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Nostalgia and fireflies: Belize Day 1

For the next two weeks I will be in Belize conducting a bit of preliminary fieldwork. It has been 11…

New Town tourism: brutal adventures at Glenrothes

A ‘New Town’ in the UK sense is a planned city meant for post-WWII population dispersal. They are known for…

PhD fieldwork advice? Give up when things are bad and mess around

I have just participated in a workshop entitled Doing Fieldwork in Latin America at the University of Glasgow. I was…

‘Abuela Grillo’: a beautiful animated short about rain, rights, and restoration

Abuela Grillo is an animated short directed by Denis Chapon and featuring the voice of Luzmila Carpio. It is, perhaps,…

Know your Tupac

There are so many Tupacs! Here is how to tell them apart.

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…

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