Joachim Mrazek
Biographic Data
| ID | 378790 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joachim Mrazek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joachim |
| FAMILY NAME | Mrazek |
| SIGNATURE | MRAZEK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4763-8728 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Primeval Forest, Homeland, Catastrophe. Travels in Malaya and “Modern Ethnology” with Pavel Šebesta / Paul Schebesta. Part II
Dwarf tribes still live as remnants of dusky ancient times in almost all parts of the world. We find them in central Africa, Andaman Islands, the Philippines, and the Malay Peninsula. In Farther India, I lived with them for many months, I was their guest and comrade on their travels through primeval forests, I shared tough life with them and glanced into their lofty spiritual life. This book will narrate about this nation and about its homeland, …
Czechs on ships: Liners, containers and the sea
The essay juxtaposes, as in a poetic metaphor, Czech sea voyages to Southeast Asia in the late colonial era, as described in the travellers’ writings, and the author’s recent voyage on a container ship from Rotterdam to Singapore. A reflection on sea travel and an experiment in historical research, it is an account of accessing the past through the experience of a voyage. The essay reflects on size, speed, time, and modernity; on containers, clas…
On Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet, Theatre, Television and the Internet by Jan Mrázek
Primeval Forest, Homeland, Catastrophe
The SVD ethnologist/ethnographer mostly known as Paul Schebesta (1887-1967) was often introduced in Czechoslovakia as "our Czech" Pavel Šebesta. Querying origins, selves and homelands, his own and in his writings (ethnography/travelogues/fiction on "dwarfs" in the "primeval forest"), this essay traces the multiplicity/borderlands/nomadism of Schebesta/Šebesta, also in his relation to the "Other," a concept/distinction/border that is thus destabil…
Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Net
What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context
Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television br…
Returns to the wide world: Errant Bohemian images of race and colonialism
Although located at the centre of Europe, Bohemia was for much of its history dominated by a European empire. This essay reflects on a constellation of anti-racist, anti-colonial sentiments in the writings (1877–1944) of a number of Czechs who travelled to the Dutch East Indies. These feelings include an alienation from the imperial nations of “the West”; a sense of kinship with colonised peoples of “the East”; the collapsing – through images of …
Xylophones in Thailand and Java: A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments
Xylophones in Thailand and Java:A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments Jan Mrázek (bio) The heart of this essay is my experience of learning to play and appreciate the ranaat eek, the leading xylophone in classical Central Thai music, and more generally, learning to play music in Thailand and, much earlier, Central Java. I realized that the "standard" scholarly descriptions and classifications of musical instruments-which I learnt fir…
Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok
This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself
Health and physical activity in Central and Eastern Europe
In a cross-cultural study, sport activity, sport motivation, health status, healthrelated behaviour and body concepts of German (West), Czech and Russian adults are compared. The samples, including about 400 persons in each country, were analysed by using a questionnaire. Results clearly show that three different somatic cultures can be distinguished. According to the theory of Inglehart, from Russia to Germany there is an increase in internal or…
A Musical Picture of Indonesia
Klaus-Peter Brinkhoff: Sport und Sozialisation im Jugendalter. Entwicklung, soziale Unterstützung und Gesundheit
Javanese "Wayang Kulit" in the Times of Comedy: Clown Scenes, Innovation, and the Performance's Being in the Present World. Part Two
o f Indonesia. The Puppeteer with his Puppets as the Guest Star at a TV Variety Show, or Pesta gado-gado ("mixed-salad celebration") Kolosal and Spektakuler Performances in the 1990sThe wholeness of the whole of the performance is changing, as are the details.To give a more concrete picture of, a better feeling for, how the various innovations or tendencies examined in the previous parts of this essay appear together in a performance, and how imp…
Javanese Wayang Kulit in the Times of Comedy: Clown Scenes, Innovation, and the Performance's Being in the Present World. Part One
lajeng mlebet sawah, lajeng kepepet ndhelik ketingal bokongipun, Wrekudara nyedhak
Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java
The Meaning of 'Sport' in the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA
The meaning of 'sport' according to adolescents in the USA and the FRG is examined by an association analysis and a semantic differential and analysed in connection with the actual sports activity. As can be seen, the US adolescents spend more time on sports than the Germans yet they have a much more concrete and indiscriminately positive meaning of sport at their disposal. Similarly, it is to be found that, regardless of their nationality, the m…
Javanese Wayang Kulit in the Times of Comedy: Clown Scenes, Innovation, and the Performance's Being in the Present World. Part One
lajeng mlebet sawah, lajeng kepepet ndhelik ketingal bokongipun, Wrekudara nyedhak
Xylophones in Thailand and Java: A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments
Xylophones in Thailand and Java:A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments Jan Mrázek (bio) The heart of this essay is my experience of learning to play and appreciate the ranaat eek, the leading xylophone in classical Central Thai music, and more generally, learning to play music in Thailand and, much earlier, Central Java. I realized that the "standard" scholarly descriptions and classifications of musical instruments-which I learnt fir…
Javanese "Wayang Kulit" in the Times of Comedy: Clown Scenes, Innovation, and the Performance's Being in the Present World. Part Two
o f Indonesia. The Puppeteer with his Puppets as the Guest Star at a TV Variety Show, or Pesta gado-gado ("mixed-salad celebration") Kolosal and Spektakuler Performances in the 1990sThe wholeness of the whole of the performance is changing, as are the details.To give a more concrete picture of, a better feeling for, how the various innovations or tendencies examined in the previous parts of this essay appear together in a performance, and how imp…
Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok
This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself
Health and physical activity in Central and Eastern Europe
In a cross-cultural study, sport activity, sport motivation, health status, healthrelated behaviour and body concepts of German (West), Czech and Russian adults are compared. The samples, including about 400 persons in each country, were analysed by using a questionnaire. Results clearly show that three different somatic cultures can be distinguished. According to the theory of Inglehart, from Russia to Germany there is an increase in internal or…
The Meaning of 'Sport' in the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA
The meaning of 'sport' according to adolescents in the USA and the FRG is examined by an association analysis and a semantic differential and analysed in connection with the actual sports activity. As can be seen, the US adolescents spend more time on sports than the Germans yet they have a much more concrete and indiscriminately positive meaning of sport at their disposal. Similarly, it is to be found that, regardless of their nationality, the m…
Gamelan: Cultural Interaction and Musical Development in Central Java
Javanese Wayang Kulit in the Times of Comedy: Clown Scenes, Innovation, and the Performance's Being in the Present World. Part One
lajeng mlebet sawah, lajeng kepepet ndhelik ketingal bokongipun, Wrekudara nyedhak
Klaus-Peter Brinkhoff: Sport und Sozialisation im Jugendalter. Entwicklung, soziale Unterstützung und Gesundheit
Javanese "Wayang Kulit" in the Times of Comedy: Clown Scenes, Innovation, and the Performance's Being in the Present World. Part Two
o f Indonesia. The Puppeteer with his Puppets as the Guest Star at a TV Variety Show, or Pesta gado-gado ("mixed-salad celebration") Kolosal and Spektakuler Performances in the 1990sThe wholeness of the whole of the performance is changing, as are the details.To give a more concrete picture of, a better feeling for, how the various innovations or tendencies examined in the previous parts of this essay appear together in a performance, and how imp…
A Musical Picture of Indonesia
Health and physical activity in Central and Eastern Europe
In a cross-cultural study, sport activity, sport motivation, health status, healthrelated behaviour and body concepts of German (West), Czech and Russian adults are compared. The samples, including about 400 persons in each country, were analysed by using a questionnaire. Results clearly show that three different somatic cultures can be distinguished. According to the theory of Inglehart, from Russia to Germany there is an increase in internal or…
Masks and Selves in Contemporary Java: The Dances of Didik Nini Thowok
This essay reflects on the plays of masks and selves in the dances and the life of Didik Nini Thowok, and the resonances between dance and life. An Indonesian of Chinese descent and a female impersonator whose comic dances combine different regional styles, Didik upsets notions of ethnic and gender stereotypes and identities, the notion of identity itself
Xylophones in Thailand and Java: A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments
Xylophones in Thailand and Java:A Comparative Phenomenology of Musical Instruments Jan Mrázek (bio) The heart of this essay is my experience of learning to play and appreciate the ranaat eek, the leading xylophone in classical Central Thai music, and more generally, learning to play music in Thailand and, much earlier, Central Java. I realized that the "standard" scholarly descriptions and classifications of musical instruments-which I learnt fir…
What's the Use of Art?: Asian Visual and Material Culture in Context
Post-Enlightenment notions of culture, which have been naturalized in the West for centuries, require that art be autonomously beautiful, universal, and devoid of any practical purpose. The authors of this multidisciplinary volume seek to complicate this understanding of art by examining art objects from across Asia with attention to their functional, ritual, and everyday contexts. From tea bowls used in the Japanese tea ceremony to television br…
Returns to the wide world: Errant Bohemian images of race and colonialism
Although located at the centre of Europe, Bohemia was for much of its history dominated by a European empire. This essay reflects on a constellation of anti-racist, anti-colonial sentiments in the writings (1877–1944) of a number of Czechs who travelled to the Dutch East Indies. These feelings include an alienation from the imperial nations of “the West”; a sense of kinship with colonised peoples of “the East”; the collapsing – through images of …
Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet Theatre, Television and the Net
Primeval Forest, Homeland, Catastrophe. Travels in Malaya and “Modern Ethnology” with Pavel Šebesta / Paul Schebesta. Part II
Dwarf tribes still live as remnants of dusky ancient times in almost all parts of the world. We find them in central Africa, Andaman Islands, the Philippines, and the Malay Peninsula. In Farther India, I lived with them for many months, I was their guest and comrade on their travels through primeval forests, I shared tough life with them and glanced into their lofty spiritual life. This book will narrate about this nation and about its homeland, …
Czechs on ships: Liners, containers and the sea
The essay juxtaposes, as in a poetic metaphor, Czech sea voyages to Southeast Asia in the late colonial era, as described in the travellers’ writings, and the author’s recent voyage on a container ship from Rotterdam to Singapore. A reflection on sea travel and an experiment in historical research, it is an account of accessing the past through the experience of a voyage. The essay reflects on size, speed, time, and modernity; on containers, clas…
On Wayang and Its Doubles: Javanese Puppet, Theatre, Television and the Internet by Jan Mrázek
Primeval Forest, Homeland, Catastrophe
The SVD ethnologist/ethnographer mostly known as Paul Schebesta (1887-1967) was often introduced in Czechoslovakia as "our Czech" Pavel Šebesta. Querying origins, selves and homelands, his own and in his writings (ethnography/travelogues/fiction on "dwarfs" in the "primeval forest"), this essay traces the multiplicity/borderlands/nomadism of Schebesta/Šebesta, also in his relation to the "Other," a concept/distinction/border that is thus destabil…
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