Word: culturese
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Presencia Latina, Harvard’s Latino cultural show, is intended not only as a showcase for Latino and Latin-American creativity but also as a means of strengthening the entire community within Harvard. The show, which will take place tomorrow, features both traditional and modern acts presented by the...
These verses have long served as texts for cultural education - a staple of calligraphers and students, who memorize them in order to learn classical Japanese grammar. When I was a college student studying in Kyoto, where almost all of the hundred poets lived and wrote, I tried to memorize a...
Even in Syria, however, rug buying can be intimidating for the beginner. Innumerable variations of region, style and quality make establishing the value of any particular rug daunting. And then there's the relentless bazaar bargaining that can turn any transaction a microcosmic "clash of cultures" between in which straight...
My collection began with a small prayer rug purchased from a souk in the old city of Damascus, to celebrate the safe completion of a stint working in Iraq. The Syrian capital has always been a particularly good place to shop for rugs, ever since Silk Road travelers from the...
The wars and upheavals of the 20th century have largely destroyed the nomadic herding cultures that created these wonderful rugs. And although the Antiques Roadshow hasn't shown up in Damascus yet, the heavy hand of globalization has almost finished scouring the souks of Syria for all that is old...