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Public Culture (public + culture)
Selected AbstractsAll Bound up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830,1900 by Martha S. JonesGENDER & HISTORY, Issue 1 2009JOHN A. KIRK No abstract is available for this article. [source] Pathways through Crisis: Urban Risk and Public Culture by Carl A. MaidaAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 2 2010CYNTHIA MIKI STRATHMANN No abstract is available for this article. [source] John Lydgate and the Making of Public Culture.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 5 2007By Maura Nolan No abstract is available for this article. [source] Religious Claims in Public: Lutheran ResourcesDIALOG, Issue 4 2006Cynthia Moe-Lobeda Abstract:, A cacophony of religious voices seeking to influence public culture, opinion, and policy pervades the public discourse in the United States today. Some publicly-oriented religious claims are appropriate while others are not. Sorely needed are criteria for making that distinction. This essay asks: What are criteria for appropriate and valid use of religious claims, language, and symbols in deliberation about public policy? What particular gifts do Lutheran traditions bring to shaping those criteria? The essay then draws upon Lutheran theological resources to propose theologically grounded criteria for appropriate and valid use of religious language, claims, and symbols in public discourse. [source] The making of an Indian metropolis: colonial governance and public culture in Bombay, 1890,1920 , By Prashant KidambiECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW, Issue 2 2008Kaushik Bhaumik No abstract is available for this article. [source] Fungibility: Florida Seminole Casino Dividends and the Fiscal Politics of IndigeneityAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2009Jessica R. Cattelino ABSTRACT In this article, I examine Florida Seminoles' governmental distributions of tribal-gaming revenues that take the form of per capita dividends. Dividends reveal the political and cultural stakes of money's fungibility,its ability to substitute for itself. From tribal policy debates over children's dividends to the legitimization of political leadership through monetary redistribution, Seminoles selectively exploit the fungibility of money to break or make ties with one another and with non-Seminoles. They do so in ways that reinforce indigenous political authority and autonomy, and they thereby challenge structural expectations in U.S. public culture and policy that would oppose indigenous distinctiveness to the embrace of money. [Keywords: money, tribal gaming, American Indians, Florida Seminoles] [source] Chthonic science: Georges Niangoran-Bouah and the anthropology of belonging in Côte d'IvoireAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2009KAREL ARNAUT ABSTRACT Georges Niangoran-Bouah worked assiduously toward Africanizing national education, academia, and public culture in Côte d'Ivoire. As part of this venture, his research projects, including his study of "drummology," can be regarded as a quest for "chthonic" science, that is, an anthropology that uncovers and implements the deep tenets of African,Ivorian culture. Properly situated in its academic, ideological, and political umwelt, we demonstrate, Niangoran-Bouah's anthropology of belonging is not merely an instance of "closure" but must be seen as a multiform attempt to recover a "local" position as a way to participate in universal,global science. [Niangoran-Bouah, chthonic science, postcolonial theory, autochthony, Côte d'Ivoire] [source] Prophecy and the near future: Thoughts on macroeconomic, evangelical, and punctuated timeAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2007JANE I. GUYER A view from 1950s and 1960s Britain suggests that the public culture of temporality in the United States has shifted from a consequential focus on reasoning toward the near future to a combination of response to immediate situations and orientation to a very long-term horizon. This temporal perspective is most marked in the public rhetoric of macroeconomics, but it also corresponds in remarkable ways to evangelicals' views of time. In this article, I trace the optionality and consonance of this shift toward the relative evacuation of the near future in religion and economics by examining different theoretical positions within each domain. In conclusion, I suggest that the near future is being reinhabited by forms of punctuated time, such as the dated schedules of debt and other specific event-driven temporal frames. [source] National subjects: September 11 and Pearl HarborAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 3 2004Geoffrey M. White ABSTRACT Despite a long tradition of writing on collective representations of the past, anthropology has contributed relatively little to the expanding literature on national memory. Yet ethnographic approaches have the facility to delineate practices that create historical narrative and give it emotive power while keeping in view longer-term political forces that underwrite dominant imaginaries. In this article I inquire into the discursive origins of emotional involvement in national history by juxtaposing two events of spectacular violence, September 11 and Pearl Harbor. Focusing on the representation of these events in public culture and at memorial sites, I argue that personal narratives play a central role in formations of national subjectivity, at times emotionalizing dominant memories and at other times opening possibilities for alternative visions. [source] Anthropology and public culture: The Yanomami, science and ethicsANTHROPOLOGY TODAY, Issue 3 2001Stephen Nugent First page of article [source] The Hypothesis of Incommensurability and Multicultural EducationJOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY OF EDUCATION, Issue 2 2009TIM MCDONOUGH This article describes the logical and rhetorical grounds for a multicultural pedagogy that teaches students the knowledge and skills needed to interact creatively in the public realm betwixt and between cultures. I begin by discussing the notion of incommensurability. I contend that this hypothesis was intended to perform a particular rhetorical task and that the assumption that it is descriptive of a condition to which intercultural interactions are necessarily subjected is an unwarranted extension of the hypothesis as originally conceived. After discussing the hypothetical nature of the notion of incommensurability and its critical role within the discourse of the human sciences, the article examines the usefulness of utopian narratives as examples of incommensurable systems that can be put to pedagogical work. I argue that the comparative study of utopian narratives can provide insight into possible means of creating passageways that lead not from one bounded system to another, but rather to mutually generated and generative pluralistic public cultures in which new norms can be articulated, shared and potentially legitimised. What is crucial to the point I am trying to make is that ,incommensurability' was initially posed as a hypothesis that, while impossible to prove, still served a critical discursive or rhetorical function. This function is one that it can still serve and in an important educational manner, outside the discourse of the human sciences, within a larger, increasingly multicultural and global society. 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