Ce texte résume les actions entreprises par un groupe de femmes, dont trois membres d’une Première Nation, au Québec qui ont dénoncé la pièce théâtre Kanata, spectacle mise en scène a été signée l’artiste Robert Lepage avec participation d’Ariane Mnouchkine et du Théâtre Soleil Paris. Encore une fois, il était question présenter relecture des relations Allochtones-Autochtones l’effacement repré...

The cover of this issue features Santa Claus images from the travelling exhibition, ‘‘Merry X-Ray and A Happy New Lung: When Santa Sold Cigarettes’’, created by Alan Blum, Director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. Taken from popular magazines published in the US, these images feature Santa, one of the most ubiquitous symbols of the Christmas season, sugg...

It is rather difficult to get an accurate picture of the number of practising Buddhists in the United States. In 1975, Barrett estimated 190,000 persons, or approximately 0.1% of the population and one would expect this figure to be mainly composed of descendants of Chinese and Japanese immigrants affiliated to the Jodo shinshu inspired Buddhist Churches of America with some Nichiren shoshu of ...

The recent market success of in-car navigation systems creates the opportunity to investigate the appropriation of location-aware systems outside laboratory settings. Through ethnographical lenses, we study how this technology changed the practice of a massive community of its early adopters, the taxi drivers of Barcelona (Spain) and, specifically, their exploitation of pervasive geoinformation...