all academic libraries included books in their collections during the Third Reich that came from confiscated libraries of workers' associations and other organisations, that were stolen by the National Socialists during raids on bookshops and publishing houses and given to libraries, that private individuals had to hand over under duress or that were looted in the occupied territories during the war. Many other examples could be cited. This exhibition catalogue provides an insight into the contemporary practice of a university library in dealing with Nazi looted books, as they are called today. (translated with DeepL)

     

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  13. Subjectivity. Filmic Representation and the Spectator's Experience
    Contributor: Chateau, Dominique (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Amsterdam University Press

    Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which... more

     

    Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, José Moure, Pere Salabert, Céline Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.

     

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    Contributor: Chateau, Dominique (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Film theory & criticism
    Other subjects: subjectivity; nouvelle vague; Consciousness; Duchy of Münsterberg; Point-of-view shot; Robert Bresson
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (276 p.)
  14. Saamentutkimus tänään
    Contributor: Pulkkinen, Risto (Publisher); Halinen, Petri (Publisher); Seurujärvi-Kari, Irja (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    Saamentutkimus tänään is an introduction to the Sámi studies, i.e. the scientific study of the Sámi people. It gives many-faceted basic information of the Sámi people and presents up-to-date views of the disciplines related to the Sámi studies, e.g.... more

     

    Saamentutkimus tänään is an introduction to the Sámi studies, i.e. the scientific study of the Sámi people. It gives many-faceted basic information of the Sámi people and presents up-to-date views of the disciplines related to the Sámi studies, e.g. history, archeology, genetics, linguistics, comparative religion, folkloristics, ethnology etc. It provides scientifically based knowledge of the Sámi during the prehistory and pre-Christianity, dealing with reindeer herding, handicraft, the Sámi languages, Sámi literature and art and civil right questions, including participation in the international movement of the indigenous people. All the authors are eminent experts of their scholarly fields, and all the articles have been revised by the Academic representatives of the Sámi themselves "Teos esittelee saamentutkimuksen keskeisten alojen uusimmat tulokset ja näkemykset ja päivittää saamelaisia ja saamelaiskulttuuria koskevat tiedot genetiikasta kielitieteeseen ja historiasta nykykulttuuriin. Kirjassa perehdytään myös saamelaisten aineelliseen ja henkiseen perinnekulttuuriin: käsityöhön, poronhoitoon, folkloreen, taiteisiin sekä muinais- ja kansanuskoon. Erityisen painon teoksessa saavat ajankohtaiset ihmisoikeus- ja alkuperäiskansakysymykset. Kaikki kirjoittajat ovat alojensa aktiivitutkijoita. Kirja on 1995 julkaistun Johdatus saamentutkimukseen -teoksen kokonaan uudistettu ja huomattavasti laajennettu laitos."

     

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    Contributor: Pulkkinen, Risto (Publisher); Halinen, Petri (Publisher); Seurujärvi-Kari, Irja (Publisher)
    Language: Finnish
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522228369
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    Subjects: Finland; Lappish (Sami); Regional studies; Folklore, myths & legends; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: music; folk beliefs; handicraft tradition; sami people; indigenous peoples; folk poetry
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (449 p.)
  15. Representations of Finnishness in Sweden
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "More than half a million Swedes – one in twenty – is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden?... more

     

    "More than half a million Swedes – one in twenty – is of Finnish descent. This book explores Finnishness, multilingualism and identities of young people with Finnish background in Sweden. What does it mean to grow up in a Finnish family in Sweden? Who are ‘real Finns’ and what does it take to be(come) one? Is a shared minority language essential for the survival of the minority, or can a minority culture stay viable without it? What is Finnishness and who, in the end, can define ethnicity? How to make sense of, and how to present interviews that are rich with imitations of accents, jokes and laughter? Representations of Finnishness is Sweden is an ethnographic interview study in the domain of applied language studies. This book is aimed at readers interested in sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, and the study of identities. Interviewees’ voices take a central position in this book and interview excerpts are used not only as illustrations, but also serve as starting points for discussing broader theoretical concepts.

    The author, Dr. Lotta Weckström, grew up bilingual – Finnish and Swedish – in Finland. She studied linguistics and migration studies in Germany and the Netherlands, and in this longitudinal study encompasses her expertise."

     

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  16. Words as Events: Cretan Mandinádes in Performance and Composition
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and... more

     

    "Words as Events introduces the tradition of short, communicative rhyming couplets, the mantinádes, as still sung and recited in a variety of performance situations on the island of Crete. Recently, these poems have also entered modern mass media and they are widely being exchanged as text messages by Cretans. Focusing on the multi-functionality of the short form, Sykäri demonstrates how the traditional register gives voice to individual experiences in spontaneous utterances. The local focus on communicative economy and artistry is further examined in a close analysis of the processes and ideals of composition. By analyzing how the “restrictions” of form and performative conventions in fact generate impulses of creativity, the author creates a theoretical approach that is sensitive to the special characteristics of the short, rhymed poetic traditions. In this interdisciplinary study, the reader is invited to become familiar with the current folklore theory of oral poetry, which has a long tradition in Finland. The author combines the results of earlier folkloristic and anthropological insights, and extends the theoretical concerns further to address questions of spontaneity and individual agency. The research data has been produced in communicative interactions during long-term fieldwork. As a result, the short, rhymed poetry, often neglected by scholars in earlier research paradigms, can now be seen in new light – specifically as dialogic poetry – through its extended, multi-layered dialogic qualities."

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522227782; 9789522227775
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    Subjects: Historical & comparative linguistics; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: performances; rune singing; folk songs; interpretation; folk poetry; Crete; Dialogic; Finland; Folklore; Improvisation; Oral literature; Rhyme
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (224 p.)
  17. Media and Participation: A site of ideological-democratic struggle
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Intellect

    Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the... more

     

    Participation has become fashionable again, but at the same time it has always played a crucial role in our contemporary societies, and it has been omnipresent in a surprisingly large number of societal fields. In the case of the media sphere, the present-day media conjuncture is now considered to be the most participatory ever, but media participation has had a long and intense history. To deal with these paradoxes, this book looks at participation as a structurally unstable concept and as the object of a political-ideological struggle that makes it oscillate between minimalist and maximalist versions. This struggle is analysed in theoretical reflections in five fields (democracy, arts, development, spatial planning and media) and in eight different cases of media practice. These case studies also show participation’s close connection to power, identity, organization, technology and quality.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Society & culture: general; Media studies
    Other subjects: media; power; development; technology; democracy; organization; arts; identity; participation; spatial planning; Kinoautomat; Mass media; Maximalism; Public sphere
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (408 p.)
  18. A Key to the Treasure of the Hakim : Artistic and Humanistic Aspects of Nizami Ganjavi's Khamsa
    Contributor: Bürgel, Johann-Christoph (Publisher); Ruymbeke, van, Christine (Publisher)
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press, Leiden

    This "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami... more

     

    This "Key" to the Khamsa consists of thirteen essays by eminent scholars in the field of Persian Studies, each focusing on different aspects of the Khamsa, which is a collection of five long poems written by the Persian poet Nizami of Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) lived and worked in Ganja in present-day Azerbaijan. He is widely recognized as one of the main poets of Medieval Persia, a towering figure who produced outstanding poetry, straddling mysticism, romances and epics. He has left his mark on the whole Persian-speaking world and countless younger poets in the area stretching from the Ottoman to the Mughal worlds (present-day Turkey, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India) have found him an inspiration and have tried to emulate him. His work has influenced such other immense poets as Hafez, Rumi, and Saadi. His five masnavis (long poems) address a variety of topics and disciplines and have all enjoyed enormous fame, as the countless surviving manuscripts of his work indicate. His heroes, Khosrow and Shirin, Leili and Majnun, Iskandar count amongst the stars of the Persian literary firmament and have become household names all over the Islamic world. The essays in the present volume constitute a significant development in the field of Nizami-studies, and on a more general level, of classical Persian literature. They focus on topics such as mysticism, art history, comparative literature, science, and philosophy. they show how classical Greek knowledge mingles in a unique manner with the Persian past and the Islamic culture in Nizami's world. They reflect a high degree of engagement with the existing scholarship in the field, they revive and challenge traditional views on the poet and his work and are indispensable both for specialists in the field and for anyone interested in the movement of ideas in the Medieval world. Deze "sleutel" om de 'Khamsa' te ontsluiten bestaat uit dertien essays door specialisten op het gebied van Perzische Studies. Elk essay richt zich op een ander aspect van de 'Khamsa', een verzameling van vijf lange gedichten geschreven door de Perzische dichter Nizami van Ganja. Nizami (1141-1209) woonde en werkte in Ganja, in het huidige Azerbeidzjan. Hij wordt algemeen erkend als een van de belangrijkste dichters van het middeleeuwse Perzië. Hij schreef poëzie op het breukvlak mystiek, romances en heldendichten en drukte zijn stempel op talloze jonge dichters, zoals Hafez, Rumi en Saadi, over een gebied dat zich uitstrekt van het huidige Turkije, Azerbeidzjan, Armenië, Georgië, Iran, Afghanistan, oezbekistan, Tadzjikistan, Pakistan, India. De essays dit boek zorgen voor een nieuwe kijk op de 'Khamsa'. Zij richten zich op onderwerpen als mystiek, kunstgeschiedenis, vergelijkende literatuur, wetenschap en filosofie. Ze laten zien hoe de klassieke Griekse kennis zich op een unieke manier vermengde met het Perzische verleden en de islamitische cultuur. Dit boek is onmisbaar voor de specialisten op het gebied van Perzische literatuur, maar ook goed leesbaar voor de geïnteresseerd leek.

     

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    Contributor: Bürgel, Johann-Christoph (Publisher); Ruymbeke, van, Christine (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789087280970
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    Subjects: Literature & literary studies; Poetry by individual poets; History; Philosophy
    Other subjects: philosophy; cultuur and geschiedenis; nederlandse letterkunde; culture and history; filosofie; dutch literature; Gog and Magog; Haft Peykar; Khidr; Persians
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (306 p.)
  19. Déjà Vu : Herhaling in culturen wereldwijd
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    Repetition has a major role in human culture. In lullabies and prayers, in protests and war cries: from the cradle to the grave, repetition is the companion to life’s essentials. In a constantly revolving world there is no pure repetition. Events... more

     

    Repetition has a major role in human culture. In lullabies and prayers, in protests and war

    cries: from the cradle to the grave, repetition

    is the companion to life’s essentials. In a

    constantly revolving world there is no pure

    repetition. Events never repeat themselves

    precisely. This is equally true of repetition

    in Literature and Art, where the use of

    repetition is varied and frequent. How does

    repetition work? And how can it be of use?

    Déjà Vu unravels these questions in fifteen

    chapters ranging from film remakes and

    Baudelaire to the offer of Abraham and David

    Lodge, Small World. Déjà Vu shows that

    repetition has been used worldwide through

    all times and cultures in visual arts, poetry,

    music, literature and motion pictures. Herhaling speelt een centrale rol in menselijke cultuuruitingen. Slaap - liedjes en smeekbeden, protesten en strijdkreten: van de wieg tot het graf begeleidt de herhaling de essentiële gebeurtenissen in het leven. Maar in een wereld die zelf voortdurend in beweging is, kan van zuivere herhaling geen sprake zijn. Je kunt onmogelijk tweemaal in dezelfde rivier stappen. Dat geldt ook in literatuur en kunst, waar herhaling veelvuldig wordt ingezet als artistiek middel. Daarbij is juist het verschil van essentieel belang. Maar wat is precies de aard van dat verschil? Wat ‘doet’ herhaling als kunstgreep met het werk? En hoe kan herhaling worden ingezet om gevestigde belangen en opvattingen te consolideren of juist te onder mijnen? Déjà Vu behandelt deze vragen vanuit een interdisciplinair en mondiaal perspectief en laat daarbij zien hoe het middel van de herhaling door alle tijden en alle culturen wordt toegepast in beeldende kunst, muziek, literatuur en film.

     

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    Language: Dutch; Dutch
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    Subjects: The arts: general issues
    Other subjects: repetition
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (336 p.)
  20. Consuming Beauty : Körper, Schönheit und Geschlecht in Tanah Karo, Nord-Sumatra
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage nach den sozialen Praxen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen von Schönheit bei den Karo Batak in Sumatra, Indonesien. In Tanah Karo, einer agrarisch geprägten Hochebene, säumen Aerobic- Studios und... more

     

    Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage nach den sozialen Praxen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen von Schönheit bei den Karo Batak in Sumatra, Indonesien. In Tanah Karo, einer agrarisch geprägten Hochebene, säumen Aerobic- Studios und Schönheitssalon die Straßen der zwei Kleinstädte Berastagi und Kabanjahe. Weibliche Schönheit in Form von Femininität gilt als modern. Moderne Weiblichkeit, die ihren Ausdruck in einem schönen Körper findet, wird durch ein komplexes Bündel von Diskursen und Praxen lokaler, nationaler und globaler Provenienz konstituiert. Ausgehend vom Körper, der als die vermittelnde Instanz zwischen Diskursen und Praxen verstanden wird, analysiert die Verfasserin die Komplexität des Themas Schönheit und Modernität aus Perspektive der Akteurinnen. Welche Ziele verfolgen sie mit der strategischen Aneignung des Ideals der modernen Weiblichkeit? Wie strukturieren soziale Positionen die jeweiligen Aneignungsprozesse? Die Verfasserin zeigt, wie die zunehmende Bedeutung von Schönheit mit Transformationen im Bereich der Geschlechterverhältnisse, des Konsums und der sozialen Differenzierung verknüpft ist. Moderne Weiblichkeit konstituiert sich an der Schnittstelle ästhetischer, aber vor allem auch sozialer, ökonomischer, kultureller, religiöser und moralischer Diskurse. Das zentrale Motiv der Akteurinnen für die Aneignung von als modern erachteten Schönheitsidealen stellt die Erweiterung der eigenen Handlungsfähigkeit in der patrilinearen Gesellschaft der Karo Batak dar. Die jeweiligen sozialen Positionen führen zu unterschiedlichen Formen der Aneignung, die in verschiedenen Formen moderner Weiblichkeit resultieren. Am Beispiel von Frauen der städtischen Mittelschicht, jungen Frauen vom Land und waria, Menschen mit weiblicher transgender-Identität, werden diese Aneignungsprozesse und ihre gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen vergleichend diskutiert. Die Globalisierung von Schönheit, so lässt sich resümieren, bringt – selbst auf begrenzter lokaler Ebene – verschiedene moderne Weiblichkeiten hervor. Karya ini dikhususkan untuk pertanyaan tentang praktik sosial dan makna sosial keindahan di antara Batak Karo di Sumatra, Indonesia. Di Tanah Karo, dataran tinggi pertanian, studio aerobik, dan salon kecantikan berjejer di jalan di dua kota kecil Berastagi dan Kabanjahe. Kecantikan feminin dalam bentuk feminitas dianggap modern. Feminitas modern, yang menemukan ekspresinya dalam tubuh yang indah, dibentuk oleh kumpulan kompleks wacana dan praktik asal lokal, nasional dan global. Berawal dari tubuh yang dipahami sebagai perantara antara wacana dan praktik, penulis menganalisis kompleksitas topik kecantikan dan modernitas dari sudut pandang para aktor. Apa tujuan Anda secara strategis menerapkan cita-cita feminitas modern? Bagaimana posisi sosial menyusun proses apropriasi masing-masing? Penulis menunjukkan bagaimana semakin pentingnya kecantikan terkait dengan transformasi di bidang relasi gender, konsumsi, dan diferensiasi sosial. Feminitas modern dibentuk pada antarmuka estetika, tetapi di atas semua itu juga wacana sosial, ekonomi, budaya, agama dan moral. Motif sentral para pelaku perampasan cita-cita keindahan yang dianggap modern adalah perluasan kemampuan mereka sendiri dalam berakting dalam masyarakat patrilinear Batak Karo.Posisi sosial masing-masing mengarah pada bentuk apropriasi yang berbeda, yang berakibat pada perbedaan bentuk feminitas modern. Menggunakan contoh perempuan dari kelas menengah perkotaan, perempuan muda dari pedesaan dan waria, orang-orang dengan identitas transgender perempuan, proses apropriasi dan makna sosialnya akan dibahas secara komparatif. Globalisasi kecantikan, dapat disimpulkan, menghasilkan - bahkan pada tingkat lokal yang terbatas - berbagai femininitas modern. (diterjemahkan dengan Google Translate)

     

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  21. World Heritage Angkor and Beyond - Circumstances and Implications of UNESCO Listings in Cambodia
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodia is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO World Heritage Sites,... more

     

    Angkor, the temple and palace complex of the ancient Khmer capital in Cambodia is one of the world’s most famous monuments. Hundreds of thousands of tourists from all over the globe visit Angkor Park, one of the finest UNESCO World Heritage Sites, every year. Since its UNESCO listing in 1992, the Angkor region has experienced an overwhelming mushrooming of hotels and restaurants; the infrastructure has been hardly able to cope with the rapid growth of mass tourism and its needs. This applies to the access and use of monument sites as well. The authors of this book critically describe and analyse the heritage nomination processes in Cambodia, especially in the case of Angkor and the temple of Preah Vihear on the Cambodian/Thai border. They examine the implications the UNESCO listings have had with regard to the management of Angkor Park and its inhabitants on the one hand, and to the Cambodian/Thai relationships on the other. Furthermore, they address issues of development through tourism that UNESCO has recognised as a welcome side-effect of heritage listings. They raise the question whether development through tourism deepens already existing inequalities rather than contributing to the promotion of the poor.

     

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  22. Off-Canon pleasures - a case study and a perspective
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work... more

     

    The inclusion of works in a canonical list creates a large body of exclusions. But among these neglected works there are not a few that nevertheless are worth reading. Literary worth is not necessarily aesthetic impeccability. A literary work recommends itself by a high degree of artistic achievement with elbowroom for historical importance. The present study focuses on Leo Rosten’s immigration novel The Education of Hyman Kaplan (1937) and Archibald MacLeish’s radio play Air Raid (1938). The first is more than the apparent compendium of language-based jokes. Read in the context of immigration policy from Presidents Theodore Roosevelt to F. D. Roosevelt and of Jewish-American humor, it displays Kaplan’s moral and intellectual growth, which extant commentary denies, and exhibits the “interior internationality” of an immigration country. Air Raid is one of the few achieved American radio plays to take a stand on foreign affairs in a context that does not only consist of broadcasting and Picasso’s collage-painting Guernica – the “screaming picture” which MacLeish transposed into the acoustic medium – but also of the historical saturation bombing of the Basque town.

     

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  23. Recht ohne Regeln? - Die Entformalisierung des Strafrechts
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Die Verteilung von Kompetenzen, also auch das Verhältnis von Festlegung und Spielraum, von Gebundenheit und Entscheidungsfreiheit, ist von elementarer Bedeutung für Macht und Ohnmacht der am Strafrecht Beteiligten. Und „Beteiligte“ sind hier, auf die... more

     

    Die Verteilung von Kompetenzen, also auch das Verhältnis von Festlegung und Spielraum, von Gebundenheit und Entscheidungsfreiheit, ist von elementarer Bedeutung für Macht und Ohnmacht der am Strafrecht Beteiligten. Und „Beteiligte“ sind hier, auf die eine oder andere Art, alle: Der Bürger als Souverän und Rechtsunterworfener ebenso wie die Akteure im konkreten Strafverfahren. Kompetenzverlagerungen weg vom Souverän hin zu den anderen Beteiligten werfen schwierige Legitimationsfragen auf und betreffen das Verständnis von Recht und Strafe in seinem Kern. Die anlässlich eines Kolloquiums des Instituts für Kriminalwissenschaften der Juristischen Fakultät der Universität Göttingen entstandenen Beiträge nehmen sich der Aufgabe an, den gegenwärtigen Stand des Strafrechts in Hinblick auf Gesetzesbindung und Verfahrensförmlichkeit zu analysieren und zu bewerten.

     

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    Source: OAPEN
    Language: German
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Anthologies (non-poetry); Law; Criminal law & procedure; Criminal justice law
    Other subjects: criminal law; Staatsanwaltschaft; Strafprozessordnung (Deutschland); Strafprozessrecht; Strafrecht
  24. Cities Full of Symbols : A Theory of Urban Space and Culture
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press, Leiden

    This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a... more

     

    This book examines design proposals that show symbolic handling of the 9/11 attack on New York, the disaster symbolism of the ship washed ashore by the tsunami in Banda Aceh, and the design of the symbol of the city of Cape Town derived from a remnant of Dutch colonial architecture, or the mass pilgrimage to Elvis’s Graceland in Memphis. Cities Full of Symbols develops urban symbolic ecology and hypercity approaches into a new perspective on social cohesion. Approaches of architects, anthropologists, sociologists, social geographers and historians converge to make this a book for anyone interested in urban life, policymaking and city branding. Overal in steden zijn de betekenisvolle symbolen te vinden die samen de stadscultuur vormen. In de bundel Cities Full of Symbols, worden voorbeelden van Jakarta tot Leiden en van Buenos Aires tot New York gebruikt, en wordt aan de hand van de ‘urban symbolism theory’ ingezoomd op symbolen zoals stadslayout, standbeelden, straatnamen en de heersende populaire cultuur. Dit boek onderzoekt de symboliek die ten grondslag ligt aan de bouwplannen na de aanslagen op 11 september in New York, de betekenis van het tijdens de tsunami aangespoelde schip in Banda Atjeh, het stadslogo van Kaapstad dat is afgeleid van Nederlandse koloniale architectuur, en de massale pelgrimage naar Elvis’ Graceland in Memphis.

    In Cities Full of Symbols wordt door middel van stedelijke symbolische ecologie en hypercity benaderingen een nieuw perspectief ontwikkeld over sociale cohesie. Deze bundel verenigt benaderingen van architecten, antropologen, sociologen, sociaal geografen en historici. Dit is een boek voor iedereen met interesse in het stadsleven, beleidsvorming en stadsmarketing.

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789087281250
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    Subjects: Architecture; Anthropology; Urban & municipal planning
    Other subjects: sociology; culture studies; anthropology; Colombo; Ghent; Jakarta; Yogyakarta
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (304 p.)
  25. Sich windende Wege - Ethnografie der Melo-Schnecke in Papua, Indonesien
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Universitätsverlag Göttingen

    Das Buch schildert die verschlungenen Wege der Meeresschnecke Melo im Westteil der Insel Neuguinea, in der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Zahlreiche Etappen dieser Wege durch die zerklüfteten und schwer zugänglichen Bergtäler und an der Südküste der... more

     

    Das Buch schildert die verschlungenen Wege der Meeresschnecke Melo im Westteil der Insel Neuguinea, in der indonesischen Provinz Papua. Zahlreiche Etappen dieser Wege durch die zerklüfteten und schwer zugänglichen Bergtäler und an der Südküste der Insel, aber auch in Museumssammlungen in Europa hat die Autorin selbst verfolgt und erforscht. Die Meeresschnecke Melo ist in den Küstengewässern Neuguineas beheimatet. Die kulturellen Erscheinungsformen ihrer Schale wurden aber, wie Museumsobjekte in europäischen Sammlungen belegen, auch in weit abgelegenen Tälern des Hochlandes im Innern der Insel gefunden. Auf den Spuren der Melo-Schnecke hat die Autorin Verbindungen hergestellt zwischen „immobilen“ Museumsobjekten im „Hier“ und dynamischen kulturellen Aneignungs- und Umdeutungsprozessen im „Dort“. So war es ihr möglich, frühkoloniale Verhältnisse, Handelswege, Tauschaktionen, Verwendungs- und Bearbeitungsformen in Neuguinea nachzuzeichnen und mit aktuellen Erscheinungsformen der Schale, etwa im katholischen oder touristischen Kontext, zu kontrastieren. In einer Reihe von Essays beschreibt sie Etappen von Wegen der Melo- Schnecke, die räumlich und zeitlich an unterschiedlichen Punkten einsetzen und enden. Literarisch gefärbte Passagen wechseln sich dabei mit unterschiedlichen theoretischen Ansätzen ab. So ist es gerade das Fragmentarische dieser Ethnografie, welches das Thema immer wieder neu und auf spannende Art zu beleuchten vermag.

     

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