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...Kyle Frackman Abstract Like other Eastern Bloc countries, East Germany sought to control even its citizens’ leisure time in the 1960s and 1970s, with the goal of making it useful or at least not subversive to state interests. Certain hobbies, like amateur photography, found support from the state...

... doing, it illuminates the importance of Yoshitsune, a major figure and a hero of Japan’s premodern era, in the formation of wartime Japanese intellectual history. A key player in these debates was Oyabe Zen’ichirō (1867–1941), an amateur anthropologist and educator of the Ainu, Japan’s indigenous...

...-expression; the least known may be the tradition of albums and amateur painting. In countless pictures of family, friends, homes and travels, as well as in self-portraits, middle- and upper-class women all over Europe, throughout the nineteenth century, painted or drew a domestic existence...

... in assembling and buttressing the infrastructure that underpinned the socialist state. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 2023 China the masses radio technology broadcasting amateurism Some peasants in Shanghai...

... silent ground upon which familial bonds could be metaphorically and materially built. A distinct genre of what the film scholar Patricia Zimmerman has called "amateur film "home movies" referred specifically to the eight and super-eight millimeter films shot from the end of World War I1...

... and to the ”guilty” bodies of photography must be added “accomplice” bodies, ever more numerous. The emergence at the end of the century of, on the one hand, amateur photography, and, on the other, photo- journalism, jeopardizes an otherwise judicious distinction between subject-body and object-body...

... nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, thousands of amateurs armed with cameras joined professional photographers in recording pictures of urban public spaces not only in the United States, France, and Britain but also in cities across India, Russia, Japan, and many other nations, raising a new...

... of Feminine Experience in Nineteenth-Century Europe" seeks to re- cover the neglected pictorial tradition of women's albums and amateur painting. Countering an orthodox art history that measures the legacy of female amateurs against that of high art, Higonnet argues for a specific feminine imagery...

... history, specifically looking at the moral, social, and cultural barriers overcome by white American women in their pursuit of leisure at New York bathing pools, during the formalization of women’s com- petitive amateur swimming, or when striving for gender equity through open-­water distance...

... According to Stevenson, the professionalization of the field by Ph.D.’s had intimidated “amateur” historians, and he worried that ”physicians intimidated by ’professionals‘ should remember that two quite distinct professions are involved and should consider taking ac- tion.” Whether...

... the return of academic historians to the public arena could be an extremely positive development, it also poses a serious threat to existing networks and traditions of amateur and local historical work. This article will both survey the new public history movement and analyze...

..., and the International Gay and Les- bian Archives. Later, an educational wing named the ONE Institute launched ONE Magazine and founded a research center that eventually offered advanced degrees in “homophile studies.” What started as an amateur project, then, remained stead- fastly so: a group of volunteers...

... Community Center (1987), and Shoot Belfast (1986), a guide for amateur photographers, funded by the Northern Ireland Arts Council. His work has also appeared in the book Garvaghy Road: A Community Under Siege (1999) and in two publications devoted to his work documenting the Belfast peacelines...

... was given a free hand to develop a play and it was there, in the context of his training as an actor, that he began to develop himself as theatre director. However valuable this experience was, this amateur setting ultimately proved frustrating for Antoine and he de- cided to try and break...

.... But it Laderman | Surfing and the Global Antiapartheid Movement   101 was not until the early 1970s that the athletic boycott became widely endorsed by international sporting federations. It would be several years before amateur surfing honored the call — South Africa was allowed to compete in the amateur...

... waits to be written; photographs are not yet mediated by a database form that attempts to pin down the stories they capture. But while processing a photograph of a well-­known lesbian or event suggests a straightforward routine of identification and classifica- tion, the often-­anonymous, amateur...

... at the Sunday School of the Sayles Memorial Church, from a story about the main office beach party to the first ice skating of the season on Bleachery Pond, from the parent-teacher meeting at the Saylesville public school to the amateur boxing match of Paddy Owens, who...

... : Steidl . Edwards Elizabeth . 2012 . The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Edwards Elizabeth , and Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland . 1992 . Anthropology...

... worked as farm laborers and carters, or as maids and cooks for the soci- ety families in the center of town. In 1968, amateur Masaya folklorist Enrique Peña Hernández described Monimbó as having changed little since the Spanish con- quest.20 While his...

... of the visitors were professional and amateur or- nithologists, botanists and other scientists. On Sundays the inn be- came a favorite spot for people from the Per& region. Signs in front of an old house on the island describe it as a hospitable place for early twentieth-century visitors, but make...