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...Jayavarman II chose to bathe, he again had the river diverted so that the stone bed could be carved with an elaborate rendering of the Hindu god Vishnu. Vishnu is laying on the serpent Ananta, with his wife Lakshmi at his feet and a lotus flower protrudes from his navel bearing the god Brahma. Visitors can walk into the water to take pictures but are instructed not to touch the underwater carvings...
...Architecture 274, “Issues of Gender and Representation in Native American Art History;” L. Gish Jen ’77 will teach a seminar in women’s studies, Women’s Studies 165, “Advanced Creative Writing: Beyond the Navel,” and David Weber will teach two courses in history, a lecture course “Southwestern America: Indians, Hispanos, and Anglos,” and a conference course “Historical Approaches to the Hispanic Southwest, 1540-1848.” In fall 2003 and spring...
Work in queer studies or ethnic studies is often travestied as a form of navel-gazing on the part of marginal social groups. But in fact all kinds of people are working on all kinds of issues in these areas. Why is this? For one, it is often the case that the most trenchant critiques of concepts such as “race” or “sexual identity” are coming out of these so-called “identity-based disciplines.” Also, the putatively narrow concerns addressed in these fields engage many...
Three years ago, in a contentious Time cover story on the future of feminism, Wurtzel, who had just published Bitch, was one of few other young writers and public figures accused of replacing feminist action with self-seeking navel gazing...
Internet radio is a godsend for listeners whose tastes run too eccentric for the MTV Total Request Live navel-exposure set. Whether you hum merengue music in the shower or brush your teeth in rhythm to German techno, there's an online channel that offers what you want. Finding a station that matches your interests at a site like Sonicnet.com is like finding a date in the personal ads. All you have to do is scan the list of descriptions, and eventually you'll find the one that's approximately right for you. Globetrotter? To start, there's "African Experience...