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May 2, 2012 •
Features, Print, Slideshow •
Views: 1240
by Rae Ellen Bichell: The community of Siekin looks like the Garden of Eden. In Panama in the jungle, the thatch huts that come up off the ground on stilts are surrounded by big, leafy trees with coconuts, cacao and coffee beans,...
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February 24, 2012 •
Blogs, The World at Yale •
Views: 7016
By Willa Frej: On Tuesday afternoon, the Hellenic Studies Program at Yale’s MacMillan Center invited Dr. Bert Groen, Fellow at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and the director of the Institute of Liturgy, Christian Art, and Hymnology...
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January 24, 2012 •
Blogs, The World at Yale •
Views: 1602
By Janine Chow: “Chinese cuisine is something that doesn’t exist in China.” Today, in its first fireside chat of the New Year, Yale-China hosted Professor Sidney Cheung, Chairperson of the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese...
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December 22, 2011 •
Pop, Theme •
Views: 1463
In the city, one artist fights to bring high culture to the masses....
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December 22, 2011 •
Online Exclusives, Pop, Theme •
Views: 2397
How a film and a series divided a nation...
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December 22, 2011 •
Features, Print •
Views: 9015
Tribal codes may hold the keys to Afghanistan’s future....
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November 26, 2011 •
Blogs, The Globalist Notebook •
Views: 2049
by Valcy Etienne: “Do you think I can take it?” “It” was a Haitian mask that my father had bought on a recent trip to Haiti, and it was unlike anything I had ever seen before. As it hung in our living room, I knew the answer to my...
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April 18, 2011 •
Blogs, The Globalist Notebook •
Views: 1192
by Adele Rossouw:
Hamburg’s Gängeviertel, a historic quarter in the inner city, was saved from demolition by a group of activists who illegally occupied the buildings in August 2009. However, the occupation was more than a rebellious...
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March 4, 2011 •
Blogs, The Globalist Notebook •
Views: 1422
by Uzra Khan: Because marriage is such a large part of culture, the manner in which the matrimonial columns are written illuminates several deeply ingrained (and sometimes troubling) elements in the Indian psyche. ...
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November 23, 2010 •
Blogs, The Globalist Notebook •
Views: 978
I was fortunate enough to spend part of my time this summer in South Africa for the first two weeks of the World Cup. It was… more African than I expected. It was more than the vuvuzelas – it was the slum tours every tourist agency...
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