Body Metaphor or Second Body: Learning from Ancestral Cosmologists
by Feng Qu, Ph.D.
You are inside of your body. Everything else is outside of your body. Seems like a no-brainer, doesn’t it? Reaching back to the wisdom of ancient cultures, anthropology’s growing “new animism” movement disagrees.

Theatre of The Goddess: Ritual, Masks and Community
by Lauren Raine, MFA
A mask doesn’t just hide your face from those around you. Sometimes it reflects your true nature. And sometimes it even reflects the face of the Goddess.

New Materialisms on Stage: Environmental Directions in Contemporary British Drama
by Zümre Gizem Yılmaz, M.A.
The stage has always struggled to find a popular audience for social issues. Here are three British plays that forge ahead anyway, bringing eco-awareness to the British theater-going public.