We’ve become a world of city dwellers. At the turn of the 20th century, only 13 percent of people around the world lived in cities — now 55 percent do.
In a review for the American Journal of Archaeology published in 2020, Prof. Elizabeth Marlowe says she had hoped that the Getty Villa would have decided to openly discuss the issues surrounding its acquisition of Greek and Roman artwork.
The English poet John Donne famously wrote, “No man is an island/entire of itself.” But in philosophy circles, individuals are often regarded as their own isol...
José Maria Heredia (Cuba 1803–Mexico 1839) was a true child of the Age of Revolution, and his short and eventful life was marked decisively by the upheavals on the American continent as new republics struggled to emerge from the old colonial order.
The fraught history of the Bible in North America and how American Indian communities have grappled with it.
More than 500 years have passed since the E...
According to Assistant Professor of Dance Amy Swanson, the contemporary Senegalese dance scene has become a liminal space in which artists can explore expressions of gender and sexuality that are at odds with social norms — as long as they deny they’re doing any such thing.
This book ... sets out to ask which failures are being forgotten, and which failures enter the collective memory and reshape our understanding of the world.
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In his new book, Empires of the Senses, published by Oxford University Press, Rotter offers a study of the ways that English-speaking powers — the British in India, the Americans in the Philippines — experienced the landscapes they had conquered, and how those experiences colored their beliefs about them.
