The Expression & Perception of Space in Wayana
Karen Hough | 2008
Until recently it was assumed that all cultures perceive and express ‘space’ from the ego. However, this belief in a universal phenomenological bias is currently being challenged by many linguists from several disciplines, who believe…
Visiting the Calvario at Mitla, Oaxaca
A critical look at the continuity of a religious practice
William R. Arfman | 2008
In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the town’s Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which…
Vóór de veearts kwam...
Volksdiergeneeskunde van weleer
Servais Hutschemakers | 2008
Volksdiergeneeskunde is een vrijwel verdwenen, een wat geheimzinnige wereld van praktische oplossingen, kwakzalverij, toverij, geloof en bijgeloof. Een bijna ontoegankelijke wereld die alleen kan worden betreden door mensen die vertrouwen inboezemen, door intimi. Zo’n vertrouwens…
Photo-Museology
The presence of absence and the absence of presence
Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas | Forthcoming
Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of ‘world cultures’, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed…
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands
Insular and Interwoven
Peter ten Hoopen | Forthcoming
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor.…
The Expression & Perception of Space in Wayana
Karen Hough | 2008
Until recently it was assumed that all cultures perceive and express ‘space’ from the ego. However, this belief in a universal phenomenological bias is currently being challenged by many linguists from several disciplines, who believe…
Visiting the Calvario at Mitla, Oaxaca
A critical look at the continuity of a religious practice
William R. Arfman | 2008
In the centre of the Mexican town of Mitla stands a run-down chapel on an overgrown pre-colonial pyramid. The chapel, housing three crosses, is the town’s Calvario, the local representation of the hill on which…
Vóór de veearts kwam...
Volksdiergeneeskunde van weleer
Servais Hutschemakers | 2008
Volksdiergeneeskunde is een vrijwel verdwenen, een wat geheimzinnige wereld van praktische oplossingen, kwakzalverij, toverij, geloof en bijgeloof. Een bijna ontoegankelijke wereld die alleen kan worden betreden door mensen die vertrouwen inboezemen, door intimi. Zo’n vertrouwens…
Photo-Museology
The presence of absence and the absence of presence
Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas | Forthcoming
Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of ‘world cultures’, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed…
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands
Insular and Interwoven
Peter ten Hoopen | Forthcoming
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor.…
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