As the sun dipped beneath the mountains, they would gather in hushed anticipation. A single bell would chime, resonating into the darkening sky as twinkle sparkling little stars gave rise.
That’s when they came.
To plant themselves.
Into flat beds
Aloft on legs…
…seated upon cushions, they communed with the essence of their surroundings, absorbing one another’s noise making and performing…
Sublime anthropological documentary about Benares, India and its religious communities. It’s by Robert Gardner and made Werner Herzog’s short list for his favorite films of all time.
Gardner is an anthropologist and an unsung ethnographic filmmaker (Rivers of Sand and Dead Birds which he directed are also very good - and then there are a dozen films of his beyond those I’ve never seen or heard of). Forest of Bliss can be found on MUBI these days.
Linguistic Justice: Black Language, Literacy, Identity, and Pedagogy by April Baker-Bell
Bringing together theory, research, and practice to dismantle Anti-Black Linguistic Racism and white linguistic supremacy, this book provides ethnographic snapshots of how Black students navigate and negotiate their linguistic and racial identities across multiple contexts.
By highlighting the counter-stories of Black students, Baker-Bell demonstrates how traditional approaches to language…
Settled in a big forest just outside of Riga is the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum.
It supposed to be one of the oldest and biggest in the world and held typically buildings and cultural goods from all part of the country.
Beside gathering knowledge and many interesting facts about Latvia and its culture, it’s also a beautiful walk in the woods, what was very welcome after the days in the…
У дагестанских горянок было своё мерило мужской красоты.
К примеру, о юноше с красивым лицом, идеальной фигурой и в отличной одежде, говорили: «От этого молодого человека нет пользы: у него не разодраны полы чухи от езды на коне, в ней не образовалась дыра от тяжести сабли, не протерлась чуха и от пистолета за поясом.»
Поэтому впечатлить девушку, имея только хорошие внешние данные, было задачей утопической. Ведь оценивали мужскую красоту совершенно по иным критериям.
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Чуха, чоха — верхняя мужская одежда некоторых народов Кавказа, сшитая из сукна, напоминающая черкеску, но с широкими рукавами до локтя и со стоячим воротником.
As the sun dipped beneath the mountains, they would gather in hushed anticipation. A single bell would chime, resonating into the darkening sky as twinkle sparkling little stars gave rise.
That’s when they came.
To plant themselves.
Into flat beds
Aloft on legs…
…seated upon cushions, they communed with the essence of their surroundings, absorbing one another’s noise making and performing…
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