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X'Qala' l-Bahar : X’qala l-bahar: Spatial and Temporal (dis)continuities
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Monday, September 3, 2012. X’qala l-bahar: Spatial and Temporal (dis)continuities. Back during my grumpy university years, when my greatest concern in life was to read and digest the increasing and piling number of anthropology articles before they would swamp me, leaving me a tangle of broken nerves, I tried my hand at studying Arabic… and the greatest pleasure that came out of exploring such a language was the access to a world of art, music and ideas that such an enterprise opened up. Back during the ...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : July 2013
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Malta: The problems of Scaling Hospitality. The Mediterranean – I commented a few months ago in a separate blog entry - seems to be full of bad guests and even worse hosts, these days. If you're still unsure what bad hospitality is all about, I recommend you watch Season 3 Episode 9 of Game of Thrones. I'm watching you, Joe. I told you, the parties have to stop. Joseph Muscat's weaving of Hospitality, Nationalism and European politics, seems to be the most natural thing in the w...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : Malta: The problems of Scaling Hospitality
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Malta: The problems of Scaling Hospitality. The Mediterranean – I commented a few months ago in a separate blog entry - seems to be full of bad guests and even worse hosts, these days. If you're still unsure what bad hospitality is all about, I recommend you watch Season 3 Episode 9 of Game of Thrones. I'm watching you, Joe. I told you, the parties have to stop. Joseph Muscat's weaving of Hospitality, Nationalism and European politics, seems to be the most natural thing in the w...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : Nêpoinon: Ancient Greek and contemporary Hospitality (or why Anthropologists ought not to laugh at the Classicists)
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Thursday, May 2, 2013. Nêpoinon: Ancient Greek and contemporary Hospitality (or why Anthropologists ought not to laugh at the Classicists). The Mediterranean seems to be full of bad guests and even worse hosts, these days. You thought Malta was odd? Try this for size. So it surprises little that, given the generally same conditions, I heard things in Ceuta that largely resonated with those I had heard in Malta. Migrants, sub-Saharan and Moroccan border-workers ( transfronterizos. Not only are they still ...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : Maltese and Arab Soundscapes
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Friday, April 26, 2013. Maltese and Arab Soundscapes. I must admit I really enjoyed this politically incorrect comedy clip by Harry Enfield; if for no other reason that he takes the mickey out of both British and Arab ways of expressing emotion:. Actually celebratory gunfire is not a uniquely Arab ritual. It seems North Americans are also particularly fond of this practice, judging by the Wikipedia. Muslims shoot guns i the air to celebrate .why cant we? So what is it all about? I tried to address this s...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : Two Italian Women Who Lost Faith
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Thursday, April 25, 2013. Two Italian Women Who Lost Faith. This shot is taken from Pietro Germi's classic: Seduced and Abandoned. In the first case, here is the sixties' musical goddess Mina, warning her faithless lover that the woman he is chasing after does not really love him:. And here is a Neapolitan maid from the eighties film "Cosi Parlo' Bellavista", whose had it up to here with her washing machine:. Are their postures that different? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Mediterranean seems t...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : The Boston Bombings: the failure of a Marriage and a Migratory Project
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013. The Boston Bombings: the failure of a Marriage and a Migratory Project. In the aftermath of the Boston bombing, there is a tremendous amount of speculation regarding the motives of Tamerlan Tsarnaev. And the attempt to find an outside agent who taught Tamerlan radical Islam shows how difficult it is to accept that violent terror can develop from within American society, rather than stemming from some form of external contamination. Young lawyer-couple who were Tamerlan's parents ...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : Scapegoaters Scapegoated: the hidden link between Thatcher, Gaddafi and Mintoff
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Saturday, April 13, 2013. Scapegoaters Scapegoated: the hidden link between Thatcher, Gaddafi and Mintoff. The death of Margaret Thatcher has provoked intense and polarized reactions. Some on the left have been openly celebrating her death, while others have argued that the nil nisi bonum. Echoed locally by Daphne Caruana Galizia. According to Girard an interesting aspect of the political sorcery involved in such scapegoating is that the victim rapidly acquires mythic properties, eventually turning into ...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : May 2013
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Thursday, May 2, 2013. Nêpoinon: Ancient Greek and contemporary Hospitality (or why Anthropologists ought not to laugh at the Classicists). The Mediterranean seems to be full of bad guests and even worse hosts, these days. You thought Malta was odd? Try this for size. So it surprises little that, given the generally same conditions, I heard things in Ceuta that largely resonated with those I had heard in Malta. Migrants, sub-Saharan and Moroccan border-workers ( transfronterizos. Not only are they still ...
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X'Qala' l-Bahar : How to Release Your Inner Native
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Tuesday, April 16, 2013. How to Release Your Inner Native. After an exhausting day at work, nothing could be more refreshing than a dose of energetic folk-dancing, courtesy of Youtube. The two clips shown here come from very distant traditions. Bhangra is traditional Punjabi dancing, while Stavros Flatley and son are fusing Irish and Greek dance forms. But what they have in common is the humour, energy and sheer comic intensity of the performance. Instead of being a simple expression of. Nêpoinon: Ancien...
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