cultures
23/08/2025 - 12:37
Most internet activity is concentrated on a small number of large platforms, and from our linguistically siloed perspectives, it's easy to... →
17/10/2024 - 13:38
Fifty years ago, as graduate students at Oxford, my wife and I were preparing to do anthropological fieldwork on the island of Sumba, in... →
26/06/2020 - 15:42
This ancient accusation of exclusivism and isolationism of the Jews has provided an infrastructure upon which various more serious charges... →
20/03/2018 - 12:36
There is much we can learn by reflecting on the stories heard in childhood. Magical characters such as the Pied Piper, the talking frog and... →
22/05/2017 - 16:10
Fire is the main theme in several holidays: Jews celebrate LagBaOmer by lighting bonfires; Orthodox Christians observe the Holy... →
31/01/2016 - 12:38
In The Lonely Crowd, the American sociologist David Riesman identified three broad cultural types: tradition-directed cultures that look to... →
26/12/2014 - 17:52
Even if a child doubts the plausibility of Santa Claus, it's hard to argue when Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa, and all the other authority... →
16/07/2014 - 14:28
Today artists from all corners of the world are creating surprising kites, playing with the wind, coloring the sky, and sculpting space;... →
14/11/2013 - 13:25
“There were some theoretical models to explain these phenomena but no one had done experiments,” says evolutionary biologist Maxime Derex... →