Undying Guardians of the North
Part lion, part dragon. These ancient, mythical guardians protect a temple, Wat Mahawan, in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Photographs by Zashnain Zainal ...
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Engaged Anthropology: Politics Beyond the Text
Our good friend, Stuart Kirsch, has a new book just published that is an absolute must read. This latest book, recently released by the University of California Press, deals with the nature of anthropology and its in ...
Music from the pavement
Some play for big crowds, while others play for a coin or two. Street Music. A teenager plays a musical instrument that sounds almost like violin. The khene, a bamboo mouth musical instrument from Laos. Bangkok, T ...
Mining Capitalism: The Relationship between Corporations and their Critics
Mining Capitalism is a new book by Stuart Kirsch published by University of California Press with cover art by AK Rockefeller. We are very excited to play a small part in this groundbreaking work towards understandi ...
Intrepid Women of the Great Identity Transduction
Identity Transduction is imminent. All genders, old and new, will participate. Culture is ours to manufacture and manipulate as we see fit. Capitulation is death. Art is freedom. ...
Culture Conflicts And Advancement
You are not what you say you are, you are not what you think you are, and you are not what your father is, you are what you are, and you may be surprised when you figure out what that is. ...
MIFEE: Racist agribusiness land grabs in West Papua reported to UN
A coalition of organisations has requested the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination Commission to take action under its Early Warning and Urgent Action procedures to address the dire situation bei ...
The Act of Killing
The Act of Killing is about killers who have won, and the sort of society they have built. “There won’t be another documentary like THE ACT OF KILLING for 50 years†–Werner Herzog ...
Mandawuy Yunupingu broke indigenous barriers
Mr Yunupingu was an Aboriginal musician, songwriter and campaigner who fought many battles - most of which he won. As the frontman of Yothu Yindi, he pushed indigenous music beyond Australian borders and gained a glo ...
Land and Sea- Lake Eyre to West Papua
A short, poetic, and quite moving film expressing the solidarity of Melanesian peoples across national boundaries. Featuring Kevin Buzzacott, Jacob Rumbiak, Emily Wainggai and Ronny Kareni. ...
The Intention of Raver J
I think it's important to state intentions -especially in these times. The world is in a critical state -it's time to wake from complacency, apathy, and criticism. It's time to show Love and do! ...
#IdleNoMore – Transnational Indigenous Solidarity
#IdleNoMore is a growing movement of indigenous activism that started with Canada's First Nations taking a stand against a long history of systematic, institutionalized abuse by the Canadian authorities. ...
West Papua: Remembering 51 years of oppression
Dusk is falling across Melbourne and West Papua, but not over the dreams of the Papuan people. Today, remembering 51 years of oppression having been denied the right to self-determination, the West Papuan people gath ...
Windmill Rainbow Car Light
Identity Transduction Arts, Series 1.9: Windmill Rainbow Car Light - by Humphrey King ...
Of Myths and Facts: Kashmir
Ultimately the truth of Kashmir will have to triumph; Kashmir will surely outlive this hate, divide and oppression. ...
Indonesia Suppresses Indigenous Music, Culture In West Papua
EVER SINCE THE 1970S, THE INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT HAS BEEN TAKING MEASURES TO SUPRESS THE CULTURAL RIGHTS OF THE INDIGENOUS PAPUA PEOPLE. This is clear from the murder of two indigenous Papuan cultural activists, the l ...
More First Nations Children Removed From Their Homes Than Ever Before
Three times more First Nations children are removed from their families today than at the peak of the residential school system in 1949. Then, approximately 8,900 aboriginal children were taken from their fami ...
Guerilla Cultural anti-bank action from Madrid: TapiaBankia
De Norte a Sur de Este a Oeste… #TapiaBankia cueste lo que cueste. ...
Indonesia and Australia: The Illegitimate States of the Asia Pacific Region
The notion of self-determination as a universal principle, whether viewed through a political, moral, or legal lens, has been and continues to be imprecise and in dire need of further clarification. U.S. president Wo ...
