The people who have most influenced me have done so by challenging the boundaries of my thinking. My good friend Everett Lupe had a talent for asking questions that led me to see connections between ideas that I otherwise would have never thought of on my own. Our conversations were the basis for my 2010 […]

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Ethnography, when it’s done well, emerges from the intersection of multiple authors, each bringing something different to the endeavor. The resulting artifact has the potential to speak to an audience broader than what is normally available to a single author. Some years ago noted healer, herbalist, cowboy and rangeland manager Paul Ethelbah narrated the story […]

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I have a fondness for the offbeat, anomalous and forgotten gems of history. I found the image above while browsing The Public Domain Review, a place that gathers to itself just this sort of cultural flotsam and jetsam. The men in the picture are measuring a footprint left behind by some kind of bizarre sea […]

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An archaeology of lost digital objects…

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