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Christopher Nelson is an anthropologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a member of the editorial collective of Cultural Anthropology (2019–2022).
Posts by This Author
Opening Access to AAA’s Publishing Future
The American Anthropological Association (AAA) publishing contract with Wiley comes to term in 2022. In light of this pressing deadline, several journal editors... More
Empire of Bones
I stayed up late one night a couple months ago, in March 2021, watching the live broadcasts commemorating the tenth anniversary of the catastrophe in Tohoku. Wh... More
American Fascism
“Every age has its own fascism,” Primo Levi famously wrote in his essay, “A Past We Thought Would Never Return.” “And we see the warning signs wherever the conc... More
A Letter From Okinawa
On the afternoon of March 11, the tsunami alarms sounded in Okinawa. However no earthquake shook the coastal towns and villages, no tidal wave swept through the... More