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Edinburgh Social Anthropology
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We’re the Social Anthropology subject area of the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh.

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To know more about Grace and her work, check out her UoE page www.sps.ed.ac.uk/staff/grace-... and her website www.gracehzhou.com
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March 20, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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And here's one of Grace's poems, titled 'The Burial of a Woman Known as China Mary'
Tombstone, Arizona. December 1906 Take my bones, girl soak them in brandy, when they gleam like the pearled vertebrae of some native creature--- coyote or her patient prey-wrap me in a fine silk brocade the color of our secret moon, of mutton-fat jade nursing at my wrists, of these side-sleeper hills at dawn (hills so close we might run and be free in them). Once, I offered pieces of myself to every man--my hands, my coins, my words-- I traded my name for honor and they called me Mary, like their placid goddess. Was she not matriarch to whores and wanted men too? Now, flesh scrubbed bare, I let this land claim me, this land that has stripped me down to my convictions: so plant me deep, girl, to feed my thousand sons and daughters. Root me here and here and here, into this hard dirt between the ocotillo and creosote. When I burst into crop, gather my bounty.
March 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Vote of Faith is available from @fordhampress.bsky.social: www.fordhampress.com/978153150908...
Vote of Faith
A richly cinematic and compelling look at priest-politicians in Brazil and their religious and secular entanglementsWhat does desire have to reveal about the...
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March 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM