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{"title":"Adopted heritage: German objects in the Western Territories of Poland","authors":"Anna Kurpiel, Katarzyna Maniak","doi":"10.1177/13591835231208912","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835231208912","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on the material culture of regions that underwent a shift in statehood when, post-World War II, formally German territories became Polish. It seeks to analyse how the heritage of post-conflict territories was integrated into everyday life and, in some instances, affirmed and appreciated by second and third-generation settlers. Through research conducted amongst contemporary city-dwellers, the authors scrutinise the relationships between people and pre-war German objects, identifying a form of relation referred to as ‘kinship’. By exploring the mechanisms through which objects are incorporated into individual and/or group history, they elaborate on the concept of ‘adopted heritage’, as demonstrated in various field research cases. This concept is derived from the idea of affinity and its application to material culture studies, and enhanced by theories that emphasise the role of emotions in heritage.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"54 7","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135412889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making time: Knitting as temporal-material entanglement","authors":"Susan Jones","doi":"10.1177/13591835231206231","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835231206231","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents data from interviews with amateur knitters to explore the temporal-material entanglements which constitute meaning-making in everyday life, and the potential of thinking with knitting to better understand these entanglements. It follows three strands which reflect different aspects of the temporal-material in how knitting comes to matter for amateur makers. Firstly, knitters discuss the threads to and from the past which recursively shape their ongoing thinking and feeling about their craft. Secondly, temporal dimensions entwine with the material as participants describe the process of turning threads into a knitted surface. Thirdly, participants’ experiences of un-making and re-making, and the role of ‘stash’, challenge unilinear models of both time and meaning. Thinking with knitting not only re-opens ways of understanding it as a significant meaning-making practice in the present, it also dynamically re-connects us to the past and offers ways of re-imagining the future and how we make this together.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146748","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The travel of a thangka: Crossing gender and cultural boundaries with Lutso's stories","authors":"Ming Xue","doi":"10.1177/13591835231193969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835231193969","url":null,"abstract":"The article examines how the life experiences of a Tibetan female thangka painter, Lutsojam (known as Lutso), are intertwined with the meaning of her artworks, in particular, with the thangka painting, “Avalokiteśvara with Mind at Rest,” which I followed from its birth in Amdo Rebgong (Qinghai, China), to its visit to an art gallery in Beijing, and finally to its entry into the collection of an ethnographic museum in New York. Through painting thangkas and training her own apprentices (especially female apprentices), Lutso is able to support her family, empower other Tibetan women, and authenticate a religious identity that has been elided in the official narrative of Tibetan thangka art.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44779928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) surveillance in Island Health, British Columbia, 2022.","authors":"Andrea Nwosu, Andrea Schut, Christie Arlotti Wood, Christine Urquhart, Claudia Bachman, Katelyn Thompson, Julia Evans, Kathleen Mills, Lisa Wenstob, Theresa Restemeyer, Trista Galbraith, Shannon Mason, Stephanie Gabriel, Twyla Gasper, Cheryl Broeren, Francine Lewis, Dee Hoyano, Sandra Allison, Pamela Kibsey, Angela Reid, Maritia Gully, Carl Swanson","doi":"10.14745/ccdr.v49i78a06","DOIUrl":"10.14745/ccdr.v49i78a06","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Invasive group A streptococcal disease (iGAS) is caused by <i>Streptococcus pyogenes</i> group A bacteria. In 2022, multiple disease alerts for iGAS in the Island Health region, in the context of increased infections in the paediatric population in Europe and the United States, prompted further investigation into local trends. This surveillance study summarizes epidemiological trends of iGAS in the region covered by Island Health, a regional health authority in British Columbia, in 2022.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>In British Columbia, iGAS is a reportable disease; all confirmed cases are reported to the regional authority and the provincial health authority (BC Centre for Disease Control). Island Health's iGAS surveillance system is passive and collects information on cases that are identified through laboratory testing. Surveillance data were summarized for 2022 and compared with historical data from 2017-2021.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In 2022, the incidence rate was 11.4 cases per 100,000 population (n=101), the highest observed rate in the last six years. The median age of cases was 53 years, with a range of 0-96 years, and 64% of cases were male. The highest risk of infection was reported in men 40-59 years of age, with an incidence rate of 21.3 cases per 100,000 population. The most common <i>emm</i> types were <i>emm</i>92 (n=14), <i>emm</i>49 (n=13), and <i>emm</i>83 (n=12). Overall, 85% (n=86) of cases were hospitalized, 21% (n=21) were admitted to the intensive care unit, and 6% (n=6) died.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This study highlights that the incidence of iGAS in the Island Health region continued to increase throughout the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, reaching its highest annual rate in 2022. In contrast to reports from Europe and the United States, there was no notable increase in infections in the paediatric population. Given the sustained increase in iGAS activity, continued monitoring and description of the epidemiology of these cases on a regular basis is imperative.</p>","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"6 1","pages":"342-350"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10917361/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87624097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A tiny home of one's own","authors":"J. Smitheram, A. Nakai Kidd","doi":"10.1177/13591835231187555","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835231187555","url":null,"abstract":"The home occupies a prominent place in our popular and material imagination. The ideal home is a powerful image because it is understood to be a haven from the ills of the world and a material expression of our true selves. This article considers how home, as a tiny home, is framed through two YouTube channels, Living Big in Tiny Homes and Kirstin Dirksen. Extending Sara Ahmed's work on affect, we present this framing as twofold: first, through a sense of ‘with-ness’ where YouTube facilitates an intimate storytelling with materiality; and second, a sense of ‘against-ness’ where both channels facilitate the notion of the materiality of home as separate and bounded. The study draws on detailed analysis of 42 video episodes and accompanying written comments to consider how materialities, affects, and experiences of tiny homes are intersected with the constraints of the ideal of a stand-alone home.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42980718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tourists of their own past: Aural palimpsests from the Mao era","authors":"Shelley Zhang","doi":"10.1177/13591835221135404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221135404","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores how individuals in contemporary China use songs to both express and protect their memories of the Cultural Revolution and Mao era. As individuals who experienced the Cultural Revolution find ways to voice their recollections of the past, they casually listen to and perform songs from the Mao era, pursue domestic tourism, and engage with other material culture from that time. Their actions index individuals’ complicated nostalgias and continual negotiations with their political presents. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in the Hunan province, this article analyzes song objects as ‘aural palimpsests’ that allow individuals to gesture towards their political presents without criticizing the government or articulating traumatic memories. Aural palimpsests are performed and heard in architectural spaces that shape how music from different eras and genres become layered atop one another to create new social meaning in a contemporary China that is still grappling with its recent history.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"221 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41410216","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Did destructive leadership help create the conditions for the spread of Covid-19, and what are the early warning signs?","authors":"Eugene Sadler Smith, Vita Akstinaite","doi":"10.1177/17427150221104890","DOIUrl":"10.1177/17427150221104890","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This research asks: 'were there any objectively identifiable signals in the words leaders used in the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic that can be associated with ineffective management of the crisis?' We chose to focus on the leaders of the two English-speaking nations that fared worst and best in the pandemic, the United States and New Zealand. By way of background and in order to contextualise the research, we compared and contrasted Trump's and Ardern's leaderships using the toxic triangle framework of destructive leadership. We then focused on the leader behaviour element of the triangle by using computerised text analysis (CTA) to analyse Trump's and Ardern's public pronouncements during the critical early stages of the pandemic. Based on a similarity index (<i>S</i>), we identified linguistic markers associated with destructive leader behaviours and negative outcomes (Trump) and non-destructive leader behaviours and positive outcomes (Ardern). We discuss future applications of these linguistic markers for the diagnosis both of incumbent and potential leaders' responses to crises management.</p>","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"23 1","pages":"7-26"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9614597/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79207239","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Beneath the Laarve: Masking during the Basel Carnival of Fasnacht (Faasnacht)","authors":"O. Cieslarová, Martin Pehal, Werner Kern","doi":"10.1177/13591835221149681","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221149681","url":null,"abstract":"Describing the historical development of the mask (Laarve) 2 within the carnival tradition of the Basel Fasnacht (Faasnacht, Switzerland) during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, this article offers a case study of the so-called reflexive turn in late modern (‘post-traditional’) societies. Drawing on the concept of ritual reflexivity, we argue that the gradual development of the Fasnacht masks into oversized constructions covering the ritualist's whole head (Laarve) went hand in hand with the development of various other ritual mechanisms aimed at facilitating within the ritual framework a meditative, inward-oriented stance (enstasis). 3 This is especially interesting as carnivals tend to be associated with precisely the opposite dynamics: transcending social norms through the celebration of excess and inebriation which, in its extreme forms, may lead to ekstasis (or at least a headache). The described ritual elements are interpreted as a series of mirroring mechanisms nested within one another. The ritual handling of the Laarve by the ritualists (its donning and taking off at regular intervals) is then understood simultaneously as a facilitator and a marker fuelling and isolating individual phases of an otherwise non-discrete reflexive process. Based on first-hand accounts of ritualists’ experiences of mask-wearing, we will show how Basel Fasnacht walks a tightrope between ‘modelling’ and ‘mirroring’ societal, communal and idiosyncratic levels of meaning-making.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"451 - 478"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48314545","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The ophthalmoscope and the physician: Technical innovations and professionalization of medicine","authors":"Corinne Doria","doi":"10.1177/13591835221149683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221149683","url":null,"abstract":"This article examines the impact of the ophthalmoscope on medical practice and the transformation the medical profession undertook during the second half of the nineteenth century. It argues that the ophthalmoscope had been at the same time an indicator and an accelerator of the transition of medicine from a learned profession to a discipline based on empirical observation, collection and interpretation of data performed by experts. The first six decades since the invention of the ophthalmoscope correspond to a moment when medicine became well established as a hospital-based discipline grounded on clinical observations. This explains the reasons for the instrument's success amongst physicians and the small number of hesitancies it provoked, especially when compared to earlier devices such as the stethoscope. The history of the ophthalmoscope shows hence the close connexion, characteristic of modern medicine, between the medical profession and the use of instruments capable of providing observable data about the patient's body. Furthermore, the ability to perform ophthalmoscopy demonstrated that a physician possessed solid observational, interpretive and analytical skills. Its use hence contributed significantly to shaping the professional identity of medical doctors.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"264 - 286"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44795687","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"‘Just a souvenir?’ Entangled identities within an early 20th century American Indian basket collection","authors":"L. Ahlqvist, Bryn Barabas Potter","doi":"10.1177/13591835221149685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/13591835221149685","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, we examine a collection of 47 American Indian baskets collected in the early 20th century, at the height of the ‘basket craze’. Currently stored in a Danish museum without much archival information, the baskets encapsulate art historical developments taking place at the turn of the century, a time fuelled by the Euro-American preoccupation with collecting and displaying Native American artefacts. Academic debates developed around the derived ‘tourist art’ and the colonial framework still haunt Euro-American notions of authenticity. We investigate the baskets, their role, cultural affiliation and significance in a bottom-up approach, with a persistent view to this historical context as well as their material testimony to the agency of the weavers navigating in a transformed economy and legislative restrictions. We show how the baskets materialize the entangled identities of makers, collectors and museums and how interdisciplinary research can provide a spatio-temporal context to overlooked collections.","PeriodicalId":46892,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Material Culture","volume":"28 1","pages":"479 - 498"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46166226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}