yamabe no akahito (724-736)
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Yamabe no Akahito (724-736)
Shinto Shrines
“Places of God”
Shintoism
“The way of “Kami” or divine (“superior”)
“Ethnic religion” of Japanese people
Origins: A set of “native” beliefs and myths.
Creation myth
“National Religion”
Japaneseeeeeeee!!!
Komainu: Stone dogs
First: "a" Second: “um”: “AUM”
Shi: Chinese guardian lions
“Influences”
Confucianism (5th century)
Chinese Taoism and Yin-Yang (harmony between two
forces of nature)
Practicing Shintoism through Buddhism (7th century)
By the 12th to 14th centuries Shinto-Buddhist practices
emerged
Reaction to do away with Buddhism
Yasukuni Shrine
Impurity of purism (13th century)
Origins
Can we speak of something “original” in history?
Original is always a copy of something
Everything is a copy of something
else (with a bit of change)
Some of the most celebrated works are
Original Copies
What about?
Da Vinci a genius?
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Our thesis
Everything new is an
“original” of something
older
Spaghetti
Sicilian noodle
Making of the Modern World 13New Ideas and Cultural Contacts
Spring 2016, Lecture 2
Fall Quarter, 2011
All the lectures
http://roosevelt.ucsd.edu/mmw/cours
es/mmw13.html.
No Ted
No Podcast
Just come to class
2016 course reader
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Films reviews
History as Interrelated and
contingent, but never EVENLY
in process
How are high heel shoes designed?
Bunch of factors
Class and production: those who produce or/and sell it
(Emerging) Market (s): how it is presented, distributed
and consumed.
State: how governments allow such markets to grow
Material conditions (technologies) that allow such
invention to take place.
Contact (Tranregional) as a source of shaping new ideas,
new design ideas
Bandwagon effect
Groupthink phenomenon
Beliefs spread among individuals as more people come to
believe in that something. People “hop” on the bandwagon
regardless of its functionality.
Normative cultures (1990s)
Fads associated with an ethnic or racial
group (1990s)
Class, gender and race (2000s)
Subcultures (1980s)
Historical background
Long, MESSAY history of shoemaking
What if?
1. Contact
2. Conditional probabilities
3. Unintended consequences of Human action in
historical time
4. History is everywhere:
Decisions we make in a given situation is limited to the
decisions one has made in the past, though those decisions
may no longer appear pertinent in our present lives.
5. No End Game:
Historical processes do not progress steadily toward some
pre-determined outcome.
An objection!
“I was minorly surprised when you declared that
history should not be organized in chronological order.
You then justified this view by explaining that any person’s
choice could lead to a different future outcome, basically
the parallel universe argument. The first reading on “time”
is more than confusing.”
Blind Chance
“ I’m an engineering student. We solve problems. Once we
solved enough problems, we get to make something
awesome. That’s engineering in a nut shell. We don’t argue
for the sake of argue. We argue in order to validate
concepts, prove theories. We strive to rigorously prove
every concept so that they don’t fail us when implemented
into new technologies. In order to make a valid statement,
we must have a center argument, supporting data, rigorous
mathematical proof and conclusion drawn from all that
work.”
What is History?
1. I like this one…
History is does NOT Repeat!
But
NOT
TWICE!!!
(and not in the same exact way)
Weimar Republic
Stop saying that history repeats
Family resemblance
19th century revolutions
I like this one even more
2. History is NEVER self-evident like a problem to be
solved
Historical knowledge is ALWAYS mediated
by
what?
DISCOURSE (Language)
“Christopher Columbus Discovers America, 1492.”
Texas Public School Textbook
“The southern colonies’ cash crops required a great deal of
difficult work to grow and harvest. This meant a large
workforce was needed. By the 1700s enslaved Africans, rather
than indentured servants, had become the main source of
labor. African slaves brought with them knowledge that helped
turn the wild environment into profitable farms. Many had
previous experience raising cattle and knew the method for
clearing brush using fire.”
University of New South Wales
“settled” or “nomadic”
Capitan Cook “landed,” “invaded” or colonialized?
Myth
From myth to fabrication?
Media
Textbooks
Historical Representation:
Robert Doisneau's “The Kiss”