Shadow of the Tree Diagrams have long been used to describe, claim, and produce the relatedness of human individuals and groups, animals, and plants. The tree form seems to have attained particular dominance for represe...

Happy to announce the second online launch of cache 03: Shadow of the Tree (ed. @ehounshell.bsky.social and Ruth Amstutz)!

with new chapters by Séverine Lepape, Staffan Müller-Wille, Charlotte Bigg, Sun Too Kim, David Sabean, Christiane Klapisch-Zuber and others:

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For these chapters and more: cache.ch/shadowofthet.... More chapters will appear in early December, a print edition in 2024. Join us for the release at Sphères in Zürich, January 10, 2024. /end

Cache 03: Shadow of the Tree / cache.ch/shadowofthet... examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. Visual rhetoric has been especially prominent in biological studies of human populations. /1

Cache 03: Shadow of the Tree / cache.ch/shadowofthet... examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. Diagrams not only make visible but also obscure, select, and exclude. /1

Cache 03: Shadow of the Tree examines the variety of diagrammatic representations of relatedness in scientific and popular practice. The tree seems dominant, but there are dramatically different forms, e.g. the revolving discs of the Zürcher Regimentsspiegel exhibited at landesmuseum.ch /1

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