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Interiors of Ukrainian traditional residential buildings from central parts of Ukraine. Exhibits of the Museum of Folk Architecture  in Pereyaslav-Khmelnytsky on the pages of the album "Treasures of our memory" (1993)
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profesors · 3 months
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◾ A Serbian bride from the mountainous area above the city of Banya Luka(srb. Бања Лука/lat. Banja Luka), today Republic of Serbs, Bosnia & Herzegovina
◾Time: 1910s
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noosphe-re · 1 year
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Te Tauti (Porcupine) fish helmet https://collections.tepapa.govt.nz/object/267666
This is a warrior's helmet, made from the dried skin of a porcupine fish (Diodon sp., probably Diodon hystrix), lined with plaited pandanus strips. The skin is oriented so that the tail forms a peak at the back and the two fins form wings on either side. The lining has been partly plaited to fit, like a rounded basket, but then cut and overlapped in three places so that it fits snugly. The base is edged with a roll of plant fibre which has been neatly sewn to the edge of the skin with a blanket stitch in fine twisted cord of light and dark fibres.
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useless-catalanfacts · 7 months
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People from Sitges (Penedès, Catalonia) celebrate their city's festa major (local festivities) with the traditional festa major dances.
Festa major, which in the Catalan language literally means "greatest holiday", is one of the most important holidays of the whole year. Every town, city or neighborhood has their own festa major on a different day, coinciding with their patron saint's day.
Video by Agrupació de Balls Populars de Sitges (agrupasitges) on Instagram.
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thinkingimages · 2 years
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“Harratine women of the ziza valley” Errachidia, high atlas, Morocco | CA. 1934-1935 | © Jean Besancenot.
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acribiatellurica · 5 months
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Da anni e anni mi rivolgo e mi tormento con una riflessione fondamentalmente ingenua ma al tempo stesso in grado di dispiegarsi in milioni di variabili e per questo assai intricata.
Premetto che affinché il tutto abbia senso dovrò fare delle generalizzazioni. Premetto anche che come spesso accade non è una questione che possa esaurirsi in poche righe. Il mio vuole essere un semplice spunto.
Dunque, la questione è la seguente: in quei paesi in cui si parla poco, si è molto riservati, si hanno pochi amici o comunque un concetto molto rigido di amicizia, in quei paesi in cui non si tende verso la socializzazione spassionata (mi viene da pensare al Nord Europa) ma nemmeno si tende ad avere grande apertura mentale (e mi viene da pensare al trittico Cina/Giappone/Corea del sud) viene naturale tanto quanto verrebbe a noi italiani sedersi a un tavolo e discutere di questioni importanti, difficili, impegnative? Vagliare oralmente tutte le possibilità di un certo fatto? Intavolare dibattiti di lunga durata? O siamo noi con il nostro inscalfibile (che personalmente adoro) retaggio ciceroniano e retorico in genere a non concepire che in altri paesi certe questioni possano essere affrontate in maniera più laconica, senza verbosità? Liquidate relativamente in fretta?
Non essendo mai vissuta all’estero non sono in grado di immaginare una risposta anche solo parziale. Ma diciamo anche che vivere all’estero bazzicando soltanto ambiti informali (lavori comuni compresi) e quotidiani forse non fornirebbe risoluzione a questa perplessità nei termini in cui la sto ponendo.
A me cioè preme soprattutto capire quanto, in questi paesi, una buona eloquenza conti in contesti altamente formali o seri, quanto sia d’aiuto o anche quanto sia apprezzata o al contrario ritenuta ridondante, se non d’intralcio. Mi interessa sapere come e quanto a fondo si discuta di cancro, malattie gravi e rare e di medicina tutta, di astrofisica, di ingegneria aerospaziale, di discipline complesse a un alto livello di specializzazione in cui adoperare la frase minima non sia sufficiente. In cui serve dilungarsi, interrogarsi, soffermarsi. Indugiare tutti insieme e quindi, per forza di cose, anche dover interagire, intrattenere tavole rotonde e per questo rendersi a misura dell’altro, cooperare proattivamente mettendo al bando le ritrosie.
E mi chiedo quanto questo, qualora accada, entri in rotta di collisione con la naturale propensione alla laconicità di certi popoli.
Una questioncina da poco, mi rendo conto. Spero che il grosso si sia capito, ma in caso contrario scrivetemi e proverò a spiegarmi meglio.
Non basterebbe mettere insieme un’infinità di tasselli, ma un giorno mi piacerebbe che se ne svelasse ai miei occhi almeno uno.
Nel frattempo, chi voglia contribuire in qualunque maniera ad ampliare la mia considerazione è ben accetto.
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pazzesco · 6 months
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Seven riders on horseback and a dog trek across Canyon de Chelly, Arizona. Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1904.
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Edward S. Curtis - Story Telling - Apache, 1903
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Edward S. Curtis - Navajo Woman and Two Children on Horseback, 1906
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Edward S. Curtis - The Canyon, 1904
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Edward S. Curtis - Taos Water Girls, 1905
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Edward S. Curtis - The Vanishing Race, Navajo, 1904
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Geronimo – Apache, 1905 - Edward S. Curtis
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Edward S. Curtis ... Tells the Intimate Story of Indian Life with Motion Pictures.... Chicago: The National Printing and Engraving Co., c.1910. - Lithographic poster printed in 1910, when Curtis debuted his "picture opera," The Story of a Vanishing Race. The show included magic lantern slides of the photographer's work painstakingly hand-colored, supplemented by moving pictures, sound recordings of native songs, an orchestra, and Curtis's own narration.
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Portrait of Edward S. Curtis, 1907 - by: Adolph Muhr
Edward Sherriff Curtis (February 19, 1868 – October 19, 1952) was an American photographer and ethnologist whose work focused on the American West and on Native American people. Sometimes referred to as the "Shadow Catcher", Curtis traveled the United States to document and record the dwindling ways of life of various native tribes through photographs and audio recordings.
Curtis's goal was to document Native American life, pre-colonization. He wrote in the introduction to his first volume in 1907, "The information that is to be gathered … respecting the mode of life of one of the great races of mankind, must be collected at once or the opportunity will be lost." Curtis made over 10,000 wax cylinder recordings of Native American language and music. He took over 40,000 photographic images of members of over 80 tribes. He recorded tribal lore and history, described traditional foods, housing, garments, recreation, ceremonies, and funeral customs. He wrote biographical sketches of tribal leaders.
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hiddenromania · 8 months
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Windmill in Astra National Museum Complex, Sibiu- the largest open-air ethnography exhibit in Europe.
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safije · 1 year
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A Yazidi girl fleeing ISIS, Iraq-Syrian border 2014.
Yazidis are a Kurdish ethnoreligious minority in Iraq. They believe God created the world but entrusted the Peacock Angel Tawûsî Melek to have power over it. When God made the race of man, he commanded all angels to bow to Adam but the only one who disobeyed was Tawûsî Melek.
"How can I submit to another being! I am from your illumination while Adam is made of dust"
This story is similar to the one of Iblis (aka Lucifer or Satan) in the Quran, but unlike Iblis, Yazidis believe Tawûsî Melek to be a source of good not evil.
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garadinervi · 5 months
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Laleh Khalili, A Habit Of Destruction, «Society and Space», August 25, 2014
«The devastation to which Gaza has been subjected in the last few weeks seems to be yet another repetition of Israeli settler-colonial apparatus’ habit of destruction. Gaza has become emblematic of this habit, because in recent years it has so frequently been subjected to bombing while under a state of siege, but like all settler-colonialisms, the violence of the state is rooted not in an episodic “cycle of violence” but in the very ideology and practice of the settler-colonial movement.»
Image: photo by Rafahkid
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Wall and fireplace paintings in interior and exterior design of Ukrainian rural cottages from Dnipro, Kryvyi Rih and Kremenchuk areas, 1924-1928.
The book (where the main text is ukrainian, but attribution of photos you may see also in German) is here : https://uartlib.org/istoriya-ukrayinskogo-mistetstva/yevgeniya-berchenko-nastinne-malyuvannya-ukrayinskih-hat-ta-gospodarskih-budivel-pri-nih-dnipropetrovshhina/
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misforgotten2 · 11 months
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Demon mask dated from the V century BC.
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People from Solsona (Central Catalonia) celebrating Carnival.
In this city, one of the main traditions for the Carnival festivity is the silly version of giants and "big-heads". In other Catalan festivities like festa major and Corpus, there are elegant giants and silly "big-head" figures that dance on the streets. Following the spirit of Carnival, which is to make fun of everything, the giants and "big-heads" that dance for Carnival are made to be caricaturesque.
Videos by Solsona Turisme.
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