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

Redeployment of diagrammatic forms also occurs over longer time spans, even unintentionally. Ruth Amstutz dramatizes the persistence of the mosaic from physical and linguistic anthropology ca. 1900 to human population genetics (combined with the older tree form) in the 21st c. /3