Islip Town now has a New York State historic marker that honors a soldier who local historians say is “one of the town's most famous veterans.” The new marker was unveiled Friday on Foster Avenue in ...

In the South Pacific there is a place so remote that few people have ever heard of it, let alone seen it: the Trobriand Islands. The Trobriands are located off the east coast of Papua New Guinea, and ...

Ethnographic context : the place and the people -- Modernity and primitivity : definitions and discourses in imagining alterity -- Fixing the tourist gaze : essentializing the primitive and the ...

Are advisors the 'agents' of cruise lines, clients, or both?You can be a dual agent if you can act for both parties to the transaction -- the buyer and the seller. Contrary to popular... I asked river ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Jerry Leach was one of the founding ...

On the remote Trobriand Islands, researchers studied villagers’ reactions to images of facial expressions and found their reactions differed from Western societies. (All photography by Carlos Crivelli ...

Traditional music of the Trobriand Islands is played on a variety of flutes, from simple curving stems to panpipes. Songs (wosi) are also an important part of Trobriand music, and although everyone ...

AT a meeting of the Royal Anthropological Institute held on Tuesday, June 1, Mr. S. H. Ray, vice-president, in the chair, Dr. B. Malinowski read a paper on “The Economic Pursuits of the Trobriand ...

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On the remote Trobriand Islands, researchers studied villagers’ reactions to images of facial expressions and found their reactions differed from Western societies. (All photography by Carlos Crivelli ...