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RESSIGNIFICAÇÕES DO PATRIMÔNIO CULTURAL NO PARANÁ: DO COLÉGIO DOS JESUÍTAS AO MUSEU DE ARQUEOLOGIA E ARTES POPULARES DE PARANAGUÁ (1938-1963).
Authors: Assis Vinícius
Published: May 2018

Este trabalho tem o objetivo de investigar os significados atribuídos ao patrimônio conhecido como Colégio dos Jesuítas de Paranaguá. O edifício é uma construção do século XVIII, que após a expulsão da Companhia de Jesus do Brasil (1760) acabou se tornando uma ruína. Entretanto foi o primeiro edifício a ser tombado pelo Serviço do Patrimônio Histórico e Artístico Nacional (SPHAN), no estado do Paraná, e hoje abriga a sede expositiva do Museu de Arqueologia de Etnologia da Universidade Federal do Paraná. Ao desenvolver a pesquisa foi necessária a utilização de metodologias que abarcassem os significados e a construção de identidades inseridas nas práticas patrimoniais. Tal análise nos permite compreender os valores atribuídos ao patrimônio, às práticas de preservação por instituições e profissionais do setor, bem como a função política e social do conceito de patrimônio perante as disputas pelo prédio histórico por diferentes instituições no Paraná.
A descrição de Jesus Cristo como mago no Discurso Verdadeiro Contra os Cristãos de Celso (II-III d.C.)
Authors: Pereira Breno Teles
Published: May 2018

A partir de meados do II séc. d.C., alguns locais no Império Romano presenciaram perseguições - iniciadas primeiramente por cidadãos romanos - que resultaram em levas de execuções e martírios de cristãos. Com uma doutrina ainda em construção, mesclando teorias filosóficas grecorromanas e traços de originalidade cristã, o cristianismo se encontrava em processo de expansão, inclusive em meio às várias escolas filosóficas que se concentravam principalmente em Roma e Alexandria. Em provável resposta a isso, Celso escreve a obra Discurso Verdadeiro Contra os Cristãos, tratando de várias querelas que incluem a falta de originalidade do cristianismo, a quebra de raízes com o judaísmo e, alvo de nossa exposição, a descrição do fundador do cristianismo, Jesus Cristo, como um mago, almejando assim expor a hipótese de que a deslegitimação do líder desse movimento encaixava-se em um contexto de intolerância à magia.
Produções textuais dos pacientes do Manicômio Judiciário de São Paulo (1910-1923): O paciente escreve sua história
Authors: Silva Gabrielle Ramos da , Almeida Gabriela Moreira de , Vicente Bianca Jaqueline de Moraes , Moura Guilherme Fernandes de
Published: May 2018

Este artigo é resultado de uma parceria entre o grupo PET-História Unifesp (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) com a APESP (Arquivo Público do Estado de São Paulo), que é responsável pela salvaguarda do acervo. O artigo teve seu desenvolvimento entre os anos de 2013 a 2015 e a partir de produções textuais dos internos do Manicômio Judiciário de São Paulo, datadas entre 1910-1923. Este, então, busca analisar a perspectiva do interno diante da instituição e da sua condição. Isto é, examinar quais eram e como se manifestavam suas concepções acerca dos diagnósticos e da doença; percepções sobre o funcionamento da própria instituição e sobre sua existência dentro dela. Assim, pretende-se dar voz ao interno, que estava sujeito àquele ambiente, e pensar na instituição enquanto lugar de exercício do poder. Portanto, escritas destes nos permitem questionar a pretensa passividade, cujo protagonismo se pretende ressaltar.
Stasis Before the State
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

How is political change possible when even the most radical revolutions only reproduce sovereign power? Via the analysis of the contradictory meanings of stasis, Vardoulakis argues that the opportunity for political change is located in the agonistic relation between sovereignty and democracy and thus demands a radical rethinking.
Stasis underlies all political praxis
Authors: Vardoulakis Dimitris
Published: May 2018

I argue that agonistic monism and the conception of democracy it implies call for a reconceptualization of fundamental political categories, such as freedom, equality, and so on.
Georges de La Tour and the Enigma of the Visible
Authors: Judovitz Dalia
Published: May 2018

Celebrated due to the aura of mystery attached to his rediscovered works in the twentieth century, Georges de La Tour’s paintings continue to be an object of scholarly interest and public fascination. Exploring the representations of light, vision and the visible in his works, this interdisciplinary study raises seminal questions regarding the nature of painting and its artistic, theological, and conceptual implications. If the visible presents an enigma in La Tour’s pictorial works, this is because familiar objects of visible reality serve as emblems of an invisible, spiritual reality. La Tour’s pursuit of likeness between image and the natural world bears the influence of the Catholic Reform’s call for the revitalization of religious imagery in the wake of Protestant iconoclastic outbreaks. Like the books shown in his paintings which are asking to be read, La Tour’s paintings are examined not just as visual depictions but also as instruments of insight, which ask to be deciphered rather than merely seen. La Tour’s paintings show how the figuration of faith as spiritual passion and illumination challenges the meanings attached to the visual realm of painterly expression. This study shows that La Tour’s emphasis on spiritual insight opens up a broader artistic, philosophical and conceptual reflection on the conditions of possibility of painting and its limitations as a visual medium. By scrutinizing what is seen and how and by questioning the position of the beholder, his works encourage meditation on the role of painting and its engagements with the visible world.
Introduction
Authors: Judovitz Dalia
Published: May 2018

The first part of the “Introduction” lays out key questions regarding the representation of light, vision and the visible, as well as outlines the interdisciplinary artistic, critical, theological and philosophical methodologies at work. In the second part, a rapid survey of key biographical and professional details is provided to foreground the extensive critical problems posed by La Tour’s pictorial corpus which include: problems of identifying paintings (reconstructed only after La Tour’s “rediscovery” in 1915), lack of dates, titles and the presence of multiple paintings in parallel versions.
The Enigma of the Visible
Authors: Judovitz Dalia
Published: May 2018

This chapter begins with an analysis of La Tour’s allegorical paintings of blind hurdy-gurdy musicians in order to explore the deceptive, even blinding, character of ordinary vision. These renderings of music making and audition (whose invisibility defies vision and challenges the representational purview of painting) are examined in reference to his portrayals of St. Jerome and Mary Magdalene. Figuring the attainment of spiritual insight rather than sight, these devotional works attest to a contemplative mode of seeing illuminated by the biblical Word. They challenge the viewer by attempting to depict what painting cannot ultimately show: namely, spoken words, audition, the passage of time, and spiritual passions reflecting changes of heart.
Spiritual Passion and the Betrayal of Painting
Authors: Judovitz Dalia
Published: May 2018

An exploration of La Tour’s portrayals of St. Peter shows how La Tour gives visual form to Peter’s verbal denials. The placement of Peter’s betrayal in the margin of a gambling scene invites inquiry into other gambling works that present instances of moral and spiritual lapse when human passions become subject to worldly speculation and negotiation. Peter’s inadvertent repudiation of Christ is also analysed as a figure for the betrayal of painting, since its visual appearance breaks faith with its mission to promote spiritual vision. It concludes with a discussion of the question whether painting can be redeemed as an instrument of penance in amending and suspending the lure of sight in the attainment of spiritual insight.
Queer Persistence: On Death, History, and Longing for Endings
Authors: Kotrosits Maia
Published: May 2018

“What does it mean to live with HIV indefinitely, without knowing whether or not it will kill you?” Tim Dean writes, marking the changing timeline for HIV in the wake of new medical treatments. Exploring the anxiety experienced by some gay men as a result of the new uncertainties around HIV positivity, Dean proposes that this anxiety might tell all of us something about our relationships to time, the future, and mortality. Indeed, death has haunted queer theory from its inception as its implicit telos, either to be embraced or refused. But if death is the telos of queer theory, then it is one that repeatedly and frustratingly refuses to be final. This chapter explores the longing for endings and what might be called a "queer persistence" through Dean’s essay, Eve Sedgwick’s almost incidental description of queer as a “continuing moment,” and the Gospel of Mark, a text that bends or thwarts conventions of beginning, middle, and end. If anything worries us more than death, it seems, it is a lack of resolution.
“They Had No Rest from This Torment”: Encountering the Apocalypse of Peter
Authors: Perry Brock
Published: May 2018

Many have been left behind by the apparent push into a brighter future of growing civil and religious acceptance for LGBTQ people. Taking note of the rhetoric of recent accounts of the progress for LGBTQ rights in the United States, this essay stages an encounter with a text that documents an early Christian attempt to imagine a better future, The Apocalypse of Peter, through the lens of queer negativity and queer historiography. This reading raises questions not only for the contemporary narrative of progress for LGBTQ people, but also for readers and historians who desire to redeem the meaning of problematic texts in the archives of the history of Christianity or reject them outright. Ultimately, efforts to redeem or reject such artifacts in the name of a better, more inclusive future are in danger—perhaps unavoidably—of reifying the relational dynamics of exclusion that have characterized the marginalization of those marked as queer. The Apocalypse of Peter is haunting evidence of the violence with which a community’s vision of the future can be enacted on those who are made to represent the cause of its un-ending deferral.
More Than a Feeling: A Queer Notion of Survivance
Authors: Schneider Laurel C.
Published: May 2018

This essay explores, in part, queer theory's queerness in relation to the religious (Christian) and ethnic (European) frame that largely produced it. Although affect and temporality theories offer important possibilities—finally—for queering Christian theology, I suggest that even these may not escape the ossifying tendencies of conceptual closure so dominant in the trajectories of European and Christian thought. Gerald Vizenor's (Anishinaabe) theory of survivance, developed out of a Native American "postindian" philosophical context, opposes settler colonial closures of "the Indian" and may help illuminate and break through queer theory's (and theology's) entrapping reliance on ethnic European concepts to work through persistent problems of identity, eschatology, and ontology.
Response: To Mark Jordan’s “In Search of Queer Theology Lost”
Authors: Keller Catherine
Published: May 2018

As a reflection on Mark Jordan’s “In Search of Queer Theology Lost,” this essay probes the numbered aphorism, the queer apophasis, the succession of selves as theological strategy for changing the world “by reshaping subjects in community”—in time.
“One day, the gods withdraw …”: (Literature/Philosophy: in-between)
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

One day, the gods withdraw. Of their own volition, they withdraw their divinity, which is to say, their presence. They won’t simply leave, they won’t go somewhere else, they’ll withdraw from their own presence—they’ll disappear within it.

What remains of their presence is what remains of all presence whenever it has vanished—there remains what can be said about it. What can be said about it is what remains when we can no longer address it: cannot speak to it or touch it or observe it, nor offer it a present....
Narrative, Narration, Recitative
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

[…] the subject as subject of art, myth,

and story (is there any other?)

A story cannot have an end, never having had a beginning

—having (and this amounts to the same thing)

come to an end long ago.

—PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE1

Narrative implements and puts into play its narrator: there is no narrative without narration and no narration without a narrator....
The Poet’s Calculation
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

1. Two hypotheses—partial and limited—will serve as axioms for a brief incursion into Hölderlin’s poetics.

The first: for Hölderlin, the poet is more important than the poetry.

The second: above all else, the task of the poet is to calculate.

These two hypotheses are connected: calculation relates to the poet’s activity and decision-making before it relates to the disposition of the poem, in which only its result is inscribed. This makes Hölderlin’s poetics something other than a “poetic art,” other than a literary and aesthetic theory. And yet, at the same time, it gives pride of place, in Hölderlin, to the ...
Reason Demands Poetry: An Interview with Emmanuel Laugier
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

EMMANUEL LAUGIER:

Jean-Luc Nancy, the question that first comes to mind, very directly, is about origin: whether it is the origin of writing or the reading of works of philosophy, poetry, essays on art, and so on. I’m wondering how it is that we’ve come to approach it in itself and, more specifically, how did Jean-Luc Nancy come to poetry? Is it philosophy—which, as we know, has always had an impassioned and bitter relationship with poetry, from the exclusion reserved for it by Plato in The Republic (with the exception of Pindar) to its self-dissolution in the Hegelian system, up to Heidegger’s, in a sense, highly complex reading of Hölderlin—that has determined its reading or, specifically, at a given moment, the pure encounter with several verses at random in an open book, a strophe, something like a stunned reading...
Wozu Dichter
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

The Hölderlin question comes up repeatedly. Its repetition confirms the desperation of the question and, at the same time, promises an interminable profusion of answers. It is remarkable, however, that in isolating this question—to the point of reducing it to these two words of German (...
Responding for Sense
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

Write to me. Write anything at all.1

—EMMANUEL LOI

The sentence—literature—is oral.2

—PHILIPPE LACOUE-LABARTHE

To whom or what he or she responds, has been given many names by tradition. The Muse, poetic Fury, Genius, with or without capitalization, inspiration, sometimes mission or vocation, sometimes a necessity of the soul or the nerves, heavenly grace, sacred injunction, a duty of memory or forgetfulness, self-creation of the text. But the oldest name is ...
Exclamations
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

Introductory note. This entry doesn’t have precisely the encyclopedic character of a dictionary article in the sense that its subject is not available in advance and susceptible to being treated as one of the givens within the general scope of this work. It is, rather, a subject awaiting construction, as shown by the difficulty that accompanied the choice of the title of this essay and which exists only to the extent that the context of this dictionary could provide the precise sense given to the term “exclamations.” It involves a consideration of the signification or pornographic use of the word in the context of sexual relations. (We also find the word used in some general descriptions, such as “orgasm can be accompanied by verbal exclamations or trembling.” But there is no term that could be said to be unique to this signification, nor any suggestive connotation, as is the case with the term “position.” Among several possible reasons, we can put forward the fact that it entails a very broad register that can encompass whole sentences, even speeches, as well as such things as interjections, cries, and whimpers—we are in a zone of indeterminacy, variable and situated at the limit of language.)...
The Only Reading
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

For me there is no single reading and it would be difficult to provide the general form of such an activity.

There is the informative reading: I read to learn what the text can provide. This reading is not unlike other types of data recording (recording a lecture, for example). It predominates in the reading of the work of students and candidates for publication....
Psyche
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

“Psyche ist ausgedehnt, weiss nicht davon.” This is a posthumous note of Freud’s. The psyche is outstretched, without knowing it. Everything ends, thus, with this brief melody:

Psyche ist ausgedehnt, weiss nicht davon.

Psyche is outstretched, partes extra partes; she is but a dispersion of infinitely parceled out places in locations that divide themselves and never penetrate each other. No encasement, no overlap; everything is outside another outside—anyone can calculate their order and demonstrate their relationships. Psyche alone knows nothing of this; for her, there is no relationship between these places, these locations, these bits of a plane....
The Young Carp
Authors: Nancy Jean-Luc
Published: May 2018

To Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe

Always predisposed

to extravagant speech

for which your prose is too

primitive,

I have made this arabesque,

which I dedicate to you.

In a sense, I would prefer that this preface not be read. I fear that one might think it contains either a guide , or a theory, or a justification of the text that follows. Aside from this fear, it is reasonable to believe that I am reluctant to ...
Cone
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

James Cone is broadly recognized as the founding figure of black theology, but the chapter argues that Cone’s work after the early 1970s takes a subtle secularist turn. In his earliest, most powerful writings, Cone embraces paradox. Blackness is at once empirical reality and ontological symbol. Hope is at once this-worldly and other-worldly. The agent of historical change is at once the human and God. These and many other paradoxes echo the central paradox of Cone’s work: Jesus Christ is at once human and divine. This chapter argues that Cone’s early work proposes for black theology an aesthetics of paradox that short-circuits both white supremacy and secularism. However, as the conversation about black theology expanded, and as Cone’s work itself developed, paradox was abandoned in a misguided effort at inclusiveness. As black theologians saw parallels between anti-black oppression and other forms of oppression, and as they explored the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, migration, and other issues, black theology became tethered to worldly concerns. This chapter ponders whether it might be possible for black theology to be responsive to multiple and intersecting oppressions while also embracing a decidedly theological idiom that takes paradox as its heart.
What Is Black Organizing?
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

There has been much scholarly attention paid to faith-based community organizing. Such organizing efforts often understand themselves as “broad-based,” drawing support from a range of religious communities, racial groups, and neighborhoods. In doing so, these organizing efforts often elide the specificity of racial and religious difference. This chapter draws on feminist critiques of community organizing traditions to develop a black theological critique—and the beginnings of an alternative approach to community organizing that draws on the longstanding organizing traditions already present in black communities. By bringing together secular and religious traditions of black organizing, and by coupling black organizing with black theological reflection, this chapter shows how black community organizing can move beyond pragmatic appeals that sideline racial and religious identity.
The Racial Messiah: On Huey P. Newton
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

While the Black Panther Party has often been presented as the secularist reaction to the politically ineffective religiosity of the civil rights movement, religious histories, symbols, and concepts are closely connected with the Panthers and particularly with their photogenic leader, Huey P. Newton. Reading the iconography of Newton along with Seale’s hagiography, Seize the Time, and Newton’s own Revolutionary Suicide, this chapter suggests that the Panthers offer a black theological aesthetics that has political implications. Moving between an analysis of Newton and attempts at political reflection made by white critics, particularly Raymond Geuss, this chapter also makes a case for black theology that takes political practice seriously, that takes political practice as a form of theological practice, in contrast to those who would simply apply abstract theological concepts to political problems.
The Race of the Soul: On Gillian Rose
Authors: Lloyd Vincent W.
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on the British social theorist and Jewish convert to Christianity Gillian Rose. What lessons can we learn about the difficulties of theorizing blackness from Rose’s reflections on her Jewishness and her gender? The chapter argues that Rose points to useful resources for challenging racializing logics, but that Rose’s focus on the racialized soul limits the possibility of struggle growing out of racialized communities. The chapter asks what it might mean to be “too black to be white and too white to be black” (Rose considered herself “too Jewish to be Christian and too Christian to be Jewish”), exploring the complications of black theological reflection when the boundaries of race blur at the same time the boundaries between the secular and the sacred blur.
Object-Love in the Later Writings of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick
Authors: Lin Lana
Published: May 2018

This chapter focuses on Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s little-known breast cancer advice column, “Off My Chest,” which she wrote from 1998 to 2003 for MAMM, a women’s cancer magazine, and A Dialogue on Love, a memoir of her therapy that records her struggle with her cancer diagnosis and metastasis. The chapter argues that Sedgwick’s journalistic and experimental writing circulates a public discourse of love that mediates her relationship to her own mortality. Sedgwick sets herself up as an object for collective identification. By disseminating pieces of herself in published works she strives to serve as an instrument for “good pedagogy” to counter the “bad pedagogy” of the cancer establishment. Influenced by Melanie Klein’s concept of reparation, which she regards as another word for love, she offers a Buddhist inflected teaching that recognizes life as an ongoing collaborative project sustained through the anonymous and impersonal love of readers she has never met, but who survive her death.
Comparative Theology After the Shoah
Authors: Moyaert Marianne
Published: May 2018

Marianne Moyaert shows the potentially violent nature of comparisons between Jewish and Christian scriptures by recollecting the story of the sibling rivalry between Jacob and Esau and exploring how it has been interpreted. She notes some classical Christian (and anti-Jewish) readings of this story, which to her mind are exemplary of what Nicholson has termed the “old comparative theology.” Consequently, she formulates some ground rules for comparative theology after the Shoah, such as may help minimize the problem of violence in the comparative use of another’s tradition. In the last section of her chapter, she makes the proposed ground rules come alive by returning to the Jacob and Esau saga. A careful study of this story together with rabbinic interpretations—including contemporary readings such as that of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks—not only interrupts thought patterns of replacement and substitution but also initiates constructive theological reflections about the relation between Esau and Jacob, Church and Synagogue, and Christians and Jews.
Yogini and Mynah Bird: On the Poetics and Politics of Transspecies Meditation
Authors: Brainerd Madeleine , Kitao Kaori
Published: May 2018

This chapter discusses the painting “Yogini and Mynah Bird” painted around 1605 in Bijapur, India, for a Persian court, placing it within four overlapping contexts: classical Sanskrit aesthetics; Sufi aesthetics; cultic tantra and yoga texts and practices; and Persian court culture. Focusing on the contemplative gaze that links the central two figures of the painting, the yogini and the mynah, the chapter reflects on the image of meditation—and the practices of meditation—embodied in that pairing of human and bird. Madeleine Brainerd’s reflections on the poetics and politics of transspecies meditation are supplemented by further thoughts on the topic by the art historian Kaori T. Kitao.
The Racial Studies Project: Asian American Studies and the Black Lives Matter Campus
Authors: Sharma Nitasha
Published: May 2018

Situated adjacent to present-day student protests calling for more diversity with regard to program, department, and faculty hiring, Sharma recounts the contested formation of Asian American studies at her home institution, Northwestern Univversity.
Asian International Students at U.S. Universities in the Post-2008 Collapse Era
Authors: Wu Cynthia
Published: May 2018

Chapter 12 addresses the ways in which Asian American Studies’ overriding insistence on recovering a useable resistant past via the aforementioned rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s has made it troublingly reluctant to examine relevant accommodation. As the title suggests, Wu considers how the intellectual trajectory of the field, dominated by a limited U.S.-centrism, has proved largely ineffective with regard to the twenty-first century influx of international students from Asian countries at U.S. universities.
Asians Are the New … ​What?
Authors: Chuh Kandice
Published: May 2018

Chapter 13 opens with recent debates involving Asian Americans, university admissions, and affirmative action. Noting the “constitutive ambivalence that has characterized the production of Asian as a racial category in the U.S. political and cultural imagination,” and connecting this process of “Asian racialization” to economically-determined “middleman” model minority discourses within the social ontology of the U.S. populace, Chuh calls for a critical reckoning of the model minority-identified Asian American subject. Such reckonings, in turn, enable a critical diagnosis of the continuing dominance of global capitalism as a defining feature of the U.S. nation
Becoming Bilingual, or Notes on Numbness and Feeling
Authors: Nguyen Viet Thanh
Published: May 2018

Nguyen, who was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (2016), unwaveringly and unabashedly deconstructs how Asian American studies has become professionalized and entrenched, and in that sense, has both succeeded and failed.
Conclusion
Authors: Banki Peter
Published: May 2018

It is no doubt significant that on the sole occasion (to my knowledge) when Derrida provides a positive characterization of what forgiveness is or might be, it is by means of the interpretation of a joke: “Two Jews, long-time enemies, meet at the synagogue, on the Day of Atonement [le jour du Grand Pardon]. One says to the other [as a gesture, therefore, of forgiveness—J. D.]: ‘I wish for you what you wish for me.’ The other immediately retorts: ‘Already you’re starting again?’” In the mutual recognition between the two enemies that forgiveness is impossible, Derrida suggests a certain compassion, even perhaps forgiveness, passes between them. Under the sign of a perhaps, the imagined laughter between the two Jews is “the regime of a possible whose possibilization must prevail over the impossible.” On this basis I interpret Derrida’s forgiveness as a messianic promise, a forgiveness to come, whose temporality must be distinguished from Jean Améry’s “natural time-sense,” i.e., the foreseeable future of reconciliation and normalization founded on amnesia.
Afterword
Authors: Banki Peter
Published: May 2018

Dear Professor,

Part of me would love to be finished with this book and move onto the next chapter of my life. Not finishing holds me back, etc. But, as you know from wherever you are, there’s no being finished with this … You didn’t like to talk too much about the Holocaust, reminding people that much of what is usually said about it is not specific to it, and that one need not to refer to this event to make many of the same arguments about memory, responsibility, testimony, and so on. Provocatively, you even used the word “holocaust” a few times (without a capital letter) to describe things that apparently had nothing to do with it, like the burning of love letters and the gift....
Evaluation of Carrot Quality Using Visible-Near Infrared Spectroscopy and Multivariate Analysis
Authors: Rady Ahmed , Sugiharto Shinta , Adedeji Akinboe
Published: May 2018

Carrot has a relatively high content of Vitamin C and it is a major source of natural carotenoids. However, carrot has a short shelf-life and is better consumed fresh. A quick assessment of its quality attributes is important to preserving its freshness. The objective of this study was to apply Vis-NIR spectroscopy to noninvasively assess and predict the various quality attributes of carrot (cv. Nectar), namely color (L*a*b*), moisture content (MC), total soluble solids (TSS), firmness, Vitamin C, and β-carotene. Two spectroscopic sensors (400-1,000 nm and 900-1,700 nm) were utilized and samples included whole root and 25.4 mm thick sliced disc. The best prediction models using partial least squares regression yielded correlation coefficient, r, and ratio of performance to deviation or r(RPD) of 0.50(0.73), 0.84(0.88), 0.86(2.07), 0.69(0.66), 0.97(1.44), 0.90(1.49), 0.47(1.47), and 0.92(1.76) for color indices, L* a* b*, firmness, MC, TSS, Vitamin C, and β-carotene, respectively. However, using only the wavelengths selected by interval partial least squares, the r(RPD) values for the aforementioned attributes improved and are presented as follows: 0.92(1.97), 0.96(2.83), 0.98(5.85), 0.99(6.65), 0.98(3.91), 0.99(5.93), 0.98(4.16), and 0.98(4.43), respectively. Generally, Vis-NIR region had higher prediction performance than NIR region, and whole roots had similar prediction performance as sliced samples. This study shows that rapid determination of quality parameters of carrot is possible through non-destructive Vis-NIR sensing, which could be useful for quality tracking during carrot supply chain. Moreover, results of this study could be improved using a larger sample size.
University-Industry Collaborative Projects: Analysis and Proposal of Management Practices
Authors: Kayser Ana Carolina , Schmidt Serje , Dal Ri Rafael Stoffel
Published: May 2018

This study aims to identify good managerial practices on university-industry collaborative projects. The literature review was based on studies that analyzed management of collaborative projects and included authors such as Davenport et al. (1998), Moro-Valentin et al (2003), Barnes et al (2006), and Albertin and Amaral (2010). An empirical research was carried out by studying multiple cases of University-Industry collaborative projects in Brazil. Project managers, entrepreneurs and researchers involved in such projects answered a semi-structured interview that helped understand how they are managed. Results showed that best practices already suggested by literature are implemented, as well as new practices that are positively associated with project performance. Setting clear and realistic goals, defining clear responsibilities, writing clear agreements, and communicating effectively were practices found in literature. New practices consisted of maintaining close contact with partners, systematically recording information on the project, conducting startup meetings to formalize and disseminate information about the project, holding periodical meetings to monitor the project, using software or a project management platform, and clearly defining processes. A guide presenting ten best practices for managing University-Industry collaborative projects was created based on the results found in this study.
(Re)Viewing Ellison’s Invisible Man
Authors: Tucker Terrence T.
Published: May 2018

This chapter examines Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man as a foundational work in the development of comic rage, particularly through its use of black folk tradition. Ellison’s use of the tradition of black folk humor on both literal and cultural targets manifests itself in extensive acts of signifying. In particular, the novel critiques black protest novels of the 1940s and 1950s—embodied by Richard Wright’s Native Son—with the use of humor and other forms of African American cultural expressions. This chapter explores how, while the novel contains as much rage and violence as the protest novels do in their critique of racist oppression, Ellison’s novel avoids allowing the rage to become destructive by highlighting the rhetorical skill of the protagonist and the embrace of jazz as a critical aesthetic. The book lays the groundwork for other works of comic rage both within and outside the African American literary tradition.
Introduction
Authors: Goldman Jonathan
Published: May 2018

The introduction offers an overview of legal issues pertaining to James Joyce's life and work. It reviews the previous criticism on this topic and summarizes/previews the contents of the volume. These synopses become the basis of Goldman's argument that research in legal history offers new insight into the implications of narrative developments in Joyce's Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake. These writings include scenes inflected by laws governing, for example, alcohol, public space, marital infidelity, and tenancy. Joyce's work can be seen as critiquing these and other legal regimes. Goldman argues that reading Joyce alongside the law supports and enriches current strategies in Joyce and modernist scholarship.
Rights and Losses
Authors: Cole Rich
Published: May 2018

Rich Cole's essay reads laws of minority rights in Europe to challenge the tendency for cultural historians to understand the human rights revolution as beginning in the 1940s with signing of the the UN Charter. James Joyce's Cyclops, for instance, is written in such a way that it intersperses voices of national sovereignty with an increased rights consciousness brought about by global market forces. The citizen and the court trial provide two obvious points of reference to trace emerging debates about the promise of global constitutionalism and liberal rights claims to counter imperial oppression in pre-war Dublin.
Dublin Inc.
Authors: Marshik Celia
Published: May 2018

This essay explains the history and legal purview of the Dublin Corporation, the organization established to manage the affairs of the metropolis. Marshik reads "Ivy Day," for its interest in municipal self-government and its casting nationalist agendas as inadequate to the needs of Dublin. She concludes that James Joyce is equally interested in the Corporation "Committee Room" as he is in the "Ivy Day" that laments Charles Stewart Parnell.
The Archaeological Remains of Early Modern Spanish Colonialism on Guam and Their Implications
Authors: Dixon Boyd , Jalandoni Andrea , Craft Cacilie
Published: May 2018

Using a late seventeenth century map of Jesuit religious structures and native Chamorro communities on Guam, this chapter explores the possible impacts of early Spanish colonialism, in the period just prior to La Reduccion, on the island as reflected in the rather sparse record of Contact Period archaeological remains at these same communities. Is this a manifestation of the low level of colonial investment from Spain in Guam, the amalgamation of Chamorro and Spanish material culture, or the lack of archaeological attention to these possible sites?
Island Taiwan in the Seventeenth Century
Authors: Heylen Ann
Published: May 2018

This chapter opens with a historical setting for the sixteenth and seventeenth century development of the main island of Taiwan and its offshore islands. Attention is paid to the settlement patterns of the Austronesian speaking indigenes, the arrival of Chinese migrants, and the European presence of the Spanish and Dutch. Its main thrust is to situate this history within the broader time frame of the age of discovery and European overseas expansion history from a transnational perspective. This perspective is primarily established through an overview of the academic traditions and directions in research topics that feature the seventeenth century history of Taiwan. Sourcing the indigenous past alludes to post-event Eurocentric interpretations and legacies of intercultural contact. Furthermore, the chapter provides a brief discussion of the current accessible historical materials and its geographical localizations.
Contesting Modes of Colonialism
Authors: Peterson John A.
Published: May 2018

The Spanish entrance to Island Southeast Asia in the sixteenth century had profoundimpacts on native peoples and terrain, but followed a millennia of intrusion into the region by Indian (Hindu), Buddhist, Chinese, Muslim, and native traders who established entrepôts in the Indonesian Archipelago from Malaka to Java to the Moluccas Islands. This trading network extended from Venice to Guangzhou. The southern Philippines lay at the edge, but participated in the trade of cloves, nutmeg, pepper, and other spices and forest products, first through Majapahit and later through Chinese traders. A consulary visit to China from Butuan was recorded in the eleventh century in the Chinese Song Shih, and a Cham trade mission was reported in 1001. Nine plank-hulled boats dating from the eleventh century were found buried in flood deposits in the Agusan del Sur River in Butuan, Mindanao, and, along with Song Dynasty ceramic artifacts, demonstrate the trade’s global reach . A century before Spanish colonization, Muslim pilots and traders initiated the spread of Islam. This has made an imprint on the region. Islamic conversion contrasted with Christian colonial patterns of subjugation and led to persistent boundaries and enduring, localized, and cultural effects that continue to shape ethnic and political divisions.
European Ceramics in the Spanish Philippines
Authors: Skowronek Russell K.
Published: May 2018

Nearly a century ago, in 1922, Carl Guthe, from the University of Michigan, conducted a three-year-long archaeological reconnaissance of the southern Philippines. He identified 542 sites. Twenty-six of these sites contained European-made ceramics dating from the 377 years of Spanish colonial rule. Significantly, the majority of these were made during the nineteenth century in Great Britain and the Netherlands, both of which were neighbouring colonial powers in Southeast Asia. The century-old Guthe Collection continues to yield information regarding life in this remote corner of the Spanish colonial world.
The Power of Images in the Boxer Codex and Cultural Convergence in Early Spanish Manila
Authors: Hsieh Ellen
Published: May 2018

The Boxer Codex is one of the most important documents for the study of the history of the Philippines. Produced in the late sixteenth century, the colorful illustrations of the manuscript offer some of the earliest images of people living in the archipelago and its Asian neighbors at the time. Although the codex, especially its illustrations, has been cited in a variety of Philippine studies, the manuscript has not been examined carefully as an integrated document, combining an analysis of the images and the text. This interdisciplinary study synthesizes methods derived from history, art history, anthropology, and archaeology to focus on the illustrations of the Boxer Codex in terms of both the structure, content, composition, and artistic style and the correlation between the Spanish text and Chinese characters within their historical context. I suggest that the manuscript was designed to promote and justify the Spanish enterprise in the Pacific rather than to present an objective ethnographic record of people in the region. Nonetheless, the Boxer Codex documents cultural exchange and artistic hybridity in early colonial Manila, reflecting the complex ethnic composition of Spain's most distant colony.
Colonialism in Vietnam and Southeast Asia in the Late Pre-European Period
Authors: Staniforth Mark , Kimura Jun
Published: May 2018

The rise of the Yuan Dynasty under Kublai Khan, the fifth emperor of the Mongol Empire, in thirteenth century China shows a distinctive polity that exemplifies two overlapping forms of colonialism. The first form is settler colonialism, where large (or small) scale migration of people creates colonies in places with a pre-existing population. The second is exploitation colonialism, where small groups of people established trading posts and settlements that controlled economic, cultural, and political power. The Yuan Dynasty’s early policy during Kublai Khan’s reign shows the adoption of strong naval power, specifically for territorial expansion. The Yuan court was also in control of the port cities in the middle and southern coasts of the Chinese mainland, which had been fully developed since the Southern Song period (1127—1279 CE). Chinese bureaucrats and regional authorities in these ports were actively engaged in investing capital in overseas trade, especially if conducted by private traders. These trading systems and policies facilitated the expansion of trans-regional networks into Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean World in the form of exploitation colonialism. The archaeological vestiges of the maritime commercial and naval activities that resulted from Yuan colonialism will be considered in this chapter.
Introduction to a World View of Bioculturally Modified Teeth
Authors: Burnett Scott E. , Irish Joel D.
Published: May 2018

Modifications to human tooth number, shape, surface, and color are among those long used to impart information about the individual, their society, and relationship to others. The practice of intentional dental modification is widespread, occurring at some point in time in most major areas of the world. The purpose of this chapter is threefold: 1) to describe the principal ways in which human societies around the world modified their teeth by ablation, filing, embedding inlays, or dyeing; 2) to delineate the goals of the volume, including the organization of contributions into geographic regions, and brief comments on other regions where the practice may be found; 3) to provide basic terminology on tooth type, position, and composition to help readers get the most out of this volume.
Knocking, Filing, and Chipping
Authors: Irish Joel D.
Published: May 2018

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. First, an overview of intentional dental modification among sub-Saharan Africans is provided, with a focus on biological cause and effect. Methods for removal and alteration are described alongside their short- and long-term effects. Oral trauma was not uncommon, ranging from mild to life threatening. Yet continuation of the practice indicates that the intended results outweighed any risks, including perceived and plausible benefits to individual reproductive fitness (e.g., Kikuyu and Batonga), internecine competition (Ashanti, San), and prevention (Acholi) or treatment of disease (Masai). The second goal is to document the proliferation of modification types emanating from western Africa. Intrusive “Bantu” migrants, who began (4,000–3,000 BP) a gradual, subcontinent-wide expansion from this region, brought their own specific methods. These styles, which can be tracked, came to influence and replace the practices of indigenous peoples.
Tooth Filing in Surabayan Javanese and Balinese
Authors: Artaria Myrtati D.
Published: May 2018

This chapter discusses the practice and symbolism of teeth filing in the Javanese and Balinese of Indonesia. Although deliberate modification of the dentition has been documented in human groups worldwide including Indonesia, little has been written about these cultural practices in Java and Bali. Dental filing was the most common form of modification. Examination of both skulls and living Balinese and Javanese in Surabaya, and interviews of the latter, reveal that the practice is still observed by Balinese, but not the Surabayan Javanese. Tooth filing by some Balinese today is not practiced to the same extent as in the past. A cultural change in the degree of tooth filing over time is based on recent changes in how beautiful and healthy teeth are perceived.
Intentional Dental Modification and Oral-Dental Health in Western Micronesia
Authors: Ikehara-Quebral Rona , Ryan E. Melanie , Parr Nicolette , Walth Cherie , Liston Jolie , Pietrusewsky Michael , Douglas Michele Toomay
Published: May 2018

Intentional dental modification was observed in Pre-Latte and Latte Period bioarchaeological samples from western Micronesia. These purposeful cultural alterations include multilinear incisions and horizontal abrading of labial tooth surfaces in the Mariana Islands and tooth blackening in Palau. To understand the biological impacts of intentional modification, over ten pre-European Contact (before AD 1521) dental samples from the Mariana Islands were examined to test for a correlation between intentionally modified teeth and two indicators of oral-dental health: caries and periapical abscesses. Although differences in data collection methods and poor bone preservation prevented the use of both indicators across the board, preliminary results indicate that horizontal abrading in at least one sample appears to be associated with carious lesions while dental incising is not.
Modified Teeth, Cultural Diversity, and Community Building at Cahokia (AD 900–1400)
Authors: Hedman Kristin M. , Bukowski Julie A. , Cobb Dawn E. , Thompson Andrew R.
Published: May 2018

Intentionally modified teeth provide lasting evidence of cultural behavior and, when combined with archaeological, demographic, morphological and biochemical information, can provide significant insight into patterns of human behavior and interaction in prehistory. This chapter explores the origin and social context of modified teeth during the Mississippian period (AD 900–1400) in North America. The majority of examples are from sites associated with Cahokia, the preeminent Mississippian cultural center in eastern North America. New examples have increased the number of known cases of dental modification and the number of recognized modification styles. More important, they provide critical contextual and demographic information for the practice of dental modification and confirm a strong association of modified teeth with women. When considered in light of strontium isotope (87Sr/86Sr) data and evidence for biological relatedness, this chapter considers the movement of women and their role in creating biological and social relationships across regions during this period.
Intentional or Not?
Authors: Burnett Scott E.
Published: May 2018

The Southwest United States is one of the few North American regions north of Mexico where prehistoric intentional dental modification has been identified. The practice may 1) result from diffusion from further south, 2) represent the presence of Mesoamericans in the Southwest U.S., or 3) have an independent, local origin. However, these interpretations depend on correct identification of intentional dental modification, which may be difficult in practice. The purpose of this chapter is to characterize and reassess 14 proposed cases using a single set of criteria for distinguishing between intentional and unintentional dental modification. The dentitions exhibit considerable variation in appearance and many bear characteristics suggestive of incidental chipping or occupational wear. As a practice rife with cultural implications, this exercise underscores the attention needed on the criteria on which intentionality is interpreted, particularly in regions with few cases of dental modification and no historic record of the practice.