Come in; come in. The gods are here too.
--Aristotle, On the Parts of Animals
BOOKS
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Chthonia: A Novel Walking along the shore of Lake Michigan one cold January day, my eighteen-year-old daughter asked me if I thought the United States would last as a country. My response was no, I thought not, civilizations, let alone countries, tend not to persist over long periods of time. Her question led to a lively and wonderfully playful discussion about how humans would adapt after a global catastrophe. Would we resort to hunting and gathering? Agriculture? Would small groups of humans cooperate or fight? How would we reinvent the vast scientific knowledge lost with the collapse of all cultures? What new cultural forms would emerge? Chthonia, now half-drafted at 70,000 words, is my attempt to answer those questions in a novel. |
Customary and Traditional: Essays on the History and Practice of Anthropology Draws together some of my published papers with the addition of new essays on the history of applied anthropology in Alaska and on postmodern anthropology. Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1. The State of Play Chapter 2. Museum Exhibitions and the Development of American Anthropology Chapter 3. Ethnographic Photography Chapter 4. Anthropologists’ Autobiographies Chapter 5. Anthropology, Mathematics, and Kinship Chapter 6. Applied Anthropology: Customary and Traditional Use among Alaska Natives Chapter 7. Are There Traditional Societies? Bibliography Index |
Spring Our world’s solace and silence, a red finch at the feeder. Forced to listen, neighbor’s cat lies dormant, death metal hiss. Feathery flashes, bluebells drip bees, tail twitches. Warm earth, dust mites and strawberries, tabby yawns. |