Commerce, culture and heritage mix in rather strange and sometimes unsettling ways in South Africa, especially when the struggle for freedom is commemorated.
Traditional Morris dancers performing in Stratford Upon Avon.
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By targeting a restaurant owner who identifies with a specific cuisine, the protester makes that one person responsible for the actions of an entire group or country.
The ruins of a church in Bohorodychne, Donetsk district, Ukraine, on Jan. 27, 2024.
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In addition to destroyed buildings, there’s an entire underground world – filled with untold numbers of artifacts, bones and ruins – that are exposed and damaged by the digging of trenches.
Bhutanese refugees in Nepal, 2007.
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Camps are dynamic, culturally significant spaces. We propose the significance of these cultural practices may provide an alternative pathway to protection.
A 3D rendering of Ga-Mohana Hill in South Africa, a sacred and important heritage site.
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The Punan Batu is one of the most active nomadic hunter-gatherer groups still existing in the world. They have unique characteristics that are different from other groups in Borneo.
From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis.
The Victorian Supreme Court has determined the descendants of Ned Kelly’s family are not a distinctive cultural group with the right to protections of their ‘intangible cultural heritage’.
Ilmārs Znotiņš and The Latvian Centre of National Culture
The Darwin woodland is home to endangered species and important for the Larrakia people. The development approval requires habitat offsets – yet the minister herself has publicly doubted offsets work.
Families playing the Đông Sơn drum during Re:tuning, a 2022 performance event at the Sydney Opera House, James Nguyen and Victoria Pham.
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In a survey of 1,600 people from across Mosul, we asked what they thought of the millions of dollars being spent to reconstruct the heritage sites of the city.
Digital 3D image of Shahjahanabad, which was once the capital of the Mughal empire.
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Once the capital of the Mughal empire, Old Delhi is now under threat. Geo-information technology can reveal its previous form, function, and context, however, and so help preserve and bring it back to life.
This is a digitally generated image of what a city might look like after a war.
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