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Mara Dicenta
@mdicenta.bsky.social
animals, race & science | environmental knowledges | multispecies ethnography | feminist STS

Assistant Prof at William & Mary
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August 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Commentary on the Forum - Snap, Crackle, and Hiss: Noise in the System, by Warwick Anderson @wombatscholar.bsky.social

I, too, know how it feels to be a ghost. At least, I think I did. In the early years of this century, I found myself in the eastern...

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Commentary on the Forum - Snap, Crackle, and Hiss: Noise in the System
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Anthropologist as ghost, by Emma Kowal @profemmakowal.bsky.social
In 1999, at the age of 23, I completed my first independent research project as part of my Honours year of my Arts degree at the University of Melbourne. For six weeks I was based in a villa...

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The Anthropologist as ghost
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Transinstitutionalization and the Ghosts of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, by Trevor Engel

I’d like to invite you all to join me on a journey as I tease out some of the layers of loss and removal throughout the nonconsensual journey of the person...

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Transinstitutionalization and the Ghosts of the Boston Society for Medical Improvement
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The Haunting Legacy of Racism in Anthropology: The Ghosts of Human Remains Identification Methods
by Thiago P. Barbosa @thiago-barbosa.bsky.social & Amanda Domingues @mandadomingues.bsky.social

This article examines the enduring legacies of colonialism and...

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The Haunting Legacy of Racism in Anthropology: The Ghosts of Human Remains Identification Methods
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The archive as ghost and the possibility of history
by Ricardo Roque.

In thinking about specters in anthropology’s colonial archives the image that comes to mind is of Indigenous people, namely the colonized and the subjugated, whose voices and perspectives...

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The archive as ghost and the possibility of history
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Can orangutans speak? Conjuring the ghosts of human evolution science (by Lisette Jong)

In this essay I conjure a ghost. For long I doubted whether I was summoning or conjuring and whether my doing mattered to the ghostly apparition at all....

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Can orangutans speak? Conjuring the ghosts of human evolution science
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
The demands we place on the spectral Other: mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts (by Lydia Gibson @lydz-gibby.bsky.social)

What does it mean to be haunted? Good and colleagues (2022: 440) describe haunting as an affective state induced by...

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The demands we place on the spectral Other: mediums, refractions, and the inner lives of ghosts
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there (by Vivette García-Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social)

I first encountered haunting as a methodology unexpectedly in 2017, while conducting fieldwork in Mexico City...

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'May the eyes of the missing haunt you.' Attending to things that are not there
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Viral Spectres, Haunting Journeys (by Michelle Bootcov)

This paper explores recursive journeys of a blood-borne virus through a Derridean hauntological lens. I trace the spectral presence of the hepatitis B virus and its antigen, and their ghost-like routes...

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Viral Spectres, Haunting Journeys
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Haunting as Anti-Method: Ecological Rage in the Wake of Organized Disappearance (by @mdicenta.bsky.social)

In landscapes marked by genocide, state terror, and ecological transformation, ghosts do not simply represent what was lost but return to disrupt...

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Haunting as Anti-Method: Ecological Rage in the Wake of Organized Disappearance
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Kowal, E., & Domingues, A. (Series Eds.). (2025). Ghostly Lessons: A Forum on Haunting. @profemmakowal.bsky.social @mandadomingues.bsky.social

Haunting is experiencing a renaissance. Derrida has undoubtedly put his stamp on it with hauntology (Derrida 1994)...

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Ghostly Lessons: A Forum on Haunting
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August 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thanks Marisol! I'm so glad Juan Camilo is at William & Mary!!
February 18, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Silvio siempre, en cualquier ciudad, domingo mañana o viernes noche
November 30, 2024 at 9:55 PM