WHAT IS YOUR THESIS QUESTION? (approx 2-3 sentences) I am interested in framing the interactions that people have with complex technological systems as social relations. By expanding the idea of personhood to include these non-human technological systems and looking at the intersection of traditional indigenous…

There are some notable anthropological articles starting, it seems, with Hallowell in the 1960s which re-examines the idea and concept of Animism. These articles against the modernist idea that animist beliefs and practices are a mythological concept, failed epistemology, or the outcome of a cognitive…

I consider this more of a sketch of a Cornell Box than an a fully realized product. I liked the idea of using the box in a more literal way, I think it reminded me of the common idiom “think outside the box” which I…

Background In my understanding the history of science commonly recognizes three primary shifts in western thought regarding the position and relation of the human to the universe. The first being associated with Copernicus removing the earth from the center of the divine sphere, the second…