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The black virgins - perceptions, meanings and usages in the 17th to 19th centuries
"Why is she black ?" is very often the first question that comes up in connection with the black madonnas, images of Mary which were at the center of the most important pilgrimage sites of virtually all Catholic countries during the Counter-Reformation. This article does not propose an answer to the question of the color's origin but attempts to reconstruct when worshipers began to perceive the dark complexion of these images and what meanings they connected to it. The meanings from within the context of popular devotion to Mary are discussed, as well as theological interpretations of the color, and finally the effect of the rise of a scientific paradigm of human races on the perception of the skin color. The article thus contributes to the discussion on the European perception of black skin through history and suggests how images once highly revered can become illegible and therefore unexplainable curiosities.

Cover Doing Anthropology in Wartime and War Zones -- Contents -- "A Time Like No Other": Th e Impact of the Great War on European Anthropology -- Adapting to Wartime: Th e Anthropological Sciences in Europe -- Continuity and Change in British Anthropology, 1914-1919 -- Doing Anthropology in Russian Military Uniform -- Wartime Folklore: Italian Anthropology and the First World War -- Science behind the Lines: Th e Eff ects of World War I on Anthropology in Germany -- Laboratory Conditions: German-Speaking Volkskunde and the Great War -- "Betwixt and Between": Physical Anthropology in Bulgaria and Serbia until the End of the First World War -- Constructing a War Zone: Austrian Ethnography in the Balkans -- Swords into Souvenirs: Bosnian Arts and Crafts under Habsburg Administration -- The Experience of Borders: Montenegrin Tribesmen at War -- Austro-Hungarian Volkskunde at War: Scientists on Ethnographic Mission in World War I -- Studying the Enemy: Anthropological Research in Prisoner-of-War Camps -- Large-Scale Anthropological Surveys in Austria-Hungary, 1871-1918 -- Jews among the Peoples: Visual Archives in German Prison Camps during the Great War -- Captive Voices: Phonographic Recordings in the German and Austrian Prisoner-of-War Camps of World War I -- AfterMath: Anthropological Data from Prisoner-of-War Camps -- Ethnographic Films from Prisoner-of-War Camps and the Aesthetics of Early Cinema -- Afterword -- After the Great War: National Reconfi gurations of Anthropology in Late Colonial Times -- List of Contributors -- Name Index.

World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to "informants": prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a "struggle" between "races", and assessed the "warlike" nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.

"Taking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular is usually treated as a neutral background serving as the domain of public, rational deliberation. This book demonstrates that secularity and secularism are also upheld by bodily practices and emotional attachments. Drawing on empirical case studies, this is the first book to ask and explore whether a secular body exists. Building on the work of Talal Asad, the book argues that the secular is not an absence of religion, but a positive entity that comes about through its co-constitutive relationship with religion. And, once we attune ourselves to recognizing its operations as grammar which structures social practice, writing an anthropology of the secular could become a new possibility."--Bloomsbury Publishing

HauptbeschreibungGefühle sind so alt wie die Menschheit. Aber was wissen wir über sie? Wie ernst nehmen wir sie und welche Bedeutung weisen wir ihnen zu? Die Autorinnen und Autoren des Bandes untersuchen, wie sich das Wissen über Gefühle und deren Bewertung in den letzten 300 Jahren verändert haben. Sie analysieren wissenschaftliche und gesellschaftliche Debatten, die Europäer seit dem 18. Jahrhundert über Affekte, Leidenschaften, Empfindungen und Emotionen führten. Dabei ging (und geht) es um grundlegende Fragen der conditio humana: Sind Gefühle geistiger oder körperlicher Natur? Haben Tiere