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Thesis (M.Arch.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Architecture, 1953.Bibliography: leaf 21.by Albert R. Bodinger.M.Arch

At Large in the Empire of Things: The Museum of Sundry Objects

AbstractThe Museum of Sundry Objects, located in Sólgarður, about 25 kilometers north of Akureyri, offers a site to think carefully about a number of key elements of museum practice, including the logic of collection, the practice of object “array,” and the role of the museum “heroic” object. Where the heroic object directs one to move from the individual to the imagined array, the array opens a different set of possibilities for recognizing the singularity of objects. In addition, a close examination of the Sundry suggests that “the museum” may simply be one stage of many in the ongoing life of the object, an extended liminal phase that offers a number of opportunities for the re-enlivening of the objects, a different set of steps on the path of the inbetween.

Wag(er)ing Histories, Staking Territories: Exhibiting Sovereignty in Native America

Based on research carried out in 2009–2010, this article suggests that gaming revenues created new possibilities for Native peoples to take control of their own public histories as expressions of cultural and political sovereignty. It recognizes museums and cultural centers as parallel spaces for cultural self-representation. Casino-generated funds allow many tribal nations to create or expand existing exhibitionary spaces for repatriated objects—including museums, casinos, resorts, and public attractions—that publicly articulate stories about history, identity, and the practice(s) of sovereignty. Seemingly disparate spaces—casinos thematic and generic, museums old and new, garden and memorial sites, village greens and hotel lobbies—can best be understood as an array of responses to the challenges of articulating Native identities to mostly non-Native publics. Such sites exemplify particular strategies of Native curation in a variety of spaces actively shaped for public attention

Contemporary Christian Music: Where Rock Meets Religion

...In the midst of this controversial relationship between rock music and religious messages, and as a response to a feeling of being locked out of the secular music industry, there has been a burgeoning Christian recording industry using rock music, known as Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). CCM involves the pairing of a Gospel message or Christian worldview with popular forms of rock music..

The casino and the museum: imagining the Mashantucket Pequot tribal nation in representational space

textThis dissertation investigates the articulation of cultural identity in two specific spaces of representation in Mashantucket, Connecticut. The Mashantucket Pequots, a federally recognized Indian tribal nation, own and operate Foxwoods, the largest and most profitable casino in the Western Hemisphere. My research focuses on the two main structures and industries at the Mashantucket Reservation: the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (MPMRC) and the Foxwoods casino. I explore these enterprises as selfrepresentational industries that use display; photographs; narratives of the exotic, the essential, and the real; geographic location; and architectural design to powerfully present and articulate representations of Native American and Mashantucket Pequot identities. My academic and professional interests and strengths combine anthropology, photography, theories of imagining the nation and the creation of tradition, and issues of representational practice, particularly in museum exhibitions. My research investigates self-representational practices, the formation of viable and vibrant reservation communities, and the presentation of historical narratives that support cultural continuity and renaissance. These practices are experienced most vividly in the public sphere through tribal museums and casinos and the popular press and public relations materials associated with them. These industries also mobilize many of the same strategies, narratives, and artifacts. A close examination of these sites and materials affords a further analytical appreciation of issues surrounding the public politics and poetics of cultural self-representation as well as issues of national and community identity.Anthropolog

Le mythe de Néron. De l'Apocalypse de saint Jean au Talmud de Babylone

The Myth of Nero - from the Apocalypse of John to the Babylonian Talmud The myth of Nero's return which arose after his death, is a peculiar phenomenon of the epoch of the birth of Christianity. It is part of the eschatological, apocalyptic atmosphere surrounding the life of peoples in the ancient Orient. Its origin is to be found in the oriental policy of Nero. The Gentiles, Jews and Christians brought out different features of the myth. The Apocalypse of Saint John, one of the main documents containing the myth, whose first version was composed immediately after the death of Nero, is a Jewish work. Christians and Jews alike gave the myth a mystic coloration and a totally different interpretation.Le mythe du retour de Néron, apparu après la mort de cet empereur, fut un phénomène caractéristique des temps qui virent la naissance du christianisme. Il fait partie de l'atmosphère eschatologique et apocalyptique qui entourait la vie des peuples de l'Orient ancien. Son origine directe se trouve dans la politique orientale de Néron. Le mythe connut des versions différentes chez les Gentils, les Juifs et les Chrétiens. L'Apocalypse selon saint Jean, un des principaux documents contenant le mythe, fut écrite dans sa première version aussitôt après la mort de Néron, et c'est une œuvre juive. Les Chrétiens, comme les Juifs, donnèrent au mythe du retour de Néron une couleur mystique et une orientation entièrement différente de la version originelle.Bodinger Martin. Le mythe de Néron. De l'Apocalypse de saint Jean au Talmud de Babylone. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 206, n°1, 1989. pp. 21-40

L'énigme de Melkisédeq

The Puzzle of Melchizedek Melchizedek is an enigmatic figure, who seems to play many roles in the biblical and extra-biblical texts in which he appears. For the author, the hypothesis that he was originally a Semitic solar god worshipped in Canaan enables to explain these roles and contributes towards a better understanding of these texts.Melkisédeq est un personnage énigmatique, qui paraît accomplir plusieurs fonctions dans les textes bibliques et extra-bibliques où il apparaît. Pour l'auteur, l'hypothèse selon laquelle ce personnage a été à l'origine un dieu solaire sémitique, adoré en Canaan, permet d'expliquer ces fonctions et de mieux comprendre les textes en question.Bodinger Martin. L'énigme de Melkisédeq. In: Revue de l'histoire des religions, tome 211, n°3, 1994. pp. 297-333