La ligne d’écume: Encountering the French beach
new book from pavement with chapters by Ffrench, Collier, Launchbury, Gledhill, Fuggle etc.,… \ Edited by Sophie Fuggle and Nicholas Gledhill As a trope, theme, myth and very…
Tag: tourism
Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City
From the vaults, this has been digitised: Calcutta Cipher ‘Calcutta Cipher: Travellers and the City’ in Social Analysis: The International Journal of Social and Cultural Practice, No. 32…
anthro in the news 9/21/15
North American totem pole; source: Erika Wittlieb, Creative Commons Indigenous tourism offers hope CBA Canada reported on a gathering of iIndigenous groups from around the world in…
Burying Minority Istanbul: Last Glimpses of the Cosmopolitan City
The Surp Hovhannes Armenian church, in Istanbul’s Samatya neighborhood. Like many of the city’s churches and synagogues, it is heavily fortified. Photo by Mary D’Ambrosio. April …
Worlds Collide
(Gosh, that was all getting a bit emo there for a minute wasn’t it? Like a fleeting return to my early naughties LiveJournal days. What’s needed here is…
A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
A cultural icon
Filmmaker Ken Burns say that Louis Armstrong is to music “what Einstein is to physics, what Freud is to medicine and what the Wright brothers are to travel.”…
Life on water: a photographic tale from Cambodia
Back in August 2012 I spent a day at the Vietnamese floating village at Kampong Chnnang, central Cambodia. Lying at the mouth of the Tonle Sap Lake, much…