Tag: indigenous arts
Glenn H. Shepard , November 19th, 2021
When I first created this blog ten years ago, I had trouble deciding on a name for it. So I called Jay Dautcher, my multi-talented polyglot musician-climber-anthropologist friend…
Glenn H. Shepard , June 5th, 2020
The tragic death from coronavirus of indigenous actor Antonio Bolivar, star of the Oscar-nominated film Embrace of the Serpent, has made me reflect back on all the facts…
Glenn H. Shepard , May 22nd, 2020
This interview launches a new partnership with Linda Matney Gallery. Proceeds from the sale of selected photographs will directly support vital health services including emergency Covid-19 prevention …
Glenn H. Shepard , March 20th, 2020
The fish trapThe fish trap is sun bleached dry halfburied in squeaking whitesand under an equatorialmoon that wants to walk across the blackmirror but instead is twiceswallowed by…
Glenn H. Shepard , August 11th, 2015
The surrealists’ 1929 Map of the World depicts Tierra del Fuego as larger than Australia: Martin Gusinde’s photographs show us why. When Martin Gusinde was ordained as a…
Glenn H. Shepard , August 11th, 2015
The surrealists’ 1929 Map of the World depicts Tierra del Fuego as larger than Australia: Martin Gusinde’s photographs show us why. When Martin Gusinde was ordained as a…
Glenn H. Shepard , August 11th, 2015
The surrealists’ 1929 Map of the World depicts Tierra del Fuego as larger than Australia: Martin Gusinde’s photographs show us why. When Martin Gusinde was ordained as a…
Glenn H. Shepard , August 11th, 2015
The surrealists’ 1929 Map of the World depicts Tierra del Fuego as larger than Australia: Martin Gusinde’s photographs show us why. When Martin Gusinde was ordained as a…
Glenn H. Shepard , May 30th, 2015
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
Glenn H. Shepard , May 30th, 2015
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
Glenn H. Shepard , May 30th, 2015
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
Glenn H. Shepard , May 30th, 2015
When you cry for someone you’ve lost, you cry for everything you’ve ever lost.Although it is perhaps the most universal human emotion, grief weighs uniquely upon each of…
Glenn H. Shepard , January 21st, 2015
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Glenn H. Shepard , January 21st, 2015
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Glenn H. Shepard , January 21st, 2015
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Glenn H. Shepard , January 21st, 2015
Update Nov. 2016: Call for papers now open for InDigital Latin America II at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, March 16-18, 2017 A cartoon by Gary Larson from 1984…
Glenn H. Shepard , February 24th, 2014
The moon is bright, the night is giddy with festivities and Shanuiva has emerged from her cage. Jaula, literally "cage," is how Spanish-speaking Matsigenka refer to the palm…
Glenn H. Shepard , February 24th, 2014
The moon is bright, the night is giddy with festivities and Shanuiva has emerged from her cage. Jaula, literally "cage," is how Spanish-speaking Matsigenka refer to the palm…
Glenn H. Shepard , February 24th, 2014
The moon is bright, the night is giddy with festivities and Shanuiva has emerged from her cage. Jaula, literally "cage," is how Spanish-speaking Matsigenka refer to the palm…
Glenn H. Shepard , February 24th, 2014
The moon is bright, the night is giddy with festivities and Shanuiva has emerged from her cage. Jaula, literally "cage," is how Spanish-speaking Matsigenka refer to the palm…