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Posted on 2019-11-08 in
Frame of the 2007 Final Cut

Frame of the 2007 Final Cut.

This is not Los Angeles, but it is November 2019, the month and the year Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner (US, 1982) takes place. The film and its soundtrack, by Vangelis, made a strong first impression on me. Several versions have been released over the years, including the director’s 2007 Final Cut. Just another science fiction movie for some, it truly is more than a masterpiece for me. (more…)

Technological progress

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Posted on 2019-07-12 in
Bison of Altamira (Cantabria). National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira

Bison of Altamira (Cantabria). National Museum and Research Centre of Altamira.

The prehistory of humankind is as distant to us as our time shall be to future civilizations. And yet we do not think of ourselves as a primitive people but ignorantly look down on our ancestors of generations past and boast of great improvements to their comparative primitiveness. As an ethnographer, I have nonetheless the general impression that such an approach is far from flawless, and thus prefer to talk about change rather than progress, just as Barandiaran did. (more…)

Children’s games update

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Posted on 2017-06-02 in

School children. Zeanuri (Bizkaia), 1913. Felipe Manterola Collection. Labayru Fundazioa Photographic Archive.

Etniker Euskalerria Groups and Labayru Fundazioa together published in 1993 an extensive volume dedicated to children’s games in the Basque Country, featuring approximately a thousand pastimes. The work had a great reception, particularly among teachers and sportspeople, which led to a second edition in 2005. Besides, and due to the vast amount of information and data provided about the playful world of children, it served as a basis for subsequent studies, including a doctoral thesis presented at Paris-Sorbonne University, and furnished arguments for several television documentary scripts. (more…)

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