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10/06/2022

Good intentions, Filmmaking, and the Decoloniality Paradox

The decolonial imaginary, Brahmastra, and Pushpa's "Srivalli"

by Gautam Bisht

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02/21/2022

The Reluctant Believer

Reshaping a relationship with religion

by Mugdha Singh

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09/16/2019

Werner’s Witchcraft Water

Magical acts in South Africa

by Sarah Groves

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10/09/2017

The New Old-Time

Fiddling in harmony

by Will Preston

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09/18/2017

The Accident Free Society

Cars with and without drivers

by Jen DeGregorio

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07/31/2013

"Bring a Big Knife to School" Day

I bought the Somali knife for my daughter and found a sense of self in my foreign home.

by Rachel Pieh Jones

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06/26/2013

Taking the Cake

A reverse chronological history of the wedding feast centerpiece.

by Sara Davis

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11/02/2010

Hooked on Classics

How to think like the ancients.

by Morgan Meis

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09/14/2010

Punk’d in the Great Depression

Catalog No. 439 gave American men everything they never knew they needed.

by Greg Beato

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08/18/2010

Feeding Ganesh

On the menu: many sacrificed goats.

by Elizabeth Cinello

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