Lecturas de historias de la lectura

Hacia fines de los años ochenta, dos reconocidos historiadores del libro y de la cultura impresa, Roger Chartier y Robert Darnton, postularon la necesidad de que los estudios sobre el libro y la edición derivaran hacia una historia de la lectura. Desde mediados de los noventa, la historia de la lectura fue encontrando sus fuentes, consolidando sus métodos y delineando su objeto. El presente trabajo despliega una serie de reseñas críticas sobre los principales aportes a la disciplina, un estado de la cuestión que va de las historias generales a los estudios de casos, como el español y el argentino.

The Transport Debate. Book Description

The lucid and accessible analysis of the key policy issues of transport is more than welcomed, now when the link between social and economic efficiency and transport is more than proved. The authors, two experts in the field, Shaw and Docherty give concise information on a timeliness topic showing that decision-making in transport (i.e. privatization of transport networks and services) has long term negative effects on the mobility of people and their accessibility to their key life activities.

Culture Industries in a Postindustrial Age: Entertainment, Leisure, Creativity, Design

This article reviews the evolution of the concept of culture industries, when neither industry nor culture themselves are today what they were at the time when the term was coined. It attempts to explain the dilution of the term into more nebulous terms (“leisure industries,” “entertainment industries” or “creative industries”) and suggests new challenges for the research on culture industries. What is at stake is no longer an application of a Fordist production to culture, a one-directional mass communication and a mediation by experts, but rather: (1) a cultural experience which is no longer clearly separated from other activities (leisure in general, consumption and even work); (2) the communicative explosion of all industrial production in a media environment, where industrialized symbolic products are mixed with culturalized industrial products; and (3) the empowerment of the recipient, which on one hand ignores the traditional experts and on the other leads to post-productive (recreational and even creative) cultural practices.

Acculturation and material culture - George I. Quimby, Curator of Exhibits, Department of Anthropology, and Alexander Spoehr, Curator, Oceanic Ethnology.

v.36:no.6(1951)

The Bruce collection of Eskimo material culture from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.1(1980)

Mesquakie (Fox) material culture : the William Jones and Frederick Starr collections / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.30(1998)

The Bruce Collection of Eskimo material culture from Port Clarence, Alaska / James W. VanStone, Curator, North American Archaeology and Ethnology, Field Museum of Natural History.

v.67(1976)

A seriation of the late prehistoric Santa Maria culture of northwestern Argentina / Ronald L. Weber, Field Museum of Natural History.

v.68:no.2(1968)

Material culture of the Chilcotin Athapaskans of west central British Columbia : collections in the Field Museum of Natural History / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.20(1993)

The Noice collection of Copper Inuit material culture / James W. VanStone.

n.s. no.22(1994)