the house of loss
Sagarika Raje Wadiyar
MA Material and Visual Culture
A poem about “the material residue of grief” embodied in a house, which, for the anthropologist, “is never just a shelter.”
Poems on Aging Well
Lara Scott-Rule
BSc Anthropology with Year Abroad
What does it mean to grow old, well? These I-poems, developed from research interviews, move towards that meaning.
Instructions for Becoming Modern: Eight Ways to Get On with Your Manchu Queue.
Zichen Yin
MA Material and Visual Culture
Zichen Yin’s visual essay about the politics of the Manchu queue, in the form of a fictional manual.
Under the Cherry Tree: Entangled Time in Spa Fields
Rie Kimoto
MSc Anthropology and Professional Practice
Rie Kimoto shows us the more-than-human temporalities of Spa Field’s cherry blossom trees.
Decolonial-washing? Musings on Decolonisation as a Postcolonial Student
Hayley Soh
BSc Anthropology with Year Abroad
Hayley Soh on the risks of “decolonial-washed” thinking, which essentialises non-Western perspectives, overlooking their complexity.
Thoughts from the Field: On Becoming an Ecologist (and Feeling Like an Imposter)
Dr Gabriella Santini
PhD Anthropology
Dr Gabriella Santini shares her experiences of finding confidence within the indeterminacies of interdisciplinary fieldwork.
Harmonia Mundi
Damian Sabatini, PhD Anthropology
From Pythagoras to David Byrne, the concept of Harmonia Mundi has sought to explain the cosmic role of sound and music.
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