Pamela Hobbs
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 659224 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Pamela Hobbs |
| NOMBRES | Pamela |
| APELLIDO | Hobbs |
| FIRMA | HOBBS P |
| AFILIACIONES | University of California, Los Angeles |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0797-9533 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 26 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Surviving Swedish exceptionalism
Focusing on Allina Ndebele’s tapestry My wedding (1963), this study recovers the events of a craft-therapy project initiated at Umpumulo Art School in South Africa in the early 1960s. As few realise, it was out of this Swedish initiative that the better-known Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, developed. Exposing the segregated, patriarchal nature of life on a Lutheran mission field, the article interrogates mid-cent…
Stranded Iconographies
South African institutions were slow to acquire artworks by black women. When they did, among the first were tapestries from a Swedish art center at Rorke’s Drift in rural South Africa. However, it remains unknown that many works by these marginalized African women had entered Swedish collections before then, showing in acclaimed exhibitions such as Woven in Africa, which opened at Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Göteborg in 1965. Despite t…
Panoramas from the Periphery
It is widely appreciated that printmakers at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke's Drift, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,1 referenced Zulu history in the prints they made here. As early as 1962, a year before the formal inception of the Centre, a young Azaria Mbatha (1941-2018) had produced Dingane, a linocut referencing the Zulu king Dingane's victory over the White settlers at his headquarters at Mgungundlovu in 1838.2 A…
Made in Africa
During the 1960s, tapestries from Swedish art and craft centres in southern Africa were acclaimed in the Nordic country as an outcome of its own expertise and largesse. Yet when these works by marginalised women artists in Africa were exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm in 1970, they were dismissed as the fruits of Swedish cultural imperialism and naive artistic minds. Despite the ensuing public debate, the exhibition and its discourses…
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid
In 1963 a tapestry-weaving project was established at Rorke’s Drift, South Africa, by left-wing Swedes. This poverty-alleviation initiative targeted rural black women affected by the National Party regime’s oppressive apartheid laws. Further centres evolved from this enterprise, including Khumalo’s Kraal Weaving Workshop in KwaZulu-Natal and Thabana li Mele in neighbouring Lesotho. It is little appreciated that tapestries from these workshops mig…
Art is different from life’
Established in apartheid South Africa, the tapestry-weaving venture at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, was situated in a complex mission environment, on the junction between evangelised and unevangelised isiZulu-speaking communities. Although local women who worked at this centre in the 1960s and early 1970s were trained in creative strategies by Swedish artists, their lives were constrained by missionary stri…
Evolving a Tapestry Practice at Rorke’s Drift
Despite its popular acclaim, scant research has been undertaken on tapestry-weaving at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, in South Africa, where rural black women helped establish a prolific tapestry practice in 1963. In time, the proceeds from the sale of their works would support both their own and further ventures at the Centre. In narrating the pedagogic encounters between tapestry artists and the Swedish art…
The Mantis Wedding
In 1980 the South African tapestry artist, Allina Khumalo Ndebele (Fig. 1), sat down at her loom to weave The Mantis Wedding (Fig. 2).1 She had recently left the relative security of her job as a weaving trainer at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift, in what is now KwaZulu-Natal. Her departure from the center would gain her a form of freedom she had not previously known: the option to weave tapestries of her own…
Allina Ndebele's The Tree of Life
By reconstructing the context and symbolic language of artist-weaver Allina Ndebele's little-known allegorical tapestry, The Tree of Life (1986–87), this article investigates the didactic strategies in her tapestries and the texts she writes to accompany them. Based largely on a series of recent interviews with Ndebele about this work, the essay considers the roles that animals, humans and spiritual forces play in an invented tapestry story that …
Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression
In contemporary American society, the relaxation of social prohibitions on vulgar language, together with what some have noted to be an advertising culture that appears to demand hyperbole, combine to create an environment where much language that was formerly impermissible is now allowed. Nevertheless, a small number of words have retained their taboo status, most notably the word fuck. The word also displays our cultural ambivalence about sexua…
Not semantics but just results
Water and space
For more than three decades, artist-weaver Allina Ndebele has drawn on traditional Zulu symbolism and thought systems as inspiration for her work. She began her career as a trainee nurse in a Swedish mission environment at Ceza, KwaZulu-Natal, in the early 1960s, during an era when restrictions on traditional African beliefs and practices were being challenged by some enlightened missionaries. Ndebele then learned weaving from Ulla Gowenius, a Sw…
Defining the law
Legislatures enact laws and the courts interpret them. Under the doctrine of legislative supremacy, a judge is not free to ignore or modify a statutory provision in order to substitute a rule that seems to him to be better reasoned; thus where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, interpretation is unnecessary and it must be enforced according to its terms. Nevertheless, gaps and ambiguities can arise and, in such cases, courts appl…
It's not what you say but how you say it
A major focus of the study of courtroom interaction in the fields of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis has been the discursive strategies that lawyers use during trials. While acknowledging the role of rhetorical skill in influencing hearers' perceptions, this paper seeks to demonstrate that language has its limits, and that the speaker's personality and identity are key factors in determining how a verbal presentation will be received. The…
Extraterritoriality and extralegality
Although the United States Supreme Court plays a pivotal role in American government and American law, its opinions have seldom been the subject of linguistic analysis. Yet these opinions provide fertile ground for sociolinguistic and discourse analytic research. The American common-law system, with its rich rhetorical tradition of adversarial argumentation and judgemade precedents, furnishes the context in which the Court's decision-making takes…
Lawyers' use of humor as persuasion
Legal humor is a topic of perennial appeal, and has long been a prolific source of books, articles, and scholarly commentaries which are avidly consumed by popular and professional audiences alike. However, although a number of scholars have analyzed the use of humor in judicial opinions, there is no comparable body of scholarly examinations of lawyers' use of humor in their role as legal advocates. This omission is significant, because in the Am…
Judges' use of humor as a social corrective
Miracles of love
In recent years, the appearance of egg donor advertisements in American college newspapers, sometimes offering five- and six-figure fees to 'genetically gifted' donors, has given rise to critical comment on both sides of the Atlantic, and has caused some to fear that the use of these procedures will eventually result in the creation of 'designer babies' with preselected genetic qualities. Whether such fears will be realized depends, to a great ex…
The role of progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents
Is that what we're here about
Is that What We're Here about
Is That What We’re Here about?’
Although lawyers’ courtroom language has been the subject of sociolinguistic research, most of this research has focused on the questioning of witnesses; thus few studies have examined the processes by which lawyers’ interpretations of the evidence are presented to the jury. This article illustrates lawyers’ use of impression management in their opening statements and closing arguments to construct a shared identity with jurors, in order to persu…
The Use of Evidentiality in Physicians’ Progress Notes
The practice of medicine involves obtaining, evaluating and analyzing information drawn from a variety of sources; thus physicians assess and act upon information that varies in terms of both reliability and the extent to which it may be directly perceived. In the hospital setting, physicians’ progress notes provide a record of this process that serves as a primary means of communication between treaters who are not co-present with one another; a…
The medium is the message
Islands in a string
The medium is the message
Is That What We’re Here about?’
Although lawyers’ courtroom language has been the subject of sociolinguistic research, most of this research has focused on the questioning of witnesses; thus few studies have examined the processes by which lawyers’ interpretations of the evidence are presented to the jury. This article illustrates lawyers’ use of impression management in their opening statements and closing arguments to construct a shared identity with jurors, in order to persu…
The Use of Evidentiality in Physicians’ Progress Notes
The practice of medicine involves obtaining, evaluating and analyzing information drawn from a variety of sources; thus physicians assess and act upon information that varies in terms of both reliability and the extent to which it may be directly perceived. In the hospital setting, physicians’ progress notes provide a record of this process that serves as a primary means of communication between treaters who are not co-present with one another; a…
The role of progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents
Islands in a string
Miracles of love
In recent years, the appearance of egg donor advertisements in American college newspapers, sometimes offering five- and six-figure fees to 'genetically gifted' donors, has given rise to critical comment on both sides of the Atlantic, and has caused some to fear that the use of these procedures will eventually result in the creation of 'designer babies' with preselected genetic qualities. Whether such fears will be realized depends, to a great ex…
It's not what you say but how you say it
A major focus of the study of courtroom interaction in the fields of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis has been the discursive strategies that lawyers use during trials. While acknowledging the role of rhetorical skill in influencing hearers' perceptions, this paper seeks to demonstrate that language has its limits, and that the speaker's personality and identity are key factors in determining how a verbal presentation will be received. The…
Lawyers' use of humor as persuasion
Legal humor is a topic of perennial appeal, and has long been a prolific source of books, articles, and scholarly commentaries which are avidly consumed by popular and professional audiences alike. However, although a number of scholars have analyzed the use of humor in judicial opinions, there is no comparable body of scholarly examinations of lawyers' use of humor in their role as legal advocates. This omission is significant, because in the Am…
Judges' use of humor as a social corrective
Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression
In contemporary American society, the relaxation of social prohibitions on vulgar language, together with what some have noted to be an advertising culture that appears to demand hyperbole, combine to create an environment where much language that was formerly impermissible is now allowed. Nevertheless, a small number of words have retained their taboo status, most notably the word fuck. The word also displays our cultural ambivalence about sexua…
Water and space
For more than three decades, artist-weaver Allina Ndebele has drawn on traditional Zulu symbolism and thought systems as inspiration for her work. She began her career as a trainee nurse in a Swedish mission environment at Ceza, KwaZulu-Natal, in the early 1960s, during an era when restrictions on traditional African beliefs and practices were being challenged by some enlightened missionaries. Ndebele then learned weaving from Ulla Gowenius, a Sw…
Defining the law
Legislatures enact laws and the courts interpret them. Under the doctrine of legislative supremacy, a judge is not free to ignore or modify a statutory provision in order to substitute a rule that seems to him to be better reasoned; thus where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, interpretation is unnecessary and it must be enforced according to its terms. Nevertheless, gaps and ambiguities can arise and, in such cases, courts appl…
Corporate art collections
Islands in a string
Is that what we're here about
Is that What We're Here about
Is That What We’re Here about?’
Although lawyers’ courtroom language has been the subject of sociolinguistic research, most of this research has focused on the questioning of witnesses; thus few studies have examined the processes by which lawyers’ interpretations of the evidence are presented to the jury. This article illustrates lawyers’ use of impression management in their opening statements and closing arguments to construct a shared identity with jurors, in order to persu…
The Use of Evidentiality in Physicians’ Progress Notes
The practice of medicine involves obtaining, evaluating and analyzing information drawn from a variety of sources; thus physicians assess and act upon information that varies in terms of both reliability and the extent to which it may be directly perceived. In the hospital setting, physicians’ progress notes provide a record of this process that serves as a primary means of communication between treaters who are not co-present with one another; a…
The medium is the message
The role of progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents
Extraterritoriality and extralegality
Although the United States Supreme Court plays a pivotal role in American government and American law, its opinions have seldom been the subject of linguistic analysis. Yet these opinions provide fertile ground for sociolinguistic and discourse analytic research. The American common-law system, with its rich rhetorical tradition of adversarial argumentation and judgemade precedents, furnishes the context in which the Court's decision-making takes…
Lawyers' use of humor as persuasion
Legal humor is a topic of perennial appeal, and has long been a prolific source of books, articles, and scholarly commentaries which are avidly consumed by popular and professional audiences alike. However, although a number of scholars have analyzed the use of humor in judicial opinions, there is no comparable body of scholarly examinations of lawyers' use of humor in their role as legal advocates. This omission is significant, because in the Am…
Judges' use of humor as a social corrective
Miracles of love
In recent years, the appearance of egg donor advertisements in American college newspapers, sometimes offering five- and six-figure fees to 'genetically gifted' donors, has given rise to critical comment on both sides of the Atlantic, and has caused some to fear that the use of these procedures will eventually result in the creation of 'designer babies' with preselected genetic qualities. Whether such fears will be realized depends, to a great ex…
It's not what you say but how you say it
A major focus of the study of courtroom interaction in the fields of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis has been the discursive strategies that lawyers use during trials. While acknowledging the role of rhetorical skill in influencing hearers' perceptions, this paper seeks to demonstrate that language has its limits, and that the speaker's personality and identity are key factors in determining how a verbal presentation will be received. The…
Water and space
For more than three decades, artist-weaver Allina Ndebele has drawn on traditional Zulu symbolism and thought systems as inspiration for her work. She began her career as a trainee nurse in a Swedish mission environment at Ceza, KwaZulu-Natal, in the early 1960s, during an era when restrictions on traditional African beliefs and practices were being challenged by some enlightened missionaries. Ndebele then learned weaving from Ulla Gowenius, a Sw…
Defining the law
Legislatures enact laws and the courts interpret them. Under the doctrine of legislative supremacy, a judge is not free to ignore or modify a statutory provision in order to substitute a rule that seems to him to be better reasoned; thus where the language of a statute is clear and unambiguous, interpretation is unnecessary and it must be enforced according to its terms. Nevertheless, gaps and ambiguities can arise and, in such cases, courts appl…
Not semantics but just results
Fuck as a metaphor for male sexual aggression
In contemporary American society, the relaxation of social prohibitions on vulgar language, together with what some have noted to be an advertising culture that appears to demand hyperbole, combine to create an environment where much language that was formerly impermissible is now allowed. Nevertheless, a small number of words have retained their taboo status, most notably the word fuck. The word also displays our cultural ambivalence about sexua…
Allina Ndebele's The Tree of Life
By reconstructing the context and symbolic language of artist-weaver Allina Ndebele's little-known allegorical tapestry, The Tree of Life (1986–87), this article investigates the didactic strategies in her tapestries and the texts she writes to accompany them. Based largely on a series of recent interviews with Ndebele about this work, the essay considers the roles that animals, humans and spiritual forces play in an invented tapestry story that …
The Mantis Wedding
In 1980 the South African tapestry artist, Allina Khumalo Ndebele (Fig. 1), sat down at her loom to weave The Mantis Wedding (Fig. 2).1 She had recently left the relative security of her job as a weaving trainer at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre at Rorke's Drift, in what is now KwaZulu-Natal. Her departure from the center would gain her a form of freedom she had not previously known: the option to weave tapestries of her own…
Evolving a Tapestry Practice at Rorke’s Drift
Despite its popular acclaim, scant research has been undertaken on tapestry-weaving at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, in South Africa, where rural black women helped establish a prolific tapestry practice in 1963. In time, the proceeds from the sale of their works would support both their own and further ventures at the Centre. In narrating the pedagogic encounters between tapestry artists and the Swedish art…
Art is different from life’
Established in apartheid South Africa, the tapestry-weaving venture at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke’s Drift, was situated in a complex mission environment, on the junction between evangelised and unevangelised isiZulu-speaking communities. Although local women who worked at this centre in the 1960s and early 1970s were trained in creative strategies by Swedish artists, their lives were constrained by missionary stri…
Tapestry, ideology and counter voices in Southern Africa during apartheid
In 1963 a tapestry-weaving project was established at Rorke’s Drift, South Africa, by left-wing Swedes. This poverty-alleviation initiative targeted rural black women affected by the National Party regime’s oppressive apartheid laws. Further centres evolved from this enterprise, including Khumalo’s Kraal Weaving Workshop in KwaZulu-Natal and Thabana li Mele in neighbouring Lesotho. It is little appreciated that tapestries from these workshops mig…
Made in Africa
During the 1960s, tapestries from Swedish art and craft centres in southern Africa were acclaimed in the Nordic country as an outcome of its own expertise and largesse. Yet when these works by marginalised women artists in Africa were exhibited at the National Museum in Stockholm in 1970, they were dismissed as the fruits of Swedish cultural imperialism and naive artistic minds. Despite the ensuing public debate, the exhibition and its discourses…
Stranded Iconographies
South African institutions were slow to acquire artworks by black women. When they did, among the first were tapestries from a Swedish art center at Rorke’s Drift in rural South Africa. However, it remains unknown that many works by these marginalized African women had entered Swedish collections before then, showing in acclaimed exhibitions such as Woven in Africa, which opened at Röhsska Museum of Design and Craft in Göteborg in 1965. Despite t…
Panoramas from the Periphery
It is widely appreciated that printmakers at the Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft Centre, Rorke's Drift, in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa,1 referenced Zulu history in the prints they made here. As early as 1962, a year before the formal inception of the Centre, a young Azaria Mbatha (1941-2018) had produced Dingane, a linocut referencing the Zulu king Dingane's victory over the White settlers at his headquarters at Mgungundlovu in 1838.2 A…
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