Tag: heritage

Earworm

A poet-anthropologist listens to an accidental field recording from Kashmir: What might be dismissed as noise becomes a way to unsettle the settled—making audible dispossession and theft, stealth…

Milpa for the Future

As the influx of processed foods threatens traditional diets in rural Mexico, an intergenerational community is forming to keep people healthy. Milpa is an ancestral way of farming…

Cementing the Past

An anthropologist investigates the ongoing impacts of the U.S.-based United Fruit Company’s fraught 1940s preservation of an ancient Maya site in Guatemala. The United Fruit Company was a…

Emic/Etic

A poet-anthropologist offers an “anti-glossary” to contest ways of knowing in social science that objectify people(s) into categories. “Emic/Etic” is part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and…

Survival Notes

Black African women in former colonial centers such as London gesture to subversive ways of communicating with those imprisoned in archives across generations. ✽ despite the Maangamizi,( Maangamizi…