Lights, cameras and bad actions
New book lifts lid on the chaos behind the glamour of film festivals.
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£1.5 million boost for creative industries
Culture Minister visits St Andrews to help launch business voucher scheme.
Who owns antiquities?
Public lecture to explore debatable ownership of ancient artefacts.
Bollywood in St Andrews
The latest student fashion show will be a cross-cultural affair fusing kimonos with kilts.
Chimps learn ‘local customs’
Chimpanzee communities can acquire their own local customs and maintain their own 'multiple-tradition cultures', according to researchers at St Andrews.
A virtual field trip into the wild
CAPTION: A screen capture of the computer simulation which will allow visitors to make a lightning "virtual field trip" to two different wild chimpanzee communities. CREDIT: Steve Smart
Violence, culture and identity
CAPTION: Spanish bullfighting in action - one of the cultural representations of violence under study at St Andrews
Do humans ‘own’ culture?
Experts in evolution and animal behaviour will gather next week to debate whether chimpanzee 'culture' is any less real than human culture - the outcome of which may lead to a rethink of the human evolution process.