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Protesters in front of the Théâtre de l Odéon. Photo by Marion Bellal. It’s not the first time that the Théâtre de l’Odéon has been occupied. The iconic Paris monument has a long history of occupation, having housed demonstrators during the student protests of 1968, and later been a protest site for culture workers’ unions in 1996 and in 2016. After a year of Covid-19, and the shutdown of cultural venues including museums, theaters, and concert halls around France, protesters have once again taken their plight to the theater. Since March 4, around 50 people have been living and sleeping inside the monument. Outside, the stairs and the square have become an agora, and the building’s neoclassical facade is now hidden beneath banners reading “Sacrificed culture,” “Six in ten unemployed workers haven’t received compensation,” and “Disqualified government.” ....
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Books coverage is supported by a generous grant from The Milton and Sophie Meyer Fund. What makes books on family history so compelling for me is that they offer a fresh and personal lens on historical events while simultaneously illustrating how historical circumstances have a profound impact on the development of people and their descendants. Raised in Santiago, Berkeley and Mexico City, Claudio Lomnitz is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University. Lomnitz’s quest to understand his ancestors’ lives was made more difficult by the need to unravel the complicated national claims on their places of origin. As he notes, “I had to study a great deal just to answer one apparently simple question: Where were they from?” ....