by Yasmin | Dec 28, 2017 | Uncategorized
I simply found a wardrobe … I stripped the interior … turned it on its back, drilled some holes in the doors and filled it with plaster until it overflowed. Rachel Whiteread The Tate is celebrating over 25 years of Rachel Whiteread’s sculpture. ...
by Yasmin | Apr 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
January 2016 started with the delivery of my Talking Streets social anthropology research methods course, located at the British Library, to a small, independent group of former undergraduate and post graduate students from Birkbeck and UCL, London University. The...
by Yasmin | Jan 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Streets talk in various ways. Not only through architectural design but through human performance, ranging from art and music to food, dance and oral histories. Whether global or local, from bright terracotta mud walls mixed with earth, to Buddhist mandala sand...
by Yasmin | Dec 29, 2015 | Anthropology of Space
“After the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still alone, more faithful but with more vitality…the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins...
by Yasmin | Oct 8, 2014 | Uncategorized
How do we define Intangible Cultural Heritage? To what extent is it promoted and safeguarded in the UK? Performing Arts, story telling, rituals, oral traditions, festivals, knowledge and universal beliefs are classified as Intangible Cultural Heritage or ICH which...
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