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Posts Tagged "Understanding"

Another Paris: Mainstreamed Minarets

Jul 23, 12

Another Paris: Mainstreamed Minarets

The Institut du Monde Arabe (IMA) is an institution built around the idea of an ethnic and political body known as Arabs. And in a nation that has great difficulty discussing ethnicity under the vanguard of liberté-égalité-fraternité, the sight of such a poster is a paradox.

An Anthropologist’s Lens

Jul 10, 12

An Anthropologist’s Lens

Today, Bussières acts as a traveling photographer with an anthropological methodology, and is stationed back and forth from Quebec to the north coast of California continuing to develop her projects. Her knowledge of social anthropology reminds her that a subject’s context is crucial to understanding their culture. She describes her artistic process as capturing and reconstructing moments in a way that both reflect emotions and realities, but still accounts for their unique contexts.

South Africa: Not So Black and White

Jun 25, 12

South Africa: Not So Black and White

Which brings me to my next point: of all the unexpected contradictions I encountered, the one that has intrigued me the most is that the acknowledgement of South Africa’s problems by its citizens is almost always accompanied by “but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else” or “but it is still the greatest country in the world."

In My Lifetime Review: The Pillar of Fire

Jan 25, 12

In My Lifetime Review: The Pillar of Fire

With all these countries in possession of weapons of mass destruction, nuclear war is no longer Hiroshima or Nagasaki sized – it’s international.