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How the Material and the Intangible Form History
Archaeology is generally defined as the study of material culture (that is, things) as a means of understanding peoples’ lives and their environments...
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Sangsun Choi’s The History of Intimacy (VIDEO)
Sangsun Choi’s short documentary The History of Intimacy will force you to re-examine the casual, everyday relationships in your life...
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Zoltan Grossman’s Unlikely Alliances (BOOK REVIEW)
Britain and France setting aside historical differences with the 1904 Entente Cordiale. Americans and Germans fighting together against the Nazis...
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Theatre and Community at a Nigerian University
Theatre and culture are societal concepts that often go hand in hand. Playing complementary roles in community building, they act as unifying forces...
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Sisters Rising: Indigenous Resurgence and Kinship
Since Europeans first invaded Turtle Island (also known as North America), incalculable brutality has been enacted on First Peoples, with girls and...
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Self Love: Nurturing our #1 Relationship (AUDIO)
When it comes to relationships, the one closest to us is perhaps the one easiest to overlook: our relationship to ourselves...
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The Power of Poetry in South African Culture
What does poetry do? The question is simple but contentious. Some claim that poetry, that art in general, doesn’t do anything, that it doesn’t need to...
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Indigenous Education through Homeschooling
I had always planned to homeschool my eight-year-old son. Yet, when kindergarten rolled around, he decided he wanted to go to the local public school, where most of his friends...
Empathy & Solidarity: Correspondence with a Bahraini Soul Sister
I first meet Bahiyah in Prague, where I’m living for a few months during my undergraduate degree. She presides over a group of men and handful of women talking...
How Stories form our View of the World
The importance of a story to a child cannot be overstated. More important, even, is the child’s own story. Children love to hear the story of their birth or...
Liberian Beekeeping: Myth versus Science
We arrived in Liberia in 2007 to help rebuild schools after a 14-year civil war decimated the county. We didn’t realize at that time that our main focus would become...
Chief Na’Moks Reports to the United Nations
John Ridsdale, Witsuwit’en Hereditary Chief Na’Moks, never had a strong desire to leave Canada. But in 2016, he got his passport and travelled to New York City.
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The Cultural Influences of Political Engagement
In Canada, like in all democracies, the health of our political system is dependent on how engaged citizens are in politics. Yet our participation rates over the last 20 years...
7 Cultural Tourism Destinations to Visit this Year
In this world of rapidly increasing globalization, it can feel like no place has been left culturally untouched by tourism. But those places remain.
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Wade Davis Challenges your Worldview
When it comes to worldviews, there is perhaps no better perspective than that of Wade Davis, a pioneer in the world of anthropology, not to mention an ethnobotanist
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A Decade Later: Missing Women and the Media
Eleven years ago, the issue of the missing and murdered Indigenous women was just beginning to sound an alarm in the public sphere. The public’s exposure to it was kindled...