Author: Rex

Life Last Week

Sarah Chinnery, via Trove I spent this week fascinated by the photography of Sarah Chinnery. Her images of PNG, famous anthropologists, flower still lives, street scenes, and friends…

Life Last Week

JFK’s coconut shell encased in plastic, via Wikimedia Commons After a bumpy election, James Marape returns for a second round as prime minister of PNG. I’m optimistic about…

Friday links

Murray Chapman, a geographer of the Pacific, passed away on the Big Island after a long career mentoring students, including many Pacific Islanders. The festschrift Oceanic Sojourns is…

Saturday Links

Several things happened this week: Finished my colleague John Rosa’s book Local Story: The Massie-Kahahawai Case And The Culture Of History. Re-watched Redbelt for the first time in…

Anthropology Biographies

Arjun AppaduraiRuth BenedictAllison DavisNatascha Döw-SchullKatherine DunhamMarvin HarrisEpeli Hau‘ofaZora Neale HurstonEdmund LeachClaude Lévi-StraussRobert LowieBronislaw MalinowskiMarcel MaussLewi…