Search results for "material culture"
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Ero ja immersio. Tutkimus artefaktin ongelmasta ja aineellisen ja käsitteellisen välisistä suhteista
2021
Tutkimus on kulttuurifilosofinen ja kulttuurintutkimuksellinen väitöskirja aineellisen artefaktin ongelmasta ja filosofinen tutkimus aineellisen mieltämisen ehdoista. Ihmistekoisen statuksen uudelleen arvioinnin pohjalta kehitän siinä uuden tavan ajatella aineellista ja ruumiillista. Historiallisesti suhteellisen nuoreen artefaktin käsitteeseen on tullut materiaalisuuksien kasvun myötä sen painon sivuuttavaa itsestäänselvyyttä, kuten tapahtui ikivanhalle olemisen käsitteelle Martin Heideggerin käänteentekevän huomion mukaan. Käsitteen neutraloituminen onkin siitä välittymättömän aineellisuuden neutraloitumista, mitä kutsun konstituutioharhaksi. Konstituutioharha on modernissa vallitseva tap…
Etnografian reittejä kylien ajallisuuteen ja aineellisuuteen
2020
In my dissertation I have traced novel routes to village research by examining the transformation of the villages through the concepts of temporality and materiality. My research questions are: What kind of temporal trajectories have formed the villages? What kind of things, events, processes or connections have in the course of time been part of the village? I examine the transformations having taken place along various trajectories and focus on how the past and the future are related in the present in certain moments. With material culture I refer especially to the built environment, including the element of landscape. The study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Ahvenselkä village…
Review of George W. Houston, Inside Roman Libraries: Book Collections and Their Management in Antiquity
2017
By examining in detail the results of George W. Houston's recent research on Roman libraries, the present contribution discusses the structure, content, and socio-cultural function of book collections in the Roman world. Special attention is devoted to the (often overlooked) relationship between intellectual trends and material culture as well as to the highly representative sites of Herculaneum and Oxyrhynchus.
A Note on Cultural Policies of Safeguard of Traditional Heritage. The Sicilian case
2021
This paper focuses on an experience of cooperation between the University of Palermo (along with the Universities of Catania and Messina) and the Department of Cultural Heritage, Natural Heritage and Public Education of the Regional Government that took place in Sicily (Italy) at the end of 1970s. A model of good practice based on the relationship “culture and development” that allows us to evaluate the short, medium and long-term effects of this approach on our territory looking at the domain of cultural heritage.
The Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito (Committee of Ladies of Honour and Merit): Children’s parchments in the Madrid Foundling House (1802)
2023
A finales del siglo XVIII, la Casa de Expósitos de Madrid recibía unos tres o cuatro bebés al día, aproximadamente mil al año. Las tasas de mortalidad eran enormes: más del 90% de los niños morían durante el primer mes de vida. En 1799, una sociedad femenina, la Junta de Damas de Honor y Mérito, sustituyó al anterior comité masculino y asumió la totalidad de las funciones. Este capítulo muestra cómo utilizar la documentación elaborada por la Junta como fuente primaria para recurrir a sus prácticas científicas con el fin de reducir los índices de mortalidad. By the late eighteenth century, the Madrid Foundling House received around three to four babies a day, approximately a thousand babies …
Introduction
2020
The material dimension of cult practices and ritual communication in ancient sanctuaries is the central issue of all contributions gathered in the book, which has been framed within three complementary areas of enquiry. Firstly, the architectural settings of sanctuaries was examined beyond temple buildings to appraise the wider context of their structural and spatial complexity. Secondly, the material culture of votive deposition and religious feasting is analysed in terms of performative characteristics and through the lens of anthropological approaches. Thirdly, the significance of gender in cultic practice is investigated in light of the fresh data retrieved from the field.
Czy śpiewniki są potrzebne?
2020
Musicologists and cultural researchers often consider the issue of songbooks, discussing their content, context of creation and history, as well as possible subsequent editions and changes occurring in them. The article discusses issues related to the functioning and usability of songbooks nowadays, seeking the answer to the question of whether songbooks are needed? It also discusses modern ways of replacing traditional songbooks with new technologies. The text includes examples of contemporary activities related not only to the development and publication of subsequent books, but also initiatives to maintain the songbook tradition and to show its value and timeless usefulness.
Diplomatic Wives, Cultures of Dress, and Brita Kekkonen : The New Study on the Cultural History of Diplomacy Has Started
2021
In this article, I discuss the private dress collection of Brita Kekkonen (1927–2013), a diplomatic wife, who was a very well-known figure in Finland during the period of the Cold War. Brita Kekkonen was also a very talented dress-maker and a very fashionable figure in diplomatic circles. Some eighty outfits made by Brita Kekkonen have survived to this day, in addition to her volumi-nous pattern collection, containing more than 1,000 patterns from several decades. The aim of my new postdoctoral research project is to identify Bri-ta Kekkonen’s dresses and examine their use, politico-cultural meanings and design in the context of the Cold War, diplomatic etiquette and Kekkonen’s own personal…