In a recent article in the New York Times Magazine, Lisa Katayama tells the story of a Japanese man called Nisan who has a body-pillow with a sexy, young, animated girl printed on the cover. “Her” ...
Making unique Jewish crafts can transform Passover holiday celebrations from ho-hum to memorable. The new book “Jewish Threads,” along with other books and Internet sites, can help. BOSTON (JTA) — To ...
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High on a limestone ridge in Peru’s Amazonas region, behind walls that rise nearly 20 meters above the cloud forest, a team of archaeologists has opened a funerary chamber inside the Kuélap fortress ...
What does it mean to make a ritual object? What does it mean to make a queer ritual object? How might personal experience mold the interpretation and use of ritual objects? Explore those questions ...
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For a religion that has never been static, Judaism has been utilizing many of the same outdated, unchanging ritual objects for what seems like eternity. Judaica has never kept pace with Judaism’s ever ...
A metate is a grinding stone common to Mesoamerican cultures, past and present. Corn and other grains are ground against the volcanic stone with another stone held in the hand called a manos. Metate ...
"Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts ...
A Stone Age-era artifact carved with multiple zigzags and what is likely a woman with spread legs suggests that fertility rituals may have been important to early Europeans, according to new research.
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