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United Nations slams US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid group as a ‘failure’

时间:2010-12-5 17:23:32  作者:Culture & Society   来源:Sports  查看:  评论:0
内容摘要:"As soon as we got here, I loved it," she says.

"As soon as we got here, I loved it," she says.

It comes from the Chokwe, Luchazi and Luvale people, who live in the borderlands of Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Yonga's own north-western region of Zambia.Geometric patterns were made in the sand, on cloth and on people's bodies. Or carved into furniture, wooden masks used in the Makishi ancestral masquerade - and a wooden box used to store tools when people were out hunting.

United Nations slams US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid group as a ‘failure’

The patterns and symbols carry mathematical principles, references to the cosmos, messages about nature and the environment - as well as instructions on community life.The original custodians and teachers of Sona were women - and there are still community elders alive who remember how it works.They are a huge source of knowledge for Yonga's ongoing corroboration of research done on Sona by scholars like Marcus Matthe and Paulus Gerdes.

United Nations slams US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid group as a ‘failure’

"Sona's been one of the most popular social media posts - with people expressing surprise and huge excitement, exclaiming: 'Like, what, what? How is this possible?'"The Queens in Code: Symbols of Women's Power post includes a photograph of a woman from the Tonga community in southern Zambia.

United Nations slams US- and Israel-backed Gaza aid group as a ‘failure’

She has her hands on a mealie grinder, a stone used to grind grain.

Researchers from the Women's History Museum of Zambia discovered during a field trip that the grinding stone was more than just a kitchen tool."It has taken 50 years for [the exhibition] to be revisited and understood for what it was really trying to say," says the 73-year-old who lives near King's Lynn, Norfolk.

Tutti modelled for pornographic magazines in her work as a performance artist and pages from these publications featured in Prostitution, but were hidden away in a back room.She says she "infiltrated" the porn industry to turn the tables on the consumers of these magazines and subvert the male gaze - the watcher now being watched.

"It's my point of view. It was my action," she says in the grounds of Castle Acre Priory, Norfolk.She wanted the exhibition to "bring [porn] into a different kind of viewpoint and interpretation" and to "empower women to think that [the porn industry] is something we have to discuss, regarding how you think of it, as either subverting it or going along [with it]".

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