Anwar Arifin’s Weavers of the Distant Past, Part 1

Anwar Arifin’s Weavers of the Distant Past, Part 1 postjarn@helsinki.fi Fri, 09/10/2026 - 16:49 In his research for the WORK-IT project, Anwar Arifin examines how scholars of the Ancient Near East construct the past. In this post, he discusses how his book grew out of a question about language and the shared history of economics and Ancient Near Eastern studies. Anwar Arifin is a doctoral researcher in economic anthropology.