Classical music was long the domain of white men. If opera singer Golda Schultz has her way, that's about to change. A conversation about prejudice on and off the stage.
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Here in Kinshasa, everyone is talking about the consultations with President Félix Tshisekedi that have been underway over the past few weeks.
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Since 2019 Léontine Meijer-van Mensch, from the Netherlands, directs the state ethnographic collections in Saxony and the ethnology museums in Leipzig, Dresden and Herrnhut.
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Our editor-in-chief takes a look at the current issue.
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Young people in Cape Verde are crazy about football.
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Hums, buzzes, squeaks: It's surprisingly loud underground. What do these noises tell us?
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About a rule that no-one can stick to.
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Everyone thinks they are enlightened. Yet death and sex are still as hidden as they were in Victorian England.
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On finally telling my father the truth about my homosexuality.
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Psychoanalyst Caroline Eliacheff talks about our enduring taboos and those which disappear over time.
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A tribal chief in Ghana has to know what he may and may not do.
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How did it happen that US Republicans put up with Donald Trump's taboo violations?
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Why do many people fear bodies that are different from their own?
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The former risk officer Eric Ben-Artzi helped uncover false accounting at Deutsche Bank. A conversation about the difficulties of exposing his employer.
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According to the “Chhaupadi” custom in Nepal, girls and women who are menstruating are considered impure and must be isolated. Maria Contreras Coll spent a year in Nepal and documented this tradition for her photo project “Journey to Impurity”.
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The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed massive restrictions on global cultural relations. How cultural institutes are facing unprecedented challenges.
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Long viewed as a Central Asian “island of democracy”, Kyrgyzstan recently drifted into a state of emergency.
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No other African country has as many people behind bars as South Africa. An indictment, argues our author, and good reason to ask whether the prison system is in keeping with our times.
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The Silk Road Symphony Orchestra takes suggestions from the audience to shape its program. A conversation with conductor Jan Moritz Onken.
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Why do so many Poles support the Belarusians' struggle for democracy? The answer to this question is connected to the common history of the two peoples in the R...
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At the very least, it is too often seduced into emotionality.
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On the African continent, Chinese investors are buying up infrastructure on a massive scale. A plea for more criticism.
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