What is the relative lightness or darkness of a color? In color theory, value refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a color. We can divide these value changes into Shades and Tints. Shades are the relative darkness of a color and Tints are the relative lightness of a color. These divisions are created […]
What color do you get if you mix red and blue?
Which are wind instruments?
Which are wind instruments? Wind instrument Musical instrument. Organ. Clarinet. Trumpet. Flute. Bagpipe. Oboe. Accordion. What is wind music? From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wind music has two different meanings: Music written for wind instruments. Music produced using the wind (rather than, say, breath). These are chiefly string instruments, such as the Aeolian harp, but […]
Kitchen and
Max-Jean Zins, ” Kitchen and policy in India. The political culinary Kayasthes, a caste of scribes ” , French Review of political science, 1998, n° 3, pp. 409-436. Three kitchens, three “kitchen world” in the sense in which Fernand Braudel speaks of the world-economy for the Mediterranean, that is to say, ” universe in itself […]
agency, the social persist in the holidays
At the time of vacation, the opportunity may be good to reflect on what the holidays may involve in terms of changes of the markings and patterns of related behaviors in everyday life : transformations of the rhythm of life (meal times, sunrise, sunset), daily (to spend more time with his or her spouse and […]
Eating in an upscale restaurant when one is a drug dealer
Learn to eat in a great restaurant : social norms and stigma. Feedback on a few images of The Wire In The millionaires the chance, Michel Pinçon and Monique Pinçon-Charlot studying how winning the lottery learn how to become rich. The gain in the lottery, forcing the lucky new millionaires to dramatically change their practices, […]
Emile Zola, a guinea pig of doctor Toulouse
In 1896 appeared the first investigation medico-psychological on the reports of the intellectual superiority with the neuropathy of Doctor Toulouse. Émile Zola is his first subject of investigation. He will be with Poincaré, one of the only. Offering his body and his brain in the investigation of medico-psychological of this young psychiatrist, Zola accepts to […]
False-not in the deconstruction of stereotypes
How to deconstruct stereotypes? Evelyn Fox Keller ( (The century of the gene, Paris, Gallimard, 2003 [2000], p129) points out how the company is difficult from an example from Jurassic Park… In the field of genetics, Evelyn Fox Keller has conducted a survey on the stereotypical representations. It concludes by using the example of Jurassic […]
Childhood and cultures : acts of the symposium online
The proceedings of the International Conference “Enfance & Cultures : regards des sciences humaines et sociales” which took place last year in Paris on 15, 16 and 17 December 2010 are in line. Childhood & Cultures : the encounter of two “small” scientific objects Sylvie OCTOBER, Régine SIROTA Construction of the tastes Cultures juveniles : […]
camping, a family transmission, a provision built
Gilles Raveneau & Olivier Sirost, ” The camping or the best of republics. Ethnographic survey in the island of Noirmoutier “, Ethnologie française, 2001 A small air of holidays with this week’s article. Through the example of the land of the island of Noirmoutier in the Vendée, the authors highlight the mechanisms of transmission and […]