John Mack
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 103829 |
|---|---|
| NOME | John Mack |
| PRENOMES | John |
| SOBRENOME | Mack |
| ASSINATURA | MACK J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | KTH Royal Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2601-3822 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1944 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Liquidating Architecture
The Danish government's notorious 2018 policy document, ‘One Denmark without Parallel Societies’, targeted dozens of neighbourhoods as ‘ghettos’ and proposed solutions to eradicate them: privatisations, renovations and, most controversially, demolitions. In this article, I trace discourse and policies in government documents over the period from the 1960s to 2018 to follow their promotion of three forms of ‘liquidation’ ( afvikling ). First, mode…
‘You can simply say no’
Narratives about the ‘failure’ of large-scale post-World War II housing are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. This is true even in Denmark and Sweden, which have long been known for their welfare states and benevolent housing policies. Today, however, both countries have enacted new national anti-segregation measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in …
Modernism in the present tense
Has modernism evolved from a means to create a utopian future to an architectural discontent co-opted for racist purposes? The planners who built mid-20th century Scandinavian, modernist suburbs conceived of them as places of innovation, possibility, and visionary thinking. By the 1970s, however, this assessment had shifted dramatically: near-monolithic media and popular representations depicted environments of failure, insecurity, and ugly archi…
Impossible nostalgia
The modernist neighbourhoods of the so-called Swedish Million Programme (1965–1974) were to house a new citizenry in utopian cities of the future, where nuclear families would live in optimal conditions and where ‘rational’ landscapes included playgrounds, courtyards, and traffic separation. Even so, they are ‘problem areas’ in current popular representations: places without history and thus unworthy of preservation. Radical proposals suggest the…
An awkward technocracy
In Sweden, an ostensibly secular-majority society, urban planners facilitate the construction of new churches and mosques for minority religious groups. In this work, they typically perceive themselves as neutral professionals relying on a technical education. But since the 1980s, Swedish civil servants, including planners, have transformed from experts to managers, and their interactions with clients for mosques and churches often reveal their o…
Urban Design from Below
Outlining a theory of “urban design from below,” this essay considers how so-called users have reshaped space at the urban scale, as I trace the history of immigrants’ transformations of a Swedish modernist new town neighborhood. Here a peripheral green strip that government planners of the 1960s classified as a buffer zone has slowly become a center of social and commercial life for Syriac Christians, a group that arrived en masse in the 1970s. …
Drawing degree zero
Experiments with the introduction of pencil and paper to indigenous communities have been a fascination of anthropologists and developmental psychologists alike. It is often assumed that the results give access to aptitudes which are beyond the particularities of graphic conventions: the ‘degree zero’ position (to use Barthes's term) discussed under various alternative headings by Haddon, Lévi-Strauss, Dubuffet and others. In terms of drawing, mu…
Claude Ardouin, 1950–2011
September 01 2011 Claude Ardouin, 1950–2011 John Mack John Mack John Mack is Head of the School of World Art and Museology, University of East Anglia and President of the British Institute in Eastern Africa. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information John Mack John Mack is Head of the School of World Art and Museology, University of East Anglia and President of the British…
Healing words
In discussion of healing processes in sub-Saharan Africa, emphasis is characteristically placed on the role of performance. Yet in spirit mediumship, speech is also an important element in therapeutic practices. In Madagascar, the spirits (tromba) are often of exotic origins (frequently in time as well as space) and the language used is likewise exotic. A complex of techniques of enchantment is employed: amongst them, music, changes of dress, the…
Licensing by Information Structure
The land viewed from the sea
Semantic Combinatorial Processes in Argument Structure
Inhabiting the Imaginary
Batam Island, Indonesia, located a short ferry ride away from Singapore, is a place where tourism and industry have been developed simultaneously and a border area where “developed” and “developing” nations meet. Government officials, investing international corporations and the “factory women” who work in the island's industrial estates arrive in Batam ‐ native to none of them ‐ with their own preconceptions and goals. When challenges not forese…
Nicholas II and the Rescript for Peace of 1898
Africa
Africa
Africa95 at the Museum of Mankind
Quatre expositions au Museum of Mankind presentent des articles de textile : « Display and Modesty: North African Textiles » montre l'art du tissage, les vetements simples ou brodes importants dans les ceremonies de cycles de vie ; « Secular and Sacred: Ethiopian Textiles » expose « shamma », « kamis », et soie tissee ; « Power of the Hand: African Arms and Armour » presente les armes et les armures et « Great Benin », davantage destinee aux ense…
Secrecy
Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo, 1900-1909
Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo 1900-1909
Documenting the Cultures of Southern Zaire
John Mack, Documenting the Cultures of Southern Zaire: The Photographs of the Torday Expeditions 1900-1909, African Arts, Vol. 24, No. 4, Special Issue: Historical Photographs of Africa (Oct., 1991), pp. 60-69+100
Madagascar, Island of the Ancestors
Ethnic Jewelry
Africa, arts and cultures
Burial Communities and the Undermining of Royalty in Colonial Africa
Funerary processes are a central part of the formation and sustaining of ideas of community and, thus, integral to ideas of shared "heritage," which is among the concerns of this volume.Some of the reasons for this situation are fairly obvious and wellrehearsed in the anthropological literature.Death challenges the ideal of a continuous and unchanging order where ideas of community are forged.It occurs at unpredictable moments and introduces indi…
Exploring English Character
Tents
Full-Time Miscreants, Delinquent Neighbourhoods and Criminal Networks
Madagascar, Island of the Ancestors
Culture History in the Southern Sudan
An awkward technocracy
In Sweden, an ostensibly secular-majority society, urban planners facilitate the construction of new churches and mosques for minority religious groups. In this work, they typically perceive themselves as neutral professionals relying on a technical education. But since the 1980s, Swedish civil servants, including planners, have transformed from experts to managers, and their interactions with clients for mosques and churches often reveal their o…
Urban Design from Below
Outlining a theory of “urban design from below,” this essay considers how so-called users have reshaped space at the urban scale, as I trace the history of immigrants’ transformations of a Swedish modernist new town neighborhood. Here a peripheral green strip that government planners of the 1960s classified as a buffer zone has slowly become a center of social and commercial life for Syriac Christians, a group that arrived en masse in the 1970s. …
Peoples and Cultures of the Ethio-Sudan Borderlands
Impossible nostalgia
The modernist neighbourhoods of the so-called Swedish Million Programme (1965–1974) were to house a new citizenry in utopian cities of the future, where nuclear families would live in optimal conditions and where ‘rational’ landscapes included playgrounds, courtyards, and traffic separation. Even so, they are ‘problem areas’ in current popular representations: places without history and thus unworthy of preservation. Radical proposals suggest the…
Modernism in the present tense
Has modernism evolved from a means to create a utopian future to an architectural discontent co-opted for racist purposes? The planners who built mid-20th century Scandinavian, modernist suburbs conceived of them as places of innovation, possibility, and visionary thinking. By the 1970s, however, this assessment had shifted dramatically: near-monolithic media and popular representations depicted environments of failure, insecurity, and ugly archi…
Drawing degree zero
Experiments with the introduction of pencil and paper to indigenous communities have been a fascination of anthropologists and developmental psychologists alike. It is often assumed that the results give access to aptitudes which are beyond the particularities of graphic conventions: the ‘degree zero’ position (to use Barthes's term) discussed under various alternative headings by Haddon, Lévi-Strauss, Dubuffet and others. In terms of drawing, mu…
Healing words
In discussion of healing processes in sub-Saharan Africa, emphasis is characteristically placed on the role of performance. Yet in spirit mediumship, speech is also an important element in therapeutic practices. In Madagascar, the spirits (tromba) are often of exotic origins (frequently in time as well as space) and the language used is likewise exotic. A complex of techniques of enchantment is employed: amongst them, music, changes of dress, the…
Archaeological Remains of the Osage
Since 1939 the writers have attempted, from time to time, to locate village sites of the Osage Indians, in the hope of determining the type of culture that was associated with that important tribe. The Oneota aspect of the Upper phase of the Mississippi pattern has been assigned to the Chiwere branch of the Sioux with considerable assurance, but identification of the culture of the Dhegiha branch has remained largely in the sphere of debate and s…
The land viewed from the sea
Africa95 at the Museum of Mankind
Quatre expositions au Museum of Mankind presentent des articles de textile : « Display and Modesty: North African Textiles » montre l'art du tissage, les vetements simples ou brodes importants dans les ceremonies de cycles de vie ; « Secular and Sacred: Ethiopian Textiles » expose « shamma », « kamis », et soie tissee ; « Power of the Hand: African Arms and Armour » presente les armes et les armures et « Great Benin », davantage destinee aux ense…
Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo 1900-1909
Documenting the Cultures of Southern Zaire
John Mack, Documenting the Cultures of Southern Zaire: The Photographs of the Torday Expeditions 1900-1909, African Arts, Vol. 24, No. 4, Special Issue: Historical Photographs of Africa (Oct., 1991), pp. 60-69+100
Anthropology and Art History in Africa
Art and Death in a Senufo Village by Anita J. Glaze , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981, 268 pp., 82 b & w and 8 colour ills, map, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, £25 Mbari, Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo by Herbert M. Cole , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982, 262 pp., 76 b & w and 12 colour ills, 36 drawings, appendices, bibliography, map, £32.50 Gelede, Art and Female Power among the Yoruba by Henry John Drewal …
Group Problems in Crime and Punishment
Archaeological Remains of the Osage
Since 1939 the writers have attempted, from time to time, to locate village sites of the Osage Indians, in the hope of determining the type of culture that was associated with that important tribe. The Oneota aspect of the Upper phase of the Mississippi pattern has been assigned to the Chiwere branch of the Sioux with considerable assurance, but identification of the culture of the Dhegiha branch has remained largely in the sphere of debate and s…
Exploring English Character
Group Problems in Crime and Punishment
Full-Time Miscreants, Delinquent Neighbourhoods and Criminal Networks
The Mafia Mystique
African Textiles, Looms, Weaving and Design
Tents
African Textiles
Peoples and Cultures of the Ethio-Sudan Borderlands
Culture History in the Southern Sudan
Anthropology and Art History in Africa
Art and Death in a Senufo Village by Anita J. Glaze , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981, 268 pp., 82 b & w and 8 colour ills, map, appendix, glossary, bibliography, index, £25 Mbari, Art and Life among the Owerri Igbo by Herbert M. Cole , Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1982, 262 pp., 76 b & w and 12 colour ills, 36 drawings, appendices, bibliography, map, £32.50 Gelede, Art and Female Power among the Yoruba by Henry John Drewal …
Culture History in the Southern Sudan
Weaving, women, and the ancestors in Madagascar
(1987). Weaving, women, and the ancestors in Madagascar. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 15, No. 42, pp. 76-91
Zaire
Ethnic Jewelry
Ethnic Jewelry
Madagascar
Madagascar, Island of the Ancestors
Documenting the Cultures of Southern Zaire
John Mack, Documenting the Cultures of Southern Zaire: The Photographs of the Torday Expeditions 1900-1909, African Arts, Vol. 24, No. 4, Special Issue: Historical Photographs of Africa (Oct., 1991), pp. 60-69+100
Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo, 1900-1909
Emil Torday and the Art of the Congo 1900-1909
Secrecy
Africa95 at the Museum of Mankind
Quatre expositions au Museum of Mankind presentent des articles de textile : « Display and Modesty: North African Textiles » montre l'art du tissage, les vetements simples ou brodes importants dans les ceremonies de cycles de vie ; « Secular and Sacred: Ethiopian Textiles » expose « shamma », « kamis », et soie tissee ; « Power of the Hand: African Arms and Armour » presente les armes et les armures et « Great Benin », davantage destinee aux ense…
Africa
Africa
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