Alma M. Karlin, a young woman adventurer who made her journey around the world between 1919 and 1927, stayed in Japan for a little more than a year. As a young woman without significant funds, she ...relied on her own ability to earn a living during her stay in the country. Among the items she brought back from Japan to Slovenia there are many small objects which are not typical “exotic objects from the Far East”. They are rather small and trivial items such as a wall calendar, a streetcar ticket, children’s miniature toys, a part of ceremonial wrappings, and paper bookmarks. This paper focuses on the small and untypical items Karlin brought back from Japan. Karlin’s travelogue and other writings, including her notes on the unused postcards, give us some information about her life in Japan. Together with her travelogue, notes and messages on the objects in her legacy, we can reconstruct some aspects of her everyday life in Japan. Though small and trivial, such items collected by Karlin reveal some important details of her experience in the central part of Tokyo in the Taishō period.
The Allure of the Mystical Maja Veselič
Asian Studies/Asian studies,
09/2021, Letnik:
9, Številka:
3
Journal Article
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Alma M. Karlin (1889–1950), a world traveller and German-language travel and fiction writer, cultivated a keen interest in religious beliefs and practices of the places she visited, believing in the ...Romantic notion of religion as the distilled soul of nations as well as in the Theosophical presumption that all religions are just particular iterations of an underlying universal truth. For this reason, the topic of religion was central to both her personal and professional identity as an explorer and writer. This article examines her attitudes to East Asian religio-philosophical traditions, by focusing on the two versions of her unpublished manuscript Glaube und Aberglaube im Fernen Osten, which presents an attempt to turn her successful travel writing into an ethnographic text. The content and discourse analyses demonstrate the influence of both comparative religious studies of the late 19th century, and of the newer ethnological approaches from the turn of the century. On the one hand, Karlin adopts the binary opposition of religion (represented by Buddhism, Shintoism, Daoism and Confucianism) or the somewhat more broadly conceived belief, and superstition (e.g. wondering ghosts, fox fairies), and assumes the purity of textual traditions over the lived practices. At the same time, she is fascinated by what she perceives as more mystical beliefs and practices, which she finds creatively inspiring as well as marketable subjects of her writing.
The Allure of the Mystical Veselič, Maja
Azijske študije (Spletna izd.),
09/2021, Letnik:
9, Številka:
3
Journal Article
Odprti dostop
Alma M. Karlin (1889–1950), a world traveller and German-language travel and fiction writer, cultivated a keen interest in religious beliefs and practices of the places she visited, believing in the ...Romantic notion of religion as the distilled soul of nations as well as in the Theosophical presumption that all religions are just particular iterations of an underlying universal truth. For this reason, the topic of religion was central to both her personal and professional identity as an explorer and writer. This article examines her attitudes to East Asian religio-philosophical traditions, by focusing on the two versions of her unpublished manuscript Glaube und Aberglaube im Fernen Osten, which presents an attempt to turn her successful travel writing into an ethnographic text. The content and discourse analyses demonstrate the influence of both comparative religious studies of the late 19th century, and of the newer ethnological approaches from the turn of the century. On the one hand, Karlin adopts the binary opposition of religion (represented by Buddhism, Shintoism, Daoism and Confucianism) or the somewhat more broadly conceived belief, and superstition (e.g. wondering ghosts, fox fairies), and assumes the purity of textual traditions over the lived practices. At the same time, she is fascinated by what she perceives as more mystical beliefs and practices, which she finds creatively inspiring as well as marketable subjects of her writing.
Prispevek obravnava naravo potovanja, motive, interesna področja, zbiralno politiko oziroma zbiralne strategije in zbirko ter cilje Alme M. Karlin (12. 10. 1889–14. 1. 1950), pisateljice in ...novinarke, svetovne popotnice, ljubiteljske raziskovalke, poliglotke in teozofinje. V letih 1919–1927 je prepotovala svet. Narava njenega potovanja jo umešča med največje popotnike vseh časov; potovala je sama, neprekinjeno osem let in se po poti preživljala s sprotnim delom. Kljub temu da je zbiranje predmetov načrtovala že pred odhodom na pot, to zaradi nepričakovanega spleta okoliščin v glavnem ni potekalo sistematično, ampak naključno. Predmete za svojo zbirko je pridobivala na tri načine: z nakupi, kot darila in z nabiranjem v naravi. Rezultat takšnega zbiranja se odraža v raznorodnosti zbirke. Poleg produkcije nove vednosti je Alma M. Karlin imela tudi gospodarske in politične cilje.
Phraseolexemes and sentence-like phraseologisms taken from the novel ʽWindlichter des Todes. Roman aus Siamʼ (1933) prove that Alma M. Karlin is rightly known as a linguistically creative author. It ...can be shown that Karlin often uses patterns of occasionalisms (modifications and neologisms) to support the aesthetic and artistic value of the novel.
Prispevek obravnava naravo potovanja, motive, interesna področja, zbiralno politiko oziroma zbiralne strategije in zbirko ter cilje Alme M. Karlin (12. 10. 1889–14. 1. 1950), pisateljice in ...novinarke, svetovne popotnice, ljubiteljske raziskovalke, poliglotke in teozofinje. V letih 1919–1927 je prepotovala svet. Narava njenega potovanja jo umešča med največje popotnike vseh časov; potovala je sama, neprekinjeno osem let in se po poti preživljala s sprotnim delom. Kljub temu da je zbiranje predmetov načrtovala že pred odhodom na pot, to zaradi nepričakovanega spleta okoliščin v glavnem ni potekalo sistematično, ampak naključno. Predmete za svojo zbirko je pridobivala na tri načine: z nakupi, kot darila in z nabiranjem v naravi. Rezultat takšnega zbiranja se odraža v raznorodnosti zbirke. Poleg produkcije nove vednosti je Alma M. Karlin imela tudi gospodarske in politične cilje.
Svetovna popotnica in pisateljica Alma Maksimiliana Karlin (1889–1950) je bila vneta zbiralka razglednic. Prispevek analizira 12 razglednic, ki jih je prinesla s Tajvana, ki ga je obiskala med ...decembrom 1923 in januarjem 1924. Čeprav predstavljajo le drobec njene bogate zbirke razglednic s celega sveta, izstopajo po enovitosti svoje tematike. Prav vse namreč prikazujejo pripadnike tajvanskih staroselskih ljudstev.
Pričujoči prispevek skuša iz kontekstov nastanka in rabe omenjenih razglednic ugotoviti, kako so se oblikovale podobe tajvanskih staroselcev v očeh njihove zbirateljice. S podrobnejšo analizo motivov in napisov na razglednicah podobe najprej identificira kot del etnografskega fotografskega gradiva, ki so ga zbrali japonski raziskovalci na Tajvanu, nato pa razglednice umesti v družbeno-politične okoliščine japonske kolonizacije, zlasti v pogosto soodvisna, občasno pa tudi konfliktna razmerja med antropološko oz. etnološko vedo ter kolonialnim upravnim aparatom. Članek nato obravnava poglede Alme Karlin na tajvanske staroselce tako, da razglednice postavi ob bok njenemu potopisnemu pisanju, iz katerega je mogoče razbrati pomemben vpliv japonske kolonialne imaginacije. Kljub lastnim pripombam o velikih družbenih in kulturnih spremembah v tajvanskih staroselskih družbah, ji kot osrednja prizma, skozi katero jih opazuje in opisuje, služijo eksotične in domnevno brezčasne prakse, kot sta lov na glave in tetoviranje. Zanimanja in okusi Alme Karlin, kot jih lahko razberemo z njenih tajvanskih razglednic, v ničemer ne odstopajo od njenih sodobnikov in so tesno povezane s širšimi političnimi in družbenimi razmerami ter estetskimi slogi časa, v katerem je potovala.
The house in which the world traveller and writer Alma M. Karlin spent her last years is situated on the outskirts of Celje, in Pečovnik. She was born into a bourgeois family in 1889. In 1919, she ...set out on her journey around the world, which lasted for eight years. Karlin died in 1950 in Pečovnik, where the exhibition, “The Odyssey of a Lonely Woman”, is on display.
The memorial house is open every Friday and Saturday between 10.00 and 17.00 from May to October. It is situated on the top of a staircase on the way to Celjska koča. The first signpost is located at the fire station in Zagrad.
Free admission. The house is closed in bad weather..
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