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Steven Van Wolputte
@stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social
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Social and cultural anthropologist with a focus on southern Africa, anthropology of life emerging, graphic anthropology. And comics.

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · 13d
Attn anyone in the Brussels/Leuven area: @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social and I are giving a book talk in one week at KU Leuven in conversation with @baldwinvangorp.bsky.social and Nadia Lie

Tuesday 13 January 7-9pm. A rare occasion for both authors to be in the same place at the same time!
Flyer for a book talk at KU Leuven by Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte on their new graphic history 'In the Land of the Lacandón'.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · Dec 20
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Sep 28
You are not going to let this go, will you?

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Sep 28
This is what you could have been, dear friend.

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Sep 26
Did they read our little book? And what questions did they have?

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Aug 19
Can’t beat that… happy they liked our little book!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Jul 30
Sound on!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Jul 26
Congratulations to @comicsbeat.bsky.social and Heidi MacDonald @comixace.bsky.social which won an Eisner Award last night for Best Comics-Related Periodical/Journalism!
Interview: Richard Ivan Jobs on how IN THE LAND OF THE LACANDÓN explores 'the history of knowledge production'
Richard Ivan Jobs on how In the Land of the Lacandón explores "who gets to speak, who gets to tell stories, and who gets to make histories."
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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Jun 6
Have a good one!

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McGill-Queen's University Press @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social · May 20
In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism tells the story of French explorer's search for the “lost” Maya, deep in the Mexican jungle.

With 50 pages of graphic illustration, as well as photos, drawings, and a map, it's an impressive work.

buff.ly/RW8njIT

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JLRay @jlray.bsky.social · May 3
We have done many focus groups and surveys and etc etc on this subject and I gotta tell you, it's actually pretty much exactly correct that the solution to this is more guys having an older guy in their life tell them to pick up a skateboard or a guitar who cares
lukeoneil47.bsky.social Luke O'Neil @lukeoneil47.bsky.social · May 2
Pick up a skateboard or a guitar who cares

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georgiosmasman.bsky.social @georgiosmasman.bsky.social · Apr 27
“We wore crazy wigs & crazy outfits. So we were never trying to be glamourpusses. But we didn’t have a leader & we all contributed equally. I’m happy if anyone wants to think of me as eye candy nowadays.”
Wishing #KatePierson the biggest slice of happy today.
#HBD #KatePierson #TheB52s

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Apr 14
@richardivanjobs.bsky.social :) :) :) thanks! Had quite a laugh when opening the box!!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Apr 12
Our thanks to those who helped us along: @rpanchasi.bsky.social @rebeccapscales.bsky.social @richardckeller.bsky.social @julesboykoff.bsky.social @elliottyoung.bsky.social @eandreweditor.bsky.social @nimishabarton.bsky.social @michaelgvann.bsky.social @llmunro.bsky.social @profpeabs.bsky.social
List of names for acknowledgments for In the Land of the Lacandón. Book cover for 'In the Land of the Lancandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism.'

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Apr 7
Today in the mail: the first copies of “In the land of the Lacandón: a graphic history of adventure and imperialism”, by Richard Ivan Jobs and yours truly.

Available at: www.mqup.ca/in-the-land-...

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Apr 6
Met ananas? Just asking…

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anthropologyworks @anthroworks.bsky.social · Apr 6
In memoriam: Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist who bridged East and West www.nytimes.com/2025/03/30/w...
Gananath Obeyesekere, 95, Dies; Anthropologist Bridged East and West
His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and Christian mysticism.
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Le Monde Afrique @afrique.lemonde.fr · Apr 6
Une enquête choc mais peu convaincante sur l’ONG African Parks
Une enquête choc mais peu convaincante sur l’ONG African Parks
Le journaliste néerlandais Olivier van Beemen décrit une organisation dirigée par des Blancs sud-africains qui n’hésitent pas à violer les droits humains pour protéger la nature. Mais dans son réquisitoire, le point de vue des Etats africains qui traitent avec l’ONG est absent.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · Apr 4
Save 30% on #NewBook "The Future of Futurity" by Purnima Mankekar & Akhil Gupta, which examines the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s business process outsourcing industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. #SouthAsianStudies
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Cover of The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City by Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta. Cover has a black and dark gray background. The title is written in blue capital letters. The author's names are written in green capital letters. The subtitle is written at the bottom in a small white font.

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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Mar 27
So true!

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Mar 27
Alice Conklin, historian & author of 'In the Museum of Man' & 'A Mission to Civilize' says

“This captivating graphic history is a wonderful teaching tool, showing how historians today can work with unpalatable materials inherited from colonialism.”

Preorders help! 🗃️

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A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism
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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Mar 24
Bernard Perley, UBC Indigenous anthropologist, author and illustrator of 'Going Native' says:
“Its intertextual strength lies in the comic genre, the historical analysis, and the Indigenous contributions.”
Preorders help! 🗃️
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Buy the book In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism by richard ivan jobs,steven van wolputte at Indigo
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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Mar 21
Vogels zijn in het diepst van hun wezen transgene dinosauriërs, beste Jogchum. Woke als de pest.

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Dan Ryckert @danryckert.com · Mar 20
Meta used five of my books for AI training, including one about an alligator that joins the Air Force and another about Jose Canseco travelling through time.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Mar 17
How can you nazi these similarities?
We’re Scholars Who Study Africa. The Cybertruck Looks Kind of Familiar.
Elon Musk was growing up in Pretoria when the Casspir patrolled the townships.
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Steven Van Wolputte @stevenvanwolputte.bsky.social · Mar 14
Ik vermoed, zingen met dat @# vibrato.

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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Mar 2
Pre-Order Now! Avoid the tariff! Get a tariff-free price guarantee! In the Land of the Lacandón! (yes, we have a Canadian publisher)
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Book description of 'In the Land of the Lancadón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism' by Richard Ivan Jobs and Steven Van Wolputte with Manuel Bolom Pale.

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Noel B. Salazar @noelbsalazar.bsky.social · Feb 24
CfP for an international conference on the anthropology of sport at KU Leuven, Belgium

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American Anthropologist @amanthro.bsky.social · Feb 24
🔦 Highlights | What does it mean to do anthropology like a friend? Marie Odgaard explores the ethics, tensions, and radical possibilities of friendship in ethnographic practice in this piece

Read it here: www.americananthropologist.org/online-conte...

#Anthropology #Ethics #Friendship
#MarieOdgaard — American Anthropologist
The Beautiful Friend by Marie Odgaard (University of Toronto) Growing up in a small town by the fjord, close to the west coast of Denmark, was in many ways a quiet life —at least in the early y...
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Rick Jobs @richardivanjobs.bsky.social · Feb 15
Seattleites! @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social is trying to setup a book talk at the Elliott Bay Book Company this summer. Preorders would help!
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In the Land of the Lacandón
A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism
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