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.
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.
