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Catelijne Coopmans , June 17th, 2021
Image 1: Hélène’s home office. The pandemic has revealed the fragility of our lives and the vulnerability of our bodies. It has also revealed the importance of fleshy…
Matthew Wolf-Meyer , June 3rd, 2021
From the bottom left, clockwise: my writing board (which currently has a note from my kids and a note about a future paper to be written), a stack…
Yana Stainova , May 27th, 2021
Image 1. Photo of Rauner Special Collections library at Dartmouth College, taken from the perspective of Sienna’s favorite table. Photo by Eli Burakian, 2014. Sienna Craig is a writer…
Amy Speier , May 20th, 2021
Figure 1. Sue’s writing space in the beautiful Syilx (Okanagan) Nation territory. With Scooter, the family’s unruly cat. The development of our writing dyad has unfolded organically over…
Mareike Smolka , May 13th, 2021
Figure 1: Sebastjan’s philosophy notebook and writing space in Ljubljana, Slovenia “Curiously, our letters turned out to be not a mere sum of (theoretically discrete) elements but a…
Robert Lorway , May 6th, 2021
It is 11 am in Vancouver. Danya sits at a desk beside a large window that looks out onto tree tops and electrical wires. Rain pools in the…
Michelle Charette , January 22nd, 2021
Photo by Robert Desjarlais “British poet W.H Auden suggested that true poets are those who like ‘hanging around words listening to what they say.” Desjarlais, 2011, Counterplay: An…
Anna Harris , January 8th, 2021
Figure 1: Janelle’s chair, with writing and knitting projects underway The conversation began on a summer day in a 13th Century chateau, with a moat, on the outskirts…
Patrick Mbullo , December 11th, 2020
Figure 1: Adia’s writing space “A special thanks to all the elders who ever told me to learn to be still. Research need not be running around in…
Andrea Wojcik , December 4th, 2020
Figure 1: Rachel’s writing space with friend Jasper (2007-2019) (Photograph by Rachel Prentice) Rachel E. Prentice is a no muss, no fuss anthropologist of medicine, technology, and the…
| , September 21st, 2020
Just clinging to the end of page 99 in my dissertation is a tentative question: “but should it really be that the presence of a model, even a…
| , April 20th, 2020
Opening to page 99 of Finding the Singing Spruce: Craft Labor, Global Forests, and Musical Instrument Makers in Appalachia, you’ll find my reflections on choosing apprenticeship as the ethnographic…
Jason Baird Jackson , April 8th, 2020
Since beginning the social distancing era, I have taken on a small, personal project to photograph and share two collections of Florida Seminole dolls from my life. Building…
Jason Baird Jackson , March 3rd, 2020
Some readers of Shreds and Patches know that I just lost my father KBJ (1935-2020). Others know that I am presently returning to my studies of craft from…
Jason Baird Jackson , July 29th, 2019
A note on photographs. Here just a few photographs from the first day of our May 2019 travel in Yunnan are presented. It will take time to work…
Jason Baird Jackson , April 15th, 2019
Here is a call for papers for an exciting conference in Estonia. The hosts are wonderful colleagues whom I met while visiting Viljandi last fall. Their call is…
Jason Baird Jackson , January 14th, 2019
The Material Culture students do not know about Material Culture Journalism yet. Maybe this week I’ll mention it to them. Day one was surely an overload as it…
Jason Baird Jackson , December 21st, 2018
Thanks to all the friends sharing the material culture journalism. Here is a new batch. The passing of Shan Goshorn is particularly sad to note. “The making of…
Jason Baird Jackson , November 10th, 2018
A guest post by Emily Buhrow Rogers. A carved bear by Amanda Crowe (Eastern Band Cherokee) from the collections of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures, Indiana University….
Marshall Kramer , May 3rd, 2018
Doctoring Traditions: Ayurveda, Small Technologies, and Braided Sciences Projit Bihari Mukharji University of Chicago Press, 2016. 376 pages. In a sequel to his 2009 Nationalizing the Body,…
Jason Baird Jackson , March 18th, 2018
This post in the recent series on December 2017 research and travel in Guangxi, China was written by Carrie Hertz, who also provided the photographs. In this post,…
Grant , February 15th, 2018
One of the things we are watching at Culturematic HQ is whether the artisanal theme is beginning to run out of steam. Leo Burnett London offers us this…
Mairi O’Gorman , June 2nd, 2017
In some research contexts, it is all but impossible to neglect the visual. Prior to beginning research on knowledge and intimacy in Seychelles and in London (with the…
Gamwell , May 17th, 2017
How do academics write for a variety of audiences? Is routine a necessary part of creating? How many times will Ryan mention Stephen King? In this episode of…