Reflections upon Seeing a Tiger in the Wild for the First Time
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County § Editor’s note: Jared‘s post is a first in a series from his fieldwork on conservation in India. October 1, 2015 Field Notes On my way to...
View ArticleWhat the Seed Knows of the Soil
By Kay E. Lewis-Jones, University of Kent § Attending to the Seed On a December afternoon in the upper west side of Manhattan, a group of people sat in a darkened room and tried to think like seeds....
View ArticleRevisiting the Human in These Multispecies Landscapes
By Jared Margulies, University of Maryland Baltimore County § *Photographs by Indra Kumar, reproduced with permission. Indra shows me some photographs he’s taken recently of a variety of animals. I’m...
View ArticleSome Organs of My Primate Body
By Daniel Allen Solomon, De Anza College and Cabrillo College § The “monkey temple” on Jakhoo Hill in Shimla hosts a rowdy but well integrated bunch of rhesus macaques. Though the monkeys graze upon...
View ArticlePlantworlds in West Papua
By Sophie Chao, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia § First published in Anthropology & Environment Society’s section of Anthropology News Rejecting human exceptionalism and exploring the...
View ArticleWho Is Afraid of CRISPR Art?
By Eben Kirksey, University of New South Wales § Originally published in Somatosphere A crowd-sourced Indiegogo funding campaign that raised over $45,000 for do-it-yourself gene editing kits in...
View ArticleThe Time Travelers: Ambiguous Returns
By Elaine Gan, New York University § H. G. Wells’ 1895 novel introduced us to a modernist conception of a time machine, a humanmade device that renders time as place, a mode of transport that shuttles...
View ArticleDecolonizing Extinction: An Interview with Juno Salazar Parreñas
Decolonizing Extinction: The Work of Care in Orangutan Rehabilitation By Juno Salazar Parreñas, The Ohio State University 288pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. § Colin Hoag spoke with Prof. Juno...
View ArticleGrounds for Climate Change Mitigation in South Korea’s Tidal Mudflats
By Gebby Keny, Rice University § Blue Carbon “The trick is to step with your right foot before your left foot touches the ground.” Offered with a knowing smile and scalding-hot bowl of blended...
View ArticleThings That Are Not Alive, but Which May Be Alive in a Certain Way: An...
By Meredith Root-Bernstein, AgroParisTech, INRA § This blog post is adapted from a paper given at “Anthropology Off Earth,” Collège de France and l’Observatoire de Paris, 4-5 June 2019 “What is life?”...
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“Ain’t No Future in Your Future”: Temporalities of Recovery and Resilience in...
By Talia Gordon, University of Chicago § A future full of possibilities starts by drinking pure quality water – Nestlé “Pure Life®” Bottled Water In October 2018, Mayor Karen Weaver delivered her third...
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Capturing Spiders: Golden Orb Weavers in Gainesville, Florida
By Lisa Jean Moore, SUNY Purchase § Spiders construct webs from the manipulation of spider silk proteins. Golden Orb Weaver Spiders (Kuntner et al. 2017), Trichonephila clavipes, are sometimes referred...
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Reading the Assamese Folktale of Tejimola through an Inter-Species Lens:...
By Paloma Bhattacharjee, National Museum Institute, New Delhi § The Capacity of Stories Burhi Aair Xadhu (loosely translated as Grandmother’s Tales) is a corpus of Assamese folktales collected and...
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Unsettling Soy: New Crops, Kin, and Conviviality on Mozambique’s Agribusiness...
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the argument they...
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Becoming without: Rearing and Releasing Transgenic Mosquitoes in Brazil
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2020 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the argument they...
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Feral Atlas, a Review
Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene. 2021. Tsing, Anna L., Jennifer Deger, Alder Keleman Saxena, and Feifei Zhou, eds. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. http://doi.org/10.21627/2020fa...
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An Ecology of Knowledges: An Interview with Micha Rahder
An Ecology of Knowledges: Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation By Micha Rahder, Independent Scholar 336pp. Durham, NC: Duke University Press § Colin Hoag spoke with Dr....
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Repairing Environmental Politics: Multispecies Healing in Ecuador’s Oil Frontier
Editorial Note: This post is part of our series highlighting the work of the Anthropology and Environment Society’s 2021 Roy A. Rappaport Prize Finalists. We asked them to outline the argument they...
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