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Aphrodite - The Making Of A Goddess [Bok / Häftad]

The main building of the Nordic Museum on the island of Djurgården in Stockholm is an architectural landmark. The huge edifice can be seen from far off, from all angles, and when one comes closer one can discern fascinating details of artistic expression, material, and craft skill. The architect Isak Gustaf Clason made allusions to several different historical styles when he designed the building at the end of the nineteenth century. Today the building is instead historical in the sense that it so clearly manifests its own time. This book, based on notes, drawings and pictures from the museums archives, tells of the entire structure, its character, its construction history, and its world of references.

Julita Manor- Nordiska Museet [Bok / Häftad]

An indelible exploration of the Cultural Revolution and how it shapes China today, Red Memory uncovers forty years of silence through the rarely heard stories of individuals who lived through Mao's decade of madness. 'Took my breath away.' BARBARA DEMICK 'Haunting.' OLIVER BURKEMAN 'A masterpiece.' JULIA LOVELL A 13-year-old Red Guard revels in the great adventure, and struggles with her doubts. A silenced composer, facing death, determines to capture the turmoil. An idealistic student becomes the 'corpse master' . . . More than fifty years on, the Cultural Revolution's scar runs through the heart of Chinese society, and through the souls of its citizens. Stationed in Beijing for the Guardian, Tania Branigan came to realise that this brutal and turbulent decade continues to propel and shape China to this day. Yet official suppression and personal trauma have conspired in national amnesia: it exists, for the most part, as an absence. Red Memory explores the stories of those who are driven to confront the era, fearing or yearning its return. What happens to a society when you can no longer trust those closest to you? What happens to the present when the past is buried, exploited or redrawn? And how do you live with yourself when the worst is over?

Experimental Cultural Heritage is a new approach to working with heritage in the landscape, without hierarchies, together with different interpreters in the surrounding community and with other entrances to the collective memories than the institutionalised. The aim is to engage artists, archaeologists and heritage workers to inspire each other and the community, to enrich and renew perspectives on local heritage. Museums and other cultural heritage institutions might play a rather different role in people's lives and their forming of identities and history through this experimental approach. If cultural heritage museums and institutions work more as places for expression, experimentation and exhibition than as mere hosting institutions for traditional collection and display, we can serve the public in a more useful way. Through the combination of artistic and archaeological or historical experimentation with cultural heritage in the landscape, we might be able to safeguard a living heritage.

Upplevelser, känsla, handling och ting har blivit centrala områden i senare års kulturforskning. Det traditionella sättet att analysera kulturyttringar genom att försöka tolka myllret av symboler, bilder och texter håller på att ersättas av en ny analysmetod. För visst är mänsklig kultur främst en upplevd värld av något sinnligt, erfarenhetsnära och handlingsberett?<br/><br/><i>Being There</i> är en bok skriven av en grupp framstående antropologer och etnologer som med hjälp av konkreta exempel vill visa ett kreativt nytt sätt att koppla fenomenologisk teoribildning till kulturanalys.<br/><br/>I Being There utgår författarna från sju exempelstudier där aktuella problem i anslutning till diaspora, mångkulturalism, främlingsfientlighet och våld tas upp. De diskuterar dessa i samband med nordiska temaparker, europeisk regionalism och nationaldagsfirande.<br/>Medverkande författare är bland annat <b>Nils Gilje</b>, professor i etnologi och filosofi, <b>Michael Jackson</b>, professor i antropologi och Jonas Frykman professor i etnologi och känd i Sverige inte minst för sina träffande diskussioner om svensk 1900-talskultur.

<b>In this fascinating and insightful book, feminist curator Rachael Lennon provides an intimate and accessible examination of the history of marriage, with a focus on the UK.</b><br/><br/><i>Wedded Wife</i> tells a <b>remarkable story of how this institution has developed</b> from the ancient customs of the stone age through to the modern form it takes today.<br/><br/>In this eminently <b>readable and relatable study</b>, Lennon also explores themes such as <b>the pressure to marry</b>, the<b> politics surrounding proposals</b>, the spectacle of marriage, the business behind it, and the politics tied to consummation as well as issues such as<b> taking a man's name</b>, the nuances of marriage vows and obedience, <b>'having it all'</b> and trying to keep up the fight to have an<b> enduring marriage.</b><br/><br/>Having married her wife just a few years after the <b>legalisation of same sex marriage</b> in the United Kingdom, Lennon interweaves her<b> own personal experiences of marriage</b> with stories and anecdotes from throughout history to explore <b>how marriage has transformed over the years</b>.<br/><br/>In <b>shaking off patriarchal expectations,</b> Rachael examines marriage's <b>troubling past</b> and celebrates a <b>more joyful present</b>, celebrating the <b>feminist activists</b> who have fought to make marriage a pure and equitable celebration of love<b>, open to everyone regardless of gender or sexuality.</b><br/><br/>She also asks <b>what compels us to keep making this choice? </b>Can we let go of the gendered baggage that we have inherited? <b>Can we hold true to feminist values as we commit to our partners? </b>And what does that look like? <b>How can we build on the past to continue to redefine marriage for the future?</b>