In this papec we propose a kind of “teaching by demonstration” method, aiming at its application to humanoid robots at home in the future. The demonstrator’s motion is captured by a pair of stereo cameras mounted on hisher head, locating very close to hisher eyes. By tracking the landmarks attached to the demonstrator’s hand and the working environment, one can estimate not only the demonstrato...

Using Du Bois’s “Double Consciousness” and Fanon’s “Colonized Intellectual”, we contend that Borges’s essay “The Nothingness of Personality” can be deemed postcolonial. Our study turns to the postcolonial world of Latin America, with a special focus on Buenos Aires, addressing the alienation, hybridity, “two-ness”, and the othered state of Borges as an immigrant to Latin America after the World...

This studyexamines the hybridizationof ethnic cultures in the U.S., using rice products as a case in point. The paper presents and analyzesphotographic observations of various brands of ricefrom six cultures in local stores in an American Midwestern city. The analysis of the rice brands helps us understand the first and the third of the three levels of hybridity. The firstlevel hybridity, or me...

Hybridity has become a master trope across many spheres of cultural research, theory, and criticism, and one of the most widely used and criticized concepts in postcolonial theory. This article begins with a thorough review of the interdisciplinary scholarship on hybridity. Then it revisits the trope of hybridity in the context of a series of articles on cultural globalization published in the ...

in postcolonial studies with the exigencies that led to the founding of this academic discipline itself. Such exigencies arose from recognizing and studying situations of stark inequalities, which were held in place and legitimated by the various machinations of, or inherited from, colonialism. That is, in unpacking and examining hybridity today in some of its theoretical versions as well as sp...