Andrés Romero

Contributing Editor

Andrés Romero is a PhD candidate at Wayne State University. His research explores questions of violence, place, memory, images and imagination, and selfhood in Bogotá, Colombia.

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Bodies at War: Introduction

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Bodies at War: Introduction

The plane’s menacing blades take hold of the corner of the frame. The green from above turns into unpaved-road beige, then to concrete gray as the plane lands. ... More

Bodies at War

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Bodies at War

We welcome you to the 2020 return of the Screening Room film series. We begin our series with Emily Cohen's film Bodies at War (2015). The film centers on the l... More

Survivors

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Survivors

An aerial view descends into the city as floating trash blur the boundaries where water turns to housing settlements. The camera follows an ambulance through th... More

Media, Images, and the Expressive Arts at AAA/CASCA 2019

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Media, Images, and the Expressive Arts at AAA/CASCA 2019

The American Anthropology Association and the Canadian Anthropology Society will co-host their yearly national conference in Vancouver, Canada, from November 20... More

Con-text-ure

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Con-text-ure

We welcome you to Con-text-ure, a series on experimental media and writing. The word Con-text-ure is borrowed from the book Culture/Contexture: Explorations in ... More

The Possibility of Spirits

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The Possibility of Spirits

A barely perceptible breeze brushes through quivering feathers adorning a statue. For a fleeting moment, one has the sensation that the statue has come alive. V... More

Ghosts and Numbers

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Ghosts and Numbers

We welcome you to the newest iteration of The Screening Room film series!For our inaugural film we have selected Alan Klima's Ghosts and Numbers, a film that ma... More

The Screening Room

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The Screening Room

We welcome you to the re-launching of the Society for Cultural Anthropology’s film series, The Screening Room. In this new incarnation, we have curated a set of... More

Book Forum: Guerrilla Marketing

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Book Forum: Guerrilla Marketing

In the wake of Colombia's peace process after the longest civil war in the Western Hemisphere, somewhere in that "liminal space that is not quite war nor peace"... More

The Spiraling Image

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The Spiraling Image

The value of an image is measured by the extent of its imaginary aura.—Gaston Bachelard Through diary-like inscriptions and photographs, mostly of his distant e... More