Simonask comments on Female genital mutilation exposed in Swedish class. Some 60 cases of genital mutilation have been discovered in Norrköping in eastern Sweden since March. Anthropologist here (well, ethnomusicologist, but close enough…).
So there's that one class in first year of Anthropology where students are taught about cultural relativism and the inherent arbitrariness of it all. It's an important one, because we come from a history of automatically thinking that "Western" equals "more civilised", "more developed", "more progressed", "less primitive", and so on, which is an absolute thought-killer and paves the way for real, harmful oppression.
Ok, so we have that lesson down. Now, with that in mind, how do we handle the fact that some cultures create oppressive frameworks within themselves, such as the almost universal blatant patriarchal abuse of women's bodies? The key is to be constantly aware of one's own position as an external force. A modern anthropological strategy towards integration would entail the following: d8ecc07e906127bf0fd4623504b7eca8.jpg (1312×863) This republic of suffering. Rosemary85 comments on As a historian, do you edit Wikipedia? How are the quality of articles on Wikipedia for your field of history? NecronDecker comments on Is there a "tree of life" for Christian denominations? Georgy_K_Zhukov comments on Important Message RE: Source Reliability. TIL In the ancient Persian Empire, men used to debate ideas twice, once sober and once drunk, because the idea had to sound good in both states in order to be considered a good idea. : todayilearned.
_AnonymousCoward_ comments on ELI5: Why do Americans put so much importance on the thoughts of their founding fathers? If Other Businesses Worked Like the Cable Company. Rothschild family. American_Graffiti comments on Were there Irish slaves owned by black people? The Reader. Sol Invictus. Coin of Emperor Probus, circa 280, with Sol Invictus riding a quadriga, with legend SOLI INVICTO, "to the Unconquered Sun": the Emperor (at left) wears a radiated solar crown, worn also by the god on the obverse The idea, particularly popular in the 18th and 19th centuries, that the date of 25 December for Christmas was selected in order to correspond with the Roman festival of Dies Natalis Solis Invicti, or "Birthday of the Unconquered Sun", is challenged today.
Invictus as epithet[edit] Sol Invictus played a prominent role in the Mithraic mysteries, and was equated with Mithras himself.[15] The relation of the Mithraic Sol Invictus to the public cult of the deity with the same name is unclear and perhaps non-existent.[16] Elagabalus[edit] Aurelian[edit] Dionysian Mysteries. The Dionysian Mysteries were a ritual of ancient Greece and Rome which used intoxicants and other trance-inducing techniques (like dance and music) to remove inhibitions and social constraints, liberating the individual to return to a natural state.
It also provided some liberation for those marginalized by Greek society: women, slaves and foreigners. In their final phase the Mysteries shifted their emphasis from a chthonic, underworld orientation to a transcendental, mystical one, with Dionysus changing his nature accordingly (similar to the change in the cult of Shiva). By its nature as a mystery religion reserved for the initiated, many aspects of the Dionysian cult remain unknown and were lost with the decline of Greco-Roman polytheism; our knowledge is derived from descriptions, imagery and cross-cultural studies.
Origins[edit] Early Dionysus cult[edit] Role of wine[edit] Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker (June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975) was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress who came to be known in various circles as the "Black Pearl," "Bronze Venus" and even the "Creole Goddess".
Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri, Josephine later became a citizen of France in 1937. She was fluent in both English and French. Early life[edit] Baker was born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Career[edit] 5 Important People Who Were Screwed Out of History Books. The Man Who Invented Half of What's in Your Medicine Cabinet In general, our relationship with scientists and innovators is pretty hit-and-miss.
You'll get the occasional superstar scientist (Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Carl Sagan), and there are other researchers or inventors whom most people know for what they invented (Edison, Bell, Tesla, Turing), but the vast majority of the things we use every day were created by people whose names we never bothered to learn. When we hear a song on the radio we like, we immediately want to know more about the band, but did you ever get curious about the guy or lady who gave you aspirin? Or your drip coffee maker? Some random historical tidbits..
Blackface. Armenian Genocide. The Armenian Genocide[7] (Armenian: Հայոց Ցեղասպանություն Hayots Tseghaspanutyun),[8] also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, traditionally by Armenians, as Medz Yeghern (Armenian: Մեծ Եղեռն, "Great Crime"),[9] was the Ottoman government's systematic extermination of its minority Armenian subjects from their historic homeland within the territory constituting the present-day Republic of Turkey.
The total number of people killed as a result has been estimated at between 1 and 1.5 million. The starting date is conventionally held to be 24 April 1915, the day Ottoman authorities rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Turkey, the successor state of the Ottoman Empire, denies the word genocide is an accurate term for the mass killings of Armenians that began under Ottoman rule in 1915.[22] It has in recent years been faced with repeated calls to recognize them as genocide. Background. CineWiki - Veidt, Conrad. Victory Through Air Power (1943) Walt Disney Productions .AVC X264-1. Tuskegee syphilis experiment. A doctor draws blood from one of the Tuskegee test subjects.
The Tuskegee syphilis experiment (/tʌsˈkiːɡiː/)[1] was an infamous clinical study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the U.S. Public Health Service to study the natural progression of untreated syphilis in rural African American men who thought they were receiving free health care from the U.S. government.[1] Wounded Knee Massacre. The Wounded Knee Massacre (also called the Battle of Wounded Knee) was a domestic massacre of several hundred Lakota Indians, almost half women and children, by soldiers of the United States Army.
It occurred on December 29, 1890,[5] near Wounded Knee Creek (Lakota: Čhaŋkpé Ópi Wakpála) on the Lakota Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in the U.S. state of South Dakota, following a botched attempt to disarm the Lakota camp. On the morning of December 29, the U.S. Hand Crank Vibrators. IMPERIAL COURT INC. - History of FABERGE. Fabergé’s Imperial Eggs, timeless, exquisite, one of a kind creations.
Originally made for Tsars of Russia, they once cost thousands of rubles a piece. Expensive then? Yes. But today they worth millions. And they still generate as much attention as they did over one hundred years ago. …they were made as toys for rich… … it’s like a vacation for your eyes… …Fabergé must have been the greatest perfectionist alive… Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Holi. It is primarily observed in India, Nepal, and other regions of the world with significant populations of Hindus or people of Indian origin.
The festival has, in recent times, spread to parts of Europe and North America as a spring celebration of love, frolic, and colours.[6][7][8] Significance[edit] There is a symbolic legend to explain why holi is well celebrated as a colour fest. The word "Holi" originates from "Holika", the evil sister of demon king Hiranyakashipu. Genevieve. Saint Genevieve (Sainte Geneviève) (Nanterre, c. 419/422 – Paris 502/512), in Latin Sancta Genovefa, from Germanic keno (kin) and wefa (wife), is the patron saint of Paris in Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox tradition. Her feast is kept on 3 January. She was born in Nanterre and moved to Paris after encountering Germanus of Auxerre and Lupus of Troyes and dedicated herself to a Christian life.[1] In 451 she led a "prayer marathon"[2] that was said to have saved Paris by diverting Attila's Huns away from the city.
The Late Movies: Disney Propaganda Cartoons. During World War II, Disney created propaganda for the US government. The cartoons dealt with subjects as varied as income taxes, the daily life of Nazis, and military tactics. I've collected a sampling of the cartoons below, for your viewing pleasure and amazement -- be warned, some are pretty weird, and many contain offensive racial or cultural caricatures. Written by the Winners. Fleet Marriage. Caricature of a Fleet Marriage A Fleet Marriage is the best-known example of an irregular or a clandestine marriage taking place in England before the Marriage Act 1753 came into force on March 25, 1754. Celts. St Mary's Priory Church, Monmouth. History and architecture[edit]
What if?: the world's foremost military historians imagine what might have ... - Robert Cowley, Stephen E. Ambrose. Islamic Golden Age. Causes[edit] With a new, easier writing system and the introduction of paper, information was democratized to the extent that, probably for the first time in history, it became possible to make a living from simply writing and selling books.[4] The use of paper spread from China into Muslim regions in the eighth century CE, arriving in Spain (and then the rest of Europe) in the 10th century CE. Classic Mens Magazine Covers of the 1950s & 60s at STAGMAGS.Com. Cryptography. Humorism. The four humors. Left-handedness. Handedness is a better (faster or more precise) performance or individual preference for use of a hand.[1] Handedness is not a discrete variable (right or left), but a continuous one that can be expressed at levels between strong left and strong right.[2] While in an ordinary disclosure the terms left and right are used to define handedness,[2] there are actually four types: left-handedness, right-handedness, mixed-handedness, and ambidexterity.[1] Globally, roughly 12% of men and 10% of women are left-handed.[3] Types[edit]
Romani people. Recent Romani wagon in Grandborough (Grandbourough Fields Road is a popular spot for travelling people) The Romani are a diasporic ethnicity of Indian origin, living mostly in Europe and the Americas.[26][27] Romani are widely known among Anglophonic people by the exonym "Gypsies" (or Gipsies) and also as Romany, Romanies, Romanis, Roma or Roms.
Petite bourgeoisie. Petite bourgeoisie (French pronunciation: [pətit buʁʒwazi]), also petty bourgeoisie (literally small bourgeoisie), is a French term (sometimes derogatory) referring to a social class comprising semi-autonomous peasantry and small-scale merchants whose politico-economic ideological stance is determined by reflecting that of a haute (high) bourgeoisie, with which the petite bourgeoisie seeks to identify itself, and whose bourgeois morality it strives to imitate.[1] The term is politico-economic, and references historical materialism. It originally denoted a sub-stratum of the middle classes in the 18th and early-19th centuries. Definition[edit]