This is an afterword to Rommel and Viscomi’s open-access edited volume Locating the Mediterranean

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What does it mean to ‘locate’ the study of location in the Mediterra- nean? Would studying location somewhere other than the Mediterra- nean make location itself look different? Conversely – this is the same question, inside out – is there something distinctively Mediterranean about the topic of location? This afterword considers the way in which the volume contributes to rethinking not just Mediterranean anthro- pology but also the broader assumption that anthropology is about studying general topics in particular places.