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El calendari gastronòmic: culinary nationalism in Catalan festivals
Get PDFExpressions of Catalan identity have become increasingly significant following increased friction with the Spanish central government. Catalonia-specific foods and festivals are two such expressions that have been mobilised as national symbols, and which I will consider in this paper. I will discuss the role that food plays in festive occasions in the Catalan calendar, including secularised traditional holidays and Catholic feast days, newly created festivals and fairs centred on foods, and finally the three national days (23rd April, 24 June and 11th September). In doing so, I will also tease out other, related themes in Catalan cultural identity today, including the feelings of connectedness with a historic past, land and landscape, the championing of seasonality through culinary events, and Catalonia’s gastronomic calendar. Creating, adapting and performing festivities that are celebrations of national and culinary symbols are a means of celebrating Catalan identity itself. They are events when Catalans meet to discuss and reformulate their identity, and sources of claims to distinctiveness
Penser l\u27extrême droite en milieu rural: Un récit de deux France?
Get PDFThe present article addresses the electoral success of Marine Le Pen and the Front National in rural areas. This phenomenon is regularly interpreted as the expression of an emergent territorial cleavage between urban and peripheral areas. However, the analysis of the normative and empirical bases of this supposed spatial conflict reveals much more complex sociocultural dynamics. Based on qualitative fieldwork in the Vosges department in eastern France, I explore the links between collective narratives of deprivation, the propagation of rumours and the radical right vote in order to show that the rise of the Front National in a number of rural municipalities largely eschews a binary tale of two Frances.Spätestens seit der zweiten Runde der Präsidentschaftswahl von 2017 ist die Vorstellung eines tief zerrissenen Landes zum dominanten makrosoziologischen Deutungsrahmen geworden, um gesellschaftspolitische Entwicklungen im heutigen Frankreich einzuordnen. Das Duell zwischen dem wirtschafts- und sozialliberalen Emmanuel Macron und der rechtsextremen Marine Le Pen sei Ausdruck einer Konfliktlinie zwischen einer vorwiegend urbanen, gut ausgebildeten, digital vernetzten und mobilen Bevölkerung und sozial deklassierten Wählerschichten im ländlichen Frankreich, die sich als Verliererinnen von Europäisierungs- und Globalisierungsprozessen sehen. Auf der Grundlage von ethnographischen Arbeiten in einem kleinen Dorf in den Vogesen, in dem der Front National seit 2002 seine Wahlergebnisse mehr als vervierfacht hat, soll diese binäre Sichtweise mit alternativen Hypothesen zum Erfolg von Marine Le Pens Partei im ländlichen Frankreich nuanciert werden
Georg Pfeffer (2016) Verwandtschaft als Verfassung: Unbürokratische Muster öffentlicher Ordnung. Baden Baden: Nomos
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Syncretic debris: from shared Bosnian saints to the ICTY courtroom
Get PDFThis article is an anthropological postscript to the work of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY), brought to a conclusion in 2017. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Bosnia, I trace in the Tribunal’s archives the strange afterlives of two shared and syncretic saints, George and Elijah, their feasts and the religiously plural landscapes they encapsulated. Surfacing as debris after violent impact – displaced and disarticulated – they offer here a possibility of reading both along and against the grain of the archival expectations. I analyse the chartings of ethno-religious distinctions and the discourse of ‘historical enmities’ between Bosnian communities, with particular attention to the iterations of these arguments in the reports of ICTY’s expert witnesses. This sustained invention of the absence of shared tradition, although productive of debris, is, I argue, continually countered by the emplacement of remnants into rekindled wholes
MKG Collection Online: The potential of open museum collections
Get PDFIn October 2015 the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg (MKG) launched the “MKG Collection Online”. The MKG is the first art museum in the German-speaking countries to open up its collections by establishing an open access policy. It offers digital images of objects that are already in the public domain and data of all of the published objects for unrestricted reuse in order to inspire creative processes, foster knowledge production and innovation and safeguard cultural heritage. Many museums are, however, struggling with this concept, even though it is recommended as best practice by the European Commission. Looking at the example of the MKG, the potential of open access for digitized museum collections will be outlined. Furthermore, the challenges of this open access policy and the wider implications of openness for the museum, other cultural heritage institutions and society will be discussed
Art probing and worldmaking. Exploring museum imaginaries
Get PDFHow can artistic creative practice be combined with ethnological cultural analysis? A process based on practices of art probing is proposed and related to discussions about museum imaginaries, digital cultures and sensory aspects of ethnography. The point of departure for the discussion is the audiovisual performance Possible Worlds
Towards a Comparative Framework for Research on the Long Cycle in Ethiopic Gospels: Some Preliminary Observations
Get PDFThis article argues that it is possible to improve our understanding of Ethiopian manuscript illumination of the early Solomonic period by adopting a systematic comparative approach. It does so by presenting a case study which analyses and compares the iconography of two examples of the long cycle dating to the second half of the fourteenth century. This comparison shows how technical skills and artistic choices contributed to the shaping of Ethiopian manuscript illumination, and in doing so it sheds some light on the artistic practices of early Solomonic illuminators
Building Faith: Ethiopian Art and Architecture during the Jesuit Interlude, 1557–1632
Get PDFThis dissertation examines the relationship between royally-sponsored Roman Catholic and Ethiopian Orthodox art and architecture during the 1557 to 1632 Jesuit Ethiopian mission. The first part of the dissertation examines key religious and secular sites, demonstrating how these structures combined elements drawn from classicizing architectural treatises, the Portuguese estilo chão, and Ethiopian architecture. The second part of the project assesses the role of books, prints, and religious art as tools of conversion and as artistic models. In contrast to studies that posit that European visual culture supplanted the Ethiopian during the mission era, the dissertation argues that the period’s art and architecture demonstrates the Jesuit strategy of cultural accommodation, and that far from being apart from Ethiopian art history, it shares stylistic and iconographic hallmarks with the so-called “Gondärine style.”
