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The Mexican Day of the Dead
In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 1.1
Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from Day of the Dead celebrations in Mexico and the United States....
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The Quinceañera Celebration
In The Changing Face of Mexico, page 3.1
Slideshow View a slideshow of photographs from quinceaƱera celebrations. One of the most important...
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Twelve rules for arranging your classroom
In The First Year, page 1.1
You'll want to set up your classroom as quickly as possible, but consider these factors before you start.
By Kristi Johnson Smith.
Working in the fields
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 5
Both men and women work in the wet-rice fields. Rural women living in highland Southeast Asia typically scale high mountains and do hard outdoor physical labor, which keeps them physically fit and strong. With one basket strapped at the waist and another larger...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Foundation of a diet
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 1
Wherever rice will grow in Southeast Asia, it is grown. Rice is one of the most nutritious and protein-rich grains that humans have domesticated from wild plants. Here, a woman is selling rice in an outdoor market in Hanoi. The round woven basket in front...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Winnowing by hand
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 12
Winnowing trays are round and generally plaited from bamboo strands woven tightly onto a rattan frame. In rural villages, they are made at home by members of every household along with most of their other farming and household tools. Rice grains that have...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Montagnards
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 13
The region around Mai Chau is home to ethnic minorities sometimes known in Vietnam as “hill tribes” or Montagnards (“mountain people”). In this part of northern Vietnam, the highland minority groups are mostly speakers of Tai languages,...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Women working
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 21
The bright green rice plants in the field are still young and unripe. Note, again, the power lines running in the background.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Protection from the sun
In Rice farming and rural life in Vietnam, page 6
Rural women, men, and children throughout Southeast Asia commonly weave their own hats, sleeping mats, and baskets from a variety of palm leaf, bamboo, and rattan fibers. Mountain groups or highlanders are less involved in the national cash economy (often...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Processing fish
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 5
The three women are working with knives and baskets to sort and clean the fish. The wall behind them is the harbor's seawall.
By Lorraine Aragon.
Fish market
In Northern and coastal Vietnam: Waterway settlements and Chinese influences, page 6
Women in Southeast Asia often work as food merchants in centralized outdoor markets where regional farm produce is collected for sale to surrounding town residents. Typically vendors selling similar items in adjacent spots are both cooperating and competing...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Women as merchants
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 9
Women throughout Southeast Asia regularly work in outdoor markets, both as preparers and sellers of food items. This woman, at an outdoor market in Hanoi, sells variously colored noodles from large trays. Noodle-making is a fine art in Vietnam, where ingredients...
By Lorraine Aragon.
On wheels
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 15
On this modern metal bridge at HuƩ, a woman and child bicycle on the right while in the middle, women and men move faster on motorcycles. In the warm climate and frugal economic conditions of Southeast Asia, motorcycles and motor scooters are practical and...
By Lorraine Aragon.
A marriage of cultures
In Contemporary life in Vietnam, page 5
With French and general Western media influence, many Vietnamese like to wear white or other color European-style gowns for at least some events in their multi-part marriage ceremonies. Unlike in the U.S., Vietnamese and other Southeast Asians usually participate...
By Lorraine Aragon.
My Lai
In French colonization and Vietnam wars, page 9
In 1968, U.S. forces considered the My Lai area to be a stronghold of Communist Vietnamese fighters (known as Vietcong) and their sympathizers. Repeated bombing of the region only increased the support of local civilians for the Communist fighters. After an...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Teaching with disturbing images
Photographs are especially powerful tools for explaining current and historical events — not least horrible or brutal events, such as war, genocide, famine, terrorism, slavery, and lynching. In fact, photographs are often used specifically to raise an...
By David Walbert.
Kings and gods
In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 5
Khmer kings promoted the idea, known as devaraja, that there was an intersection of the ruling king and a validating god, usually the Hindu god Siva. Banteay Srei, shown here, is a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Siva that was built during the...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Dancing deities
In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 11
The asparas in mirror image stances balance on one bent leg in active positions typical of classical Southeast Asian dances. One hand is held above the head and the other in front of the chest with their wrists and fingers stretched...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Reviving traditional arts
In East from India: Cambodia and Southern Vietnam, page 20
Here, three female palace dancers wearing silk costumes perform in Phnom Penh. The young women dancing in unison have their left feet raised with upward toes, their left arms gesturing forward, and their right hands on their hips. Each one wears a differently-colored,...
By Lorraine Aragon.
Teaching about Thanksgiving
Resources and activities to help you bring historical accuracy, cultural sensitivity, and a broader context to discussions about the quintessentially American holiday.
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By Kathryn Walbert.