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The Tree of Life Design. From Central Asia to Navajoland and Back (with a Mexican Detour) Part 3
By: SANDRA BUSATTA – The Tree of Life design or Bird Pictorial in Navajo rugs first appeared around the turn of the 20th century. Usually this style portrays either a cornstalk or a tree growing from a basket. Birds are perched on them, and flowers, bees, and butterflies rabbits, squirrels or even farm animals may…
Post-Colonialism: The So-Called Malaise Creole in Mauritius
By: SYLVIE MAURER – Mauritius is a former French and British colony in the Indian Ocean. Now, this island has become a multicultural and multi-ethnic society due to several waves of immigration from Europe, Africa and Asia, all through the past three centuries. Each wave of immigration brought in new people along with their cultures,…
Transforming Refugees: Biopolitics and medical construction of Southeast Asian Immigrant Subjects
By: NEIL TURNER – Biopolitical medicine was and continues to be a complex apparatus that economizes the functions of sociopolitical importance. The resulting institutional frameworks impact processes of racialization, ethnic politics, transnational relations and “psycho-cultural” identity making subjects the objects of bureaucratic regulation and control. In this context, refugee and immigrant cultural manifestations are subverted…
Il betel
By: PIERANDREA COSTA – Il viaggiatore che percorre il sud est asiatico rimane sicuramente colpito dalle persone che hanno la bocca colorata da un intenso rosso e hanno i denti coperti da uno strato di tartaro nero che a volte esce dalle labbra: sono questi i segni che permettono di riconoscere i masticatori di betel.