scholarly journals Repatriating the Bust of Nefertiti: A Critical Perspective on Cultural Ownership

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Bearden ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Moral Argument ◽  
Global Community ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Original Intent ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Historical Significance

Who owns antiquities? This question has plagued the global community in recent times and has opened dialogues between former colonial Western countries and their past colonized nations whose property is exhibited. This essay examines the conflicting perspectives of ownership in the repatriation of the Bust of Nefertiti between Berlin, Germany and Egypt. By analyzing the effects of European occupation in Egypt and the Western dominance in foreign cultures during the Age of Imperialism, a moral argument arises questioning the legality of the Bust’s removal. This article will review the historical significance of the Bust of Nefertiti in terms of its original intent as well as its removal to Germany and transformation into a global artwork and how this has affected her proposed return to Egyptian ownership.

scholarly journals “El malo de la película” Estudio de las principales figuras malvadas en la colección cinematográfica clásicos Disney

2018 ◽  
pp. 131
Author(s):  
Vicente Monleón
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Mixed Study ◽  
Production Company ◽  
Sobre Todo

Resumen: La Cultura Visual es un potente elemento transmisor de ideas, valores y prejuicios que van ahondando en las personas, en muchas ocasiones de manera inconsciente. Un ejemplo de ello son los filmes que la población infantil consume y que son un componente definitorio de la construcción de su identidad y personalidad, sobre todo en el tramo de la Educación Infantil, 3-5 años. Por ello, en este estudio mediante una metodología mixta de investigación se propone analizar las principales figuras malvadas de la colección de películas clásicos Disney (1937-2016). Esta colección tiene un alcance masivo a nivel mundial, pero sobre todo en los países occidentales de América del Norte y Europa. Los resultados establecen cuáles son los rasgos que recrea esta productora a través de sus dibujos animados malévolos. Seleccionando a este grupo como objeto de análisis por la carencia de investigación al respecto. En la discusión, se revisa la construcción de roles y se analizan críticamente las intenciones ocultas tras los mismos para contribuir a una educación más consciente de los estereotipos que influyen en el alumnado. Palabras clave: Cultura Visual; Disney; infancia; maldad   Abstract: The Visual Culture is a powerful transmitter element of ideas, values, prejudices, etc., that goes unabashedly in people, often unconsciously. For example, the films that children consume are a defining component of the construction of their identity and personality, in the period of 3-5 years old. Therefore, in this mixed study, it is proposed to analyze the main evil figures of the classic Disney film collection (1937-2016). This collection has a massive reach worldwide, but especially in the western countries of North America and Europe. The results establish what are the features recreated by this production company through its malicious cartoons. Selecting this group as an object of analysis due to the lack of research in this regard. In the discussion, from a critical perspective, the construction of roles is reviewed and the hidden intentions behind them are analyzed critically to contribute to a more conscious education of the stereotypes that influence the students. Keywords: Visual Culture; Disney; critique; malice   http://dx.doi.org/10.7203/eari.9.12212

In a Savage Kingdom (regnum efferum)?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julián M. Ortega Ortega
Keyword(s):  
Iberian Peninsula ◽  
Southern Europe ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
Critical Perspective ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Cultural Transformations ◽  
History Of

The Umayyad conquest of the Iberian Peninsula is an event fundamental to understanding the history of Islam and southern Europe. Despite its historical significance and the controversies that its interpretation has generated, archaeology has contributed little to its elucidation. A review of the material testimony associated with this event from a critical perspective attentive to the novelties that have occurred in the field of archaeology addresses issues left by military operations, the implementation of the new administrative apparatus, the migration process of Arab and Berber contingents, and, especially, the technological, social, and cultural transformations that triggered these events in successive decades.

Accentuating Your Masculine Side

2013 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chongzeng Bi ◽  
Oscar Ybarra ◽  
Yufang Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Gender Role ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Two Samples ◽  
Agency And Communion

Recent research investigating self-judgment has shown that people are more likely to base their evaluations of self on agency-related traits than communion-related traits. In the present research, we tested the hypothesis that agency-related traits dominate self-evaluation by expanding the purview of the fundamental dimensions to consider characteristics typically studied in the gender-role literature, but that nevertheless should be related to agency and communion. Further, we carried out these tests on two samples from China, a cultural context that, relative to many Western countries, emphasizes the interpersonal or communion dimension. Despite the differences in traits used and cultural samples studied, the findings generally supported the agency dominates self-esteem perspective, albeit with some additional findings in Study 2. The findings are discussed with regard to the influence of social norms and the types of inferences people are able to draw about themselves given such norms.

Mergers and Acquisitions Financing: The Russian Case

2007 ◽  
pp. 85-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kasparova
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Mergers And Acquisitions ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Corporate Control ◽  
Main Role ◽  
Western Countries ◽  
Business Market

The article considers the financial tools of corporate control transfers and mergers and acquisitions financing forms. In western countries tax and informative factors are more important, but in the Russian business market lack of development of the stock market and low cost of securities of Russian companies play the main role. The analysis has shown that in Russia the monetary form of M&A financing dominates over other financing forms (90% of reviewed cases), still there are individual cases of M&A financing by buying company’s shares (10% of reviewed cases).

Touchy-Feely History: The ‘Stuff’ of American Culture

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-18
Author(s):  
Lauren Rebecca Sklaroff
Keyword(s):  
Material Culture ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
The Body ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
Research Perspectives ◽  
Economic Trends ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
New Research

This state of the field essay examines recent trends in American Cultural History, focusing on music, race and ethnicity, material culture, and the body. Expanding on key themes in articles featured in the special issue of Cultural History, the essay draws linkages to other important literatures. The essay argues for more a more serious consideration of the products within popular culture, less as a reflection of social or economic trends, rather for their own historical significance. While the essay examines some classic texts, more emphasis is on work published within the last decade. Here, interdisciplinary methods are stressed, as are new research perspectives developing by non-western historians.

Oregon’s K–12 Ethnic Studies Bill

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-195
Author(s):  
Shirley A. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Ethnic Studies ◽  
Original Intent ◽  
Racial And Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Protected Group ◽  
Social Minorities ◽  
K 12 ◽  
Racial Ethnic ◽  
Do So

In 2017, Oregon passed House Bill 2845 requiring Ethnic Studies curriculum in grades K–12. It was the first state in the nation to do so. The bill passed almost fifty years after the founding of the country’s first Ethnic Studies department. The passage of an Ethnic Studies bill in a state that once banned African Americans and removed Indigenous peoples from their land requires further examination. In addition, the bill mandates that Ethnic Studies curriculum in Oregon's schools includes “social minorities,” such as Jewish and LGBTQ+ populations which makes the bill even more remarkable. As such, it is conceivable for some observers, a watered-down version of its perceived original intent—one that focuses on racial and ethnic minorities. Similarly, one can draw analogies to the revision of the Civil Rights Bill of 1964 when it included women as a protected group. Grounded in a socio-political history that otherwise would not have been included, this essay examines the productive and challenging aspect of HB 2845. Framing the bill so it includes racial, ethnic, and social minorities solved the problem of a host of bills that may not have passed on their own merit while simultaneously and ironically making it easier to pass similar bills.

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