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Forest dreams

An anthropologist, with field work in Alaska behind her, moves across the Bering Strait to the Kamchatka peninsula in the Russian Far East. There she finds the animist impulse of which only traces had remained with indigenous Alaskans.   Sean Sheehan   She meets the reindeer-herding Even people who, under […]

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A Latin American model for recognising diversity

Colonialism, governing elites and assimilation shaped the region’s societies and national identities over time. Recognising Indigenous peoples, their languages and their social rights is essential to building more inclusive states, with greater inclusion for historically marginalised communities in education, healthcare and employment. (The Prisma memoirs)    .Claudio Chipana G. . […]

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Loving Lady Chatterley

D.H. Lawrence’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” has never recovered from charges of primitivist male chauvinism, but a new edition of the novel presents an opportunity to rescue the book from too-harsh and too-simply delivered criticisms.   Sean Sheehan   Connie Chatterley —her Lady title derives from the class status of the […]