the mid-'80s to study art history in the
Pacific Northwest, Chisato "Kitty" O.
to illustrate that the indigenous people of
Japan are "a living culture."
known beyond their homeland of Northern
Japan, are being introduced to people in the
Spanish-speaking world.
the United States, Dubreuil, an assistant pro-
fessor of art history, has focused her in-
country research on contemporary Japanese
and Ainu visual arts and culture, as well as
the traditional and contemporary arts of the
native cultures of North America.
ture. To have my work translated into Span-
ish is a great honor," Dubreuil said.
Martínez, a scholar at Los Andes Univer-
sity in Bogota, Colombia, whose specialty
is Japanese art and culture. He had read
some of Dubreuil's many publications
about the Ainu and wanted to bring the
Ainu culture to the attention of Spanish-
speaking countries.
and Their Culture: A Critical Twenty-first
Century Assessment": (translation title) "Los
Ainu y su Cultura: Consideraciones Críticas
para el Siglo XXI." That paper is online at
www.japonartesescenicas.org/ainu.html. In
the article, Dubreuil discusses the origins of
the Ainu and reflects on the social, political
and cultural discrimination the Ainu have
faced.
Peramonkoro," Dubreuil's short story about
Ainu Peramonkoro Sunazawa, one of the
most respected textile artists of the 20th
according to Walker, is creating a
new paradigm for global interde-
pendence that focuses on sustainable
uses of natural resources, non-
growth economics, and psychological
well-being and happiness.
world now is nothing short of a cul-
tural revolution," Walker said. "And
like the democracy America gave the
world in 1776, today Bhutan is giv-
ing us Gross National Happiness;
that's going to be their export to the
world."
steps toward creating an economic
model that uses happiness and sus-
tainability as reference points.
plant the seeds of change," Walker
said.
ars, economists and heads of state
aiming to build a global movement
and action networks to promote im-
plementation of a new economic par-
adigm that integrates economic,
objectives. The Prime Minister of
Bhutan will present alternative mod-
els of the new economic paradigm
for the first time at the Rio+20 Sum-
mit in June. An early draft of his
speech is available at the website of
the UN conference,
http://www.2apr.gov.bt/.
his research and the tools he has uti-
lized to measure the psychological
well-being of college students and
their instructors.
level of literacy ... about what
happiness is and how they can
assess it and know whether or
not they're achieving it," he said.
Walker is now participating with
ars who are working on education
and educational issues.
place, everyone has to agree on what
happiness and well-being are and
how these psychological states are
connected with and reflect healthy
economic and ecological systems,"
Walker said. This topic will also
likely be the focus of his next sabbat-
ical. "Can there be anything better
than feeling like you have con-
tributed to improving the world?" he
asked.
(above), is the originator of the "gross national happiness" (GNH) measure,
which emphasizes the general well-being of a country through criteria such as
physical, social and environmental health.