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.
On Commoning and Perambulation
Sam Wilkins
BASc Arts and Sciences
Sam Wilkins guides us on a perambulation through Epping Forest into the historical politics which underlie concepts of land and the commons held in the UK today.
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.
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