Writing
Erick DuPree’s blog explores the intersections of anthropology, literature, and material culture to illuminate how identity, ritual, and meaning take shape across time and tradition. Blending scholarship with storytelling, these essays invite readers to engage critically and imaginatively with the cultural forces that shape both personal and collective experience.
The Empire in Victorian Literature
Victorian empire thrived on science and classification, yet its literature—Kipling, Haggard, and beyond—reveals the shadows of knowledge. Anthropology, ethnography, and adventure tales exposed anxieties about race, empire, and the unknowable.