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New York und Tokio in der Medienkunst : urbane Mythen zwischen Musealisierung und Mediatisierung
(2004)
Das Buch beschreibt die Nutzung türkischer populärer Musik und ihre Bedeutung für türkische Jugendliche in Deutschland. Es zeigt auf, dass die Nutzung türkischer Musik nicht die Ursache oder Folge einer Unfähigkeit oder eines Unwillens zur Integration ist, sondern vielmehr ein konstruktives Element innerhalb des individuellen Integrationsprozesses.
During the past decade, processes associated with what is popularly though perhaps misleadingly known as globalization have come within the purview of anthropology. Migration and mobility ‐ and the footloose or even rootless social groups that they produce ‐ as well as the worldwide diffusion of commodities, media images, political ideas and practices, technologies and scientific knowledge today are on anthropology's research agenda. As a consequence, received notions about the ways in which culture relates to territory have been abandoned. The term transnationalisation captures cultural processes that stream across the borders of nation states. Anthropologists have been forced to revise the notion that transnationalisation would inevitably bring about a culturally homogenized world. Instead, we are witnessing a surge of greatly increasing cultural diversity. New cultural forms grow out of historically situated articulations of the local and the global. Rather than left-over relics from traditional orders, these are decidedly modern, yet far from uniform. The essay engages the idea of the pluralization of modernities, explores its potential for interdisciplinary research agendas, and also inquires into problematic assumptions underlying this new theoretical concept.
Die Tätigkeit des Forschens, denke ich, hat immer etwas mit Neugier auf die Welt zu tun; eine Welt, in der wir leben, und eine, in der wir leben könnten. Sie ist verknüpft mit dem Wunsch, Unbekanntes zu erfahren, erkennbar und vielleicht auch nutzbar zu machen. Wenn wir forschen, greifen wir nach Möglichkeiten und nach Zukünftigem, was wir gleichzeitig durch unsere Vorstellungen antizipieren und mit wissenschaftlichen Begriffen umrahmen. Die kulturanthropologische Forschung untersucht Fremdes gewöhnlich in einer anderen Gemeinschaft. Diese Gemeinschaft wird dann zumeist aufgesucht, um zu erfahren, welche Möglichkeiten und welche Probleme für Kulturanthropologen in solchen Kulturkontakten in Erscheinung treten. Die vorliegende Arbeit nun ist eine Forschung über die Forschung. Die Neugier, die mich dazu bewegt hat, sie zu schreiben, bestand in der Frage, wie Möglichkeiten menschlicher Kreativität von Leuten, die dafür Technologien entwickeln, fruchtbar gemacht werden. Die Technologiegestalter suchen eben diese Neugier zu befriedigen, indem sie menschliches Verhalten in künstlich hergestellten Kontexten erproben und Modelle entwerfen, die in die gesellschaftliche Welt einwandern und ausstrahlen sollen. ...
This study aims primarily at exploring the images of Swahili women as depicted in taarab songs in Zanzibar and factors that shape these images at different epochs or points in time. The corpus used in this study was collected in Zanzibar from Sep- tember to November 1999. A secondary concern of the present study is to highlight the history of taarab songs in Zanzibar and to identify the relationship between this art of songs and the Egyptian song. The study has adopted a holistic approach with more concentration on sung lyrics. The analysis is des- criptive and utilizes perspectives of literary theories of orature as well as insights from gender, cultural, structural and functional theories. The present study argues that Swahili taarab songs belong to the realm of oral literature, though in this case not in the sense of “classical oral literature”which excludes the notion of literacy. In taarab, the songs combine together features of both oral and written literature. They reflect comprehensively the Swahili culture and are thus con- sidered by the Swahili themselves as an indigenous genre of music despite its Arabian and other foreign roots. The study highlights the cultural milieu of taarab songs in Zanzibar and explores metaphors, symbols referring to women, and the sources of imagery used in these songs. Taarab songs have stylistically developed through their history. The study identifies two categories of classical taarab songs each of which has its own distinctive characteristics. The first category concerns those songs sung for the first time before 1945, and the second one those sung afterwards. Taarab lyrics have distinctive features, which they have acquired over time through efforts of the Swahili creative artists. They adhere
strictly to the conditions and conventions of Swahili traditio nal poetic structure. The lyrics have enriched the Swahili language with a lot of expressions, which came in use firstly through taarab lyrics. The various facets of the taarab com- plex, including prominent features of taarab performance- and the salient linguistic aspects of taarab lyrics, have also
been discussed.
Epigraphic documents attest that the two neighbouring, inland sites, Idalion and Tamassos, were kingdoms during the Cypro-Archaic period, and that-within an interval of nearly a century - they were both incorporated by the kingdom of Kition during the Cypro-Classical period, thereby losing their independent status. The geographical position of Idalion and Tamassos must have been both a blessing and a curse: while the two polities could thrive on the exploitation of the nearby copper mines, they also had to withstand the economic interest of other Cypriote polities in these natural resources. In addition, we may assume that, because of their inland position, Idalion and Tamassos were forced to seek economic collaboration with polities that had direct access to the sea for the export and exchange of commodities beyond the island. We may further expect that the control of ore-mining and forestry activities must have been a potential source of territorial strife between the two inland kingdoms. Therefore, the geo-economic reality likely induced Idalion and Tamassos to a dualistic relationship of being both allies and competitors. ...