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Anthropology. Folklore. Religion. Ukraine. Race & Ethnicity. Ethnography. Writing. History. Cephalopod.

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“Our fieldnotes become palimpsests, useless unless plumbed for forgotten revelatory moments, unexpressed longings, and the wounds of regret.”

— Ruth Behar, The Vulnerable Observer, p. 9

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liminal.earth

A map of the strange, wonderful, unusual, and unexpected

Y'all this is the best thing I've seen in eons. It's a crowd-sourced map of the weird. If you've seen a ghost or a cryptid or just something unexplainable you can add it to this map!! { ... wanders off to start submitting ... }

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New technology brings old Tlingit hat back to Alaska | Juneau Empire

After 135 years away, it came back to Southeast Alaska.

The team-up and technology that led to the new hat and ceremony are unprecedented as far as the Smithsonian is aware.

“As far as we know, it’s never been done before,” said Eric Hollinger, tribal liaison for the repatriation office of the Smithsonian National History Museum. “This is the first time that we’re aware of that an object has been digitally scanned and repaired and a new one made to replace it and be made it into a sacred object.”

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New NASA Visualisation of a Black Hole Is So Beautiful We Could Cry

The first-ever direct image of a black hole's event horizon was a truly impressive feat of scientific ingenuity. But it was extremely diffic

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Tim Frandy, “Inari Sami Folklore: Stories from Aanaar” (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)

Inari Sámi Folklore: Stories from Aanaar (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019) is  rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik so

"Rich multivoiced anthology of folktales, legends, joik songs, proverbs, riddles, and other verbal art, this is the most comprehensive collection of Sámi oral tradition available in English to date."

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Trump Asked Ukrainian President For 'A Favor' On Biden; DOJ Says No Charges

President Trump asked his Ukrainian counterpart to see what he could find out about former Vice President Joe Biden and his family and to be in touch with Trump's lawyer and the attorney general.

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Submerged for Decades, Spanish ‘Stonehenge’ Reemerges After Drought

Receding water levels in Spain’s Valdecañas Reservoir has exposed a stone monument dating back to between 4,000 to 5,000 years ago.

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That’s triple blind peer review. Even the editors don’t know who is doing what. 

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citation style alignment

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“Masters of Tradition” Story Map Spotlights America’s Cultural Diversity

Since 1982, the NEA has awarded National Heritage Fellowships to an astonishingly diverse group of artists.

Awesome digital resource

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We don’t have much else to say except: Look at this inkredible Galiteuthis glass squid!! 😍🦑

OK, no wait, here’s some more to say: The cranchiid squid, a.k.a glass squid like this Galiteuthis sp., often have light-producing organs called photophores around their eyes. Cephalopod photophores can be a simple group of light-producing (“photogenic”) cells, or they can be quite complex, with photogenic cells surrounded by reflectors, lenses, light guides, color filters and muscles.

Complex photophores are often able to actively adjust the color, intensity and angular distribution of the light they produce. Scientists believe that these photophores around the eyes provide counter-illumination, where the organ produces light to cancel out the shadow cast by the squid’s eyeballs in the faint deep-sea light.

In the vast midwater of the deep sea, where there’s nowhere to hide and your shadow is your enemy, glass squid photophores make light work out of camouflage.

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leather bound 19th century books with marbled page edges and gilt details

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I know I’ve seen one of these pictures before, but I hadn’t known there were THIS MANY pictures of this adorable cat, with rubber duckies!

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Awe! @aeolianminor7th

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https://askafolklorist.com/about/

Have a question about something folklore related? Want to know about the field in general? Now you can submit questions here! You can also find answers on Twitter -- look for #askafolklorist

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Check out @JasmineFolz’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/JasmineFolz/status/1172994751886438403?s=09

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