In the 1970s and 1980s, North and South Yemen appeared to be two states pursuing opposing, sometimes hostile, economic and political policies. Then, in 1990, they suddenly united. This article analyses sport diplomacy as an instrument in opening institutional contacts between the two governments and as a venue for conveying important socio-political and historical messages. Cross-border football contests reinforced the largely invented notion of a single Yemen derived from pre-Islamic kingdoms. This idea remains a foundation of Yemeni nationalism and a base of Yemeni national identity.
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Sports Diplomacy and Emergent Nationalism
Football Links between the Two Yemens, 1970-1990
Thomas B. Stevenson and Abdul Karim Alaug
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2008
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- Research Article
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- 1–19 (19 total)
Editorial
Open-Themed Issues
Soheila Shahshahani
In the 1970s and 1980s, North and South Yemen appeared to be two states pursuing opposing, sometimes hostile, economic and political policies. Then, in 1990, they suddenly united. This article analyses sport diplomacy as an instrument in opening institutional contacts between the two governments and as a venue for conveying important socio-political and historical messages. Cross-border football contests reinforced the largely invented notion of a single Yemen derived from pre-Islamic kingdoms. This idea remains a foundation of Yemeni nationalism and a base of Yemeni national identity.
National Museums, Globalization, and Postnationalism
Imagining a Cosmopolitan Museology
Rhiannon Mason
In recent years it has been asked whether it is time to move ‘beyond the national museum’. This article takes issue with this assertion on the grounds that it misunderstands not only museums as cultural phenomenon but also the ways in which globalization, nationalism, and localism are always enmeshed and co-constitutive. The article begins by considering theories of globalization, postnationalism, and cosmopolitanism and their relevance for national museums in the European context. Specific theories of cosmopolitanism are subsequently further explored in relation to two museum examples drawn from the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh and the Museum of European Cultures in Berlin. In different ways both examples demonstrate the potential for museums to engage visitors with ideas of cosmopolitanism, globalization, and postnationalism by revisiting, reframing, and reinterpreting existing national collections and displays. In the process the article makes the case for the merits of a nationally situated approach to cosmopolitanism in European museums. At the same time it acknowledges some of the potential limits to such endeavors. The article concludes by imagining what a ‘cosmopolitan museology’ would offer in terms of practice, politics, and ethics.
Translated Objects
The Olov Janse Case
Johan Hegardt and Anna Källén
This article explores the movements of archaeological and ethnographic objects and museum collections connected with the Swedish-born archaeologist and ethnographer Olov R. T. Janse (1892–1985). Janse pursued a cosmopolitan career in the years between 1920 and 1960, in and between the national contexts of Sweden, France, Indochina, the Philippines, and the United States, where he found himself in different political contexts such as colonialism, nationalism, and the Cold War. He initiated object exchanges between French and Swedish museums, and he collected archaeological and ethnographic objects from Indochina and the Philippines for museums in Sweden, France, and the United States. The complexity of object movements in the wake of Olov Janse's career suggests that we should think and talk about object mobility in terms of translation rather than simple transmission. In seven sections, each exploring one chapter of Janse's life, we discuss how changes in world politics became entangled with changes in Janse's own position as an archaeologist and ethnographer, affecting the movements of objects and contributing to an active translation of their meaning.
“We Owe a Historical Debt to No One”
The Reappropriation of Photographic Images from a Museum Collection
Helen Mears
is its outcome reflect a tension between differing forms of Kachin ethnonationalism “at home” and “abroad”—between the paternalistic, territorially grounded forms of nationalism traditionally espoused and the more free-ranging, cosmopolitan, and cosmo
Dark and Bright Futures for Museum Archaeology
James L. Flexner
interpretation as a site of progressive politics, fighting the forces of sexism (Prados Torreira) and nationalism (Ytterberg) in a Europe where conservative backlash is increasingly prominent. Archaeologists are still addressing the legacies of colonialism, and
Death of a Statesman – Birth of a Martyr
Martyrdom and Memorials in Post–Civil War Lebanon
Are John Knudsen
ephemeral and, as Volk has suggested, only a temporal feature of what could be termed quasi-nationalism. The enduring legacy of Hariri’s martyrdom, however, can be read as an essential element of Lebanese statehood where martyrs – conceived, created and
In Anthropology of the Middle East
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Research Article
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- 1–17 (17 total)
Publications
Manijeh Nasrabadi, Maryam Aras, Alexander Djumaev, Sina Zekavat, Mary Elaine Hegland, Rosa Holman, and Amina Tawasil
, Tashkent as a Cosmopolitan Locus of Musical Activity (with Musical Metaphors at Play in Tashkent’s Soundscape, Language, Labeling, and Code-Switching ), Theoretical Perspectives, Gender, Feminist Theory, and Nationalism and Chapter Summaries. In the five
In Anthropology of the Middle East
- Published (Print):
- 01 Dec 2016
- Article Type:
- Review Article
- Pages:
- 113–130 (18 total)
Conjunctures and Convergences
Remaking the World Cultures Displays at the National Museum of Scotland
Henrietta Lidchi
generally a source of pride—nationalism in its widest sense—even for those who distrusted (and might not support) the desire for Scottish national independence as a political end ( Caldwell 2008: 3 ; Lorrimer 2002 ; McCrone et al. 1995 ). The tacit
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Engaging Anthropological Legacies toward Cosmo-optimistic Futures?
Sharon Macdonald, Henrietta Lidchi, and Margareta von Oswald
attend to questions arising in regard to ethnographic museums and collections by exploring the role and affects of archives and objects; collaborative methodologies and their terms; the interplay between cosmopolitanism and nationalism as expressed in and