Danila Mayer

Biographic Data

ID111617
NAMEDanila Mayer
GIVEN NAMESDanila
FAMILY NAMEMayer
SIGNATUREMAYER D
AFFILIATIONSInternational Institute of Social History
ORCID0000-0002-1618-9819
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS46
TOTAL CITATIONS42
AUTHOR COUNT46
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1976
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX3

  • Juan Marchena, Manuel Chust, Mariano Schlez, El debate permanente. Modos de producción y revolución en América Latina. Santiago de Chile

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, David MayerARTICLERevista Latinoamericana de…2025

  • Panel E, ‘Orient’, in the Portrait Collection of Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM)

    Open AccessDanila MayerARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2024

    Panel E, ‘Orient’, at the Vienna Kunsthistorisches Museum (Museum of Art History) is the focus of my work in progress. I look into its presentation in the museum, and the collection of small portraits of which it is part. Panel E is composed of 34 portraits of rulers from the ‘Balkans and the Orient’. The portraits belonged to Habsburg Archduke Ferdinand II's (1529–1595) broad collection of wonders and objects, suits of armour, and biographies, w…

  • Changing Degrees of ‘Openness’

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, David MayerARTICLEMoving the Social2023

    This article discusses certain fundamental moments in the evolution of the historiographies on work, workers, and labour movements in South America, in particular in Argentina and Brazil.In that, the analysis follows a double track: First, it will shed light on the changeable notion of 'work' in these historiographies and analyse the degree of 'openness' in each of these moments in relation to the historical diversity within labour relations.Seco…

  • Aníbal Quijano

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, David MayerARTICLEPERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie •…2020

    Bibliographie: Mayer, David: Aníbal Quijano: Kolonialität der Macht, Eurozentrismus und Lateinamerika. Wien & Berlin: Turia + Kant 2016, 122 Seiten, PERIPHERIE – Politik • Ökonomie • Kultur, 1-2020, S. 199-201. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v40i1-2.13

  • Home Away from Home

    Open AccessTerry Lamb, Danila MayerARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2019References: 1

    Researchers participating in the development and training week of one of the European Union’s Erasmus+ projects come forwards in this contribution and share their insights. Youth engaged in integration of refugees, migrants and asylum seekers were to be trained, their approaches made visible and their networking strengthened in a two-year project that included a seven-days get-together in Croatia. Further activities included ample desk research o…

  • Troy, Carthage and the Victorians

    Danila Mayer, David Mayers et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal2019

    Reviewed by: Troy, Carthage and the Victorians: The Drama of Classical Ruins in the Nineteenth-Century Imagination by Rachel Bryant Davies David Mayer TROY, CARTHAGE AND THE VICTORIANS: THE DRAMA OF CLASSICAL RUINS IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION. By Rachel Bryant Davies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018; pp. 402. Rachel Bryant Davies's Troy, Carthage and the Victorians is best recognized as a significant work of British cultural…

  • Discussion of The Third World in the Global 1960s by Samantha Christiansen and Zachary A. Scarlett

    Burleigh Hendrickson, Danila Mayer et al.ARTICLEMonde(s2017

  • Brazilian Labour History in Global Context

    Open AccessPaulo Fontes, Alexandre Fortes et al.ARTICLEInternational Review of Social…2017Cited by: 3References: 14

    This article introduces the main topics and intellectual concerns behind this Special Issue about Brazilian labour history in global context. Over the last two decades, Brazilian labour history has become an important reference point for the international debate about a renewed labour and working-class history. It has greatly broadened its conceptual scope by integrating issues of gender, race, and ethnicity and has moved towards studying the who…

  • Material Culture of the Middle East, Its Intangible Dimensions and New Museums

    Open AccessJ Blake, Danila MayerARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2015

    Material Culture of the Middle East, Its Intangible Dimensions and New MuseumsIn this issue of Anthropology of the Middle East, we present contributions that deal with museums, museology and their approaches to the new social situations through which they must navigate.Cutting a swathe very generously around the Mediterranean and the Middle East -from Tunis to Qatar, Turkey and, as an extension, to Austria -we bring together articles that look cl…

  • Exhibiting 'Migration

    Open AccessDanila MayerARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2015

  • Reports

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, Elizabeth Berk et al.ARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2015

    Exhibitions ‘Tuzlu Su – Saltwater: A Theory of Thought Forms’: The 14th Edition of the Istanbul Biennial of Contemporary Arts, 5 September – 1 November 2015 Publications Ellen Amster (2013), Medicine and the Saints: Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877–1956, Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. 334 pp. US$30.00, ISBN: 9780292762114. Madawi Al-Rasheed (2013), A Most Masculine State: Gender, Politics, and Religion in Saudi …

  • Architecture and art dance meet in the ancient world

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, David MayerCHAPTERAncient World in Silent Cinema2013

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  • An Anthropological Look at Art in the Middle East

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, Soheila ShahshahaniARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2013

    This is a very particular issue, and its topic – art in the Middle East – is new. All of the writers seem deeply involved in their subject and present their research in a fresh and spirited way

  • Reports

    Open AccessBariaa Mourad, Danila MayerARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2013

  • Anthropological Approaches to the Istanbul Biennial of Contemporary Art

    Open AccessDanila MayerARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2013

    The Istanbul Biennial (IB) editions, as cultural events for the wider region and the Middle East, are examined in this article with regard to their relevance for art and artists and their interactions with their host city. Biennials of contemporary art, as main exhibition events of the present, and the urban transformations of Istanbul form the context of the research. Biennials, including the IB, often address controversial topics. Accordingly, …

  • Reports

    Open AccessJennie Doberne, Danila Mayer et al.ARTICLEAnthropology of the Middle East2009

    PUBLICATIONS Stein, Rebecca L. (2008), Itineraries in Conflict: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism (Durham, NC: Duke University Press). ix + 219 pp., notes, bibliography, index. FILMS Iranian Travelogues: Notes on Farhad Varahram, Iranian-Austrian Documentary Filmmaker CONFERENCES ‘Thirty Years On: The Social and Cultural Impacts of the Iranian Revolution’, University of London, School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS),…

  • Griffith in the Twilight

    Open AccessHelen Day-Mayer, Danila Mayer et al.ARTICLENineteenth Century Theatre and Film2008

  • Why Girls Leave Home

    Danila Mayer, David Mayers et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal2006Cited by: 1

    Purporting to depict an entire four-act stage play, Why Girls Leave Home, a six-minute Edison film made in America for the British market, dates either from 1909 or 1912. This film parodies the clichés of the Melville brothers' "bad-girl" melodrama, thus inviting study of Melvillian melodrama as a pervasive, if lurid, English theatrical genre, and similarly inviting investigation of the tactics of theatrical parody. The action of Why Girls Leave …

  • International Proverb Scholarship

    Danila Mayer, David R Mayer et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies2002Cited by: 1

  • Fools Are Everywhere

    Danila Mayer, David R Mayer et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies2001Cited by: 3

  • Children and Proverbs Speak the Truth

    Danila Mayer, David R Mayer et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies2001

  • The Long-Term Impact of Health on Economic Growth in Latin America

    Open AccessDanila Mayer, David MayerARTICLEWorld Development2001Cited by: 13References: 2

  • Twisted Wisdom

    Danila Mayer, David R Mayer et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies2000Cited by: 7

  • Tatowierung ostasiatischer Art

    Danila Mayer, David R Mayer et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1999

  • Proverbs in World Literature

    Danila Mayer, David R Mayer et al.ARTICLEAsian Folklore Studies1997Cited by: 1

    Literary critics and folklorists have long been interested in the use and function of proverbial language in literature. Proverbs in World Literature enables scholars and students to establish what has been published on proverbs, proverbial expressions, proverbial comparisons, proverbial exaggerations, and wellerisms in the works of many authors throughout the world. This international bibliography contains 2,654 entries, of which the first 284 c…