Xiang Song carves out a mold for the production of Hui ink sticks at this workshop in Shexian, Anhui province, in November. ZHAO JINZHENG/XINHUA HEFEI — Featuring motifs ranging from lunar craters to ...
Since October 2023, Israel’s war in Gaza has caused mass human suffering. But it has also brought devastation to the cultural heritage of the Palestinian people. In our recent article in the ...
What is gained and what is lost when contemporary art institutions attempt to define and legitimise Black culture? In December, among the plethora of annual ‘best of’ cultural lists and reviews of the ...
The Faqir Khana family can trace its ancestry to scholarly Muslim nobles who integrated Islamic learning with Persianate administrative traditions. Faqir Azizuddin functioned as the chief diplomat of ...
Engines snarl and pop against the quiet of a Massachusetts night, their echoes bouncing off strip mall facades and sleepy suburban streets. Under a wash of neon lights — purple, green, red and blue — ...
Gender disparities in the field of culture frequently reflect inequalities in society at large. Through heritage and the cultural and creative sectors, it is clear that women's status in society – ...
Why religion is thriving in a non-believing age. By Madeleine Davies In JL Carr’s A Month in the Country, the story of a young survivor of the First World War, set in the unusually hot English summer ...
The Cultural Formulation Interview (CFI) in the DSM-5 is a person-centered instrument for systematically appraising the impact of sociocultural factors in psychiatric assessment. The CFI has been ...
Humans have historically thrived in diverse ecological systems, facing various natural hazards. What cultural and social adaptations help human groups cope with environmental shocks such as droughts, ...