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The Beach – A Frontier of Nostalgia

2016-02-19
By: Material World
On: February 19, 2016
In: From the news, Notes from the Field

by Duane Jethro The beach is a place of waste and ruin. Rotting seaweed, stinking dead seals, cracked and crushed shells, deflated bluebottles, fat blobs of translucent jellyfish melting away in the sun. All the finished, broken things spewed out by the ocean. In early January, estate agent, Penny Sparrow’sContinue Reading

Material World Blog Community?

2012-07-09
By: Material World
On: July 9, 2012
In: From the editors, Topics for Discussion

Haidy Geismar, NYU and UCL I was interested to read a very brief, rather parochial, account of the world of anthropology blogging over at the site of Anthropology News, the journal of the American Anthropological Association, . Material World was singled out as an example of a “team blog” butContinue Reading

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Call for Papers: Cultural Heritage and Technology

On: November 29, 2019

Via Ewa Manikowska, Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences The project “Digital Heritage in Cultural Conflicts” (DigiCONFLICT), in cooperation with Editorial Board of the biannual “Santander Art and Culture Law Review” (SAACLR), is pleased to announce a Call for Papers on the impact of the digital turn

ERC Research Group Indigeneities in the 21st Century: 2 Postdoctoral Fellowships and 1 Doctoral Position

On: October 11, 2019

2020/21 Fellowship Competition: Royal Museums Greenwich

On: August 30, 2019
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Occasional Paper Series

Occasional Paper 6: Destructivistas

Joel Cahen (2012, revised 2016) With our present day awareness, the arts as we have known them up to now appear to us in general to be fakes fitted out with a tremendous affectation. Let us take leave of these piles of counterfeit objects on the altars, in the palaces,

Occasional Paper 5: Mr Coperthwaite – a life in the Maine Woods

Anna Grimshaw, Emory University In 1960, Bill Coperthwaite bought 300 acres of wilderness in Machiasport, Maine. Influenced by the poetry of Emily Dickinson and by the back to the land movement of Scott and Helen Nearing, Bill Coperthwaite was committed to what he called“a handmade life.”   For over fifty years

Occasional Paper No 4: Properties and Social Imagination

Haidy Geismar, UCL Anthropology We are pleased to announce the latest issue of our Occasional Paper Series as well as the relaunch of the site with new and improved design by our newest editor, Matt Hockenberry. Properties and Social Imagination is a book length project that drew on explorations and experiments

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