Publications

What looks ancient — a tradition, a style, a rite —often turns out to be a product synthesised in the modern era. And what’s taken for a national trait often turns out to have been born from close contact between cultures separated by geography, language, and time.
In the foundation’s media, we examine whether a given tradition really is as old or as national as it’s assumed to be — and tell that story in lively, accessible language, grounded in scholarship.

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