Reconstruction Replication And Re Enactment In The Humanities And Social Sciences

Author : Julia Kursell,Sven Dupré,Patricia Lulof,Anna Harris,Maartje Stols-Witlox
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789048543854

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Reconstruction, Replication and Re-enactment in the Humanities and Social Sciences by Julia Kursell,Sven Dupré,Patricia Lulof,Anna Harris,Maartje Stols-Witlox Pdf

Performative methods are playing an increasingly prominent role in research into historical production processes, materials, and bodily knowledge and sensory skills, and in forms of education and public engagement in classrooms and museums. This book offers, for the first time, sustained, interdisciplinary reflections on performative methods, variously known as Reconstruction, Re-enactment, Replication, Reproduction and Reworking (RRR) practices across the fields of history of science, archaeology, art history, conservation, musicology and anthropology. Each of these fields has distinct histories, approaches, tools and research questions. Researchers in the historical disciplines have used reconstructions to learn about the materials and practices of the past, while anthropologists and ethnographers have more often studied the re-enactments themselves, participating in these performances as engaged observers. In this book, an interdisciplinary group of authors bring their experiences of RRR practices within their discipline into conversation with RRR practices in other disciplines, providing a basis for interdisciplinary cross-fertilization.

Author : Lukas M. Verburgt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350326231

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Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science by Lukas M. Verburgt Pdf

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodological agenda. In its chapters, established and emerging scholars introduce and discuss new approaches to the history of science and revisit older perspectives which remain crucial. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at such topics as the importance of the 'global', 'digital', 'environmental', and 'posthumanist' turns for the history of science, and the possibilities for the field of moving beyond a focus on ideas and texts towards active engagement with materials and practices. It also addresses important issues about the relationship between history of science, on the one hand, and philosophy of science, history of knowledge and ignorance studies, on the other. With its innovative format, this volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative overview of the field, and also explores how and why the history of science is practiced. It is essential reading for students and scholars eager to keep a finger on the pulse of what is happening in the history of science today, and to contribute to where it might go next.

Author : Tim van der Heijden,Aleksander Kolkowski
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110799767

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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology by Tim van der Heijden,Aleksander Kolkowski Pdf

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the use of experimental approaches to the study of media histories and their cultures. Doing media archaeological experiments, such as historical re-enactments and hands-on simulations with media historical objects, helps us to explore and better understand the workings of past media technologies and their practices of use. By systematically refl ecting on the methodological underpinnings of experimental media archaeology as a relatively new approach in media historical research and teaching, this book aims to serve as a practical handbook for doing media archaeological experiments. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory, authored by Andreas Fickers and Annie van den Oever.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004427020

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Framing Classical Reception Studies by Anonim Pdf

Many study the reception of Classical Antiquity today. But why, how and from what conceptual or disciplinary frame? A number of selected representative chapters on these questions illustrate the remarkable diversity and vitality of Classical Receptions Studies and set the agenda for future research.

Author : Hannah Knox,Gemma John
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781685710521

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Speaking for the Social by Hannah Knox,Gemma John Pdf

Author : Andreas Fickers,Annie van den Oever
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110799774

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Doing Experimental Media Archaeology by Andreas Fickers,Annie van den Oever Pdf

This book offers a plea to take the materiality of media technologies and the sensorial and tacit dimensions of media use into account in the writing of the histories of media and technology. In short, it is a bold attempt to question media history from the perspective of an experimental media archaeology approach. It offers a systematic reflection on the value and function of hands-on experimentation in research and teaching. Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory is the twin volume to Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Practice, authored by Tim van der Heijden and Aleksander Kolkowski.

Author : Björn Thorsteinsson,Katrín Anna Lund,Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson,Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031413445

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Mobilities on the Margins by Björn Thorsteinsson,Katrín Anna Lund,Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson,Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir Pdf

This open access book examines places on the margins and the dynamics through which a marginal position of a place is created. Specifically, it explores how places, mostly in sparsely populated areas, often perceived as immobile and frozen in time, come into being and develop through interference of everyday mobilities and creative practices that cut across the spheres of culture and nature as usually defined. Through fieldwork and case studies from areas in Iceland, Finland, Greenland, and Scotland, the book’s twelve chapters draw out the multiple relations through which places emerge, where people compose their lives as best they can with their surroundings. A special concern is to explore the links between travelling, landscape, and material culture and how places and margins are enacted through mobilities and creative practices of humans and other beings. The emphasis on mobility disturbs the perception of a place as a bounded entity and offers a useful and necessary understanding of places as mobile and fluid. Mobilities on the Margins is a novel and timely contribution to the exploration of human and more-than-human interactions in a world of increasingly fluid mobilities and insistent crises.

Author : Rachael Scarborough King,Seth Rudy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350242302

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The Ends of Knowledge by Rachael Scarborough King,Seth Rudy Pdf

Bringing together an exciting group of knowledge workers, scholars and activists from across fields, this book revisits a foundational question of the Enlightenment: what is “the last or furthest end of knowledge”? It is a book about why we do what we do, and how we might know when we are done. In the reorganization of knowledge that characterized the Enlightenment, disciplines were conceived as having particular “ends,” both in terms of purposes and end-points. As we experience an ongoing shift to the knowledge economy of the Information Age, this collection asks whether we still conceptualize knowledge in this way. Does an individual discipline have both an inherent purpose and a natural endpoint? What do an experiment on a fruit fly, a reading of a poem, and the writing of a line of code have in common? Focusing on areas as diverse as AI; biology; Black studies; literary studies; physics; political activism; and the concept of disciplinarity itself, contributors uncover a life after disciplinarity for subjects that face immediate threats to the structure if not the substance of their contributions. These essays – whether reflective, historical, eulogistic, or polemical – chart a vital and necessary course towards the reorganization of knowledge production as a whole.

Author : Marjolijn Bol,E. C. Spary
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004515413

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The Matter of Mimesis by Marjolijn Bol,E. C. Spary Pdf

The Matter of Mimesis offers a rich and interdisciplinary perspective on how and why we use materials to copy, from the human body to the entire cosmos, from prehistory to the present day.

Author : Pamela H. Smith
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226818238

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From Lived Experience to the Written Word by Pamela H. Smith Pdf

How and why early modern European artisans began to record their knowledge. In From Lived Experience to the Written Word, Pamela H. Smith considers how and why, beginning in 1400 CE, European craftspeople began to write down their making practices. Rather than simply passing along knowledge in the workshop, these literate artisans chose to publish handbooks, guides, treatises, tip sheets, graphs, and recipe books, sparking early technical writing and laying the groundwork for how we think about scientific knowledge today. Focusing on metalworking from 1400–1800 CE, Smith looks at the nature of craft knowledge and skill, studying present-day and historical practices, objects, recipes, and artisanal manuals. From these sources, she considers how we can reconstruct centuries of largely lost knowledge. In doing so, she aims not only to unearth the techniques, material processes, and embodied experience of the past but also to gain insight into the lifeworld of artisans and their understandings of matter.

Author : Serena Dyer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009188715

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Labour of the Stitch by Serena Dyer Pdf

The making of fashionable women's dress in Georgian England necessitated an inordinate amount of manual labour. From the mantuamakers and seamstresses who wrought lengths of silk and linen into garments, to the artists and engravers who disseminated and immortalised the resulting outfits in print and on paper, Georgian garments were the products of many busy hands. This Element centres the sartorial hand as a point of connection across the trades which generated fashionable dress in the eighteenth century. Crucially, it engages with recreation methodologies to explore how the agency and skill of the stitching hand can inform understandings of craft, industry, gender, and labour in the eighteenth century. The labour of stitching, along with printmaking, drawing, and painting, composed a comprehensive culture of making and manual labour which, together, constructed eighteenth-century cultures of fashionable dress.

Author : Elisabeth Fischer,Xenia von Tippelskirch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000391374

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Bodies in Early Modern Religious Dissent by Elisabeth Fischer,Xenia von Tippelskirch Pdf

In early modern times, religious affiliation was often communicated through bodily practices. Despite various attempts at definition, these practices remained extremely fluid and lent themselves to individual appropriation and to evasion of church and state control. Because bodily practices prompted much debate, they serve as a useful starting point for examining denominational divisions, allowing scholars to explore the actions of smaller and more radical divergent groups. The focus on bodies and conflicts over bodily practices are the starting point for the contributors to this volume who depart from established national and denominational historiographies to probe the often-ambiguous phenomena occurring at the interstices of confessional boundaries. In this way, the authors examine a variety of religious living conditions, socio-cultural groups, and spiritual networks of early modern Europe and the Americas. The cases gathered here skillfully demonstrate the diverse ways in which regional and local differences affected the interpretation of bodily signs. This book will appeal to scholars and students of early modern Europe and the Americas, as well as those interested in religious and gender history, and the history of dissent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004683389

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Tracts of Action by Anonim Pdf

This volume offers the user a guide to the neglected field of how-to books. How do I make soap? How do I dye textiles? What ingredients do I need for a effective remedy? How can one find and mine mineral resources, how does one make pewter cups or a good meal? Practical information of this kind, on distillation, medicine, dyeing, cosmetics, glassmaking, ceramics, metallurgy and many other subjects, flooded the book market in the first centuries of printing. As varied as these subjects are the research questions that we might ask: How do you learn practical skills from a book? Why were these books so popular, who used them and how, and can they even be considered to be a clearly defined genre? The aim of this volume, which emerged from a conference at the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel, is to find out which patterns characterise the genre of how-to books or “Rezepte-Büchlein”. It also aims to contribute to the clarification of terms for a genre, that operates under labels such as “Books of Secrets” and "recipe books" or, in German-speaking countries, "Kunst- und Wunderbuch" or “nützlich büchlein”. Some key issues addressed in the book include the traces of book use, the media shift from manuscript to print, the interaction between text and image, and the praxeological dimension of practical books. Self-help literature not only made it possible for interested laypersons to obtain information from all possible fields of knowledge, largely independent of institutional and educational environments; as "tracts for action" they differed from other genres in that they were consistently oriented towards implementation.

Author : Nick Hall,John Ellis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351247399

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Hands on Media History by Nick Hall,John Ellis Pdf

Hands on Media History explores the whole range of hands on media history techniques for the first time, offering both practical guides and general perspectives. It covers both analogue and digital media; film, television, video, gaming, photography and recorded sound. Understanding media means understanding the technologies involved. The hands on history approach can open our minds to new perceptions of how media technologies work and how we work with them. Essays in this collection explore the difficult questions of reconstruction and historical memory, and the issues of equipment degradation and loss. Hands on Media History is concerned with both the professional and the amateur, the producers and the users, providing a new perspective on one of the modern era’s most urgent questions: what is the relationship between people and the technologies they use every day? Engaging and enlightening, this collection is a key reference for students and scholars of media studies, digital humanities, and for those interested in models of museum and research practice.

Author : Vanessa Agnew,Jonathan Lamb,Juliane Tomann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429819285

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The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies by Vanessa Agnew,Jonathan Lamb,Juliane Tomann Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Reenactment Studies provides the first overview of significant concepts within reenactment studies. The volume includes a co-authored critical introduction and a comprehensive compilation of key term entries contributed by leading reenactment scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia. Well into the future, this wide-ranging reference work will inform and shape the thinking of researchers, teachers, and students of history and heritage and memory studies, as well as cultural studies, film, theater and performance studies, dance, art history, museum studies, literary criticism, musicology, and anthropology.