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Book Review: \u3ci\u3eSpirited Encounters: American Indians Protest Museum Policies and Practices\u3c/i\u3e By Karen Coody Cooper
No full textIn recent years a number of related academic fields have explored the connections between museums and Indigenous peoples. The growth in published monographs and edited volumes has in part been spurred on by the 2004 opening of the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC. This monograph raises significant questions and reveals numerous debates surrounding such issues as ownership and access to museum collections and archives; the repatriation of human remains, funerary items, and cultural patrimony; Native American traditional and modern art and art museums; the need for consultation and collaboration with Indigenous peoples and communities; and the importance of sacred sites.
The study’s title is derived from the titles of two protested museum exhibits: The Spirit Sings: Artistic Traditions of Canada’s First Peoples, organized by the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, and discussed in chapter 1; and First Encounters, designed by the Florida Museum of Natural History as a traveling exhibit celebrating the Columbus Quincentenary, and outlined in chapter 7. The author explains “[t]he term ‘spirited encounters’ captures the energetic battles waged by indigenous protestors [sic] who have been determined to force museums to recognize and redress long-held institutional biases regarding Native life and history.
Our Osage Hills: Toward an Osage Ecology and Tribalography of the Early Twentieth Century (Mathews and Snyder)
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Legible Sovereignties: Rhetoric, Representations, and Native American Museums. By Lisa King.
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Boxer Rebellion
No full textCílem této bakalářské práce je analyzovat události boxerského povstání, jeho počátky, průběh a důsledky. Začátek práce je věnován analýze situace Číny po konci první čínsko-japonské války a procesu tzv. Sta dní reforem a jejich dopadu na vznikající boxerské hnutí. V hlavní části se autor zabývá vznikem boxerského hnutí v letech 1897-1898 a jeho následným působením. Boxeři se během své existence zaměřovali především na pronásledování cizinců a drancování křesťanských vesnic. Jejich činnost se v roce 1900 stala předmětem krize ve vztahu mezi císařským dvorem a cizími vyslanectvími. Napětí přerostlo až ve válku mezi Čínou a koalicí osmi velmocí, během které se dvůr rozhodl spojit s boxerským hnutím. To se však začalo během konfliktu rozpadat a válka záhy skončila dobytím Pekingu koaličními vojsky. Závěr práce je pak věnován následným diplomatickým jednáním a podmínkám tzv. Boxerskému protokolu, který značí definitivní konec boxerského povstání.ObhájenoThe aim of this bachelors' thesis is to analyze the events of the Boxer Uprising, its origins, course and consequences. The beginning of the work deals with the analysis of the China's situation after the First Sino-Japanese War, with the events of the Hundred Days' Reform, and with their effect on the rising Boxer movement. In the main part the author concerns himself with the origin of the Boxers between 1897-1898 as well as their subsequent activity. The Boxers had blamed the Christians and foreigners for their poor situation and gradually started to attack them and loot Christian villages. In the year 1900, they caused a crisis in the relations between the Imperial Court and the foreign ministers in Beijing. The tensions escalated to a war between China and the Eight-Nation Alliance, during which the Imperial Court decided to ally itself with the Boxers. However, the Boxer movement began to disintegrate during the conflict. The war soon ended after the coalition forces had been able to capture Beijing. The end of the work deals with the subsequent diplomatic negotiations and with the terms and signing of the Boxer Protocol which marks the end of the Boxer Rebellion
“2,229”: John Joseph Mathews, the Osage Tribal Museum, and the Emergence of an Indigenous Museum Model
No full textThe boxer
No full textThe Boxer is a novella that pits metaphysics against New Age shallowness. It weaves together the surreal comedy of Flann O'Brien’s The Third Policeman with Faulknerian stream of consciousness all set atop highly Westernized ‘60s mysticism in the style of Alan Watts.
While on the job, Heather, a Starbucks Barista, witnesses the aftermath of an accidental death and enters into a period of private mourning. As the spiritual bankruptcy of her current condition fails to offer her guidance, she experiences a psychological break and encounters her own subconscious, which torments her in the form of a seemingly meaningless green box. Her sanity dwindles, forcing her to reevaluate her relationships, goals, and sense of self.
The story is told in a close third-person point of view, granting access to Heather’s consciousness without relying upon the monologuing style common to texts such as As I Lay Dying. This, when paired with affectionate nods towards ‘60s nostalgia and New Age imagery, attempts to critique the modern American landscape as one of plastic spirituality without departing too far from the central character’s voice or sense of humor.M.F.A.Includes bibliographical reference
Reflection of the Holocaust in the graphic novels Der Boxer and Maus
No full textStudie v první části analyzuje pojmy "komiks" a "židovský komiks". V druhé části provádí podrobnou analýzu zobrazení holokaustu v grafických románech Boxer (2012) německého autora Reinharda Kleista a Maus I-II (1986-1991) amerického autora polského původu Arta Spiegelmana. Dochází k závěru, že oba texty se vyznačují explicitním antipsychologismem a emocionálním racionalismem a svou estetickou hodnotu nezakládají na originalitě námětu, ale na formě výtvarného díla. Zatímco Boxer je realistický komiks o boxu jako prostředku přežití v mezní situaci koncentračního tábora, postmoderní Maus zachycuje traumatickou zkušenost genocidy prostřednictvím alegorického ztvárnění hlavních postav jako zvířecích bytostí. Téma holokaustu v obou komiksech i přes svou žánrovou odlišnost zprostředkovává citlivé otázky židovské identity a poukazuje na dvě legitimní možnosti uměleckého uchopení materiálu.In the first part, the study analyzes the terms "comics" and "Jewish comics". In the second part, it provides a detailed analysis of the depiction of the Holocaust in the graphic novels Der Boxer (2012) by the German author Reinhard Kleist and Maus I-II (1986-1991) by the American author of Polish origin Art Spiegelman. It concludes that both texts are explicit in their anti-psychologism and emotional rationalism and base their aesthetic value not on the originality of the subject matter but on the form of the artwork. While Boxer is a realistic comic about boxing as a means of survival in the liminal situation of a concentration camp, the postmodern Maus captures the traumatic experience of genocide through the allegorical presentation of the main characters as animal beings. Despite their genre-thematic differences, the Holocaust themes of both comics convey sensitive issues of Jewish identity, pointing to two legitimate possibilities of artistic grasp of the material
Literary Representation of Sport in Historical Turmoil: On Józef Hen’s “The Boxer and The Death”
No full textThe present article strives to analyze a sporting war short story The Boxer and The Death by Józef Hen as an exemplary piece of sports writing immersed in a historical context. Although there is no entrenched tradition of sports writing in the Polish literary expression, the story offers a very classic sports narrative anchored in the Holocaust reality. Following the presentation of the figure of Hen and providing historical background for sport in concentration camps, the author analyzes the story, focusing on its two main characters: Janusz Kominek and Walter Kraft, as well as the values and symbols they represent. It is also argued that The Boxer and The Death fulfills the criteria of a traditional western, melodramatic narrative, and conforms to Robert J. Higgs’s Adonic model of an athlete in literature.The present article strives to analyze a sporting war short story The Boxer and The Death by Józef Hen as an exemplary piece of sports writing immersed in a historical context. Although there is no entrenched tradition of sports writing in the Polish literary expression, the story offers a very classic sports narrative anchored in the Holocaust reality. Following the presentation of the figure of Hen and providing historical background for sport in concentration camps, the author analyzes the story, focusing on its two main characters: Janusz Kominek and Walter Kraft, as well as the values and symbols they represent. It is also argued that The Boxer and The Death fulfills the criteria of a traditional western, melodramatic narrative, and conforms to Robert J. Higgs’s Adonic model of an athlete in literature
Transkulturowe znaczenie ksiąg ubioru na przykładzie hiszpańskiego Boxer Codex w nowożytnej Europie
No full textThe Boxer Codex is a Spanish manuscript dated approximately to 1590. It was written in the Philippines in Manila, having been commissioned by the contemporary governor of Manila, Gomez Pérez Desmariñas. The document is called after the name of the last private owner of the codex, Charles R. Boxer, a historian and specialist on the history of colonialism in Asia. It contains illustrations showing figures in costumes representing peoples living in areas colonized by the Spaniards in Asia (The Philippines) and neighbouring lands, such as China, Japan, the Spice Islands (the Moluccas), Brunei, Java, Siam (Thailand), Northern and Central Vietnam, and others. Alongside the illustrations are texts describing the geography and customs of the minorities who live there; these, research shows, may be copies from the work of Martin de Rada, Miguel Rojo de Brito, and other anonymous authors.
This article examines the manuscript from the perspective of costume studies. Because of the very extensive material in the manuscript, the author has selected several illustrations connected with Chinese dress in order to show its richness and the first European view of Chinese culture on the threshold of modern times. The author juxtaposes these with the already well-known accounts of the Polish sinologist Michał Boym (1612-1659). Boym’s accounts of Chinese dress (and not just of that) form a supplement to the illustrations from The Boxer Codex. This manuscript is also one of the first documents relating to the so-called volumes of costumes, which were put together both in Europe and in the Far East, and which made it possible to learn about still undiscovered countries and their inhabitants.The Boxer Codex is a Spanish manuscript dated approximately to 1590. It was written in the Philippines in Manila, having been commissioned by the contemporary governor of Manila, Gomez Pérez Desmariñas. The document is called after the name of the last private owner of the codex, Charles R. Boxer, a historian and specialist on the history of colonialism in Asia. It contains illustrations showing figures in costumes representing peoples living in areas colonized by the Spaniards in Asia (The Philippines) and neighbouring lands, such as China, Japan, the Spice Islands (the Moluccas), Brunei, Java, Siam (Thailand), Northern and Central Vietnam, and others. Alongside the illustrations are texts describing the geography and customs of the minorities who live there; these, research shows, may be copies from the work of Martin de Rada, Miguel Rojo de Brito, and other anonymous authors.
This article examines the manuscript from the perspective of costume studies. Because of the very extensive material in the manuscript, the author has selected several illustrations connected with Chinese dress in order to show its richness and the first European view of Chinese culture on the threshold of modern times. The author juxtaposes these with the already well-known accounts of the Polish sinologist Michał Boym (1612-1659). Boym’s accounts of Chinese dress (and not just of that) form a supplement to the illustrations from The Boxer Codex. This manuscript is also one of the first documents relating to the so-called volumes of costumes, which were put together both in Europe and in the Far East, and which made it possible to learn about still undiscovered countries and their inhabitants
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