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… and to try and contextualize myself in the big, wide world. Over the past decade, I’ve lived, worked, and studied … a cargo ship and spent eight days crossing the Atlantic Ocean until we reached Liverpool. From there I took a series … what I was traveling through. The world wasn’t something hidden under a mass of clouds for the duration of a …

… Anthropology, and the Social Science Research Council. An Indian-born, British-based ethnographer, Das tries to … littoral seaboard that connects Asia through the Indian Ocean maritime trade route. The Bay of Bengal is a polyfocal … It is a part land-part water milieu that supports the world’s largest mangrove megafauna. The region is exposed to …

… bestsellers, from Robin Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass to Richard Powers’s The Overstory, celebrate the wonders of the … Simard in 1997. Simard’s research reveals how vast, hidden mycorrhizal networks connect trees, allowing them to …

… others… In South Africa, it defines you - White, African, Indian, Coloured.” Regarding the book’s “happy ending” where … identity as something voluntarily embraced leaves out of sight the fact that identities are in the first place … look at different kinds of prison systems elsewhere in the world and infer, or deduce, the kind of prisoner society that …

… Flesh: Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World” (University of Pennsylvania Press). All three books … observed, relies on a “gold mine of an archive to unpack hidden meanings” within a rebellion about which few … 1998 through generous contributions from philanthropists Richard Gilder and Lewis Lehrman. The mission of the Center …

… answers to some of our most dire questions as humanity are hidden in plain view on the continent of Africa – the question is, can the rest of the world truly shift paradigms and listen to the stories, the …

… Bengal. First marked in 1947 - during the partition of the Indian Subcontinent, over the years, simmering concerns of …