Initially a musical subculture popular in South Korea during the 1990s, Korean Pop, or K-pop, has transformed into a global cultural phenomenon.
Characterized by catchy hooks, polished choreography, grandiose live performances, and impeccably produced...
Providing poor women, including Syrian refugees, in Amman, Jordan, with volunteer opportunities helps them diversify their social networks, enhances their sense of empowerment and wellbeing, and potentially encourages social change, according to a new...
Turning the pages of a manuscript copy of the Maʿrifetnāme, an 18th-century encyclopedia authored by the Ottoman scholar and Sufi poet İbrāhīm Ḥaḳḳī Efendi, can lead readers to seventh heaven and the depths of hell.
A copy of the beautifully illuminated...
In 1830, France forcibly and violently colonized Algeria, keeping it as a territory until 1962, when the North African nation gained its independence following one of the longest and most intense decolonizing wars of the 20th century. Until then, however...
Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and assisted dying.
Over the next few months, the assembly of...
Erik Harms always likes to get to his “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” class 20 minutes early. Like many other Yale instructors, he’ll often lay out materials for his students before each lecture and prepare a set of PowerPoint slides.
Then Harms,...