Why I Study Human-Animal Relations as an Anthropologist
Anthropology is the study of humans, or as Dr. Jon Marks says: “the study of who we are and where we come from.” I consider it to be…
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El hombre león de Hohlenstein Stadel: más que una estatuilla
El arte paleolítico supone uno de los grandes enigmas de la prehistoria. Siempre ha supuesto un reto para los investigadores, quienes han intentado acercarse desde diferentes enfoques interpretativos,…
VIRUS, un mundo por descubrir
Hace ya 40 años que la comunidad científica dio por erradicada la Viruela, una enfermedad vírica que protagonizo una de las epidemias más devastadora de la historia de…
Devin Proctor’s page 99 test
My dissertation, On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space, is based on five years of ethnographic engagement examining identity construction and social practice among the Otherkin…
Veterinary Anthropology Workshop – Edinburgh 18th-19th April
http://www.san.ed.ac.uk/edcma/events/workshops_and_conferences/2015_2016/veterinary_anthropology_workshop
A dilemma at the heart of multispecies anthropology: the “inclusion” of animals
“the “inclusion” of animals is not necessarily the most interesting issue, but rather how they are included [Candea 243]. If following a classic or “Durkheimian” model, where social…
21st century ‘barbarians’: Modernity, the breeding of fighting bulls and EU farming subsidies
This is an extended version of an article orginally published in The Conversation. I am grateful to the editors there for their support and for helping myself and…
“Dinna you get attached tae yon lamb” Fieldwork with Yoda.
Two pairs of eyes looked at me from across the table waiting for my response. A third pair joined them. The four day old lamb cradled in my…
Writing Cats
Nayanika Mathur – University of Cambridge A few years back I was out on an evening walk in a town on India’s Himalayan borderland with Tibet. For the…
[Anthropo]logy beyond the human?
Yesterday, 19/10/15, the Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR) network launched what will hopefully become an annual round-table event to bring postgraduate researchers and staff togeth…