Afterword

Stuart McLean was born in the United Kingdom and is of English and Scottish ancestry. He studied English literature at the University of Oxford and went on to complete a PhD in sociocultural anthropology at Columbia University. His interests include anthropologies beyond the human; art and visual culture; death and mortuary practices; experimental writing; landscape, environment, and place; time and memory. The regional focus of his work has been the maritime and island communities of North Atlantic Europe. His publications include The Event and its Terrors: Ireland, Famine, Modernity (Stanford University Press, 2004), Fictionalizing Anthropology: Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human (University of Minnesota Press, 2017), and Crumpled Paper Boat: Experiments in Ethnographic Writing (co-edited with Anand Pandian, Duke University Press, 2017). He is currently Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.