An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics
The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics known as graph theory
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The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics known as graph theory
Hundreds upon hundreds of unmarked graves were discovered at formerly Catholic Indigenous boarding schools in Canada. And many of us, U.S. and...
Structural Anthropologist Even though Claude Lévi-Strauss was born in Belgium, it was to a French Artist's family --that was of Jewish heritag...
Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908–2009) was the foremost anthropologist of the twentieth century, and one of its most renowned intellectuals of any persuasion. Common readers, if they know him at all, tend to do so only by Tristes Tropiques (French for “Sad Tropics”), his 1955 memoir of his fieldwork among Brazilian tribes and his travels as an academic junketeer in other alien enclaves. That book is salted with animadversions on the spread of the “monoculture” of the West doing its worst to refashion the world in its unhandsome image. When he retails for a popular audience his experience...