'under the skin'

A short essay on the digital work of sculptor Shelagh Cluett.incorporated into the catalogue text for 'La Cabinet de Curiosities de Mademoiselle Cluoette' by Virgina Whiles

Art et ethnographie

Virginia Whiles s’appuie sur son expérience personnelle. Historienne d’art et commissaire d’expositions d’art non occidental, elle fait d’abord état de ses motivations pour se tourner vers l’anthropologie. Enseignante, elle rend compte ensuite d’expériences et de choix faits dans ses séminaires, terrains d’expérimentations quant à un dialogue entre l’art et l’anthropologie. Cette approche lui permet de répondre à une exigence de contemporanéité en restant vigilante quant à des attitudes « romantiques ». Elle souhaite ainsi échapper aux affirmations généralisatrices propres à une approche ethnocentriste sans pour autant tomber dans la justification, via l’ethnographie, de certaines formes d’art.Virginia Whiles relies on her personal experience. As an art historian and exhibition curator of non western art, she states first her motivations in choosing Anthropology. Being an instructor she recalls experiences and choices made during her seminars – seen as fields of experimentation for a dialogue between Art and Anthropology. This approach allows her to answer a requirement for contemporary concerns, while remaining alert when it comes to “romanticized” attitudes. She wishes to escape in fact the all too general affirmations typical of an Ethnocentric approach. She does so without however succumbing to justification, through Ethnography, of certain art forms

Diverse perspectives of parents, diverse concepts of parent involvement and participation: Contrasts between Italy and the United States

Diversity of experiences and perspectives, it is widely agreed, should be a source of strength in home-school partnerships, as in other aspects of educational endeavor. Yet often, in the literature, diversity is presented as a complication to be overcome. A limiting mindset often prevails, both in theory and practice, where diversity is regarded as an issue or barrier, even amidst the best of intentions to be inclusive. In this chapter, we argue that this limiting mindset on diversity may in fact derive in part from the conceptual frameworks with which we in the United States contemplate and conduct research on diversity issues in home-school relationships. We make this point by taking the discussion outside the framework of the American literature. First, we offer our summary and interpretation of several general principles that describe the purpose, nature, and value attached to parental involvement in the United States. Next, we turn to the field of Italian education, in particular, to conceptualizations about partecipazione, or participation, a term for the idealized way in which parents, teachers, and community members should take an active part in the life, culture, and decisions concerning children and the educational services created for them. We draw mainly from the writings of a network of early educational leaders from cities of northern and central Italy (e.g., Bologna, Milan, Modena, Pistoia, Reggio Emilia, and others)—places which have carried out the strongest experiments in creating and sustaining systems of home-school-community

Miniature manoeuvres : tradition and subversion in Pakistani contemporary art

EThOS - Electronic Theses Online ServiceGBUnited Kingdo

Riders of a Modern-Day Ark

Faced with catastrophic declines of amphibian species around the globe, scientists have launched the Amphibian Ark to ensure the global survival of critically endangered species with programs designed to fight their most immediate threat, the deadly chytrid fungus