scholarly journals Mapping Miguel Covarrubias across Cultures and Disciplines

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-183
Author(s):  
Nathaniel R. Racine
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Cultural Geography ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Geographical Region ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
Historical Epoch ◽  
Insight Into

In this paper, I explore the Pageant of the Pacific, a sequence of mural-maps painted by the Mexican artist and illustrator, Miguel Covarrubias, for the San Francisco International Exposition of 1939–1940. By placing these mural-maps within the larger context of cultural geography and Covarrubias’s own theories of comparative anthropology, they offer an artistic and poetic explanation of the relationships found among the cultures of the Pacific Rim, drawing connections across historical epoch and geographical region. Within Covarrubias’s own historical context, these maps provide an important visual link that crosses disciplinary boundaries, providing insight into the intellectual conversation of his era and, perhaps, providing a model for interdisciplinarity in the present age as well.

Experience of Tactile Vision

Perception ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
G Guarniero
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
Sensory Substitution ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Underlying Theory ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Substitution System ◽  
Perceptual Aspect ◽  
Insight Into

The accompanying paper was written following a three-week training course with the Tactile Vision Substitution System (TVSS) under development at the Department of Visual Sciences, University of the Pacific, San Francisco. The instrumentation has been described elsewhere by Collins and Madey (1974) and perceptual studies and underlying theory by Bach-y-Rita et al. (1969), White et al. (1970), and Bach-y-Rita (1972). The present paper is a personal account that provides insight into a perceptual aspect of sensory substitution studies.

Life on the Pacific Rim

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jay Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Jack London ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Overland Monthly

Under Milicent Shinn’s editorship, The Overland Monthly helped create a Pacific consciousness, a knowledge on the part of western Americans that their world was at least equally a part of the Pacific as it was of the nation of the United States. Shinn was an anti-imperialist without being a white supremacist. She believed in a Pacific unity through cooperation, not militarism or trade. It is within this larger cultural historical context that the rise of Jack London must be placed. The stories that led to his acceptance in the Atlantic Monthly and then to his national prominence first appeared in an Overland Monthly heavily indebted to the editorial philosophy of Milicent Shinn.

Fair Labor

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-70
Author(s):  
Abigail Markwyn
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Labor Relations ◽  
People Of Color ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
International Exposition ◽  
Unskilled Workers ◽  
Run Up ◽  
And Gender

Labor relations during the run up to and duration of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 have been called the “Pax Panama Pacifica” thanks to unwritten agreements between fair planners and key labor unions in San Francisco. Fair planners intended to use the exposition to declare California’s ascendance as an economic stronghold in the Pacific, but the staging of it involved work that was inexorably bound with local, domestic, class, race, and gender conflicts in the Progressive Era. This article looks at why avoiding labor strife was critical to fair organizers’ objectives, and examines in particular the groups for whom the peace did not hold: unskilled workers, women, people of color, and foreign performers.

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