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… women’s skills often go unappreciated; Riyas Komu, whose paintings, sculptures, photographs and installations adapt … Delhi; Bharti Kher, who uses the �bindi� as her trademark material of choice to engage with questions of identity, …

… and Sectarian Orders: Constituting Hindu Law and Community in Eighteenth Century Banaras”, in the South Asian … these laws in antiquated books to the marginalization of local custom; and third to appoint in newly created colonial … with tensions as court officials struggled to identify a community that could be subject to Anglo-Hindu law. British …

… gaze across 1890s cultural forms — wallpaper, ceramics, paintings, novels, treatises — to argue that the period’s … of Russian militarism and decorative arts. Through its material make-up, the Trans-Siberian Railway Egg embodies …

… alienation, corruption, and the social mores of a community that experienced a loss of homeland, culture, and … stories to English readers for the first time. This event will feature translator Kalpana Raina in conversation … South Asian philosophy and literature, with an emphasis on Buddhist philosophy. He is also active in translating the …

… and study of South Asian history, society, languages, and culture in the United States and internationally.  Among … India examining the question of spatial experience in Buddhist art and architecture. Visiting Buddhist sites in … and also analyzed nutrition data collected by Sangath from local schools. SASC Research and Language Study Grants were …

… Program at the Yale School of Art. Open to Yale Community Arts & HumanitiesTalks & Lectures Yale MacMillan …

… Texas. It examines transnational financial, migratory and material flows among Vietnamese Americans, and how and why … shaped by longer histories of repeated displacement(s). Community formations are therefore modeled in part upon the … examining connections between financial, bodily and material mobilities in and between Southeast Asia and the …

… identity rooted in colonialism. The desire to reclaim both material and embedded histories was demonstrated even as I …

… in Ciudad Paraíso, the youngest and most marginalized community of Ciudad Bolívar. This last station is adjacent … to the  Mu seo de la ciudad autoconstruida,  a museum-community center where the inhabitants seek to educate locals … problematic when considering these housing projects as material heritage worthy of historical conservation. In …

… sands of the Taklamakan Desert have revealed fascinating material, sometimes preserved by illiterate locals who …

… “mestizo geographies,” which they define as “mestizaje’s material consequences wherein Black, Indigenous, and … an earthquake that had released toxic gasses into local lagoons. Although the earthquake itself was disastrous, … relationships between and among people and lagoons, the community also mobilized to protest in government offices, …

…  explains. As the narrative goes, Zhuge Liang took pity on local people in Myanmar for their lack of clothes. He cut off … local Kachin people in northern Myanmar the core of their culture and customs. I realized that the richness of local … political influence in Southeast Asia. What remains to be seen is how the story of Zhuge Liang inventing clothes for …