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10/12/2024

In this week’s Suggested Readings: how music heals, the rise of the self-coup, and the great monkey escape.

Well-researched stories from Smithsonian Magazine, Slate, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

10/12/2024

Our understanding of the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük continues to evolve as archaeologists challenge biases inherited from European scholarship in the face of new material evidence. https://bit.ly/4f9zAW3

Our understanding of the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük continues to evolve as archaeologists challenge inherited biases in the face of new material evidence.

09/12/2024

December is in full swing, and so are the festivities! ❄️ Dive into JSTOR Daily’s collection of stories exploring the and traditions of the season.

From the evolution of holiday cards to the significance of solstice celebrations, these articles offer insights that pair perfectly with a cozy winter evening—all with free access to the cited academic research on JSTOR.

Discover the articles: https://bit.ly/4fKVlg5

Image: Red School House (Country Scene) by George Henry Durrie, 1858. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

09/12/2024

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí’s Un Chien Andalou (An Andalusian Dog) attracted and reviled its viewers in equal measure as a “deliberately anti-plastic, anti-artistic” work.

A century after the publication of the first Surrealist manifesto, the role played by film in the movement is still unfolding.

08/12/2024

A psychoanalyst and physician, Wilhelm Reich fled the N***s only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.

A psychoanalyst and physician, Reich fled the N***s only to be detained by the US as an “enemy alien” during World War II. And then came the sexual revolution.

07/12/2024

Descendants of those trafficked from Southeast Asia to South Africa by the Dutch, Cape Malay Muslims use surviving kietaabs—Malay-origin texts that act as talismans, reference books, and religious guides—to connect to their heritage. https://bit.ly/3BinmfX

Descendants of those trafficked from Southeast Asia to South Africa by the Dutch, Cape Malay Muslims use surviving kietaabs to connect to their heritage.

06/12/2024

Was Cleopatra Greek, Egyptian, African? Was she white, Black? Was she “all of the above”? Nineteenth-century artists styled the Egyptian ruler’s physiognomy in response to the rules of academic (neoclassical) art, market influences, and—yes—abolition. https://bit.ly/3Zu62wO

Edmonia Lewis, a sculptor of African and Native American descent, gave Cleopatra “white” European features in her 1876 representation of the Egyptian ruler.

06/12/2024

Law professor Jane K. Stoever notes that “home safety” is typically given as the reason for gun-ownership, but “firearm ownership dramatically increases rates of firearm fatalities and su***de for members of the household, even with safe gun storage practices.”

The intersection of intimate partner violence and fi****ms is extremely dangerous for American women.

05/12/2024

The conquest of Mexico represented a foundational story for Spain, and Europe more broadly, but the mythic stories around those events seem to have been largely taken from earlier tales of the Muslim conquest of southern Spain.

The mythic stories of the Spanish conquest of Mexico seem to have been largely taken from earlier tales of the Muslim conquest of southern Spain.

05/12/2024

Although scientists have known about the different pigments that give birds their colored feathers for some time, understanding the biochemical and genetic basis behind how birds use them to vary in color has been less clear.

These are the genes responsible.

04/12/2024

Patrick White created “an epic and psychological narrative art which…introduced a new continent into literature.” So said the Nobel Committee, when they awarded the Australian writer the prize in literature in 1973. Who exactly was Patrick White and what dilemmas preoccupied his imagination?

In writing and life, the Australian Nobel Laureate was ever preoccupied by the search for spiritual meaning and the fraught relationship between God and blundering humanity.

04/12/2024

Miné Okubo was tasked with documenting “little Tokyos”—a loaded term that the editors of Fortune magazine took to mean both pre-World War II ethnic enclaves in the US as well as wartime internment camps.

Okubo’s art showed the work of Japanese Americans forced to rehabilitate both the “enemy alien” on the home front and the enemy in the Pacific after the war.

03/12/2024

The framework used by theologians to understand emotions changed in the Middle Ages, thanks in part to new translations of Arabic texts.

The framework used by theologians to understand emotions changed in the Middle Ages, thanks in part to new translations of Arabic texts.

03/12/2024

The Cherokee language is considered a Class IV language in its degree of difficulty in terms of spoken form. The Cherokee syllabary is the written form of the language. It is not an alphabet, but instead contains 85 distinct characters that represent the full spectrum of sounds used to speak Cherokee — one character for each discrete syllable.

This syllabary, completed in the early 1820s by Sequoyah, a member of the Cherokee Nation, is on view now in ! His decade-long work developing the syllabary enabled written communication in the Cherokee language for the first time. He believed that a writing system would empower his people, offering them improved educational opportunities and means of exchanging information. His pioneering linguistic effort ultimately helped to unite the Cherokee people, preserving their language and culture during a period of forced physical displacement and assimilation.

03/12/2024

Happy December! ❄️ Whether you're celebrating , , , , or ringing in the , JSTOR Daily has curated a collection of seasonal reads to add scholarly cheer to your . Explore unique stories about winter traditions, fascinating histories, and cultural insights—all with free links to academic research on JSTOR.

Happy reading and warm wishes!

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🖼 Cows in Winter by Henry Willis, 1853. Te Papa.

03/12/2024

In this week’s Suggested Readings: orca fashion news, our oldest ancestor, and Edward Said’s return.

Well-researched stories from Undark, Live Science, and other great publications that bridge the gap between news and scholarship.

02/12/2024

The original “heavenly horses” were so desirable that Emperor Wu, who ruled China’s Han Dynasty from 141 to 87 BC, launched a series of military campaigns to present-day Uzbekistan to acquire them.

In the second century BCE, Han Dynasty Emperor Wu so desired a herd of “blood-sweating” horses from Central Asia that he was willing to wage war over them.

01/12/2024

Classical scholar Steven Shankman explores how xenophilia is fundamental to some of our oldest stories, including those from the Hebrew Bible and the Homeric epics.

We may have heard enough about xenophobia, the fear of the stranger. But what of its opposite, the love for a stranger, better known as hospitality?