T ents are being packed, wellies wiped down and joints rolled up in preparation for the Roskilde festival, a hedonistic week ...
This should all be remarkable: that the tale of the banh mi circulated so widely and enjoyed such a tenacious afterlife in political polemic; that it was subjected to such wild distortions; and that ...
Having mentioned the word “culture” in my title, I should clarify which definition I hold to. Actually, it is two. The first distinguishes civilization as cultivation of a milieu, of a way of life, ...
Freedom, as it has historically been understood in the English-speaking world, includes as fundamental assumptions a cultural norm of individualism and a government that does not attempt to assume the ...
RAPID CITY, S.D. (KELO) — Middle school students in the Rapid City area got the chance to learn about different cultures of the world today at the Cultural Expo at South Dakota Mines. This culture ...
Animal cultures should themselves be recognized as World Heritage. To implement this change, we propose adding an 11th criterion to UNESCO’s current list of criteria: “to be an outstanding example of ...
Soundtracks, screens and bookshelves will feature a Latin American flavour in 2026. The region’s cultural industries, once thought peripheral, have become central to global entertainment. From Puerto ...
My mother, who is Chinese, grew up in Malaysia and came to America for college, in the nineteen-seventies. She and my American dad divorced when I was small, and this allowed her to make her suburban ...
During her training in anthropology, Dorsa Amir, now at Duke University, became fascinated with the Müller-Lyer illusion. The illusion is simple: one long horizontal line is flanked by arrowheads on ...