Weeknotes: 10/2/23-10/7/23

This Week:

• We had some anthropology colleagues over for a Fall get-together. Everyone agreed it was nice to have a place to relax.
• In North American Material Culture, we talked about African and African American material culture in North America, including minkisi bundles, Bakongo cosmograms, and the African Burial Ground in New York City.
• I did some work on future Museum programs.
• Lots of household repairs this week, including a furnace, a dishwasher, and some car repair.
• I finished reading Kristi Demeester’s “Beneath”….meh. It had some interesting ideas that didn’t (to my eyes) get developed, and it was astonishingly violent, and all of that plus the rather one-dimensional characters meant I didn’t particularly care for it.
• Late last week, I went into my kid’s daycare class and played guitar and banjo. It was a lot of fun to sing with the kiddos!