A Chocopie in Bloomsbury
Hojin Chan
PhD Student, UCL Anthropology
We present you the Chocopie’s fluffy, chewy web of cultural significance.
Lessons From Living in an Orchard
Abira Pathak
MSc Anthropology and Professional Practice
Abira Pathak’s poem pokes at rot, with all the curiosity orchards lend us.
Temporality and Transgender Love: An Autoethnographic Account
Martha Hancock
BSc Anthropology Alumna
Martha Hancock shares how love and transphobia have shaped the temporalities of her relationship.
Book review: Life Story – From Cells to Civilisations and Beyond
Ewan Martin-Kane
MSc Social and Cultural Anthropology
Anthropolitan editor Ewan Martin-Kane reviews Jonathan Loh’s new history of evolution.
Letters to A Young Anthropologist: Conversations with Anthropologists Across Time
Abira Pathak
MSc Anthropology and Professional Practice
Asking a crucial question to someone who has spent most of their career doing just that is a kind of wager. But as anthropologists-in-the-making, we braved up and asked two questions to six of our discipline’s most distinguished scholars.
Skeletons on the Beach: Fascist Holiday Houses as ‘Difficult Heritage’
Gaia Baldi
MSc Digital Anthropology
Romanga’s colonie have a “difficult heritage” – they have served as sites of leisure, shelter, and Fascist indoctrination. Gaia Baldi gives an account of these complex, unignorable structures.
A Lenticular Monument: Selective Remembrance and Colonial Silence in UCL’s Japanese Garden
Jeehwan Cha
MSc Digital Anthropology
UCL’s Japanese Garden holds a familiar monument and – when seen from this angle – a colonial artefact.
