Stories about "Society and culture"
Look What We Found: dolls on an anthropologist’s shelf
Thursday, February 9, 2017 12:00 pm
Why are dolls in black abayas and head scarfs displayed with blonde Barbie dolls on Loring Danforth’s office shelf?
Bates in the News: Jan. 13, 2017
Friday, January 13, 2017 11:19 am
The Washington Post reports how Tim Ohashi '11 idolized the Washington Capitals as a kid and now he's on the NHL's team's coaching staff. How'd that happen?
A year in Turkey teaches Doug Van Hoewyk ’98 to ‘maintain poise during stress’
Thursday, December 15, 2016 10:35 am
A Fulbright Scholar in Turkey last year, biologist Van Hoewyk '98 and his family decided to stay despite the danger.
Bates at Night: A respite called {Pause}
Friday, December 2, 2016 11:25 am
A visit to the Gomes Chapel for {Pause}, a weekly secular service of music, poetry, silence, dance, and art.
Bates at Night: Watching election results
Friday, November 11, 2016 11:54 am
Election night delivered a surprise to students, faculty, and staff who gathered in Chase Hall Lounge to watch election results.
Q&A: Based on a Short Term to Saudi Arabia, Loring Danforth’s new book challenges ‘destructive’ Orientalism
Friday, August 12, 2016 9:42 am
Danforth's new book, Crossing the Kingdom, is based on his 2012 Short Term that enjoyed amazing access inside Saudi Arabia.
‘Here be Bates’: A history lab puts the college on the map
Friday, May 20, 2016 1:17 pm
The Bates College course "Innovations in Mapping" looks at two eras marked by big advances in mapmaking and navigation: the 1700s and the last few decades.
Student laundry in the 1950s by mail, male, or the Hobby Shoppe
Friday, May 6, 2016 10:37 am
Students used mailable laundry packs, a nearby store's machines, or a Lewiston-Auburn service run on campus by students — who had to deal with deadbeat clients.
At Emerge, students learn film business ‘by seeing it in action’
Friday, April 29, 2016 10:48 am
Like much of Bates' engagement with Lewiston-Auburn, the college's sponsorship of this fast-growing festival is a two-way street.
Picture story: A Japanese tea ceremony is about ‘treasuring every moment’
Friday, March 18, 2016 10:44 am
Featuring images of a Japanese tea ceremony she performed at Bates, here's a story about Yuko Eguchi '03 and her path from Japan to Bates — where she staged an opera for an epic senior thesis — and into a scholar's life.