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"Cultural Mobility is a blueprint and a model for understanding the patterns of meaning that human societies create. Drawn from a wide range of disciplines, the essays collected here under the distinguished editorial guidance of Stephen Greenblatt share the conviction that cultures, even traditional cultures, are rarely stable or fixed. Radical mobility is not a phenomenon of the twenty-first century alone, but is a key constituent element of human life in virtually all periods. Yet academic accounts of culture tend to operate on exactly the opposite assumption and to celebrate what they imagine to be rooted or whole or undamaged. To grasp the shaping power of colonization, exile, emigration, wandering, contamination, and unexpected, random events, along with the fierce compulsions of greed, longing, and restlessness, cultural analysis needs to operate with a new set of principles. An international group of authors spells out these principles and puts them into practice"--Provided by publisher

Über das Ende der religiösen Vielfalt und Akzeptanz im alten Rom - eingeläutet durch das Christentum. Das alte Rom war in vielerlei Hinsicht fortschrittlich. Unzählige Götter und Religionen lebten in der Millionenstadt am Tiber nebeneinander - es war eine politische Strategie des Weltreiches, andere Kulturen und deren Rituale zu integrieren, aber auch Religionskritik und Skepsis zu akzeptieren. Wie sich das mit dem Aufkommen des Christentums änderte und wie religiöse Intoleranz und Toleranz entstanden, zeichnet Stephen Greenblatt in seinem Essay nach. Damit zeigt er auch, wie sich aus der kultischen Vielfalt der Antike eine Gesellschaft entwickelte, die auf Reinheit und Einheitlichkeit, auf Zerstörung und Zensur setzte. Vor allem die materialistische Vorstellung völlig unbeteiligter Götter erwies sich bald als etwas, das unter keinen Umständen toleriert werden konnte und dessen Träger (ob Bücher oder Menschen) vernichtet werden musste.

Grounds for Remembering contains the transcribed proceedings of a symposium on mourning, memory and the meaning of monuments in the modern period. The symposium was organized by the Townsend Center to celebrate the residency of architect and sculptor Maya Lin on the Berkeley campus, and to engage Ms. Lin, as well as faculty from Architecture, History, and English, in a consideration of how human communities seek through built form both to compensate for loss and to understand their history. Maya Lin, designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the Civil Rights Memorial, draws on her own experience, particularly her work in designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, in discussing the artistic and technical issues of building a major national monument. She describes the context within which she originally created the design and the political issues that surrounded her involvement in its construction. Historian Thomas Laqueur looks to predecessors of the Vietnam Memorial and illustrates the important function of naming each fallen soldier in the memorials that line the WWI battlefront: Thiepval, Menin Gate, Aubervilles, and many more. His contribution also stresses the importance of the political battles that typically surrounded the construction and design of such memorials. Andrew Barshay, historian of modern Japan, discusses the Yasukune Shrine in Japan, a site where heroes fallen in battle are enshrined and made a part of state worship. Barshay considers Yasukune along with the more recent monuments at Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to illustrate the highly political and unstable nature of public spaces dedicated to patriotic mourning. Renaissance scholar Stephen Greenblatt speaks to the issue of monumentality in Anglo-European culture in the modern period. He contends that our suspicion of monuments is constantly at odds with our desire to see some sign that we are not alone in the world or history. His discussion ranges from the master architects of Milton's Paradise Lost to the simplest of monuments. Architect Stanley Saitowitz, most recently designer of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, Massachusetts, discusses the inspiration and design of this monument as well as some of his public installations in Manhattan and San Francisco. He considers more generally the role of public architecture and its potential for creating new urban spaces that can provide continuity and community in the modern city.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- PERMISSIONS ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER ONE Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936 -- CHAPTER TWO Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory -- CHAPTER THREE The Exhibitionary Complex -- CHAPTER FOUR Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power -- CHAPTER FIVE Two Lectures -- CHAPTER SIX After the Masses -- CHAPTER SEVEN Family, Education, Photography -- PART TWO: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER EIGHT Authority, (White) Power and the (Black) Critic; It's All Greek to Me -- CHAPTER NINE Women, Class and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s: Some Reflections on the Writing of a Feminist History -- CHAPTER TEN Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures: Placing Habermas in the Nineteenth Century -- CHAPTER ELEVEN The Prose of Counter-Insurgency -- CHAPTER TWELVE Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Cosmologies of Capitalism: The Trans-Pacific Sector of "The World System" -- PART THREE: CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly -- CHAPTER FIFTEEN Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact -- CHAPTER SIXTEEN The Circulation of Social Energy -- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms -- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The Born-Again Telescandals -- CHAPTER NINETEEN Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society -- CHAPTER TWENTY Selections from Marxism and Literature -- NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX

This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western and non-Western societies. Contributors consider what happens to individual subjectivity when stable or imagined environments such as nations and communities are transformed or displaced by free trade economics, terrorism, and war; how new information and medical technologies reshape the relation one has to oneself; and which forms of subjectivity and life possibilities are produced against a world in pieces. The transdisciplinary conversation includes anthropologists, historians of science, psychologists, a literary critic, a philosopher, physicians, and an economist. The authors touch on how we think and write about contingency, human agency, and ethics today