Category Archives: Imported
Preserving a traffic cone: Glasgow’s statue topping tradition is under threat.

What is heritage? Is it the physical remains of the past? The literal, tangible objects of art? The physical bits…

Einstein and the Hopi

Earlier today I posted a photo on twitter that I came across. It shows Albert Einstein with a group of…

Blessings of the “dark” Virgin of the lake OR Copacabana, where the cars wear lil’ hats.

I’ve spent the past two months in Bolivia and this weekend I was in Copacabana, a beautiful and ancient town…

High Crimes: Studying the Illicit Antiquities Trade in the Bolivian Andes (Day of Archaeology)

Yesterday I participated in the Day of Archaeology. I and several hundred others like me wrote about what our life…

Ancient Andean fruit review 2: La fruta se disfruta

As stated in my last entry, I am in the passionate throes of a love affair with Andean fruit that…

Ancient Andean fruit review 1: the tastiest heritage

I love Bolivia. This country is the most intricate, fascinating, and surprising place. I am delighted to be back in…

“Plunder to Preservation” from the Oxford University Press (with chapter by me!)

From Plunder to Preservation Britain and the Heritage of Empire, c.1800-1940, Edited by Astrid Swenson and Peter Mandler, ”takes a novel…

Walmart and the destruction of Mexican Heritage

I have just written a guest post for Union Solidarity International about the construction of a Walmart at the World Heritage Site of…

Lord of the Rings remains and A Very Hobbit Christmas in Middle Earth

I am often in New Zealand…at least more often than I am in various other places. While here I tend…

Baktuns, The End of the World, Conceptions of the Future, and Being a still-confused 30-year-old

At the moment I am so deep into vacation that I can’t bear to look at anything but non-challenging novels…

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