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The Maya wall paintings from Chajul, Guatemala
2020
The recent renovation of a house in Chajul in western Guatemala has revealed an unparalleled set of wall paintings, most probably from the Colonial period (AD 1524–1821). The iconography of the murals combines pre-Columbian elements with imported European components in a domestic rather than a religious setting, making them a unique example of Colonial-period art. Here, the authors present the results of iconographic, chemical and radiocarbon analyses of the Chajul house paintings. Dating to the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries AD, the paintings may be connected to a revival of the local religious organisation (cofradías) in the context of waning Spanish colonial control.
Contesting Cultural Heritage: Decolonizing the Tropenmuseum as an Intervention in the Dutch/European Memory Complex
2019
AbstractThe chapter discusses how (post-)immigrant activism in the Netherlands currently impacts Dutch and European cultural heritage and their cultural archive and memory complex. The discussion focuses on the Tropenmuseum and the way postcolonial (post)immigrants carried out interventions there, resulting in new ways of visually and textually representing the colonial past. Though the end result is not a final ideal decolonized situation, it did evince de-essentializing processes in which intersectional perspectives are taken up. The interventions coincide with other national and international protests and processes, making it part of a project or movement that produces decolonial counter…
Imaginaire colonial et représentation visuelle des populations noire africaines. Le cas de la Guinée espagnole (1880-1968)
2021
Cet article est la reprise du texte introductif de l’ouvrage accompagnant l’exposition « Let’s bring blacks home ! Imaginación colonial y formas de aproximación gráfica de los negros de África (1880-1968) », qui se tint au Centre culturel La Nau de l’université de Valence (Espagne), en février-mars 2020 [1]. Le propos de l’exposition et de l’ouvrage consistait à analyser certaines formes d’appréhension iconographique des populations noires africaines dans le contexte de la culture de masse, notamment le cas, peu connu, de la Guinée espagnole, l’actuelle Guinée équatoriale. L’exposition était découpée en cinq sections illustrant (à travers des objets de collections publiques et privées, cart…
Entre Trapani et Tunis. De la période du Risorgimento à la fin du Protectorat français: parcours de travailleurs et d’entrepreneurs au-delà du Canal …
2019
Sin dai tempi più antichi, il Canale di Sicilia e la città di Trapani hanno costituito un ponte naturale fra il Maghreb e la Sicilia. Il saggio mette a sistema alcuni studi sugli architetti ed imprenditori di origine trapanese che emigrarono in Tunisia fra il XVIII e XIX secolo e ne propone una lettura inedita. Il fil rouge che lega Giuseppe Abita, la famiglia di imprenditori Canino e Domenico Basciano riguarda sia la loro provenienza dalla città siciliana, ma soprattutto l'importante contributo che essi hanno trasferito nell'architettura del periodo coloniale e post-coloniale francese nel Maghreb.
La abogacía en transición: continuidad y cambios del virreinato al México independiente
2011
Numerosos son los trabajos publicados sobre el estudio de Jurisprudencia, es decir, Leyes y Cánones, en el México preliberal; sin embargo, no lo son tantos para el México decimonónico. Igualmente numerosa es la bibliografía sobre los abogados y su ejercicio profesional; de nuevo, más prolífica para la Nueva España que para los años inmediatamente posteriores a la Independencia.1 El objetivo de estas páginas es comunicar ambas realidades y ambos momentos: el estudio de las facultades jurídicas y del ejercicio profesional en el tránsito del Antiguo Régimen al Liberalismo. Para ello tomaremos como referencia y punto de partida la habilitación que todo graduado en cualquiera de los dos derechos…
Trauma and storytelling in Betty Louise Bell’s Faces in the Moon
2018
The dominant understanding of trauma as an epistemological crisis that can be mimetically passed on to readers has in the twenty-first century been criticized for its apolitical and ahistorical ori...
Les commissions coloniales rattachées au Comité des Travaux historiques et scientifiques
2000
The colonial Commissions connected to the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques. In the late nineteenth century, the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques became a bigger and bigger research organization, always closely linked to the successive political governments. With each new French conquest, a commission of parisian scientists and local correspondents was created and attached to it, as in 1864, the scientific commission for Mexico, in 1884, the commission for Tunisia, in 1908, the archeological commission for Indochina. The example studied here is that of the commssion for Tunisia, which coordonated researches in archeology and epigraphy in North Africa, thanks to …
Scrivere fra le due guerre: riflessi socio-letterari del colonialismo italiano
2017
The Italian colonial cravings, born after the end of Risorgimento, continued until the end of the Great War, dragging the country into a series of conquering wars, culminating in that of Libya. The growth of nationalist ideology, fueling those cravings, found nourishment in the fascist regime. The expansive drives within an ideology aimed to the pride of a nation and the skillful manipulation of public opinion, obtained by the organization of a powerful propaganda machine, convinced the Italians that even the Kingdom of Italy had the right to equip itself, like other European countries, with a colonial empire. Intellectuals and writers - with few exceptions - have never left, in the years 1…
Mio Dio, puniscimi perché ho peccato! Rapporti illegittimi e senso di colpa negli anni dell'Impero
2017
The triad 'colonialism, guilt and consequent punishment, payable with mental or physical illness if not with death’, is frequently detectable in the literary texts that focus on the latest phase of Italian Colonialism. The interpretative approach proposed in this paper, is founded on two historical and social phenomena that characterized the second decade of the Fascist period, such as, the propaganda and the subsequent counter-propaganda, and the collaborationist relationship between Church and State that pivot, in literary imagination, in the metaphor of disease as a result of divine punishment for human sins. The examined novels – Tempo di uccidere di Ennio Flaiano (1947), Un mattino a I…
Altre storie. memoria dell'Italia in Eritrea
2008
Una indagine sulla memoria coloniale italiana attraverso la raccolta di storie di vita apre la strada a una revisione critica che nella tradizione di studi italiana è ancora in gran parte da fare. Per quanto negli ultimi decenni questo processo sia stato avviato, l’immagine degli “Italiani brava gente” continua ad avere corso, con una formula retorica che tenta di dissimulare il colonialista nel colonizzatore, l’imperialista nel civilizzatore. Questo libro propone otto storie, raccolte ad Asmara, che narrano la vicenda coloniale intrecciandola ai ricordi personali e filtrandola attraverso la loro testualizzazione. Nella dialettica tra memoria e identità, queste narrazioni suscitano interrog…