UNESCO status: Is delisting an effective deterrent?
Posted on 2012/02/03

The UNESCO World Heritage List. It has existed for decades. It contains nearly 1000 sites and areas. It has a…

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Puritan Dilemma: A 17th Century Salem settler and a 1991 murder
Posted on 2012/01/10

“History is the story of events, with praise or blame.” – Cotton Mather I’ve never fully understood the general obsession…

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US/Bolivia MOU Extended!
Posted on 2011/12/11

The US/Bolivia MOU has been extended! I and many other people have been on the edge of our seats over…

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Jonestown vacation: Guyanese heritage?
Posted on 2011/11/21

The fella and I were talking about what we don’t know this morning. Specifically, which countries in the world that…

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The Poe I didn’t know
Posted on 2011/08/02

This week I read The House of the Seven Gables for the first time and have been googling daguerrotypes like…

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Singing Inka Princesses of the 1950s
Posted on 2011/05/19

Incidentally, there appears to be a whole mysterious world out there filled with dynamic Indigenous-chic Peruvian singers from the 1950s…

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The Glory of Bolivian Silent Film: time traveling twice
Posted on 2011/05/19

Today is another day for silent film lust and desperation.Arthur Posnansky, everyone’s favorite fantastic and fantastical Bolivian archaeologist, produced a silent…

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Changes in Altitude
Posted on 2011/05/08

Lately I have been working several days a week at a small museum that was once the home of a…

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Ode to Andean Leaders in Indigenous Garb
Posted on 2011/04/25

Over the weekend I got myself characteristically worked up about Perú’s impending run-off election between “Cancer and AIDS” to quote…

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Pox, leave thy damnable faces, and begin!
Posted on 2011/04/22

There are two known remaining samples of the smallpox virus (in Russia and the US) and they have been condemned…

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