This thesis examines the circulation of physical music media (78rpm records, LPs, CDs, tape) in the independent music marketplace. It is based on six months of ethnographic fieldwork in Austin, Texas, amongst the producers of goods for the independent marketplace, independent music stores and consumers of these goods and services. Against prevailing constructivist interpretations, I will argue for the value of authenticity as an analytical anthropological concept because it unites what my research participants value about materiality, technology, and marketplace relationships. In the independent marketplace for physical music media, authenticity is a multi-local, multi-vocal phenomenon. A nexus of economic rationales, design, reproduction-technologies, histories and personal conduct interact in an ongoing process that authenticates music commodities and their marketplace. This means that particular commodities are sought out over others on account of the multi-local authenticities they anchor. The thesis firstly demonstrates how the independent music scene safeguards claims to authentic identities by constructing an opposition to the mainstream, drawing on discourses of ethical production and consumption, sound technologies, spaces of consumption and cultural production. Secondly, I will uncover how physical music media and sound-reproduction technologies are assessed as effective providers of authentic musical reproductions according to their historical contingencies and performative material capacities. Thirdly, I develop the notion of the scene (Shank 1994) from its previously genre-fixed perspective to encompass multiple musical styles operating within a common social network of producers, retailers and collectors. The pluralistic scene I describe utilises multiple musical genres and nuanced notions of materiality and authenticity to establish their complex hierarchy of sonic and technological experiences.

Thèse numérisée par la Division de la gestion de documents et des archives de l'Université de Montréal.

Containing portraiture and biography as well as protest text and affirmative text, African- American Illustrated biographical dictionaries made from 1876 to 1917 present Social Gospel ideology and are examples of Afro-Protestantism. They are similar to the first American illustrated biographical dictionaries of the 1810s in that they formed social identity after national conflict while contesting concepts of social inferiority. The production of these books occurred during the early years of Jim Crow, a period of momentous change to the legal and social fabric of the United States, and because of momentous changes in modern American print industries. While portraits within the books simultaneously form, blur, and stabilize identity, biographies convey themes of perseverance, social equity, and social struggle. More specifically, text formed an imagined community in the African-American middle class imaginary. It worked together with image to help create a proto-Civil Rights social movement identity during the beginning of racial apartheid.

Using a poststructural and reader-response theoretical framework, the author explores competing ideas of interpretation, epistemology, and the problematic nature of truth and meaning in Henry James’s novel, The Golden Bowl. The author analyzes the ways in which emergent nineteenth century communication technologies, specifically how telegraphy both mediates and facilitates intimacy in a modern landscape. James anticipates modern forms of social media by exploring the nuances and the potential erotic nature of mediated communication and knowledge.

This thesis deals mainly with the Middle Neolithic period (ca. 3200-2300 BC) on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. The aim is to deepen the understanding of how the islanders related to their surroundings, to the landscape, to places, to objects, to animals and to humans, both living and dead. The archaeological material is studied downwards and up with a focus on practices, especially the handling and deposition of materials and objects in graves, within sites and in the landscape. The study is comparative and the Middle Neolithic is described in relation to the Early Neolithic and the Mesolithic period on the island. From a long term perspective the island is presented as a region where strong continuity can be identified, regarding both way of life and economy. In contrast, substantial changes did occur through time regarding the islander’s conceptions of the world and of social relations. This in turn affected the way they looked upon the landscape, different sites and animals, as well as other human beings. During the Mesolithic, the islanders first saw it as possible to create their world, their micro-cosmos, wherever they were, and they saw themselves as living in symbiosis with seals. With time, though, they started to relate, to connect and to identify themselves with the island, its landscape and its material, with axe sites and a growing group identity as results. The growing group identity culminated during the Early Neolithic with a dualistic conception of the world and with ritualised depositions in border zones. The Middle Neolithic is presented as a period when earlier boundaries were dissolved. This concerned, for example, boundaries towards the world around the islanders and they were no longer keeping themselves to their own sphere. At the same time individuals became socially important. It became accepted and also vital to give expression to personal identity, which was done through objects, materials and animals. Despite this, group identity continued to be an important part in their lives. This is most evident through the specific Pitted Ware sites, where the dead were also treated and buried. These places were sites for ritual and social practices, situated in visible, central and easy accessible locations, like gates in and out of the islands’ different areas. The dead were very important for the islanders. In the beginning of MN B they started to adopt aspects from the Battle Axe culture, but they never embraced Battle Axe grave customs. Instead they held on to the Pitted Ware way of dealing with the dead and buried, and to the Pitted Ware sites, through the whole period, with large burial grounds as a result.

Au-delà de l’idée communément admise de la rareté du bois en Égypte, les documents grecs d’Égypte, grâce à la richesse et à la variété des informations qu’ils livrent, offrent les moyens de mieux appréhender la place qu’occupaient l’arbre et son bois aussi bien dans le paysage que dans l’économie du pays : depuis son rôle écologique ou ornemental, jusqu’à la production de fruits, de fourrage ou de combustible, l’arbre fournit aussi le bois alimentant les activités de menuiserie, de charpenterie ou de construction navale. Cette thèse présente ainsi une étude de l’exploitation de ces ressources par la société gréco-égyptienne au cours de la période couverte par la documentation papyrologique (de la fin du IVe s. av. J.-C. jusqu’au VIIIe s. ap. J.-C.), en partant de l’étude des papyrus et ostraca grecs pertinents, soit plusieurs centaines de documents édités. À la croisée des sources textuelles et archéobotaniques, une analyse lexicographique a ainsi permis de vérifier et d’établir dans la langue grecque d’Égypte les noms des principales essences locales exploitées pour leur bois (acacia, sycomore, perséa, saule, tamaris et jujubier épine-du-Christ). Outre les enjeux philologiques, cette étude a conduit à mettre en évidence des implications qui relèvent de l’histoire des paysages – introductions, abandons, répartition des espèces arborées –, de l’histoire économique – gestion, importation, distribution et consommation du bois –, de l’histoire culturelle – circulation des noms et sélection des essences –, mais aussi de la culture matérielle – travail du bois et usages des objets produits. / Beyond the common idea of wood scarcity in Egypt, the wealth of Greek documentation from Egypt provides solid ground to reevaluate the importance of trees and wood production in both the landscape and economy of the country : be they ornamental or ecologically functional, trees provide fruits, fodder and fuel, but also timber for woodworking, shipbuilding or charcoal. This dissertation thus contains a study of the exploitation of these natural resources by the Graeco-Egyptian society, from the end of the 4th century BC to the 8th century AD, based on the study of the relevant papyri and ostraca from Egypt, i.e. several hundreds of published documents. As a prerequisite for their right interpretation, a comprehensive lexicographical analysis was made, consisting of crossing textual and archaeobotanical sources, with the objective to crosscheck and establish the correct Greek names of the main local trees providing timber (acacia, sycamore, perséa tree, willow, tamarisk and nabk tree). In addition to these philological stakes, this study allowed as well to evidence implications in different fields, and in particular in the history of landscaping, like the introduction, abandonment, distribution of tree species, in the economy, like the production, importation, distribution and consumption of timber and fuel, in the cultural history, like flow of names and wood species selection, as well as in the art of wood crafting and culture of use of wooden artefacts.

A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree or Master of Arts. Johannesburg, February 1995. / This study, based on material excavated at Rose Cottage Cave, presents a new theoretical perspective for our understanding of the southern African archaeological record dated to the Pleistocenel Holocene boundary. Over the past twelve years, : NO contesting models for interpreting the Pleistocene! Holocene boundary have been proposed - it has been described as a period of cultural stasis, on the one hand, or, as exhibiting continuous change, on the other hand. This study departs from the position that this debate is at a theoretical impasse. Through the assumption of a theoretical framework that deals concurrently with cultural representation and social strategy, previously unrecognised aspects of the archaeological record are investigated. t explore the r-ctlve constitutive role of material culture and thus remove the false dichotomy between cultural form and functional expediency. In allowing for the active role of human agency, a model for the interpretation of spatial use is developer, through the incorporation of the informative and constraining role of previous spatial patternings. I recognise that meaning is actively created, and exarnple the spatially and chronolcqlcatlv contingent nature of meaning through the unique perspective that deep sequence archaeological deposit offers. / MT2017

Between 1916 and 1928 Dr Louis Fourie, Medical Officer for the Protectorate of South West Africa and amateur anthropologist, amassed a collection of some three and a half thousand artefacts, three hundred photographs and diverse documents originating from or concerned with numerous Khoisan groups living in the Protectorate. He gathered this material in the context of a complex process of colonisation of the area, in which he himself was an important player, both in his official capacity and in an unofficial role as anthropological adviser to the Administration. During this period South African legislation and administration continued the process of deprivation and dehumanisation of the Khoisan that had begun during the German occupation of the country. Simultaneously, anthropologists were constructing an identity for the Khoisan which foregrounded their primitiveness. The tensions engendered in those whose work involved a combination of civil service and anthropology were difficult to reconcile, leading to a form of melancholia. The thesis examines the ways in which Fourie’s collection was a response to, and a part of the consolidation of, these parallel paradigms. Fourie moved to King William’s Town in South Africa in 1930, taking the collection with him, removing the objects still further from their original habitats, and minimising the possibility that the archive would one day rest in an institution in the country of its origin. The different parts of the collection moved between the University of the Witwatersrand and a number of museums, at certain times becoming an academic teaching tool for social anthropology and at others being used to provide evidence for a popular view of the Khoisan as the last practitioners of a dying cultural pattern with direct links to the Stone Age. The collection, with its emphasis on artefacts made in the “traditional” way, formed a part of the archive upon which anthropologists and others drew to refine this version of Khoisan identity in subsequent years. At the same time the collection itself was reshaped and re-characterised to fit the dynamics of those archetypes and models. The dissertation establishes the recursive manner in which the collection and colonial constructs of Khoisan identity modified and informed each other as they changed shape and emphasis. It does this through an analysis of the shape and structure of the collection itself. In order to understand better the processes which underlay the making of the Fourie Collection there is a focus on the collector himself and an examination of the long tradition of collecting which legitimised and underpinned his avocation. Fourie used the opportunities offered by his position as Medical Officer and the many contacts he made in the process of his work to gather artefacts, photographs and information. The collection became a colonial artefact in itself. The thesis questions the role played by Fourie’s work in the production of knowledge concerning the Bushmen (as he termed this group). Concomitant with that it explores the recursive nature of the ways in which this collection formed a part of the evidentiary basis for Khoisan identities over a period of decades in the twentieth century as it, in turn, was shaped by prevailing understandings of those identities. A combination of methodologies is used to read the finer points of the processes of the production of knowledge. First the collection is historicised in the biographies of the collector himself and of the collection, following them through the twentieth century as they interact with the worlds of South West African administrative politics, anthropological developments in South Africa and Britain, and the Khoisan of the Protectorate. It then moves to do an ethnography of the collection by dividing it into three components. This allows the use of three different methodologies and bodies of literature that theorise documentary archives, photographs, and collections of objects. A classically ethnographic move is to examine the assemblage in its own terms, expressed in the methods of collecting and ordering the material, to see what it tells us about how Fourie and the subsequent curators of the collections perceived the Khoisan. In order to do so it is necessary to outline the history of the discourses of anthropologists in the first third of the twentieth century, as well as museum practice and discourse in the mid to late twentieth century, questioning them as knowledge and reading them as cultural constructs. Finally, the thesis brings an archival lens to bear on the collection, and explores the implications of processing the collection as a historical archive as opposed to an ethnographic record of material culture. In order to do this I establish at the outset that the entire collection formed an archive. All its components hold knowledge and need to be read in relation to each other, so that it is important not to isolate, for example, the artefacts from the documents and the photographs because any interpretation of the collection would then be incomplete. Archive theories help problematise the assumption that museum ethnographic collections serve as simple records of a vanished or vanishing lifestyle. These methodologies provide the materials and insights which enable readings of the collection both along and across the grain, processes which draw attention to the cultures of collecting and categorising which lie at the base of many ethnographic collections found in museums today. In addition to being an expression of his melancholy, Fourie’s avocation was very much a part of the process of creating an identity for himself and his fellow colonists. A close reading of the documents reveals that he was constantly confronted with the disastrous effects of colonisation on the Khoisan, but did not do anything about the fundamental cause. On the contrary, he took part in the Administration’s policy-making processes. The thesis tentatively suggests that his avocation became an act of redemption. If he could not save the people (medically or politically), he would create a collection that would save them metonymically. Ironically those who encountered the collection after it left his hands used it to screen out what few hints there were of colonisation. Finally the study leads to the conclusion that the processes of making and institutionalising this archive formed an important part of the creation of the body of ethnography upon which academic and popular perceptions of Khoisan identity have been based over a period of many decades.

Orientador: Carlos Eduardo Jordão Machado / Banca: Célia Reis Camargo / Banca: Eduardo Romero de Oliveira / Banca: Luis Soares de Camargo / Banca: Jaime Rodrigues / Resumo: Esse trabalho trata das relações sociais que permeiam o consumo de bebidas alcoólicas na cidade de São Paulo, no final do século XIX e começo do XX, desvelando gestos e sensibilidades do cotidiano da cidade, captando costumes, modos de vida e sujeitos extintos. O objetivo é explorar uma cultura gestual, material e sensível, historicamente construída, ligada aos alcoóis, seus objetos, suas maneiras de saborear e lugares de consumo / Abstract: This work deals with the social relations that permeate the consumption of alcoholic beverages in the city of São Paulo in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, unfolding daily gestures and sensitivities of the city, capturing customs, lifestyles and extinct subjects. The aim is to explore a gestural, material and sensitive culture, historically constructed, linked to alcohols, their objects, ways of enjoying, and places of consumption / Doutor

A pesquisa investigou aspectos da aprendizagem histórica a partir do trabalho com o patrimônio cultural. O objetivo foi identificar e analisar as representações das crianças sobre tempo, passado e história durante o trabalho com conceitos históricos relativos ao passado da comunidade local, tendo como referência a memória e a história da escola e do bairro. A hipótese era que o patrimônio cultural, como portador de sentidos diversos (históricos, políticos, culturais e sociais), potencializasse a significação de conceitos históricos e o estabelecimento de relações diferenciadas das crianças com a disciplina. Para articular as questões que envolvem a construção do conhecimento histórico e analisar aspectos da aprendizagem, foi realizada uma investigação qualitativa a partir de atividades com o patrimônio histórico-cultural da localidade onde vivem e estudam os sujeitos participantes da pesquisa. Partiu-se de referências teóricas relativas às pesquisas sobre o ensino da História bem como das propostas de ação educativa em museus e outros espaços históricos. Para compreender os processos de construção individual e coletiva do conhecimento adentrou-se os campos da psicologia do desenvolvimento e aprendizagem de base sócio-interacionista e da psicologia social, com a teoria das representações sociais. A compreensão destes processos foi articulada às referências das pesquisas sobre a especificidade da aprendizagem histórica e da construção do pensamento histórico pelas crianças. A pesquisa empírica foi realizada em uma escola da rede municipal de São Paulo, com uma turma de 36 alunos, entre 10 e 14 anos, do primeiro ano do ciclo II do ensino fundamental (5ª série), durante as aulas de História. A observação participante centrou-se no acompanhamento, descrição e análise dos significados que as crianças atribuíram a conceitos e informações históricas. Buscou-se identificar como os estudantes representam o conhecimento histórico trabalhado em diferentes momentos e suportes: a memória pessoal e coletiva, os registros e evidências históricas, as hipóteses e inferências levantadas pela professora, por outros adultos envolvidos e pelas próprias crianças. A pesquisa contribuiu para evidenciar as idéias e representações do conhecimento histórico pelas crianças - o que as crianças apreendem, quais os sentidos e significados construídos quando aprendem História. Possibilitou também a compreensão do papel dos processos de construção de representações mentais e sua interação com as representações sociais nas formas como os alunos se aproximam, interpretam, compreendem e expressam o conteúdo histórico na escola e em outros espaços. Foram explicitadas as especificidades do pensamento histórico e a multiplicidade de formas deste no processo de construção do conhecimento. A partir do trabalho com o patrimônio, memória e história local as crianças iniciaram um processo de ressignificação de suas concepções acerca de conceitos de tempo, passado e história. / The research investigated historical learning aspects based on the work with the cultural patrimony. The objective was to identify and to analyze the representations of children about time, past and history during the work with historical concepts about to the past of the local community, having the memory and history of the school and of the neighborhood as a reference. The hypothesis was that cultural patrimony, as a bearer of several senses (historical, political, cultural and social), would potentiate the significance of historical concepts and the establishment of differentiated relations of children with the discipline. A qualitative investigation was carried out to coordinate the issues that involve the building of historical knowledge and to analyze learning aspects, with a basis on activities with the historical-cultural patrimony of the place where the research subjects live and study. The starting point consisted of theoretical references relating to research about the teaching of History and of the proposals of educative action at museums and other historical places. To understand the processes of individual and group knowledge building, the work included penetration in the fields of psychology of development and learning of the socio-interactionist base and of social psychology, with the theory of social representations. The understanding of these processes was articulated with the references of researchs about the specificity of historical learning and of the building of historical thought by children. The empirical research was carried out at a school from the municipal network of Sao Paulo, with a class of 36 students between 10 and 14 years of age, from the first year of cycle II of elementary school (5th grade), during the History classes. The participant observation concentrated on the monitoring, description and analysis of the meanings that the children attributed to historical concepts and information. An attempt was made to identify how the students represent historical knowledge worked on at different times and on different bases: personal and collective memory, historical records and evidence, the theories and inferences brought up by the teacher, by other adults involved and by the children themselves. The research contributed to evidence the ideas and representations of historical knowledge by the children - what children learn, the senses and meanings formed when they learn History. It also permitted an understanding of the role of mental representation building processes and their interaction with social representations in the ways students approach, interpret, comprehend and express historical content at school and in other places. An explanation was provided about the specificities of historical thought and the multiplicity of its forms in the knowledge building process. Based on the work with the local patrimony, memory and history, the children embarked on a process of providing new meaning to their conceptions about concepts of time, past and history.