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PROSTHETICS UNDER TRIALS OF WAR
According to Katherine Ott, curator in the Science, Medicine, and Society Division of the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, “[t]he material and social tales of prosthetics provide a more intimate and compelling history of embodied technology than any postmodern cyborg can account for: from the ivory, leather […]
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CHILD TRAFICKING IN GHANA: AN EXAMINATION OF THE CULTURAL IMPACT
By Marlysa Thomas Contributing Writer 1. Methodology 1.1. Purpose This research seeks to examine child trafficking in Ghana: cultural perception, various forms, and why it occurs so frequently. Furthermore, it seeks to understand and differentiate child trafficking from child labor, and child labor from commonly perceived responsibilities that children have. Understanding the cultural perceptions of…
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ARPILLERAS: A VISUAL HISTORY OF THE POOR UNDER PINOCHET
By Sarah McCracken Contributing Writer Abstract: This paper examines the effect of the Pinochet regime in Chile on the poor, using arpilleras as a source of visual history on the topic. Arpilleras, textiles that were originally only created as works of folk art in the Chilean countryside, became an outlet through which impoverished women in…
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