Much like the Humans of Savannah student ethnographies and the ordinary vignettes of Ordinary Affects, the New York Times article “It’s A Nice Night for Surfing. Beware of Sharks.” exposes anthropological workings in the everyday. This April 2017 emic recount of night surfer, Igel shows that one individual has the…

The additional findings synthesized here, under 1960’s Surf Fashion, intend to answer the unexplained gaps which current Wikipedia forums leave unidentified. This research targets the current 1960’s Surf Fashion sub section, which glosses over one of the most iconic styles of Sixties youth, the surf jacket. Before further research, the…

Written to update Wikipedia’s 1960’s Fashion History, below is a brief explanation for why surf fashion and its subsequent retail industry sticks and lands in the 1960s with teenyboppers across gender. A child of The Fifties, a decade of conformity and Capitalist virtue, The Sixties much like its teens reject…

In the travel-less times of a quarantined world, William Finnegan’s memoir Barbarian Days takes us places. I bought Barbarian Days by William “Bill” Finnegan in the summer of 2017 when I realized that I wanted to major in Anthropology — a little late maybe since I’d just finished my Freshman…