Hugh Raffles

British anthropologist and writer, professor at The New School in New York; author of works including In Amazonia, Insectopedia, and The Book of Unconformities.

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  1. 1. The Book Of Unconformities

    Speculations on Lost Time

    A lyrical, speculative meditation that moves between geology, archaeology and everyday life to trace how objects—fossils, flints, petrified remains and other fragments—carry histories of deep time, violence and human entanglement. Blending memoir, natural history and philosophical reflection, it examines ruptures in time (unconformities), the porous boundaries between human and nonhuman, and the ways memory, collecting and colonial narratives shape what we salvage and what we lose.

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