Michael Pickering
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 138963 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michael Pickering |
| PRENOMES | Michael |
| SOBRENOME | Pickering |
| ASSINATURA | PICKERING M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Loughborough University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8085-3673 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 96 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 472 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 4 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Qualifying the sacred
Australian collecting institutions and heritage agencies have been returning Ancestral Remains and secret-sacred objects to Australian First Nations communities for over 30 years. In recent years, calls for repatriation have expanded to include what have often been called ‘secular’ objects. This paper considers the varying levels of sacredness potentially inherent in the types of ‘traditional’ secular objects that are characteristic of many museu…
The Long Way Home
Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and…
Researching Communications
The new edition of the highly respected Researching Communications is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to researching media and communication. Researching Communications, Third Edition is an invaluable guide to performing and analysing research tasks, introducing the major research methods, giving detailed examples of research analysis and practical step-by-step guidance in clear language. Written by highly regarded experts in the field, t…
The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation
Many museums and other scientific institutions still possessing the bodily remains of Indigenous people no longer resist considering their repatriation to the care of descendant communities. Whereas unconditional repatriation is now the norm in Australasia, North America and southern Africa, European museums and government cultural agencies hold to the view that releasing remains to the care of Indigenous claimants should only occur when there is…
As modalidades da nostalgia
A nostalgia tem sido vista como o oposto conceitual do progresso, contra o qual é vista negativamente como reacionária, sentimental ou melancólica. Foi visto como um recuo derrotista do presente e evidência de perda de fé no futuro. A nostalgia é certamente uma resposta à experiência de perda endêmica na modernidade e na modernidade tardia, mas os autores argumentam que ela tem inúmeras manifestações e não pode ser reduzida a uma definição singul…
Succour for a Fallen World
This article considers the intellectual currents within an under-examined text by the Braunschweig physician, Johann Nikolaus Martius. Ostensibly a medical text about the ways in which sympathetic magic could be marshalled to provide remedies for common ailments, I suggest that we might read the document as a cosmological treatise that positions its author within a religiously heterodox milieu. Research to date has not yet considered the central …
The politics of whiteness and racial visibility
The supernatural and sensitive Indigenous materials
Australian museums that care for Australian Indigenous collections, appropriately attempt to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees for these custodial roles. Rarely, however, do institutions consider that the cultural backgrounds and beliefs of employees may expose them to unique risks, in particular, culturally accepted beliefs in the supernatural. Indigenous people are often asked to engage with the cultural materials of other …
Representing and appropriating Black Otherness
Personal Stereo
Acts of supremacy
At the height of the British Empire's fortunes, the stage represented the most influential form of popular entertainment. 'Acts of supremacy' looks at the way in which this medium was utilised to mould popular concepts of empire and nationhood and the authors convey the significance of all levels of entertainment in shaping English identity and perception of other ethnic groups. The authors go beyond the traditional interpretation of politicians'…
The Mnemonic Imagination and Second-Generation Migrant Experience
Drawing on our concept of the mnemonic imagination, this chapter shows how the past is reactivated and pieced together into a relatively coherent narrative in the interests of identity and the effective management of change. In forming the synthetic hub of remembering and imagining, the mnemonic imagination is mobilized in bringing past, present, and future into meaningful correspondence. This chapter illustrates how this happens via an ethnograp…
The Blackface Songster in Britain
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Cannibalism in the Ethnographic Record
Cannibalism is a popular and recurring subject in anthropology, experiencing periodic resurgences in interest. Its practice was alleged in writings accumulated over several centuries. By the time the discipline of anthropology emerged, cannibalism was already considered a real, and thus expected, practice in some cultures, especially nonliterate cultures encountered by colonizing European nations. Scholarly research since the mid‐twentieth centur…
Acts of Supremacy
Blackface Minstrelsy in Britain
Blackface minstrelsy is associated particularly with popular culture in the United States and Britain, yet despite the continual two-way flow of performers, troupes and companies across the Atlantic, there is little in Britain to match the scholarship of blackface studies in the States. This book concentrates on the distinctively British trajectory of minstrelsy. The historical study and cultural analysis of minstrelsy is important because of the…
Stereotyping and Stereotypes
Stereotyping involves the representation and evaluation of others in ways which ratify and endorse unequal social relations. It does so by making such representations appear fixed and unchanging as well as in stark contrast to the identities of those who engage in and perpetuate them. Stereotypes diminish the social standing of those targeted, reducing them to a particular attribute or disposition that either demeans them or confines them to achi…
Images of England through Popular Music
Photography, Music and Memory
This is the introduction to the book Photography, Music and Memory: Pieces of the Past in Everyday Life. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://www.palgrave.com/in/book/9781137441201
Stereotyping and Stereotypes
Stereotyping involves the representation and evaluation of others in ways that ratify and endorse unequal social relations. It does so by making such representations appear fixed and unchanging as well as in stark contrast to the identities of those who engage in and perpetuate them. Stereotypes diminish the social standing of those targeted, reducing them to a particular attribute or disposition that either demeans them or confines them to achie…
Photography, Music and Memory
Pieces of the Past
Throughout this book we have explored how certain pieces of the past — personally made or inherited photographs, and recorded songs and music trailing their various associations of past times — are drawn upon and given meaning, value and significance in everyday life. These pieces of the past do not exist as isolated fragments somehow surviving over time, and do not operate on their own with no reference to each other. As mnemonic resources, they…
Struggling to Make Ourselves Heard
The question of a content quota in the public media of communication only acquires cultural and political force in countries faced with a considerable volume of imported material. New Zealand/ Aotearoa is one such country. In this article, we review the widespread debate in New Zealand which has taken place over the past few years with respect to locally produced music
The Unleashed Scandal
The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures
The Modalities of Nostalgia
Nostalgia has been viewed as the conceptual opposite of progress, against which it is negatively viewed as reactionary, sentimental or melancholic. It has been seen as a defeatist retreat from the present, and evidence of loss of faith in the future. Nostalgia is certainly a response to the experience of loss endemic in modernity and late modernity, but the authors argue that it has numerous manifestations and cannot be reduced to a singular or a…
Listening Publics
You Must Be Joking
Recent work in the sociological critique of humour and comic media has challenged the notion that humour is an absolute good. In this article, we review some of the most interesting work that takes humour seriously and addresses the difficult topic of whether there are ethical limits to humour and media comedy. We outline three main reasons for taking humour seriously and review some of the ways in which humour has been studied sociologically thr…
The Ashgate Research Companion to Fan Cultures
Technologies of memory
This article demonstrates the need always to consider change against continuity and continuity against change in the analysis of mnemonic technologies. It does so by exploring what has happened in the move from analogue to digital photography, looking, in particular, at how this has affected the meanings of personal photographs and the practices of remembering associated with them. In contrast with technologically determinist perspectives which h…
Communities of memory and the problem of transmission
In this article we explore the issue of memory transmission by considering it along the two temporal planes on which it occurs: vertically, through time; and horizontally, in time. It is because we regard memory transmission as involving the mutual interaction of these two planes that we introduce the concept of the mnemonic imagination. The value of the concept is that it enables us to see, inter alia, how communities of memory emerge. Our route…
Research Methods for Cultural Studies
This new textbook addresses the neglect of practical research methods in cultural studies. It provides readers with clearly written overviews of research methods in cultural studies, along with guidelines on how to put these methods into operation. It advocates a multi-method approach, with students drawing from a pool of techniques and approaches suitable for their own topics of investigation. The book covers the following main areas: Drawing on…
Experience as horizon
This article explores and develops the concept of the horizon as a figurative and analytical device used to negotiate the relations between experience, everyday life and historical time. Its central focus is Reinhart Koselleck’s application of the concept, though it also draws on the work of Karl Mannheim (through his distinction between conjunctive and communicative experience) and Raymond Williams (through his concept of structure of feeling) i…
For the record
Phonography and photography have been extensively discussed and analysed, but their complementary features as media of communication have received relatively little attention. Chief among these is the way in which, as technologies of recording, preservation and retrieval, they have affected forms of social remembering and orientations to historical time. Over the last century and more, phonograph music and photographic images have acquired strong…
Death in the News
Two sociological views of death in modernity are currently dominant. They are that death is not acknowledged in public, and that a public discourse does exist, the discourse of medicine. The article criticises both these views in the light of how news media portray the extraordinary deaths of otherwise ordinary UK citizens. The news media focus in particular on the emotions of survivors - of considerable interest to British people unsure of prope…
Dear Shit-Shovellers
In this article we analyse letters of complaint about instances of comic discourse where the humour is regarded as overstepping the mark and causing offence. We are particularly interested in how this sense of offence is registered and how complainants articulate the offence for which they seek some form of redress. In pursuing this interest, we seek to bring together two distinctive modes of analysis: linguistic discourse analysis and symbolic c…
Food for Thought
Villa et al. (1986:431) proposed that human skeletal material, recovered from the Neolithic levels of Fontbregoua Cave in southeastern France, exhibited particular attributes which indicated the state of the remains was a product of cannibalism: The analysis of these bones strongly suggests that humans were butchered, processed, and probably eaten in a manner that closely parallels the treatment of wild and domestic animals at Fontbregoua
The self-interview
This article presents the new method of self-interviewing as an empirical tool specifically for use in memory studies research. The article traces some of the empirical limitations specific to the field of memory studies and reviews the existing tools used in this area. It particularly focuses on some of the limitations of qualitative interviewing, the memory work method and diary methods in generating data on the processes of vernacular remember…
The Big Picture
The Curator in a social history museum occupies a unique space. They are located as translators and mediators between the academy, the professions, governments, stakeholders, and the public. As a result, they often have a broader experience in, and understanding of, certain issues. This allows curators an engagement with the ‘Big Picture’, not always available to other interest groups. This paper looks at the National Museum of Australia's experi…
Kiwi rock
The New Zealand popular music scene has seen a series of high points in recent years. Published in 1989 were John Dix's labour of love, Stranded in Paradise, a comprehensive history of New Zealand rock'n'roll; an influential report by the Trade Development Board, supportive of the local industry; and the proceedings of a well-supported Music New Zealand Convention held in 1987 (Baysting 1989). In the late 1980s, local bands featured strongly on t…
Creativity and cultural production
(2000). Creativity and cultural production. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 259-282
Notes on the Aboriginal hunting and butchering of cattle and buffalo
Aboriginal people have exploited European and Asian cattle as a food resource since the introduction of these animals to Australia. Butchering techniques are usually simple and efficient and involve minimum disarticulation of the carcass or artefactual damage to bones. Subsequent residues often show little or no direct evidence of being a product of human activity. Similar 'optimum butchering' strategies may well have applied to the butchering of…
The supernatural and sensitive Indigenous materials
Australian museums that care for Australian Indigenous collections, appropriately attempt to engage Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employees for these custodial roles. Rarely, however, do institutions consider that the cultural backgrounds and beliefs of employees may expose them to unique risks, in particular, culturally accepted beliefs in the supernatural. Indigenous people are often asked to engage with the cultural materials of other …
Echoes and Reverberations
Photographic images and popular songs are commonly used as ways of representing or evoking the past. They occur routinely in various media, at times singly, at others in conjunction with each other
The politics and psychology of stereotyping
Trauma, discourse and communicative limits
Trauma is a term that is widely used in memory studies, along with a number of other academic fields and disciplines. This article takes issue with its loose and indiscriminate application. Such application generates an unresolved paradox: trauma is associated with memories of events that are uncontrollable, yet large-scale commemorative practices or processes of social reconciliation assume that experiences of these are controllable, amenable to…
We Sang Ourselves Through That War
This paper examines the role of music in women's experience of factory work in the Second World War — an important topic but one largely overlooked in the existing literature. Two important forms of music flourished in war factories — the relaying of Music While You Work through loudspeakers, and the collective singing of workgroups. Drawing on a range of sources, the paper shows that music served to both express and create community in the workp…
History as Horizon
John Bull in blackface
For a mid-twentieth century historian of the music hall, blackface minstrelsy was the 'oddest form of entertainment imaginable'. He found it 'incomprehensible' why people during the Victorian period had delighted in the 'extraordinary spectacle of the apparently sane white man blacking his face and hands with burnt cork, painting his lips and eyes to resemble those of an African nigger, and then, to complete the incongruity, attiring himself in E…
The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933-1950
1996). The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933–1950: blackface entertainment on British Radio. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 161-195
Why multiple choice language tests are sometimes not
Context-free and context-dependent vocabulary learning
The Japanese Bone Collecting Expedition on Tinian, Mariana Islands, March 1985
Democracy and Communication
Michael Pickering, David Chaney; Democracy and Communication: Mass Observation 1937–1943, Journal of Communication, Volume 36, Issue 1, 1 March 1986, Pages
Australian Archaeological Association Presidents Report 1987
The key aspects and features of the 1987 Australian Archaeological Association President's report are discussed. Some of the key activities undertaken by the Association during the same period are highlighted
The Study of Vernacular Song in England
Notes on a Transect Survey of Western Australia
This report presents the strategy developed during a linear survey of the Dampier to Perth Gas Pipeline between 1980 to1982. Originally presented in the Archaeology section of ANZAAS in Sydney in 1982, this paper serves as a case study of a particular development project typical of the type frequently encountered by consultant archaeologists. It is offered here not because of any presumed innovations in survey strategy but rather to communicate a…
Food for Thought
Villa et al. (1986:431) proposed that human skeletal material, recovered from the Neolithic levels of Fontbregoua Cave in southeastern France, exhibited particular attributes which indicated the state of the remains was a product of cannibalism: The analysis of these bones strongly suggests that humans were butchered, processed, and probably eaten in a manner that closely parallels the treatment of wild and domestic animals at Fontbregoua
Backed Blades From The Mcarthur River, Borroloola, Northern Territory
Increasing research in northern Australia continues to expand the known distribution of backed blades. It is now generally accepted that the distribution maps of 20 years ago reflect the distribution of research rather than of the artefacts themselves. The total number of such artefacts known from northern Australia is, however, still very small. During ethnographic fieldwork in the southern Gulf of Carpentaria in August 1989 the author had occas…
Race, Gender and Broadcast Comedy
From 1933 to 1950 the BBC ran a variety series, The Kentucky Minstrels, which was built on the tradition of blackface minstrelsy. This hugely popular tradition of entertainment, which dates back to the 1830s in Britain and was later taken up by BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s in an equally long-running series, The Black and White Minstrel Show, has been largely ignored by social, theatrical and media historians alike. This article focuses i…
The physical landscape as a social landscape
Before archaeologists can attempt to identify ‘social landscapes’ it is necessary to define, precisely, what social landscapes are, the variables and processes that structured them and if and how they are likely to be reflected in the archaeological landscape. This paper suggests that the macro‐scale social landscapes of hunter‐gatherers will articulate with subsistence‐settlement landscapes and physical landscapes as components of the cultural l…
Kiwi rock
The New Zealand popular music scene has seen a series of high points in recent years. Published in 1989 were John Dix's labour of love, Stranded in Paradise, a comprehensive history of New Zealand rock'n'roll; an influential report by the Trade Development Board, supportive of the local industry; and the proceedings of a well-supported Music New Zealand Convention held in 1987 (Baysting 1989). In the late 1980s, local bands featured strongly on t…
Notes on the Aboriginal hunting and butchering of cattle and buffalo
Aboriginal people have exploited European and Asian cattle as a food resource since the introduction of these animals to Australia. Butchering techniques are usually simple and efficient and involve minimum disarticulation of the carcass or artefactual damage to bones. Subsequent residues often show little or no direct evidence of being a product of human activity. Similar 'optimum butchering' strategies may well have applied to the butchering of…
The politics and psychology of stereotyping
Death in the News
Two sociological views of death in modernity are currently dominant. They are that death is not acknowledged in public, and that a public discourse does exist, the discourse of medicine. The article criticises both these views in the light of how news media portray the extraordinary deaths of otherwise ordinary UK citizens. The news media focus in particular on the emotions of survivors - of considerable interest to British people unsure of prope…
The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933-1950
1996). The BBC's Kentucky Minstrels, 1933–1950: blackface entertainment on British Radio. Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television: Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 161-195
Crossing Horizons
My purpose in rehearsing and adapting some of Dilthey's major ideas has been to trace certain tentative lines forwards to a firmer conceptual base for the use of the category of experience in historical and cultural analysis. It seems to me that it is worthwhile going back to Dilthey precisely because of his attempt to ground such analysis in forms of experience by insisting, among other things, that the analysis itself is always part of human li…
History, Experience and Cultural Studies
Book Notes
Imperial Leather
Journal Article Imperial Leather: Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. By Anne McClintock (New York and London, Routledge: 1995. xi plus 449pp.) Get access Michael Pickering Michael Pickering Loughborough University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Social History, Volume 30, Issue 4, Summer 1997, Pages 991–993, https://doi.org/10.1353/jsh/30.4.991 Published: 01 July 1997
John Bull in blackface
For a mid-twentieth century historian of the music hall, blackface minstrelsy was the 'oddest form of entertainment imaginable'. He found it 'incomprehensible' why people during the Victorian period had delighted in the 'extraordinary spectacle of the apparently sane white man blacking his face and hands with burnt cork, painting his lips and eyes to resemble those of an African nigger, and then, to complete the incongruity, attiring himself in E…
History as Horizon
Wangala Time, Wangala Law
Wangala Time, Wangala Law: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Patterns In A Sub-Humid To Semi-Arid Environment." Australian Archaeology, 48(1), p. 55
Creativity and cultural production
(2000). Creativity and cultural production. International Journal of Cultural Policy: Vol. 6, No. 2, pp. 259-282
Eugene Stratton and Early Ragtime in Britain
In 1869, periodical London Society commented, Good society hates scenes, votes every eccentricity of manners and demonstrativeness of demeanour bad (quoted in Cominos 1963, 42). This was a prevalent middle-class view in Victorian Britain. The restless, nervous energies of industrial age, with its expanding urbanization, mechanization, and mobility, its ever-accelerating pace of change, its rolling back of existing cultural horizons, and its incre…
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