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Material Culture

Review of A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa (2022) by Robyn d’Avignon

Review of India in the Persian World of Letters by Arthur Dudney (2022)

Review of Guaraná: How Brazil Embraced the World’s Most Caffeine-Rich Plant (2022) by Seth Garfield

Digital Archive Review: The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Digital Archive Review: The Louvre Museum

Optics of the State

Review of The Optic of the State: Visuality and Power in Argentina and Brazil (2007) by Jens Andermann

IHS Climate in Context Roundtable Book Review: Future Remains: A Cabinet of Curiosities for the Anthropocene (2018) Edited by Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett

Digital Archive Review: Age of Revolutions and the Newberry French Pamphlet Collection

Digital Archive of Latin American and Caribbean Ephemera

A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century by Andrei Pop (2019)

The Lived Nile: Environment, Disease, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt by Jennifer L. Derr (2019)

Satan’s Playground: Mobsters and Movie Stars at America’s Greatest Gaming Resort, By Paul J. Vanderwood (2009)

The Archaeology and History of Colonial Mexico by Enrique Rodríguez Alegría (2016)

Book cover of Collecting the World: The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo

Collecting the World: Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum by James Delbourgo (2017)

The National Museum of Anthropology in San Salvador

The First Texans: An Exhibit in Jester Hall

“Oh this learning, what a thing it is!”: The New Archive (No. 16)

Visitors of the Nile: The New Archive (No. 13)

Sounds of the Past

Recent Posts

  • NEP’s Archive Chronicles: A Brief Guide Through Some Archives in Gaborone and Serowe, Botswana
  • Review of Hierarchies at Home: Domestic Service in Cuba from Abolition to Revolution (2022), by Anasa Hicks
  • Agency and Resistance: African and Indigenous Women’s Navigation of Economic, Legal, and Religious Structures in Colonial Spanish America
  • NEP’s Archive Chronicles: Unexpected Archives. Exploring Student Notebooks at the Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire (IFAN) in Senegal
  • Review of No Place Like Nome: The Bering Strait Seen Through Its Most Storied City
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