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Der Bremer Bandkatalog „Kolonialwesen“ : Edition, sprachwissenschaftliche und bibliotheksgeschichtliche Kommentierung
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ISBN: 3110393395 3110376652 Year: 2017 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Kommunikative Aspekte kolonial- und globalgeschichtlicher Konstellationen treten zunehmend in den Fokus der Sprachwissenschaft und anderer geisteswissenschaftlicher Disziplinen, die auf Quellen als empirischer Grundlage angewiesen sind. Die Edition des Bremer Bandkatalogs „Kolonialwesen“ (1884–1919) entspricht dem Quellendesiderat insbesondere für diskursorientierte Ansätze in Linguistik, (Post)Colonial Studies, Geschichts- und Sozialwissenschaften. Der archivalische Charakter eines systematischen bibliothekarischen Bandkatalogs bietet einen aus der historischen Sammlungspraxis gewonnenen und von aktuellen Fragestellungen nicht vordeterminierten Zugang zu Präferenzen der Fixierung kolonialer Diskurse. Fachwissenschaftliche Einleitungen kommentieren die Edition aus sprach-, geschichts- und bibliothekswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven. Mit der Edition, einer Kooperation von Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen und dem Exzellenzprojekt „Language in Colonial Contexts“ der Universität Bremen, liegt ein Beitrag vor, der Datenzugänge herstellt – eine zentrale Aufgabe der (Post)Colonial Linguistics. The edition of the Bremen Book Catalogue on “Colonialism” provides access to an important source of German colonial history by means of facsimile reproductions, introductory texts, commentaries and indexes. It is the result of a cooperation of the Bremen research project “Language in Colonial Contexts” and Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen.


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Tourist Attractions
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ISBN: 9781845416072 1845415426 9781845415426 1845416074 1845415434 1845415434 9781845415433 1845415442 Year: 2015 Publisher: Bristol, UK Blue Ridge Summit, PA

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Tourist attractions constitute the metaphorical 'heart' of tourism. This book aims to both deconstruct and construct what tourist attractions are, how we perceive them and how we can enhance our understanding of what attracts us as tourists. The volume reaches beyond current ideas about the ways tourist attractions are created, shaped and packaged. It focuses on the importance and subjective nature of identity, memory, narrative and performance in the tourist experience to find new ways of analysing and managing tourist attractions. The book will appeal to researchers and students in tourism and destination management and heritage and indigenous tourism.


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Embattled Excavations : Colonial and Transcultural Constructions of the American Deep Past
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ISBN: 3830993862 3830943865 Year: 2021 Publisher: Münster Waxmann

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American national self-invention is fundamentally entwined with cultural constructions of American "prehistory" - the human presence on the continent since the earliest arrivals at least 16,000 years ago. Embattled Excavations offers exemplary readings of the entanglements between reconstructions of the American deep past and racialist ideologies and legal doctrine, with continental expansionism and Manifest Destiny, and with the epistemic and spiritual crisis about the origins of mankind following nineteenth-century discoveries in the fields of geology and evolutionary biology. It argues, from a decolonial perspective, that popular assumptions about the early history of settlement effectively downplay the length and intensity of the Indigenous presence on the continent. Individual chapters critically investigate modern scientific hypotheses about Pleistocene migrations; they follow in the tracks of imperial and transatlantic adventurers in search of Maya ruins and fossil megafauna; and they triangulate colonial and transcultural reconstructions of the events leading to the formation of Crater Lake (Oregon) with previously ignored Indigenous traditions about the ancient cataclysm. The examples show a deep-seated colonial anxiety about America's foreign pre-colonial past, evinced by popular archaeology's nervous silencing of Indigenous knowledge - a condition now subject to revision due to a growing Indigenous presence in the discursive field.


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Postcolonial Contraventions.
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ISBN: 1526137577 1847795323 Year: 2003 Publisher: Manchester : Manchester University Press,

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Laura Chrisman's Colonial Discourse and Postcolonial Theory: A Reader was published in 1993. It quickly became a landmark of postcolonial studies. This timely new book offers insights into the field she helped establish. Both polemical and scholarly, Postcolonial contraventions is challenging in its analysis of black Atlantic studies, colonial discourse analysis and postcolonial theory.She provides important new paradigms for understanding imperial literature, Englishness, and black transnationalism. Her concerns range from the metropolitan centre of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, to fatherhood in Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk; from the marketing of South African literature to cosmopolitanism in Chinua Achebe; from utopian discourse in Benita Parry to Frederic Jameson's theorisation of empire.Chrisman also critically engages with postcolonial intellectuals Paul Gilroy, David Lloyd, Anne McClintock, Edward Said, Gayatri Spivak and Robert Young, uncovering conservatism from unexpected quarters. The book joins a growing chorus of materialist voices within postcolonial studies, and addresses an urgent need for greater attention to the political, historical and socio-economic elements of cultural production.This book will be of interest to students, researchers and teachers of postcolonial studies, theory and literature; black diaspora and Atlantic studies; imperialism and Victorian literature of empire, and British literature of the nineteenth century.


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El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos : espacio, cuerpo y poder
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ISBN: 1282988263 9786612988264 1846157145 1855661799 Year: 2009 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, U.K. ; Rochester, N.Y. : Tamesis,

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Nuevas perspectivas sobre etnicidad, género, subjetividad europea, y construcción de geografías coloniales. El discurso colonial en textos novohispanos se apoya en trabajos recientes sobre el análisis del discurso y la crítica de la representación que se están desarrollando en áreas como antropología, historia, y geografía cultural. Al analizar una gran variedad de textos, tales como el Diario de Colón, la Lettera de Vespucio, el Alboroto y motín de Sigüenza y Góngora, el México en 1554 de Cervantes de Salazar, la Grandeza mexicana de Balbuena, y la Historia antigua de México de Clavijero, traza los orígenes y usos del saber geopolítico desde la época clásica hasta el siglo XVIII novohispano, para aportar nuevas perspectivas sobre etnicidad, género, subjetividad europea, y construcción de geografías coloniales. Este libro mira los movimientos de ideas más allá de las fronteras espaciales y temporales, e identifica la percepción europea del cuerpo americano como un cuerpo abyecto, que desestabiliza el sistema, la identidad y el orden, y explora la relación del cuerpo y del espacio como una continuidad de las prácticas y las representaciones estratégicas del discurso colonial, enfocándose en la construcción de la identidad, y en las definiciones de las fronteras físicas y culturales. Este estudio va más allá de las lecturas previas, y sugiere nuevas direcciones para el análisis e interpretación de la espacialidad, corporalidad y agencia en la America española colonial. SERGIO RIVERA-AYALA es profesor en la Universidad de California, Riverside.


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The seer and the city
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ISBN: 0520967917 9780520967915 9780520295001 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oakland, California

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Seers featured prominently in ancient Greek culture, but they rarely appear in archaic and classical colonial discourse. Margaret Foster exposes the ideological motivations behind this discrepancy and reveals how colonial discourse privileged the city's founder and his dependence on Delphi, the colonial oracle par excellence, at the expense of the independent seer. Investigating a sequence of literary texts, Foster explores the tactics the Greeks devised both to leverage and suppress the extraordinary cultural capital of seers. The first cultural history of the seer, The Seer and the City illuminates the contests between religious and political powers in archaic and classical Greece.


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Justice in a New World : Negotiating Legal Intelligibility in British, Iberian, and Indigenous America
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ISBN: 147983839X Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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Ultimately, Justice in a New World offers both a deeper understanding of the transformation of notions of justice and law among settlers and indigenous people, and a dual comparative study of what it means for laws and moral codes to be legally intelligible. Europeans and natives appealed to imperfect understandings of their interlocutors' notions of justice and advanced their own conceptions during workaday negotiations, disputes, and assertions of right. Settlers' and indigenous peoples' legal presuppositions shaped and sometimes misdirected their attempts to employ each other's law. Natives and settlers construed and misconstrued each other's legal commitments while learning about them, never quite sure whether they were on solid ground. Chapters explore the problem of "legal intelligibility": How and to what extent did settler law and its associated notions of justice became intelligible--tactically, technically and morally--to natives, and vice versa? To address this question, the volume offers a critical comparison between English and Iberian New World empires. Chapters probe such topics as treaty negotiations, land sales, and the corporate privileges of indigenous peoples. . A historical and legal examination of the conflict and interplay between settler and indigenous laws in the New WorldAs British and Iberian empires expanded across the New World, differing notions of justice and legality played out against one another as settlers and indigenous people sought to negotiate their relationship. In order for settlers and natives to learn from, maneuver, resist, or accommodate each other, they had to grasp something of each other's legal ideas and conceptions of justice.This ambitious volume advances our understanding of how natives and settlers in both the British and Iberian New World empires struggled to use the other's ideas of law and justice as a political, strategic, and moral resource. In so doing, indigenous people and settlers alike changed their own practices of law and dialogue about justice. .


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Mapping Ultima Thule : representations of North Greenland in the expedition accounts of Knud Rasmussen
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ISBN: 3631801637 3631801645 3631797648 Year: 2020 Publisher: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishing Group

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The book addresses the relationship between the literary representations of North Greenland and the Inughuit people in Knud Rasmussen’s expedition accounts The New People and My Travel Diary and the historical process of Danish colonization of North Greenland. The aim of reading both works is to demonstrate the ambivalence in representing North Greenland and the Inughuit, and, through this, to prove the existence of common mechanisms and cultural practices connected to mapping of the Other in a situation of asymmetric power relations. Applying a textual approach founded on colonial discourse analysis, the reading proves that literary mappings of geography and identity can never be stable, as they are in the state of constant transformation, perpetually recontextualized and reinvented.

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Inuit. --- Explorers --- Rasmussen, Knud, --- Thule Expedition. --- Greenland --- Discovery and exploration --- Danish. --- Discoverers --- Navigators --- Voyagers --- Adventure and adventurers --- Heroes --- Discoveries in geography --- Innuit --- Inupik --- Eskimos --- Rasmussen, Knud Johan Victor, --- Grønland --- Groenlandia --- Grenlandii︠a︡ --- Groilandia --- Grænland --- Groenland --- Kalaallit Nunaat --- Gruntland --- Engronelant --- Engroneland --- Gronlandia --- Grēneland --- Qrenlandiya --- Chhen̳-tē --- Грэнландыя --- Hrėnlandyi︠a︡ --- Grenland --- Greunland --- Гренландия --- Гренланди --- Grenlandi --- Калааллит Нунаат --- Grónsko --- Ynys Las --- Lasynys --- Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah --- Grónlandska --- Gröönimaa --- Γροιλανδία --- Gronlando --- Grenlando --- Grienlân --- Ghraonlainn --- Greenlynn --- Çheer y Sniaghtey --- Grenlandia --- Гринлэндин Арл --- Grinlėndin Arl --- 그린란드 --- Gŭrinlandŭ --- Akukittut --- גרינלנד --- Grinland --- Goronulande --- Grenlande --- Grenlandija --- Groenlandi --- Гренланд --- Groentlālpan --- Gruunlaand --- グリーンランド --- Gurīnrando --- Greenlun --- Griinland --- Verdi-lande --- Гренландий --- Grenlandiĭ --- Gröönland --- Gronelândia --- Groelândia --- Groenlanda --- Kalalit Nunat --- Grunlandya --- Gräinlound --- Groenlannia --- Grynlandyjo --- Grönlanti --- Lupanlunti --- Ґренландія --- Groenlaand --- גרינלאנד --- Grínlándì --- Grenlandėjė --- 格陵兰 --- Gelinglan --- Kalâtdlit-Nunât --- Accounts --- Arctic discourses --- Colonial discourse --- Danish literature --- ekspedycji --- Expedition --- Greenlandic Other --- Grenlandii --- Knud --- Knuda --- Kopernika --- Lubowicka --- Mapping --- Mikołaja --- Naukowe --- North --- Północnej --- Postcolonial theory --- Rasmussen --- Rasmussena --- relacjach --- Representation theory --- Representations --- Reprezentacje --- sercu --- Thule --- Ultima --- Uniwersytetu --- Wydawnictwo

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