Cultural anthropology

A device of great destructive power detonated around 03:00 hours CET Wednesday in a commercial building near the Temple of Christ's Resurrection in Podgorica.

Montenegrin state broadcaster RTCG said there had been no victims, but that great material damage had been done.

Ancient Greece is considered to be the crucible of western civilisation. With the invention of the earliest form of democracy, the adoption of philosophy, theatre and the arts their contribution to what we take for granted today can not be underestimated. But they also did some things no so widely known things that we might see as pretty crazy from modern-day standards.

“The world is an oyster” is a proverb that fist appears in a Shakespear’s play “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, and its meaning has changed to mean the world is ours to enjoy. We can travel wherever we want around the globe and accumulate experiences that will make us grow as human beings.

One of my friends tells me that she stops checking her Facebook timeline and her SMS messages three days before the Mother's Day and restarts only the next Tuesday.

The Netherlands Institute in Athens, the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at VU Amsterdam, in cooperation with the Ethnographic Laboratory of Panteion University, are organizing an intensive summer school on visual anthropology in collaboration with Dutch and Greek universities for the third year in a row.

Dimitri Gondicas speaks passionately but modestly when discussing the new branch of Princeton University's Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies in Athens.

Gondicas has been at Princeton since the 1970s, first as a student of physics and then as a lecturer in Modern Greek, going on to become the director of the Seeger Center of Hellenic Studies in 2010.

If you happen to be a Christian from the Western side of world, this weekend you might be celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ. In that case, let me begin this column with a wholehearted wish: Merry Christmas! I hope this holy day will be a great time for your family, and bring you all the blessings one could hope for. 

On his last day in Greece, US President Barack Obama posted a video on his Facebook page from his walk on the Acropolis and the Museum, expressing the significance of the contribution of ancient Greece to western civilisation. He wrote on his page: “On my last overseas trip as president, I finally had the opportunity to visit Greece and take in the beautiful history of this country.

Istanbul's Beyoğlu Municipality opened its new culture and art season on Oct. 11 with an exhibition by Turkish painter Ahmet Güneştekin. 

The works in the exhibition, titled "The Poetics of Mythology," focus on various mythological and cultural concepts, including the figures of Phoenix, Shamaran, Achilles, and Troy. 

A young woman was found by the police naked in a concrete pit after being kept by her boyfriend for eight months because a witch doctor told him that it would make him rich.