Pedal Powered Anthropology
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Pedal Powered Anthropology is an educational nonprofit dedicated to humanizing science, cultural exploration, and the humanities. Whether written, photographer, or on video, Anthrospin is connecting people to the rich cultural histories underlying sometimes everyday places and objects. Beyond that, Pedal Powered Anthropology teaches you how to look at things anthropologically.
Pedal Powered Anthropology
2w ago
Our first mini-dive into obscure foundries looks at Wright & Bridgeford and their transition into Bridgeford & Co ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
1M ago
Almost three years after the fateful repair, we take a look at how our wonderful friend, the number 9 Maritta skillet that was terribly cracked, is fairing ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
1M ago
In this post, we explore the plethora of miniature iron stoves and learn how to appropriately identify them as toys or salesman's samples ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
1M ago
In this post we take a look at modern shaving's ties to one of the most horrible occurrances in human history while simultaneously exploring a fantastically constructed and aesthetically beautiful razor ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
5M ago
The Cast Iron Historical Society: Finding Aid The Cast Iron Historical Society has a large amount of primary and secondary source materials related to stove and hollowware industries worldwide. Almost all of these will be added to the files section and distilled into units to be more easily searched; however, single page documents will either ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
5M ago
By no means exhaustive of what’s out there OR what we’ve found in our crawling around the interwebs. This is updated as new catalogs are found. It is alphabetized and then where there are multiple years of a single foundry, chronological. You do not need to credit the Cast Iron Historical Society for providing these ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
6M ago
A quick bit of conneting iron to paper, this post describes how a little bit of open collaboration and information sharing can bring a lazy assumption into a strongly supported presumption ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
8M ago
In this post I talk about Gillette's breakthrough invention and business model while working through my collection of twist to open razors, and finally landing on the blade for me ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
8M ago
Today we delve a bit into the history and use of safety razors, starting with the Twist to Open safety razor ..read more
Pedal Powered Anthropology
9M ago
As we enter my latest cultural tangent, we're introduced to the world of safety razors and home shaving ..read more