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Material World
In an office full of folklorists, picking a valentine is work-related.
It’s no coincidence that all of Sarah Jamison’s recent drawings are the size of an iPhone 6s Plus screen.
D.C. restaurateur Jennifer Selman offers stories and recipes for two Trinidadian Christmas staples: black cake and sorrel drink.
Two museums in the Lebanese capital dazzle in the shadow of civil unrest.
An expert in both the tradition and the history, Norman Kennedy received an NEA National Heritage Fellowship for his mastery of Scottish weaving, singing, and storytelling.
As a young girl, I dreamed of my father coming home and saying, “Hey kids, I brought fried chicken!”
Sprang has been practiced and revived across Europe, North and South America, some parts of the Middle East, and Asia.
In Armenia, folk remedies aren’t just offhand suggestions from your grandmother. When it comes to minor illnesses, trained doctors are not shy about recommending them either.
During the spring and fall high in the Sman shod Valley of Tibet, men carry on a tradition of ramming loose earth into solid walls for temples, homes, and other structures—and singing as they do.
It’s almost hard to believe Rind is home to a world-renowned winemaking facility. “We’re in the remotest village in Yeghegnadzor,” Zorik Gharibian says proudly.
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