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For God and revolution : priest, peasant, and agrarian socialism in the Mexican Huasteca
During the early 1880s, a wave of peasant unrest swept the mountainous Huasteca region of northeastern Mexico. The rebels demanded political autonomy for their pueblos, protection for their churches, and restoration of the land, water, and foraging rights that were a part of their heritage-issues with nationwide implications that foreshadowed the revolution of 1910. This account traces the material and ideological roots of the rebellion to nineteenth-century liberal policies of land privatization and to the growth of a radical anarchocommunist agrarian consciousness.
Elite landholders had held sway in the Mexican state of San Luis Potosí since colonial times. In the nineteenth century their seizures of agricultural lands clashed with the rising political consciousness of the Huastecos, who rose up to fight for their way of life. Saka further traces the roots of the Huasteco rebellion to the grassroots religiosity that had developed in the course of centuries of local clerical leadership as well as to a nationalism derived from Huastecan participation in Mexico's wars against the United States in the 1840s and France in the 1860s.
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Stealing Athena : a novel
Chronicles of the Marbles' amazing journey through the dynamic narratives of Mary Nisbet, wife of the Earl of Elgin, the British ambassador to Constantinople, and Aspasia, the mistress of Perikles, the most powerful man in Athens during that city's Golden Age.
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The Caryatids in the New Acropolis Museum: Out of Sight, Out of Light, Out of Mind
This paper argues that the display of the iconic Caryatids in the New Acropolis Museum has been seriously compromised by the overriding desire amongst Greek politicians and heritage professionals to use the museum to reinforce their long-standing request for the return of the Parthenon Marbles. In designing a museum geared primarily to achieving the repatriation of the sculptures taken from the largest of the temples on the Athenian Acropolis, the museum's architect has ensured that these marbles were presented within sight of their former monumental home, exhibited in a manner that imitates the architectural layout of the Parthenon, while the large windows of the museum allow vast amounts of natural light to illuminate the marbles. By contrast, the five Caryatids that remain in Athens have been treated with considerably less respect for such restitutionist sensibilities. Displayed within the concrete heart of the museum, lacking views of the outside world, let alone to the Acropolis, and with limited access to direct natural light, the marble women are positioned with no consideration for their original alignment. The important functional role of the Caryatids as integral structural elements within the architecture of the Erechtheum is also poorly represented in the manner of their current museological display in Athens. Keywords: Caryatids, Erechtheum, New Acropolis Museum, Parthenon Marbles, Lord Elgin, Bernard Tschumi
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The Perfect Building
\"What if a building was so beautiful, so perfect in every way, that it instantly connected you to nature? (Or at least made you feel that way.) Many people think that describes the Parthenon, which is widely considered the world's most perfect building.\" (Yak's Corner) Read about the original construction of the Parthenon, the changes made to it by Christians, Muslims and foreign armies, and the renovations that are happening today. The controversy over the location of the Parthenon Marbles is highlighted.
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Arguing over ancient Greek art
\"In December [2023] last year a former British politician said the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) should be returned to Greece. The Marbles are in the collection of the British Museum in London. People have been debating which country should own them for many years.\" (The Week Junior) Learn which country owns the Parthenon Marbles.
Magazine Article