Cornips believed that cows possessed the intellect and social behaviours to be useful research subjects for linguists. As a ...

Dutch scientist Leonie Cornips has become fascinated with how cows communicate. But can this really be called 'language'?

Author turns to new and often-overlooked source material for a fresh examination of the nation before independence ...

Authoring a book or editing a volume are among the most consequential professional achievements in an academic's life. In ...

In this final instalment of a two-part interview, the unparalleled Amit Dutta talks about his practice & influences, David ...

In search of Buddhist conscience (Baudha Hurdasakshiya Soya) (Part II of this article appeared in The Island on Monday – 03) Tissa Ranasinghe’s and Gananath’s Kannagi Gananath’s Pattini book has a ...

which will be a written assignment (such as an essay or report). Summative assessment will be a 2500-word written piece where students will apply concepts and perspectives in social anthropology to ...

Sociologist and anthropologist Nir Avieli breaks down these meanings in his culinary ethnography on the Tết rice cakes in Hoi An. For example, the square and round ... among some Vietnamese scholars.

Reading, writes Edwina Preston, is a way of journeying on the wings of others without moving from the armchair (or bed). Here ...

Sixth grade student Lia Martinonis is the two-time winner of the Daughters of the American Revolution essay contest.

The modern era is often seen as the triumph of science over supernaturalism. But what really happened is far more interesting ...

Virginia Woolf’s classic Mrs Dalloway was revolutionary for its challenge to the novel form and its representation of time.