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“Fiesta Immemorial” is a social history of capitalist development in Southern California that excavates the constitutive relations between American settlers and Cahuilla, Cupeño, Serrano, Luiseño, and Kumeyaay peoples during the first half of the 20th century. Addressing the absence of Native politics in histories of US capitalism, it shows how US federal Indian agents, law enforcement, entrepreneurs, boosters, philanthropists, reformers, and residents collaborated to constrain California Native nations’ sovereign practices across sites of labor, leisure, and livelihood in order to naturalize American juridical rule, enforce capitalist market relations, and secure the settler social order. Drawing on booster literature, businessmen’s journals, letters, and memoirs, the ephemera of missionaries and reformers, Bureau of Indian Affairs agents and government officials’ correspondence, Congressional reports, arrest records, hobby ethnographies, and historical newspapers, “Fiesta Immemorial” explores how seemingly mundane sites, such as agricultural fairs, philanthropic programs, New Deal-era works projects, backcountry tourism, and real estate ventures were crucial nodes of conflict. It argues that a specifically colonial apparatus of suspecting, policing, and jailing Native people and the non-Natives who socialized with them accompanied these assimilatory aspirations. At the same time, cultural and knowledge producers enamored with the region circulated narratives that confirmed the apparent inevitability of the capitalist market and the American state’s success, even as these carceral and regulatory campaigns continually failed. Paying particular attention to archival absences, competing notions of time, and ubiquitous surveillance, “Fiesta Immemorial” illustrates the central role of Southern California Indian nations and people in the region’s development, beginning with its turn-of-the-century “picturesque” pastoral land speculation and ending at the post-World War II defense industry boom.

No Rio Grande do Sul, a bovinocultura de corte é uma atividade de importância histórica, fundamental na formação da economia, cultura e, mesmo, do ‘território’ do estado. A atividade foi favorecida pelo ecossistema pastoril que caracteriza as regiões da Campanha e dos Campos de Cima da Serra. Esta última está localizada no nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, onde é produzido o Queijo Serrano. A produção de queijo remonta à época da ocupação do território pelos primeiros habitantes não indígenas, tendo características específicas e sendo feito artesanalmente. A produção de queijo a partir do leite da bovinocultura de corte constitui uma particularidade do sistema, já que ele não foi intencionalmente organizado em função da produção do queijo. Por outro lado, a atividade de queijaria tem importância crescente na ocupação das famílias, e o Queijo Serrano, além de reconhecido e procurado por consumidores, tem potencial de gerar externalidades positivas, constituindo fonte de renda, ocupação, e contribuindo para manutenção de uma cultura e de um ecossistema. Por estar localizado em uma área sem aptidão à agricultura de escala, muitas das características do sistema de produção foram preservadas. O mesmo observa-se no modo de organização social. Ainda, por estar situado sobre um ecossistema de pastagens naturais, a manutenção do sistema pecuário, significa a preservação de um modo sustentável de exploração dos recursos naturais, que traz consigo também a preservação de valores culturais e históricos. / In Rio Grande do Sul, cattle raising is a historically important activity, crucial in the formation of economy, culture and even the 'territory' of the state. The activity was favored by the pastureland ecosystem characterizing the areas of the Campanha and the Campos de Cima da Serra. The latter is located in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul where the Serrano Cheese is produced. Its production dates back to the period of land occupation by the early nonindigenous people, it has specific features and it is still produced in artisanal fashion. Cheese production from milk of beef cattle is a particularity of the system, as it was not purposefully organized to produce cheese. On the other hand, cheese have a growing importance in family occupation, and the locally-produced cheese is appreciated for by the consumers, but also has the potential to generate positive externalities, constituting a source of income and occupation as well as contributing to the maintenance of a culture and an ecosystem. As it is located in an area unsuitable for full-scale agriculture, many of the characteristics of the production system were conserved. The same is observed in the mode of social organization. Also, because it is located on an ecosystem of natural grasslands, the maintenance of the cattle raising system by the cheese production entails the conservation of a sustainable mode of exploitation of natural resources, which brings with it the conservation of cultural and historical values.

No Rio Grande do Sul, a bovinocultura de corte é uma atividade de importância histórica, fundamental na formação da economia, cultura e, mesmo, do ‘território’ do estado. A atividade foi favorecida pelo ecossistema pastoril que caracteriza as regiões da Campanha e dos Campos de Cima da Serra. Esta última está localizada no nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, onde é produzido o Queijo Serrano. A produção de queijo remonta à época da ocupação do território pelos primeiros habitantes não indígenas, tendo características específicas e sendo feito artesanalmente. A produção de queijo a partir do leite da bovinocultura de corte constitui uma particularidade do sistema, já que ele não foi intencionalmente organizado em função da produção do queijo. Por outro lado, a atividade de queijaria tem importância crescente na ocupação das famílias, e o Queijo Serrano, além de reconhecido e procurado por consumidores, tem potencial de gerar externalidades positivas, constituindo fonte de renda, ocupação, e contribuindo para manutenção de uma cultura e de um ecossistema. Por estar localizado em uma área sem aptidão à agricultura de escala, muitas das características do sistema de produção foram preservadas. O mesmo observa-se no modo de organização social. Ainda, por estar situado sobre um ecossistema de pastagens naturais, a manutenção do sistema pecuário, significa a preservação de um modo sustentável de exploração dos recursos naturais, que traz consigo também a preservação de valores culturais e históricos. / In Rio Grande do Sul, cattle raising is a historically important activity, crucial in the formation of economy, culture and even the 'territory' of the state. The activity was favored by the pastureland ecosystem characterizing the areas of the Campanha and the Campos de Cima da Serra. The latter is located in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul where the Serrano Cheese is produced. Its production dates back to the period of land occupation by the early nonindigenous people, it has specific features and it is still produced in artisanal fashion. Cheese production from milk of beef cattle is a particularity of the system, as it was not purposefully organized to produce cheese. On the other hand, cheese have a growing importance in family occupation, and the locally-produced cheese is appreciated for by the consumers, but also has the potential to generate positive externalities, constituting a source of income and occupation as well as contributing to the maintenance of a culture and an ecosystem. As it is located in an area unsuitable for full-scale agriculture, many of the characteristics of the production system were conserved. The same is observed in the mode of social organization. Also, because it is located on an ecosystem of natural grasslands, the maintenance of the cattle raising system by the cheese production entails the conservation of a sustainable mode of exploitation of natural resources, which brings with it the conservation of cultural and historical values.

No Rio Grande do Sul, a bovinocultura de corte é uma atividade de importância histórica, fundamental na formação da economia, cultura e, mesmo, do ‘território’ do estado. A atividade foi favorecida pelo ecossistema pastoril que caracteriza as regiões da Campanha e dos Campos de Cima da Serra. Esta última está localizada no nordeste do estado do Rio Grande do Sul, onde é produzido o Queijo Serrano. A produção de queijo remonta à época da ocupação do território pelos primeiros habitantes não indígenas, tendo características específicas e sendo feito artesanalmente. A produção de queijo a partir do leite da bovinocultura de corte constitui uma particularidade do sistema, já que ele não foi intencionalmente organizado em função da produção do queijo. Por outro lado, a atividade de queijaria tem importância crescente na ocupação das famílias, e o Queijo Serrano, além de reconhecido e procurado por consumidores, tem potencial de gerar externalidades positivas, constituindo fonte de renda, ocupação, e contribuindo para manutenção de uma cultura e de um ecossistema. Por estar localizado em uma área sem aptidão à agricultura de escala, muitas das características do sistema de produção foram preservadas. O mesmo observa-se no modo de organização social. Ainda, por estar situado sobre um ecossistema de pastagens naturais, a manutenção do sistema pecuário, significa a preservação de um modo sustentável de exploração dos recursos naturais, que traz consigo também a preservação de valores culturais e históricos. / In Rio Grande do Sul, cattle raising is a historically important activity, crucial in the formation of economy, culture and even the 'territory' of the state. The activity was favored by the pastureland ecosystem characterizing the areas of the Campanha and the Campos de Cima da Serra. The latter is located in the northeast of Rio Grande do Sul where the Serrano Cheese is produced. Its production dates back to the period of land occupation by the early nonindigenous people, it has specific features and it is still produced in artisanal fashion. Cheese production from milk of beef cattle is a particularity of the system, as it was not purposefully organized to produce cheese. On the other hand, cheese have a growing importance in family occupation, and the locally-produced cheese is appreciated for by the consumers, but also has the potential to generate positive externalities, constituting a source of income and occupation as well as contributing to the maintenance of a culture and an ecosystem. As it is located in an area unsuitable for full-scale agriculture, many of the characteristics of the production system were conserved. The same is observed in the mode of social organization. Also, because it is located on an ecosystem of natural grasslands, the maintenance of the cattle raising system by the cheese production entails the conservation of a sustainable mode of exploitation of natural resources, which brings with it the conservation of cultural and historical values.

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Within the field of theological aesthetics, this project assesses the divide between theological accounts of art and the re-emergence of religious imagery in modern and contemporary art. More specifically, American Protestant theologians and their accounts of visual art will be taken up as a representative set of contemporary theological inquiry in the arts. Under this category, evaluation will be made of three diverse traditions in American Protestant thought: Paul Tillich and Liberal Protestantism, Francis Schaeffer and the Neo-Calvinists, and the open evangelical accounts of Nicholas Wolterstorff and William Dyrness. With respect to modern and contemporary visual art, this evaluation judges the degree to which theologians have understood the primary concepts and dominant narratives of various modernisms and postmodernisms of art since the end of the nineteenth century, recognised the watershed moments in the lineage of the twentieth century avant-garde, and acknowledged the influence of critical theory not only upon the contemporary discourse in aesthetics and art production but also in the social reception of art. In tracing the re-emergence of religious imagery in modern and contemporary art, this project takes up three diverse traditions: the Crucifixions of Francis Bacon and the memento mori art of Damien Hirst, the ‘re-enchantment’ of art in the work of Joseph Beuys, and the art of ‘False Blasphemy’ associated with lapsed Catholics like Rober Gober and Andres Serrano. By assessing what theologians have written concerning visual art and the surprising return of certain religious imagery in modern and contemporary art, this study will intimate a new way forward in a mutually beneficial dialogue for art and religious belief.

This doctoral dissertation is a study of three works: Marcela Serrano’s novel We Who Love Us So Much (1992), Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden (1992) and its filmic version directed by Roman Polanski, and the documentary directed by Maria Elena Wood, The General’s Daughter (2006). Through the representations of subjectivist female characters in the works, we analyze what we call the vicissitudes of female identity in relation to the agitated sociopolitical circumstances that Chile lived from the sixties to 2006. In those decades, we observe the process of the construction of a revolutionary identity that culminates with the election of the Popular Unity government (1970-1973). Then, we examine the breakdown of female revolutionary identity during the violent repression known as the military dictatorship (1973-1990) after the coup d’état. Finally, we investigate the reconstitution of the identity of the women on the political left, a process assumed independently (rather than collectively) by women of varied characteristics and political orientations during the re-democratization period and until 2006. By analysing the female characters moving in literature, theatre, and film, we observe that these characterizations have helped to inform the readers/viewers through sharing stories of women, their limitations, their personal and collective visions presenting their doubts and fears on matters pertaining to them as female entities. But the greatest finding in this study is to discover that cultural products contain a number of female characters that can overcome their limitations in fiction, as is the case for women working in public spaces such as Michelle Bachelet, a “historical character” from The General's Daughter. They are firmly committed to the reality of women’s lives in Chile and deliver an optimistic message; women must continue integrating other women in order to end the discrimination that still exists in Chile.

This doctoral dissertation is a study of three works: Marcela Serrano’s novel We Who Love Us So Much (1992), Ariel Dorfman’s play Death and the Maiden (1992) and its filmic version directed by Roman Polanski, and the documentary directed by Maria Elena Wood, The General’s Daughter (2006). Through the representations of subjectivist female characters in the works, we analyze what we call the vicissitudes of female identity in relation to the agitated sociopolitical circumstances that Chile lived from the sixties to 2006. In those decades, we observe the process of the construction of a revolutionary identity that culminates with the election of the Popular Unity government (1970-1973). Then, we examine the breakdown of female revolutionary identity during the violent repression known as the military dictatorship (1973-1990) after the coup d’état. Finally, we investigate the reconstitution of the identity of the women on the political left, a process assumed independently (rather than collectively) by women of varied characteristics and political orientations during the re-democratization period and until 2006. By analysing the female characters moving in literature, theatre, and film, we observe that these characterizations have helped to inform the readers/viewers through sharing stories of women, their limitations, their personal and collective visions presenting their doubts and fears on matters pertaining to them as female entities. But the greatest finding in this study is to discover that cultural products contain a number of female characters that can overcome their limitations in fiction, as is the case for women working in public spaces such as Michelle Bachelet, a “historical character” from The General's Daughter. They are firmly committed to the reality of women’s lives in Chile and deliver an optimistic message; women must continue integrating other women in order to end the discrimination that still exists in Chile.