Everyday Anthropology

11/21/2025

Just dug out my dusty camera bag and am charging up a video camera for tomorrow's talk. Don't remember the last time I had this all out.

11/06/2025

I was contacted by the Pawtuxet Valley Preservation and Historical Society and will be giving a talk on the Barstow Stove Company on November 22nd. This will be live streamed and the link will be available on request. This event will be added to the events page

11/05/2025

10/01/2025

It's been quiet over here, figuring things out. But I can't ignore this piece of news.

A trailblazer for women, for science, for women in science, for primatology. The first to observe tool use in non-human animals. We'd all be fortunate to lead 1/2 the life she did. And at 91 she lead it well.

Years ago I had the incredible luck to get to see her speak at the University of Rhode Island's Ryan center. I think of this event pretty often, and of the absurd privilege that led to the opportunity.

Jane Goodall, you will be missed.

  Sitting in a pretty packed auditorium, I reflected on the last couple of days. Some rather fortuitous Facebook browsing combined with the generosity of my old department chair/honors advisor…

02/17/2025

The YouTube channel is weirdly getting more subscriptions and comments lately. I don't think I've touched it or even logged in in about 4 years.
I'll have to come up with some small project that meshes well with the Cast Iron Historical Society and slowly start getting stuff on there again. I should also review what is even on there...because at this point I don't entirely remember.

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02/11/2025

Aforementioned changes are well underway. I'm in the midst of completing a master's degree so posting here is kind of both sparse and borderline pointless, but I will say that Lost & Foundry is out, stock copies are finally arriving after some initial QC issues, and my next "big" project is to create an app that allows input of foundry information on the back end (my side of things) and will allow a search of it through the front end (ideally the Cast Iron Historical Society's website). Once the books are here and I can approve the quality, I'll be fulfilling the very backed up orders and seeing where I am in the queue for the next print run. It's been frustrating but we're almost there.

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12/07/2024

Been undergoing some changes. If anyone has been to the website recently it's kinda been nonsense as I've updated and changed some things.
Everyday Anthropology is mostly going to function as a blog now, allowing myself and contributing authors to explore more freely than makes sense under a mission-driven nonprofit structure.

The nonprofit aspect has been spun off into the Cast Iron Historical Society, which is working on building a repository of reference sources for researching iron casting and the United States stove industry more specifically. You can find the link on anthrospin.com, and we've also got a presence on Facebook.

Everyday Anthropology will mostly be scientific and anthropological communication going forward, which is honestly all it ever was in the first place.

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