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

Andrea Ceccon shows the efforts to “translate” studies of blood groups by Alfred Kroeber and Paul Steffan into “a meaningful and understandable message” through elliptical graphings, though Kroeber appropriated the form to undergird the autonomy of cultural anthropology. /2