Empire
Colonial and missionary pressure on adornment, the imposition of a European ideal, and what survived it.
Part of Beauty Standards
67 moments in this segment.
- - David Livingstone, 1813 - 1873 Missionary and explorer. Thomas Annan 1864 Accession no. PGP 74.2 Medium Carbon print Size 36.90 x 30.20 cm Credit Gift by T & R Annan and Sons, 1930.
- - David Livingstone by Thomas Annan. David Livingstone, 1813 - 1873. Missionary and explorer, a carbon print of a photograph by Thomas Annan, 36.90 x 30.20 cm.
- - David Livingstone by Thomas Annan - Original. David Livingstone, 1813 - 1873. Missionary and explorer, a carbon print of a photograph by Thomas Annan.
- - Carte de visite of David Livingstone. Description : David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley became celebrities in the eyes of a Victorian public captivated by their adventures. Livingstone's work as a medical missionary in southern Africa allowed him to pursue his passion for exploration. Held by the Smithsonian.
- - 1856-Republican-party-Fremont-isms-caricature. The Great Republican Reform Party Calling on their Candidate, an 1856 print which is a political cartoon about John C. Frémont, the first Republican party candidate for president of the United States.
- - COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Vier jonge vrouwen van Karo-Batak afkomst Noord-Sumatra TMnr 10005383. Negatief. Deze vrouwen dragen allemaal een effen zwarte kelamkelam textiel als hoofddoek en als omslagdoek.
- - COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Bibi Radijah als Serimpi de eerste danseres van de Sultan van Yogyakarta TMnr. 60041829.
- - Ludwig Krapf Grabstein Korntal. The tombstone of Johann Ludwig Krapf, a German missionary in East Africa, on the Old Cemetery in Korntal in Southern Germany.
- - Erinnerungstafel am Geburtshaus von Johann Ludwig Krapf. 34 in Tübingen-Derendingen. Inschrift: In diesem Hause wurde Missionar Dr.
- - Clothing the Pacific: Part 1. Tapa, siapo and woven Pacific garments are shown alongside the mission-era dress that arrived with Christianity in Samoa, Tonga and Fiji, and what islanders kept of both.
- - The Beauty Myth by Naomi Wolf - A Singapore Writers Festival 2014 Lecture. Naomi Wolf sets out the argument of her 1990 book, that as legal and professional barriers to women fell, appearance became the new measure applied to them, and takes questions from a Singapore audience.
- - Inside the world's 'last colonial museum' in Belgium. Tervuren's Royal Museum for Central Africa, its statuary and its Congo holdings are toured during the argument over how the Belgian colonial period should be presented to visitors.
- - Inside the world's 'last colonial museum' in Belgium. Tervuren's Royal Museum for Central Africa, its statuary and its Congo holdings are toured during the argument over how the Belgian colonial period should be presented to visitors.
- - The Human Zoo: The Final Journey of Calafate [Documentary]. Selk'nam and other Fuegian people taken from Tierra del Fuego to European exhibitions in the late nineteenth century are followed, including efforts to trace and repatriate remains held in museums.
- - The Human Zoo: The Final Journey of Calafate [Documentary]. Selk'nam and other Fuegian people taken from Tierra del Fuego to European exhibitions in the late nineteenth century are followed, including efforts to trace and repatriate remains held in museums.
- - Beauty Standards From Colonialism and Imperialism. Imperial expansion, missionary dress codes and the export of European looks to colonised populations are outlined in a short student presentation on where modern standards came from.
- - Beauty Standards From Colonialism and Imperialism. Imperial expansion, missionary dress codes and the export of European looks to colonised populations are outlined in a short student presentation on where modern standards came from.
- - THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HAIR|SLAVERY|COLONIZATION|. Precolonial West African hairdressing conventions and what happened to them under enslavement and colonial rule form the spine here, ending with the grooming expectations that carried into the modern era.
- - THE HISTORY OF NATURAL HAIR|SLAVERY|COLONIZATION|. Precolonial West African hairdressing conventions and what happened to them under enslavement and colonial rule form the spine here, ending with the grooming expectations that carried into the modern era.
- - The History of Beauty Standards and how I logically stopped caring (undoing the brainwash). Corsetry, shifting silhouettes and the modern image industry are surveyed by a speaker describing how she changed her own relationship to the standards she grew up with.
- - The History of Beauty Standards and how I logically stopped caring (undoing the brainwash). Corsetry, shifting silhouettes and the modern image industry are surveyed by a speaker describing how she changed her own relationship to the standards she grew up with.
- - Colorism, Beauty Standards and Society's View on Skin Collor Differences. Preference for lighter skin within communities of colour, and the social treatment that follows from it, are laid out in a short student presentation on colourism.
- - Colorism, Beauty Standards and Society's View on Skin Collor Differences. Preference for lighter skin within communities of colour, and the social treatment that follows from it, are laid out in a short student presentation on colourism.
- - Fashion and Colonialism with Céline Semaan. Céline Semaan discusses cotton, extraction and the colonial supply lines behind the modern garment trade, and how Western dress became the default in places that had their own.
- - Fashion and Colonialism with Céline Semaan. Céline Semaan discusses cotton, extraction and the colonial supply lines behind the modern garment trade, and how Western dress became the default in places that had their own.
- - "Stop Limiting Beauty" #SOC119. A campus discussion turns on who gets counted as attractive in American media and what happens to the students in the room who fall outside the range that gets shown.
- - "Stop Limiting Beauty" #SOC119. A campus discussion turns on who gets counted as attractive in American media and what happens to the students in the room who fall outside the range that gets shown.
- - HOW BLACK PEOPLE ENDED UP BELIEVING THEY CAN'T GROW LONG HAIR. colonial history and its legacy. The belief that Afro-textured hair cannot reach length is examined against breakage, manipulation and the styling regimes that followed colonial contact, with the commercial products built on that belief.
- - HOW BLACK PEOPLE ENDED UP BELIEVING THEY CAN'T GROW LONG HAIR. colonial history and its legacy. The belief that Afro-textured hair cannot reach length is examined against breakage, manipulation and the styling regimes that followed colonial contact, with the commercial products built on that belief.
- - Mary recalls the colonial violence of hair cutting in residential school. A survivor named Mary describes the day her hair was cut at a Canadian residential school and what it meant to her family, recorded for the human rights museum in Winnipeg.
- - Mary recalls the colonial violence of hair cutting in residential school. A survivor named Mary describes the day her hair was cut at a Canadian residential school and what it meant to her family, recorded for the human rights museum in Winnipeg.
- - Muslim Women Beauty Standards Grounded in European Colonist & White Supremacist Ideals | Dr. Amina. A short talk on how Muslim women in the West judge their own appearance argues that the operative standards arrived with European colonial rule rather than from within Islamic tradition.
- - Muslim Women Beauty Standards Grounded in European Colonist & White Supremacist Ideals | Dr. Amina. A short talk on how Muslim women in the West judge their own appearance argues that the operative standards arrived with European colonial rule rather than from within Islamic tradition.
- - The Crown We Never Take Off: A History of Black Hair Through the Ages. From West African styling and the meanings carried by braid patterns, through enslavement and headwrap laws, to the twentieth-century straightening trade, Black hair is followed as a marked and regulated thing.
- - The Crown We Never Take Off: A History of Black Hair Through the Ages. From West African styling and the meanings carried by braid patterns, through enslavement and headwrap laws, to the twentieth-century straightening trade, Black hair is followed as a marked and regulated thing.
- - Member Lecture: The Language of Beauty in African Art. Sculpture, masks and beadwork from across Africa are read through the vocabulary African communities themselves use for beauty, composure and moral good, drawing on Chicago's collection.
- - Member Lecture: The Language of Beauty in African Art. Sculpture, masks and beadwork from across Africa are read through the vocabulary African communities themselves use for beauty, composure and moral good, drawing on Chicago's collection.
- - African hair - the roots of Black History | Georgia Riley | TEDxYouth@RGS. A young speaker walks an audience through what African hairstyles signalled about age, lineage and status before contact, and how those readings were displaced by later standards.
- - African hair - the roots of Black History | Georgia Riley | TEDxYouth@RGS. A young speaker walks an audience through what African hairstyles signalled about age, lineage and status before contact, and how those readings were displaced by later standards.
- - Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools [FULL DOCUMENTARY]. Survivors of federally funded Native American boarding schools in Utah and the wider West recount arrival procedures, the cutting of long hair, bans on their own languages, and what families were told at the time.
- - Unspoken: America's Native American Boarding Schools [FULL DOCUMENTARY]. Survivors of federally funded Native American boarding schools in Utah and the wider West recount arrival procedures, the cutting of long hair, bans on their own languages, and what families were told at the time.
- - History of abusive conditions at Native American school. Conditions reported at a former Native American boarding school in the United States are summarised, with attention to the investigations and survivor accounts that brought them to public notice.
- - History of abusive conditions at Native American school. Conditions reported at a former Native American boarding school in the United States are summarised, with attention to the investigations and survivor accounts that brought them to public notice.
- - Native American Boarding Schools: Forced Separation of Families. Children taken from their families to United States boarding schools, the distance involved, and the restrictions placed on visits and correspondence are covered in a short account.
- - Native American Boarding Schools: Forced Separation of Families. Children taken from their families to United States boarding schools, the distance involved, and the restrictions placed on visits and correspondence are covered in a short account.
- - Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism. World's fair displays in the United States, the St Louis exposition among them, are examined alongside the race science of the period that organisers used to frame the people exhibited.
- - Human Zoos: America’s Forgotten History of Scientific Racism. World's fair displays in the United States, the St Louis exposition among them, are examined alongside the race science of the period that organisers used to frame the people exhibited.
- - The politics of beauty | Jessica DeFino | FULL INTERVIEW. Beauty writer Jessica DeFino argues at length that the modern cosmetics industry sells solutions to problems it also names, and discusses her own years covering the trade.
- - The politics of beauty | Jessica DeFino | FULL INTERVIEW. Beauty writer Jessica DeFino argues at length that the modern cosmetics industry sells solutions to problems it also names, and discusses her own years covering the trade.
- - The History of Colorism in India. Caste ranking, Mughal and British-era portraiture, and the marriage market are traced as sources of the preference for lighter skin across the Indian subcontinent, alongside the advertising that later addressed it.
- - The History of Colorism in India. Caste ranking, Mughal and British-era portraiture, and the marriage market are traced as sources of the preference for lighter skin across the Indian subcontinent, alongside the advertising that later addressed it.
- - Decolonizing Beauty Standards in Indonesia: A Postcolonial Perspective. Indonesian preferences around skin tone and features are read against three and a half centuries of Dutch rule, in a student presentation using postcolonial framing.
- - Decolonizing Beauty Standards in Indonesia: A Postcolonial Perspective. Indonesian preferences around skin tone and features are read against three and a half centuries of Dutch rule, in a student presentation using postcolonial framing.
- - The History of Black Hair. Why Society made you HATE it.. Styling traditions, the shift to chemical straightening, and workplace and school rules about texture are threaded together into an account of how preference around Black hair was shaped over generations.
- - The History of Black Hair. Why Society made you HATE it.. Styling traditions, the shift to chemical straightening, and workplace and school rules about texture are threaded together into an account of how preference around Black hair was shaped over generations.
- - The Human Zoo: The Shocking True History of Racism, Colonialism, and Scientific Propaganda. Ethnographic exhibitions in European and American cities are summarised briefly, covering who organised them, who was put on show, and the scientific claims attached to the displays.
- - The Human Zoo: The Shocking True History of Racism, Colonialism, and Scientific Propaganda. Ethnographic exhibitions in European and American cities are summarised briefly, covering who organised them, who was put on show, and the scientific claims attached to the displays.
- - The History of America’s Indian Boarding Schools: Ep 12 of Crash Course Native American History. Carlisle and the federal school system it modelled are set out: the assimilation policy behind them, the removal of children from their nations, and the uniform, haircut and language rules that followed.
- - The History of America’s Indian Boarding Schools: Ep 12 of Crash Course Native American History. Carlisle and the federal school system it modelled are set out: the assimilation policy behind them, the removal of children from their nations, and the uniform, haircut and language rules that followed.
- - West African beauty secrets: history, wellness, fashion + makeup. Shea butter, black soap, chebe and other West African preparations are shown in use, with the regional dress and adornment that accompanies them.
- - West African beauty secrets: history, wellness, fashion + makeup. Shea butter, black soap, chebe and other West African preparations are shown in use, with the regional dress and adornment that accompanies them.
- - Tignon Law: When Black Beauty Became a Crime. Louisiana's 1786 tignon edict, which required free women of colour in Spanish New Orleans to cover their hair, is described along with the headwrap styles worn in response.
- - Tignon Law: When Black Beauty Became a Crime. Louisiana's 1786 tignon edict, which required free women of colour in Spanish New Orleans to cover their hair, is described along with the headwrap styles worn in response.
- - Sarah Baartman - 28 Voices That Shaped Black History. Sarah Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman exhibited in London and Paris from 1810 and whose remains were returned to South Africa in 2002, appears in a short listing of figures in Black history.
- - Sarah Baartman - 28 Voices That Shaped Black History. Sarah Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman exhibited in London and Paris from 1810 and whose remains were returned to South Africa in 2002, appears in a short listing of figures in Black history.
- - The Dark History of Paris’s Human Zoo | Abandoned Engineering. The Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale on the edge of Paris, where colonial villages were built and people from French territories were put on display for visitors, is walked through in its ruined state.
- - The Dark History of Paris’s Human Zoo | Abandoned Engineering. The Jardin d'Agronomie Tropicale on the edge of Paris, where colonial villages were built and people from French territories were put on display for visitors, is walked through in its ruined state.