[PHOTO] Looking across the Line 1 tracks, Yonge and Bloor

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Anthrodendum hosts a guest essay by a Brazilian anthropologist looking at how, over centuries, the trope of cannibalism has appeared in everything from the first European travel narratives to contemporary politics.


• Hornet Stories reports on how Ryan Murphy has started a campaign to improve the representation of, among others, people of colour and queer people in Hollywood.


• At In Media Res, Russell Arben Fox uses the closure of a Wichita café to examine the broader threat to the commons, to the shared spaces of community.


• JSTOR Daily shares seven interesting facts about cranberries.


• Erik Loomis at Lawyers, Guns and Money takes issue with self-serve checkouts.


• The LRB Blog notes the political, and general, decline of French politician Jean-Luc Mélenchon.


• Yorkshire Ranter Alex Harrowell draws connections between uncontrolled health care industry costs in the United States and Brexit.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: shadow, rent control, police at Pride, #InfinityAGO, Hearn

• As the skyline of Toronto grows higher, an increasingly large number of people are finding themselves having to deal with being in permanent shadow. The Toronto Star reports.


• Stefan Novakovic at Urban Toronto writes about how rent control makes sense for all classes of renters, here.


• Tim McCaskell at NOW Toronto asks why the police is so insistent on getting into the Toronto Pride parade.


• NOW Toronto reports on the state of the AGO's fundraising for a Yayoi Kusama Infinity Mirror room.


• The Hearn, a precious public resource, was sold to a film company for a mere $C 16 million. blogTO reports.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: New York City, Vancouver, Ribe, Hiroshima, Hong Kong

• CityLab links to a documentary about the quest of a man to walk every street in each of the five boroughs of New York City.


• The National Observer notes that the federal government is funding an affordable housing project in Vancouver, with rents for a studio apartment starting at $C 1150.


• Guardian Cities takes a look at archeological excavations in Denmark revealing the complexity of the Vikings' urban life in the trading centre of Ribe.


• CityLab tells the story of how the Carps, the baseball team of Hiroshima, took off after the Second World War, and how this rise inspired the city's people.


• Guardian Cities shares the works of a photographer concentrating on the images of the skyscrapers of Hong Kong wrapped in bamboo.

[NEWS] Five indigenous links: Frank Lloyd Wright, Ulama, Arielle Twist, Mahpee Wampanoag, Manitoulin

• Karim Doumar at CityLab looks at how artist Clarissa Tossin used video and dance to engage with the Frank Lloyd Wright Hollyhock House, inspired by Mayan models.


• JSTOR Daily takes a look at the historical background of the Mesoamerican ball game Ulama, currently undergoing a revival.


• Trans Cree writer Arielle Twist talks about the dangers of love over at CBC Arts.


• VICE reports on how the Mashpee Wampanoag, the tribe that welcomed the Pilgrims to New England, is at risk of losing what remains of their land.


• Jennifer Yang writes at the Toronto Star about vicious anti-native rumours on Ontario's Manitoulin Island that pitted white students against indigenous ones.

[ISL] Five #islands links: Easter Island, New Zealand, Curaçao, Barbados, Toronto Islands

• Representatives of Easter Island, visiting London, plead for the return of a moai statue stolen away in the 1860s. The Guardian reports.


• Guardian Cities notes the problems facing Pacific Island migrants in the New Zealand city of Auckland.


• Daily Xtra takes a look at Pride on Curaçao.


• The Conversation notes how Barbados has demonstrated, and is continuing to demonstrate, remarkable resiliency versus threats both natural and human.


• Deb O'Rourke at NOW Toronto writes about how Toronto Islanders and the Mississauga of the New Credit First Nation are moving towards reconciliation.