Ayahuasca in Brazil. Innovative anthropological research about psychoactive substances
The research by Polish anthropologist, Zuzanna Sadowska will be focused on building relations with psychoactive substances among Santo Daime followers. It will analyse the meaning of using ayahuasca in Brazil.The aim of the project is to analyse anthropologically use of
Un pueblo olvidado en China
Shengsito es un arquipelago de 400 islas en China, cerca del rio Yangcy.En las fotos, tomados por Jane Qing, podemos ver abandonado pueblo de pescadores, cual la naturalesa esta empezando a tener en su poder. Estos imagenes idilicos son un elemento de comun topos cultural,
The walk through Mexico City – gallery
Walking trough Mexico City you can find really amazing motives to show. See for yourself in our gallery.
Muchos colores con un poco de moda. Como folclore eslavo se unio con highfashion
La moda es una cuestion interesante para los antropologos. Y si se puede unirla con folclore eslavo, tenemos la combinacion perfecta para someterse a la reflexión.Por crear estos placeres visuales esta responsable un matrimonio ruso - fotografo Andrey Yakolev y directora
Santa Muerte – Mexican skeleton saint characteristics
Santa Muerte is a skeleton popular saint from Mexico. Santa Muerte means Holy Death. That seemed to me a bit tricky at the begining of my research. Because, c'mon, how Death can be holy? And it turned out that it
New paleolithic Venus found in France
Venus of BrassempouyPaleolithic Venus was found by archaeologists working at the Amiens-Renancourt. The amazing discovery is dated to the Early Upper Palaeolithic, from the Gravettian period (a phase of the Aurignacian culture), so it's about 23,000 years old.This
Jaką płeć ma Ruczajówna? Gra przeciwieństw w “Przygodzie na Mariensztacie”
Komunizm w Polsce zakładał równouprawnienie płci w sferze zawodowej, kulturalnej, dostępu do edukacji oraz "godności i odznaczeń"¹. Odzwierciedlający idee opisywanego systemu realizm socjalistyczny, panujący w naszym kraju od lat 1949 do 1956, miał na celu ukazanie tej równości w rzeczywistości
Chomsky and Mujica – a documentary for radical change of global direction
Documentary "Chomsky & Mujica" is in the post-production process in search of collective financing. The movie was filmed by the Mexican director Saúl Alvídrez during a weekend in Montevideo. What is it about?Unlike other times, today we have the
Scientists found new geoglyphs in Nazca, Peru
Japanese scientists discovered 143 new geoglyphs in the Nazca desert in Peru. Huge drawings show not only forms previously known from the region, such as monkeys, snakes, animals and plants, but also new ones. Among them, the ones depicting
The painting of Tamara Lempnicka sold for 13,3 milion dolars
Tamara Łempicka broke her own record. Her painting La tunique rose was sold for $ 13.3 million, or almost PLN 52 million. Thus, for the second year in a row, Łempicka's work is the most expensive canvas in history of