In the ongoing debates concerning the emergence of game studies, ludologist approaches often dismiss or marginalize narrative and visual elements of games while privileging games as formal systems of rules and game play mechanics. Indeed, the visual representation of games is frequently gendered—for example, when Espen Aarseth dismisses the visual importance of Lara Croft or when Chris Crawford...

The museum is one institution that accommodates every aspect of human activities and reminds people their past to present. Most collections have been sustained by preserving documenting natural cultural heritage. Museum itself serve as an learning, research has conducted, entertain different with diverse background without discrimination. Today, in Northern Nigeria, most perceived museums a pla...


 This essay is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges’s short story about Funes, a young man with perfect perception and recall. His stunning archival ability allowed Funes to create shorthand system for creativity, “rhapsody of unconnected words” stand in his archive memories: “Anything he thought, even once, remained ineradicably him.” There similar malady today, cultural hyperthymesia, fetish t...

Body mutilation, especially postmortem dismemberment, is typically motivated by five major objectives: to transport the victim’s remains; to conceal the body and other evidence of a crime; to prevent the investigators from identifying the victim; as a demonstration of extreme loathing or disregard for human life; and to fulfill fantastic or ritualistic urges. This research is a retrospective an...

o Abstract ‘User Involvement’ has become the new mantra in Public Services with professionals constantly being reminded that ‘user knows best’. The purpose of this paper is to ask where the preoccupation with ‘the User’ comes from and to pose some questions about what ‘User Involvement’ actually means. Within our paper we see three issues as central within this. The first is a consideration of ...

Although it has been something of a fetish for philosophers to distinguish between hallucination and illusion, the enduring problems for philosophy of perception that both phenomena present are not essentially different. Hallucination, in its pure philosophical form, is just another example of the philosopher’s penchant for considering extreme and extremely idealized cases in order to understan...

abstract:the aim of current study is to investigate customs, traditions and beliefs related to evil eye according to anthropology of religion and beliefs. some differences have been always distinguished between religious rites and magical rites in anthropology of religion. in this study, we will first present determined definitions of religion and witchery from anthropological perspective and t...

Blind tasting — tasting without knowing the wine’s producer, origin, or other details obtainable from the wine’s label— has become something of a fetish in the wine world. We are told, repeatedly and insistently, that blind tasting is the best, most neutral, least biased, and most honest evaluative procedure, and one that should be employed to the exclusion of non-blind/sighted tasting (which, ...