Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

The disease environment, health problems and causes of mortality of enslaved Barbadians are described. Data are derived mainly from documentary sources; also included are bio-archaeological data from analyses of skeletons recovered from Newton Plantation cemetery. Major topics include infectious diseases transmitted from person to person, as well as those contracted through water soil, and othe...

By the early twentieth century, Britain and all of its Atlantic colonies prohibited the “pretended” use of supernatural powers or rituals such as fortunetelling, obeah, sorcery, and witchcraft. Legislators and others policymakers throughout the Anglophone Atlantic justified these proscriptions using similar narratives; they described occult practitioners as charlatans and vagabonds. Metropolita...

Abstract This article explores how the Lengyan jing , or Śūrangama Sūtra – an apocryphal Buddhist scripture written in China around 705 CE remapped Chinese understandings of moral responsibility consequential ways. Although grounded orthodox doctrinal premise that all sentient beings innately possess buddha-nature, is punctuated by warnings about danger even most earnest seekers enlightenment m...

How does an Amazonian population living at the margins of globalised economy envision their involvement in capitalist market? In this article, we examine entrepreneurial perspectives expressed by leaders Ecuadorian Shuar Transkutukú. Leaders place hope pursuit entrepreneurialism as a way to guarantee domestic and ethnic self-determination. This reflexive process is encapsulated local formula “i...