CONCRETE CITY “Armelle Choplin's Concrete City weaves a novel and engaging analysis
of urbanization by tracing the journeys of cement and people making urban life in West …

Tracing the experiences of mobile Himalayans across the globe, Places in Knots describes
the ways in which Himalayan people relate to the multiple places they inhabit and the work …

An innovative collection of essays that foregrounds specific cargoes as a means to
understand connectivity and mobility across the Indian Ocean world. Scholars have long …

Hoarding New Guinea provides a new cultural history of colonialism that pays close
attention to the millions of Indigenous artifacts that serve as witnesses to Europe's colonial …

In 2010, the international consulting firm McKinsey Global Institute (2010) published a report
on the economic potential of African countries, then referred to as" lions on the move”, an …

Africa is experiencing a construction boom, both in terms of infrastructure and housing,
which translates into a high demand for concrete. This chapter proposes to explore the …

This article sets out to tackle the question:'what can museum anthropology do in the twenty-
first century?'It does so by focusing on the doing in a double-sense: on what museum …

Primarily, this research aimed to appraise and discover how a 21st-century Filipino object
owner collocates meaning with digital artifacts and identify what cultural underpinnings …

Affective atmosphere is a fundamental component to the allure of coffee shops that is
cultivated through sensory experience. In this thesis I examine how the sensory experience …

Autobiographical narratives can embed in 'things', and the way objects degrade can be used
as a way to conceptualise an understanding of the role of memory in storytelling. This piece …