“People rise through the ranks and are allowed to hide torture in plain sight because they become complicit.”
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). 
B-Sides: “The Diary of ‘Helena Morley’”
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
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 ...