The collected essays contain an analysis of numerous versions of cultural processing of the journey to India topos, showing multifaceted interrelations between different culture areas. The author ...compiled rich illustrative material: travel literature and reportage, feature films, infotainment films, forums and travel blogs as well as ethnographic interviews.
Walravens, Hartmut 2018. Walther Heissig (1913–2005). Aus dem Nachlass des Mongolisten und Ethnologen – Nachlassübersicht – Briefwechsel mit Erich Haenisch, Lajos Ligeti, Käthe Uray-Köhalmi, John R. ...Krueger und Erik Haarh. Norderstedt: Books on Demand (BoD). 219 pp. ISBN: 9783748180708.
In an era characterised by the growing tension between local and global, the multiple activities acted by the artist Vadim Zakharov offer an important case study to investigate critically the ...relationship between artists and the art institutions at the time of the Global Art History. Artist, archivist, collector and editor in the frame of Moscow Conceptualism, since the end of the 1970s up to today, Zakharov embodies the figure of the “artist as institution” in the attempt to reach his artistic autonomy. This text introduces to his expansion of the archival attitude typical of Moscow conceptualism, a Soviet unofficial art movement developed in the marginal, underground, and self-referential context in the capital of USSR since the 1970s. Due to its transnationality, Zakharov’s story gives the opportunity to trace parallels, comparisons and differences to what happened next, when he moved in Germany in 1989, after the fall of USSR, and with the appearance of the new labels of “post-Soviet” and “Russian contemporary art”. Within this socio-historical framework, he joined a more cosmopolitan artistic scene, enlarging his archival practices with the aim to self-institutionalize and self-historicize his own artistic practices and the circle of Moscow Conceptualism in an international scene.
Coffee, whose homeland is Africa, was introduced to Europe by Turks. The preparation of "Turkish coffee", which has a historical, political, social, and cultural background as the most important ...drink of Turkish culture, has been the subject of proverbs, idioms, folk riddles, folk songs, paintings and poems along with all its abstract and concrete cultural elements and its tools, equipment, presentation and rituals. Turkish coffee is an important means of socialization and cultural communication as a social beverage in our country. Turkish coffee served with a glass of water in circles of friends on special occasions, religious holidays, neighboring visits convey many meanings.
Turkish coffee has created a tradition and culture in our country, which different ethnic, religious, social, and cultural groups have agreed upon. As a cultural heritage, Turkish coffee is an important issue to address sociologically. Therefore, to understand and question the social, historical, and cultural change of Turkish coffee culture and tradition from the past to the present, the subject was discussed from a sociological point of view using the "historical and comparative method". In this context, the culture and tradition of Turkish coffee have been dealt with in a multidisciplinary, multidimensional and eclectic way in a historical, cultural and social context; it is also hoped that it will contribute to further studies on this issue. As a result of the study, it was seen that the culture and tradition of Turkish coffee, which has a sociological, artistic, political, economic, historical, and cultural value and has a 500-year-old culture and tradition that has not been “invented” in the recent past, depending on a certain time, geography and history, will not disappear easily.
The article draws upon the reading of “Western” travelogues from the Ottoman Empire that describe cultural contacts in the early modern era more or less openly in terms of purity and impurity. What ...does this reading observation mean? It means: whosoever explores concepts of purity and impurity explores an exclusive pattern of meaningfully interpreting the world that serves to convey ambiguity into unambiguity. A pattern that I would like to call a cultural code. The hypothesis of this article is: purity as a cultural code is an invention of the (European) early modern era. Or, expressed slightly differently: it is only in the early modern era that purity becomes the “white ribbon“ that points order in the “right“ direction. The following fields of inquiry will play a special role here: the victory march of the principle of ethical purity since the late Middle Ages; genesis and raising the profile of confessional cultures; and, not least, naturalization and biologization of lineage.
The historical Serbian Orthodox cemeteries have a multi-faceted value in the construction and cultural-historical heritage of Sarajevo. The Old Cemetery in Carina and the Holy Archangels Michael and ...Gabriel Cemetery in Koševo with the Vidovdan Heroes Chapel are the spatial testimonies to social and urban development. The Chapel and gravestones are the spiritual and material heritage of Sarajevo’s Serbs in the historical context of duration and belonging. These guardians of individual and collective memories of the people and events of the past times are an invaluable and reliable cornerstone of the reception of national history and cultural identity of the city.
The aim of this paper is to highlight and briefly discuss some of the most problematic terms and concepts that recur in art historiography: for example, the words Byzantine, post-Byzantine, Eastern, ...Western and Local. These concepts are used in a misleading way not only by American and Western European authors, but also by Eastern and South-Eastern European ones: in fact, the “Balkan” art historiography based itself on the Western-European one, adopting its periodisation, terminology and interpretative framework, which led to a number of methodological problems that researchers are now trying to identify, discuss and, if possible, solve.
Crown and Coronation in Hungary 1000–1916 A.D. By János M. Bak and Géza Pálffy. Budapest: Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of History – Hungarian National Museum, 2020. 264 pp.
The article explores how African slavery was perceived in the Czech Lands. After a brief review of earlier Czech reflections of modern slavery, the text focuses on The Book of Joseph (1783-1784), a ...rare source in German and Czech language that was aimed to communicate to the public in the Czech Lands the essence of the Enlightenment reforms. In the text, the theme of slavery was used in several different ways when discussing the problems of political autonomy, religious tolerance, and abolition of serfdom. While responding to the widespread Enlightenment discourse of “liberation” from the bonds of prejudice, superstition, and ignorance, the author(s) of the text also followed up on more than two centuries of indirect encounters of Czech readers with the complex world of the Atlantic and, at the same time, reacted to the specific political claims and debates that marked public discourse in the Czech Lands of the late eighteenth century.
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