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Author : Elizabeth Oyler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 36,10 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501761633

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Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what they can suggest about how thinkers, writers, artists, performers, and samurai themselves viewed warfare and its lingering impact at various points during the "samurai age," the long period from the establishment of the first shogunate in the twelfth century through the fall of the Tokugawa in 1868. The range of methodologies and materials discussed in Cultural Imprints challenges a uniform notion of warrior activity and sensibilities, breaking down an ahistorical, monolithic image of the samurai that developed late in the samurai age and that persists today. Highlighting the memory of warfare and its centrality in the cultural realm, Cultural Imprints demonstrates the warrior's far-reaching, enduring, and varied cultural influence across centuries of Japanese history. Contributors: Monica Bethe, William Fleming, Andrew Goble, Thomas Hare, Luke Roberts, Marimi Tateno, Alison Tokita, Elizabeth Oyler, Katherine Saltzman-Li

Author : Evanghelia Stead
Publisher : Springer
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,36 MB
Release : 2017-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3319538322

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This book contributes significantly to book, image and media studies from an interdisciplinary, comparative point of view. Its broad perspective spans medieval manuscripts to e-readers. Inventive methodology offers numerous insights into visual, manuscript and print culture: material objects relate to meaning and reading processes; images and texts are examined in varied associations; the symbolic, representational and cultural agency of books and prints is brought forward. An introduction substantiates methods and approaches, ten chapters follow along media lines: from manuscripts to prints, printed books, and e-readers. Eleven contributors from six countries challenge the idea of a unified field, revealing the role of books and prints in transformation and circulation between varying cultural trends, ‘high’ and ‘low’. Mostly Europe-based, the collection offers book and print professionals, academics and graduates, models for future research, imaginatively combining material culture with archival data, cultural and reading theories with historical patterns.

Author : M.B. Rajani
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2020-09-29
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9811574669

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This book is an introduction to a new branch of archaeology that scrutinises landscapes to find evidence of past human activity. Such evidence can be hard to detect at ground-level, but may be visible in remote sensing (RS) imagery from aerial platforms and satellites. Drawing on examples from around the world as well as from her own research work on archaeological sites in India (including Nalanda, Agra, Srirangapatna, Talakadu, and Mahabalipuram), the author presents a systematic process for integrating this information with historical spatial records such as old maps, paintings, and field surveys using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to gain new insights into our past. Further, the book highlights several instances where these insights are actionable -- they have been used to identify, understand, conserve, and protect the fragile remnants of our past. This book will be of particular interest not only to researchers in archaeology, history, art history, and allied fields, but to governmental and non-governmental professionals working in cultural heritage protection and conservation.

Author : Benjamin F. Tillman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0816524548

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More than one hundred fifty years ago, Moravian missionaries first landed along a so-called isolated stretch of Honduras’s Mosquito Coast bordering the western Caribbean Sea. The missionaries were sent, with the strong encouragement of German political leaders and in the context of German attempts at colonization, to “spread the word” of Protestantism in Central America. Upon their arrival, the missionaries employed a three-pronged approach consisting of proselytizing, medical treatment, and education to convert the majority of the indigenous population. Much like the Spanish and English attempts before them, German colonizing efforts in the region never completely took hold. Still, as Benjamin Tillman shows, for the region’s indigenous inhabitants, the Miskito people, the arrival of the Moravian missionaries marked the beginning of an important cultural interface. Imprints on Native Lands documents Moravian contributions to the Miskito settlement landscape in sixty four villages of eastern Honduras through field observations of material culture, interviews with village residents, and research in primary sources in the Moravian Church archives. Tillman employs the resulting data to map a hierarchy of Moravian centers, illustrating spatially varying degrees of Moravian influence on the Miskito settlement landscape. Tillman reinforces Miskito claims to ancestral lands by identifying and mapping their created ethnic landscape, as well as supporting earlier efforts at land-use mapping in the region. This book has broad implications, providing a methodology that will be of help to those with an interest in geography, anthropology, or Latin American studies, and to anyone interested in documenting and strengthening indigenous land claims.

Author : Ann M. Drake
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,18 MB
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1789041384

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We are energy; our bodies, as well as all matter, are merely slowed down energy. We all have an energetic body that houses all our memories and experiences of all our lifetimes. We absorb energies from our families, our previous incarnations as well as from the culture in which we live. These energies often mask who we truly are and may block us from developing our true potential. Ways to recognize and work with these imprints are at the heart of the book. The Energetic Dimension offers a new paradigm for the West as to how we function as humans. It is a paradigm that is intuitively known by us but has not to date been articulated as it has in this book. This book explores the energetic web in which we are encased, ways to cultivate its strengths, and heal and remove the negative aspects of unwanted energies. The goal is to be able to shed the layers that block us from truly experiencing our core essence and who we truly are.

Author : Monica C. Higgins
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 30,20 MB
Release : 2005-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0787977519

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Based on her research of 800 biotechnology companies and 3,200 biotechnology executives, Harvard Business School professor Monica Higgins discovered that one firm–Baxter–was the breeding ground for today’s most successful biotechnology ventures. This phenomena of one organization spawning an industry has also been seen in the high-tech (Hewlett-Packard) and semiconductor industries (Fairchild). However, until now there has been no suitable explanation of why and how these organizations were able to create the next generation of industry leaders. Career Imprints shows why Baxter was so successful in spawning senior executives and offers an understanding of what it takes for an organization to produce leaders that will dominate an industry for years to come. In this important book, Higgins shows that an organization’s "career imprint"¾the result of company systems, structure, strategy, and culture¾that employees take with them throughout their careers is the key to creating great leaders. By understanding these factors, staff, human resource executives, and CEOs can analyze their own organization’s career imprint and develop leaders.

Author : Carol Kim Helfer
Publisher :
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,61 MB
Release : 2012
Category :
ISBN : 9781267419156

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"Cultural Imprints" broadens current scholarship on the Chinese in turn-of-the-century America by reframing representations of Chinese Americans along class lines. With a shift of focus to Chinese elites, this dissertation explores four distinct cultural projects to demonstrate the ways in which Chinese elites created unique spaces to negotiate their identities and to actively engage in American print culture. First, the writings of Edith Eaton, under the penname Sui Sin Far, provided subversive representations of Chinese Americans that challenged the notion that they were beyond the purview of American society and culture. Her writings employed middle-class Chinese characters to suggest that class status and respectability offered a measure of acceptance among white Americans. Second, Chinese merchants in America banded together to establish a Chinese village and exhibit at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. This dissertation also reveals that the 1892 Geary Act regenerated national debate about the status of Chinese in America within a world's fair context. Next, an analysis of newspaper advertisements for Chinese apothecaries elucidates how Chinese herbal doctors constructed their own identities in the American press and effectively treated a white clientele. Last, a study of the representations of Chinese elite women and Chinese medical missionaries in China and America counters the dominant narrative that portrays the victimization of Chinese women in missionary literature and the popular press. In spite of the Exclusionary Era, Chinese elites created public spaces where they negotiated their own identities and contested notions of Western cultural superiority in the American press. A repositioning of the portrayal of the Chinese in turn-of-the-century America produces a different vantage point from that of the working-class figure of the "coolie." An analysis of these four cultural projects indicates the various ways Chinese elites made their impressions on American print culture.

Author : Arnold R. Alanen
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 26,39 MB
Release : 2000-04-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN :

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Historic preservation efforts began with an emphasis on buildings, especially those associated with significant individuals, places or events. Subsequent efforts were expanded to include vernacular architecture, but only in recent decades have preservationists begun shifting focus to the land itself. Cultural landscapes - such as farms, gardens, and urban parks - are now seen as projects worthy of the preservationist's attention.

Author : Elizabeth Oyler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2022-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501761641

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Cultural Imprints draws on literary works, artifacts, performing arts, and documents that were created by or about the samurai to examine individual "imprints," traces holding specifically grounded historical meanings that persist through time. The contributors to this interdisciplinary volume assess those imprints for what they can suggest about how thinkers, writers, artists, performers, and samurai themselves viewed warfare and its lingering impact at various points during the "samurai age," the long period from the establishment of the first shogunate in the twelfth century through the fall of the Tokugawa in 1868. The range of methodologies and materials discussed in Cultural Imprints challenges a uniform notion of warrior activity and sensibilities, breaking down an ahistorical, monolithic image of the samurai that developed late in the samurai age and that persists today. Highlighting the memory of warfare and its centrality in the cultural realm, Cultural Imprints demonstrates the warrior's far-reaching, enduring, and varied cultural influence across centuries of Japanese history. Contributors: Monica Bethe, William Fleming, Andrew Goble, Thomas Hare, Luke Roberts, Marimi Tateno, Alison Tokita, Elizabeth Oyler, Katherine Saltzman-Li