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The Ohiomachine

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Ohio is the geographical no-place that you fly over to get from one coast to the other. Wedged into a vast geographical space known simply as “the American Midwest,” Ohio is a flat, dull, boring ...

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology: An Inverse Museum

Burning Diagrams in Anthropology examines the use of diagrams in anthropology to reimagine how we think about, and challenge, intellectual histories. Highlighting the impossibility of escaping what different disciplines and institutions deem to be “past,” ...

Becoming Afro-Dutch: Hybrid Being in Black Art and Culture

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In Becoming Afro-Dutch, artist, curator, and researcher Charl Landvreugd argues that we do not yet have a language to understand Afro-Dutchness, and that it is insufficient to rely on the discourses developed in African American, ...

Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes

Elements of this book, Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes, defy reason. They do so for good reason. Much of what we do, much of what we think, is oblation: sacrifice, offering, to something or someone. The ...

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