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Die Autorin untersucht spanischsprachige Reiseberichte, die von der Atlantiküberquerung mit dem Dampfschiff erzählen, und nimmt die reisenden Körper und ihre Praktiken in den Blick. Im Spannungsfeld von Körper und Raum beleuchtet sie die geografischen und sozialen Räume, die durch die Bewegung der reisenden Körper auf textueller Ebene entstehen. Ihre Perspektive zeigt die maßgebliche Beteiligung der schreibenden Transatlantikreisenden an der Herstellung sozialer Wirklichkeit(en).

This book takes a global historical perspective to trace the rise of human rights and their global impact from the 18th century to the present. This fully updated volume examines the complex relationships between Western concepts of human rights and developments in other world regions. After providing background on relevant premodern concepts and constraints, the book explores regional interactions with human rights, the disastrous impact of imperialism and racism, the recurrent expansion of the range of rights given to those including women and children, and indigenous rights from the 19th century to the present.

Combining great learning, interpretative originality, analytical sensitivity, and a charismatic prose style, Clifford Geertz has produced a lasting body of work with influence throughout the humanities and social sciences, and remains the foremost anthropologist in America. His 1980 book Negara analyzed the social organization of Bali before it was colonized by the Dutch in 1906. Here Geertz applied his widely influential method of cultural interpretation to the myths, ceremonies, rituals, and symbols of a precolonial state. He found that the nineteenth-century Balinese state defied easy conceptualization by the familiar models of political theory and the standard Western approaches to understanding politics. Negara means "country" or "seat of political authority" in Indonesian. In Bali Geertz found negara to be a "theatre state," governed by rituals and symbols rather than by force. The Balinese state did not specialize in tyranny, conquest, or effective administration. Instead, it emphasized spectacle. The elaborate ceremonies and productions the state created were "not means to political ends: they were the ends themselves, they were what the state was for. Power served pomp, not pomp power." Geertz argued more forcefully in Negara than in any of his other books for the fundamental importance of the culture of politics to a society. Much of Geertz's previous work--including his world-famous essay on the Balinese cockfight--can be seen as leading up to the full portrait of the "poetics of power" that Negara so vividly depicts

Sind Künstler und Kultureinrichtungen kulturelle Übersetzer? Welche Rolle spielen Konzepte wie jenes der Transkulturalität? Die Beiträge des Bandes stellen das Thema der (trans-)kulturellen Übersetzung in den Mittelpunkt und schlagen eine Brücke zwischen Kunst und Kulturbetrieb. Dafür ist der sogenannte Cultural Turn ebenso relevant wie neueste Erkenntnisse aus Kulturbetrieb und -management. Neben transkulturellen Phänomenen in bildender Kunst, Musik, Literatur und Theater widmen sich die Beiträge der Kulturvermittlung auf Festivals, in Museen, Theatern, Bibliotheken, Konzert- und Opernsälen. Ebenso werden Prozesse des (inter-)nationalen Kulturmanagements fokussiert, die von ihren Akteuren gleichfalls modifizierte Denkstrukturen verlangen.

Examines the key role that the spatial construct (embodied by the Monroe Doctrine) of the western hemisphere played in enabling and effacing U.S. empire.

Holocaustomania: West German diplomats and American Holocaust memorial culture in the late 1970s -- A "Holocaust syndrome"? Relations between the Federal Republic and American Jewish organizations in the 1980s -- Confronting the "anti-German museum": West Germany and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, 1979-1993 -- Politicians, professors, and the politics of German history in the American academy from the 1970s to 1990 -- The transformation of Holocaust memory in unified Germany, 1990-1998 -- Holocaust angst and the universalization of the Holocaust

Analytical frames of reference in hunter-gatherer research / Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings -- Defining hunter-gatherers : Enlightenment, Romantic, and social evolutionary perspectives / Alan Barnard -- Historical frames of reference for 'hunter-gatherers' / Mark Pluciennik -- Adaptive and ecological approaches to the study of hunter-gatherers / Raven Garvey and Robert L. Bettinger -- Historical and humanist perspectives on hunter-gatherers / Aubrey Cannon -- Hunter-gatherer- fishers, ethnoarchaeology, and analogical reasoning / Paul J. Lane -- Man the hunter, woman the gatherer? : the impact of gender studies on hunter-gatherer research (a retrospective) / Kathleen Sterling -- The first hunter-gatherers / Jennie Robinson -- The Neanderthals : evolution, palaeoecology, and extinction / João Zilhão -- Modern human origins in Africa : a review of the fossil, archaeological, and genetic perspectives on early Homo sapiens / Kevin L. Kuykendall and Isabelle S. Heyerdahl-King -- Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in western Asia / Ofer Bar-Yosef -- The European Upper Palaeolithic / Paul Pettitt -- The Palaeolithic of northern Asia / Anatoly P. Derevianko, Sergei V. Markin, and Andrei V. Tabarev -- Homo sapiens societies : South Asia / Michael D. Petraglia and Nicole Boivin -- Homo sapiens societies in Indonesia and South-Eastern Asia / Susan O'Connor and David Bulbeck -- Hunter-gatherers in Australia : deep histories of continuity and change / Iain Davidson -- Into the Americas : the earliest hunter-gatherers in an empty continent / Marcel Kornfeld and Gustavo G. Politis -- Hunter-gatherers in the post-glacial world / Vicki Cummings -- Post-glacial transformations among hunter-gatherer societies in the Mediterranean and western Asia / Andrew M.T. Moore -- Post-glacial transformations in Africa / Andrew B. Smith -- Post-glacial transformations in South and South-East Asia / Ryan Rabett and Sacha Jones -- Post-Pleistocene transformations of hunter-gatherers in East Asia : the Jomon and Chulmun / Junko Habu -- Post-glacial transformations : Danubian Europe / Jiří Svoboda -- Transformations? : the Mesolithic of north-west Europe / Graeme Warren -- The resettlement of northern Europe / Felix Riede -- Prehistoric hunter-gatherer innovations / Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings -- Stone tool technology / Steven L. Kuhn and Amy E. Clark -- Art for the living / J.D. Lewis-Williams -- Social complexity / Brian Hayden -- Ceramic technology / Peter Hommel -- Coastal adaptations / C.R. Wickham-Jones -- Mortuary practices / Liv Nilsson Stutz -- Plant domestications / David R. Harris -- Animal domestications / Alan K. Outram -- Hunting and gathering in a farmers' world / Vicki Cummings -- The persistence of hunting and gathering : Neolithic western temperate and central Europe / Detlef Gronenborn -- The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst farmers in prehistory in Neolithic north-west Europe / D.C.M. Raemaekers -- The continuity of hunting and gathering in the Neolithic and beyond in Britain and Ireland / Vicki Cummings and Oliver J.T. Harris -- Forager-farmer contacts in northern Fennoscandia / Charlotte Damm and Lars Forsberg -- The persistence of hunting and gathering amongst farmers in South-East Asia in prehistory and beyond / Huw Barton -- The emergence of forager-farmer interaction in North America / Katherine A. Spielmann -- The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern' hunter-gatherers / Peter Jordan -- Hunter-gatherer research traditions in southern Africa / Robert K. Hitchcock -- Central African hunter-gatherer research traditions / Barry S. Hewlett and Jason M. Fancher -- Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions : Australia / Ian Keen -- From ethnohistory to ethnogenesis : a historiography of hunter-gatherer cultural anthropology in California and the Great Basin / David Robinson -- Exploring hunter-gatherer-fisher complexity on the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America / Sean O'Neill -- Regional hunter-gatherer traditions in South-East Asia / Jana Fortier -- Regional hunter-gatherer research traditions : South America / Gustavo G. Politis and Almudena Hernando -- The ethnohistory and anthropology of 'modern' hunter-gatherers : north Japan (Ainu) / Mark J. Hudson -- Hunter-gatherer transformations in northern Europe after 1500 AD / Jussi- Pekka Taavitsainen -- New approaches in the study of hunter-gatherers / Peter Jordan and Vicki Cummings -- Future directions in hunter-gatherer research : technology / Robert L. Kelly -- Cultural transmission theory and hunter-gatherer archaeology / Jelmer W. Eerkens, Robert L. Bettinger, and Peter J. Richerson -- Archaeogenetics of Africa and of the African hunter-gatherers / Viktor Černý and Luísa Pereira -- Landscapes of mobility : the flow of place / Bruno David, Lara Lamb, and Jack Kaiwari -- Personhood and social relations / Nyree Finlay -- Materials, biographies, identities, experiences : new approaches to materials in hunter-gatherer studies / Hannah Cobb -- Hunter-gatherer religion and ritual / David S. Whitley -- Hunter-gatherer gender and identity / Robert Jarvenpa and Hetty Jo Brumbach -- Hunter-gatherer diet, subsistence, and foodways / Rick Schulting

Das 20. Jahrhundert als "Zeitalter der Extreme" (Eric Hobsbawm) ist in starkem Maße durch kriegerische und genozidale Auseinandersetzungen geprägt. Bei deren Untersuchung nahm die Geschichtsschreibung jahrzehntelang mehrheitlich eine androzentrische Perspektive ein und ignorierte die in den 1980er-Jahren besonders im angelsächsischen Raum einsetzende Forschung zu Geschlecht, Militär und Krieg. Die internationalen Beiträger*innen des Bandes widmen sich daher aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive der Geschlechterfrage in der Kriegsforschung. Ihre Analysen zu den Weltkriegen, zum Spanischen Bürgerkrieg sowie u.a. zu den Themen Mobilisierung, Wissenschaft und Kultur liefern einen wichtigen Beitrag zur geschlechtergeschichtlichen und -theoretischen Durchdringung der Kriegsgeschichte.