218 research outputs found
Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899
No full textIn this work, Buschmann incorporates neglected Spanish visions into the European perceptions of the emerging Pacific world. The book argues that Spanish diplomats and intellectuals attempted to create an intellectual link between the Americas and the Pacific Ocean.Iberian Visions of the Pacific Ocean, 1507-1899. Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137304711978-1-137-30471-1978-1-137-30470-4978-1-349-45455-62947-92582947-924
Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935
No full textAnthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians—this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to recover some of anthropology's global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier—the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884–1914) presents an ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology. Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by preparing large-scale expeditions to German New Guinea.Buschmann explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. He shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous culture. He also shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns. Finally, he places the German experience in the broader context of Euro-American anthropology.Anthropology's Global Histories will interest students and scholars of anthropology, history, world history, and Pacific studies.Anthropology's Global Histories: The Ethnographic Frontier in German New Guinea, 1870-1935. Perspectives on the Global Past. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 2009
Review of: Pathfinders by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
No full textReviewing a work that has received so much praise over the past two years always presents a difficult task. One only has to turn to the back cover of the current paperback to see the many accolades bestowed upon Felipe Fernández-Armesto's latest work. Most prominently, his Pathfinders received the prestigious World History Association Prize in 2007, an honor that openly acknowledges the global reach of the work under consideration. Moreover, although the book lists him as teaching at Tufts University, Fernández-Armesto's prolific output was recently honored by an appointment as the William P. Reynolds Professor of History at Notre Dame University. The teaching and research of world history has experienced a glut of introductory texts in recent years and novel approaches from which to tell a global narrative are becoming rare. Fernández-Armesto's work succeeds in this regard as he selects a particular topic – exploration – that carries transnational overtones. To fashion such a global framework for exploration Fernández-Armesto builds on his extensive work in the Iberian expansion and the Atlantic Ocean. Exploration, the author argues, is after all, a human affair and can thus be engaged for a global human narrative. According to the author, human global history is about two major stories: "The first is the very long one of how human cultures diverged … The second is the main subject of the book: a relatively short and recent story of convergence..." (p. 1) On the surface such a statement might be unsurprising. Placed in the context of exploration, however, the issue of divergence and convergence transcends hemispheric or continental histories that seemingly favor certain parts of the globe over others. His story, however, is truly global in that it follows the divergent expansion of Homo sapiens out of Africa in his first chapter (stretching) before turning to the subject of human convergence.Review of: Pathfinders by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto. geschichte.transnational & H-Soz-u-Kult. (Mar 19, 2010), online
Before Boas: The Genesis of Ethnography and Ethnology in the German Enlightenment by Han F. Vermeulen
No full textMulticultural Rubble: Foreign Troops in Nazi Germany
No full textNo abstract available.Multicultural Rubble: Foreign Troops in Nazi Germany. Talk. Blanchard Community Library Santa Paula. Sep 17, 2015
Apresentacao do Livro 'Headhunting and Colonialism'
No full textNo abstract available."Apresentacao do Livro 'Headhunting and Colonialism'." Presented to Institute of Tropical and Scientific Investigation. Lisbon, Portugal. May 26, 2011
Oceanic Collections in German Museums: Collections, Contexts, and Exhibits
No full textHundreds of thousands of works of art and artefacts from many parts of the Pacific are dispersed across European museums. They range from seemingly quotidian things such as fish-hooks and baskets to great sculptures of divinities, architectural forms and canoes. These collections constitute a remarkable resource for understanding history and society across Oceania, cross-cultural encounters since the voyages of Captain Cook, and the colonial transformations that have taken place since. They are also collections of profound importance for Islanders today, who have varied responses to their displaced heritage, and renewed interest in ancestral forms and practices. This two-volume book enlarges understandings of Oceanic art and enables new reflection upon museums and ways of working in and around them. In dialogue with Islanders' perspectives, It exemplifies a growing commitment on the part of scholars and curators to work collaboratively and responsively. Volume I focuses on the historical formation of ethnographic museums within Europe, the making of those institutions' Pacific collections, and the activation and re-activation of those collections, over time and in the present. This books is part of the Pacific Presences series."Oceanic Collections in German Museums: Collections, Contexts, and Exhibits." Pacific Presences: Oceanic Art and European Museums Vol. 1. Edited by L. Carreau, A. Clark, A. Jelinek, E. Lilje, and N. Thomas. Leiden, Netherlands: Sidestone Press, 2018. 193-220. (https://www.sidestone.com/books/pacific-presences-vol-1
Series Co-Editor Nebraska Studies in Pacific Worlds. Joy Schulz's Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific
No full textStudies in Pacific Worlds is a series dedicated to the exploration of the vast and complicated region of the Pacific Ocean. This newly emerging and fast-growing area of study investigates a geopolitical space central to the histories of four continents. More dynamic and unwieldy than the histories of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, the history of the Pacific Ocean is governed by complex timelines and littoral connections among nations, peoples, and resources. By examining the many intersections that have shaped the Pacific as both a 'world' and a borderlands region, books in the series will reveal the vital significance of this vibrant area.Series Co-Editor Nebraska Studies in Pacific Worlds. Joy Schulz's Hawaiian by Birth: Missionary Children, Bicultural Identity, and U.S. Colonialism in the Pacific. 2017
The Great Wall of China
No full textNo abstract available."The Great Wall of China." Presented to Symposium on Chinese Art and Culture. Camarillo, CA. February 2004
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