Tal Tamari
Biographic Data
| ID | 202409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tal Tamari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tal |
| FAMILY NAME | Tamari |
| SIGNATURE | TAMARI T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0693-7868 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 99 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Reconsidering Sport Diplomacy: The 2020/1 Tokyo Olympics and ‘Soft-Power’
ABSTARCTThe paper seeks to examine how sport mega-events can be utilized as a form of soft-power to further national unification, nation branding and international relations in the arena of sport diplomacy. Focusing on the 1964 and 2020/1 Tokyo Olympics, the paper critically analyses how the idea of soft power in the 2020/1 Games has become controversial. The paper explores how business oriented top-down Olympic diplomacy creates tensions, and va…
Interview with Sinah Theres Kloß and Antonia Villinger on 'Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy
Tomoko Tamari conducted this interview with the editors of the Body & Society special issue 'Pregnant Bodies - Embodied Pregnancy' in order to explore their rationale for focusing on pregnant bodies and exploring how their personal experience of being pregnant women during their editing process of the issue influenced their analytical insights into pregnancy and pregnant bodies. Tamari also raises the issues of transgender male's pregnancy, which…
The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction by William O. Gardner
Reviewed by: The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction by William O. Gardner Tomoko Tamari (bio) The Metabolist Imagination: Visions of the City in Postwar Japanese Architecture and Science Fiction. By William O. Gardner. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2020. viii, 223 pages. $108.00, cloth; $27.00, paper. As the title suggests, this book examines the intersection of the moder…
Interview with Samantha Frost on 'The Attentive Body: Epigenetic Processes and Self-formative Subjectivity
The interview is a follow-up from Samantha Frost's article, 'The Attentive Body', in Body & Society 26(4). Tomoko Tamari invites Frost to explore her interest in 'biocultural creatures', with its focus on 'bodies' responsive self-transformation' in epigenetic processes, and unfolds Peirce's account of the index for understanding meaning-making in biological processes. Tamari also introduces Katherine Hayles's notion of 'cognitive nonconscious' to…
Interview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society
Body & Society started in 1995. The journal has been continuously exploring and problematizing critical issues which have been opening up new horizons in the field of body studies. As an interdisciplinary journal, it has engaged with a wider range of innovative approaches to the body, which includes sociology, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, science and technology studies, sensory studies and media studies. To cel…
Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies: An Introduction
This is the Introduction to the special issue entitled "The Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies.”
Star Architects, Urban Spectacles, and Global Brands: Exploring the Case of the Tokyo Olympics 2020
Olympic stadia are often regarded as political showcases stemming from a range of influences: the host nation's international politics, the interests of transnational capitalism, site‐specific meanings, and the power of iconic architecture. By examining the 2020 Tokyo Olympic main stadium as a case study, this article analyzes the controversial Zaha Hadid Tokyo stadium design in relation to the Japanese national branding initiative. The article a…
Salimu’: From Memory to Literary Narrative in Twentieth-Century Manding Culture
This essay explores the creation of new literary narratives, many inspired by true incidents, from the late nineteenth century to the present, among Manding- (specifically Maninka-) speakers in Mali and Guinea. It simultaneously queries the relationships between Manding and Western literary categories, showing that the traits typically associated with African ‘epics’ – including poetic language, alternation of sung and recited passages to continu…
Skin Matters: An Interview with Marc Lafrance
Following the Body & Society special issue, Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body's Surfaces (vol. 24, 1-2), Tomoko Tamari conducted an interview with the special issue editor, Marc Lafrance. He argues for the skin as an interface, which both resists and reinforces binary oppositions. Lafrance is particularly interested in the relationship between the skin and subjectivity, focusing on those who are suffering from traumatic stigmatizing experie…
Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali
International audience
Les rois de Ségou »: De l’épopée à la série télévisée
Les Rois de Ségou (“The Kings of Segu”) is a television series from Mali directed by Boubacar Sidibé, released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Mali’s independence (22 September 1960). Together with another film released at about the same time, Samanyana Basi (“Basi from the village of Samanyana”), it is largely based on oral traditions pertaining to the Bamanadominated state of Segu (ca. 1700–1860). The film was originally shot in Fr…
Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability, Technology and Paralympic Culture
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship between elite Paralympians and advanced prosthetic technology into the spotlight. One of the Paralympic stars, Oscar Pistorius, in particular became celebrated as 'the Paralympian cyborg'. Also prominent has been Aimee Mullins, a former Paralympian, who became a globally successful fashion mo…
The Phenomenology of Architecture: A Short Introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa
This piece focuses on the work of Juhani Pallasmaa who introduces phenomenological aspects of kinesthetic and multisensory perception of the human body into architecture theory. He argues that hand-drawing is a vital spatial and haptic exercise in facilitating architectural design. Through this process, architecture can emerge as the very 'material' existence of human embodied 'immaterial' emotion, feelings and wisdom. Hence, for Pallasmaa, archi…
Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards
The Department Store in Early Twentieth-century Japan: Luxury, Aestheticization and Modern Life
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the innovative luxury marketing strategies of the early Japanese department store, Mitsukoshi, which created a new type of spectacular and sensual consumer space combined with Western style building and interior design. Mitsukoshi was also a new, attractive urban public space in which Japanese women began to enjoy luxury settings, enact new types of personae and learn to enjoy new aesthetic sensibilities …
Michel Cartry: L'Homme Et Le Maître À Penser I
Je voudrais témoigner de la qualité de l'enseignement et du rayonnement de Michel Cartry, que j'ai eu le privilège de connaître à partir de 1978, d'abord dans le cadre de son séminaire, consacré aux religions de l'Afrique, puis en tant que directeur de ma thèse. Permettez-moi d'évoquer quelques souvenirs personnels, datant de l'époque où j'ai fait sa connaissance. Alors étudiante en Angleterre, à Oxford, j'avais écrit à Germaine Dieterlen en lui …
Metabolism: Utopian Urbanism and the Japanese Modern Architecture Movement
The Fukushima catastrophe has led to important practical and conceptual shifts in contemporary Japanese architecture which in turn has led to a re-evaluation of the influential 1960s Japanese modern architecture movement, Metabolism. The Metabolists had the ambition to create a new Japanese society through techno-utopian city planning. The new generation of Japanese architects, after the Fukushima event, no longer seek evolutionally social change…
A Bamana Commentary on Sūrat al-Wāqiʿa (Q. 56): A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis
Among the Manding and other long-Islamised peoples of West Africa, advanced religious instruction is based on the oral translation of Arabic books into a local language; the Qur'an may, furthermore, be interpreted in a ceremonial setting in Ramaḍān. This article discusses some of the most important linguistic, stylistic and content features of West African oral tafsīr as exemplified by a Bamana commentary collected near Segu, Mali, in 1998 (Baman…
Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
International audience
Les œuvres orientales parmi les sources d’inspiration de la littérature orale ouest-africaine: Un « roman de chevalerie » arabe en traduction bambara
L’examen de la littérature orale africaine, et particulièrement des épopées, légendes, contes et généalogies, révèle que plusieurs personnages, séquences narratives et jusqu’à certaines figures de style s’inspirent de la littérature arabe. Parmi les œuvres arabes dont l’influence a été la plus marquante, on peut citer : le Coran ; les recueils de ḥadīth ainsi que d’autres œuvres traitant des actes et paroles du Prophète Muhammad ; les qiṣaṣ al-an…
La littérature française en traduction bambara: L’exemple du Comte de Monte-Cristo
Bakary Tangara, instituteur de formation et directeur d’école, anime depuis 1996 une émission à Faso Kanu (une radio libre de la ville de Banamba) consacrée principalement à la présentation en bambara, l’une des langues nationales du Mali, des ouvrages littéraires composés ou déjà traduits en français. Il interprète les œuvres d’auteurs aussi bien africains qu’européens, ainsi que des récits merveilleux choisis dans la littérature universelle. No…
Oral Literature as Moral Guide: “Sunba” in Contemporary Media
Over the past twenty years, Sunba, an old Malinke story combining narrative and sung portions, has inspired several songs composed for diffusion via contemporary media (radio, television, audio- and videocassettes); three new songs were created in Mali about 2000. The pop creations associate refrains from the old songs with evocations of friends and relatives of the artists as well as, in one instance, civil strife on the African continent. Thus,…
Hady: A Traditional Bard's Praise Song for an Urban Teenager
This paper examines traditional and innovating elements in a praise performance organized by a hereditary bard in 2002 for a twenty-year-old from a prominent family in Segu (Mali). It shows the importance of a detailed knowledge of the youth's network of social relationships for understanding the oral text. Special attention is given to the circumstances that led to the composition of a praise song for so young a person (a most unusual event), to…
Rise of the Department Store and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life in Early 20th Century Japan
This paper focuses on the ways in which the department store has become a key site for the constitution of Japanese modernity through the introduction of images and goods taken from the West, along with the emphasis on “Western design” and “Western taste”. These new consumer spaces have become aestheticized in various ways so that we can speak of an “aestheticization” of everyday life. Yet this was also a modernizing learning process for Japanese…
Cultural Studies in Japan: An Interview with Shunya Yoshimi
This interview focuses on the history and current developments of cultural studies in Japan. Shunya Yoshimi is one of the leading figures in cultural studies in Japan since its introduction in the mid-1990s. He is currently engaged in the task of developing cultural studies in Asia with younger generations of scholars and to this end has helped established a new type of cultural movement, Cultural Typhoon, as well as contributing to expand Asian …
The Development of Caste Systems in West Africa
Endogamous artisan and musician groups are characteristic of over fifteen West African peoples, including the Manding, Soninke, Wolof, Serer, Fulani, Tukulor, Songhay, Dogon, Senufo, Minianka, Moors, and Tuareg. Castes appeared among the Malinke no later than 1300, and were present among the Wolof and Soninke, as well as some Songhay and Fulani populations, no later than 1500. All the West African castes ultimately developed from at most three ce…
Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability, Technology and Paralympic Culture
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship between elite Paralympians and advanced prosthetic technology into the spotlight. One of the Paralympic stars, Oscar Pistorius, in particular became celebrated as 'the Paralympian cyborg'. Also prominent has been Aimee Mullins, a former Paralympian, who became a globally successful fashion mo…
Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale: Artisans et Musiciens Endogames
Metabolism: Utopian Urbanism and the Japanese Modern Architecture Movement
The Fukushima catastrophe has led to important practical and conceptual shifts in contemporary Japanese architecture which in turn has led to a re-evaluation of the influential 1960s Japanese modern architecture movement, Metabolism. The Metabolists had the ambition to create a new Japanese society through techno-utopian city planning. The new generation of Japanese architects, after the Fukushima event, no longer seek evolutionally social change…
Cultural Studies in Japan: An Interview with Shunya Yoshimi
This interview focuses on the history and current developments of cultural studies in Japan. Shunya Yoshimi is one of the leading figures in cultural studies in Japan since its introduction in the mid-1990s. He is currently engaged in the task of developing cultural studies in Asia with younger generations of scholars and to this end has helped established a new type of cultural movement, Cultural Typhoon, as well as contributing to expand Asian …
Skin Matters: An Interview with Marc Lafrance
Following the Body & Society special issue, Skin Matters: Thinking Through the Body's Surfaces (vol. 24, 1-2), Tomoko Tamari conducted an interview with the special issue editor, Marc Lafrance. He argues for the skin as an interface, which both resists and reinforces binary oppositions. Lafrance is particularly interested in the relationship between the skin and subjectivity, focusing on those who are suffering from traumatic stigmatizing experie…
Hady: A Traditional Bard's Praise Song for an Urban Teenager
This paper examines traditional and innovating elements in a praise performance organized by a hereditary bard in 2002 for a twenty-year-old from a prominent family in Segu (Mali). It shows the importance of a detailed knowledge of the youth's network of social relationships for understanding the oral text. Special attention is given to the circumstances that led to the composition of a praise song for so young a person (a most unusual event), to…
Reflections on the Development of Cultural Studies in Japan
Although Japan had its own distinctive 'pre-history' of cultural studies, which produced some excellent research on popular culture, which can be traced back to the 1920s, the current state of cultural studies has been criticized by conventional mainstream academics; whereas the younger generation has been attracted by cultural studies as a new academic trend. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan is Cultural Typhoon. This new…
Interview with Bryan S Turner: Reflections on the 25th Anniversary of Body & Society
Body & Society started in 1995. The journal has been continuously exploring and problematizing critical issues which have been opening up new horizons in the field of body studies. As an interdisciplinary journal, it has engaged with a wider range of innovative approaches to the body, which includes sociology, cultural studies, psychology, philosophy, anthropology, history, science and technology studies, sensory studies and media studies. To cel…
The Phenomenology of Architecture: A Short Introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa
This piece focuses on the work of Juhani Pallasmaa who introduces phenomenological aspects of kinesthetic and multisensory perception of the human body into architecture theory. He argues that hand-drawing is a vital spatial and haptic exercise in facilitating architectural design. Through this process, architecture can emerge as the very 'material' existence of human embodied 'immaterial' emotion, feelings and wisdom. Hence, for Pallasmaa, archi…
Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale. Artisans et musiciens endogames
The Development of Caste Systems in West Africa
Endogamous artisan and musician groups are characteristic of over fifteen West African peoples, including the Manding, Soninke, Wolof, Serer, Fulani, Tukulor, Songhay, Dogon, Senufo, Minianka, Moors, and Tuareg. Castes appeared among the Malinke no later than 1300, and were present among the Wolof and Soninke, as well as some Songhay and Fulani populations, no later than 1500. All the West African castes ultimately developed from at most three ce…
Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale: Artisans et Musiciens Endogames
Les Castes de l'Afrique Occidentale. Artisans et musiciens endogames
Réponse à Gilles Holder
Le compte rendu consacré par Gilles Holder à mon livre, Les castes de l’Afrique occidentale. Artisans et musiciens endogames, dans L’Homme 152, oct.-déc. 1999, pp. 234-237, m’oblige à faire un certain nombre d’observations. L’« Étude critique des sources », qui formait le premier chapitre de mon manuscrit, a été placée en appendice à la fin de l’ouvrage sur l’insistance infléchissable de l’éditeur (la Société d’ethnologie de Nanterre). Le manuscr…
Notes sur les représentations cosmogoniques dogon, bambara et malinké et leurs parallèles avec la pensée antique et islamique
Tamari Tal. Notes sur les représentations cosmogoniques dogon, bambara et malinké et leurs parallèles avec la pensée antique et islamique. In: Journal des africanistes, 2001, tome 71, fascicule 1. Les empreintes du renard pâle. pp. 93-111
Categorizing Artisans and Bards of West Africa
Rise of the Department Store and the Aestheticization of Everyday Life in Early 20th Century Japan
This paper focuses on the ways in which the department store has become a key site for the constitution of Japanese modernity through the introduction of images and goods taken from the West, along with the emphasis on “Western design” and “Western taste”. These new consumer spaces have become aestheticized in various ways so that we can speak of an “aestheticization” of everyday life. Yet this was also a modernizing learning process for Japanese…
Cultural Studies in Japan: An Interview with Shunya Yoshimi
This interview focuses on the history and current developments of cultural studies in Japan. Shunya Yoshimi is one of the leading figures in cultural studies in Japan since its introduction in the mid-1990s. He is currently engaged in the task of developing cultural studies in Asia with younger generations of scholars and to this end has helped established a new type of cultural movement, Cultural Typhoon, as well as contributing to expand Asian …
Reflections on the Development of Cultural Studies in Japan
Although Japan had its own distinctive 'pre-history' of cultural studies, which produced some excellent research on popular culture, which can be traced back to the 1920s, the current state of cultural studies has been criticized by conventional mainstream academics; whereas the younger generation has been attracted by cultural studies as a new academic trend. An important new development in cultural studies in Japan is Cultural Typhoon. This new…
Hady: A Traditional Bard's Praise Song for an Urban Teenager
This paper examines traditional and innovating elements in a praise performance organized by a hereditary bard in 2002 for a twenty-year-old from a prominent family in Segu (Mali). It shows the importance of a detailed knowledge of the youth's network of social relationships for understanding the oral text. Special attention is given to the circumstances that led to the composition of a praise song for so young a person (a most unusual event), to…
Oral Literature as Moral Guide: “Sunba” in Contemporary Media
Over the past twenty years, Sunba, an old Malinke story combining narrative and sung portions, has inspired several songs composed for diffusion via contemporary media (radio, television, audio- and videocassettes); three new songs were created in Mali about 2000. The pop creations associate refrains from the old songs with evocations of friends and relatives of the artists as well as, in one instance, civil strife on the African continent. Thus,…
La littérature française en traduction bambara: L’exemple du Comte de Monte-Cristo
Bakary Tangara, instituteur de formation et directeur d’école, anime depuis 1996 une émission à Faso Kanu (une radio libre de la ville de Banamba) consacrée principalement à la présentation en bambara, l’une des langues nationales du Mali, des ouvrages littéraires composés ou déjà traduits en français. Il interprète les œuvres d’auteurs aussi bien africains qu’européens, ainsi que des récits merveilleux choisis dans la littérature universelle. No…
A Bamana Commentary on Sūrat al-Wāqiʿa (Q. 56): A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis
Among the Manding and other long-Islamised peoples of West Africa, advanced religious instruction is based on the oral translation of Arabic books into a local language; the Qur'an may, furthermore, be interpreted in a ceremonial setting in Ramaḍān. This article discusses some of the most important linguistic, stylistic and content features of West African oral tafsīr as exemplified by a Bamana commentary collected near Segu, Mali, in 1998 (Baman…
Introduction and Annotated Bibliography
International audience
Les œuvres orientales parmi les sources d’inspiration de la littérature orale ouest-africaine: Un « roman de chevalerie » arabe en traduction bambara
L’examen de la littérature orale africaine, et particulièrement des épopées, légendes, contes et généalogies, révèle que plusieurs personnages, séquences narratives et jusqu’à certaines figures de style s’inspirent de la littérature arabe. Parmi les œuvres arabes dont l’influence a été la plus marquante, on peut citer : le Coran ; les recueils de ḥadīth ainsi que d’autres œuvres traitant des actes et paroles du Prophète Muhammad ; les qiṣaṣ al-an…
Michel Cartry: L'Homme Et Le Maître À Penser I
Je voudrais témoigner de la qualité de l'enseignement et du rayonnement de Michel Cartry, que j'ai eu le privilège de connaître à partir de 1978, d'abord dans le cadre de son séminaire, consacré aux religions de l'Afrique, puis en tant que directeur de ma thèse. Permettez-moi d'évoquer quelques souvenirs personnels, datant de l'époque où j'ai fait sa connaissance. Alors étudiante en Angleterre, à Oxford, j'avais écrit à Germaine Dieterlen en lui …
Metabolism: Utopian Urbanism and the Japanese Modern Architecture Movement
The Fukushima catastrophe has led to important practical and conceptual shifts in contemporary Japanese architecture which in turn has led to a re-evaluation of the influential 1960s Japanese modern architecture movement, Metabolism. The Metabolists had the ambition to create a new Japanese society through techno-utopian city planning. The new generation of Japanese architects, after the Fukushima event, no longer seek evolutionally social change…
Islamic Education in Africa: Writing Boards and Blackboards
The Department Store in Early Twentieth-century Japan: Luxury, Aestheticization and Modern Life
The aim of this paper is to shed light on the innovative luxury marketing strategies of the early Japanese department store, Mitsukoshi, which created a new type of spectacular and sensual consumer space combined with Western style building and interior design. Mitsukoshi was also a new, attractive urban public space in which Japanese women began to enjoy luxury settings, enact new types of personae and learn to enjoy new aesthetic sensibilities …
Bamana Texts in Arabic Characters: Some Leaves from Mali
International audience
Les rois de Ségou »: De l’épopée à la série télévisée
Les Rois de Ségou (“The Kings of Segu”) is a television series from Mali directed by Boubacar Sidibé, released to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of Mali’s independence (22 September 1960). Together with another film released at about the same time, Samanyana Basi (“Basi from the village of Samanyana”), it is largely based on oral traditions pertaining to the Bamanadominated state of Segu (ca. 1700–1860). The film was originally shot in Fr…
Body Image and Prosthetic Aesthetics: Disability, Technology and Paralympic Culture
The success of the London 2012 Paralympic Games not only revealed new public possibilities for the disabled, but also thrust the debates on the relationship between elite Paralympians and advanced prosthetic technology into the spotlight. One of the Paralympic stars, Oscar Pistorius, in particular became celebrated as 'the Paralympian cyborg'. Also prominent has been Aimee Mullins, a former Paralympian, who became a globally successful fashion mo…
The Phenomenology of Architecture: A Short Introduction to Juhani Pallasmaa
This piece focuses on the work of Juhani Pallasmaa who introduces phenomenological aspects of kinesthetic and multisensory perception of the human body into architecture theory. He argues that hand-drawing is a vital spatial and haptic exercise in facilitating architectural design. Through this process, architecture can emerge as the very 'material' existence of human embodied 'immaterial' emotion, feelings and wisdom. Hence, for Pallasmaa, archi…
Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies: An Introduction
This is the Introduction to the special issue entitled "The Olympic Games in Japan and East Asia: Images and Legacies.”
Star Architects, Urban Spectacles, and Global Brands: Exploring the Case of the Tokyo Olympics 2020
Olympic stadia are often regarded as political showcases stemming from a range of influences: the host nation's international politics, the interests of transnational capitalism, site‐specific meanings, and the power of iconic architecture. By examining the 2020 Tokyo Olympic main stadium as a case study, this article analyzes the controversial Zaha Hadid Tokyo stadium design in relation to the Japanese national branding initiative. The article a…
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