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 […]
In Focus
In Focus
Pluriculturalism, compassion and the limits of tolerance
A society open to all races need not accept practices that destroy or exploit the most vulnerable. From this perspective, responsible criticism makes it possible to challenge harmful behaviour without abandoning compassion or confusing reasoned judgements with indiscriminate condemnation. – –Nigel Pocock – I want to make a simple point, […]
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. . […]
The mark Jack London left on Che Guevara’s life
In his first account of the Granma landing, Guevara recalls a story set in the Alaskan ice. From his motorcycle journeys across Latin America to a Cuban beach under enemy fire, early reading accompanied the making of an adventurer. Armando Orozco Tovar I woke up this morning wondering […]
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 […]
















