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The Multispecies Life of Feral Dendezeiros: Ethnography in Motion
By Thiago Cardoso, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil § The dendezeiro (African oil palm) makes worlds. While most people know the dendezeiro as a tree fully subordinated…
Displaced Nature: Multispecies landscapes, mushrooms, and the megapolis
[Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Karen Holmberg] Concentric circles of the local to the larger ripple out from a megapolis like New York. The unnatural and natural are…
Multispecies anthropology in the media: The polar bears are coming to town
The anthropologist Martina Tyrrell looks at life in Arviat, Hudson Bay, when polar bears come to town. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34490185
A Collaborative Blog about Multispecies Engagements …
The idea of setting up a blog dedicated to multispecies engagements emerged in the course of conversations at an ESRC-funded Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) workshop, and…
Eben Kirksey, “The Multispecies Salon”
Eben Kirksey‘s wonderful new volume is an inspiring introduction to a kind of multispecies ethnography where artists, anthropologists, and others collaborate to create objects and experiences of great……
How Nature Works
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Bananapocalypse: Plantation Southeast Asia and Its Many Afterlives
This episode focuses on a cluster of issues of longstanding significance in Southeast Asia and in Southeast Asian Studies – plantation agriculture, global commodity chains or supply chains,…
Bacteria Farming Zine (DOPE2024)
The DOPE Conference is back in person this year and I’ve put together a little zine (“Bacteria Farmers”) for a session on “Speculating on an Multispecies Urban Future”:…
Nomadic Pastoralism Among the Mongol Herders
Nomadic Pastoralism among the Mongol Herders: Multispecies and Spatial Ethnography in Mongolia and Transbaikalia (Amsterdam University Press, 2021) is based on anthropological research Charlotte Marchina carried out between 2008 and…
Munira Khayyat, “A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon” (U California Press, 2022)
What worlds take root in war? In A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (U California Press, 2022), anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the…
Little Experiments in Worldmaking with Amor Mundi Lab
The AMOR MUNDI Multispecies Ecological Worldmaking Lab transpires as a collaborative space for emerging scholars, artists, scientists, and practitioners of all kinds working in the Global South with…
Alive in the Flapping of Infinite Orange Wings
Monarch butterflies’ epic annual migration from North America to Mexico inspires an anthropologist to reflect on this insect’s precarious life cycles through the lens of “multispecies ethnography.” …
Film screening: in the name of the wild
On October 3rd our colleagues from the University from the “Sustainable Naturecultures” research group at the Faculty of Social Sciences host an interesting film screening including discu…
Sophie Chao, “In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua” (Duke UP, 2022)
This episode we speak with Sophie Chao, author of In the Shadow of the Palms: More-Than-Human Becomings in West Papua (Duke University Press, 2022). Her new book examines the lives of Marind…
66 On Multi-Species Community: A Critical Conversation with Patricia Alvarez Astacio (Gina T, John P)
Octopus month has morphed seamlessly into Multispecies month here at RtB, bringing with it not only last week’s piece on chimpanzees, but also this sparkling conversation about all sorts…
The surprising truths wild horses teach us about the power of ritual, social durability, and surviving the Anthropocene with John Hartigan Jr.
In today’s episode Adam and Astrid Countee are joined by multispecies anthropologist John Hartigan jr. John is an anthropology professor at the University of Texas at Austin. In…
Adventures with Peccaries: pt. 1
I am currently in the early stages of designing a multispecies project working with the Cofán, an Indigenous people of Amazonian Ecuador, and two species of peccaries (white-lipped…
Can an “Invasive Species” Earn the Right to Stay?
Macaques sit near Florida’s Silver River. Rachel Simmons/Flickr Steve Johnson never thought he’d have to worry about death threats, not in his line of work. Johnson is a…
Born to Be Cute: Charisma and Niche Construction
As a multispecies ethnographer and evolutionary anthropologist, I am interested in the ways in which ecological interaction between various taxa affects their selection pressures and evolutionary traj…
The Figueroa Flock
In Queens, a pigeon is one of the multispecies family. Emily Leshner and Ben Boteler Negrito lives the life of a typical New Yorker; he wakes, eats, goes…
Hummingbirds are Nature’s…
One of my passions is studying multispecies entanglements. As an anthropologist, the ways in which human activities affect the lives of other living organisms are of central interest…
The Single Shot: contribute a still or moving image from the field
Author: Dr. Natasha Fijn is based at the ANU Mongolia Institute. Her research focuses on multispecies ethnography and observational filmmaking. Ethnographic film and photography includes detailed obse…