Indigenous Modernities

Author : Jyoti Hosagrahar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134348213

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Indigenous Modernities by Jyoti Hosagrahar Pdf

This book examines how a historic and so-called 'traditional' city quietly evolved into one that was modern in its own terms; in form, use and meaning. Through a focused study of Delhi, the author challenges prevalent assumptions in architecture and urbanism to identify an interpretation of modernism that goes beyond conventional understanding. Part one reflects on transformations and discontinuities in built form and spatial culture and questions accepted notions of the static nature of what is normally referred to as traditional and non-Western architecture. Part two is a critical discussion of Delhi in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, redefining modernism in a way that separates the city's architecture and society from the objectified realm of the exotic whilst acknowledging non-Western ideas of modernity. In the final part the author considers 'indigenous modernities': the irregular, the uneven and the unexpected in what uncritical observers might call a coherent 'traditional' society and built environment.

Author : Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789401206976

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Narrating Indigenous Modernities by Michaela Moura-Koçoğlu Pdf

Preliminary Material -- “Things are not exactly black or white in Aotearoa”: The Many Facets of Kiwi Identity -- Fragmentation Reconsidered: Transcultural Identities in the Making -- Narratives of (Be)Longing: Māori Literary Voices Advancing -- Narratives of (Un)Belonging: Unmasking Cleavage, Cleaving to Identities -- Transcultural Readings: Recombining Repertoires -- Navigating Transcultural Currents: Stories of Indigenous Modernities -- Works Cited -- Index.

Author : Victoria Levine Lindsay Levine,Dylan Robinson
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780819578648

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Music and Modernity Among First Peoples of North America by Victoria Levine Lindsay Levine,Dylan Robinson Pdf

In this wide-ranging anthology, scholars offer diverse perspectives on ethnomusicology in dialogue with critical Indigenous studies. This volume is a collaboration between Indigenous and settler scholars from both Canada and the United States. The contributors explore the intersections between music, modernity, and Indigeneity in essays addressing topics that range from hip-hop to powwow, and television soundtracks of Native Classical and experimental music. Working from the shared premise that multiple modernities exist for Indigenous peoples, the authors seek to understand contemporary musical expression from Native perspectives and to decolonize the study of Native American/First Nations music. The essays coalesce around four main themes: innovative technology, identity formation and self-representation, political activism, and translocal musical exchange. Related topics include cosmopolitanism, hybridity, alliance studies, code-switching, and ontologies of sound. Featuring the work of both established and emerging scholars, the collection demonstrates the centrality of music in communicating the complex, diverse lived experience of Indigenous North Americans in the twenty-first century.

Author : Jacob K. Olupona
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134481989

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Beyond Primitivism by Jacob K. Olupona Pdf

What role do indigenous religions play in today's world? Beyond Primitivism is a complete appraisal of indigenous religions - faiths integrally connected to the cultures in which they originate, as distinct from global religions of conversion - as practised across America, Africa, Asia and the Pacific today. At a time when local traditions across the world are colliding with global culture, it explores the future of indigenous faiths as they encounter modernity and globalization. Beyond Primitivism argues that indigenous religions are not irrelevant in modern society, but are dynamic, progressive forces of continuing vitality and influence. Including essays on Haitian vodou, Korean shamanism and the Sri Lankan 'Wild Man', the contributors reveal the relevance of native religions to millions of believers worldwide, challenging the perception that indigenous faiths are vanishing from the face of the globe.

Author : P. A. Morton
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262632713

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Hybrid Modernities by P. A. Morton Pdf

A look at how the 1931 International Colonial Exposition in Paris created hybrids of French and colonial culture.

Author : Ernst Halbmayer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1912385015

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Indigenous Modernities in South America by Ernst Halbmayer Pdf

Contemporary indigenous peoples are modern societies, shaped by their ways of dealing with and transforming contexts imposed by nation-states, colonial systems and globalization. Case studies from South America on shamanism and Christianity, traditional clothing, as well as indigenous cosmologies, technology and welfare, explore these processes.

Author : Arjun Appadurai
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 145290006X

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Modernity At Large by Arjun Appadurai Pdf

Author : Luís Madureira
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 081392376X

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Cannibal Modernities by Luís Madureira Pdf

With inclusion of Brazil in a comparative study of literary texts and their engagement with Western modernity, this study shows how the ""peripheral"" replications of modernity in contemporary Caribbean and Latin American texts differ crucially from their European models, and addresses issues that many post colonial theorists have struggled with.

Author : Elizabeth Harney,Ruth B. Phillips
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780822372615

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Mapping Modernisms by Elizabeth Harney,Ruth B. Phillips Pdf

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists. Expanding the contours of modernity and its visual products, the contributors illustrate how these artists engaged with ideas of Primitivism through visual forms and philosophical ideas. Although often overlooked in the literature on global modernisms, artists, artworks, and art patrons moved within and across national and imperial borders, carrying, appropriating, or translating objects, images, and ideas. These itineraries made up the dense networks of modern life, contributing to the crafting of modern subjectivities and of local, transnationally inflected modernisms. Addressing the silence on indigeneity in established narratives of modernism, the contributors decenter art history's traditional Western orientation and prompt a re-evaluation of canonical understandings of twentieth-century art history. Mapping Modernisms is the first book in Modernist Exchanges, a multivolume project dedicated to rewriting the history of modernism and modernist art to include artists, theorists, art forms, and movements from around the world. Contributors. Bill Anthes, Peter Brunt, Karen Duffek, Erin Haney, Elizabeth Harney, Heather Igloliorte, Sandra Klopper, Ian McLean, Anitra Nettleton, Chika Okeke-Agulu, Ruth B. Phillips, W. Jackson Rushing III, Damian Skinner, Nicholas Thomas, Norman Vorano

Author : Scott Lauria Morgensen
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452932729

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Spaces Between Us by Scott Lauria Morgensen Pdf

Explores the intimate relationship of non-Native and Native sexual politics in the United States

Author : Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0822327147

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Alternative Modernities by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar Pdf

A special issue of PUBLIC CULTURE, this volume of essays examines modernity from transnational and transcultural perspectives, holding that within different cultures, there are different starting points of the transition to modernity that lead to differen

Author : Darryl Sterk
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429513459

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Indigenous Cultural Translation by Darryl Sterk Pdf

Indigenous Cultural Translation is about the process that made it possible to film the 2011 Taiwanese blockbuster Seediq Bale in Seediq, an endangered indigenous language. Seediq Bale celebrates the headhunters who rebelled against or collaborated with the Japanese colonizers at or around a hill station called Musha starting on October 27, 1930, while this book celebrates the grandchildren of headhunters, rebels, and collaborators who translated the Mandarin-language screenplay into Seediq in central Taiwan nearly eighty years later. As a "thick description" of Seediq Bale, this book describes the translation process in detail, showing how the screenwriter included Mandarin translations of Seediq texts recorded during the Japanese era in his screenplay, and then how the Seediq translators backtranslated these texts into Seediq, changing them significantly. It argues that the translators made significant changes to these texts according to the consensus about traditional Seediq culture they have been building in modern Taiwan, and that this same consensus informs the interpretation of the Musha Incident and of Seediq culture that they articulated in their Mandarin-Seediq translation of the screenplay as a whole. The argument more generally is that in building cultural consensus, indigenous peoples like the Seediq are "translating" their traditions into alternative modernities in settler states around the world.

Author : Douglas Mao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108487061

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The New Modernist Studies by Douglas Mao Pdf

The first book specifically devoted to the history and prospects of the new modernist studies.

Author : David S. Dalton
Publisher : University Press of Florida
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683403227

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Mestizo Modernity by David S. Dalton Pdf

Honorable Mention, Latin American Studies Association Mexico Section Best Book in the Humanities After the end of the Mexican Revolution in 1917, postrevolutionary leaders hoped to assimilate the country’s racially diverse population into one official mixed-race identity—the mestizo. This book shows that as part of this vision, the Mexican government believed it could modernize “primitive” Indigenous peoples through technology in the form of education, modern medicine, industrial agriculture, and factory work. David Dalton takes a close look at how authors, artists, and thinkers—some state-funded, some independent—engaged with official views of Mexican racial identity from the 1920s to the 1970s. Dalton surveys essays, plays, novels, murals, and films that portray indigenous bodies being fused, or hybridized, with technology. He examines José Vasconcelos’s essay “The Cosmic Race” and the influence of its ideologies on mural artists such as Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco. He discusses the theme of introducing Amerindians to medical hygiene and immunizations in the films of Emilio “El Indio” Fernández. He analyzes the portrayal of indigenous monsters in the films of El Santo, as well as Carlos Olvera’s critique of postrevolutionary worldviews in the novel Mejicanos en el espacio. Incorporating the perspectives of posthumanism and cyborg studies, Dalton shows that technology played a key role in race formation in Mexico throughout the twentieth century. This cutting-edge study offers fascinating new insights into the culture of mestizaje, illuminating the attitudes that inform Mexican race relations in the present day. A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture in Latin/o America, edited by Hector Fernandez L'Hoeste and Juan Carlos Rodriguez

Author : Stephen Muecke
Publisher : UNSW Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0868407860

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Ancient & Modern by Stephen Muecke Pdf

How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge? There's a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity.