Brazilian blocos ignore ban on Carnival celebrations.
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“To bring rain or warm weather,” Micmac storyteller Pierrot Clemeau told an American ethnologist in 1897, “talk of whales or relate a legend describing the migration of the birds and the alternation of the seasons.”
The first thing that a new migrant sends to his family back home isn’t money; it’s a story.
—Suketu Mehta, 2019More MigrationGo to Issue Page >
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