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Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Things
Sarah Newman explores the concept of waste from fresh historical, cultural, and geographical perspectives in Unmaking Waste: New Histories of Old Thin...
Science - Ancient people lived among ruins too. What did they make of them?
Around 500 C.E., a new government arose in the community now called Río Viejo, near the coast of the Mexican state of Oaxaca. It was once the largest ...
Exploring the embodied and interactive use of language in lived spaces
Kamala Russell’s fieldwork looks beyond traditional methods of tracking interpersonal interactions. “What does it mean to be sitting in a room with...
Anthropology’s Kathryn Takabvirwa served as cultural consultant for the Steppenwolf production of Familiar
When Danya Taymor was hired to direct Steppenwolf’s new comedy, Familiar by Danai Gurira, she knew that she had to get the cultural elements exactly r...