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Conflict Over Sociologist's Narrative Puts Spotlight on Ethnography
Did Alice Goffman commit a felony while researching her book on young black men in the criminal-justice system?
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A Photographer Visited This Lost Mongolian Tribe. And The Pictures He Took Are Stunning..
The margins of human civilization house some of the greatest secrets and mysteries.
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The Trials of Alice Goffman
Her first book, ‘On the Run' — about the lives of young black men in West Philadelphia — has fueled a fight within sociology over who gets to speak for whom. By Gideon Lewis-Kraus.
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Bohemians, Bauhaus and bionauts: the utopian dreams that became architectural nightmares
The theme of the inaugural London Design Biennale is Utopia to mark the 500th anniversary of Thomas More’s classic. Director Christopher Turner remembers the architects on a mission to make the world a better place.
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Thousands of Ancient Petroglyphs, ‘Dramatic’ Solar Calendar Reported in N. Arizona
Archaeologists have uncovered a trove of previously undocumented rock art in northern Arizona, including a prehistoric solar calendar that has been marking the seasons for more than 700 years.
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The Hypnotic Clamor of Morocco
Adam Shatz reviews “Music of Morocco,” edited and annotated by Philip D. Schuyler.
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How Texting Helps Maasai Farmers Avoid Lion Attacks in Rural Tanzania
Cellphones are still relatively new in some parts of Tanzania, but have drastically impacted the way farmers work.
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The Hottest Music in China is About President Xi Jinping
Like "Hamilton" but...different.
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Air France crew angry at order to wear headscarf in Iran
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Swaddling – babies in a tight bind!
I thought the task of changing a baby’s nappy was pretty arduous, but recently I have been looking at the babies clothes from 300 years ago and I can only conclude that children and their carers nowadays have never had it so easy!
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Fetishizing family farms
History is nothing like the political mythology. By Gabriel Rosenberg.
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There's a Neolithic Sauna at Marden Henge!
An amazing discovery in Wiltshire is throwing a whole new light on the way we think henges might have been used in Neolithic Britain.
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How the World’s Oldest Printed Board Game Rolled Propaganda into Play
Long before the era of Candy Crush and Neko Atsume, the games that captured our attention were often the ones that required just a board, a dice or two, and a handful of tokens.
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Interviews with Self-Described 'Rednecks' and 'Hillbillies'
When city people throw around words like "redneck" or "hillbilly," they generally mean them as insults. But what do these words signify for the people living in central Appalachia?
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Horse racing rules engraved on 2,000-year-old inscription discovered in central Turkey
Horse racing rules engraved on 2,000-year-old inscription discovered in central Turkey
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Gucci apologizes for telling off Hong Kong shops selling luxury paper offerings to the dead.
The sudden apology was prompted by the subsequent backlash from the public after news of the warning letters spread, which saw them being criticized for being overzealous in protecting their brand.
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Trump: Tribune Of Poor White People
Hillbilly Elegy author J.D. Vance explains what America doesn’t understand about the outsiders elites despise. By Rod Dreher. (July 22, 2016)
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Shanty Dreams
A Quest for the Forgotten Stories of the Tennessee River. By Clay Duda. (July 21, 2016)
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Tobacco Factory Lectors
Factory lectors in a cigar factory entertained workers by reading books or newspapers aloud, often left-wing publications.
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Bringing the Drugstore Home: An Interview with Deanna Day
A ubiquitous element of our modern-day bathrooms, the medicine cabinet is also one of the home’s most particularized containers—stocked with substances and technologies used in healthcare and grooming, it functions both as personal pharmacy and private salon.
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