In Afterlives of Affect Matthew C. Watson considers the life and work of artist and Mayanist scholar Linda Schele (1942–98) as a point of departure for what he calls an excitable anthropology. As part of a small collective of scholars who devised the first compelling arguments that Maya hieroglyphs were a fully grammatical writing system, Schele popularized the decipherment of hieroglyphs by developing narratives of Maya politics and religion in popular books and public workshops. In this experimental, person-centered ethnography, Watson shows how Schele’s sense of joyous discovery and affective engagement with research led her to traverse and disrupt borders between religion, science, art, life, death, and history. While acknowledging critiques of Schele’s work and the idea of discovery more generally, Watson contends that affect and wonder should lie at the heart of any reflexive anthropology. With this singular examination of Schele and the community she built around herself and her work, Watson furthers debates on more-than-human worlds, spiritualism, modernity, science studies, affect theory, and the social conditions of knowledge production.
- Cover
- Front Matter
- Overview
- Welcome
- Plenary Panel I: The Next Generation: Science for All Students
- Plenary II: An In-Depth View of Computer Science
- Plenary III: Strategies and Policies to Recruit, Retain, and Advance Women Scientists
- Plenary IV: Advancing Women Into Science Leadership
- Closing Remarks
- Question and Answer Comments: Panel I
- Question and Answer Comments: Panel II
- Question and Answer Comments: Panel III
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