Aug
12
Olympics for Savages: The Anthropology Days
Listen to the article here!As the 202(1) Tokyo Olympics come to a close, I
thought it would be
8 min read
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Aug
05
The Memory Boom: To Forget or to Remember?
Listen to the article here!In the last 50 years of the 20th century, about
15,000 museums were created
5 min read
Jul
29
The Story We Tell: Collective Memory, History, and Identity
Listen to the article here!Inside a conference room at a luxurious villa, a
group of 15 men gather around
8 min read
Jul
22
Remembering Tomorrow: Memory, Imagination, and Prolepsis
Listen to the article here!"What will you be doing tomorrow?"
> "I don't know.
5 min read
Jul
15
Playing Jenga: Japan's Timber Trade
I recently made a video on this topic, so you can check it out here:
Japan is a beautiful island
7 min read
Jun
26
Audio: Sphex, Truth, and Reality
Have you heard of the Sphex Wasp?
This curious insect and the way we understood its behavior can tell us
Jun
25
Imagining Pre-History: Understanding the World before Yesterday
> “In 2,000 years, people may dig this up and think this was the art of Japan!”
My father
4 min read
Jun
24
Book notes: Privilege
> Rather than think of the world as a space of equality, students learn to think
of it as one
2 min read
Jun
24
Fiction: The Man at the Desk
There’s a man at the desk I’ve been peering upon for quite a while. He isn’t
very
6 min read
Jun
24
Book notes: Collapse
> History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an
enterprise for those who seek
7 min read