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Elizabeth Ferry

Elizabeth Ferry

Elizabeth Ferry is Professor of Anthropology at Brandeis University. She is the author of Minerals, Collecting, and Value across the US-Mexican Border (2013) and, with Stephen Ferry, La Batea (2017). icon

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Open Letters, Open Secrets: Laurence Ralph on Police Torture in Chicago

By John Plotz & Elizabeth Ferry

“People rise through the ranks and are allowed to hide torture in plain sight because they become complicit.”

B-Sides: “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’”

By Elizabeth Ferry

On November 26, 1893, a 13-year-old Anglo-Brazilian girl opens her diary to record a rescue mission. Helena’s father, a diamond miner in Diamantina, in ...

Waste, Value, and Environmental Racism in the Southwest

By Elizabeth Ferry

On August 5, 2015, a team contracted by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to investigate a leak at the Gold King mine in Silverton, Colorado, accidentally breached the mine, sending three ...

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