Illumine, Vol. 03, No. 1 (2004)
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Item God meditating on the worm: Order, religion and science among Mexican intellectuals in the early republic(Illumine, 2004) Westgard, ClintFollowing the establishment of the new nation in 1821 the Mexican elite sought to shape the form it would take, as well as the role they and others would have in it. Fundamental to understanding how they went about this and what led them to the decisions they made is an investigation of the underlying beliefs that formed their view of the world. By looking at the interactions of religious and scientific belief in the works of two Mexican intellectuals of the first half of the nineteenth century, Luis de la Rosa and Tadeo Ortiz, I illustrate the way in which religious and scientific understandings of the world reinforced each other and were in many ways inseparable for the Mexican elite. This is because of their conception of the universe as an ordered entity, with laws that could be discerned and applied to society. What order specifically meant for the Mexican elite had large implications for the way in which they imagined the nation.Item Notes on contributors(Illumine, 2004) Millar, Eve; Westgard, Clint; Lee, Jennifer; Munro, Jenny; Nguyen, AnneItem Selling the Nazi dream: Advertisement of the anti-semitic film in the Third Reich(Illumine, 2004) Lee, JenniferThe anti-Semitic films of Third Reich stand as a vivid illustration of the hatred targeted at the Jews in Germany from 1933 to 1945. Two of the anti-Semitic films in particular, Jud Süss (Veit Harlan, 1940) and Der Ewige Jude (Fritz Hippler, 1940), have received much attention from academics and the general public. In this paper, however, I will examine two other films that have been largely ignored: Robert und Bertram (Hans Zerlett, 1939) and Die Rothschilds (Erich Waschneck, 1940). These two films show that anti-Semitism could adopt very different guises in Third Reich film; it could appear in a light-hearted humorous farce film, like Robert und Bertram or in a serious historical drama, like Die Rothschilds. Just as anti-Semitism took different forms, so did the image of the Jew. Advertisers of the films walked a fine line between displaying the Jew as a repulsive, evil figure on the one hand and displaying him as an attractive, saleable figure on the other. As a result, the character of the Jew, and his counterpart, the Aryan, were often portrayed in very contradictory manners. By examining how advertisers marketed the genre, plot and characters for each of these two films, I will show how conflicting images and messages dominated even this cornerstone of Nazi ideology, the anti-Semitic film.Item Cultivating good human resources: Morality, conformity and marginalization in an Indonesian state development ideology(Illumine, 2004) Munro, JennyScholars of Indonesia argue that the state has a long history of using development ideology to regulate behaviour, define gender roles, and judge the conduct of citizens. Through a critical examination of state discourse in national newspapers, this paper draws attention to “human resource development” as an ideology used by the government to promote conformity and morality. Looking at discourse on “human resource development” in Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua, I argue that the ideology is highly entangled in state politics, and obscures marginalization in Papua.Item Two villages(Illumine, 2004) Nguyen, AnneIn recent years there has been a steady rise in the number of anthropological and ethnological studies on religious life within the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), home to fifty-two officially recognized ethnic groups, every major world religion, and myriad forms of local religious practice. Simultaneously, there has also been an outpouring of academic studies on political history and political life in contemporary Vietnam. Within Vietnamese studies, the intersection of these two fields of inquiry - the religious and the political - is marked by an almost complete absence of scholarly reflection. The following is a story about two villages in rural central Vietnam: one Buddhist and one Catholic, where I have been conducting preliminary ethnographic research for an M.A. thesis. The research explores how religion has affected political practice, and in turn, how politics has affected religious life in these villages from the beginning of the Vietnam War (1960), to the present. This story describes the religious practices of each village, and how a bond was established between the two villages during the Vietnam War.Item Linking Afro-Asian and European traces of bovine veneration to India’s sacred cow(Illumine, 2004) Millar, EveIndia is unique among many contemporary cultures because parts of its Hindu population continue to revere an animal that is an important contributor to the survival of many pastoral and agricultural communities, the cow. Yet the cow also played a significant cosmological role in the lives of numerous peoples who inhabited the regions west of India. Visual remains in the form of bones from cattle burials, depictions of bovid iconography in cave art, pottery, relief and sculpture, as well as cow imaginings rendered visible through mythological accounts, point toward how the cow appears to have been associated with notions of creation and the divine feminine, which along with ideas of abundance, fertility and well being, are attributed to her by countless Hindus today.Item Illumine: Vol. 3 No. 1 (2004)(Illumine, 2004)Item Introduction(Illumine, 2004) Munro, Jenny; Lee, Jennifer