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Singapore: Families Living in and Through the Pandemic
Amidst the devastating impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on individual health, deeply ingrained structural inequalities also surfaced, causing different segments of society to experience the social effects of the virus unevenly. In their study ‘Singapore: Families Living in and Through the Pandemic’ (Family Life in the Time of COVID: International Perspectives, 2023), Professor Vineeta Sinha, …
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Curating Shadows: Malayan Shadow Puppets in Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum
World Puppetry Day is celebrated worldwide on 21 March. Across Asia, shadow puppetry is an art form traditionally associated with the high culture of Hindu India and has proliferated as a form of entertainment in various contexts. Singapore’s Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) exhibits over 700 shadow puppets (wayang purwo), with most scholarship focusing on the …
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Can classic moral stories with anthropomorphized animal characters promote children’s honesty?
From ‘The Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing’ to ‘Goldilocks and the Three Bears’, moral stories have long served to entertain children and convey moral lessons through their succinct narratives. Many of these classic moral tales feature anthropomorphised animals as key characters, with anthropomorphism — the attribution of human traits to non-human animals — being prevalent in …