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Dirt After Dark: Tiki Crazes and Volcano Sacrifices

In this super long, super exciting installment of Dirt After Dark, we pick up where we left off in our volcanoes episode and take a look at volcano-informed myth and culture in fact and fiction (and the things that fall somewhere in the middle) before jumping feet first into an exploration of the trope of volcano sacrifices. Plus, we tackle tiki culture and Amber finds a new favorite movie. 

Current Eruptions (Smithsonian National HIstory Museum Global Volcanism Program)

The Golden Bough (Project Gutenberg) - Chapter 8: The Worship of Volcanoes in other Lands.

Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics (via Google Books)

Yadnya Kasada festival - in pictures (The Guardian)

Here's what it's like to get thrown into a volcano (Popular Science)

The Unlikely Philosophy of Joe Versus the Volcano (Tor.com)

The Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary  - entry "tiki"

Tiki bars are built on cultural appropriation and colonial nostalgia. Where’s the reckoning? (Los Angeles Times)

Lovely Hula Lands: Corporate Tourism and the Prostitution of Hawaiian Culture (Border/Lines)

Is Tiki "Cultural Appropriation"? (Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy)

The Real and the Fake: Polynesian Culture and How We Perceive It (Critiki News)

On Culturally Thoughtful Tiki (Critiki News)

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As science communicators in anthropology and archaeology, we hosts of The Dirt acknowledge that we hold a position of considerable privilege and opportunity, and commit ourselves to continuous learning, unlearning and reflection. We recognize that our disciplines, as well as our own lives, are rooted in and propped up by settler colonialism, white supremacy, and dispossession.

We now reside on the stolen ancestral territory of the Shawnee and Haudenosaunee and on the lands of the Muscogee and Cherokee Nations, but over its lifetime, The Dirt has also been produced on the unceded traditional territory of the Piscataway Conoy and Cedarville Band of Piscataway Indians, as well as that of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation, Patwin and Miwok peoples and all those dispossessed by Cession 296. We offer our show as a platform for Indigenous scholarship, history, and cultural expression, through citation and conversation, and we welcome the opportunity to host and compensate Indigenous scholars of archaeology and anthropology as interview guests.

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