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Breton adds that most of the readings for the course were written by Canadian sociologists, although one important text, Continental Divide by the American scholar Seymour M. Lipset, is an exception...
Because of the scarcity of geneticists who study anthropology as opposed to biology, Ellison said the department's biological wing has conducted an on-going search for a scholar of Ruvolo's qualifications...
...wrote him up simply as a Renaissance scholar, you wouldn't quite capture the full range of interests he brings to the department, and where exactly his head is at the moment," said Barbara K. Lewalski, who as Kenan professor of history and literature and of English literature shares Guillary's Renaissance specialty...
...dialogue with a third belief system, Confucianism, is the intellectual thread that Matsutaro Shoriki Curator of Asiatic Art Wu Tung attempts to draw across the three spacious galleries of the MFA's Gund Gallery. Nor should it bother us so much, at this stage in the game, that the scholar's rock and the Buddhist relief are utterly divorced from any notion of social function or historical relevance. As the exhibition labors to argue, the apparent ahistoricism of the initial salvo is possible only because Chinese culture itself has perpetuated the timelessness of its ancient aesthetic and philosophical traditions, allowing...
...wonders about the assorted pieces of a puzzle that have been scattered throughout the space of the exhibition. What of the relationship of calligraphy to painting, the differences within various appropriations of Buddhism or Daoism, the significance of dynastic upheaval on aesthetic production, the mysterious figure known as the scholar-artist? These are questions that leak through the seams of the exhibition, sometimes even appearing in the wall text, but which are never addressed in full...