Rethinking Material Religion in the East: Orientalism and Religious Material Culture in Contemporary Western Academia

Visual and Material Culture in the Context of Industrial Design: The Contemporary Nigerian Experience

The Opacity of Glass Rethinking Transparency in Contemporary Architecture

In this paper, an exchange of letters between the philosopher Jacques Derrida and architect Peter Eisenman is used as a catalyst to discuss the material qualities of glass and its relationship with the concept of transparency in architecture. In his criticism of an architecture devoid of human qualities, Derrida uses glass, defined through Walter Benjamin’s writings, as a hard and cold material...

Archaeology and material culture

This outstanding collection of papers documents the quality and quantity of historical archaeology research conducted on the island of Jamaica over the past thirty years. Jamaica offers a significant location for the investigation of the colonial enterprise in the Americas. Beginning with Spanish explorations and conquest in the sixteenth century, followed by British accession in 1655, the isla...

Plant tissue culture studies in Sorghum bicolor: immature embryo explants as the source material

Sorghum is a wonder crop from physiological point of view. It is the most important cereal crop, after rice and wheat.  The number of reports describing the use of transgenic Sorghum for basic studies in Biotechnology is still limited when compared to other crops. In one hand, the success of the transformation techniques is mainly dependent upon the availability of optimal protocols for highly ...

Cosplay - Material and Transmedial Culture in Play

Through “cosplay” (costume play) fans perform existing fictional characters in selfcreated costumes, thereby enriching and extending popular narratives. Cosplay is a scarcely studied form of appropriation that transforms and actualizes an existing story or game in close connection to the fan community and the fan’s own identity (Lamerichs, 2011; Newman, 2008; Okabe, 2012; Winge, 2006). The acti...