“But I refuse to be the dupe of a kind of magic which is still more feeble than their own, and which brandishes before an eager public albums of coloured photographs, instead of the now vanished masks. Perhaps the public imagines that the charms of the savages can be appropriated through the medium of these photographs. Not content with eliminating savage life, and unaware of having done so, it feels the need feverishly to appease the nostalgic cannibalism of history with the shadows of those that history has already destroyed”
- Claude Lévi-Strauss, A World on the Wane (p.41)
Explained: ‘Krishna pointing at Eid moon’ painting
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Ain't got time for this. I am going to keep it short and simple.
First: Origin of how the image ended up online
In 2014, it was first released by on...
5 years ago
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