Hidden Complexities of Emotions in Indonesia
July 22, 2026
I was in a restaurant in a city in central Java called Yogyakarta, and I met an American couple who had just arrived in Indonesia.
Traditional Chinese Versus Western Ways of Thinking about Categories
July 7, 2026
George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, in Philosophy in the Flesh; The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought, wrote that many concepts that people
The Intimate Worlds of Native Americans in California
June 29, 2026
Native Americans were immersed in their natural environments to an extent that can be hard for most Californian suburbanites to fully appreciate. More than 500
The Intimate Cherokee World
June 15, 2026
Ancient Greeks built temples and public stoas that emphasized abstract proportions and linear relationships, like this reconstruction of the stoa of Attalus in Athens (below).
Western and Indian Ideas of Place Compared
June 2, 2026
Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia intensely focused on maintaining the sanctity of the state’s territory and displaying it in spectacular temples and palaces. This focus on
Modernity in Ancient Mesopotamia
May 19, 2026
Nature wasn’t as kind to the area where early Mesopotamians built their first cities and great temples as it was to ancient Egypt. Deserts on
How to Continuously Expand Your Perspective
May 3, 2026
We’ll explore some ways to mix looking At, With, and Beyond so that your perspective will always expand without a final stopping point so that
Dangers of Cultural Studies and How to Overcome Them
April 22, 2026
The anthropologist David Graeber said that culture is a way of telling off your neighbor. People often use culture to distinguish themselves from other societies.
Expanding Our Focus from Economic Wealth to Cultural Wealth
April 16, 2026
The Canadian scholar and founder of The Age of Culture Project D. Paul Schafer has written several books about transforming from the age in which