Afterlives of AffectIn Afterlives of Affect Matthew C. Watson considers the life and work of artist and Mayanist scholar Linda Schele (194298) as a point of departure for what he calls an excitable anthropology. As part of a small collective of scholars who devised the first compelling arguments that Maya hieroglyphs were a fully grammatical writing system, Schele popularized the decipherment of hieroglyphs by developing narratives of Maya politics and religion in