Episode 110 of the Drafting the Past podcast

In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way of life to a curio...

Richard Ivan Jobs on how In the Land of the Lacandón explores "who gets to speak, who gets to tell stories, and who gets to make histories."

His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and Christian mysticism.

Le journaliste néerlandais Olivier van Beemen décrit une organisation dirigée par des Blancs sud-africains qui n’hésitent pas à violer les droits humains pour protéger la nature. Mais dans son réquisitoire, le point de vue des Etats africains qui traitent avec l’ONG est absent.

A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism

Buy the book In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism by richard ivan jobs,steven van wolputte at Indigo

Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.

The Beautiful Friend by Marie Odgaard (University of Toronto) Growing up in a small town by the fjord, close to the west coast of Denmark, was in many ways a quiet life —at least in the early y...

A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism

A la tête de la Swapo, le mouvement de libération qu’il avait cofondé, Sam Nujoma avait obtenu en 1990 l’indépendance de la Namibie vis-à-vis de l’Afrique du Sud. Il est mort, samedi, à l’âge de 95 ans.

Sickness has been common for years in Tsumeb, where Dundee Precious Metals was the biggest employer for more than a decade. Tests have now found the soil is contaminated with arsenic and other heavy m...

My path as a historian forever changed during my first year in the archives.When I began working at the National Anthropological Archives (NAA) in an ominous, cloudy box of a building near the end …

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