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josephsciorra.bsky.social
ethnographer folklorist cultural historian: material culture*italian diaspora*religious studies. presepe builder. director of Academic & Cultural Programs at Calandra Institute, a CUNY-wide research institute
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My research informs the new podcast “La Grande Famiglia” about a US radio program that recorded the voices of Italian relatives and aired them. www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/la...

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reading Chabon’s ‘The Yiddish Policemen’s Union’ (2007) in the morning then Cohen Bros’ ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013) at night and noticed something….

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if i cld just find updates for my subway line (M) and a direct link to @nytimes.com obits on BlueSky i’d be a happy camper

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I’m curious about the significance of the image of a tired, resting, or sleepy St. Joseph in Italian paintings of the Nativity. This is not the prone St. Joseph who while sleeping receives divine messages before the Nativity.

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Thinking about family photos: “What an image can really reveal, and how memories shift and shape our sense of self. ‘Is a photograph actually a record of something, or is it meaningless without interpretation?’ she asks.” www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/m...

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So many amazing new books by colleagues! Where to begin?

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