You may have come across several “strange” cultural practices; some would grip you with fear, while others would leave you astonished. The wife-carrying competition in Finland falls into the latter category.Strange as it might sound, wife-carrying is a real sport in Finland. In fact, it ...
You may have come across several "strange" cultural practices; some would impress you with fear, while others would leave you surprised. The Eukonkanto or Wife-Carrying Competition in Finland falls into the latter. Strange as it might sound, wife-carrying is a real sport in Finland. In ...
You may have come across several "strange" cultural practices; some would grip you with fear, while others would leave you astonished. The wife-carrying competition in Finland falls into the latter category. Strange as it might sound, wife-carrying is a real sport in Finland. In fact, it ...
Autocrats around the world are leading a relentless attack against journalism, and as I wrote in my last newsletter, platforms support creators and influencers much more than they do traditional journalism institutions. The muckrakers were often super freelancers who worked for a wide range of ...
However, as the corporate world grew, divergence began to emerge between the origin countries as they sought to provide legal and institutional solutions to problems occurring in national settings with sometimes very different legal and sociocultural traditions. As a result, in terms of corporate law...
They moonlight as an author, cultural critic, and narrative game designer. Their work has appeared in Helios Quarterly and Luna Station Quarterly, among others, and their essays and reviews have appeared on Tor.com, The Observer, and Story Screen. They are also the game development editor for...
To answer these questions, this article examines the cultural significance of MDZS through the genres it is constituted by, namely xianxia (via wuxia) and danmei. I use Rey Chow’s analysis of Mandarin Ducks and Butterflies fiction, a term used pejoratively to describe works of fiction deemed ...
Jance on the especially strange case of animal hoarding.1 All this as well as an entire pop-cultural movement, the so-called anti-clutter campaign, which has worked to blur the very distinction between pathological hoarding and simple messiness. What is it about compulsive hoarding that has ...
he demonstrates how their ideas and practices would have been weird, dangerous, and compelling in their own society. These Christians embodied their faith within a loving extended family around a God who had come to earth in Jesus to bring them into an intimate, loving, Spirit-filled relationshi...
To this should be added a larger cultural context: Flanders as a whole is a densely populated region in which especially the triangle Antwerp-Ghent-Brussels has some- times been described, in comparative international terms, as a single extended conur- bation (GUST 1999: 32–38; Albrechts and...