Yellow Water: Rupture and Return One Year after the Gold King Mine Spill
Figure 1. A view of Animas Creek taken one year after the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill that discharged three million gallons of acid mine water toward…
Tag: Selected Print
Lissa and the Graphic Novel Form: An Appreciation
Lissa: A Story about Medical Promise, Friendship, and Revolution tells a tale in graphic novel form of two (fictional) girls, one American and one Egyptian, who each faces…
On the Matter of Film
Original negatives for John Marshall’s Pittsburgh Police Series, labeled “COPS.” Photo by Frank Aveni. As film making and viewing increasingly become identified with digital media — storage in…
Shifting Perspectives: The Man in Africa Hall at the American Museum of Natural History at 50
The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in NY circa 2000. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. The “Man in Africa Hall” at the American Museum…
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History: An Alternative Museum
The action by Decolonize this Place on the steps of the AMNH included veiling the statue of Teddy Roosevelt. Photo courtesy Hrag Vartanian. https://hyperallergic.com/329225/decolonizethisplace-d…
Surveilling Trump: A Call to Action
Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at the South Point Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo by Gage Skidmore. Trump Watch For better or worse,…
Ethnography on Trial
Victoria Phaneuf, Lauren Penney and Lindsey Feldman in southern Louisiana in 2013 while conducting research on the midrange effects of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. “[Ethnography] is the most…
The “Born-Free” Generation
visual essay Figure 1. Masixole Mlandu, a University of Cape Town (UCT) student protest leader, during a national shutdown protest. Cape Town. 2015. In 1994, South Africa celebrated…
Time and the Other Primates
books and arts Tomasello, Michael. 2014. A Natural History of Human Thinking. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 178 pages. 18th-Century Questions, 21st-Century Problems Influential c…
Anthropology Now and Then in the American Museum of Natural History
Figure 1. American Museum of Natural History, Manhattan. Courtesy https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/ File%3AAmerican_Museum_Natural_History_3792476001_6cab532900.jpg. By Smart Destinations (http:…
The Tintometer, Anthropology and the Science of Color
Figure 1. The slide holder with a series of numbered yellow-tint slips. Courtesy Emily Martin. In 1898, physician and marine biologist A.C. Haddon set off with a group…
Good Earth: Exploring the Old Lead Belt
Figure 1. Park Hills, Missouri, 120 Buckley Street. The entire street borders the Desloge Chat Pile, which has been remediated by the Environmental Protection Agency and partially transformed…
Elusive Caimans and the Anthropologist as Devil
books and arts Lucas Bessire. 2014. Behold the Black Caiman: A Chronicle of Ayoreo Life. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press. 296 pages. Dust In this poignant and…
Remains of the Day: A Native American Burial Discovered in San Francisco Is Shrouded in a Fog of Acrimony
Computer visualization of the burial arrangement as discovered, working from generic photographs of bones. Courtesy of Peter Colby. On February 25, 2014, at eight in the morning, the…
The CRISPR Hack: Better, Faster, Stronger
Genetic testing technologies, which enable parents to create multiple embryos and then select the “best” for implantation, are already ubiquitous. Image by Jacopo Werther. Licensed under CC Attrib…
The Arts of Recognition
Members of the ARMH return recovered remains to victims’ kin and the community-at-large. Courtesy of Óscar Rodríguez Alonso. Abenójar, like many farming communities in the Spanish Province of…
The Politics and Ecology of Water: Notes on the Drought in California
Drowned trees in the dry bed of the Salton Sea. Image by Daniel Mayer from Wikipedia under Creative Commons License. California is great in size and diversity, the…
Not for Sale: How WWII Artifacts Mobilized Japanese-Americans Online
Banner of JA History Not for Sale Facebook page. On March 5, 2015, Eve M. Kahn’s “Newsworthy Notes” in the Antiques section of the New York Times included…
Perpetual War
Perpetual War Text by Katherine T. McCaffrey. Photos by Bonnie Donohue. Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, is home to 107 abandoned military bunkers, a legacy of the U.S. naval…
The Nexus of Collaboration: Negotiating African American History and Public Interest in Southwest Virginia
Tom Klatka pauses after clearing debris to expose the end of a grave shaft in the Kentland slave cemetery. Note the larger exposed grave shaft in the background.…
What Did Malinowski Eat in Papua?
Malinowski inspecting a Trobriand girl’s soulava necklace. Photo courtesy of Michael Young. One hundred years ago (June 27, 1915 to be precise), Bronislaw Malinowski arrived in the Trobriand…
Oradour-sur-Glane: Remembering Terror
A Visual Essay. Text and photos by Álvaro Minguito Palomares Oradour-sur-Glane is a symbol of the misfortunes of the Nation. It is important to preserve this memory, so…
Sebastian Junger’s The Last Patrol, A Dialogue
End of the freight tracks, Connellsville, PA. From left to right: Brendan O’Byrne, Guillermo Cervera, Sebastian Junger and Rudy Valdez. Photo by Mariah Rehmet, courtesy of HBO. War…
The Promising Predicament of the Keystone XL Pipeline
Stockpile of Keystone XL pipes near Buffalo, South Dakota. Photo by David Bond. Politics makes visible that which had no reason to be seen. —Jacques Rancière Whether ultimately…