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Are There Different Types of Beauty?
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2019), 10 mins
Are there different types of beauty? In this video, WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS investigates the meanings of and values inherent in four categories of subject appeal, namely beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness. Adopting a bottom-up approach which foregrounds individual beliefs over theoretical assumptions, Menninghaus...
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2019), 10 mins
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Are there different types of beauty? In this video, WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS investigates the meanings of and values inherent in four categories of subject appeal, namely beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness. Adopting a bottom-up approach which foregrounds individual beliefs over theoretical assumptions, Menninghaus finds that elegance, grace, and sexiness are sub-variants of the broader notion of beauty. Among its many insights, the work explores w...
Are there different types of beauty? In this video, WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS investigates the meanings of and values inherent in four categories of subject appeal, namely beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness. Adopting a bottom-up approach which foregrounds individual beliefs over theoretical assumptions, Menninghaus finds that elegance, grace, and sexiness are sub-variants of the broader notion of beauty. Among its many insights, the work explores why persons of outstanding beauty are perceived as self-centered while, by contrast, elegance is associated with positive social virtues.
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Field of Study
Psychology
Content Type
Instructional material
Date Published / Released
2019
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Speaker / Narrator
Winfried Menninghaus, 1952-
Person Discussed
Winfried Menninghaus, 1952-
Topic / Theme
Beauty
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Copyright © 2019 Latest Thinking
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Are There Forms of Media Representation of Extreme Crises that Avoid Commodification and Spectacle?
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
In the face of extreme crises, such as natural disasters or national catastrophes, media representation frequently tends to be voyeuristic and to transform these events into spectacles. Considering this tendency, CHRISTIANE BROSIUS investigated whether there are forms of representation that allow to be close to pe...
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
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In the face of extreme crises, such as natural disasters or national catastrophes, media representation frequently tends to be voyeuristic and to transform these events into spectacles. Considering this tendency, CHRISTIANE BROSIUS investigated whether there are forms of representation that allow to be close to people’s suffering and yet not to commodify it. She chose the 2015 earthquake in Nepal as a starting point and used both images uploade...
In the face of extreme crises, such as natural disasters or national catastrophes, media representation frequently tends to be voyeuristic and to transform these events into spectacles. Considering this tendency, CHRISTIANE BROSIUS investigated whether there are forms of representation that allow to be close to people’s suffering and yet not to commodify it. She chose the 2015 earthquake in Nepal as a starting point and used both images uploaded to social media as well as traditional anthropological fieldwork for her research. In this video, she explains that in the context of Nepal, she discovered not only that artists can avoid commodification of disaster by representing and emphasising ordinary everyday acts but also that artists quickly developed a network to help and to respond to the needs of their communities in the aftermath of the earthquake.
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Field of Study
Media Studies
Content Type
Instructional material
Date Published / Released
2017
Publisher
Latest Thinking
Speaker / Narrator
Christiane Brosius, 1966-
Person Discussed
Christiane Brosius, 1966-
Topic / Theme
News stories, Natural disasters, Crisis management
Copyright Message
Copyright © 2017 Latest Thinking
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Armor [sic] and Psyche
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Typewritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Armor [Amor] and Psyche," comparing a Portuguese folk tale to the Greek myth. A citation is given for "Portuguese Folk-tales," Consiglieri Pedroso, p. 81. In this story, a poor maid grows a cabbage stalk, and finds stairs on it going down to a palace. There she sec...
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Typewritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Armor [Amor] and Psyche," comparing a Portuguese folk tale to the Greek myth. A citation is given for "Portuguese Folk-tales," Consiglieri Pedroso, p. 81. In this story, a poor maid grows a cabbage stalk, and finds stairs on it going down to a palace. There she secretly meets a beast/prince. Her mother discovers her secret, and breaks the spell. The maid is condemned to walk in iron shoes until th...
Typewritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Armor [Amor] and Psyche," comparing a Portuguese folk tale to the Greek myth. A citation is given for "Portuguese Folk-tales," Consiglieri Pedroso, p. 81. In this story, a poor maid grows a cabbage stalk, and finds stairs on it going down to a palace. There she secretly meets a beast/prince. Her mother discovers her secret, and breaks the spell. The maid is condemned to walk in iron shoes until they wear out. In the meantime, the prince becomes engaged to someone else. The maid eventually returns to the prince, and he marries her after all. Undated.
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Date Written / Recorded
1935
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Portuguese
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Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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Arrow chain
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 85], Folder 1. Zuñi Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
This undated, hand-written note on the Zuni cites: Arrow chain = spear chain in N.S. Wales (Dix 294.) It contains information on: mother, milk, bear, son, search, Dixon 297.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 85], Folder 1. Zuñi Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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This undated, hand-written note on the Zuni cites: Arrow chain = spear chain in N.S. Wales (Dix 294.) It contains information on: mother, milk, bear, son, search, Dixon 297.
Date Written / Recorded
1925
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Myths and legends, Zuni
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Arrow Feathers, Getting
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
These brief, handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Arrow feathers, getting" contain a citation for a Diegueño [Kumiai] myth related in "Mythology of the Mission Indians," Constance Goddard Du Bois, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 19, p. 147.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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These brief, handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Arrow feathers, getting" contain a citation for a Diegueño [Kumiai] myth related in "Mythology of the Mission Indians," Constance Goddard Du Bois, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 19, p. 147.
Date Written / Recorded
1935
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Hunting, Kumiai
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Arrows, Getting
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1930) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten note cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 282: Thrown-Away and twin. Bear-dogs. Giant proposes to make arrows for them if they get sticks. Undated.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1930) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten note cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 282: Thrown-Away and twin. Bear-dogs. Giant proposes to make arrows for them if they get sticks. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1930
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Northern Shoshone
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Arrows - Getting Arrows
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten note titled 'Arrows - Getting Arrows' cites George Bird Grinnell, 'Falling-Star' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 34, p. 311, on a Cheyenne myth about getting wood, water, and food. Undated.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten note titled 'Arrows - Getting Arrows' cites George Bird Grinnell, 'Falling-Star' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 34, p. 311, on a Cheyenne myth about getting wood, water, and food. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1925
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Cheyenne
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Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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Assiniboine Report
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 86], Folder 8. Assiniboine Report (Ella Deloria)) (1939) , 150 page(s)
This 26-page typewritten report is titled "Assiniboine Report" and is written by Ella Deloria. It has editorial comments and corrections in pencil and discusses the author's time in Fort Belknap with the Assiniboine tribe.
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 86], Folder 8. Assiniboine Report (Ella Deloria)) (1939) , 150 page(s)
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This 26-page typewritten report is titled "Assiniboine Report" and is written by Ella Deloria. It has editorial comments and corrections in pencil and discusses the author's time in Fort Belknap with the Assiniboine tribe.
Date Written / Recorded
1939
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Ella Cara Deloria, 1889-1971
Author / Creator
Ella Cara Deloria, 1889-1971
Topic / Theme
Cultural life, Religious rites and ceremonies, Kin relationships, Cultural assimilation, Dakota, Assiniboine
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At the Portal - Walpi
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 14. Southwest Notes); photographed by Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952 (1909), in 'Indians of the Stone Houses' by Edward S. Curtis, Scribner's Magazine, February 1909, Vol. XLV No. 2, pp. 171-172 , 3 page(s)
A black-and-white photograph clipped from the February, 1909, issue of Scribner's Magazine shows four Hopi girls or young women at an entryway to the Walpi Pueblo in northern Arizona. Two of them stand in the entryway, looking up at two others seated on a stone terrace above them. All wear dark dresses with white...
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 14. Southwest Notes); photographed by Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952 (1909), in 'Indians of the Stone Houses' by Edward S. Curtis, Scribner's Magazine, February 1909, Vol. XLV No. 2, pp. 171-172 , 3 page(s)
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A black-and-white photograph clipped from the February, 1909, issue of Scribner's Magazine shows four Hopi girls or young women at an entryway to the Walpi Pueblo in northern Arizona. Two of them stand in the entryway, looking up at two others seated on a stone terrace above them. All wear dark dresses with white shawls and have the characteristic 'butterfly' hair style of marriageable young Hopi women. A caption reads, 'At the Portal - Walpi.' O...
A black-and-white photograph clipped from the February, 1909, issue of Scribner's Magazine shows four Hopi girls or young women at an entryway to the Walpi Pueblo in northern Arizona. Two of them stand in the entryway, looking up at two others seated on a stone terrace above them. All wear dark dresses with white shawls and have the characteristic 'butterfly' hair style of marriageable young Hopi women. A caption reads, 'At the Portal - Walpi.' On the back is a portion of the accompanying article, 'Indians of the Stone Houses' by photographer and ethnographer Edward S. Curtis. A small, torn slip of paper contains a partial, typed reference to a ceremony or other activity related to a 'lightning frame,' with a written attribution to 'HV,' probably ethnographer H.R. Voth.
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Date Written / Recorded
1909
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Photograph
Author / Creator
Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952
Topic / Theme
Hopi
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Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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Atsugewi
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Atsugewi," re: creation myths of the Atsugewi Indians, from "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales," Roland B. Dixon, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 21, p. 170. In these stories, the earth begins as water, with Coyote and Silver-Fox living above it in the sky. Eventually...
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Atsugewi," re: creation myths of the Atsugewi Indians, from "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales," Roland B. Dixon, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 21, p. 170. In these stories, the earth begins as water, with Coyote and Silver-Fox living above it in the sky. Eventually Silver-Fox breaks through the sky and creates land. Noted: Prim. [primeval] water, Coyote + Silver Fox above sky, argue. Undated.
Date Written / Recorded
1935
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Atsugewi
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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